November 2, 2025 • 32 mins
Ever wonder what really changes when a producer moves from a living room setup to a studio with a door, a sign, and a tax ID? We sit down with Kodi “Phunkiefoot” Owens to unpack the leap to Studio 22 and why that one decision reshapes how clients show up, how money flows, and how a whole city can take itself more seriously as a music market. It’s a grounded blueprint for indie artists and producers who want more than streams—they want structure, ownership, and a path that pays.
Kodi takes us through his journey from cassette tapes and a budget keyboard to running sessions that keep teens off the streets and point them toward records they actually own. We get real about why Arkansas often gets overlooked in hip hop: too many songs riding unlicensed beats and too little paperwork for labels to engage. The fix isn’t glamorous, but it’s powerful—original production, clean rights, consistent promotion, and a studio that people can actually find on a map. COVID-19 unexpectedly amplified that mission, bringing more eyes to social media and motivating artists to release, while Kodi doubled down on the back-end steps that turn views into revenue.
We also spotlight Pine Bluff’s musical backbone—from school bands to UAPB’s national showcases—and the community energy behind a Black Lives Matter project featuring local names, live sax, and messages aimed at the youth. Along the way, Kodi shares current collaborations, upcoming releases, and the mentors and peers pushing him to experiment and expand. If you’re building an indie career, this conversation gives you practical steps and a mindset shift: treat your art like a business, protect your rights, and make your city part of your strategy.
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SPEAKER_04 (00:03):
Learn about the indie artist from the indie
artist.
SPEAKER_03 (00:06):
I'm Janik.
I'm an artist.
SPEAKER_04 (00:09):
My name is Lauren, as you already said.
I am a singer-songwriter.
SPEAKER_02 (00:13):
So I'm all femmes.
I originally come from theCaribbean statements in the
Grandines.
SPEAKER_00 (00:17):
My name is Brian Duster.
I'm an East Coast Canadianrocker.
SPEAKER_04 (00:23):
And then I found myself in Las Vegas, where I'm
at currently, dancing forCircuit Soleil with my own solo.
So I also learned from music andprofessionals.
SPEAKER_02 (00:33):
I'm a music producer.
I've been producingprofessionally for about 14
years.
I have uh worked with a couplepeople in the industry, uh,
Reddy nominated Trev Rich,teacher from 702.
SPEAKER_00 (00:46):
After I got my deal with Universal Music, after the
Alisha Keys and Gunner Record,and many other that I've done,
and then Alisha Keys was thenumber one adult RB song of the
year.
SPEAKER_04 (00:58):
I answered the question.
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That's a great question.
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Yeah, that's a good question.
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Oh uh that it's a good question.
Wow.
I love all these questions.
These are great.
Like most of the questions thatI get are like, you know, tell
me about Justin Bieber.
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Hello, everyone.
Welcome to this week's renditionof Blonde Intelligence, where I
always seek to give youexquisite cranial repertoire.
This week we have a specialguest, Mr.
Cody Funky Foot Owens, the ownerof Studio 22 and Funky Foot
Productions.
Tell everyone hello.
Hey, what's happening, y'all?
(02:07):
Hi.
So tell me a little bit aboutyour background.
SPEAKER_03 (02:14):
Well, I've been, you know, I I came with an interest
in music from pots and pans, youknow, watching BT bands way
back, you know what I'm saying,when I was young.
And, you know, I did get inband, you know, junior high
through high school.
And but the interest is like Ididn't know that I was gonna be
(02:34):
producing.
I just had that love for music.
And it transferred over once I,we, you know, we we were uh me
and my brother used to rap oncassette tapes, you know what
I'm saying?
And I would make beats with aLocasio keyboard, you know what
I'm saying?
Like, and and and you know,actually I didn't know how to
make beats.
But then once I learned, I waslike, oh, that's what you got to
(02:57):
do.
You know, it went from there,you know.
It was like it was just a youknow a run-on with it, you know
what I'm saying?
With recording and doing it.
Really, it was it was the thingabout us.
We were recording, we was doingstuff on instrumentals first,
but then we sent something toMaster P them, and they was
like, Y'all gotta have your ownbeats, and everything came from
there, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_04 (03:21):
So, what interest instrument did you play since
you told me that you were in aband?
SPEAKER_03 (03:27):
French horn.
Yeah, so I played a French home,but I want to play drums though.
SPEAKER_04 (03:34):
You wanted to play drums, so how do you play drums?
SPEAKER_03 (03:39):
I mean, you know, I play them with the NPC and on
the beats, you know what I'msaying?
So yeah, I still got the drums,you know.
I made it to the drums, but justnot on the field.
SPEAKER_04 (03:49):
Okay.
So tell me this.
I know that you are a newentrepreneur, although you've
been in the gang for a longtime.
What made you make thetransition from having a home
studio to having a professionalstudio?
SPEAKER_03 (04:05):
Well, we uh I want to have I want to get it all the
way business, you know what I'msaying?
And I wanted to be on the mapofficial so we can do work with
other artists from other places,you know what I'm saying?
And for Pine Bluff to have acentral station, you know what
I'm saying?
Basically, for everybody tocome, you know what I'm saying?
It's it's it's it's startingright now.
We still in the beginning.
It's it's just me over hereright now.
(04:27):
But I have uh a gang of artists,you know, that deal with me
through over here, and we'regonna have the producers too.
So, you know, the goal is tohave this one area, the one
stop, the one-stop shop for youto if you want to deal with
artists, you're coming overhere, you know what I'm saying?
You know, whether it be in thisstudio or another studio.
Right now, I got one studio, butI'm actually in the second room.
(04:50):
So we you know, we're gonna havetwo studios, you know what I'm
saying?
SPEAKER_04 (04:54):
Okay.
So tell me how did you come upwith the name for the studio?
Because I have always known youas funky foot productions.
So tell me the differencebetween Studio 22 and Funky Foot
Productions.
SPEAKER_03 (05:13):
Well, Funky Foot works at Studio 22, and uh
Studio 22 came from the suitenumber being 22.
So I just rode with, you know,the suite, the name of the
suite, that way it'll be easyfor them to find.
It's Studio 22, number 22, youknow what I'm saying?
Yeah, it just helped onlocation.
SPEAKER_04 (05:34):
Yeah, it's okay.
So tell me what do you hope toaccomplish?
I mean, are you looking just towork with independent artists?
Are you looking to be amulti-platinum producer?
Are you looking to be GrammyAward winning?
What are you doing?
What goals do you have and whatare you doing to reach those
goals?
SPEAKER_03 (05:55):
Yeah, oh I definitely want to get a you
know, flag Grammy, you know, youknow, trying to work for all of
it, you know what I'm saying?
And you know, the recognition,you know, and everything,
credentials, but I still, youknow, want to work work with the
locals, you know what I'msaying?
Talk to, you know, reach theyouth, you know what I'm saying,
like keep them out the streets,you know what I'm saying?
Because the studio does keeppeople out the streets and it
(06:17):
helps curb violence a lot, youknow what I'm saying?
Especially that out having thatoutlet to do music.
So, and at the same time, a lotof talent is right there with
the music.
So, you know what I'm saying?
It's a two-sided thing.
It give them, you know, oncethey see, once they see they can
make some money off of, becausethat's what I want to get the
market.
A market going to where peoplepaying for, you know, people for
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versus, you know, whether it'sfifty dollars or a hundred
dollars, just you paying for,you know, people being able to
actually eat off of what you do,you know what I'm saying, and
beats everything, just you know,the whole market around here,
you know, starting pound bluff,but you know, just going to look
from Little Rock to Pine Bluffto whole nine, you know, just
you know, in Arkansas period, ushaving a market to where we have
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our own place where we can makemoney, even though we still will
have to go into other markets tomake bigger money or more
serious money.
But you will be able to eat offof what you're doing, you know
what I'm saying?
And people so people can take ita little more serious.
That's the thing why peopledon't take it seriously because
they still have to have a job orwhatever to do.
SPEAKER_04 (07:23):
Well, it sounds like what you're saying to me is you
just got to the point where ifyou're gonna do this, you have
to be able to capitalize off ofit and you want a professional
stance on it.
SPEAKER_03 (07:33):
Yes, yeah, yeah, all the way.
SPEAKER_04 (07:37):
Okay, so I know you told me about your team.
Tell me who your production teamconsists of.
SPEAKER_03 (07:44):
Uh, well, the production team right now is is
me, and then I do have like anassistant, uh, Tree's beats, you
know what I'm saying?
And uh, and I work with SoldierPine production, you know what
I'm saying?
He which he just left, he buthe's uh he's an hour right now,
you know what I'm saying?
And I'm and I'm close, like Gameof Booming and um and Big J,
(08:08):
they're like just a call away,you know what I'm saying?
So we we even though we a lot ofpeople might not know, but we
all know each other and we youknow we we do talk.
We might not talk every day, youknow what I'm saying?
But you know, we can call eachother if we need something.
SPEAKER_04 (08:22):
That's how it is in the business.
You can't talk every day becausesometimes you get busy on other
projects and everything.
And I know um being in thestudio, you might have to be in
the studio 12, 13, 14 hours.
And people think you're actingfunny because you're not
answering the phone when you'reactually just in the stage of
trying to perfect your craft.
SPEAKER_03 (08:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Staying busy, you know what I'msaying?
That's one thing about it.
Do stay busy.
And it's a lot of artists that'sactually working here, you know
what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_04 (08:50):
Mm-hmm.
So tell me, why do you thinkthat hip hop really hasn't
recognized Arkansas the way theyshould?
SPEAKER_03 (09:09):
Well, on a all the way professional stance, it's
it's because we have to have theprojects that's official as far
as all the way, you know, fromtop to bottom, not just the song
itself, but you have to own themusic, you know what I'm saying?
So it's been a big wave ofYouTube music going, and which
(09:29):
is nothing wrong with it, youknow what I'm saying, because
there's some marketing schemesbehind it, but that keeps the
recognition from being all theway to the top because they
can't do nothing with it.
Absolutely, you know, the bigbusinesses can't do business
with it because they, you know,without ownership, it's not
really yours.
So that's the push that we'reon.
SPEAKER_04 (09:50):
Tell me this.
I know a lot of times yoursocial media following is the
major thing when dealing withmajor rental labels.
How important do you feel socialmedia is to an actual producer?
SPEAKER_03 (10:08):
Oh, social media now is it's the way of life, you
know what I'm saying?
I even had to adjust a littlebit.
I still haven't made the fulljump, you know what I'm saying?
Because I've I've come I camefrom being exclusive to where
when your song comes out, it'syour song, then the beat comes
out, you know what I'm saying?
So that that makes it moreexclusive for your song.
(10:30):
And when people hear that beat,they're gonna know it as your
song.
SPEAKER_04 (10:34):
But so tell me this: how long did it take you from
deciding to getting a businessplan together to actually
getting your suite for yourstudio and getting all the
equipment that you want andeverything from the moment that
(10:56):
you decided I have to take thisto another level up into now?
How long did that take you?
How much sweat equity did youput in?
How much time did you spend toput toward I have to be in
success?
SPEAKER_03 (11:14):
But I'd say it took years, you know.
This is years of progress.
It's over 20 years exactly,right on 20 years right now.
But I say a hard, these lastthree years, and then after my
mom passed, that was the momentthat said, you know what, you
(11:35):
know, life is a you know, alittle short, you know what I'm
saying?
You gotta go ahead and we'regonna go for it.
We gotta mash the gas and go andshoot for the goal of high, you
know what I'm saying?
And we gotta be official with itat the same time because that's
our thing.
We can be doing it all my life,and you know, really be doing
this and doing that, you canmake a lot of money actually.
But without being official, thenyou know, to be on the map, like
(11:57):
you know, you look it up onGoogle, it's on the map, you
know what I'm saying?
So we want to be officialbusiness, paying taxes, you know
what I'm saying, to be able toget some of the benefits of
doing, you know what I'm saying?
Because some of the benefits youcan't get without being official
having the tax ID.
You know, that's just one thingabout it.
And you know, and like I say,that central location is big and
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it's you know, getting away fromthe house.
It it took a little bit of mypower, I can say, because doing
it at the house, it wascomfortable, it was everything
was good.
But I'm glad I made thatdecision to go ahead and step
out the house to get a moreprofessional environment.
So when people come in, theytreat it as a professional
environment.
When you into the studio, youhave that real studio feeling
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because you are in the studio,not in the house.
SPEAKER_04 (12:46):
So tell me this with you being a new, I'm not gonna
say new, I'm gonna say atransitioning entrepreneur.
How has COVID-19 affected yourbusiness?
SPEAKER_03 (13:00):
It for the first part, it actually didn't, I had
to until they made a till theymade a uh till they had the
curfew around here, where itkind of curved the business a
little bit, you know what I'msaying.
But it actually, I was surprisedthat the COVID, I you know,
really didn't do anything to it,you know what I'm saying?
(13:21):
Like it didn't affect it thatmuch.
You know, maybe when it firststarted, it may have halted
things a little bit, but afterthat, it picked up, you know
what I'm saying, because peopledon't have anything to do.
You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_04 (13:33):
So that's what I was gonna add to you.
So you didn't with COVID, I wassaying with having a studio, it
was only the the restrictionswere 10 or less people, you
know, five or less people,however they wanted to do it.
And I just from what I couldsee, and because I work as a
(13:53):
tastemaker too, reviewing music,and it seemed like when COVID
hit, that more reviews came in,that more music was being
produced, that more people wascoming out with releases.
I mean, it was like everybodywas on the same mindset of if
I'm gonna do music, I got to getsomething done now.
(14:15):
So do you think that when I sayhow did it affect your business,
not necessarily how did itaffect the money.
I mean, how did it affect yourmotivation?
SPEAKER_03 (14:24):
Oh, it it it actually generated more
motivation because if there's nobetter time to do it, it's now
because you have an audienceactually on the social media, on
the platforms watching it versusthe only time they were watching
it was when they were leavingwork.
So now when people forced, youknow, in a such way to be at
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home and they're on their phonesor on the computers or on
whatever big device they got,they are all there to watch.
And now all you gotta do isprovide them some some kind of
content, and you know, you canget those views.
It's a little bit easy to getout.
I got to say, it's this is thetime to be a musician, you know
what I'm saying?
But you do have to take itseriously, you know what I'm
(15:06):
saying?
That's the thing about it, andand navigate your way to the
right thing to get the money outof it because it's the views are
there, you know what I'm saying.
But you gotta do the right, theright paperwork and the right
background uh to get tocapitalize full.
SPEAKER_04 (15:22):
Okay, so tell me this.
Did you see a spike with the theclients that you work with in
songs about the Black LivesMatter movement, police
brutality, um, injustices, allthose things like that.
Did you see uh increase with thepeople that you work with in
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those types of compositions?
SPEAKER_03 (15:49):
Well, we we actually after the black after the um
when that whole thing happenedhere in the city, a lot of a
couple artists, you know, a niceman of artists, we gathered we
right now, we're in the processright now of finishing up an
album that we're doing for theBlack Lives Matter movement, you
know what I'm saying?
We uh we got some good contentfor it, you know what I'm
(16:09):
saying?
So I own it.
Uh you got uh uh Grip De Nero.
Why don't you gonna forgetsomebody?
Why she's gonna forget somebody.
If I forget somebody, because Imight not know their name all
the way, but but I I got we wererecording them, I got their
name.
So you got Oberfemme, and thenyou got today, today, uh DT,
(16:32):
Jess Rome, Black Trump, ofcourse me.
Uh it's a it's a guy namedCedric Adams.
You know, it's it's a lot oftalent, uh Mellow D, you know
what I'm saying?
Like it's it's a lot of PineBluff, and uh, and uh we got
Damien, Damien Dimension.
He actually played some livesacks on on uh track, you know
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what I'm saying, that we workedon.
And so it it's it's a host ofartists on it, all Pine Bluff,
you know what I'm saying?
And the thing we're doing now isgetting on the closing end.
We still, I say midway, you knowwhat I'm saying, because the
summer kind of affected affecteda little bit.
People had to take a coupletrips or whatever.
But it's gonna be worth thewait, you know what I'm saying?
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It's gonna be worth the wait.
And it's and it's and it'sreally a black lives movement
thing.
But as far as in the city, it ityou know, people were still
getting killed, you know whatI'm saying?
Like, you know, it was stillblack on black crime going on
every week right now, you knowwhat I'm saying?
So that's the work that we'retrying to do, is to make get the
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change into the our communitybecause the youth, they still on
the same thing right now.
I'm not gonna lie, like when I Isee it's they haven't done
anything on their part, butbecause it's not about them
hearing the Black LivesMovement, it's about what's
going on in life right now.
And life is still the samething, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_04 (17:56):
Well, I are you originally from Pine Bluff?
Yes, yeah, I'm born and raised.
Okay, well, I'm not originallyfrom Pine Bluff, but when I
chose to move to Pine Bluff, Iactually chose to move to Pine
Bluff because it waspredominantly black, and I felt
like it would be a good place toraise son because I didn't have
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to worry about police brutality.
So I lived in Pine Bluff forseveral years, and bad rep, but
Pine Bluff is actually reallyperfect.
So, what do you think about allthe good things that Pine Bluff
(18:42):
has done that they don't getrecognition for?
Because if you're from PineBluff and you were in the band,
what band were you in?
SPEAKER_03 (18:49):
I was a Pine Bluff Pie band of Jack Roby, but
definitely okay.
SPEAKER_04 (18:53):
And Jack Roby is known for what?
SPEAKER_03 (18:56):
For dancing and you know, a putting on the show.
Mr.
Manny had us a back in the day.
We it was a lot of people inband, and you know what I'm
saying?
We we that that musicianshipactually transferred around.
Like a lot of the people fromthat era still doing music.
Now those were the birth of alot of musicians, you know what
I'm saying?
So band does carry on into themusic industry, you know what
(19:20):
I'm saying?
But and but that that was a bigmotivation, and that was a big
part of the musicianship.
Is is is coming to the world.
SPEAKER_04 (19:26):
Pine Bluff is not really known for music, but it
is known for music.
I mean, if you look at thehistorical concepts, uh being in
the Delta and uh the Juneteenthsand the everything, it's like
Pine Bluff is really like themusic hub for Arkansas.
And it's not getting therecognition that it needs.
(19:49):
So I think that you're doing agreat thing by having something
legitimate for the actualtalent, especially in this area,
because we have in Pine Bluff,the, like I said, Jack Roby.
You have uh the UAPB M4 Martinband.
I mean, who the hell else getdown like that?
SPEAKER_03 (20:12):
Yeah, yeah.
And in UAPB, you know, they wasin the president, you know, an
Obama parade, you know, they didthe thing, you know.
And you know, back when I was inthere, we was the top of the
school.
SPEAKER_04 (20:23):
It's actually talent, real talent.
SPEAKER_03 (20:27):
Yeah, yeah, it is.
You know, you gotta think now.
Smokey knowing also from PineBluff, you know what I'm saying?
And you know what he did over ingospel, you know what I'm
saying?
So, but knowing Smokey, youknow, not knowing, you know,
that he was gonna be in themusic industry, but just knowing
Smokey back then, how he used toplay at the church.
I mean, it when he got in themusic industry, I mean, it was
uh almost like a no-duh type ofthing that he was, you know.
(20:49):
I I just you know, you wouldn'tthink it though.
You would think that everybodylet something else slip.
So uh you were a m musician atchurch?
I um I wasn't a musician likeplaying like the because I still
can't play the piano keyboardlike that.
Uh but I can, you know, I justknow music.
And I I I did the drums.
What I did in my church is Iplayed the drums on my MPC.
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I used to have an MPC and on mykeyboard.
I played the drums on there forthe choir.
So yeah, I did, you know, youknow, being being in the South,
um, especially my age, grandmaain't letting you stay at the
house, you know what I'm saying?
So you was you was going tochurch, you know what I'm
saying?
Or you weren't going to be.
SPEAKER_04 (21:29):
You don't get over there and beat them drums, boy.
SPEAKER_03 (21:31):
Hey, you better you better get out there, bed or
y'all ain't going nowhere, man.
SPEAKER_04 (21:36):
You better get over there and beat them drums.
SPEAKER_03 (21:38):
That's what they say, beat them drums.
Yeah, or hey, or next week youcan't go tomorrow because y'all
ain't going to church, man.
SPEAKER_04 (21:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And what else they do?
Go out and stay out all nightlong.
Sunday morning, you be enoughgoing to church.
So if there was, I know a lot ofpeople are asked in an
interview, if there was anyartist dead or alive, you can
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work with.
I'm not gonna ask you that.
If there was any female artistthat you can work with, whether
you, and I'm gonna, I'm not, andI'm gonna say not, I'm gonna say
any female artist from the loveand hip hop franchise, which
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artists do you think that youcan mess well with and make a
star?
SPEAKER_03 (22:35):
Well, it's like uh I ain't gonna lie to you.
I don't watch a lot of TVbecause I be in the studio that
much.
I ain't gonna lie to them, youknow, but I don't watch a lot of
TV.
SPEAKER_04 (22:46):
Okay, but you but you have a concept of who on
what now.
Come on now.
SPEAKER_03 (22:50):
Yeah, I mean, you know, uh I can just say any one
of them that's doing because I Iseen Cardi B, you know, which I
I don't I you know, I came fromwhen before she was a musician,
that's when I was, you know,kind of in, you know, when I was
seeing at least some episodes.
And it was like, if she I wasjust like if she be rapping, she
probably be some phone, but youknow, she rapping and look at
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her, you know what I'm saying?
So it's you know, I don't knowexactly who on there right now.
It don't have to be it don'thave to be right now, it's
anytime.
Oh, I I mean, like now, Candy,you know what I'm saying, like
even though she does her thing,but any, it's like I want to
work with everybody.
SPEAKER_04 (23:29):
So it's like you didn't just put that woman in a
whole nother show.
SPEAKER_03 (23:33):
Oh, hey, see well, see what I'm saying?
Hey, that's why I say like hey,I I ain't gonna lie, man.
I'm probably one person that themost screen that I watch is the
music screen, you know what I'msaying, on my computer.
I've I really literally be infront of that all the time.
Like I haven't watched TV inyears, you know what I'm saying?
Probably since I say 2015,maybe.
(23:57):
Well, how you know what's goingon?
Uh YouTube.
And I and I get news.
Yeah, yeah, I'm an avid newYouTube watcher because I uh I I
watch a lot of, you know, I liketo get informed on things, you
know what I'm saying?
And I'm always looking uptutorial type thing, you know
what I'm saying?
I'm trying to learn all the timebecause that's you know, that's
(24:19):
the way right now, that's theway of the world.
You know what I'm saying?
The way the world is, we goteverything at our fingertips,
and we they showing you how todo it right there.
SPEAKER_04 (24:29):
So tell me this before COVID, what are some of
the music conferences and eventsthat you have attended and which
ones that you felt was the mostbeneficial?
SPEAKER_03 (24:43):
Well, uh back in 2008, I went to the Source
Awards.
I mean, not the Source Women.
It it was in Houston.
I think it was the Source Award.
But uh the the whatever awardsthat was down, I'm I'm I don't
want to be wrong by saying it'sa source, but it seemed like it
(25:04):
was the source awards.
And and that to me, that was abig experience, you know what
I'm saying?
Because we got to meet a lot ofdifferent artists, Bush Week
Meal, Wrestling Love, and uhshort it, shorty, uh, shorty
low, you know what I'm saying?
Wrestling Love, you know whatI'm saying?
It was it was a lot of, you knowwhat I'm saying.
We met a lot of artists in theirhotel, you know what I'm saying,
being up there.
(25:25):
Want to say we was on the floorwith two shorts, it seemed like,
but I don't think we got to meethim.
We just seen a lot of girls, youknow what I'm saying?
It was, you know, they wasthere, you know what I'm saying?
It was a lot of people there.
And uh DJ Drama, I I met himoutside, and you know, it's just
a lot of different, it was itwas a lot of different artists,
but at this point in time, thiswas before everybody was super,
super famous.
(25:47):
So they they were famous, butyou know, it was you know, that
was probably right at thebeginning of a big rise for a
lot of them, and we actually meta lot of them right there, you
know what I'm saying?
So that was to me, that was afun experience seeing all the
module riders and for our youknow, foreigners all outside,
you know what I'm saying?
Like that was a nice experience.
SPEAKER_04 (26:06):
Okay, well, tell me this.
What do we have to look forwardto immediately from Punk Flip?
SPEAKER_03 (26:21):
Right now, uh other than the project that we're
working on, change the narrativewith the time blood various
artists.
I work with Jess Rome.
And and just Rome has, you know,right now he has a song, no
tent.
I have a couple features withdifferent artists out right now
with uh Prophet X.
And um but other than that, weyou know he got a lot of
(26:45):
upcoming music, you know whatI'm saying?
An album that's coming that'sgonna really make a lot of
noise, you know what I'm saying?
And the thing is, on makingnoise, it's promotion.
So, you know what I'm saying?
That's that's the thing about ittaking the taking the F you know
the initiative to promote andyou know going to different
avenues and promoting on abigger scale, you know what I'm
saying?
So that's what's going on.
(27:06):
And we got a lot of work, youknow what I'm saying.
Black trunk, he got some work,you know what I'm saying.
It's a lot of artists got workquiz.
He got some work that's comingthat's that's really gonna
change it, you know, probablyopen some ears because you know
he this time he's talking to theyouth, you know what I'm saying?
He got some good upliftingmusic, you know what I'm saying,
or at least wisening up, youknow what I'm saying?
(27:27):
Some wisening up youth.
Oh yeah, I I got one otherperson to mention, and you know,
which is kind of big too.
Uh Trail G, who works for EmpireRecords, you know what I'm
saying?
He he he has an upcoming projectabout to release pretty soon
that you know that is gonnacatch ears, and we're doing some
work with him too, you know whatI'm saying.
(27:48):
He also he's a producer and he'sfrom Piper Blood, you know what
I'm saying?
Okay, so that's just a big thingthat I had to have to say that
even though he's not right here,I talk to him you know almost
every day, you know what I'msaying?
So, you know, and and and he'sbeen what's been keeping me, you
know, on on the go and you knowwhat I'm saying, like testing me
out, making me, you know, trydifferent things, you know what
(28:10):
I'm saying?
So I just had to say thatbecause that's a big influence,
you know what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_04 (28:14):
All right.
Okay.
Is there anything else you wantto add?
SPEAKER_03 (28:20):
Well, let me see.
No, but but yeah, but other thanthat, right now, that as I can
think of, you know what I'msaying?
That's about the biggest thingthat that that actually that I'm
doing, that even though, youknow, it's no, it's not my
project or anything like that,but that's something that I'm
involved on.
I'm doing some of the music onhis project.
(28:41):
So whenever it does come out,that'll be something that you
know the name of the project?
No, I don't know the name of ityet.
You know what I'm saying?
Not the name of it yet, but youknow the name of the project.
Whenever it comes, it will bebig.
SPEAKER_04 (28:54):
Okay, you don't you don't know a release date?
SPEAKER_03 (28:57):
No, no, I don't know, because it's still we
still working on it.
You know what I'm saying?
We're still working on releases,you know, trying to get he's
trying to get a couple morefeatures, you know what I'm
saying, with a couple moreartists from here.
You know what I'm saying?
So and that's the thing aboutit, you know.
That that's something that a lotof people in Arkansas really
don't know that we have a majorartist on the label out, on a
(29:17):
major label right now, you knowwhat I'm saying?
But and he produces, but youknow, is you know, it's kind of
one of those hidden hiddenjewels.
SPEAKER_04 (29:28):
So tell everybody where if they need to contact
you for studio time, where theyneed to find you at where they
can find you on social media,how they can hit you up, plug
yourself.
SPEAKER_03 (29:40):
All right.
Um on social media, it's it's onFacebook is Cody Funky Foot
Owens and I spell it wrong.
Yeah, I know yeah, I got it.
P H U N K E E P H O O T.
unknown (29:59):
And
SPEAKER_03 (30:00):
uh on on gmail i like i i do a lot through gmail
on some of the on instagram it'sthe same thing but uh it's like
harder to receive you know idon't probably don't check it as
much but you can hit me on gmailwith funky foot at gmail or foot
funky at gmail spell the sameway funky p h u n k e and p h o
(30:22):
t you know you can swap itaround you're still gonna get to
me foot funky or funky foot atgmail that's the best way to
reach and i can get back withyou because that's gonna
definitely show up on my screenand i will be able to contact
you back okay is there anythingelse that you want everybody to
know about mr funky foot oh youcan catch it at studio 22 which
(30:48):
is 1210 south cherry uh cherrystreet and pine bluff suite 22
but it's actually on lindenstreet side the address is just
on on cherry street so thatconfused that confuse a lot of
people when i send them theaddress i always make sure that
i tell them on lending streetside because they you'll never
(31:08):
find it on on on cherry streetside it's not a 22 over there
you know so that but that'swhere you can come find me and
when you come we ready to workyou know all right well y'all
heard it here he got a couplenew projects coming up if you
need to work he ready to workand this will conclude this
(31:29):
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SPEAKER_04 (01:45):
Hello, everyone.
Welcome to this week's renditionof Blonde Intelligence, where I
always seek to give youexquisite cranial repertoire.
This week we have a specialguest, Mr.
Cody Funky Foot Owens, the ownerof Studio 22 and Funky Foot
Productions.
Tell everyone hello.
Hey, what's happening, y'all?
(02:07):
Hi.
So tell me a little bit aboutyour background.
SPEAKER_03 (02:14):
Well, I've been, you know, I I came with an interest
in music from pots and pans, youknow, watching BT bands way
back, you know what I'm saying,when I was young.
And, you know, I did get inband, you know, junior high
through high school.
And but the interest is like Ididn't know that I was gonna be
(02:34):
producing.
I just had that love for music.
And it transferred over once I,we, you know, we we were uh me
and my brother used to rap oncassette tapes, you know what
I'm saying?
And I would make beats with aLocasio keyboard, you know what
I'm saying?
Like, and and and you know,actually I didn't know how to
make beats.
But then once I learned, I waslike, oh, that's what you got to
(02:57):
do.
You know, it went from there,you know.
It was like it was just a youknow a run-on with it, you know
what I'm saying?
With recording and doing it.
Really, it was it was the thingabout us.
We were recording, we was doingstuff on instrumentals first,
but then we sent something toMaster P them, and they was
like, Y'all gotta have your ownbeats, and everything came from
there, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_04 (03:21):
So, what interest instrument did you play since
you told me that you were in aband?
SPEAKER_03 (03:27):
French horn.
Yeah, so I played a French home,but I want to play drums though.
SPEAKER_04 (03:34):
You wanted to play drums, so how do you play drums?
SPEAKER_03 (03:39):
I mean, you know, I play them with the NPC and on
the beats, you know what I'msaying?
So yeah, I still got the drums,you know.
I made it to the drums, but justnot on the field.
SPEAKER_04 (03:49):
Okay.
So tell me this.
I know that you are a newentrepreneur, although you've
been in the gang for a longtime.
What made you make thetransition from having a home
studio to having a professionalstudio?
SPEAKER_03 (04:05):
Well, we uh I want to have I want to get it all the
way business, you know what I'msaying?
And I wanted to be on the mapofficial so we can do work with
other artists from other places,you know what I'm saying?
And for Pine Bluff to have acentral station, you know what
I'm saying?
Basically, for everybody tocome, you know what I'm saying?
It's it's it's it's startingright now.
We still in the beginning.
It's it's just me over hereright now.
(04:27):
But I have uh a gang of artists,you know, that deal with me
through over here, and we'regonna have the producers too.
So, you know, the goal is tohave this one area, the one
stop, the one-stop shop for youto if you want to deal with
artists, you're coming overhere, you know what I'm saying?
You know, whether it be in thisstudio or another studio.
Right now, I got one studio, butI'm actually in the second room.
(04:50):
So we you know, we're gonna havetwo studios, you know what I'm
saying?
SPEAKER_04 (04:54):
Okay.
So tell me how did you come upwith the name for the studio?
Because I have always known youas funky foot productions.
So tell me the differencebetween Studio 22 and Funky Foot
Productions.
SPEAKER_03 (05:13):
Well, Funky Foot works at Studio 22, and uh
Studio 22 came from the suitenumber being 22.
So I just rode with, you know,the suite, the name of the
suite, that way it'll be easyfor them to find.
It's Studio 22, number 22, youknow what I'm saying?
Yeah, it just helped onlocation.
SPEAKER_04 (05:34):
Yeah, it's okay.
So tell me what do you hope toaccomplish?
I mean, are you looking just towork with independent artists?
Are you looking to be amulti-platinum producer?
Are you looking to be GrammyAward winning?
What are you doing?
What goals do you have and whatare you doing to reach those
goals?
SPEAKER_03 (05:55):
Yeah, oh I definitely want to get a you
know, flag Grammy, you know, youknow, trying to work for all of
it, you know what I'm saying?
And you know, the recognition,you know, and everything,
credentials, but I still, youknow, want to work work with the
locals, you know what I'msaying?
Talk to, you know, reach theyouth, you know what I'm saying,
like keep them out the streets,you know what I'm saying?
Because the studio does keeppeople out the streets and it
(06:17):
helps curb violence a lot, youknow what I'm saying?
Especially that out having thatoutlet to do music.
So, and at the same time, a lotof talent is right there with
the music.
So, you know what I'm saying?
It's a two-sided thing.
It give them, you know, oncethey see, once they see they can
make some money off of, becausethat's what I want to get the
market.
A market going to where peoplepaying for, you know, people for
(06:40):
versus, you know, whether it'sfifty dollars or a hundred
dollars, just you paying for,you know, people being able to
actually eat off of what you do,you know what I'm saying, and
beats everything, just you know,the whole market around here,
you know, starting pound bluff,but you know, just going to look
from Little Rock to Pine Bluffto whole nine, you know, just
you know, in Arkansas period, ushaving a market to where we have
(07:03):
our own place where we can makemoney, even though we still will
have to go into other markets tomake bigger money or more
serious money.
But you will be able to eat offof what you're doing, you know
what I'm saying?
And people so people can take ita little more serious.
That's the thing why peopledon't take it seriously because
they still have to have a job orwhatever to do.
SPEAKER_04 (07:23):
Well, it sounds like what you're saying to me is you
just got to the point where ifyou're gonna do this, you have
to be able to capitalize off ofit and you want a professional
stance on it.
SPEAKER_03 (07:33):
Yes, yeah, yeah, all the way.
SPEAKER_04 (07:37):
Okay, so I know you told me about your team.
Tell me who your production teamconsists of.
SPEAKER_03 (07:44):
Uh, well, the production team right now is is
me, and then I do have like anassistant, uh, Tree's beats, you
know what I'm saying?
And uh, and I work with SoldierPine production, you know what
I'm saying?
He which he just left, he buthe's uh he's an hour right now,
you know what I'm saying?
And I'm and I'm close, like Gameof Booming and um and Big J,
(08:08):
they're like just a call away,you know what I'm saying?
So we we even though we a lot ofpeople might not know, but we
all know each other and we youknow we we do talk.
We might not talk every day, youknow what I'm saying?
But you know, we can call eachother if we need something.
SPEAKER_04 (08:22):
That's how it is in the business.
You can't talk every day becausesometimes you get busy on other
projects and everything.
And I know um being in thestudio, you might have to be in
the studio 12, 13, 14 hours.
And people think you're actingfunny because you're not
answering the phone when you'reactually just in the stage of
trying to perfect your craft.
SPEAKER_03 (08:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Staying busy, you know what I'msaying?
That's one thing about it.
Do stay busy.
And it's a lot of artists that'sactually working here, you know
what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_04 (08:50):
Mm-hmm.
So tell me, why do you thinkthat hip hop really hasn't
recognized Arkansas the way theyshould?
SPEAKER_03 (09:09):
Well, on a all the way professional stance, it's
it's because we have to have theprojects that's official as far
as all the way, you know, fromtop to bottom, not just the song
itself, but you have to own themusic, you know what I'm saying?
So it's been a big wave ofYouTube music going, and which
(09:29):
is nothing wrong with it, youknow what I'm saying, because
there's some marketing schemesbehind it, but that keeps the
recognition from being all theway to the top because they
can't do nothing with it.
Absolutely, you know, the bigbusinesses can't do business
with it because they, you know,without ownership, it's not
really yours.
So that's the push that we'reon.
SPEAKER_04 (09:50):
Tell me this.
I know a lot of times yoursocial media following is the
major thing when dealing withmajor rental labels.
How important do you feel socialmedia is to an actual producer?
SPEAKER_03 (10:08):
Oh, social media now is it's the way of life, you
know what I'm saying?
I even had to adjust a littlebit.
I still haven't made the fulljump, you know what I'm saying?
Because I've I've come I camefrom being exclusive to where
when your song comes out, it'syour song, then the beat comes
out, you know what I'm saying?
So that that makes it moreexclusive for your song.
(10:30):
And when people hear that beat,they're gonna know it as your
song.
SPEAKER_04 (10:34):
But so tell me this: how long did it take you from
deciding to getting a businessplan together to actually
getting your suite for yourstudio and getting all the
equipment that you want andeverything from the moment that
(10:56):
you decided I have to take thisto another level up into now?
How long did that take you?
How much sweat equity did youput in?
How much time did you spend toput toward I have to be in
success?
SPEAKER_03 (11:14):
But I'd say it took years, you know.
This is years of progress.
It's over 20 years exactly,right on 20 years right now.
But I say a hard, these lastthree years, and then after my
mom passed, that was the momentthat said, you know what, you
(11:35):
know, life is a you know, alittle short, you know what I'm
saying?
You gotta go ahead and we'regonna go for it.
We gotta mash the gas and go andshoot for the goal of high, you
know what I'm saying?
And we gotta be official with itat the same time because that's
our thing.
We can be doing it all my life,and you know, really be doing
this and doing that, you canmake a lot of money actually.
But without being official, thenyou know, to be on the map, like
(11:57):
you know, you look it up onGoogle, it's on the map, you
know what I'm saying?
So we want to be officialbusiness, paying taxes, you know
what I'm saying, to be able toget some of the benefits of
doing, you know what I'm saying?
Because some of the benefits youcan't get without being official
having the tax ID.
You know, that's just one thingabout it.
And you know, and like I say,that central location is big and
(12:19):
it's you know, getting away fromthe house.
It it took a little bit of mypower, I can say, because doing
it at the house, it wascomfortable, it was everything
was good.
But I'm glad I made thatdecision to go ahead and step
out the house to get a moreprofessional environment.
So when people come in, theytreat it as a professional
environment.
When you into the studio, youhave that real studio feeling
(12:41):
because you are in the studio,not in the house.
SPEAKER_04 (12:46):
So tell me this with you being a new, I'm not gonna
say new, I'm gonna say atransitioning entrepreneur.
How has COVID-19 affected yourbusiness?
SPEAKER_03 (13:00):
It for the first part, it actually didn't, I had
to until they made a till theymade a uh till they had the
curfew around here, where itkind of curved the business a
little bit, you know what I'msaying.
But it actually, I was surprisedthat the COVID, I you know,
really didn't do anything to it,you know what I'm saying?
(13:21):
Like it didn't affect it thatmuch.
You know, maybe when it firststarted, it may have halted
things a little bit, but afterthat, it picked up, you know
what I'm saying, because peopledon't have anything to do.
You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_04 (13:33):
So that's what I was gonna add to you.
So you didn't with COVID, I wassaying with having a studio, it
was only the the restrictionswere 10 or less people, you
know, five or less people,however they wanted to do it.
And I just from what I couldsee, and because I work as a
(13:53):
tastemaker too, reviewing music,and it seemed like when COVID
hit, that more reviews came in,that more music was being
produced, that more people wascoming out with releases.
I mean, it was like everybodywas on the same mindset of if
I'm gonna do music, I got to getsomething done now.
(14:15):
So do you think that when I sayhow did it affect your business,
not necessarily how did itaffect the money.
I mean, how did it affect yourmotivation?
SPEAKER_03 (14:24):
Oh, it it it actually generated more
motivation because if there's nobetter time to do it, it's now
because you have an audienceactually on the social media, on
the platforms watching it versusthe only time they were watching
it was when they were leavingwork.
So now when people forced, youknow, in a such way to be at
(14:44):
home and they're on their phonesor on the computers or on
whatever big device they got,they are all there to watch.
And now all you gotta do isprovide them some some kind of
content, and you know, you canget those views.
It's a little bit easy to getout.
I got to say, it's this is thetime to be a musician, you know
what I'm saying?
But you do have to take itseriously, you know what I'm
(15:06):
saying?
That's the thing about it, andand navigate your way to the
right thing to get the money outof it because it's the views are
there, you know what I'm saying.
But you gotta do the right, theright paperwork and the right
background uh to get tocapitalize full.
SPEAKER_04 (15:22):
Okay, so tell me this.
Did you see a spike with the theclients that you work with in
songs about the Black LivesMatter movement, police
brutality, um, injustices, allthose things like that.
Did you see uh increase with thepeople that you work with in
(15:46):
those types of compositions?
SPEAKER_03 (15:49):
Well, we we actually after the black after the um
when that whole thing happenedhere in the city, a lot of a
couple artists, you know, a niceman of artists, we gathered we
right now, we're in the processright now of finishing up an
album that we're doing for theBlack Lives Matter movement, you
know what I'm saying?
We uh we got some good contentfor it, you know what I'm
(16:09):
saying?
So I own it.
Uh you got uh uh Grip De Nero.
Why don't you gonna forgetsomebody?
Why she's gonna forget somebody.
If I forget somebody, because Imight not know their name all
the way, but but I I got we wererecording them, I got their
name.
So you got Oberfemme, and thenyou got today, today, uh DT,
(16:32):
Jess Rome, Black Trump, ofcourse me.
Uh it's a it's a guy namedCedric Adams.
You know, it's it's a lot oftalent, uh Mellow D, you know
what I'm saying?
Like it's it's a lot of PineBluff, and uh, and uh we got
Damien, Damien Dimension.
He actually played some livesacks on on uh track, you know
(16:54):
what I'm saying, that we workedon.
And so it it's it's a host ofartists on it, all Pine Bluff,
you know what I'm saying?
And the thing we're doing now isgetting on the closing end.
We still, I say midway, you knowwhat I'm saying, because the
summer kind of affected affecteda little bit.
People had to take a coupletrips or whatever.
But it's gonna be worth thewait, you know what I'm saying?
(17:15):
It's gonna be worth the wait.
And it's and it's and it'sreally a black lives movement
thing.
But as far as in the city, it ityou know, people were still
getting killed, you know whatI'm saying?
Like, you know, it was stillblack on black crime going on
every week right now, you knowwhat I'm saying?
So that's the work that we'retrying to do, is to make get the
(17:35):
change into the our communitybecause the youth, they still on
the same thing right now.
I'm not gonna lie, like when I Isee it's they haven't done
anything on their part, butbecause it's not about them
hearing the Black LivesMovement, it's about what's
going on in life right now.
And life is still the samething, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_04 (17:56):
Well, I are you originally from Pine Bluff?
Yes, yeah, I'm born and raised.
Okay, well, I'm not originallyfrom Pine Bluff, but when I
chose to move to Pine Bluff, Iactually chose to move to Pine
Bluff because it waspredominantly black, and I felt
like it would be a good place toraise son because I didn't have
(18:21):
to worry about police brutality.
So I lived in Pine Bluff forseveral years, and bad rep, but
Pine Bluff is actually reallyperfect.
So, what do you think about allthe good things that Pine Bluff
(18:42):
has done that they don't getrecognition for?
Because if you're from PineBluff and you were in the band,
what band were you in?
SPEAKER_03 (18:49):
I was a Pine Bluff Pie band of Jack Roby, but
definitely okay.
SPEAKER_04 (18:53):
And Jack Roby is known for what?
SPEAKER_03 (18:56):
For dancing and you know, a putting on the show.
Mr.
Manny had us a back in the day.
We it was a lot of people inband, and you know what I'm
saying?
We we that that musicianshipactually transferred around.
Like a lot of the people fromthat era still doing music.
Now those were the birth of alot of musicians, you know what
I'm saying?
So band does carry on into themusic industry, you know what
(19:20):
I'm saying?
But and but that that was a bigmotivation, and that was a big
part of the musicianship.
Is is is coming to the world.
SPEAKER_04 (19:26):
Pine Bluff is not really known for music, but it
is known for music.
I mean, if you look at thehistorical concepts, uh being in
the Delta and uh the Juneteenthsand the everything, it's like
Pine Bluff is really like themusic hub for Arkansas.
And it's not getting therecognition that it needs.
(19:49):
So I think that you're doing agreat thing by having something
legitimate for the actualtalent, especially in this area,
because we have in Pine Bluff,the, like I said, Jack Roby.
You have uh the UAPB M4 Martinband.
I mean, who the hell else getdown like that?
SPEAKER_03 (20:12):
Yeah, yeah.
And in UAPB, you know, they wasin the president, you know, an
Obama parade, you know, they didthe thing, you know.
And you know, back when I was inthere, we was the top of the
school.
SPEAKER_04 (20:23):
It's actually talent, real talent.
SPEAKER_03 (20:27):
Yeah, yeah, it is.
You know, you gotta think now.
Smokey knowing also from PineBluff, you know what I'm saying?
And you know what he did over ingospel, you know what I'm
saying?
So, but knowing Smokey, youknow, not knowing, you know,
that he was gonna be in themusic industry, but just knowing
Smokey back then, how he used toplay at the church.
I mean, it when he got in themusic industry, I mean, it was
uh almost like a no-duh type ofthing that he was, you know.
(20:49):
I I just you know, you wouldn'tthink it though.
You would think that everybodylet something else slip.
So uh you were a m musician atchurch?
I um I wasn't a musician likeplaying like the because I still
can't play the piano keyboardlike that.
Uh but I can, you know, I justknow music.
And I I I did the drums.
What I did in my church is Iplayed the drums on my MPC.
(21:14):
I used to have an MPC and on mykeyboard.
I played the drums on there forthe choir.
So yeah, I did, you know, youknow, being being in the South,
um, especially my age, grandmaain't letting you stay at the
house, you know what I'm saying?
So you was you was going tochurch, you know what I'm
saying?
Or you weren't going to be.
SPEAKER_04 (21:29):
You don't get over there and beat them drums, boy.
SPEAKER_03 (21:31):
Hey, you better you better get out there, bed or
y'all ain't going nowhere, man.
SPEAKER_04 (21:36):
You better get over there and beat them drums.
SPEAKER_03 (21:38):
That's what they say, beat them drums.
Yeah, or hey, or next week youcan't go tomorrow because y'all
ain't going to church, man.
SPEAKER_04 (21:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And what else they do?
Go out and stay out all nightlong.
Sunday morning, you be enoughgoing to church.
So if there was, I know a lot ofpeople are asked in an
interview, if there was anyartist dead or alive, you can
(22:07):
work with.
I'm not gonna ask you that.
If there was any female artistthat you can work with, whether
you, and I'm gonna, I'm not, andI'm gonna say not, I'm gonna say
any female artist from the loveand hip hop franchise, which
(22:29):
artists do you think that youcan mess well with and make a
star?
SPEAKER_03 (22:35):
Well, it's like uh I ain't gonna lie to you.
I don't watch a lot of TVbecause I be in the studio that
much.
I ain't gonna lie to them, youknow, but I don't watch a lot of
TV.
SPEAKER_04 (22:46):
Okay, but you but you have a concept of who on
what now.
Come on now.
SPEAKER_03 (22:50):
Yeah, I mean, you know, uh I can just say any one
of them that's doing because I Iseen Cardi B, you know, which I
I don't I you know, I came fromwhen before she was a musician,
that's when I was, you know,kind of in, you know, when I was
seeing at least some episodes.
And it was like, if she I wasjust like if she be rapping, she
probably be some phone, but youknow, she rapping and look at
(23:11):
her, you know what I'm saying?
So it's you know, I don't knowexactly who on there right now.
It don't have to be it don'thave to be right now, it's
anytime.
Oh, I I mean, like now, Candy,you know what I'm saying, like
even though she does her thing,but any, it's like I want to
work with everybody.
SPEAKER_04 (23:29):
So it's like you didn't just put that woman in a
whole nother show.
SPEAKER_03 (23:33):
Oh, hey, see well, see what I'm saying?
Hey, that's why I say like hey,I I ain't gonna lie, man.
I'm probably one person that themost screen that I watch is the
music screen, you know what I'msaying, on my computer.
I've I really literally be infront of that all the time.
Like I haven't watched TV inyears, you know what I'm saying?
Probably since I say 2015,maybe.
(23:57):
Well, how you know what's goingon?
Uh YouTube.
And I and I get news.
Yeah, yeah, I'm an avid newYouTube watcher because I uh I I
watch a lot of, you know, I liketo get informed on things, you
know what I'm saying?
And I'm always looking uptutorial type thing, you know
what I'm saying?
I'm trying to learn all the timebecause that's you know, that's
(24:19):
the way right now, that's theway of the world.
You know what I'm saying?
The way the world is, we goteverything at our fingertips,
and we they showing you how todo it right there.
SPEAKER_04 (24:29):
So tell me this before COVID, what are some of
the music conferences and eventsthat you have attended and which
ones that you felt was the mostbeneficial?
SPEAKER_03 (24:43):
Well, uh back in 2008, I went to the Source
Awards.
I mean, not the Source Women.
It it was in Houston.
I think it was the Source Award.
But uh the the whatever awardsthat was down, I'm I'm I don't
want to be wrong by saying it'sa source, but it seemed like it
(25:04):
was the source awards.
And and that to me, that was abig experience, you know what
I'm saying?
Because we got to meet a lot ofdifferent artists, Bush Week
Meal, Wrestling Love, and uhshort it, shorty, uh, shorty
low, you know what I'm saying?
Wrestling Love, you know whatI'm saying?
It was it was a lot of, you knowwhat I'm saying.
We met a lot of artists in theirhotel, you know what I'm saying,
being up there.
(25:25):
Want to say we was on the floorwith two shorts, it seemed like,
but I don't think we got to meethim.
We just seen a lot of girls, youknow what I'm saying?
It was, you know, they wasthere, you know what I'm saying?
It was a lot of people there.
And uh DJ Drama, I I met himoutside, and you know, it's just
a lot of different, it was itwas a lot of different artists,
but at this point in time, thiswas before everybody was super,
super famous.
(25:47):
So they they were famous, butyou know, it was you know, that
was probably right at thebeginning of a big rise for a
lot of them, and we actually meta lot of them right there, you
know what I'm saying?
So that was to me, that was afun experience seeing all the
module riders and for our youknow, foreigners all outside,
you know what I'm saying?
Like that was a nice experience.
SPEAKER_04 (26:06):
Okay, well, tell me this.
What do we have to look forwardto immediately from Punk Flip?
SPEAKER_03 (26:21):
Right now, uh other than the project that we're
working on, change the narrativewith the time blood various
artists.
I work with Jess Rome.
And and just Rome has, you know,right now he has a song, no
tent.
I have a couple features withdifferent artists out right now
with uh Prophet X.
And um but other than that, weyou know he got a lot of
(26:45):
upcoming music, you know whatI'm saying?
An album that's coming that'sgonna really make a lot of
noise, you know what I'm saying?
And the thing is, on makingnoise, it's promotion.
So, you know what I'm saying?
That's that's the thing about ittaking the taking the F you know
the initiative to promote andyou know going to different
avenues and promoting on abigger scale, you know what I'm
saying?
So that's what's going on.
(27:06):
And we got a lot of work, youknow what I'm saying.
Black trunk, he got some work,you know what I'm saying.
It's a lot of artists got workquiz.
He got some work that's comingthat's that's really gonna
change it, you know, probablyopen some ears because you know
he this time he's talking to theyouth, you know what I'm saying?
He got some good upliftingmusic, you know what I'm saying,
or at least wisening up, youknow what I'm saying?
(27:27):
Some wisening up youth.
Oh yeah, I I got one otherperson to mention, and you know,
which is kind of big too.
Uh Trail G, who works for EmpireRecords, you know what I'm
saying?
He he he has an upcoming projectabout to release pretty soon
that you know that is gonnacatch ears, and we're doing some
work with him too, you know whatI'm saying.
(27:48):
He also he's a producer and he'sfrom Piper Blood, you know what
I'm saying?
Okay, so that's just a big thingthat I had to have to say that
even though he's not right here,I talk to him you know almost
every day, you know what I'msaying?
So, you know, and and and he'sbeen what's been keeping me, you
know, on on the go and you knowwhat I'm saying, like testing me
out, making me, you know, trydifferent things, you know what
(28:10):
I'm saying?
So I just had to say thatbecause that's a big influence,
you know what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_04 (28:14):
All right.
Okay.
Is there anything else you wantto add?
SPEAKER_03 (28:20):
Well, let me see.
No, but but yeah, but other thanthat, right now, that as I can
think of, you know what I'msaying?
That's about the biggest thingthat that that actually that I'm
doing, that even though, youknow, it's no, it's not my
project or anything like that,but that's something that I'm
involved on.
I'm doing some of the music onhis project.
(28:41):
So whenever it does come out,that'll be something that you
know the name of the project?
No, I don't know the name of ityet.
You know what I'm saying?
Not the name of it yet, but youknow the name of the project.
Whenever it comes, it will bebig.
SPEAKER_04 (28:54):
Okay, you don't you don't know a release date?
SPEAKER_03 (28:57):
No, no, I don't know, because it's still we
still working on it.
You know what I'm saying?
We're still working on releases,you know, trying to get he's
trying to get a couple morefeatures, you know what I'm
saying, with a couple moreartists from here.
You know what I'm saying?
So and that's the thing aboutit, you know.
That that's something that a lotof people in Arkansas really
don't know that we have a majorartist on the label out, on a
(29:17):
major label right now, you knowwhat I'm saying?
But and he produces, but youknow, is you know, it's kind of
one of those hidden hiddenjewels.
SPEAKER_04 (29:28):
So tell everybody where if they need to contact
you for studio time, where theyneed to find you at where they
can find you on social media,how they can hit you up, plug
yourself.
SPEAKER_03 (29:40):
All right.
Um on social media, it's it's onFacebook is Cody Funky Foot
Owens and I spell it wrong.
Yeah, I know yeah, I got it.
P H U N K E E P H O O T.
unknown (29:59):
And
SPEAKER_03 (30:00):
uh on on gmail i like i i do a lot through gmail
on some of the on instagram it'sthe same thing but uh it's like
harder to receive you know idon't probably don't check it as
much but you can hit me on gmailwith funky foot at gmail or foot
funky at gmail spell the sameway funky p h u n k e and p h o
(30:22):
t you know you can swap itaround you're still gonna get to
me foot funky or funky foot atgmail that's the best way to
reach and i can get back withyou because that's gonna
definitely show up on my screenand i will be able to contact
you back okay is there anythingelse that you want everybody to
know about mr funky foot oh youcan catch it at studio 22 which
(30:48):
is 1210 south cherry uh cherrystreet and pine bluff suite 22
but it's actually on lindenstreet side the address is just
on on cherry street so thatconfused that confuse a lot of
people when i send them theaddress i always make sure that
i tell them on lending streetside because they you'll never
(31:08):
find it on on on cherry streetside it's not a 22 over there
you know so that but that'swhere you can come find me and
when you come we ready to workyou know all right well y'all
heard it here he got a couplenew projects coming up if you
need to work he ready to workand this will conclude this
(31:29):
episode of blonde intelligencehey girl let me tell you about
this podcast girl everybody hasa podcast these days but this
one interviews new andinteresting indie artists it's
called indie artists musichostel with blonde intelligence
really where can I find it it'son all podcasting platforms
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