December 11, 2025 • 21 mins
Armanii Talks Debut Album, Rise From TikTok & Jamaica’s Resilience
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Spout on the five point one New yorksp bab and
R and b our money is in the building today
he stepped into the cold of New York City, fresh
off Jamaica. No, you've been here for a while, right,
yesterday fresh first.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Stepped outside the plane. How that feel for you?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Cold?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You're not used to it? You spend time here though?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
No? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I grew up here for a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
So yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh so tell me the background, tell me the history.
I know you were born in Jamaica though, right, yeah, Kingston.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Rais Kingston, raised in Kingston. Then you know the migrant story.
You know, my mom was better for us. America is
the place we came here.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And you were seventeen at the time.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, so that's the story they tell you, right, America
is the better place. Doesn't always land like that for everybody,
not righting, especially.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
The first two weeks for sure. You know you're in
heaven really and then reality starts to kick in.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You know, So do you at seventeen you wanted to
leave Jamaica? No, I was gonna say, no.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Seventeen year old want to leave their friends there.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So that your first girlfriend, yeah, you know, you was
probably popping too. Yeah. Your mother was like, no, I
got a better life for us.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And you were aware Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, Yeah, and
you liked it or you didn't like it, coped.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, but it was something it was needed made. Who
I am huh, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
How long were you there? Ah?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Four years?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Okay? Also you spent real time there? Yeah okay.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Then I moved to Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Uh huh oh Yeah that was the different shift.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah a lot. It's a big shift because you know,
New York is the fast, Georgia is more of a
sure pace.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah. And then did you go back to Jamaica at
any point?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, yeah, but you don't live there anymore, or you
live there now. I live in now, Yeah, got it? Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
When did the music kick in in Malvernon or in Atlanta?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
In Vernon, Malvernon going to high school?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I was at junior. I was a junior trying to
get my first job. Didn't work. I was like, I
cannot do this.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
What was the job?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
What was the job? Golden crush, Golden crush. I't like it? Why,
I just it's me and I don't like being told
what to do or you know, what time to wake
up with. Always envisioned myself being something more in life,
you know, knocking anybody's also, that's.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Mad, stereotypical. You framed Jamaica. Your first job is Golden.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Crust selling patties.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
As a Jamaican who grew up and was raised in Kingston,
how do you rate a Golden Crust beef patty?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Cocobreta can't compare it to you know, teasts or a
juicy patty, but I'd give it a seven eight on
a good day.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Okay, that's not bad. They wasn't sitting out all day.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, yeah, you know once it's fresh out of over.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, yeah, you got it right, Yeah for sure. I
still love.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
From gold The Crust came wrong anytime, anytime, anybody.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So then you get to you, So you start music
high school?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, and did you have resources?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Did you even think you could do this?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Like?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I had an iPhone six and a pair of Apple headphones,
the wires, Yeah, and I had bad Lap downloaded, and
I deleted every single app off my phone. Only thing
I had was Instagram and I Message, so I had
space to keep all my songs.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah, And then I had to go under the blanket
and the pillow the record, and yeah, it was it was.
It was a good experience, but it was just also
a hot one because I was like, I gotta take
breaks in between.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
When did you.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Realize you had a little something going on here? Like
wait a minute, this might be.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I had started TikTok and I used TikTok to post
one of my songs, and then it just went crazy.
It's like, oh shit, this is a new avenue. It's
like I could really use this to blow up. And
then I created a fan base on there and we're
just here right now.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, and then you have this interesting mix of you know,
like dance hall, but it is modern, has like a
drill influence and a little bit I mean, how do
you categorize it?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I don't want to. I just call it a worldly
I call it like a world musical tone, you know,
like I keep the core Jamaican and dance hall, but
I like to make the beats somewhat of different genres,
mix them together so it gives it a worldly feeling, yeah,
instead of just a one dimensional dance hall song.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
If you know, what does your family think about that?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Because my mom is actually a pastor. So how does
that fly? She she loves it. She's not gonna listen
to all of them. She listen to the ones that
are clean enough. You know. Yeah, but my family loves
and family supports me.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So your mother is a pastor. That's interesting. So you
grew up with a pastor in the church. Wow? And
so the was she that in Jamaica too, and then
she came here or she just was doing that here?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
My uncle was a pastor, My uncle is a pastor,
My mom's a pastor, my aunt's a pastor.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So will we hear some of that influence in your
music too?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah? The more mellot melodic tones, that's that's from the church,
you know, that's the soul.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah. Yeah, Well you got a lot of vibes. People
like into what's happening right now with you? Are you
feeling like the energy around like you feel like, yeah, excited,
it's about to go? Yeah, you feel like it's about
to go. Sure, And you just did a billboard what
was that? Was it a performance or it.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Was I opened for Leon Thomas.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
That's pretty good board. Yeah, how was that?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It was great? It was a great experience. I was nervous.
I'm not gonna like it's a billboard, you know, a
kid like me from Jamaica billboard or something like fantasy
for us, not everybody gets to or even has the opportunity,
you know, to even have their name attached to billboard
or even have their name outside in New York. Oh,
ARMANI live tonight.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So you've done a lot of shows though.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, I've done I've done a lot. Yeah, show from
the bars to the stadium's a lot of shows.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, So this is not that new to you. It's
just it's a different.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, it's just a different environmental, wider audience. And I
like shows like these, Like I like shows that when
nobody really knows who I am, so that lets me
capture new audience. By the time you go home, you're
playing our money, you know.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
YEA.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
How exciting then for you like to have started this
in school and have the whole TikTok rock and now
you're like debut album time.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's a Sometimes I have to really sit back and
understand that I'm really doing a lot that people my
age are not doing. Sometimes I really be hard on myself.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
How well do you know me?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I'm twenty three.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Okay, so when you started was what like when you
started like Under the Blanket, Yeah, that was sixteen seventeen.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I was like eighteen eighteen.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, that's pretty fast, you don't think.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Yeah, yeah, it probably doesn't feel like it's to you, right,
there's no journey.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
It's not gonna feel as fast as on the outside
of he blew up Fast. But the journey been a
long one.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah. Yeah, you've been on it. So how exciting. So
what do you think people should know about the album? Like,
what do you want people to know? It's a big
day for you Friday.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Friday is a big day for me. But for the album,
everybody has a song that you're gonna be, you know,
able to relate to. Got it. Whether it's a love song,
a heartbreak song, a song that's energetic, song that's SOKA
or host Party or EEDPM, you're gonna be able to
resonate and relate to at least one track.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
So it's just like world vibes, you really you really
trying to tap into like a whole bunch.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Of That's why I call it the impact because it's
like it's going to impact you in some way, shape
or form. You know, whether it's it's going to give
you a nostalgic feeling, lose your love. The leading track that's,
you know, a rule track, reggae like Barrs Hammond. Every
barbecue your hero Barrs Hamming a Bob Marley. So with
that track, you're going to bring back a nostalgic vibe.
And then we have the new tracks. Yeah, it's a
(07:54):
it's a lot and.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Her Bears Hammond's a legend, you know, Bears Hammond's daughter.
You ever see that show Your Honor on Showtime?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
No, Oh my god, it's so good. I got I
gotta watch it. Beres Hammond's daughter is plays the drug
dealer from New Orleans and I didn't know it was her.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I just thought I thought she was a dope actress
and I saw she was from Brooklyn, so I had
hit her like, yo, you're killing the show. And then
I found out it was Beres Hammond's daughter and she's
a dope ass actress.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You have to watch it. Remind it's called Your Honor. No,
trust me, it's a fire show. You should absolutely watch it.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
If you have time in the middle of dropping your
debut album, you should absolutely check it.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Out What do you do inside for music? Like?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Do you have other hobbies? Do you have any other
Are you a movie watcher?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Are you I'm a Marvel and I'm a comic fan.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Uh huh, yeah, got it.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I just be on the game all day when there's
no music, I'm locked in on the game. Like I'm
not really an outside person.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
So inside, Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna get to know
you a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Today. We have a game. It's called check it or
let it slide. All right, we got a problem or
no problem? You know what I'm saying, check it or
let it slide. You start went off.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Someone meet you and they know where you're from, and
the first thing they want to do is come say
and talk to you in the worst Jamaican accent of
and they say the wrong thing all the time. We're
gonna let it slide.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
You're go and check it.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Don't let it slide.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
It happens every day. I'll have to let it just
did it as well as well. Mind you, it's a
whole God, it's gonna have my whole life. I'm gonna
have to let it slide.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Can't check everybody.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I can't check it every day, all day. Does it
ever surprise you?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Like?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Is it ever? Is it ever really good or really bad?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Some some are it's never really good.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Really, it's never really good.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
But some are funny, and then some are like, Okay,
you could have been you cana said hi, But I'm
gonna just let it slide.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Gotta let it slide. Okay, here's one for you. A
girl that you.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Used to have a crush off back in the day,
but she gave you no action. Now she shows up
at your album release party and she's trying to connect.
Do you check it or do you let it slide?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Is this a true story?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I'm gonna have to let it slide. Yeah, I'm gonna
have to let it slide. Man, Really, I forget. It's cool.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Forget okay, go all right?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
You out on the day, you take someone out to
get some food or whatnot, and they record everything, but
you at dinner.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Are we checking this or we're gonna let this slide?
All right? Is she my girl? Or is this on
first date?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Excellent?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Because if you're my girl, give me both checking Okay,
you recorded hey right in the camera, but no, please
don't record me.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I'm not even there, right no, I don't even exist exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
This is a simple one. A girl cooks for you
for the first time. I'm assuming it's not your girlfriend
because it's the first time, young lady cooking for you
for the first time. And the food she tries to
make you you're making meal and the food is terrible.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Do you check it or let us like, I just.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Check it because you know, yeah, you missed my food?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
She got correct.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, yeah, I came as some oxtails up. Man, that's
my favorite, not bad oxtails. I'll never forgive you, right,
I never. I never forgive you.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Man. You gotta go, You're out of here. That's funny,
all right?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
So this was good. So your lady is introducing you
for the first time. Correct, But she goes, this is
my current boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Oh, checking it for sure? What you do?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Oh we gotta check?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah for sure? Ain't no, I'm the boyfriend, the right
last one probably.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And by the way, make sure that this is the
proper term my boyfriend that we're using that. Yeah, right,
are we ready to use that term or not?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Right?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
It's some guests out there, and the guests come to
your house for the first time ever, and they walk in,
take their shoes off, go right to the fridge, act
like it's their house.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
So we're checking this or.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Not, but we do. Let it slide.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Come on, socks off, not the fox. No, we're checking it.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You got to go. Yeah, your friend is promising you.
This is your good friend.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You had a big show because you're about to drop
your new album on Friday. Come into your show. They
text you the next morning and say, Yo, how was it.
Do you check it or let it slide?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Ill?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Let it slide? Yeah? Really, yeah, it happens. Yeah, get
you know, I'll make a excuse for you.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
You know, he was busy, all right, one last one.
Give it to him.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
If you invite someone to the studio to experience the
whole section or whatnot. But then they start giving you
all this unless unsolicited advice to your art.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You check it or let it slide?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Check it?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
You gotta go.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah, I'm gonna be like yo, Grammy Water in this case,
we gotta check it, man, we gotta check it.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
There it is, yo. How are you in the studio?
What is your studio?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Vibes like like a beat, but you're not under the
blankets no more.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
So I get to hear a beat and I just
go straight to the boot. I don't write.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I just go really no writing, yeah, because.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I feel like writing it takes away from what music
really is, you know. Like not not bashing anybody that, right,
because writing is still good. That's why we have writers
and stuff. But I feel like when you're in the moment,
you get a better hit than when you sit down
and try to overthink it and write and try to
make every lie ain't sound perfect, you.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Know, but how do you not remember?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Then?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
How do you not forget?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Like?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
How do you That's because see, the thing is too
like once the personal record, you can always go back
and hear like a mumbo or a melody and you're like, okay,
I might just add words to this instead of trying
to structure a bead, and then, yeah, it takes a
lot writing, So I just prefer the freestyle.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Every song, Yeah, every song. Wow, that is a gift.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
That's what they said.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That's what they say. It is a gift. Right. What
do you see for yourself? Like, next five years, what's
your people? What are we going to see from you?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Grammy? You know, Grammy probably song with the best of
the best, for sure. So that's why five years ago
say that's a good time span girl.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I love that for you man, good luck with everything
for sure. All right, album, let's just let them know.
Album drops Friday, The Impact. You got some nice cameos
on it.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah, by Swag Your the Kingdom, Molly don.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Uh And what should people know? You said a song
for everybody.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
It's a song for everybody. Dropping on the twelve?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah, how's it going to land in Jamaica? What is
Jamaica gonna think about it?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
They're excited? Yeah, the trailer. Did the trailer for it, like,
we can't wait. It's like I dropped it as like
the twelve that's too far.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Wait, you dropped something else too. The what was the song?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
People were saying that maybe it was for Jamaica Champion
the Champion. Yeah, is that on the album?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, that's the intro.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh it is on Oh okay, and it's for you.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Did that more because you know the Melissa the hurricanes. Yeah,
spirits were down and stuff, and I took away from
my hugual route, you know, and it just gave them
something that they could hold onto and be motivated instead
of trying to live in a sad spirited energy. So
I just gave him a song that you know, you
play it no matter what you're going through. No, lift
(15:51):
your spirit.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I love that. Were you there during the hurricanes?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I was in London, I was on stage when it
was it was all going out.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
What about family and families there?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
No, yeah, but my family is good. Yeah, we weren't affected.
I'm in the Kingston area, you know, but my heart
goes out to everybody in the Western side, in the
West Roland s Elizabeth montegob Trilani. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Have you seen since you've been back some of the effects. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Really, we're gonna bounce Jamaica, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
It's a saying look about with Talawa.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
So what is that that you just said.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah, so it's a saint. It's called look about.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Is like we're small or spirits or giant champion? Yeah? Champions?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Well congrats baby, the album, everybody tomorrow, the impact and
hopefully we'll see you more of you now after that
shows and anything else we need to look out for.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
People show in New York on the twelve, and you
guys can find me on all social media platforms that
Aremani Music, A R and A and I I am
U s I.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Q Okay, before we go, we have Armani in real life?
Full name Armani.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Moody, Moody Moody. Is that your real government name? Are
you Moody? Sometimes? I feel like that should be my
last name? The last thing you ate?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Rice?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Just rice, no protein, some chicken? What is your go
to karaoke song?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
All of h Come on? I probably remember how to
play it on a keyboard. I learned it in what
primary school?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
But you sing it? Do you sing it like John
or a little different like like John? You don't give
it a like a I don't know, a dance hall
kind of you know what I mean? You don't dance Okay?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
John is a legend man intendency.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
You don't. You don't want to give us a little
of that today? Do you? Smart mouth?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Joining me and you kicking me out? Got my spinning? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
What I would go to karaoke to see that.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Your superpower is adaptability. Yeah, you know how to adapt
it real quick to whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Probably because you got moved to Mount Vernon, snatched up
out of Jamaica at seventeen for.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
A better life. You know.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Your celebrity crush. I've heard you say this before, so
I know you mean this.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Megan good Hi?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, have you met her?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I actually know Makan. You do. She's a little older
than you. Oh no, man, just a little bit older
than you. But you had to you don't care. I
also believe she's in a relationship even know. Wait you
wait it out.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
What is it about Macan? Why is she the one
that you keep referencing as your celebrity crush?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Smeggan? I feel like that's all. It's Megan, Megan's good.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
What is the one thing on your bucket list? Oh?
A movie?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah? I want to act in the movie. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Do you have your role in your mind? What is
the role against the I want to be with Meghan
Goods love interest?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, her Jamaican love interest. You know I got the dreads. Yeah,
ma on on, just give me my lines. I'm with it.
Any movie, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Any movie must you play? What if you're not gonna
play Jamaican? Can you play a non Jamaican?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, I'll switch it up.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You can switch it up clean, yeah, because you know,
sometimes people try to play Jamaican and then it's not Yeah,
them fake Jamaican access do not hit.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
That's why my superpowers adaptability.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Okay, yeah, just so you could play non Jamaican n Field. Okay,
do you want to try something? All right, we'll waiting
the next time. We wait for the next time. I'm
gonna just trust you all I can trust that you
could pull that off. Okay, your pet.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Peeve, oh as my last name. I'm very moody. And
when I'm in my quiet mood, I don't like a
lot of talking. No talk. Yeah, it's like be there,
but don't be there.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
That must be very difficult for you when you're out
promoting your album.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
It is because I'm around my friends I'm talking about
in public. I'm really shy and quiet.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Really, you didn't give me that energy today. Oh you
were lovely and you you had things to say.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
And man, it's Aergie Martinez.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
No, thank you, thank you. You were great today. And
the last thing, what was the last thing that sent
you down a rabbit hole?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Uh? Fortnite. I'm a gamer, so I was like, what
how did he do that? Then I want to search
it up.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
You're looking up what like.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Play the game properly?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, hours of this hour? And then your favorite emoji
is an eight ball?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
And why is that good luck it means good luck
for me, Okay, because it means other things, other reasons
for me. But the good luck and good luck with
this new project driving tomorrow. You see what you did there?
Full circle? What time for money? Everybody spot on the
five point one
Spout on the five point one New yorksp bab and
R and b our money is in the building today
he stepped into the cold of New York City, fresh
off Jamaica. No, you've been here for a while, right,
yesterday fresh first.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Stepped outside the plane. How that feel for you?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Cold?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You're not used to it? You spend time here though?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
No? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I grew up here for a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
So yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh so tell me the background, tell me the history.
I know you were born in Jamaica though, right, yeah, Kingston.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Rais Kingston, raised in Kingston. Then you know the migrant story.
You know, my mom was better for us. America is
the place we came here.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And you were seventeen at the time.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, so that's the story they tell you, right, America
is the better place. Doesn't always land like that for everybody,
not righting, especially.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
The first two weeks for sure. You know you're in
heaven really and then reality starts to kick in.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You know, So do you at seventeen you wanted to
leave Jamaica? No, I was gonna say, no.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Seventeen year old want to leave their friends there.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So that your first girlfriend, yeah, you know, you was
probably popping too. Yeah. Your mother was like, no, I
got a better life for us.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And you were aware Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, Yeah, and
you liked it or you didn't like it, coped.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, but it was something it was needed made. Who
I am huh, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
How long were you there? Ah?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Four years?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Okay? Also you spent real time there? Yeah okay.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Then I moved to Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Uh huh oh Yeah that was the different shift.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah a lot. It's a big shift because you know,
New York is the fast, Georgia is more of a
sure pace.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah. And then did you go back to Jamaica at
any point?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, yeah, but you don't live there anymore, or you
live there now. I live in now, Yeah, got it? Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
When did the music kick in in Malvernon or in Atlanta?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
In Vernon, Malvernon going to high school?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I was at junior. I was a junior trying to
get my first job. Didn't work. I was like, I
cannot do this.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
What was the job?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
What was the job? Golden crush, Golden crush. I't like it? Why,
I just it's me and I don't like being told
what to do or you know, what time to wake
up with. Always envisioned myself being something more in life,
you know, knocking anybody's also, that's.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Mad, stereotypical. You framed Jamaica. Your first job is Golden.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Crust selling patties.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
As a Jamaican who grew up and was raised in Kingston,
how do you rate a Golden Crust beef patty?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Cocobreta can't compare it to you know, teasts or a
juicy patty, but I'd give it a seven eight on
a good day.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Okay, that's not bad. They wasn't sitting out all day.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, yeah, you know once it's fresh out of over.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, yeah, you got it right, Yeah for sure. I
still love.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
From gold The Crust came wrong anytime, anytime, anybody.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So then you get to you, So you start music
high school?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, and did you have resources?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Did you even think you could do this?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Like?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I had an iPhone six and a pair of Apple headphones,
the wires, Yeah, and I had bad Lap downloaded, and
I deleted every single app off my phone. Only thing
I had was Instagram and I Message, so I had
space to keep all my songs.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah, And then I had to go under the blanket
and the pillow the record, and yeah, it was it was.
It was a good experience, but it was just also
a hot one because I was like, I gotta take
breaks in between.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
When did you.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Realize you had a little something going on here? Like
wait a minute, this might be.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I had started TikTok and I used TikTok to post
one of my songs, and then it just went crazy.
It's like, oh shit, this is a new avenue. It's
like I could really use this to blow up. And
then I created a fan base on there and we're
just here right now.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, and then you have this interesting mix of you know,
like dance hall, but it is modern, has like a
drill influence and a little bit I mean, how do
you categorize it?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I don't want to. I just call it a worldly
I call it like a world musical tone, you know,
like I keep the core Jamaican and dance hall, but
I like to make the beats somewhat of different genres,
mix them together so it gives it a worldly feeling, yeah,
instead of just a one dimensional dance hall song.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
If you know, what does your family think about that?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Because my mom is actually a pastor. So how does
that fly? She she loves it. She's not gonna listen
to all of them. She listen to the ones that
are clean enough. You know. Yeah, but my family loves
and family supports me.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So your mother is a pastor. That's interesting. So you
grew up with a pastor in the church. Wow? And
so the was she that in Jamaica too, and then
she came here or she just was doing that here?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
My uncle was a pastor, My uncle is a pastor,
My mom's a pastor, my aunt's a pastor.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So will we hear some of that influence in your
music too?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah? The more mellot melodic tones, that's that's from the church,
you know, that's the soul.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah. Yeah, Well you got a lot of vibes. People
like into what's happening right now with you? Are you
feeling like the energy around like you feel like, yeah, excited,
it's about to go? Yeah, you feel like it's about
to go. Sure, And you just did a billboard what
was that? Was it a performance or it.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Was I opened for Leon Thomas.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
That's pretty good board. Yeah, how was that?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It was great? It was a great experience. I was nervous.
I'm not gonna like it's a billboard, you know, a
kid like me from Jamaica billboard or something like fantasy
for us, not everybody gets to or even has the opportunity,
you know, to even have their name attached to billboard
or even have their name outside in New York. Oh,
ARMANI live tonight.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So you've done a lot of shows though.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, I've done I've done a lot. Yeah, show from
the bars to the stadium's a lot of shows.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, So this is not that new to you. It's
just it's a different.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, it's just a different environmental, wider audience. And I
like shows like these, Like I like shows that when
nobody really knows who I am, so that lets me
capture new audience. By the time you go home, you're
playing our money, you know.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
YEA.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
How exciting then for you like to have started this
in school and have the whole TikTok rock and now
you're like debut album time.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's a Sometimes I have to really sit back and
understand that I'm really doing a lot that people my
age are not doing. Sometimes I really be hard on myself.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
How well do you know me?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I'm twenty three.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Okay, so when you started was what like when you
started like Under the Blanket, Yeah, that was sixteen seventeen.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I was like eighteen eighteen.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, that's pretty fast, you don't think.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Yeah, yeah, it probably doesn't feel like it's to you, right,
there's no journey.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
It's not gonna feel as fast as on the outside
of he blew up Fast. But the journey been a
long one.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah. Yeah, you've been on it. So how exciting. So
what do you think people should know about the album? Like,
what do you want people to know? It's a big
day for you Friday.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Friday is a big day for me. But for the album,
everybody has a song that you're gonna be, you know,
able to relate to. Got it. Whether it's a love song,
a heartbreak song, a song that's energetic, song that's SOKA
or host Party or EEDPM, you're gonna be able to
resonate and relate to at least one track.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
So it's just like world vibes, you really you really
trying to tap into like a whole bunch.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Of That's why I call it the impact because it's
like it's going to impact you in some way, shape
or form. You know, whether it's it's going to give
you a nostalgic feeling, lose your love. The leading track that's,
you know, a rule track, reggae like Barrs Hammond. Every
barbecue your hero Barrs Hamming a Bob Marley. So with
that track, you're going to bring back a nostalgic vibe.
And then we have the new tracks. Yeah, it's a
(07:54):
it's a lot and.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Her Bears Hammond's a legend, you know, Bears Hammond's daughter.
You ever see that show Your Honor on Showtime?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
No, Oh my god, it's so good. I got I
gotta watch it. Beres Hammond's daughter is plays the drug
dealer from New Orleans and I didn't know it was her.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I just thought I thought she was a dope actress
and I saw she was from Brooklyn, so I had
hit her like, yo, you're killing the show. And then
I found out it was Beres Hammond's daughter and she's
a dope ass actress.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You have to watch it. Remind it's called Your Honor. No,
trust me, it's a fire show. You should absolutely watch it.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
If you have time in the middle of dropping your
debut album, you should absolutely check it.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Out What do you do inside for music? Like?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Do you have other hobbies? Do you have any other
Are you a movie watcher?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Are you I'm a Marvel and I'm a comic fan.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Uh huh, yeah, got it.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I just be on the game all day when there's
no music, I'm locked in on the game. Like I'm
not really an outside person.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
So inside, Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna get to know
you a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Today. We have a game. It's called check it or
let it slide. All right, we got a problem or
no problem? You know what I'm saying, check it or
let it slide. You start went off.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Someone meet you and they know where you're from, and
the first thing they want to do is come say
and talk to you in the worst Jamaican accent of
and they say the wrong thing all the time. We're
gonna let it slide.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
You're go and check it.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Don't let it slide.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
It happens every day. I'll have to let it just
did it as well as well. Mind you, it's a
whole God, it's gonna have my whole life. I'm gonna
have to let it slide.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Can't check everybody.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I can't check it every day, all day. Does it
ever surprise you?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Like?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Is it ever? Is it ever really good or really bad?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Some some are it's never really good.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Really, it's never really good.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
But some are funny, and then some are like, Okay,
you could have been you cana said hi, But I'm
gonna just let it slide.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Gotta let it slide. Okay, here's one for you. A
girl that you.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Used to have a crush off back in the day,
but she gave you no action. Now she shows up
at your album release party and she's trying to connect.
Do you check it or do you let it slide?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Is this a true story?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I'm gonna have to let it slide. Yeah, I'm gonna
have to let it slide. Man, Really, I forget. It's cool.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Forget okay, go all right?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
You out on the day, you take someone out to
get some food or whatnot, and they record everything, but
you at dinner.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Are we checking this or we're gonna let this slide?
All right? Is she my girl? Or is this on
first date?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Excellent?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Because if you're my girl, give me both checking Okay,
you recorded hey right in the camera, but no, please
don't record me.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I'm not even there, right no, I don't even exist exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
This is a simple one. A girl cooks for you
for the first time. I'm assuming it's not your girlfriend
because it's the first time, young lady cooking for you
for the first time. And the food she tries to
make you you're making meal and the food is terrible.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Do you check it or let us like, I just.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Check it because you know, yeah, you missed my food?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
She got correct.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, yeah, I came as some oxtails up. Man, that's
my favorite, not bad oxtails. I'll never forgive you, right,
I never. I never forgive you.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Man. You gotta go, You're out of here. That's funny,
all right?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
So this was good. So your lady is introducing you
for the first time. Correct, But she goes, this is
my current boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Oh, checking it for sure? What you do?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Oh we gotta check?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah for sure? Ain't no, I'm the boyfriend, the right
last one probably.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And by the way, make sure that this is the
proper term my boyfriend that we're using that. Yeah, right,
are we ready to use that term or not?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Right?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
It's some guests out there, and the guests come to
your house for the first time ever, and they walk in,
take their shoes off, go right to the fridge, act
like it's their house.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
So we're checking this or.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Not, but we do. Let it slide.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Come on, socks off, not the fox. No, we're checking it.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You got to go. Yeah, your friend is promising you.
This is your good friend.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You had a big show because you're about to drop
your new album on Friday. Come into your show. They
text you the next morning and say, Yo, how was it.
Do you check it or let it slide?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Ill?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Let it slide? Yeah? Really, yeah, it happens. Yeah, get
you know, I'll make a excuse for you.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
You know, he was busy, all right, one last one.
Give it to him.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
If you invite someone to the studio to experience the
whole section or whatnot. But then they start giving you
all this unless unsolicited advice to your art.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You check it or let it slide?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Check it?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
You gotta go.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah, I'm gonna be like yo, Grammy Water in this case,
we gotta check it, man, we gotta check it.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
There it is, yo. How are you in the studio?
What is your studio?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Vibes like like a beat, but you're not under the
blankets no more.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
So I get to hear a beat and I just
go straight to the boot. I don't write.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I just go really no writing, yeah, because.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I feel like writing it takes away from what music
really is, you know. Like not not bashing anybody that, right,
because writing is still good. That's why we have writers
and stuff. But I feel like when you're in the moment,
you get a better hit than when you sit down
and try to overthink it and write and try to
make every lie ain't sound perfect, you.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Know, but how do you not remember?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Then?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
How do you not forget?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Like?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
How do you That's because see, the thing is too
like once the personal record, you can always go back
and hear like a mumbo or a melody and you're like, okay,
I might just add words to this instead of trying
to structure a bead, and then, yeah, it takes a
lot writing, So I just prefer the freestyle.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Every song, Yeah, every song. Wow, that is a gift.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
That's what they said.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That's what they say. It is a gift. Right. What
do you see for yourself? Like, next five years, what's
your people? What are we going to see from you?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Grammy? You know, Grammy probably song with the best of
the best, for sure. So that's why five years ago
say that's a good time span girl.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I love that for you man, good luck with everything
for sure. All right, album, let's just let them know.
Album drops Friday, The Impact. You got some nice cameos
on it.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah, by Swag Your the Kingdom, Molly don.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Uh And what should people know? You said a song
for everybody.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
It's a song for everybody. Dropping on the twelve?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah, how's it going to land in Jamaica? What is
Jamaica gonna think about it?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
They're excited? Yeah, the trailer. Did the trailer for it, like,
we can't wait. It's like I dropped it as like
the twelve that's too far.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Wait, you dropped something else too. The what was the song?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
People were saying that maybe it was for Jamaica Champion
the Champion. Yeah, is that on the album?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, that's the intro.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh it is on Oh okay, and it's for you.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Did that more because you know the Melissa the hurricanes. Yeah,
spirits were down and stuff, and I took away from
my hugual route, you know, and it just gave them
something that they could hold onto and be motivated instead
of trying to live in a sad spirited energy. So
I just gave him a song that you know, you
play it no matter what you're going through. No, lift
(15:51):
your spirit.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I love that. Were you there during the hurricanes?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I was in London, I was on stage when it
was it was all going out.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
What about family and families there?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
No, yeah, but my family is good. Yeah, we weren't affected.
I'm in the Kingston area, you know, but my heart
goes out to everybody in the Western side, in the
West Roland s Elizabeth montegob Trilani. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Have you seen since you've been back some of the effects. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Really, we're gonna bounce Jamaica, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
It's a saying look about with Talawa.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
So what is that that you just said.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah, so it's a saint. It's called look about.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Is like we're small or spirits or giant champion? Yeah? Champions?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Well congrats baby, the album, everybody tomorrow, the impact and
hopefully we'll see you more of you now after that
shows and anything else we need to look out for.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
People show in New York on the twelve, and you
guys can find me on all social media platforms that
Aremani Music, A R and A and I I am
U s I.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Q Okay, before we go, we have Armani in real life?
Full name Armani.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Moody, Moody Moody. Is that your real government name? Are
you Moody? Sometimes? I feel like that should be my
last name? The last thing you ate?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Rice?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Just rice, no protein, some chicken? What is your go
to karaoke song?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
All of h Come on? I probably remember how to
play it on a keyboard. I learned it in what
primary school?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
But you sing it? Do you sing it like John
or a little different like like John? You don't give
it a like a I don't know, a dance hall
kind of you know what I mean? You don't dance Okay?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
John is a legend man intendency.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
You don't. You don't want to give us a little
of that today? Do you? Smart mouth?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Joining me and you kicking me out? Got my spinning? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
What I would go to karaoke to see that.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Your superpower is adaptability. Yeah, you know how to adapt
it real quick to whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Probably because you got moved to Mount Vernon, snatched up
out of Jamaica at seventeen for.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
A better life. You know.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Your celebrity crush. I've heard you say this before, so
I know you mean this.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Megan good Hi?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, have you met her?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I actually know Makan. You do. She's a little older
than you. Oh no, man, just a little bit older
than you. But you had to you don't care. I
also believe she's in a relationship even know. Wait you
wait it out.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
What is it about Macan? Why is she the one
that you keep referencing as your celebrity crush?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Smeggan? I feel like that's all. It's Megan, Megan's good.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
What is the one thing on your bucket list? Oh?
A movie?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah? I want to act in the movie. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Do you have your role in your mind? What is
the role against the I want to be with Meghan
Goods love interest?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, her Jamaican love interest. You know I got the dreads. Yeah,
ma on on, just give me my lines. I'm with it.
Any movie, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Any movie must you play? What if you're not gonna
play Jamaican? Can you play a non Jamaican?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, I'll switch it up.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You can switch it up clean, yeah, because you know,
sometimes people try to play Jamaican and then it's not Yeah,
them fake Jamaican access do not hit.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
That's why my superpowers adaptability.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Okay, yeah, just so you could play non Jamaican n Field. Okay,
do you want to try something? All right, we'll waiting
the next time. We wait for the next time. I'm
gonna just trust you all I can trust that you
could pull that off. Okay, your pet.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Peeve, oh as my last name. I'm very moody. And
when I'm in my quiet mood, I don't like a
lot of talking. No talk. Yeah, it's like be there,
but don't be there.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
That must be very difficult for you when you're out
promoting your album.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
It is because I'm around my friends I'm talking about
in public. I'm really shy and quiet.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Really, you didn't give me that energy today. Oh you
were lovely and you you had things to say.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
And man, it's Aergie Martinez.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
No, thank you, thank you. You were great today. And
the last thing, what was the last thing that sent
you down a rabbit hole?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Uh? Fortnite. I'm a gamer, so I was like, what
how did he do that? Then I want to search
it up.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
You're looking up what like.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Play the game properly?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, hours of this hour? And then your favorite emoji
is an eight ball?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
And why is that good luck it means good luck
for me, Okay, because it means other things, other reasons
for me. But the good luck and good luck with
this new project driving tomorrow. You see what you did there?
Full circle? What time for money? Everybody spot on the
five point one
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