September 22, 2024 • 54 mins
D&A Live - Season 3, Episode 40 "RonKat". Hosted by Danny & Althea. Tonight's guest is RonKat, funk / rock / pop artist. D&A Live is aired live from Paradise Studios NY via the Strong Island Entertainment Network. www.strongisland.com
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
I'm Danny and I'm out theater and we all DNA live. Baby.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
What's up, ladies and gentlemen. It's great to be back.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yes, we're back and better than ever. Whatever. Anyway, we
are good to go today. So I'm gonna start with
a couple of shadows.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Okay, we're starting. First of all, I want to say
shout out to Miss J and the Misfits doing wonderful.
You gotta go check them out on IG because they
are performing everywhere. They're gonna be in New York City too,
so please check them out on IG. It's Miss J,
just the initial J and the Misfits, and go check
them out. Also to Howard and Gina, Okay, they're the
(00:54):
reasons why we have our guest here coming up soon.
I want to give big shout out to them because
they've been fabulous so far. Howard, he's sorry. Howie, he's
been great, and I think you know we're going to
be working well together. Also, a shout out to Chris Milo,
Asabella is doing phenomenon.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Right now all across the states.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Love Chris Milo. Remember just check him out. To Chris
Milo and I l O official on IG. You also
got to remember that we're here to help all independent
artists all the time, and we love all the feedback
that we've been getting. Even more recently, you know, because
(01:40):
we've made a few little changes here and there in
our brand and we've taken on new.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Ventures, new ventures, new stations. Definitely, we're going to be
putting up the app.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
On November, right, Yep, in November.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
In November, the.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
App is going to be up so people can watch
just live stream yep, anywhere, roll cool, Amazon everywhere with
the DNA brand. We have other places too that we
are being adventuring. Shout out to Germany, Shout out to Paris. Yeah,
and you ready know, shout out to Australia. Australia, Yo,
we show us love.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
But look, we got kangaroos in the audience. Okay, that
was quiet. I thought it was a funny joke.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Okay, I didn't understand it.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
O great anyway. So with that said, I'm gonna talk
a little bit about my next guest coming up. He's
a funk pop rock artist and he's in He's based
in California, and you're gonna learn more about him in
a couple of minutes. His name is ron Kat and
he's coming up. So after this commercial break, be prepared.
(02:50):
Sit there, get a beer, drink whatever you want, Sit
back and relax, baby, because this show is going to
be on fire exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
A big shout out to everybody to shoutut to our
sponsors as well.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh oh, I'm sorry about that. I am so sorry. Okay,
shout out to our sponsors, Never Global Distribution, Yan v As,
Natural Born Band, Baby, the Hype Magazine and Snapper and
sleep Woods. There you go. So again, We'll be right
back after commercial break with Roncat.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
So be cared, ladies, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And now we're inside of war with ourselves in America.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
We're gonna wake up from the with the real Americans
say where we at?
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Man?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
You blinded and you lie, You just send suicide your own.
Everyone pretenses love you for messing you wopping homes, laughing
without the way you can't even afford food, and everybody
looking at you acting.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Is so rude.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
They're thinking that they love you. Your skin, that's what
they see. They don't understand the meliton will to feed,
but the anchor that they got. They just play for
each other, a civil water trying to come for us
kill one another. But I woke up last night. I
gotta talk to my pants, tell them listen, we gotta march.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
And what do we get you laughing? You crying?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
You think where you feel in the skating and say
you went all the time. They just came and with
sting you inside the cars.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
They don't want to see you.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
They clean you, lock doors, breaking.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Your jaws over the line.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
They're like you what they want to trap you?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Put you inside where the locker spend no block, it's
all you want they hear for just the cops streaming likeness.
Now all the sud and were thinking prices and putting
that to there because crashing it now they didn't tell
the way how they even look. They shout to like
a soup come down, trying to play the want to
get every time, trying to get him for overshop tell
(05:10):
you God his dam and loves the shot, churning that
we're close with the phone next two week shuthers years.
But we have a social gest and say cahoony years
and try.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
To act like we ain't one inside our home.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
We acting like that we ain't wanted what.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
I said. We don't want to go.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
You can't say.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
You're telling people.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
And we're back.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And we're back. Gentlemen, we are back.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
We are back, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
We're back. You want to say it again? Okay? So
I want to introduce our next guest. He is a
funk pop rock superstar in my book, and he goes
by the name of Ronkat. So everybody, welcome, Ron, Welcome to.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Live.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
How are you good?
Speaker 9 (06:21):
How are you guys doing?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
He looks good? Doesn't he look good? Look how I look? Okay?
You know I'm gonna fun friend, you know what?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
But you know what he has?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
He has? Okay, because we were talking. I was talking
with Howie obviously, and I said, when I heard the
music and everything, he reminds me of a little bit
of Lenny Kravitz, a little bit of Jamal. I can't
pronounce his name correctly, Jared Qui. You remember him with
the big hat? Remember him? Yeah? You remember him?
Speaker 9 (06:55):
Though?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (06:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Why are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 9 (06:59):
For?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Because he has his own artists.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I am not saying that.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I can't throw any names. I understand what the landing Cravis,
We'll go.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
But I think honestly he had when I heard him,
he had his way different sound than most of them.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Dudes. I'm just saying, he's got the vibe, dude, and
I'm in love with you. You have no idea.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I'm in trouble.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Okay. He's in California, Dude, I can't walk that far.
So anyway, you know what, I was impressed, because obviously
I have. I told you I have two pages on you. Okay,
very rare, but there are a few things I wanted
to point out because I found it very interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Go ahead, let's hear it.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Okay. So when he was seven years old, his father
took him to a jazz club in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Okay,
so let me just shout out first to Marte ninety
seven point three the heat in Michigan. Okay. That's why
I was so impressed. I was like, we got our
boy in Michigan, and he took you there, and then
(08:01):
you started. He wanted you to play in a set
or something. Yeah, So tell us a little bit of
how about how about that night went?
Speaker 10 (08:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
The way the story goes is he he took me
to the club, and these these jazz musicians, like heavy
jazz musicians, one of them by the name of Grand
Green was on the stage and he wanted me to
sit in with him, and so they said, uh, they
were telling my father that, you know, hey, he's too young.
(08:29):
He can't you know, take your son home's past his bedtime.
And my father said, why don't y'all let him, you know,
give him a chance to play and you know, and
just give him a shot. So he finally talked him
into it. And so what he would do is he
would put me on stage and then they would hear
me play, and then he would snatch me off and
start walking out the door and they would be like, hey, hey,
(08:51):
what's going on. He let me sitting in for the
rest of the night.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Oh wow. So so now were you like a reoccurring
artist there, like.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
When they would come into town. This guy was like
a blue note jazz artist. And so when he would
come into town, I would just automatically, you know, they
would let me come up after that, you know that
little initiation part there.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Wow. Okay, So when that kind of like built your
I mean, what made you start playing the drums and stuff.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
It's just been music all around from like I would
hear it in the streets. I would hear R and
B in the streets, and there was a jazz musician
that lives right next door to my crib. I would
wake up and hear boom, and then my parents would
be I think they were programming, can you cuss on
here but here? All right? So they were programming me
(09:48):
to with just like Top forty music that was throughout
my crib, you know. And so I had all of
that programming, and then when I walk in the living room,
my father wo be playing music from every genre, so
like a library of just like music just always playing
all the time.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Okay, So which genre of music did you like gravitate
more too at that time?
Speaker 9 (10:14):
Well, it was mainly anything that was good, you know,
like I would be hearing the hits on the Top
forty stuff, and then the jazz was like fusion, so
that was like so like like avant garde, you know,
like you know, and then you get in the funk
in the streets, it's just you know, R and B,
(10:34):
like all of R and B. Motown was just like
right across the way. So I'm getting all of this
music and everything that was sounded really good, like four Tops, Temptations,
you know, Jackson five, you know, all of that stuff.
Just like it registers with me, and I just kind
of just started resonating with that. And then I was
(10:56):
writing songs like I would write lyrics, I would write melody,
and just like just be coming up with stuff, just
making up stuff and singing around the house. It just
it just would never leave me alone. Even today, it
doesn't leave me.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
You know how cool that is man to even know
the creativity, Like you've been around and you've seen the
Golden era. Really I'm a big temptated like Temptation and
Motown fan, right for you to be like, you know
what I'm saying across the way from that and like,
did you have any any experience with any Motiwn artists?
Speaker 9 (11:39):
Not not that I can remember, just more so that
you know, like everybody always played Motown music. It was
just like it's from Smoky. All the family played Smoky,
They played the Temptations and the Jackson Five and just
all of the Motown artists, and they were just like
(11:59):
I think maybe later on in my career I'd run
up across Smoky just had some some interaction with Smokey
and maybe the Jackson's, like some of the Jackson's like
Jermaine kind of main it's been to my house. It's
just it's been, like, really, when I write the book,
(12:21):
it's just been really a really great journey musically, just
to be able to sit with some of these people
and just like see their processes and then them appreciate mine,
you know as well. Some of the stuff I never thought.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I mean, I didn't know that some of it would occur,
you know, but the universe.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Man, when you're true to the spirit of music, you
always go with the current current.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Like you know, you never know, man, you never know
who's gonna come in your doorstep.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
Yeah, hey, let me ask you a question. Was that you?
That was you wrapping at the top right, Yes, that's
hot man.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
We're interviewing him. It's not the other way around.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Okay, listen, Oh look, I gotta give you. I gotta
give you your flowers too.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
But she plays you right, And I'm sitting there because
I'm DJ and I'm doing my little I stopped.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I look, I go, and she goes, that's the next week.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That's next week's Oh god, I said, oh.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Thank god, because I love different saying.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I love original music, man, I love you could see
when an artist actually takes his craft serious and you
can see the influences in music that that got him
there through his music. A lot of times you might
see these artists come up like the TikTok artists. Sometimes
they got an interview.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
No, just to any of them.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
But it's just it's just it's a lot different when
a musician really comes up here.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, and he's done it all, you know. So he's
done it off.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Bro, he's me and him and talking about more time.
Right now, he's talking about the Jackson's, a couple of
Jackson's coming to his house.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I want to hear some more. Man, I'm gonna be
quiet right now. Sit back and let no.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I'm just saying no because there's another little tidbit for
you here. Okay. So he's obviously he's a songwriter and
multi platinum artist, producer, composer, Grammy and b and My
Award recipient. Okay, now, none only that I read about
he wrote for Lenny Kravitz, Jade, Tony Braxton, Eldbars, George Clinton,
Prince Kanye West, Bootsy Collins, shak g Rick James. I
(14:28):
was like, what Ericad, Martika, Scarface, the Mary Jane Girls
in my house? You know, I grew up with the
Mary Jane Girls. Darius Darius McCrary is is that that's
not Hoody, right, that's the that's the wrong Darius right.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
No, No, it's that's the actor, Darius McCrary, that act.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Okay, Yeah, because I saw I heard I saw Darius,
and I thought of Hoody right right, and then you
got I mean you have all these other people, but
I'm saying to myself Lenny Gravitz, Jae Jade, Hello, Tony Braxton, Hello,
El DeBarge Hello, I mean, you have such an arsenal
(15:11):
of people that you have wrote for, and it's just
like what songs in particular with Jade, are you talking?
Don't walk Yeah? So are you kitting me?
Speaker 9 (15:23):
She just song?
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Are you kidding Me?
Speaker 9 (15:27):
We did the movie for the Remember the Movie Classic
with kidd and Play Yeah. I scored some of the
music in that movie along with my writing partner Vasa and.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
The first single we had off of that was a
song called I Want to Love You, and then after
that then Don't walk Away came.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
And No walk Away. Yeah, that was probably one of
my favorite songs from Jade, Don't walk Away. Don't remember
that song Don't walk.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
My god, I have a superstar in the building. Okay. Anyway,
so in other words, okay, you know what, I'm curious though, Okay,
you let's say you write a song. Okay, so how
do you go about like saying, Okay, this song has
to be sung by this artist. How do you have
(16:23):
even work? I don't really, I would like to know.
Speaker 9 (16:28):
A lot of times, you know, it's like being a
tailor sometimes, you know, like the record companies will bring
us in something that needs to be tailor fit, and
they might want a certain kind of certain kind of music,
a certain kind of melody, or they might have heard
of something that we did before, or it might be
a first time thing where they're giving us a shot,
(16:50):
like first starting off, and they might put us with
a certain artist because at the time when we did Jade,
they were unknown. We discovered them and so we got
the opportunity for the Class Act movie and we were
cutting demos on them at first, and then the song
(17:10):
landed in the movie and then it just kind of
spiraled after that. A lot of times they'll have specific things,
like record companies have specific things that they want for
an artist, or they might just let you just do
your thing like if you got hits already, they'll they'll
allow you to just kind of do your thing.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
And I just missed two more people on the list.
I just I just realized I missed two more people,
Prince and finally West. Yeah I'm done. Yeah, I can't.
I can't.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
My friend Martika is a really good friend of mine.
She was the one who introduced me to Lenny Kravitz,
and she me and her, we were we were really good.
Right when we get together and write, we we just
it's just it's just just pops off natural. And so
she was doing she she had. Did you know Prince
(18:08):
produced some of her I think it was the first album,
And so we were always kind of interacting with Prince,
you know. She I did a remix on one of
his songs for her, and that's how we kind of
got familiar. And then I continue to actually personally meet him.
George Clinton took me to meet Prince for my birthday.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Oh you know what, don't even talk anymore because I
am too jealous. He is just keep going, okay, keep going,
sorry because her I want to hear more.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
This is great, I know, go ahead, go Ahea, I'm sorry, he.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
I told him that, you know, I was a big
fan of Prince and I was always doing something. Prince
would send me artists to produce and different stuff over
the years, but we never really got a chance to meet.
And then one day they surprised me with they were
taking me to Sea Prints and meet him at a show.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
And so.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
Me and George we we I forget. We were in
Ohio or something and he was playing at some arena
there or something, and we drove ourselves there and then
we got out and you know, like normally, like with celebs,
you think like, why are they putting up in a limo,
But the psychology of it was like, well, you're expecting
(19:34):
them to get out in the limo, right, And so
we did the opposite but clean. You know. I had
on this big giant blue fur coat and George had
on his you know, monic colored hair, and we're walking
up along the arena and it's glass and the fans
are looking and they're going like that, ain't George, They
(19:55):
wouldn't be walking up and they're just looking, and so
it kind of gave us a pass. So we walked
all the way around to the entry where the busses
were and they knew who George were right away, the
security and everything. And then we walked down the hall
and knocked on the door and it.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Was quiet, Princeton.
Speaker 9 (20:17):
I mean nothing. You don't hear nobody passing out, no
cards and nothing back there. The band is quiet, and
George is going like, damn, man, it's like the doctor's
office back here. Why so quiet, man? So we knock
on the door and we was kind of a little
(20:38):
lit and Prince opened the door and I saw about
twenty five princes in front of my face, going like this,
and it was like the most beautiful person ye had
on the high boots. But he was he was a
stone player. He was you know, he's he was cool.
(20:59):
So we we we we walk in and his voice
is really deep. He's like, yo, feeling all right, and
I'm fanning out, like on the inside, but I'm trying
to be cool, you know, on the inside I'm going.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
I would be too, but I'm.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
Like, yo, what's up. Let's go down, you know. So
we sit down and we talked a little bit and
he was he was just so cool. Yeah, And then
we walked along the side of the stage and this
guy came up to me. He said, you must really
(21:40):
be somebody. And I was like, I'm looking around. I'm like,
that's what my mama told me.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I love his I love his remarks.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
Go ahead, he said, he said, he said, because he
don't let nobody nobody, ain't nobody just coming back here
and I'm with George, you know, and you know, I'm like,
you know, but he didn't know who I was, and
I didn't know who he was. So but but Prince
had like the tightest security at this place that like
(22:13):
there was nothing popping off. I mean, you know, he
had you know, I like all around, like throughout the
whole thing. You know, because in some of them states,
you know, you dress and androgynists and stuff, you might
some might pop off, you know, so you got to
come out.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
You know, I'm living that moment with you, because you
know what I think, Prince, he knows Prince was my idol.
And I wish I you know, I would have had
ever the chance to meet him. I mean I I
was probably in mourning for how long after his passing. Yeah,
(22:48):
you know I always wish that I you know, I
grew up with him. I mean there are thousands and
millions of people out there that grew up.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
With him but devastates.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, just just to know that you had that moment
with him too. Yeah, that's you know, that is fabulous
to have that type of moment with somebody that you
know you really idolized, you know. Yeah. Yeah that got
me when you know why, because I missed it on
my my little note page here and I'm sending there
going he did Prince too, Oh my god, he had Prince,
(23:16):
he had Prince. He wrote for Prince. So what exactly
did you write for him?
Speaker 9 (23:22):
I just basically did like some remixes on some of
his on some of his music with Martika. That's basically
anything in particular Martika's kitchen. I flipped it, you know,
but it had already been out, but I just kind
of flipped it. And that was pretty much.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Prince could have flipped me anytime. I don't care. I'm
talking way before.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
Let me tell you this, let me tell you this,
talking before you So he he actually sang my song
back to me. Yeah. I told him, you know, I
was telling him who I was, and I said, you know,
I wrote that song Don't walk Away, And he said,
he said, you mean to do the Doom to Do
(24:11):
the Doom Bang. He said, yeah, man, I know that
song song. You know, we just kind of, you know,
we was kind of hit We kind of hit it off.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
You know, it's cool, you know, Prince. It was that
type of individual. That's why Prince was who he was.
That's why he was so different. That's why everybody, you know,
gravitated to him because he wasn't that normal, mainstream type
of artist. You know, he was totally his own. That's
why I like about him. He's his own artist, you
(24:40):
know what I'm saying. That's right, That's what I like
about him. But I want to get to the one
of his videos.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Okay, now I want to go to No Driver. But
I'll tell you why. Good because in my life seat
I have you know how you have these songs that
you love.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
So I was thinking about No Driver and I was like,
that is funny because two of my favorite old time
songs is drive by the Cars, right, and then later
on it became shut Up and Drive by Rihanna. Now
years later, I'm now I'm stuck on No Driver. Oh okay,
(25:20):
So everybody can sit back and enjoy No Driver by
Ron kat let's go. Please make sure your seatbelt is fastened.
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Speaker 9 (25:51):
I'm selling.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
A yo.
Speaker 11 (25:58):
This could be no letma hall San Francisco, Hard on
San Francisco.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Holler on San Francisco.
Speaker 11 (26:11):
Holl in San Francisco, Holler on San Francisco.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Look gain to your reue.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
Look what's up up that.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
To call way.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
Down the drive up, drive you to your bed.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
Jina, no timea m tima, no time on time, no
time out, got.
Speaker 11 (26:53):
No destination, You got no place in mine? Every all around,
stop go every like your body.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
I try so hard to meet you, but.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
You telling me that can.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
I try to get inside your.
Speaker 11 (27:16):
Car, but if there's nobody in that.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Driving, there's no trying.
Speaker 8 (27:27):
Driving.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
There's no time up give there's no time.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
Now then stop.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
So far from here.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
Till that try fail. But it's time to get out
of here.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I t up, brolly shot stop us now you fund juble,
help you find your soul shot No side.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
Shide those side, no tide.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Well that's all I know.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
It did give me a prince vibe, I told you,
and it did give me a I did the video
the vision, I know what I'm talking about, and Kras
kind of there you go.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I can't lie, I can't.
Speaker 9 (29:22):
Like when I saw it, I'm like, it's like like
when we lost him. It's just like I felt like,
oh no, I just I like to show my respect
in some kind of way, like just for in remembrance
of him, just pieces of little things that impluence that
(29:43):
he influenced me and just you know, doing it my
own way, but yet still just pay you my respects.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You know, you know what you know, because like you're
a guitarist, right, And that's not only what I loved
about Prince, not just you know, the music and stuff
like that, but when he when he performed, he performed,
you know, And the one thing that always will get
me is when he did the halftime show at the
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super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I was about to get on that.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah you know, you know, I'm trying to say. It's
like there have been like it's like the Whitney Houston
doing the Star Spangled banner. There was no replacement. And
I felt the same way because I know they say, oh,
Michael Jackson did a great job too, but he's not Prince.
Michael Jackson and Prince totally absolutely individuals.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
You can't compare them them.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
That's what I'm trying, you know, That's what I was
trying to say, because Prince was a phenomenal artist, magician,
you know, because he was able to mesmerize his audience,
and you know, I can go through it. And that's why,
and that's why I see when see I know how
(30:59):
to pick artists. Thank you. You definitely do because you
know because like a lot of times they say about
the show and everything that we have artists and whatever whatnot,
and I'm always looking for them, and I tell them,
I said, just don't think, you know, we're gonna put
any artists on. They have to move us, Okay. They
have to be people who are true to their art
and you know they work for that living.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
So when I heard you and I said to him,
he reminds me a little bit of Prince. He reminds
me a little bit of Light Krabits. And it's not
just the hair, it's the whole, it's everything. You know,
He's got the whole package. Again, you get can you
dance too? Yeah, let's see people trifecta Higgins. We got
two trifactors in our arsenal. We got mister dance, guitar, music, songwriter.
(31:48):
He's got everything. See, you're even speechless, you can't say anything.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
Well.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I want to ask him though about the James Brown.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
And Okay what oh Kanye West?
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Oh what did you do for Kanye?
Speaker 9 (32:05):
Okay? So my friend, longtime friend of mine, is Kanye's
first cousin. Okay, and Kanye gave him the opportunity to
write this. It's like it was a hip hop haunted movie,
(32:28):
the music for the movie and it never it never materialized.
And he had us write like about twenty five songs.
Oh wow, and then for whatever reason he scrapped.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
The whole the whole project whatever.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
So, but we wrote those songs. He had us in
the studio every day. The man is. The man is
as a workaholic, you know, like you know, like anybody
doing this stuff. And he really he has a really
good work ethic, and he knows how to pick the beats,
he knows, he knows exactly what he wants.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
And he's just.
Speaker 9 (33:13):
He's really a genius, right of a you know.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Artist, right, But who did you what did you write
for Lenny Kravitz?
Speaker 9 (33:23):
I have a song that me and Lenny did. And
I actually wrote the song and he's playing on it,
and I'm probably going to release that at some point.
What what I don't think Lenny remembers he came to
my house and we cut it, but in your house,
(33:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, and say yo, we many times, like Lenny,
I introduced Wait, hold.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
On, whoa whoa, whoa whoa? You just said many times?
Speaker 9 (33:58):
Oh yeah, not in the last few years or so,
but like like you know, a while back, and he
I introduced him to Rick James at the house.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I just dropped my notes. I just dropped my notes.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
My thing. Now I want to know what's up with James?
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Now, you want to know what I want to Still
go back with Lenny? All right, okay, so wait with
Lenny though you wrote with Okay, so you wrote particularly
so you haven't even released that song yet.
Speaker 9 (34:33):
I haven't released the song.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
You haven't released the song.
Speaker 9 (34:37):
I haven't released the song for years. But I'm going
to release it. I just I've been just like tweaking
it and messing around with it, and I let it
sit and not you know.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Can you give us can you just give us the
name of the song?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
No, he can't give us the name of the song.
He doesn't have to. No, you don't have to give
us the name. Okay, give us the name.
Speaker 9 (34:58):
I don't think I even named ditch I got I
have the song though.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Okay, we'll keep the song. Yeah, and a lot of
the exclusive exactly.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
Definitely, definitely I'll do that.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Oh yeah, have to say and and and Lenny's phone number.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
So moving on, I want to know about the James.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Okay, so he wants to also know about Rick James.
Go ahead, let's see.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
I met Rick through one of the Mary Jane Girls,
which is my first son's mom, Maxie, and so she
introduced She introduced me to Rick, and me and him
(35:49):
became like instant instant friends. I met Rick and George
at the same time. Oh wow, And I really didn't
know that, you know that there was like this little
thing between but but they're both both just so amazing
(36:10):
just to be around. And but I met Rick and
he heard some of my music and I had wrote
a song for him, and he was like, Ron, you
need to keep that for you. And but then he
said he heard and he heard some more of my stuff,
(36:32):
and then he was like, I want I want that
song and it was funk with me. It was just
like right after he got out of prison.
Speaker 10 (36:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Holy, yeah, I can't even say the word holy.
Speaker 9 (36:49):
The song, the song is hot. I wish he would
have got like some more play, but like I think
it could still be a smash. But it's glad I got.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Your phone number.
Speaker 11 (37:01):
Ron.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Let me tell you, I'm glad I got your phone number.
I can the stories that this guy can give me.
And I'm not talking about like you know, bragging about her,
and I'm just talking the juice that I can get
with this guy. And I can live through everything that
you've done so far. You know, I'm trying to say,
(37:22):
it's fun, it's exciting, and it's you know, just to
have that that you don't know how valuable that is
for you. You know, you don't trying to say that.
Speaker 9 (37:31):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
But that's what I'm talking, you know, That's what I'm saying.
All that I mean, I just looked and I just
saw another one too, Eric Abado. Yeah, you know, Ron,
I'm really starting to hate you right now. I'm like looking, going,
I grew up with these people, Okay, you have no
right to them Before I do. I'm gonna give you
(37:56):
some catitude right now? You have no ideatitude?
Speaker 8 (37:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (38:00):
Drop yeah? Drops on the uh does the drop the
twenty seventh seventh?
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Right?
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Yeah, I'm definitely gonna keep spitting that. Yeah, I'm gonna
definitely keep you know.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
But I mean, okay, so here please no, I'm sorry,
go ahead, no, you go no, because I would saying
you play guitar, you play babies, right, keyboard, percussion, drums, harmonica. Okay,
let me know, mister Ron, is there anything you do
not do?
Speaker 9 (38:32):
I try to keep it all legal.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Okay, there we go. That's my boy. That's my boy.
That's my boy. You have no idea, you know, it's
just like I think it's every artists not dream. I
think it's very special. I'm trying to think of the
very good words I can use because you are so
(38:56):
gifted and to have the chance to be with others
in the industry to learn from and to teach. He's
doing both m s. He's doing both.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Music speaks for itself. That's all I gotta say. Your
music is thank you.
Speaker 9 (39:16):
It truly is a blessing. Thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Having listen, I can classic. If I could, I would
bow down right now. But I got to bag back.
But I would say to you, I feel like he's
my god. He's my music god.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Whoa you have never heard it?
Speaker 1 (39:34):
I would say that it Okay, you know why I
say that? Okay, I'll tell you why. I'm an old soul. Okay.
But the thing is is that how very much I
mean we got only like there are a few artists
that I will miss Jay and Chris Milo okay though
and Kay Rhymes. These guys for me are all different, right,
(39:56):
But these are guys that I praise. These are people
that I love to work with because is they just
when somebody moves me, they move me and he moves me.
He moves me, not to Lenny Kravitz, but he moves me.
He'll move me if he gives me the phone number
for Lenny Kravits. But you don't look at me like that.
(40:19):
I won't leave you. Lenny calls me, I can't.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
She went viral right there, He's giving your number.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Oh Jesus, but listen, but.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Is there any more goals that you want to do
in music? Do you feel like you reached the not
saying that you reached his music?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
You never you don't think he's even reached his peaker.
He I think he's he's like almost to the top.
Speaker 9 (40:53):
No.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
No, My question to him is do you feel like
a lot of the stuff that you're doing in your
journey is already like when you when you go back
and you look at everything that you did in your journey,
all the people that you met inside your journey. Right
this is just as as an artist, do you just
go back and reminisce all the time when you were
like younger and thinking about man like I just can't
(41:14):
believe this is my journey right now you look at
certain awards and you're just like, WHOA, Yeah, I made
an impact in music.
Speaker 9 (41:22):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's truly. It was a blind faith
to even because some of this stuff I just I
don't know. I just I believed in myself. I think
I believed in myself when I was younger than I
than I did now because I just didn't care. I
was just like I'm going for this, you know, because
I had a lot of people tell me when I
(41:44):
got to California, they was like, man, you need to
go back home, bro. And they ended up going back
home and I ended up staying and just you know,
doing my and just meeting the right people, and you know,
it was it was it was a struggle, it was
a it was a battle. I still feel like I
still there's still a lot more to do and I
(42:06):
have a lot more to say. Music doesn't leave me.
It doesn't like like phrases and things. I want to
try to help the world with music, if it's just
a phrase or you know, I just want to make
my contribution and make art with music. I'd like to
do more visual art with music, like three D kind
(42:27):
of things where you know, walking to a place and
you know, feel the music and you know, yeah, well
you can.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
You can. You can contribute to the Alphaea and make
a wish foundation. Yeah, and get me get me a
Hello for Blenny. That's that's that's my dream. I'll do that,
you know, that's my dream. So speaking of love because
I love him. I love this guy. So I want
(42:54):
to get to his next music video and it's uh,
it's actually I think it would have been a dedicateation
from Lenny to me had he done the song himself.
But it's called love Me for Today, and I want
to play that video right now because it's one of
my favorite songs.
Speaker 9 (43:12):
Yeah, we charted with that.
Speaker 7 (43:14):
I love this song Ahead dude, sick.
Speaker 12 (43:42):
Crown a less Shu means love nests try to let
go suckle. I can see my sap.
Speaker 6 (43:58):
Strees.
Speaker 12 (44:00):
You'll love me, Save me for it, for me Chase Way.
Speaker 6 (44:12):
Stopping fun Today song Allay.
Speaker 8 (44:18):
Stop love me.
Speaker 6 (44:23):
Fun today, Small me Today.
Speaker 13 (44:30):
Spend something, spending something, spend it something a spread it, suthing,
spend it sunthing ajorge.
Speaker 12 (44:52):
The way snuffing away. Please say listen to me. Scared
place Sun of my song but stands until dark. Let's
spot till stars and get disperd tonight. You stay with
(45:19):
me for the change welling up. Love me foots day Sun.
Speaker 6 (45:35):
Love make thoughts day Sun.
Speaker 13 (45:43):
That sun, spends something, spats something, spot.
Speaker 10 (45:51):
Something that fun stand it signing, Love me hot today, little.
Speaker 6 (46:26):
Love me hot Today.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Sounds today. Okay, I'm let me just fan myself just
one more time. Okay, love me for today. You know
what he reminds me also, okay, not the singing. I
don't know it's that. I think it's the aura, Okay,
(47:02):
because I also used to love Terrence Trent Darby, and
he has that little bit of a vibe of him too.
I mean he's Okay, I'm not saying he's them. I'm
not saying that. All I'm saying is he brings me
back into a time where the music you felt, you
(47:26):
felt he penetrates you. You understand the music, the vibe,
the singing, the lyrics, everything he's penetrating, just like Prince,
just like Lenny Kravitz, just like these other people that
you know. I'm trying to say, it's just like he
has that same vibe. That's what I love about the
people that we've had on the show is because when
you have a special talent like that, and we're gonna
(47:49):
have always people like him that come on the show
because we don't expect less and he's more. And you
got to top this guy, you know what I'm trying
to It's like you gotta tie. Nobody can top this guy.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
My thing is with him, he's just he's original, so
you can't.
Speaker 8 (48:10):
Like.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
The thing is you got people nowadays, right, they're going
they'll go on the computer and go and then boom,
make a guitar thing. These dudes are making the guitar
sound and making the guitar speak to you, right, So
like when I'm hearing the records, and I'm hearing what
he's doing. You can hear the difference between somebody that
just goes on the computer and uses the virtual to
feeling that soul of basically real instruments being played, real
(48:33):
musicians coming in.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
So that song you said it was charted too as well,
right man?
Speaker 9 (48:38):
Yeah, it charted like number seventeen on the Adult Contemporary
and then Love Safe. Did think it went to twenty
or two?
Speaker 1 (48:50):
I think yeah, I think it was. Yeah, I Love Safe,
So yeah, I did my research. That's I look you right,
you know what I did. My research were.
Speaker 2 (48:58):
Both twenty two. Brother, I'm both twenty two. I got
on the bills with the sale inside the Spanish market
twenty two. So we've got twenty two. Boy, we've all
got twenty two.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
And I was and I was twenty two when I
fell in love with Lenny Kravitz.
Speaker 9 (49:15):
Oh I love this.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
I'm just you know, I'm just you know what he was.
You know, during the show, when we're playing a music
video or something, you know, I'll we do these little
notes to each other because I'll say to him, you
know what I think about it, and he'll write it
back to me. So all I was doing, was saying,
you know about the video and everything, and he's like,
stop getting a crazy over there, stop getting you know
(49:42):
hot over there. I'm like, baby, I am hot. You
don't know these no, driver, Like I told you my
three favorites, and I'm not lying because cars with the song,
you know who's going to drive? You love that song?
You know, and Rihanna should.
Speaker 14 (50:03):
The word drive. So I thought it was funny. Then
you know that he had my first thing too. And
I want to say to him real quick, Okay, you're dope.
You can you can definitely be in any era and
still kill it.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
But that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (50:18):
Like, your music is time capsule.
Speaker 1 (50:20):
Yes, thank you. So put your music and Lenny Kravitz
in a capsule. Bring it to my house and I'll
keep it there.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
You can go to Lenny. Can you give it Lenny's
address so she can get away from me?
Speaker 1 (50:33):
No, he does not need a stalker from New York.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
No, she possed up you see the big huge.
Speaker 9 (50:41):
Like what you do?
Speaker 1 (50:43):
Why did you say that?
Speaker 2 (50:45):
But let's stop.
Speaker 3 (50:46):
But on a serious note, your music is iconic. I
love the way it sounds and it's timeless.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
Yeah, thank you I could.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
I could play that all day, all the time, and
I wouldn't even get bored of it.
Speaker 1 (51:00):
And that's what makes the song so good, because I
will say, Okay, cute little story. What happened was one
of his friends needed a lyric a verse in one
of your songs, right, and he remember he asked me,
he goes, what would you put in that about this song?
(51:22):
What do you think about the song? And I said,
I would say the same thing about that song, I'll
never get sick of it. And what did he do?
He put that verse in Danny's song, You'll never get
sick of it. That's the song, that's that's the type
of song. I'll never get to.
Speaker 7 (51:37):
Play it all the time.
Speaker 3 (51:39):
It's a concept that's dope, and it's the feeling that's dope.
That's what's missing in the music nowadays. Then nobody has
that feeling, and nobody, like a lot of artists don't
know how to get that feeling. Yeah, like their music
you can listen to and you'll be like, whoa, You're.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
Gonna stay in that zone. Yeah, you're not gonna come
out of it.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
So I think, I you know, I'm I'm very I'm
so thankful you came on our show. Shout out to
your you know, to the band. How you say.
Speaker 9 (52:09):
It's just catlic cat delict, Yeah, okay, because they all
got cats.
Speaker 1 (52:20):
Yeah, I'm just telling you. I mean they do fabulous
work with them too, because you you always got to
have that. You know, when you have a great team
that you do, you know, everything just is more enhanced,
you know, with the music and everything. So you know,
shout out and uh cat there you go out to
Lenny my boy. Go ahead, all right, yeah, okay, no
(52:47):
no problem, we shout out Lenny Kravitz. Love you guys.
American woman right here right, I'm not a nightmare. Okay.
So again, thank you so much for coming on the show.
Speaker 9 (53:02):
Ron Thank you for have appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (53:05):
And don't forget that exclusive. Yeah, but let everybody know
where they can find you on.
Speaker 9 (53:11):
Also, you go to Roncatspearman dot com and you can
get all my links and the CATA to record again
drops on nine seven, and we're going to be a yo.
She's for Halloween. So if anybody's in the Oakland area,
oh wow there and uh party.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
Going to be there, he might Okay, cool, I'm going
to Oakland go ahead anywhere.
Speaker 9 (53:36):
Else and that's that's pretty much it. Thank you for
having me.
Speaker 1 (53:44):
And just remember ron Kat, that's r O N K
A T Yeah, Spearman s P E A R n
A N don't forget that. People check out his songs
No Driver, Love You for Today. That was sung to
me by Lenny Kravitz. I'm not kidding, and we enjoyed
you all. Thank you Howie, thank you Gina, thank you Barry,
(54:05):
and we appreciate you so much. Ronkat, So you take
it easy. Having you here was a pleasure. Anything that
you want to say before we say peace out, everybody,
just keep that there. You go, keep the CATA two
baby you next week, everybody. This is DNA signing off.
Speaker 2 (54:22):
See you guys. Cat's us lated man
I'm Danny and I'm out theater and we all DNA live. Baby.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
What's up, ladies and gentlemen. It's great to be back.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yes, we're back and better than ever. Whatever. Anyway, we
are good to go today. So I'm gonna start with
a couple of shadows.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Okay, we're starting. First of all, I want to say
shout out to Miss J and the Misfits doing wonderful.
You gotta go check them out on IG because they
are performing everywhere. They're gonna be in New York City too,
so please check them out on IG. It's Miss J,
just the initial J and the Misfits, and go check
them out. Also to Howard and Gina, Okay, they're the
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reasons why we have our guest here coming up soon.
I want to give big shout out to them because
they've been fabulous so far. Howard, he's sorry. Howie, he's
been great, and I think you know we're going to
be working well together. Also, a shout out to Chris Milo,
Asabella is doing phenomenon.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Right now all across the states.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Love Chris Milo. Remember just check him out. To Chris
Milo and I l O official on IG. You also
got to remember that we're here to help all independent
artists all the time, and we love all the feedback
that we've been getting. Even more recently, you know, because
(01:40):
we've made a few little changes here and there in
our brand and we've taken on new.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Ventures, new ventures, new stations. Definitely, we're going to be
putting up the app.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
On November, right, Yep, in November.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
In November, the.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
App is going to be up so people can watch
just live stream yep, anywhere, roll cool, Amazon everywhere with
the DNA brand. We have other places too that we
are being adventuring. Shout out to Germany, Shout out to Paris. Yeah,
and you ready know, shout out to Australia. Australia, Yo,
we show us love.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
But look, we got kangaroos in the audience. Okay, that
was quiet. I thought it was a funny joke.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Okay, I didn't understand it.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
O great anyway. So with that said, I'm gonna talk
a little bit about my next guest coming up. He's
a funk pop rock artist and he's in He's based
in California, and you're gonna learn more about him in
a couple of minutes. His name is ron Kat and
he's coming up. So after this commercial break, be prepared.
(02:50):
Sit there, get a beer, drink whatever you want, Sit
back and relax, baby, because this show is going to
be on fire exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
A big shout out to everybody to shoutut to our
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Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh oh, I'm sorry about that. I am so sorry. Okay,
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Speaker 4 (03:20):
So be cared, ladies, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And now we're inside of war with ourselves in America.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
We're gonna wake up from the with the real Americans
say where we at?
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Man?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
You blinded and you lie, You just send suicide your own.
Everyone pretenses love you for messing you wopping homes, laughing
without the way you can't even afford food, and everybody
looking at you acting.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Is so rude.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
They're thinking that they love you. Your skin, that's what
they see. They don't understand the meliton will to feed,
but the anchor that they got. They just play for
each other, a civil water trying to come for us
kill one another. But I woke up last night. I
gotta talk to my pants, tell them listen, we gotta march.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
And what do we get you laughing? You crying?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
You think where you feel in the skating and say
you went all the time. They just came and with
sting you inside the cars.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
They don't want to see you.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
They clean you, lock doors, breaking.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Your jaws over the line.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
They're like you what they want to trap you?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Put you inside where the locker spend no block, it's
all you want they hear for just the cops streaming likeness.
Now all the sud and were thinking prices and putting
that to there because crashing it now they didn't tell
the way how they even look. They shout to like
a soup come down, trying to play the want to
get every time, trying to get him for overshop tell
(05:10):
you God his dam and loves the shot, churning that
we're close with the phone next two week shuthers years.
But we have a social gest and say cahoony years
and try.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
To act like we ain't one inside our home.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
We acting like that we ain't wanted what.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
I said. We don't want to go.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
You can't say.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
You're telling people.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
And we're back.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And we're back. Gentlemen, we are back.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
We are back, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
We're back. You want to say it again? Okay? So
I want to introduce our next guest. He is a
funk pop rock superstar in my book, and he goes
by the name of Ronkat. So everybody, welcome, Ron, Welcome to.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Live.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
How are you good?
Speaker 9 (06:21):
How are you guys doing?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
He looks good? Doesn't he look good? Look how I look? Okay?
You know I'm gonna fun friend, you know what?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
But you know what he has?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
He has? Okay, because we were talking. I was talking
with Howie obviously, and I said, when I heard the
music and everything, he reminds me of a little bit
of Lenny Kravitz, a little bit of Jamal. I can't
pronounce his name correctly, Jared Qui. You remember him with
the big hat? Remember him? Yeah? You remember him?
Speaker 9 (06:55):
Though?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (06:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Why are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 9 (06:59):
For?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Because he has his own artists.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I am not saying that.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I can't throw any names. I understand what the landing Cravis,
We'll go.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
But I think honestly he had when I heard him,
he had his way different sound than most of them.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Dudes. I'm just saying, he's got the vibe, dude, and
I'm in love with you. You have no idea.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I'm in trouble.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Okay. He's in California, Dude, I can't walk that far.
So anyway, you know what, I was impressed, because obviously
I have. I told you I have two pages on you. Okay,
very rare, but there are a few things I wanted
to point out because I found it very interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Go ahead, let's hear it.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Okay. So when he was seven years old, his father
took him to a jazz club in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Okay,
so let me just shout out first to Marte ninety
seven point three the heat in Michigan. Okay. That's why
I was so impressed. I was like, we got our
boy in Michigan, and he took you there, and then
(08:01):
you started. He wanted you to play in a set
or something. Yeah, So tell us a little bit of
how about how about that night went?
Speaker 10 (08:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
The way the story goes is he he took me
to the club, and these these jazz musicians, like heavy
jazz musicians, one of them by the name of Grand
Green was on the stage and he wanted me to
sit in with him, and so they said, uh, they
were telling my father that, you know, hey, he's too young.
(08:29):
He can't you know, take your son home's past his bedtime.
And my father said, why don't y'all let him, you know,
give him a chance to play and you know, and
just give him a shot. So he finally talked him
into it. And so what he would do is he
would put me on stage and then they would hear
me play, and then he would snatch me off and
start walking out the door and they would be like, hey, hey,
(08:51):
what's going on. He let me sitting in for the
rest of the night.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Oh wow. So so now were you like a reoccurring
artist there, like.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
When they would come into town. This guy was like
a blue note jazz artist. And so when he would
come into town, I would just automatically, you know, they
would let me come up after that, you know that
little initiation part there.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Wow. Okay, So when that kind of like built your
I mean, what made you start playing the drums and stuff.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
It's just been music all around from like I would
hear it in the streets. I would hear R and
B in the streets, and there was a jazz musician
that lives right next door to my crib. I would
wake up and hear boom, and then my parents would
be I think they were programming, can you cuss on
here but here? All right? So they were programming me
(09:48):
to with just like Top forty music that was throughout
my crib, you know. And so I had all of
that programming, and then when I walk in the living room,
my father wo be playing music from every genre, so
like a library of just like music just always playing
all the time.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Okay, So which genre of music did you like gravitate
more too at that time?
Speaker 9 (10:14):
Well, it was mainly anything that was good, you know,
like I would be hearing the hits on the Top
forty stuff, and then the jazz was like fusion, so
that was like so like like avant garde, you know,
like you know, and then you get in the funk
in the streets, it's just you know, R and B,
(10:34):
like all of R and B. Motown was just like
right across the way. So I'm getting all of this
music and everything that was sounded really good, like four Tops, Temptations,
you know, Jackson five, you know, all of that stuff.
Just like it registers with me, and I just kind
of just started resonating with that. And then I was
(10:56):
writing songs like I would write lyrics, I would write melody,
and just like just be coming up with stuff, just
making up stuff and singing around the house. It just
it just would never leave me alone. Even today, it
doesn't leave me.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
You know how cool that is man to even know
the creativity, Like you've been around and you've seen the
Golden era. Really I'm a big temptated like Temptation and
Motown fan, right for you to be like, you know
what I'm saying across the way from that and like,
did you have any any experience with any Motiwn artists?
Speaker 9 (11:39):
Not not that I can remember, just more so that
you know, like everybody always played Motown music. It was
just like it's from Smoky. All the family played Smoky,
They played the Temptations and the Jackson Five and just
all of the Motown artists, and they were just like
(11:59):
I think maybe later on in my career I'd run
up across Smoky just had some some interaction with Smokey
and maybe the Jackson's, like some of the Jackson's like
Jermaine kind of main it's been to my house. It's
just it's been, like, really, when I write the book,
(12:21):
it's just been really a really great journey musically, just
to be able to sit with some of these people
and just like see their processes and then them appreciate mine,
you know as well. Some of the stuff I never thought.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I mean, I didn't know that some of it would occur,
you know, but the universe.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Man, when you're true to the spirit of music, you
always go with the current current.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Like you know, you never know, man, you never know
who's gonna come in your doorstep.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
Yeah, hey, let me ask you a question. Was that you?
That was you wrapping at the top right, Yes, that's
hot man.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
We're interviewing him. It's not the other way around.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Okay, listen, Oh look, I gotta give you. I gotta
give you your flowers too.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
But she plays you right, And I'm sitting there because
I'm DJ and I'm doing my little I stopped.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I look, I go, and she goes, that's the next week.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That's next week's Oh god, I said, oh.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Thank god, because I love different saying.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I love original music, man, I love you could see
when an artist actually takes his craft serious and you
can see the influences in music that that got him
there through his music. A lot of times you might
see these artists come up like the TikTok artists. Sometimes
they got an interview.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
No, just to any of them.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
But it's just it's just it's a lot different when
a musician really comes up here.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, and he's done it all, you know. So he's
done it off.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Bro, he's me and him and talking about more time.
Right now, he's talking about the Jackson's, a couple of
Jackson's coming to his house.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I want to hear some more. Man, I'm gonna be
quiet right now. Sit back and let no.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I'm just saying no because there's another little tidbit for
you here. Okay. So he's obviously he's a songwriter and
multi platinum artist, producer, composer, Grammy and b and My
Award recipient. Okay, now, none only that I read about
he wrote for Lenny Kravitz, Jade, Tony Braxton, Eldbars, George Clinton,
Prince Kanye West, Bootsy Collins, shak g Rick James. I
(14:28):
was like, what Ericad, Martika, Scarface, the Mary Jane Girls
in my house? You know, I grew up with the
Mary Jane Girls. Darius Darius McCrary is is that that's
not Hoody, right, that's the that's the wrong Darius right.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
No, No, it's that's the actor, Darius McCrary, that act.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Okay, Yeah, because I saw I heard I saw Darius,
and I thought of Hoody right right, and then you
got I mean you have all these other people, but
I'm saying to myself Lenny Gravitz, Jae Jade, Hello, Tony Braxton, Hello,
El DeBarge Hello, I mean, you have such an arsenal
(15:11):
of people that you have wrote for, and it's just
like what songs in particular with Jade, are you talking?
Don't walk Yeah? So are you kitting me?
Speaker 9 (15:23):
She just song?
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Are you kidding Me?
Speaker 9 (15:27):
We did the movie for the Remember the Movie Classic
with kidd and Play Yeah. I scored some of the
music in that movie along with my writing partner Vasa and.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
The first single we had off of that was a
song called I Want to Love You, and then after
that then Don't walk Away came.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
And No walk Away. Yeah, that was probably one of
my favorite songs from Jade, Don't walk Away. Don't remember
that song Don't walk.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
My god, I have a superstar in the building. Okay. Anyway,
so in other words, okay, you know what, I'm curious though, Okay,
you let's say you write a song. Okay, so how
do you go about like saying, Okay, this song has
to be sung by this artist. How do you have
(16:23):
even work? I don't really, I would like to know.
Speaker 9 (16:28):
A lot of times, you know, it's like being a
tailor sometimes, you know, like the record companies will bring
us in something that needs to be tailor fit, and
they might want a certain kind of certain kind of music,
a certain kind of melody, or they might have heard
of something that we did before, or it might be
a first time thing where they're giving us a shot,
(16:50):
like first starting off, and they might put us with
a certain artist because at the time when we did Jade,
they were unknown. We discovered them and so we got
the opportunity for the Class Act movie and we were
cutting demos on them at first, and then the song
(17:10):
landed in the movie and then it just kind of
spiraled after that. A lot of times they'll have specific things,
like record companies have specific things that they want for
an artist, or they might just let you just do
your thing like if you got hits already, they'll they'll
allow you to just kind of do your thing.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
And I just missed two more people on the list.
I just I just realized I missed two more people,
Prince and finally West. Yeah I'm done. Yeah, I can't.
I can't.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
My friend Martika is a really good friend of mine.
She was the one who introduced me to Lenny Kravitz,
and she me and her, we were we were really good.
Right when we get together and write, we we just
it's just it's just just pops off natural. And so
she was doing she she had. Did you know Prince
(18:08):
produced some of her I think it was the first album,
And so we were always kind of interacting with Prince,
you know. She I did a remix on one of
his songs for her, and that's how we kind of
got familiar. And then I continue to actually personally meet him.
George Clinton took me to meet Prince for my birthday.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Oh you know what, don't even talk anymore because I
am too jealous. He is just keep going, okay, keep going,
sorry because her I want to hear more.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
This is great, I know, go ahead, go Ahea, I'm sorry, he.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
I told him that, you know, I was a big
fan of Prince and I was always doing something. Prince
would send me artists to produce and different stuff over
the years, but we never really got a chance to meet.
And then one day they surprised me with they were
taking me to Sea Prints and meet him at a show.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
And so.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
Me and George we we I forget. We were in
Ohio or something and he was playing at some arena
there or something, and we drove ourselves there and then
we got out and you know, like normally, like with celebs,
you think like, why are they putting up in a limo,
But the psychology of it was like, well, you're expecting
(19:34):
them to get out in the limo, right, And so
we did the opposite but clean. You know. I had
on this big giant blue fur coat and George had
on his you know, monic colored hair, and we're walking
up along the arena and it's glass and the fans
are looking and they're going like that, ain't George, They
(19:55):
wouldn't be walking up and they're just looking, and so
it kind of gave us a pass. So we walked
all the way around to the entry where the busses
were and they knew who George were right away, the
security and everything. And then we walked down the hall
and knocked on the door and it.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Was quiet, Princeton.
Speaker 9 (20:17):
I mean nothing. You don't hear nobody passing out, no
cards and nothing back there. The band is quiet, and
George is going like, damn, man, it's like the doctor's
office back here. Why so quiet, man? So we knock
on the door and we was kind of a little
(20:38):
lit and Prince opened the door and I saw about
twenty five princes in front of my face, going like this,
and it was like the most beautiful person ye had
on the high boots. But he was he was a
stone player. He was you know, he's he was cool.
(20:59):
So we we we we walk in and his voice
is really deep. He's like, yo, feeling all right, and
I'm fanning out, like on the inside, but I'm trying
to be cool, you know, on the inside I'm going.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
I would be too, but I'm.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
Like, yo, what's up. Let's go down, you know. So
we sit down and we talked a little bit and
he was he was just so cool. Yeah, And then
we walked along the side of the stage and this
guy came up to me. He said, you must really
(21:40):
be somebody. And I was like, I'm looking around. I'm like,
that's what my mama told me.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I love his I love his remarks.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
Go ahead, he said, he said, he said, because he
don't let nobody nobody, ain't nobody just coming back here
and I'm with George, you know, and you know, I'm like,
you know, but he didn't know who I was, and
I didn't know who he was. So but but Prince
had like the tightest security at this place that like
(22:13):
there was nothing popping off. I mean, you know, he
had you know, I like all around, like throughout the
whole thing. You know, because in some of them states,
you know, you dress and androgynists and stuff, you might
some might pop off, you know, so you got to
come out.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
You know, I'm living that moment with you, because you
know what I think, Prince, he knows Prince was my idol.
And I wish I you know, I would have had
ever the chance to meet him. I mean I I
was probably in mourning for how long after his passing. Yeah,
(22:48):
you know I always wish that I you know, I
grew up with him. I mean there are thousands and
millions of people out there that grew up.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
With him but devastates.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, just just to know that you had that moment
with him too. Yeah, that's you know, that is fabulous
to have that type of moment with somebody that you
know you really idolized, you know. Yeah. Yeah that got
me when you know why, because I missed it on
my my little note page here and I'm sending there
going he did Prince too, Oh my god, he had Prince,
(23:16):
he had Prince. He wrote for Prince. So what exactly
did you write for him?
Speaker 9 (23:22):
I just basically did like some remixes on some of
his on some of his music with Martika. That's basically
anything in particular Martika's kitchen. I flipped it, you know,
but it had already been out, but I just kind
of flipped it. And that was pretty much.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Prince could have flipped me anytime. I don't care. I'm
talking way before.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
Let me tell you this, let me tell you this,
talking before you So he he actually sang my song
back to me. Yeah. I told him, you know, I
was telling him who I was, and I said, you know,
I wrote that song Don't walk Away, And he said,
he said, you mean to do the Doom to Do
(24:11):
the Doom Bang. He said, yeah, man, I know that
song song. You know, we just kind of, you know,
we was kind of hit We kind of hit it off.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
You know, it's cool, you know, Prince. It was that
type of individual. That's why Prince was who he was.
That's why he was so different. That's why everybody, you know,
gravitated to him because he wasn't that normal, mainstream type
of artist. You know, he was totally his own. That's
why I like about him. He's his own artist, you
(24:40):
know what I'm saying. That's right, That's what I like
about him. But I want to get to the one
of his videos.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Okay, now I want to go to No Driver. But
I'll tell you why. Good because in my life seat
I have you know how you have these songs that
you love.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
So I was thinking about No Driver and I was like,
that is funny because two of my favorite old time
songs is drive by the Cars, right, and then later
on it became shut Up and Drive by Rihanna. Now
years later, I'm now I'm stuck on No Driver. Oh okay,
(25:20):
So everybody can sit back and enjoy No Driver by
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Speaker 9 (25:51):
I'm selling.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
A yo.
Speaker 11 (25:58):
This could be no letma hall San Francisco, Hard on
San Francisco.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Holler on San Francisco.
Speaker 11 (26:11):
Holl in San Francisco, Holler on San Francisco.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Look gain to your reue.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
Look what's up up that.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
To call way.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
Down the drive up, drive you to your bed.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
Jina, no timea m tima, no time on time, no
time out, got.
Speaker 11 (26:53):
No destination, You got no place in mine? Every all around,
stop go every like your body.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
I try so hard to meet you, but.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
You telling me that can.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
I try to get inside your.
Speaker 11 (27:16):
Car, but if there's nobody in that.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Driving, there's no trying.
Speaker 8 (27:27):
Driving.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
There's no time up give there's no time.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
Now then stop.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
So far from here.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
Till that try fail. But it's time to get out
of here.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I t up, brolly shot stop us now you fund juble,
help you find your soul shot No side.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
Shide those side, no tide.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Well that's all I know.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
It did give me a prince vibe, I told you,
and it did give me a I did the video
the vision, I know what I'm talking about, and Kras
kind of there you go.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I can't lie, I can't.
Speaker 9 (29:22):
Like when I saw it, I'm like, it's like like
when we lost him. It's just like I felt like,
oh no, I just I like to show my respect
in some kind of way, like just for in remembrance
of him, just pieces of little things that impluence that
(29:43):
he influenced me and just you know, doing it my
own way, but yet still just pay you my respects.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You know, you know what you know, because like you're
a guitarist, right, And that's not only what I loved
about Prince, not just you know, the music and stuff
like that, but when he when he performed, he performed,
you know, And the one thing that always will get
me is when he did the halftime show at the
(30:13):
super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I was about to get on that.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah you know, you know, I'm trying to say. It's
like there have been like it's like the Whitney Houston
doing the Star Spangled banner. There was no replacement. And
I felt the same way because I know they say, oh,
Michael Jackson did a great job too, but he's not Prince.
Michael Jackson and Prince totally absolutely individuals.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
You can't compare them them.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
That's what I'm trying, you know, That's what I was
trying to say, because Prince was a phenomenal artist, magician,
you know, because he was able to mesmerize his audience,
and you know, I can go through it. And that's why,
and that's why I see when see I know how
(30:59):
to pick artists. Thank you. You definitely do because you
know because like a lot of times they say about
the show and everything that we have artists and whatever whatnot,
and I'm always looking for them, and I tell them,
I said, just don't think, you know, we're gonna put
any artists on. They have to move us, Okay. They
have to be people who are true to their art
and you know they work for that living.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
So when I heard you and I said to him,
he reminds me a little bit of Prince. He reminds
me a little bit of Light Krabits. And it's not
just the hair, it's the whole, it's everything. You know,
He's got the whole package. Again, you get can you
dance too? Yeah, let's see people trifecta Higgins. We got
two trifactors in our arsenal. We got mister dance, guitar, music, songwriter.
(31:48):
He's got everything. See, you're even speechless, you can't say anything.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
Well.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I want to ask him though about the James Brown.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
And Okay what oh Kanye West?
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Oh what did you do for Kanye?
Speaker 9 (32:05):
Okay? So my friend, longtime friend of mine, is Kanye's
first cousin. Okay, and Kanye gave him the opportunity to
write this. It's like it was a hip hop haunted movie,
(32:28):
the music for the movie and it never it never materialized.
And he had us write like about twenty five songs.
Oh wow, and then for whatever reason he scrapped.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
The whole the whole project whatever.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
So, but we wrote those songs. He had us in
the studio every day. The man is. The man is
as a workaholic, you know, like you know, like anybody
doing this stuff. And he really he has a really
good work ethic, and he knows how to pick the beats,
he knows, he knows exactly what he wants.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
And he's just.
Speaker 9 (33:13):
He's really a genius, right of a you know.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Artist, right, But who did you what did you write
for Lenny Kravitz?
Speaker 9 (33:23):
I have a song that me and Lenny did. And
I actually wrote the song and he's playing on it,
and I'm probably going to release that at some point.
What what I don't think Lenny remembers he came to
my house and we cut it, but in your house,
(33:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, and say yo, we many times, like Lenny,
I introduced Wait, hold.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
On, whoa whoa, whoa whoa? You just said many times?
Speaker 9 (33:58):
Oh yeah, not in the last few years or so,
but like like you know, a while back, and he
I introduced him to Rick James at the house.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I just dropped my notes. I just dropped my notes.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
My thing. Now I want to know what's up with James?
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Now, you want to know what I want to Still
go back with Lenny? All right, okay, so wait with
Lenny though you wrote with Okay, so you wrote particularly
so you haven't even released that song yet.
Speaker 9 (34:33):
I haven't released the song.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
You haven't released the song.
Speaker 9 (34:37):
I haven't released the song for years. But I'm going
to release it. I just I've been just like tweaking
it and messing around with it, and I let it
sit and not you know.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Can you give us can you just give us the
name of the song?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
No, he can't give us the name of the song.
He doesn't have to. No, you don't have to give
us the name. Okay, give us the name.
Speaker 9 (34:58):
I don't think I even named ditch I got I
have the song though.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Okay, we'll keep the song. Yeah, and a lot of
the exclusive exactly.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
Definitely, definitely I'll do that.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Oh yeah, have to say and and and Lenny's phone number.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
So moving on, I want to know about the James.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Okay, so he wants to also know about Rick James.
Go ahead, let's see.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
I met Rick through one of the Mary Jane Girls,
which is my first son's mom, Maxie, and so she
introduced She introduced me to Rick, and me and him
(35:49):
became like instant instant friends. I met Rick and George
at the same time. Oh wow, And I really didn't
know that, you know that there was like this little
thing between but but they're both both just so amazing
(36:10):
just to be around. And but I met Rick and
he heard some of my music and I had wrote
a song for him, and he was like, Ron, you
need to keep that for you. And but then he
said he heard and he heard some more of my stuff,
(36:32):
and then he was like, I want I want that
song and it was funk with me. It was just
like right after he got out of prison.
Speaker 10 (36:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Holy, yeah, I can't even say the word holy.
Speaker 9 (36:49):
The song, the song is hot. I wish he would
have got like some more play, but like I think
it could still be a smash. But it's glad I got.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Your phone number.
Speaker 11 (37:01):
Ron.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Let me tell you, I'm glad I got your phone number.
I can the stories that this guy can give me.
And I'm not talking about like you know, bragging about her,
and I'm just talking the juice that I can get
with this guy. And I can live through everything that
you've done so far. You know, I'm trying to say,
(37:22):
it's fun, it's exciting, and it's you know, just to
have that that you don't know how valuable that is
for you. You know, you don't trying to say that.
Speaker 9 (37:31):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
But that's what I'm talking, you know, That's what I'm saying.
All that I mean, I just looked and I just
saw another one too, Eric Abado. Yeah, you know, Ron,
I'm really starting to hate you right now. I'm like looking, going,
I grew up with these people, Okay, you have no
right to them Before I do. I'm gonna give you
(37:56):
some catitude right now? You have no ideatitude?
Speaker 8 (37:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (38:00):
Drop yeah? Drops on the uh does the drop the
twenty seventh seventh?
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Right?
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Yeah, I'm definitely gonna keep spitting that. Yeah, I'm gonna
definitely keep you know.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
But I mean, okay, so here please no, I'm sorry,
go ahead, no, you go no, because I would saying
you play guitar, you play babies, right, keyboard, percussion, drums, harmonica. Okay,
let me know, mister Ron, is there anything you do
not do?
Speaker 9 (38:32):
I try to keep it all legal.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Okay, there we go. That's my boy. That's my boy.
That's my boy. You have no idea, you know, it's
just like I think it's every artists not dream. I
think it's very special. I'm trying to think of the
very good words I can use because you are so
(38:56):
gifted and to have the chance to be with others
in the industry to learn from and to teach. He's
doing both m s. He's doing both.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Music speaks for itself. That's all I gotta say. Your
music is thank you.
Speaker 9 (39:16):
It truly is a blessing. Thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Having listen, I can classic. If I could, I would
bow down right now. But I got to bag back.
But I would say to you, I feel like he's
my god. He's my music god.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Whoa you have never heard it?
Speaker 1 (39:34):
I would say that it Okay, you know why I
say that? Okay, I'll tell you why. I'm an old soul. Okay.
But the thing is is that how very much I
mean we got only like there are a few artists
that I will miss Jay and Chris Milo okay though
and Kay Rhymes. These guys for me are all different, right,
(39:56):
But these are guys that I praise. These are people
that I love to work with because is they just
when somebody moves me, they move me and he moves me.
He moves me, not to Lenny Kravitz, but he moves me.
He'll move me if he gives me the phone number
for Lenny Kravits. But you don't look at me like that.
(40:19):
I won't leave you. Lenny calls me, I can't.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
She went viral right there, He's giving your number.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Oh Jesus, but listen, but.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Is there any more goals that you want to do
in music? Do you feel like you reached the not
saying that you reached his music?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
You never you don't think he's even reached his peaker.
He I think he's he's like almost to the top.
Speaker 9 (40:53):
No.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
No, My question to him is do you feel like
a lot of the stuff that you're doing in your
journey is already like when you when you go back
and you look at everything that you did in your journey,
all the people that you met inside your journey. Right
this is just as as an artist, do you just
go back and reminisce all the time when you were
like younger and thinking about man like I just can't
(41:14):
believe this is my journey right now you look at
certain awards and you're just like, WHOA, Yeah, I made
an impact in music.
Speaker 9 (41:22):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's truly. It was a blind faith
to even because some of this stuff I just I
don't know. I just I believed in myself. I think
I believed in myself when I was younger than I
than I did now because I just didn't care. I
was just like I'm going for this, you know, because
I had a lot of people tell me when I
(41:44):
got to California, they was like, man, you need to
go back home, bro. And they ended up going back
home and I ended up staying and just you know,
doing my and just meeting the right people, and you know,
it was it was it was a struggle, it was
a it was a battle. I still feel like I
still there's still a lot more to do and I
(42:06):
have a lot more to say. Music doesn't leave me.
It doesn't like like phrases and things. I want to
try to help the world with music, if it's just
a phrase or you know, I just want to make
my contribution and make art with music. I'd like to
do more visual art with music, like three D kind
(42:27):
of things where you know, walking to a place and
you know, feel the music and you know, yeah, well
you can.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
You can. You can contribute to the Alphaea and make
a wish foundation. Yeah, and get me get me a
Hello for Blenny. That's that's that's my dream. I'll do that,
you know, that's my dream. So speaking of love because
I love him. I love this guy. So I want
(42:54):
to get to his next music video and it's uh,
it's actually I think it would have been a dedicateation
from Lenny to me had he done the song himself.
But it's called love Me for Today, and I want
to play that video right now because it's one of
my favorite songs.
Speaker 9 (43:12):
Yeah, we charted with that.
Speaker 7 (43:14):
I love this song Ahead dude, sick.
Speaker 12 (43:42):
Crown a less Shu means love nests try to let
go suckle. I can see my sap.
Speaker 6 (43:58):
Strees.
Speaker 12 (44:00):
You'll love me, Save me for it, for me Chase Way.
Speaker 6 (44:12):
Stopping fun Today song Allay.
Speaker 8 (44:18):
Stop love me.
Speaker 6 (44:23):
Fun today, Small me Today.
Speaker 13 (44:30):
Spend something, spending something, spend it something a spread it, suthing,
spend it sunthing ajorge.
Speaker 12 (44:52):
The way snuffing away. Please say listen to me. Scared
place Sun of my song but stands until dark. Let's
spot till stars and get disperd tonight. You stay with
(45:19):
me for the change welling up. Love me foots day Sun.
Speaker 6 (45:35):
Love make thoughts day Sun.
Speaker 13 (45:43):
That sun, spends something, spats something, spot.
Speaker 10 (45:51):
Something that fun stand it signing, Love me hot today, little.
Speaker 6 (46:26):
Love me hot Today.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Sounds today. Okay, I'm let me just fan myself just
one more time. Okay, love me for today. You know
what he reminds me also, okay, not the singing. I
don't know it's that. I think it's the aura, Okay,
(47:02):
because I also used to love Terrence Trent Darby, and
he has that little bit of a vibe of him too.
I mean he's Okay, I'm not saying he's them. I'm
not saying that. All I'm saying is he brings me
back into a time where the music you felt, you
(47:26):
felt he penetrates you. You understand the music, the vibe,
the singing, the lyrics, everything he's penetrating, just like Prince,
just like Lenny Kravitz, just like these other people that
you know. I'm trying to say, it's just like he
has that same vibe. That's what I love about the
people that we've had on the show is because when
you have a special talent like that, and we're gonna
(47:49):
have always people like him that come on the show
because we don't expect less and he's more. And you
got to top this guy, you know what I'm trying
to It's like you gotta tie. Nobody can top this guy.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
My thing is with him, he's just he's original, so
you can't.
Speaker 8 (48:10):
Like.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
The thing is you got people nowadays, right, they're going
they'll go on the computer and go and then boom,
make a guitar thing. These dudes are making the guitar
sound and making the guitar speak to you, right, So
like when I'm hearing the records, and I'm hearing what
he's doing. You can hear the difference between somebody that
just goes on the computer and uses the virtual to
feeling that soul of basically real instruments being played, real
(48:33):
musicians coming in.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
So that song you said it was charted too as well,
right man?
Speaker 9 (48:38):
Yeah, it charted like number seventeen on the Adult Contemporary
and then Love Safe. Did think it went to twenty
or two?
Speaker 1 (48:50):
I think yeah, I think it was. Yeah, I Love Safe,
So yeah, I did my research. That's I look you right,
you know what I did. My research were.
Speaker 2 (48:58):
Both twenty two. Brother, I'm both twenty two. I got
on the bills with the sale inside the Spanish market
twenty two. So we've got twenty two. Boy, we've all
got twenty two.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
And I was and I was twenty two when I
fell in love with Lenny Kravitz.
Speaker 9 (49:15):
Oh I love this.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
I'm just you know, I'm just you know what he was.
You know, during the show, when we're playing a music
video or something, you know, I'll we do these little
notes to each other because I'll say to him, you
know what I think about it, and he'll write it
back to me. So all I was doing, was saying,
you know about the video and everything, and he's like,
stop getting a crazy over there, stop getting you know
(49:42):
hot over there. I'm like, baby, I am hot. You
don't know these no, driver, Like I told you my
three favorites, and I'm not lying because cars with the song,
you know who's going to drive? You love that song?
You know, and Rihanna should.
Speaker 14 (50:03):
The word drive. So I thought it was funny. Then
you know that he had my first thing too. And
I want to say to him real quick, Okay, you're dope.
You can you can definitely be in any era and
still kill it.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
But that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (50:18):
Like, your music is time capsule.
Speaker 1 (50:20):
Yes, thank you. So put your music and Lenny Kravitz
in a capsule. Bring it to my house and I'll
keep it there.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
You can go to Lenny. Can you give it Lenny's
address so she can get away from me?
Speaker 1 (50:33):
No, he does not need a stalker from New York.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
No, she possed up you see the big huge.
Speaker 9 (50:41):
Like what you do?
Speaker 1 (50:43):
Why did you say that?
Speaker 2 (50:45):
But let's stop.
Speaker 3 (50:46):
But on a serious note, your music is iconic. I
love the way it sounds and it's timeless.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
Yeah, thank you I could.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
I could play that all day, all the time, and
I wouldn't even get bored of it.
Speaker 1 (51:00):
And that's what makes the song so good, because I
will say, Okay, cute little story. What happened was one
of his friends needed a lyric a verse in one
of your songs, right, and he remember he asked me,
he goes, what would you put in that about this song?
(51:22):
What do you think about the song? And I said,
I would say the same thing about that song, I'll
never get sick of it. And what did he do?
He put that verse in Danny's song, You'll never get
sick of it. That's the song, that's that's the type
of song. I'll never get to.
Speaker 7 (51:37):
Play it all the time.
Speaker 3 (51:39):
It's a concept that's dope, and it's the feeling that's dope.
That's what's missing in the music nowadays. Then nobody has
that feeling, and nobody, like a lot of artists don't
know how to get that feeling. Yeah, like their music
you can listen to and you'll be like, whoa, You're.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
Gonna stay in that zone. Yeah, you're not gonna come
out of it.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
So I think, I you know, I'm I'm very I'm
so thankful you came on our show. Shout out to
your you know, to the band. How you say.
Speaker 9 (52:09):
It's just catlic cat delict, Yeah, okay, because they all
got cats.
Speaker 1 (52:20):
Yeah, I'm just telling you. I mean they do fabulous
work with them too, because you you always got to
have that. You know, when you have a great team
that you do, you know, everything just is more enhanced,
you know, with the music and everything. So you know,
shout out and uh cat there you go out to
Lenny my boy. Go ahead, all right, yeah, okay, no
(52:47):
no problem, we shout out Lenny Kravitz. Love you guys.
American woman right here right, I'm not a nightmare. Okay.
So again, thank you so much for coming on the show.
Speaker 9 (53:02):
Ron Thank you for have appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (53:05):
And don't forget that exclusive. Yeah, but let everybody know
where they can find you on.
Speaker 9 (53:11):
Also, you go to Roncatspearman dot com and you can
get all my links and the CATA to record again
drops on nine seven, and we're going to be a yo.
She's for Halloween. So if anybody's in the Oakland area,
oh wow there and uh party.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
Going to be there, he might Okay, cool, I'm going
to Oakland go ahead anywhere.
Speaker 9 (53:36):
Else and that's that's pretty much it. Thank you for
having me.
Speaker 1 (53:44):
And just remember ron Kat, that's r O N K
A T Yeah, Spearman s P E A R n
A N don't forget that. People check out his songs
No Driver, Love You for Today. That was sung to
me by Lenny Kravitz. I'm not kidding, and we enjoyed
you all. Thank you Howie, thank you Gina, thank you Barry,
(54:05):
and we appreciate you so much. Ronkat, So you take
it easy. Having you here was a pleasure. Anything that
you want to say before we say peace out, everybody,
just keep that there. You go, keep the CATA two
baby you next week, everybody. This is DNA signing off.
Speaker 2 (54:22):
See you guys. Cat's us lated man
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