September 28, 2023 • 38 mins
Get ready to be inspired! Meet our latest guest, Nana McKay, who left her comfortable job at Amazon to chase her dreams as a full-time musician. Curious about what sparked this leap of faith? It was a simple push from a coworker that set her on this unexpected musical journey. Nana's story doesn't just end there; she's fuelled by a profound desire to give back to her family and that's what truly makes her musical saga stand out.
Does Nana's story stop at just making music videos? Absolutely not! Nana's dreams are as big as her heart, with goals of globetrotting, finding love, and ultimately, gracing the stage at Summer Jam. Join us for a chat that is not only captivating but also a testament to Nana McKay's resilience, passion for music, and her exciting plans for the future.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's In the Field, radio y'all.
Everything's real in the field.
Here it goes little yo.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome back to In the Field Radio.
I'm Erin Boogie.
I'm here with Miss Lady D.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
And we have Nana McKay in the building.
Hello, hello.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
From Monticello.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, we appreciate that.
You took that super long driveto come visit us.
Thank you for having me.
So let's get right into it.
Who is Nana McKay?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well, a bunch of things.
So I would say that I'm verystrong, independent, rebellious,
I'm a bunch of things.
But me as a person, I'm justkind of hearted and I kind of
just want to get back to mypeople, which mainly I mean my
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family, I don't.
I just don't want them tostruggle.
So I'm kind of like I'm doingthis for myself, but I'm doing
this for them too.
So I'm very, I'm verypassionate, especially when it
comes to making my music.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
When's your birthday?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
My birthday is May 20th.
I'm a tourist, I knew it, Iknew it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
What did you describe yourself?
I'm surrounded by tourists.
I'm May 13th.
Yeah, I was like yo.
I'm very I'm very stubborn too.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Oh, y'all the worst, it's all about me.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's awesome.
Okay, so let's talk about howlong you've been doing music.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Um.
So November makes a year, soI've been doing music for nine
months.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
That's what I thought , because I mean, we went to
look you up and I was like well,everything is 2023.
So either I mean some people.
That's good, though, becauseyou made music and put it out.
Everybody else is like I'vebeen doing music for 10 years
and the music they just put itout what last year?
And stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
So not for nothing.
She's only been making musicfor nine months and call our
attention.
So yeah, like we're prettytapped in with the artists in
the area, so you're doingsomething right, because it
means people are noticing.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, I didn't even know you guys were like here.
Honestly, I didn't knowanything about it.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Where'd you think we were?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
At a radio station.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Like oh, just somewhere else.
Yeah, we are at a radio station.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well, yeah, I didn't know like where, so I had to do
a little research to look us upto.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Okay, so how did you feel when you did that?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, I went to your Instagram page at first and then
I went to your website andimmediately I was looking for a
way to get on here, like I waslike I need to find the contact
information.
So I'm scrolling, lookingthrough and then I just
submitted like name, email, thatstuff, and I got an email back
and I was confused.
(02:43):
When she emailed me at first,I'm like wait, I emailed you
guys.
I was like you know, I forgotbecause it took her a little
while to get back and I'm like,oh yeah, like no.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's so awesome that you're doing that.
So I mean, so you just startedputting out music, but have you
been making music before that?
Like what started this journey?
How did this happen?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Okay.
So it's kind of a weird, butI'm a very spiritual person.
You know, I believe in God andall that.
So I feel like it was meant tohappen.
It happened for a reason.
So I started working at Amazona few months ago, back in like
November, because that's when Istarted making music and I met
this boy there, like we weretraining together and like you
(03:25):
know he was kind of cute.
So I went over to Shana Halaand told him or whatever.
Love it and he was telling meabout himself, telling me how he
makes music, and randomly outof nowhere, he was just like you
should hop on a track with me.
And I'm looking at him likewhat, I don't make music, I
don't rap, I don't do any ofthat.
Like I used to sing in a showerand like little stuff like that
.
But like I didn't really thinkabout it until I got home and I
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really thought about it and Iwrote a song Well, half a song
and I sang it to my littlebrother and he was like no, that
sounds so good, like you shouldkeep going.
Like I really think you havesomething with this.
So like, literally after thejourney, like the music started
kicking in my head that I shouldreally do this.
I Quit three days later, like Istopped training because I
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realized I really don't want todo this.
You quit the job.
Yes, I'm quick to quit a job Yoit was all the way in New
Windsor.
I live in Monticello, that'syeah, that's so far right.
And I just realized you know,when you're in training and
they're explaining the jobdescription, you didn't realize
what you signed up for untilyou're actually in training.
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So I'm like I really don't wantto do this for real.
So, and then a week later, myfriend actually ended up
quitting too because he gotoffered a better job.
So I feel like we were both putthere for me to realize that
music is what I want to do islike my Lean, like you know.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Are you still talking to him?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, we talk almost every day.
Oh, he was actually in my firstmusic video that I dropped back
in February.
He was in it.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yo can we talk about the music videos?
Cuz right out the gate.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
You came with the fire visuals, so um, I work with
Derek at good good time filmstudio.
He's located here inPoughkeepsie and he's like
amazing.
Like One day I was looking uplike videographers just around
the area and I came across hiswebsite and I just DM'd him and
(05:25):
we just started working rightaway.
But I still work with him tothis day and I actually have a
photo shoot coming up with himthis Monday and his work is like
fire.
I recommend Everyone to him.
Whoever looks for avideographer.
I'm like, yeah, go here, listen, we actually want to work with
him.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
But yeah, talk about.
I mean, did you grow uplistening to music in the house?
Did you come from a musicalfamily?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
or um.
So my dad was born in the 60s.
He's pretty ancient, so we,like I, grew up listening to a
bunch of old-school R&B, so Iguess it mainly came from his
side of the family and him.
But like I have music allaround me growing up and me and
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my little brother used to dolike little performances in the
house For my mom and my stepdadfor like Christmas or like just
any random time.
We were bored and just you know, kids Just come up with a
little stupid stuff to do so.
But like I always had the radioplaying in my room because like
I was kind of a bad kid so I hadmy TV taken away, have my phone
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taken away, so at one point theradio was all I had.
So I would just listen to K-104and like 96 one, yeah, 98.3.
Um, so, yeah, I guess it wasjust always there.
Who are you listening to likewhat artists?
When it comes to like genres, Ilistened to almost every genre.
So like I was mainly listeningto like back then, like Katy
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Perry, demi Lovato and NickiMinaj, like heavy, heavy Nicki
Minaj, fan Drake, rihanna, ofcourse, you know I.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Could see that like your music is like not
conventional Rap.
Like he was rapping, I was likeokay but it then it wasn't like
drill I can rap Um.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I'm versatile.
Honestly, I could do a littlebit of everything, but like,
rapping is not my lane.
I just feel like a lot offemales are trying to be like
the next Nicki Minaj little kid.
So I'm, I just don't want to.
Rap is not my lane, so I'm more.
I'm just more of like a singer.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Just sound my vibe.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, but let him know, you can do both right,
yeah, I can do both.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I do both.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
When did you realize you could sing?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Have you realized it?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I don't know, because , like I just Like I could sing
and I would sing to my mom, butit wasn't all the way there,
like I couldn't really sing.
Sing like you know how, whenyou play a song and you start
singing it, like Halo by Beyonce, for example, and when the
volume is all the way up, forsome reason, I sound exactly the
same, like you know them.
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You be hitting them high notes,real good, but like I did like
acapella, like nothing, and mymom was like it sounded okay,
but like your high notes werelike a little pitchy, like maybe
you should you know.
So I always could sing.
Just I Needed help in the rightdirection.
Like right, like now I take onSinging lessons.
(08:19):
I have a vocal coach, right.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Your voice is an instrument.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So, yeah, it was gonna sound like that because
you hadn't practiced it, or oranything like that it's an
instrument, but also shout outto you for getting with a vocal
coach, because you'd besurprised how many singers need
to do that.
And need to do that desperately.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Like even famous people have vocal coaches, like
they all have that and peoplejust don't do it.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yeah, I had to take.
Once I found a passion formusic and realize that this is
what I really love to do, I hadto take it all the way seriously
, yeah that's all good.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So what kind of mistakes have you seen like
artists, make that you try toavoid.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Trying to be like everybody else, trying to ride
the same wave, like, honestly,like, if it's not like trap
music or like Drill drill orlike, or like I'm shaking me,
like you know, hype music prettymuch, I don't know.
I just feel like everybody knowsthose are like the main
categories you could instantlyblow up from or get like a
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Attention towards you.
I just feel like you still yougot to try to be yourself.
It is hard because, like, beingan artist now I didn't realize
how many artists are in theworld, I didn't realize how many
people really make music likeand it's like we're all
competing for the same spot andit's hard, it is.
But like I feel like whenyou're yourself and you stay
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true to yourself, you you canmake it without riding
everybody's wave, because mymusic is different.
Like people will tell me allthe time like you don't sound
like this I did get compared tocertain artists, but like it
would tell me like you reallyhad your own Wave, like your
look, everything about you isjust different and I really
don't want to Ride anyone else'swave like you know.
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Who do people compare you to?
I got compared to juice world,which I took as a compliment
because he Is very talented.
I love juice world music andthat's where I get most of my
inspiration from, because IWrite to juice world tight beats
, mm-hmm, so like it will giveoff a similar type of vibe when
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you listen to it.
And I just talk about, like mypain, things that I went through
, especially with guysrelationships, you know I Think
that's what people are lookingfor.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
It's weird like some people don't get that music and
and and you know I like to tryto play a little everything on
the show, so I I play some ofthat tight lane music, if you
will.
That, you know, talks aboutthings like that, gets into
emotional things and it's good.
I see why people are drawn toit.
I'm drawn to it.
I was drawn to juice world, soyeah, rest in peace juice world.
(11:02):
He was super talented and ableto reach a lot of people.
Yeah, like when people are ableto reach a lot of people, you
know they.
Kendrick Lamar, they gave him apass, I think he was an
affirmative action pass.
I'm not even gonna hold you,but Because you know, other than
that he wouldn't have been ableto reach the amount of people
(11:23):
there's.
He's too much for some people.
You know, I mean Drake's ableto reach, like everybody right.
And not scare people away.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I think juice world was.
He filled a void in hip-hop atthe time, yeah, or emotional
hip-hop, yeah.
People were like oh, this issomething that I can't relate to
.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I'm also having these feelings and you didn't have to
be a caller.
You know I mean it was foreveryone.
So some people just make blacksuper viewer music and it's just
hard for everyone to relate tothat, because everyone's not
freaking black.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I feel like that, like love specifically is
something almost everyone canrelate to, because Everyone goes
through Stuff with love, likewhether it's a friendship, a
Parent or an actual relationship, like I just feel like at one
point in life Everyone felt likethey weren't loved, or like
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they needed love, you know so.
But mainly, my audience that Itried to reach for is, like,
young females, specifically fromlike Ages 19 to, like, I would
say, 30, because I feel likethat's the bracket, like the
time of your life where you'relike really Going through a
heartbreak and like really likesearching around or you don't
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know what to do, whether you youknow you want to stay single
because it's best for you, butat the same time, everybody gets
lonely, everybody's looking forsomething.
So I feel like, though likethose ages, like fits for my
music, I Like that is your musicbased on real life?
experiences.
Yes, everything that I talkabout, everything that I write,
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is based off of everything thatI've already been through.
It comes across as authentic.
Oh, that I'm going through,yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I'm low-key intrigued about how you were a bad kid
Because you, as she came hereand we were still doing stuff,
whatever she wasn't there herewhile it.
Whatever, she just sit thereall quiet.
Guys, I was like no, I'm verymature.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Now you know obviously age and life
experience is changed.
You so like I'm not bad anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I was bad, I think I was bad.
I was good and bad.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
All kids are bad at some point.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, I was good and bad yeah.
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Speaker 2 (14:23):
All right, is there anybody that you want to Collab
with?
I mean, I'm sure there is, butwho is your dream?
Collapse Like artists, and theycould be okay.
We could do like a couple fromthe area and then a couple like
ever.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
All right.
So from the a4 5 area, honestly, I only know a few like.
I'm still like really seeingwho's like artists out here, but
, um, I Don't know if I'mpronouncing his name right, but
I think his name is like Dweather he's.
He's from Pekipsey, he's outhere, he works with them.
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Zach from Panoramic Films a lotI see.
Yes, I would like to collabwith him.
I actually listened to hismusic.
He's pretty dope, um.
And then there's this one guyfrom Middletown.
His name is like Jay easy.
Like he makes like thoserunning videos and posts on my
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Instagram and actually likefollow him or everything.
I would like to collab with him.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
So, yeah, out of those two artists from the town,
he reminds me of the maleversion of the fly on a boss.
Girls Like the way he runsthrough the video.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah, I actually think like what he started for
himself is like it's differentand like it's it like.
As soon as you click on hispage and you see that or you see
Somebody imitating that, youjust know it's him like the
running thing.
I feel like it was his owntrend he started.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
That's cool.
Okay, what about like ever?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So, like obvious, nicki Minaj, like I've been a
huge Nicki fan, um, I still bumpher old stuff, her new stuff.
I would love to collab with her.
That's like a Dream collab.
And, um, I really don't knowwho else, probably Drake, but I
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feel like with him I Would wantto do like some, some R&B, like
some slow, something, you know,like romantic.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Would you agree?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah so how do you choose beats?
Do you work with any producers?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Um, I do.
So.
I have a producer that lives inAtlanta and he like Recreates
my beats for me.
So I would like pick a beat offof YouTube and he would like I
don't know what he does, how hedoes it, he's magic.
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But because I don't knowanything about being a producer,
but he would just tweak thebeat a little bit, change
certain things, take out certaininstruments, put in certain
instruments to make it soundsimilar, but it wouldn't be like
the same, like waves or likeyou know it would be different.
So basically it would be my beatsince it was altered.
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And yeah, his name is Brev.
Shout out to Brev.
He's like the best producerever.
His beats are like undefeated.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
You seem really resourceful, really early.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, I feel like I was like that, blowing my mind
yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Is that?
Is it like shocking, but likein a good way?
Yeah?
Some people are like 10 yearsinto making and they still
haven't like figured out certainthings, so like, I do like a
lot of research on, like themusic industry, like the
business behind it and likethings that I need, things that
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I should know.
Like you know, I don't want tojust walk into something blind,
you know.
So yeah, like I said, I want totake this all the way serious.
Like I want it to be a careerwhere this is like making me all
my money at one point, like youknow, where I could just sit
back and just collect theroyalties.
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Like you know, it takes time,but eventually I'm going to get
there.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
So yeah, what is your recording process like?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
in the studio.
I usually, when I go to thestudio, I'll usually book like a
two to three hour session.
Um, I just I read off of myphone, because sometimes I won't
remember my lyrics, but I justgo into the booth and just
breathe in, breathe out and juststart.
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I don't know, it's not really aprocess Like.
It's not like I smoke or likedrink or anything before I go
into the booth, like I go incompletely sober because that's
when I'm like having my mainfocus.
I did, actually, before I quitsmoking.
I smoked before singing andthat's when I realized I had to
quit because it made my voicevery raspy.
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I didn't sound the same, like Iliterally had to rerecord the
same song that I recorded thefirst time.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
So I just realized like I needcomplete focus.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
So do you have people in the studio with you or are
you in there by yourselfSometimes?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
when I first first started I was by myself and the
crazy thing is when I the firstever studio I went to was in
Beacon and I cried because Ididn't sound good, I felt and I
didn't think I was going to getit right Like I wanted to quit
making music right then.
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And there I was like I soundterrible, I can't do this.
Why don't I sound like thepeople on the radio?
It's not supposed to sound likethis.
But it turned out that theengineer actually had the auto
tune backwards.
He didn't really know what hewas doing, because he works with
jazz and instrumental.
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He wasn't aware of hip hop andR&B, so it wasn't his lane, I
guess.
But I ended up getting a freesession because I guess he felt
bad that I was crying.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
He shouldn't have felt bad.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, that deserves to be a free session.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Good that you brought that up.
It's really good that youbrought that up because I was
checking out studios forsomething, just checking out a
bunch of studios in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
And.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I was seeing.
They all have the sameequipment, they all have the
same Pro Tools, all the same.
All of that, the difference iswho works there?
What do they do?
What have they done?
What genre are they used toworking with?
All that stuff like who'sworking there Matters and they
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would have the bios for theengineer on there, whatever.
So it's cool that you picked upon that.
That matters.
People just go to whateverstudio.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yeah, I usually go into the studio by myself, but I
will bring my little brother meand my little brother actually
recently just did a songtogether I will go with him, or
I will go with my one friend,but other than them two, I
really go to the studio bymyself because I just feel like
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I have my full focus when I'm bymyself most of the time.
And you pay for it, right.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Is they a breach, your brother.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yes, that's my little brother.
Shout out to Zebreeze my heart.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Are you guys close in ?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
age, he's 17,.
So, yeah, kinda how old are you?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I'm 22.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
So, after that first terrible experience that you had
in the studio, what made youwant to keep going?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I realized I had already written all these songs
and I already had beats for mostof them that I paid for.
So I was like maybe I shouldtry another studio.
Once the guy told me he didn'treally work with my genre.
I was like maybe I should justtry somewhere else.
And I contacted my friend theone that told you put me on to
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music and he was like, yeah, Ithink you should just try
somewhere else.
I honestly think he just didn'tknow what he was doing and he
told me straight up he was likethat track sounded terrible.
He was like throw it in a trash?
Oh no, but he was being realand honestly it sounded so bad
like it really did.
So I tried another studio whichis in Washingtonville and the
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engineer there is great.
Like he never disappointed.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Shout out to the new engineer.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah, the studio is called Somerset Studio and the
guy's name is Dave.
And yeah, shout out to Davebecause he's awesome.
He captures my real sound.
I feel like he knows what he'sdoing.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Talk about some of the performances that you've had
recently.
That's another thing I wasimpressed about that.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
You've already been out there performing yeah,
outside and down in the city.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
You did SOBs.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yes, I performed at SOB almost a month ago and it
was really the vibe there was sochill, like everyone was up in
my music.
Usually when you see a femalelike me go up on stage I guess
they were expecting me to rap orsay some sexual stuff.
But they all look kind ofshocked when they see me singing
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and the stuff I was talkingabout and my one song best to me
, my reggae song, which is mymost known popular song.
When I started playing everyonewas crazy.
People were dancing, singingthe words.
It was really cool.
I felt very welcomed at home,like wow, people really like
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this.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Were you nervous the first time you performed?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I was, so the first time I performed was for Mucci's
event.
I don't know if you know whothat is.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, I just went down and played planes.
Yeah, it was her new spot.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
So it was for a contest and it was my first time
performing.
And as soon as I got on stage Iwas just seeing everybody and
I'm like wow.
But I told everyone I was likethis is my first performance,
I'm kind of scared.
And after that the music juststarted playing and honestly,
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her manager was like if youdidn't tell us that was your
first time performing, wewouldn't have known, because you
killed it.
You were just so good.
It didn't even look like youwere nervous.
So that's how that went and,honestly, after that I kind of
fell in love with performing.
I think this last week was myseventh performance.
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I've been performing everywherein this city, mainly Manhattan
area.
For some reason I've just beengetting a lot of events there.
I recently just did a yachtperformance for DJ Hot Rod.
That went really really good.
That was a really goodexperience to have never
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performed on a boat.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, that's a cool spot.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
And this past Sunday I performed at the Bagel
Festival in Monticello.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Okay, we have to talk about that because I was
jealous that you guys have abagel festival and we do not.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Do you guys have that every year?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah, it is every year, usually in August, bagels.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
I feel like bagels is for winter.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
I feel like bagels are for all year round.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Did you get any bagels?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I did not.
I ate a brownie instead I feellike cheese steak.
I mean, I live there.
We got the bagel bakery rightin town too.
I didn't really want to bagel.
I was there to perform.
It was kind of boring afterthat.
When you're a kid or whenyou're a late teen, it's a
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little exciting because it'ssomething to do in that boring
town.
But when you're older, if youdon't have an actual stand and
you're not selling stuff oryou're not there for an actual
cause, it's boring.
After I performed I woke up anddown the strip, got some food
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and honestly left.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Oh no, did other people perform?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Yeah, there was a band there and there was an R&B
singer.
I was singing like old schoolsongs.
I'm not sure who performedAfter those two because, like I
said, I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
It's so funny, because I'm kind of like that
too, like in in this space, inthe podcast space, we're like
you know, technically I shouldbe listening to other podcasts.
You know what other peopledoing, or whatever.
I do not listen to podcast.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I never lose it.
I get I get bored kind ofeasily and like, like even
performing I had to get used tobeing in clubs because like an
Hour in I'm already yawningready to go home.
So, like you know, I have tolike realize like, yeah, I'm
here, this is the environmentman, I'm an artist, like I have
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to be awake.
Like I can't have that I'mready to go to sleep mentality,
even though I Was ready to go tosleep.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
No, I feel you.
Club life is not for me.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Do you have any performances coming?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
up, I do, I'm performing for a live fashion
show in Times Square.
Sometimes performances getthrown at me last minute, like
that, that yacht performance,literally.
I found out two days before theactual event and they like made
me a flyer quick and I postedit like for promo real quick,
but like Um.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
So people don't have to just follow you.
They don't have to.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I might, I might have a performance coming up, but
before the fashion show.
Like I don't even know, likeyou know it, just, it just
depends.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I love that it's all happening so fast for you.
Does it ever feel overwhelming?
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Um, it doesn't.
It feels good because, like Isaid, I just feel like once I
found my lane, it was just itwas meant to happen, the way
everything happened.
So, like the fact that I ammoving this fast like I'm not
surprised because, like, I talkTo myself, to God, to my family,
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every day and I tell them likethis is what I really want to do
, and I manifest Literally allof this and when I'm like, even
when I'm having conversationswith people, like not to sound,
like, like I'm not a humbleperson or anything, because I am
a very humble person, but likeI'd be like, yeah, I'm about to
be rich soon.
I was really.
I was like, yeah, so once thismusic take off, like I'll be
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telling people I'd be like,because people be watching my
story, they, they, um, dm me andstuff all the time, like, like
yo, I can't believe you.
You just started doing musiclike, and you're actually like
Doing it for real.
You're like not doing it to bepopular, like you're actually
doing it and your music is good.
So it's like I would tellpeople like, yeah, maybe you
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should like Especially localartists.
Maybe you should consider maybea feature, while you can, cuz,
cuz once, once I, once I takeoff, yeah, I don't think you'll
be able to afford these features.
So you know, I'd be trying totell people get up with me while
you can, cuz.
Once it takes off for real, itain't no looking back and I'm
definitely not coming back Um toMonticello.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
So she said yesterday's price is not today's
price.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
She ain't come back to Monticello unless it's to
race a racehorse.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Bet money not even that.
No, I'm gonna have to racehorses somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
No race horses.
Rick Russ's house right.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
What are some goals that you have for yourself?
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Like with the music or in life both.
So with the music, my goal isto make this my full-on career,
like I want to live off of.
My music pretty much Goes inlife pretty much to keep
traveling.
I already been to a fewdifferent places.
I already left the country once, so you know I just want to
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keep traveling because I reallydo enjoy traveling and I like
traveling alone, which peoplethink is weird, but I think it's
very therapeutic.
So just keep exploring theworld, honestly doing what makes
me happy, which is music,traveling and eventually, like
Finding love, which seems to beextremely hard in this time of
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day in my generation.
So, yeah, whenever that happens, what about?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
music.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Do you have any?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
like specific goals, like you want to win a Grammy,
or like you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I don't know like I've thought into that, like far
into that, but I think thefurthest I've actually thought I
don't think I've thought abouta Grammy, but like a BET award
for like best new artist is likewhat I picture and actually
performing for the BET awards.
I actually Thought about oneday performing for summer jam,
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which I'm gonna actually try tomake happen like very soon If I
can, because I have, like youknow, little connects and I'd be
around people who know peoplewho know people.
So you know it could happen.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
I believe it.
Yeah, it's actually really.
It's funny because I I kind ofgot into podcasting similarly
and then you end up realizingthat things are easier than what
they appear.
It's easier to get into thesetype of spaces than what you
thought.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Especially if you're just motivated and you actually
want to do it like you canliterally Put your mind to
anything and do anything thatyou want to do.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Yeah yeah, being in the music industry has taught me
that everyone knows someonethat's high up in the music
industry.
For real or is, has made it oris doing it works at full time.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
It's like, yeah, there'd be like mad little
people that do like themarketing.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
PR, like you know us.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
And and then when you know those people, you're like,
oh, and you in there as afemale fronted radio show, we
like to highlight extraordinarywomen.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So who is a woman that made a huge impact on your
life?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I would say my mom shadow to my mom.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
You don't have to say your mom, some people know.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Most guys say their mom or you highlight multiple
women too.
I mean like famous or like justit can be.
However, they impacted you, soit doesn't.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
If it's someone famous that you don't know, but
made a huge impact in your lifesomewhere, then Alright, so I
would say my mom, just cuz youknow as mom, but I would really,
really, really say my thatexcited anyway right, sorry, but
, um, my grandma, because, um, Ilived with my grandma from the
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ages 17 to 19, um, and then,when I turned 19, I got my own
apartment.
I've been independent since then, but, um, my grandma taught me
a lot.
She taught me everything I know, and the main thing she taught
me was to do what makes me happyand leave these boys alone.
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That's the main thing shetaught me, but um she's not
wrong, she, you know she's not.
But she would literally sit downbecause she would notice the
same mistakes I would make,specifically with relationships,
over and, over and over and shewould get mad, she would curse
you know, but that's just howgrandmas are.
But she would sit down with meand have the same talks over and
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over and like, beat it into myhead until I finally got it
right or to last finallyrealized, or you know, like she
would just keep like you want tokeep getting your heart broken
or you want to keep goingthrough this.
She was like you're young,you're beautiful.
Like you know, you got so manyother things in life you could
be doing or worried about.
Like you know she, she made mebecome mature.
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She made me like that's animportant time age 17 19 that's
that's that time for them andshe, yeah, she.
She was a big impact for herbecause if it wasn't for her I
wouldn't have had my first place, because she was my motivation
to get my own apartment that'sso good yeah, I want to say
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shout out to you for forstriking out on your own at such
a young age.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Thank you, and then also having the foresight to see
we've all been there, yeahwe've all been there and
listening, listening to grandma.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Some people don't listen, so being about your
business.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Holding down a household while trying to make
it in the music industry is notthe easiest thing yeah, it's not
, it's it's, it's, it's hard,but, um, you know, I I live
comfortably.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I'm very blessed.
I do have a second job on theside.
You know, um, I'm a dancer, Idance.
So it mainly supports theexpensive stuff when it comes to
my music, like studio timevideos.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
So that's so good.
All right, tell the people,because the people are gonna
have to follow you to know whatyou're doing, because it
happened so fast well, you guyscan find me on instagram at
nanana dot underscore dot mckmckay.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
I'm on youtube, apple music, soundcloud, spotify,
basically every streamingplatform and on a stage near you
all right, that was awesome.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I don't have any more questions.
Step do you have anything?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
anything else you want to tell the people before
we get out of here?
Floor is yours um.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
So for all the artists out there, specifically
independent like me, your timeis coming.
You just got to keep grinding,you got to keep doing what
you're doing, like I've I'veonly been in the industry for
such a short amount of time andwith hard work, consistency and
(36:59):
obviously you know money.
But, um, you can.
You could definitely reach yourgoals.
You could definitely get whereyou want to be.
You just have to be motivated,you have to manifest, you have
to really want it and you couldreally get it.
So, like for all the artistsout there, just keep going, keep
pushing yourself, because, likeone day god could just put on
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the table for you and boom,there you go.
So like you got to keep goingthere it is.
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's In the Field, radio y'all.
Everything's real in the field.
Here it goes little yo.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome back to In the Field Radio.
I'm Erin Boogie.
I'm here with Miss Lady D.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
And we have Nana McKay in the building.
Hello, hello.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
From Monticello.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, we appreciate that.
You took that super long driveto come visit us.
Thank you for having me.
So let's get right into it.
Who is Nana McKay?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well, a bunch of things.
So I would say that I'm verystrong, independent, rebellious,
I'm a bunch of things.
But me as a person, I'm justkind of hearted and I kind of
just want to get back to mypeople, which mainly I mean my
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family, I don't.
I just don't want them tostruggle.
So I'm kind of like I'm doingthis for myself, but I'm doing
this for them too.
So I'm very, I'm verypassionate, especially when it
comes to making my music.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
When's your birthday?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
My birthday is May 20th.
I'm a tourist, I knew it, Iknew it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
What did you describe yourself?
I'm surrounded by tourists.
I'm May 13th.
Yeah, I was like yo.
I'm very I'm very stubborn too.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Oh, y'all the worst, it's all about me.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's awesome.
Okay, so let's talk about howlong you've been doing music.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Um.
So November makes a year, soI've been doing music for nine
months.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
That's what I thought , because I mean, we went to
look you up and I was like well,everything is 2023.
So either I mean some people.
That's good, though, becauseyou made music and put it out.
Everybody else is like I'vebeen doing music for 10 years
and the music they just put itout what last year?
And stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
So not for nothing.
She's only been making musicfor nine months and call our
attention.
So yeah, like we're prettytapped in with the artists in
the area, so you're doingsomething right, because it
means people are noticing.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, I didn't even know you guys were like here.
Honestly, I didn't knowanything about it.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Where'd you think we were?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
At a radio station.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Like oh, just somewhere else.
Yeah, we are at a radio station.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well, yeah, I didn't know like where, so I had to do
a little research to look us upto.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Okay, so how did you feel when you did that?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, I went to your Instagram page at first and then
I went to your website andimmediately I was looking for a
way to get on here, like I waslike I need to find the contact
information.
So I'm scrolling, lookingthrough and then I just
submitted like name, email, thatstuff, and I got an email back
and I was confused.
(02:43):
When she emailed me at first,I'm like wait, I emailed you
guys.
I was like you know, I forgotbecause it took her a little
while to get back and I'm like,oh yeah, like no.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's so awesome that you're doing that.
So I mean, so you just startedputting out music, but have you
been making music before that?
Like what started this journey?
How did this happen?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Okay.
So it's kind of a weird, butI'm a very spiritual person.
You know, I believe in God andall that.
So I feel like it was meant tohappen.
It happened for a reason.
So I started working at Amazona few months ago, back in like
November, because that's when Istarted making music and I met
this boy there, like we weretraining together and like you
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know he was kind of cute.
So I went over to Shana Halaand told him or whatever.
Love it and he was telling meabout himself, telling me how he
makes music, and randomly outof nowhere, he was just like you
should hop on a track with me.
And I'm looking at him likewhat, I don't make music, I
don't rap, I don't do any ofthat.
Like I used to sing in a showerand like little stuff like that
.
But like I didn't really thinkabout it until I got home and I
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really thought about it and Iwrote a song Well, half a song
and I sang it to my littlebrother and he was like no, that
sounds so good, like you shouldkeep going.
Like I really think you havesomething with this.
So like, literally after thejourney, like the music started
kicking in my head that I shouldreally do this.
I Quit three days later, like Istopped training because I
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realized I really don't want todo this.
You quit the job.
Yes, I'm quick to quit a job Yoit was all the way in New
Windsor.
I live in Monticello, that'syeah, that's so far right.
And I just realized you know,when you're in training and
they're explaining the jobdescription, you didn't realize
what you signed up for untilyou're actually in training.
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So I'm like I really don't wantto do this for real.
So, and then a week later, myfriend actually ended up
quitting too because he gotoffered a better job.
So I feel like we were both putthere for me to realize that
music is what I want to do islike my Lean, like you know.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Are you still talking to him?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, we talk almost every day.
Oh, he was actually in my firstmusic video that I dropped back
in February.
He was in it.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yo can we talk about the music videos?
Cuz right out the gate.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
You came with the fire visuals, so um, I work with
Derek at good good time filmstudio.
He's located here inPoughkeepsie and he's like
amazing.
Like One day I was looking uplike videographers just around
the area and I came across hiswebsite and I just DM'd him and
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we just started working rightaway.
But I still work with him tothis day and I actually have a
photo shoot coming up with himthis Monday and his work is like
fire.
I recommend Everyone to him.
Whoever looks for avideographer.
I'm like, yeah, go here, listen, we actually want to work with
him.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
But yeah, talk about.
I mean, did you grow uplistening to music in the house?
Did you come from a musicalfamily?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
or um.
So my dad was born in the 60s.
He's pretty ancient, so we,like I, grew up listening to a
bunch of old-school R&B, so Iguess it mainly came from his
side of the family and him.
But like I have music allaround me growing up and me and
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my little brother used to dolike little performances in the
house For my mom and my stepdadfor like Christmas or like just
any random time.
We were bored and just you know, kids Just come up with a
little stupid stuff to do so.
But like I always had the radioplaying in my room because like
I was kind of a bad kid so I hadmy TV taken away, have my phone
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taken away, so at one point theradio was all I had.
So I would just listen to K-104and like 96 one, yeah, 98.3.
Um, so, yeah, I guess it wasjust always there.
Who are you listening to likewhat artists?
When it comes to like genres, Ilistened to almost every genre.
So like I was mainly listeningto like back then, like Katy
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Perry, demi Lovato and NickiMinaj, like heavy, heavy Nicki
Minaj, fan Drake, rihanna, ofcourse, you know I.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Could see that like your music is like not
conventional Rap.
Like he was rapping, I was likeokay but it then it wasn't like
drill I can rap Um.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I'm versatile.
Honestly, I could do a littlebit of everything, but like,
rapping is not my lane.
I just feel like a lot offemales are trying to be like
the next Nicki Minaj little kid.
So I'm, I just don't want to.
Rap is not my lane, so I'm more.
I'm just more of like a singer.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Just sound my vibe.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, but let him know, you can do both right,
yeah, I can do both.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I do both.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
When did you realize you could sing?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Have you realized it?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I don't know, because , like I just Like I could sing
and I would sing to my mom, butit wasn't all the way there,
like I couldn't really sing.
Sing like you know how, whenyou play a song and you start
singing it, like Halo by Beyonce, for example, and when the
volume is all the way up, forsome reason, I sound exactly the
same, like you know them.
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You be hitting them high notes,real good, but like I did like
acapella, like nothing, and mymom was like it sounded okay,
but like your high notes werelike a little pitchy, like maybe
you should you know.
So I always could sing.
Just I Needed help in the rightdirection.
Like right, like now I take onSinging lessons.
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I have a vocal coach, right.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Your voice is an instrument.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So, yeah, it was gonna sound like that because
you hadn't practiced it, or oranything like that it's an
instrument, but also shout outto you for getting with a vocal
coach, because you'd besurprised how many singers need
to do that.
And need to do that desperately.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Like even famous people have vocal coaches, like
they all have that and peoplejust don't do it.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yeah, I had to take.
Once I found a passion formusic and realize that this is
what I really love to do, I hadto take it all the way seriously
, yeah that's all good.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So what kind of mistakes have you seen like
artists, make that you try toavoid.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Trying to be like everybody else, trying to ride
the same wave, like, honestly,like, if it's not like trap
music or like Drill drill orlike, or like I'm shaking me,
like you know, hype music prettymuch, I don't know.
I just feel like everybody knowsthose are like the main
categories you could instantlyblow up from or get like a
(09:22):
Attention towards you.
I just feel like you still yougot to try to be yourself.
It is hard because, like, beingan artist now I didn't realize
how many artists are in theworld, I didn't realize how many
people really make music likeand it's like we're all
competing for the same spot andit's hard, it is.
But like I feel like whenyou're yourself and you stay
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true to yourself, you you canmake it without riding
everybody's wave, because mymusic is different.
Like people will tell me allthe time like you don't sound
like this I did get compared tocertain artists, but like it
would tell me like you reallyhad your own Wave, like your
look, everything about you isjust different and I really
don't want to Ride anyone else'swave like you know.
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Who do people compare you to?
I got compared to juice world,which I took as a compliment
because he Is very talented.
I love juice world music andthat's where I get most of my
inspiration from, because IWrite to juice world tight beats
, mm-hmm, so like it will giveoff a similar type of vibe when
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you listen to it.
And I just talk about, like mypain, things that I went through
, especially with guysrelationships, you know I Think
that's what people are lookingfor.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
It's weird like some people don't get that music and
and and you know I like to tryto play a little everything on
the show, so I I play some ofthat tight lane music, if you
will.
That, you know, talks aboutthings like that, gets into
emotional things and it's good.
I see why people are drawn toit.
I'm drawn to it.
I was drawn to juice world, soyeah, rest in peace juice world.
(11:02):
He was super talented and ableto reach a lot of people.
Yeah, like when people are ableto reach a lot of people, you
know they.
Kendrick Lamar, they gave him apass, I think he was an
affirmative action pass.
I'm not even gonna hold you,but Because you know, other than
that he wouldn't have been ableto reach the amount of people
(11:23):
there's.
He's too much for some people.
You know, I mean Drake's ableto reach, like everybody right.
And not scare people away.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I think juice world was.
He filled a void in hip-hop atthe time, yeah, or emotional
hip-hop, yeah.
People were like oh, this issomething that I can't relate to
.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I'm also having these feelings and you didn't have to
be a caller.
You know I mean it was foreveryone.
So some people just make blacksuper viewer music and it's just
hard for everyone to relate tothat, because everyone's not
freaking black.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I feel like that, like love specifically is
something almost everyone canrelate to, because Everyone goes
through Stuff with love, likewhether it's a friendship, a
Parent or an actual relationship, like I just feel like at one
point in life Everyone felt likethey weren't loved, or like
(12:20):
they needed love, you know so.
But mainly, my audience that Itried to reach for is, like,
young females, specifically fromlike Ages 19 to, like, I would
say, 30, because I feel likethat's the bracket, like the
time of your life where you'relike really Going through a
heartbreak and like really likesearching around or you don't
(12:43):
know what to do, whether you youknow you want to stay single
because it's best for you, butat the same time, everybody gets
lonely, everybody's looking forsomething.
So I feel like, though likethose ages, like fits for my
music, I Like that is your musicbased on real life?
experiences.
Yes, everything that I talkabout, everything that I write,
(13:05):
is based off of everything thatI've already been through.
It comes across as authentic.
Oh, that I'm going through,yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I'm low-key intrigued about how you were a bad kid
Because you, as she came hereand we were still doing stuff,
whatever she wasn't there herewhile it.
Whatever, she just sit thereall quiet.
Guys, I was like no, I'm verymature.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Now you know obviously age and life
experience is changed.
You so like I'm not bad anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I was bad, I think I was bad.
I was good and bad.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
All kids are bad at some point.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, I was good and bad yeah.
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Speaker 2 (14:23):
All right, is there anybody that you want to Collab
with?
I mean, I'm sure there is, butwho is your dream?
Collapse Like artists, and theycould be okay.
We could do like a couple fromthe area and then a couple like
ever.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
All right.
So from the a4 5 area, honestly, I only know a few like.
I'm still like really seeingwho's like artists out here, but
, um, I Don't know if I'mpronouncing his name right, but
I think his name is like Dweather he's.
He's from Pekipsey, he's outhere, he works with them.
(14:59):
Zach from Panoramic Films a lotI see.
Yes, I would like to collabwith him.
I actually listened to hismusic.
He's pretty dope, um.
And then there's this one guyfrom Middletown.
His name is like Jay easy.
Like he makes like thoserunning videos and posts on my
(15:19):
Instagram and actually likefollow him or everything.
I would like to collab with him.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
So, yeah, out of those two artists from the town,
he reminds me of the maleversion of the fly on a boss.
Girls Like the way he runsthrough the video.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah, I actually think like what he started for
himself is like it's differentand like it's it like.
As soon as you click on hispage and you see that or you see
Somebody imitating that, youjust know it's him like the
running thing.
I feel like it was his owntrend he started.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
That's cool.
Okay, what about like ever?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So, like obvious, nicki Minaj, like I've been a
huge Nicki fan, um, I still bumpher old stuff, her new stuff.
I would love to collab with her.
That's like a Dream collab.
And, um, I really don't knowwho else, probably Drake, but I
(16:20):
feel like with him I Would wantto do like some, some R&B, like
some slow, something, you know,like romantic.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Would you agree?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah so how do you choose beats?
Do you work with any producers?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Um, I do.
So.
I have a producer that lives inAtlanta and he like Recreates
my beats for me.
So I would like pick a beat offof YouTube and he would like I
don't know what he does, how hedoes it, he's magic.
(16:54):
But because I don't knowanything about being a producer,
but he would just tweak thebeat a little bit, change
certain things, take out certaininstruments, put in certain
instruments to make it soundsimilar, but it wouldn't be like
the same, like waves or likeyou know it would be different.
So basically it would be my beatsince it was altered.
(17:17):
And yeah, his name is Brev.
Shout out to Brev.
He's like the best producerever.
His beats are like undefeated.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
You seem really resourceful, really early.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, I feel like I was like that, blowing my mind
yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Is that?
Is it like shocking, but likein a good way?
Yeah?
Some people are like 10 yearsinto making and they still
haven't like figured out certainthings, so like, I do like a
lot of research on, like themusic industry, like the
business behind it and likethings that I need, things that
(17:56):
I should know.
Like you know, I don't want tojust walk into something blind,
you know.
So yeah, like I said, I want totake this all the way serious.
Like I want it to be a careerwhere this is like making me all
my money at one point, like youknow, where I could just sit
back and just collect theroyalties.
(18:17):
Like you know, it takes time,but eventually I'm going to get
there.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
So yeah, what is your recording process like?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
in the studio.
I usually, when I go to thestudio, I'll usually book like a
two to three hour session.
Um, I just I read off of myphone, because sometimes I won't
remember my lyrics, but I justgo into the booth and just
breathe in, breathe out and juststart.
(18:46):
I don't know, it's not really aprocess Like.
It's not like I smoke or likedrink or anything before I go
into the booth, like I go incompletely sober because that's
when I'm like having my mainfocus.
I did, actually, before I quitsmoking.
I smoked before singing andthat's when I realized I had to
quit because it made my voicevery raspy.
(19:07):
I didn't sound the same, like Iliterally had to rerecord the
same song that I recorded thefirst time.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
So I just realized like I needcomplete focus.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
So do you have people in the studio with you or are
you in there by yourselfSometimes?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
when I first first started I was by myself and the
crazy thing is when I the firstever studio I went to was in
Beacon and I cried because Ididn't sound good, I felt and I
didn't think I was going to getit right Like I wanted to quit
making music right then.
(19:43):
And there I was like I soundterrible, I can't do this.
Why don't I sound like thepeople on the radio?
It's not supposed to sound likethis.
But it turned out that theengineer actually had the auto
tune backwards.
He didn't really know what hewas doing, because he works with
jazz and instrumental.
(20:04):
He wasn't aware of hip hop andR&B, so it wasn't his lane, I
guess.
But I ended up getting a freesession because I guess he felt
bad that I was crying.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
He shouldn't have felt bad.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, that deserves to be a free session.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Good that you brought that up.
It's really good that youbrought that up because I was
checking out studios forsomething, just checking out a
bunch of studios in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
And.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I was seeing.
They all have the sameequipment, they all have the
same Pro Tools, all the same.
All of that, the difference iswho works there?
What do they do?
What have they done?
What genre are they used toworking with?
All that stuff like who'sworking there Matters and they
(20:48):
would have the bios for theengineer on there, whatever.
So it's cool that you picked upon that.
That matters.
People just go to whateverstudio.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yeah, I usually go into the studio by myself, but I
will bring my little brother meand my little brother actually
recently just did a songtogether I will go with him, or
I will go with my one friend,but other than them two, I
really go to the studio bymyself because I just feel like
(21:18):
I have my full focus when I'm bymyself most of the time.
And you pay for it, right.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Is they a breach, your brother.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yes, that's my little brother.
Shout out to Zebreeze my heart.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Are you guys close in ?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
age, he's 17,.
So, yeah, kinda how old are you?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I'm 22.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
So, after that first terrible experience that you had
in the studio, what made youwant to keep going?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I realized I had already written all these songs
and I already had beats for mostof them that I paid for.
So I was like maybe I shouldtry another studio.
Once the guy told me he didn'treally work with my genre.
I was like maybe I should justtry somewhere else.
And I contacted my friend theone that told you put me on to
(22:11):
music and he was like, yeah, Ithink you should just try
somewhere else.
I honestly think he just didn'tknow what he was doing and he
told me straight up he was likethat track sounded terrible.
He was like throw it in a trash?
Oh no, but he was being realand honestly it sounded so bad
like it really did.
So I tried another studio whichis in Washingtonville and the
(22:38):
engineer there is great.
Like he never disappointed.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Shout out to the new engineer.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah, the studio is called Somerset Studio and the
guy's name is Dave.
And yeah, shout out to Davebecause he's awesome.
He captures my real sound.
I feel like he knows what he'sdoing.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Talk about some of the performances that you've had
recently.
That's another thing I wasimpressed about that.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
You've already been out there performing yeah,
outside and down in the city.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
You did SOBs.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yes, I performed at SOB almost a month ago and it
was really the vibe there was sochill, like everyone was up in
my music.
Usually when you see a femalelike me go up on stage I guess
they were expecting me to rap orsay some sexual stuff.
But they all look kind ofshocked when they see me singing
(23:35):
and the stuff I was talkingabout and my one song best to me
, my reggae song, which is mymost known popular song.
When I started playing everyonewas crazy.
People were dancing, singingthe words.
It was really cool.
I felt very welcomed at home,like wow, people really like
(23:58):
this.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Were you nervous the first time you performed?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I was, so the first time I performed was for Mucci's
event.
I don't know if you know whothat is.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, I just went down and played planes.
Yeah, it was her new spot.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
So it was for a contest and it was my first time
performing.
And as soon as I got on stage Iwas just seeing everybody and
I'm like wow.
But I told everyone I was likethis is my first performance,
I'm kind of scared.
And after that the music juststarted playing and honestly,
(24:44):
her manager was like if youdidn't tell us that was your
first time performing, wewouldn't have known, because you
killed it.
You were just so good.
It didn't even look like youwere nervous.
So that's how that went and,honestly, after that I kind of
fell in love with performing.
I think this last week was myseventh performance.
(25:09):
I've been performing everywherein this city, mainly Manhattan
area.
For some reason I've just beengetting a lot of events there.
I recently just did a yachtperformance for DJ Hot Rod.
That went really really good.
That was a really goodexperience to have never
(25:33):
performed on a boat.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, that's a cool spot.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
And this past Sunday I performed at the Bagel
Festival in Monticello.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Okay, we have to talk about that because I was
jealous that you guys have abagel festival and we do not.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Do you guys have that every year?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah, it is every year, usually in August, bagels.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
I feel like bagels is for winter.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
I feel like bagels are for all year round.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Did you get any bagels?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I did not.
I ate a brownie instead I feellike cheese steak.
I mean, I live there.
We got the bagel bakery rightin town too.
I didn't really want to bagel.
I was there to perform.
It was kind of boring afterthat.
When you're a kid or whenyou're a late teen, it's a
(26:25):
little exciting because it'ssomething to do in that boring
town.
But when you're older, if youdon't have an actual stand and
you're not selling stuff oryou're not there for an actual
cause, it's boring.
After I performed I woke up anddown the strip, got some food
(26:47):
and honestly left.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Oh no, did other people perform?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Yeah, there was a band there and there was an R&B
singer.
I was singing like old schoolsongs.
I'm not sure who performedAfter those two because, like I
said, I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
It's so funny, because I'm kind of like that
too, like in in this space, inthe podcast space, we're like
you know, technically I shouldbe listening to other podcasts.
You know what other peopledoing, or whatever.
I do not listen to podcast.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I never lose it.
I get I get bored kind ofeasily and like, like even
performing I had to get used tobeing in clubs because like an
Hour in I'm already yawningready to go home.
So, like you know, I have tolike realize like, yeah, I'm
here, this is the environmentman, I'm an artist, like I have
(27:45):
to be awake.
Like I can't have that I'mready to go to sleep mentality,
even though I Was ready to go tosleep.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
No, I feel you.
Club life is not for me.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Do you have any performances coming?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
up, I do, I'm performing for a live fashion
show in Times Square.
Sometimes performances getthrown at me last minute, like
that, that yacht performance,literally.
I found out two days before theactual event and they like made
me a flyer quick and I postedit like for promo real quick,
but like Um.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
So people don't have to just follow you.
They don't have to.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I might, I might have a performance coming up, but
before the fashion show.
Like I don't even know, likeyou know it, just, it just
depends.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I love that it's all happening so fast for you.
Does it ever feel overwhelming?
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Um, it doesn't.
It feels good because, like Isaid, I just feel like once I
found my lane, it was just itwas meant to happen, the way
everything happened.
So, like the fact that I ammoving this fast like I'm not
surprised because, like, I talkTo myself, to God, to my family,
(28:59):
every day and I tell them likethis is what I really want to do
, and I manifest Literally allof this and when I'm like, even
when I'm having conversationswith people, like not to sound,
like, like I'm not a humbleperson or anything, because I am
a very humble person, but likeI'd be like, yeah, I'm about to
be rich soon.
I was really.
I was like, yeah, so once thismusic take off, like I'll be
(29:21):
telling people I'd be like,because people be watching my
story, they, they, um, dm me andstuff all the time, like, like
yo, I can't believe you.
You just started doing musiclike, and you're actually like
Doing it for real.
You're like not doing it to bepopular, like you're actually
doing it and your music is good.
So it's like I would tellpeople like, yeah, maybe you
(29:44):
should like Especially localartists.
Maybe you should consider maybea feature, while you can, cuz,
cuz once, once I, once I takeoff, yeah, I don't think you'll
be able to afford these features.
So you know, I'd be trying totell people get up with me while
you can, cuz.
Once it takes off for real, itain't no looking back and I'm
definitely not coming back Um toMonticello.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
So she said yesterday's price is not today's
price.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
She ain't come back to Monticello unless it's to
race a racehorse.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Bet money not even that.
No, I'm gonna have to racehorses somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
No race horses.
Rick Russ's house right.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
What are some goals that you have for yourself?
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Like with the music or in life both.
So with the music, my goal isto make this my full-on career,
like I want to live off of.
My music pretty much Goes inlife pretty much to keep
traveling.
I already been to a fewdifferent places.
I already left the country once, so you know I just want to
(30:50):
keep traveling because I reallydo enjoy traveling and I like
traveling alone, which peoplethink is weird, but I think it's
very therapeutic.
So just keep exploring theworld, honestly doing what makes
me happy, which is music,traveling and eventually, like
Finding love, which seems to beextremely hard in this time of
(31:14):
day in my generation.
So, yeah, whenever that happens, what about?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
music.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Do you have any?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
like specific goals, like you want to win a Grammy,
or like you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I don't know like I've thought into that, like far
into that, but I think thefurthest I've actually thought I
don't think I've thought abouta Grammy, but like a BET award
for like best new artist is likewhat I picture and actually
performing for the BET awards.
I actually Thought about oneday performing for summer jam,
(31:50):
which I'm gonna actually try tomake happen like very soon If I
can, because I have, like youknow, little connects and I'd be
around people who know peoplewho know people.
So you know it could happen.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
I believe it.
Yeah, it's actually really.
It's funny because I I kind ofgot into podcasting similarly
and then you end up realizingthat things are easier than what
they appear.
It's easier to get into thesetype of spaces than what you
thought.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Especially if you're just motivated and you actually
want to do it like you canliterally Put your mind to
anything and do anything thatyou want to do.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Yeah yeah, being in the music industry has taught me
that everyone knows someonethat's high up in the music
industry.
For real or is, has made it oris doing it works at full time.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
It's like, yeah, there'd be like mad little
people that do like themarketing.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
PR, like you know us.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
And and then when you know those people, you're like,
oh, and you in there as afemale fronted radio show, we
like to highlight extraordinarywomen.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So who is a woman that made a huge impact on your
life?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I would say my mom shadow to my mom.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
You don't have to say your mom, some people know.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Most guys say their mom or you highlight multiple
women too.
I mean like famous or like justit can be.
However, they impacted you, soit doesn't.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
If it's someone famous that you don't know, but
made a huge impact in your lifesomewhere, then Alright, so I
would say my mom, just cuz youknow as mom, but I would really,
really, really say my thatexcited anyway right, sorry, but
, um, my grandma, because, um, Ilived with my grandma from the
(33:47):
ages 17 to 19, um, and then,when I turned 19, I got my own
apartment.
I've been independent since then, but, um, my grandma taught me
a lot.
She taught me everything I know, and the main thing she taught
me was to do what makes me happyand leave these boys alone.
(34:08):
That's the main thing shetaught me, but um she's not
wrong, she, you know she's not.
But she would literally sit downbecause she would notice the
same mistakes I would make,specifically with relationships,
over and, over and over and shewould get mad, she would curse
you know, but that's just howgrandmas are.
But she would sit down with meand have the same talks over and
(34:31):
over and like, beat it into myhead until I finally got it
right or to last finallyrealized, or you know, like she
would just keep like you want tokeep getting your heart broken
or you want to keep goingthrough this.
She was like you're young,you're beautiful.
Like you know, you got so manyother things in life you could
be doing or worried about.
Like you know she, she made mebecome mature.
(34:54):
She made me like that's animportant time age 17 19 that's
that's that time for them andshe, yeah, she.
She was a big impact for herbecause if it wasn't for her I
wouldn't have had my first place, because she was my motivation
to get my own apartment that'sso good yeah, I want to say
(35:14):
shout out to you for forstriking out on your own at such
a young age.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Thank you, and then also having the foresight to see
we've all been there, yeahwe've all been there and
listening, listening to grandma.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Some people don't listen, so being about your
business.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Holding down a household while trying to make
it in the music industry is notthe easiest thing yeah, it's not
, it's it's, it's, it's hard,but, um, you know, I I live
comfortably.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I'm very blessed.
I do have a second job on theside.
You know, um, I'm a dancer, Idance.
So it mainly supports theexpensive stuff when it comes to
my music, like studio timevideos.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
So that's so good.
All right, tell the people,because the people are gonna
have to follow you to know whatyou're doing, because it
happened so fast well, you guyscan find me on instagram at
nanana dot underscore dot mckmckay.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
I'm on youtube, apple music, soundcloud, spotify,
basically every streamingplatform and on a stage near you
all right, that was awesome.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I don't have any more questions.
Step do you have anything?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
anything else you want to tell the people before
we get out of here?
Floor is yours um.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
So for all the artists out there, specifically
independent like me, your timeis coming.
You just got to keep grinding,you got to keep doing what
you're doing, like I've I'veonly been in the industry for
such a short amount of time andwith hard work, consistency and
(36:59):
obviously you know money.
But, um, you can.
You could definitely reach yourgoals.
You could definitely get whereyou want to be.
You just have to be motivated,you have to manifest, you have
to really want it and you couldreally get it.
So, like for all the artistsout there, just keep going, keep
pushing yourself, because, likeone day god could just put on
(37:20):
the table for you and boom,there you go.
So like you got to keep goingthere it is.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Yeah, there it is welcome back to in the field
radio.
You know what I'm about to do.
Make sure you follow in thefield radio.
Write to me, tell me what youthink.
Do song request.
You know I'm saying talk to me,do shout out.
If you write to me in the dms,I'm gonna read it and I'm gonna
(37:50):
do what you tell me to do.
Boss me around.
I like that stuff.
Add in the field radio oneverything.
All right, I'm about to get outof here.
Big thank you and I love you toanybody that's rocking with us.
All our loyal listeners loveyou guys.
Thanks for chilling with thosechicks on mondays in the field
(38:10):
radio 91.3 fm.
W v k r per kipsey.
Have a good night.
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