June 2, 2025 • 17 mins
Celebrating his FIRST #1 on the U.S. dance charts, Mau P joined us for the first time on America's Dance 30 to talk all things "The Less I Know The Better"! He shared how the song was born, and why it took so long to come out!!
He also talked about his new song "Like I Like It" and how it was born. And we asked him a question he has NEVER been asked before.
We also got to know Mau P better w #FinkysFirsts!
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He also talked about his new song "Like I Like It" and how it was born. And we asked him a question he has NEVER been asked before.
We also got to know Mau P better w #FinkysFirsts!
Find out about:
- if music was the first thing he wanted to get into growing up
- why he changed his artist project name, and if 'Mau P' was his first choice of names
- the first time he performed for a crowd
- his first kiss
- what HE'D be better off knowing less about
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Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on stations around the world!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Maupee.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I can't wait to chat about The Less I Know
the Better, your latest performances at EDC, Vegas and Coachella.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Getting to know Maupie a little better.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Maupie, welcome to America's Dance thirty for the first time.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
You've got to be exhausted. I just woke up when
they told me eleven am, I'm like, how the hell
is he going to do that? I make it work
for you, guys, I appreciate that dance counting down the
(00:45):
biggest dance songs in the country. This is America's Dance thirty.
It is great having you on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Congratulations on the Less I Know the Better going number one.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well, thank you. Yeah, that's really crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
That is so amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Now I don't remember with drugs in Amsterdam, I don't
remember if that went number one.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Is this your first number one.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
On US dance radio? Yes, I think so.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
That is incredible. Well, congratulations on your first then, yeah,
thank you. Well, I can't wait to talk about how
this song was born. But first, since this is your
first time on America's Dance thirty, let's get to know
Maupi a little better with Finky's first Okay, So I
(01:32):
always love finding out the origin story of artists when
you were growing up. Was music the first thing that
you wanted to get into or was there something else
you wanted to be when you grew up?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Uh? I remember at first I wanted to be a comedian,
so like I wanted to be on stage telling jokes,
and then I sort of let go of that and
I wanted to become a camera man, but I don't
know in what sort of atmosphere that would have been.
I guess I wanted to be behind the really big
(02:04):
camera that's at like TV shows, just.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Like pointing that thing like that. I don't know. And
then at some like music was always there.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
So like when I was like around twelve, I started
making music and like put out whole EPs on YouTube
and whatever and would act like I'm already a big
shot artist.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So I guess there was always like with the camera
and with the comedian thing.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
It's like I wanted to be on stage, I guess,
or like part of something.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And did you ever get a chance to get on
stage and tell jokes?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I mean sometimes I do now when I'm DJing I'll
just like grab the mic and whip a couple jokes out.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, give us your best one right now.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
My best one while you're really putting me on this poet.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
The thing is, it's always like when I grab the
mic on stage, it's not sort of to hype anything
up that like, because like I just tried to tell
the story with music. But I'll grab the mic and
just whatever is going on or whatever pops up in
my head, I will I will just start yapping a
little bit. So when I was in Vegas for my
(03:12):
residency last Wednesday, I was playing for so long, like
like an extended sort of Vegas set, and I really
had to use the bathroom. But I knew that when
I would go off stage, people would probably think that
I would, you know, stop playing if I didn't say anything.
So I just turned the music off. I told him, like,
I'm a normal human being, I have.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
To go pee.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
And then something in my head said maupee. I said,
I said I have to go maupee, And I don't know,
it was really stupid, but.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
How did it go over?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I mean, everyone stayed. So I just told him like,
I'm gonna go pee. I'll be back like really quick,
and if I don't see any of you guys, you know,
have fun while I'm not here, then we're going to
have a serious issue.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That is hilarious.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Now, speaking of the Maupi Moniker, that's pretty new. You
were originally releasing music under Maurice West, right, Yeah, What
made you transition to a new name?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Mostly the sounds that changed for me personally. I started
making music that just had a different feel to it,
and it wouldn't make a lot of sense for me
to also release that music under my last sort of
vision because I don't know it just it just it
(04:35):
would be hard to the last name was Maurice West.
It would be hard to book that name with like
all of the artists that I'm working with right now,
because it had such a history of being more commercial
and like em so to say so, it just made
sense for everyone. Also, people for my team were saying
(04:57):
this to just like start with sort of a clean
slate and go from there.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Gotcha.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Now, when you were thinking of a new name, was
Maupe the first name you came up with, or the
other names you were considering?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
It was first, it's going to be Mao in capitals
and then there were a bunch of other people that
had that same name, and then one of my genius
friends said, you should just add a P at the
end because like people in the Netherlands, like my nickname
was Maupee, but maupi e, which means like little mao.
(05:32):
So so then my friend turned it into sort of
this rapper thing where it's like mao p, you know, like,
and it's amazing because like people in the US when
they say my name now sound like they are saying
my actual Dutch nickname. And people in Holland they mispronounce
it now because they say malpey because like the pay
(05:53):
that's P in Dutch. So we sort of freaky Friday
reversed it to you know, Americans now pronouncing my nickname right.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And it's ironic because there is nothing little about you.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You're a tall dude. Yeah, nickname now.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You just recently performed at Coachella, you performed at DC Vegas.
You've been performing all over the world. But do you
remember the first time ever performing for a crowd?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
M Yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
It was my cousin's birthday and he was looking for
a DJ and I sent him a mix that I
made on my computer and I lied to him saying
that I knew how to use cdj's in a mixer,
which I didn't at the time, and I just looked
up images of what all the buttons on that mixer
(06:48):
and on the CDJs look like, so I would sort
of know what to do. And then he had me
played for like eight hours at his at his party
in a club, So yeah, there was a there was
a crowd there, and I just I just you know,
I didn't even have enough music for eight hours, so
I just would play some some some songs twice. But
(07:09):
it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
What kind of a cousin is that to ask you
to do eight hours?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
He's very passionate about dance music, so uh yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
He for me to work now.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Complete side note for anybody that hasn't been lucky enough
to get on stage and look out onto the massive
crowds at festivals, how would you best put into words
what it feels like to play for such huge crowds.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
It's it's a lot of adrenaline. It's I always like
to compare it with.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
A feeling that I don't know but that I think
I know is similar which is a sports player scoring
a goal in a in a full stadium, but then constantly.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Like goal after goal after goal after goal.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Like in DJ, we obviously have a lot of climaxes,
like the build ups and the drops and just I
don't know, being up there and seeing people have fun
to the way that you're mixing or that you're you know,
taking care of the music is really satisfying, and it's
(08:26):
it's really beautiful because you get to you get to
connect all of these people together in a way where
there's no words needed. It's just like vibrations and frequency.
So yeah, it's something really powerful and special.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And it truly is an incredible experience because I've been
lucky enough to host main stage at festivals and just
looking at in the crowd and getting them to react
when you say anything or when you're playing songs, it's
just amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
So recently you posted a hilarious exchange between you and
Fisher about a drunken.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Kiss in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Now you don't have to answer this because it's really personal,
but do you remember your first kiss?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Absolutely, And I know it was hard for me because
everyone at my school had already kissed a girl, and
I was like the last one, so there was a
lot of pressure.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And it wasn't even a girl that I liked.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
I just wanted to kiss a girl, so like, I
just went with whatever was coming at me.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
We totally have that in common.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
My first kiss was this girl, Joanne Bookman, and it
was at camp and I vividly remember telling all my
bunkmates that I was going to kiss her. And at
the end of the day we were sitting there and
my bunkmates ran in front and said, hey, did you
kiss her yet?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And again I wasn't like it was just a for
a kiss, like a for a first kiss. Finally, in
Finkey's first in honor of the success of the Less
I Know the Better, what's the first thing that the
less you know the better?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Wow, I guess I wish I could just in general
know less about anything, because like, I overthink everything so much,
and it's so nice when you just get to do
things and it's like it feels like you're naturally doing it.
(10:37):
Because it's also with like making music and DJing and
doing creative stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Like I just wish we could turn this one.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Off sometimes, you know, and just just just just.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Go preach preach because I'm the same way.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I overanalyze everything and I have OCD and add so
everything going on in the year, let's talk about this smash.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Did I see that it took two years to clear?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
It wasn't a two year process like actively people trying it.
Was more like I felt like it was such a
big song already. I never really deemed it possible, and
we would give it a try here and there every
now and then I just started playing it I think
two years ago, maybe a little longer, and I always knew, like,
(11:30):
this song works so well live, like if we can
do something with this officially, it'll just be such a
nice thing for people to do. Because there were so
many rips already on like SoundCloud whatever there was. There
was one guy, random person who uploaded it cut it
(11:51):
out of my club spaceset still had the CO two
blasting over the draw like, and it had one million plays.
Oh well, Like I was like, Wow, people really want this,
so I'm gonna just try again. And then I hit
up my boy Andrew from Nervous Records and I'm like, Andrew,
(12:11):
listen this CO two drop has one million plays. The
people really want this. If you can can make this
happen for me, turn it into an official release, I'll put
it out on Nervous. And he got it done in
two weeks. Andrew's really the go here and he made
(12:31):
it happen.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
So yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
And then that was already like after one and that no,
that was already after two years. So for him to
just come in and do that in two weeks and
just text me back like yo, I think I got
it done, it was really crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
But yeah, I'm surprised you didn't put a CO two
blast in.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
There, just as I mean, I kind of liked it too.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Now thinking back a couple of years, how was the
song born?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
It's actually that same friend that thought of the p attitude.
Moultpe told me that I should do like a bootleg,
like a edit of Tamian pal Out. The less I know,
the better, And I would always be like, yeah, I'll
do that one day, I'll do it for you whatever,
and he just kept pushing and pushing and pushing, and
(13:17):
he didn't even want it for me. He just wanted
it for himself. He just wanted to have that song
to listen to because he knew that in his head
it was going to be really good, like he already
envisioned it. And then I guess one day, I just
get behind my computer and I tried and I sent
him a voice note and he's like, yeah, exactly, that's
exactly what I want.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Now keep going. So I was like.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Sort of he had me like in his in his power.
I was just making music for him.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Here is personal producer, and I've.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Made it really quickly, and then just started playing it
out too at my shows, and it just from the
first time I played it just worked so well that
I you know, obviously I thank him, and but always
from the beginning it felt like like a special edits.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You know, Now, when you do stuff like that, do
you keep in the back of your mind the original artist?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Are you ever worried about what the original artist is
going to think?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yeah, it's it's I always feel, you know, a little
sensitive about remixing and making edits because the stuff that
I pick to me is worth so much, or like
it is such a sort of piece of art that
it's almost hard to touch, you know, or hard to
(14:35):
make an edit.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Of because you want to, you know, be respectful.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
And and and and and keep it sort of in
the You either go so crazy that you don't even
recognize what the original is, or you just, you know,
try to enhance in a different sort of perspective what
was already going on. And the last thing is what
I did for the less, I know, the better, because
I just made it a higher tempo and I added
(15:03):
you know, my beats and a new baseline and made
it tech house, you know, So I didn't want to
go to crazy and add things to an already genius
production by by you know, Kevin of course.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
So yeah, that's that's how that happened.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Well, you did such a great job with it. Congratulations
on your first number one. Let's talk about your latest smash,
Like I like it? How did that happen?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
That's also a sample, and it's so funny. I just
found this sample and immediately in my head started adding
things to it that I would say because it's like
the sample the samples, Like I think, it's like sort
of a lovey dovey thing where it's like a whole
lot more.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Than a little bit and a little bit more than
a lot, Like I like it.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
It's like a person, I think, but I was trying
to make it about busty women where they're like where
it's like, because obviously the hook is crazy, like a
whole lot more than a little bit, and I'm just
talking about ass I guess. So I'm like, what if
you add she's got a whole lot more than a
little bit and a little bit more than a lot,
(16:09):
like I like it, And then you add, yeah, that's
how I like it, So it sort of became a
more sexually tinted thing instead of like the the eighties
sort of love song that it was originally. So that
was just really fun to me. And then the beach
just adds the whole swag to the song for me.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It's such a funky track. Congratulations on that as well. Now,
before I let you go, we've got a new feature
here on America's Dan's thirty. I ask chat ept to
give me a question that maope has never been asked before.
I hope you're ready for this one. If you could
bottle the less, I know the better as an energy drink,
(16:50):
what flavor would it be and what country would ban it?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
It'd probably be called like rainbow flavor or something. Because
for the now, for all of the shows for the
Less I Know the Better. We have all the lights
programmed to turn into every color of the rainbow because
it's so like euphoric and it feels a little, you know,
LSD trippy, if that makes sense, or it would be
(17:14):
LSD flavored that could also be a thing, and the
colors just naturally appear for you. And then probably some
Asian country would ban it because obviously they're not they're not.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Doing the whole drug thing.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Well, congratulations on the Less I Know the Better going
number one, dude. I can't thank you enough for your
time and waking up for it. Congratulations on everything.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I'm going to start by day now.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Dancer counting down the biggest dance songs in the country
AM America's Dance thirty
Maupee.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I can't wait to chat about The Less I Know
the Better, your latest performances at EDC, Vegas and Coachella.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Getting to know Maupie a little better.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Maupie, welcome to America's Dance thirty for the first time.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
You've got to be exhausted. I just woke up when
they told me eleven am, I'm like, how the hell
is he going to do that? I make it work
for you, guys, I appreciate that dance counting down the
(00:45):
biggest dance songs in the country. This is America's Dance thirty.
It is great having you on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Congratulations on the Less I Know the Better going number one.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well, thank you. Yeah, that's really crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
That is so amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Now I don't remember with drugs in Amsterdam, I don't
remember if that went number one.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Is this your first number one.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
On US dance radio? Yes, I think so.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
That is incredible. Well, congratulations on your first then, yeah,
thank you. Well, I can't wait to talk about how
this song was born. But first, since this is your
first time on America's Dance thirty, let's get to know
Maupi a little better with Finky's first Okay, So I
(01:32):
always love finding out the origin story of artists when
you were growing up. Was music the first thing that
you wanted to get into or was there something else
you wanted to be when you grew up?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Uh? I remember at first I wanted to be a comedian,
so like I wanted to be on stage telling jokes,
and then I sort of let go of that and
I wanted to become a camera man, but I don't
know in what sort of atmosphere that would have been.
I guess I wanted to be behind the really big
(02:04):
camera that's at like TV shows, just.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Like pointing that thing like that. I don't know. And
then at some like music was always there.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
So like when I was like around twelve, I started
making music and like put out whole EPs on YouTube
and whatever and would act like I'm already a big
shot artist.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So I guess there was always like with the camera
and with the comedian thing.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
It's like I wanted to be on stage, I guess,
or like part of something.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And did you ever get a chance to get on
stage and tell jokes?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I mean sometimes I do now when I'm DJing I'll
just like grab the mic and whip a couple jokes out.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, give us your best one right now.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
My best one while you're really putting me on this poet.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
The thing is, it's always like when I grab the
mic on stage, it's not sort of to hype anything
up that like, because like I just tried to tell
the story with music. But I'll grab the mic and
just whatever is going on or whatever pops up in
my head, I will I will just start yapping a
little bit. So when I was in Vegas for my
(03:12):
residency last Wednesday, I was playing for so long, like
like an extended sort of Vegas set, and I really
had to use the bathroom. But I knew that when
I would go off stage, people would probably think that
I would, you know, stop playing if I didn't say anything.
So I just turned the music off. I told him, like,
I'm a normal human being, I have.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
To go pee.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
And then something in my head said maupee. I said,
I said I have to go maupee, And I don't know,
it was really stupid, but.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
How did it go over?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I mean, everyone stayed. So I just told him like,
I'm gonna go pee. I'll be back like really quick,
and if I don't see any of you guys, you know,
have fun while I'm not here, then we're going to
have a serious issue.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That is hilarious.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Now, speaking of the Maupi Moniker, that's pretty new. You
were originally releasing music under Maurice West, right, Yeah, What
made you transition to a new name?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Mostly the sounds that changed for me personally. I started
making music that just had a different feel to it,
and it wouldn't make a lot of sense for me
to also release that music under my last sort of
vision because I don't know it just it just it
(04:35):
would be hard to the last name was Maurice West.
It would be hard to book that name with like
all of the artists that I'm working with right now,
because it had such a history of being more commercial
and like em so to say so, it just made
sense for everyone. Also, people for my team were saying
(04:57):
this to just like start with sort of a clean
slate and go from there.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Gotcha.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Now, when you were thinking of a new name, was
Maupe the first name you came up with, or the
other names you were considering?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
It was first, it's going to be Mao in capitals
and then there were a bunch of other people that
had that same name, and then one of my genius
friends said, you should just add a P at the
end because like people in the Netherlands, like my nickname
was Maupee, but maupi e, which means like little mao.
(05:32):
So so then my friend turned it into sort of
this rapper thing where it's like mao p, you know, like,
and it's amazing because like people in the US when
they say my name now sound like they are saying
my actual Dutch nickname. And people in Holland they mispronounce
it now because they say malpey because like the pay
(05:53):
that's P in Dutch. So we sort of freaky Friday
reversed it to you know, Americans now pronouncing my nickname right.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And it's ironic because there is nothing little about you.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You're a tall dude. Yeah, nickname now.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You just recently performed at Coachella, you performed at DC Vegas.
You've been performing all over the world. But do you
remember the first time ever performing for a crowd?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
M Yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
It was my cousin's birthday and he was looking for
a DJ and I sent him a mix that I
made on my computer and I lied to him saying
that I knew how to use cdj's in a mixer,
which I didn't at the time, and I just looked
up images of what all the buttons on that mixer
(06:48):
and on the CDJs look like, so I would sort
of know what to do. And then he had me
played for like eight hours at his at his party
in a club, So yeah, there was a there was
a crowd there, and I just I just you know,
I didn't even have enough music for eight hours, so
I just would play some some some songs twice. But
(07:09):
it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
What kind of a cousin is that to ask you
to do eight hours?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
He's very passionate about dance music, so uh yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
He for me to work now.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Complete side note for anybody that hasn't been lucky enough
to get on stage and look out onto the massive
crowds at festivals, how would you best put into words
what it feels like to play for such huge crowds.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
It's it's a lot of adrenaline. It's I always like
to compare it with.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
A feeling that I don't know but that I think
I know is similar which is a sports player scoring
a goal in a in a full stadium, but then constantly.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Like goal after goal after goal after goal.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Like in DJ, we obviously have a lot of climaxes,
like the build ups and the drops and just I
don't know, being up there and seeing people have fun
to the way that you're mixing or that you're you know,
taking care of the music is really satisfying, and it's
(08:26):
it's really beautiful because you get to you get to
connect all of these people together in a way where
there's no words needed. It's just like vibrations and frequency.
So yeah, it's something really powerful and special.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And it truly is an incredible experience because I've been
lucky enough to host main stage at festivals and just
looking at in the crowd and getting them to react
when you say anything or when you're playing songs, it's
just amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
So recently you posted a hilarious exchange between you and
Fisher about a drunken.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Kiss in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Now you don't have to answer this because it's really personal,
but do you remember your first kiss?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Absolutely, And I know it was hard for me because
everyone at my school had already kissed a girl, and
I was like the last one, so there was a
lot of pressure.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And it wasn't even a girl that I liked.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
I just wanted to kiss a girl, so like, I
just went with whatever was coming at me.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
We totally have that in common.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
My first kiss was this girl, Joanne Bookman, and it
was at camp and I vividly remember telling all my
bunkmates that I was going to kiss her. And at
the end of the day we were sitting there and
my bunkmates ran in front and said, hey, did you
kiss her yet?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And again I wasn't like it was just a for
a kiss, like a for a first kiss. Finally, in
Finkey's first in honor of the success of the Less
I Know the Better, what's the first thing that the
less you know the better?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Wow, I guess I wish I could just in general
know less about anything, because like, I overthink everything so much,
and it's so nice when you just get to do
things and it's like it feels like you're naturally doing it.
(10:37):
Because it's also with like making music and DJing and
doing creative stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Like I just wish we could turn this one.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Off sometimes, you know, and just just just just.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Go preach preach because I'm the same way.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I overanalyze everything and I have OCD and add so
everything going on in the year, let's talk about this smash.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Did I see that it took two years to clear?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
It wasn't a two year process like actively people trying it.
Was more like I felt like it was such a
big song already. I never really deemed it possible, and
we would give it a try here and there every
now and then I just started playing it I think
two years ago, maybe a little longer, and I always knew, like,
(11:30):
this song works so well live, like if we can
do something with this officially, it'll just be such a
nice thing for people to do. Because there were so
many rips already on like SoundCloud whatever there was. There
was one guy, random person who uploaded it cut it
(11:51):
out of my club spaceset still had the CO two
blasting over the draw like, and it had one million plays.
Oh well, Like I was like, Wow, people really want this,
so I'm gonna just try again. And then I hit
up my boy Andrew from Nervous Records and I'm like, Andrew,
(12:11):
listen this CO two drop has one million plays. The
people really want this. If you can can make this
happen for me, turn it into an official release, I'll put
it out on Nervous. And he got it done in
two weeks. Andrew's really the go here and he made
(12:31):
it happen.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
So yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
And then that was already like after one and that no,
that was already after two years. So for him to
just come in and do that in two weeks and
just text me back like yo, I think I got
it done, it was really crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
But yeah, I'm surprised you didn't put a CO two
blast in.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
There, just as I mean, I kind of liked it too.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Now thinking back a couple of years, how was the
song born?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
It's actually that same friend that thought of the p attitude.
Moultpe told me that I should do like a bootleg,
like a edit of Tamian pal Out. The less I know,
the better, And I would always be like, yeah, I'll
do that one day, I'll do it for you whatever,
and he just kept pushing and pushing and pushing, and
(13:17):
he didn't even want it for me. He just wanted
it for himself. He just wanted to have that song
to listen to because he knew that in his head
it was going to be really good, like he already
envisioned it. And then I guess one day, I just
get behind my computer and I tried and I sent
him a voice note and he's like, yeah, exactly, that's
exactly what I want.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Now keep going. So I was like.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Sort of he had me like in his in his power.
I was just making music for him.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Here is personal producer, and I've.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Made it really quickly, and then just started playing it
out too at my shows, and it just from the
first time I played it just worked so well that
I you know, obviously I thank him, and but always
from the beginning it felt like like a special edits.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You know, Now, when you do stuff like that, do
you keep in the back of your mind the original artist?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Are you ever worried about what the original artist is
going to think?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yeah, it's it's I always feel, you know, a little
sensitive about remixing and making edits because the stuff that
I pick to me is worth so much, or like
it is such a sort of piece of art that
it's almost hard to touch, you know, or hard to
(14:35):
make an edit.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Of because you want to, you know, be respectful.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
And and and and and keep it sort of in
the You either go so crazy that you don't even
recognize what the original is, or you just, you know,
try to enhance in a different sort of perspective what
was already going on. And the last thing is what
I did for the less, I know, the better, because
I just made it a higher tempo and I added
(15:03):
you know, my beats and a new baseline and made
it tech house, you know, So I didn't want to
go to crazy and add things to an already genius
production by by you know, Kevin of course.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
So yeah, that's that's how that happened.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Well, you did such a great job with it. Congratulations
on your first number one. Let's talk about your latest smash,
Like I like it? How did that happen?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
That's also a sample, and it's so funny. I just
found this sample and immediately in my head started adding
things to it that I would say because it's like
the sample the samples, Like I think, it's like sort
of a lovey dovey thing where it's like a whole
lot more.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Than a little bit and a little bit more than
a lot, Like I like it.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
It's like a person, I think, but I was trying
to make it about busty women where they're like where
it's like, because obviously the hook is crazy, like a
whole lot more than a little bit, and I'm just
talking about ass I guess. So I'm like, what if
you add she's got a whole lot more than a
little bit and a little bit more than a lot,
(16:09):
like I like it, And then you add, yeah, that's
how I like it, So it sort of became a
more sexually tinted thing instead of like the the eighties
sort of love song that it was originally. So that
was just really fun to me. And then the beach
just adds the whole swag to the song for me.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It's such a funky track. Congratulations on that as well. Now,
before I let you go, we've got a new feature
here on America's Dan's thirty. I ask chat ept to
give me a question that maope has never been asked before.
I hope you're ready for this one. If you could
bottle the less, I know the better as an energy drink,
(16:50):
what flavor would it be and what country would ban it?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
It'd probably be called like rainbow flavor or something. Because
for the now, for all of the shows for the
Less I Know the Better. We have all the lights
programmed to turn into every color of the rainbow because
it's so like euphoric and it feels a little, you know,
LSD trippy, if that makes sense, or it would be
(17:14):
LSD flavored that could also be a thing, and the
colors just naturally appear for you. And then probably some
Asian country would ban it because obviously they're not they're not.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Doing the whole drug thing.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Well, congratulations on the Less I Know the Better going
number one, dude. I can't thank you enough for your
time and waking up for it. Congratulations on everything.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I'm going to start by day now.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
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