October 13, 2024 • 53 mins
D&A Live - Season 3, Episode 42 "Artist - M City Jr". Hosted by Danny & Althea. Tonight's guest is artist M City Jr. 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 daddy and I'm out there and we are being
a love baby.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
What's going on everybody?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
You know what I got. We got some special shout outs.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Go ahead, give me a special shout out.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So you want to do the birthdays first, yeah, man, okay,
we'll do the birthdays.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
First off.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I want to say happy birthday to my boy Chris
shout out, and Natasha too, Man, much love.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It was a great day yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yeah, we had such a nice you know what.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It felt good, not really like you know, talking about
like music that much.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You talk about music at all?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I know.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Okay, So we had a great time with Chris and Natasha.
And happy birthday Chris again.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
And also to be shut out to my brother, my
baby brother, Joey.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Man, much love to you man. You turn sixteen today, man,
and you know what, my brother love you man.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I love you to death. Bro, Happy birthday. Everybody's hearing
you right now. That's my baby brother right there. Ain't
no games, ain't no jokes. Muscle up to him. Mom, Hello,
Hi Mom, Rosie, Justina love y'all.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
So I also go, yeah, Mom, I know your birthday's
coming up to next week, next week, don't worry, I
got something for you.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Are you done?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Okay. I also wanted to shout out to Miss Jay.
I had the pleasure of, you know, being there for
one of her performances on Friday night. She was at
the famous food festival in Deer Park at the Tanker Outlets.
There was so much food, but I got to eat
(01:49):
her up. I mean, she was just I mean Miss
Jay and the Misfits. They are fabulous and her dad
was on guitar. I mean, you can't get any better
than that. You got to check her out Miss Jay
and the Misfits. Also shout out to my boy Barry
and Christy they were there as well. Of course they're
part of their team, but it was just you know,
(02:10):
when you have a nice set a group of people
and we all get along and it's just so much fun.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So also I wanted to shout out to Howard my boy.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
La are we doing out there?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And Gina and of course Miss Debbie my girl, she
helps me out with everything. Also to Chris Milo of
course every brother.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Definitely, I'm going to show you guys charts in the second.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, every day of the week, dude, Chris Milo, we
love you. Also to everybody that is on our platform,
you know, like Chris Milo, Ronkat Baker, Grace Ka Rhymes,
Miss Jay, you guys are just phenomenal and we love you.
So we have obviously the media base. So every week
(03:00):
we're showing the charts to show.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
You what media base and digital radio radio tracks.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Y'ah know too. Be shout out to Michael.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, so I mean it's just a it's a really
good thing. So I mean, I'm glad that everybody that's
on board gets to if you want to put.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
The charts up, Yeah, put the charts up.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Okay, if you can put the charts up, we got
media base.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And right now, that's digital tracker right there.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Bibi shout to my man Hoodie and stuff like that,
because his record started to honestly catch fire, so big
big shout out to him.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Man shout Christophomlo as well.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
He caught fire this week too as well a couple
other records.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Be shout to Miss Jay. She's always up in the
always up inside the charts. My LA connects over there.
Be big shout out to my man DJ Green God,
he's killing it right now.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Show time Poppy his girl too, you know. And big big.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Shout out to Jaka of course, and Charles Hamilton be
shout to you too, because you're reaching very high goals
right now on the charts.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Okay, do we have the media base one?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Put it hit the media. Get the media base all
right now when you look inside the media base.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
No, it's hard for yat to see right now. But
bach and hold up. Okay, I gotta say too, Baby
shout out.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
To my man two on here. You know what I'm saying. Okay,
m City Junior.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Theylling it right now to on the media charts as
well as digital radio track of charts. He's not just
he's just like, he's just not he's moving. He's killing
it right now.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
But he's killing it.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So baby shout out to him, big shotut to shot,
big shouts to go ahead to shot.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Also to our boy in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The heat,
the heat, ninety ninety seven point three.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
The heat.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
And then you got our guys in Miami the Place
FM eighty eight point seven in Boss Radio. You got
DJ Yo Yo, you got Scorpio, you got Cory and
I missed oh showtimehead am I missing anybody? Got I
got them all? Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So with that he said scorpio.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Right, Oh did I say scorpio?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I just did. But listen, big.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Shout out to my May and Reggie Lanees and definitely
watched this show too. Man the the high Rise Man,
big big shout out to him, Big shout out to
Blue Dias, big shout out to David l and Showcase.
We keep him on that record, big shout to my man.
Gave big shout out to all the independent artists that
are coming on to.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I keep telling everybody something.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
You can say something.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Man, DNA's killing it too. Give us some love.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I'm just playing there's love. But listen, we're gonna be
right back with a great yes man.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
What a great guest, great great great great great great
great guy. And his name is m City Junior. After
this commercial break, we'll be right right back.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
You put your head up right now.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
We're inside the water with ourselves.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You America. We gonna wake up from this where the
real Americans at where we act.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Man, you blinded and you lie, You just send suicide
your own Everyone pretenses love you for messing you whopping
homes laughing without the way you can't even afford food
and everybody looking at you whack.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It's so rude.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
They thinking that they love you your skin, that's what
they see. They don't understand the militant weller speed. But
they ain't good that they got. They just play for
each other. I said of water trying to come for us,
kill one enough. But I woke up last night. I
gotta talk to my pants. You tell them listen, we
gotta march and what do we get?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You laughing?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
You cry and where you feel in the skating and
say you went all the time. They just him and
they don't modesty you doors, bringing their dowers over the life.
They're like, it's what they want to try and put
you inside with a lock and spend no block.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
It's all you want to hear.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Were just the cops screaming.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Likes us now all the side and we're thinking prices
and putting that to there because crashing.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
The crisis now they hate didn't tell the way how
they even look.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
They try to like usself go with Domn trying to
play the one that get his child every time, trying
to get it fo overshop.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Tell your gods they have.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
The love and try to turning. Now we're close with
the phone next to weekach other's years, but wet my
social distance, say cale hoo ony years and trying to
act like we ain't one inside at home.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
We acting like that we ain't wanted way inside home.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
I said, we want to go. Said look fine, hold on.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You can't say, said he And we're back, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yes we are, okay, So please welcome to the show.
Rap artist m City Junior.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Please, mister worldwide, mister national, mister. We are killing it
right now, all over.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I know you know what. I am so excited to
have him, I really am. But let me just say,
let's go. I want to first the only two things
I want to point out is that he was just
signed to Atlantic Records, correct, Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Okay, so wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I'm just letting. I just want to put my two
points across first, okay. And then also that song that
we're going to play later, the Addicted to My Ex
I love it. By the way, it's on its way
to a hundred million streams on spot We need that
a million streams on Spotify, and it's on its way
(09:12):
to double platinum.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
By put it higher go ahead.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
That's a fact, Thank y'all. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I feel like introduction to like one of those fights,
you know what I'm saying, Like I just got rumble.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Like, but yeah, I was gonna say, how does it
feel with that build up that, you know, as it's
now progressing and getting all that attention, how does that
make you feel right now?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Man, I think that's that's a good question.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I think it's really for me, it's really setting like
sitting back and kind of observing. It's kind of like
a marathon kind of feel, you know, tethon thing. So
I've been pushing this record for quite some time, like
just staying on it, constantly promoting it, constantly keeping it
in the fans face, and the fans love it, like
(10:06):
they're constantly reinventing things and reinventing ways to I guess,
like express how they feel with this song. So that's
a great feeling to literally see the fans keep reinventing
ways to push the song, to dance to the song,
to you just to be involved with it. That's probably
(10:26):
like the greatest feeling for sure, because I don't know
where they come.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Up with it, But no, I love it.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Man.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I was watching with the two girls and all that
I take people. I was like, yeah, I was like,
I said, man, TikTok on that.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, we're gonna surprise you. But you know we're not
that good of actors.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Okay, you're not. I am.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Are you challenging me right now?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Okay, I'm just saying all I'm saying. It's a really
I mean, it's it's a crazy song.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
You know, I love it. I'll take this.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
This is it. I was like, yeah, okay, it's a
crazy but you know what it is is that you
can do so many songs right, and you put him
out there and you don't know what's going to hit
at what particular time. You never know what.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Was your mindset when you were making that record.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Make some money. Yeah, I was writing. I was actually
in a writing session when I did that record.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
I originally wrote that song for Young Thug.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I was writing for Atlantic at the time, writing for
Meek Mill, writing for Jezus or something.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Like the Atlantic artist at the time that I was
writing for, and.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Thug and my management just didn't see how to I
at the time. And so he came back and he's
like Yo, it's still a great record through the record yourself.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
And so I did you know, so, I think at
the time, I was just in my bag.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I was just in a writing bag, you know, just
really and I just wanted to capture something for like
the era, you know what I'm saying, Like I kind
of just really wanted to capture something for the era.
I wanted to Like I heard that a while ago
that that's really what good music does.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Good music capture time capsule basically.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
It always it always basically just you know, promotes that era.
So you always when you hear that record, you go
right back into the era memory exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
So the fact that I was intentionally searching for that
energy and I believe I channeled it pretty well, you know,
that's a great thing for me.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
I enjoyed that part.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, I I you know, we were bumping like what
do you call that? Like, you know, I'll spinning it.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I'll be spinning it and everyone be looking at me
and be like what do you It would be like Yo, yeah, yeah,
I like that record. Yo, can I get that record? Ticket? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Go ahead, But you know, I'm doing dishes or something,
and he's like coming up I'm buying, you know, like, yeah,
what's like, Oh my god, stop it, just stop it.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You're not my ex. I can't. I can't.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Well I'm not your ex, but I will be if
you keep doing that.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
No divorce remix.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Me, cause you know me me with the I do
like rap music. I'm not you know. I like every genre.
You know that, but there are only certain rap songs
I will be honest, that really catch me. You know,
I am not a person that will like every rap
song out there. So when this was played, just even
(13:30):
by the intro, I right, even just by the intro,
I was where'd you go? Where you go in m City?
Get back here?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And he's still here. He's still here, He's still here.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
All I'm saying is that from the first like introduction
and everything that that. You know what, Let me just
say one thing. Okay, I'm an old I'm an old sort.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Right, go ahead, let's hear this.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
But it's always been about the I'm just telling you
the truth. It's all about the intro because it's a setup. Okay.
It's just like an actor going for a movie roll
or whatever and their auditioning. It's the it's the way
you present it's the way you're you're leading into the song, right,
and if if the start song doesn't grab you.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Suspenseful right, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
And it's like I just the intro right away to
the when before the song starts, I'm like, it grabs you.
It grabs you, and then you're singing and all that
little background vocals and stuff like that. It you know,
it brings you in and it keeps you there. A
lot of rap songs for me, they start off decent
(14:39):
and then by like the first.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
And then you're lost.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, I'm like, oh my god, where was this going?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
You know, you don't have the concept like you had
the concept keep running and running and running around.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I love the concept.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
The concept is crazy because nobody really talks about starting
on the X, but everybody wants to, you know what
I'm saying. So like when he came up with that,
I was like, yeah, that's like when I heard the record.
I' but yeah, and the way that basically it's something
that everybody has.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
You have an ex. I have an ex.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I know you do, yeah big.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Time, but no, but you know, also I wanted to
say is also give props to the producer of that
song and also the vocals. Whoever else is on that
song with you.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
There is absolutely no one else on that song with me.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
That is me talking about them.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
That is all you.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Totally. Blew you just blew my mind. I was sure
there was someone else. I'm like, damn, that is really
good too.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Then my question to you too, man, is let's get
back into Let's get back into So they told you
to just take the record and go.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Were you already signed to Atlantic and you were just
writing for him?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yep, I was just really writing for him. I wasn't
signed to him at all. I was actually writing for
them and not having and not having the most fun. Right.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
You know, I don't know if anybody knows really about
the songwriting world, but it's not.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Why don't why don't you talk to them real quick
about It's not easy.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You know, it's not It's not the easiest thing. It's
not like I guess artists very perspective. Know, it's in perspective.
So the decision of something being a hit is someone's opinion. Yeah,
and that and most most of the time it's the
opinion of the person who controls the budget, so you know,
(16:38):
you can write a trash song and if the person
controlling the budget believes in it, it's a right and
that's just what it is. So yeah, songwriting, and they
really don't listen to you when you when you don't
have a long, extensive rap sheet of hits.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
You know, they're kind of just taking it in as how.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Do I can? I can explain it as like an
extra in acting, like a back your background dancer, you know, like, oh,
if the main character slips and falls, well we'll grab it,
you know. But if you're not you know, some if
you're not the dream or Neo or you know what
I'm saying, or some high profile songwriter hit maker, then
(17:19):
it's kind of hard to get your your things in there.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Yeah, I'm putting the door and then to actually come
and listen to you one more time, usually like because I've.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Done a little bit of songwriting as well. It's very hard.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
A lot of people don't realize it's very hard to
get inside the door when you don't have anything. It's
like have like a portfolio, it's like having basically like
you know, the regular job, I mean, like a job, college.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Degree, basically that's how they look at it realactly.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It's like, you know what when you say a I
I a song, right, they're looking for hits and the
question is, well, what have you you know, what have
you written?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
And if you again, this is the music industry. So
if you don't have any act that reflect the music industry,
you know, you're kind of overlooked.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So that's actually, that's really kind of a shame because
there are a lot of people like you and him,
let's say, right, that have such great not just potential,
that have real heart and real genuine soul for the
music that you do, right, and they would be you know,
(18:26):
this guy may have something that is so special in
a song, right, and they they're overlooked because they're not
a jay Z or a big time.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
But that's always gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
It's kind of stupid.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
But the way I look at it too is jay
Z started somewhere. Now started somewhere, it is, but.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Back then it was different.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And have the term, have the term. You need experience
to get experienced. So it's not necessarily I mean, you know,
you can cry about it, you can boohoo it sucks,
but it's just the way the world works. You know,
if I was going for a dental assistant job, I
would still need experience to get experience. It doesn't matter
(19:07):
higher experienced people and reputable people with reputable work.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
And you know how.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Much you talent is not always is going to be
you know the experience. You know, experience speaks talent a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Now, I'm very I want to ask a questions.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
So when you bought that record in and Thug said
his management said that you should just do it?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
No no, no, management said that. I soug Thug into
up passing on it. They didn't end up seeing out
an eye on the record. I can see, and Doug
had a lot going on at the time too. So
at this time, maybe take you back, like we're in
twenty sixteen, twenty fifteen, so we're talking about rich Gang
is just now live in effect him and Kwan is
really live and effect him and Birdman situation is brand new.
(19:56):
So it's just a lot of you know, a lot
of moving parts.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
At the time, ye neither to make.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
One of these situations where it wasn't seen eye to
eye on what was going on. It could even been
like management and label issues again, Atlantic is like, well,
it's a hit record, so yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Are you going to pass on it? Or you know,
are you gonna do it yourself?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
And you were like, I'm just doing it already wrote it?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Were they?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Were they when they were like, all right, did you?
Were you looking to be an artist where he's just
looking to basically be a writer.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
So I was.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I'm a very different artist, I guess from what I saw, right.
My personal preference is more conscious, is more jay Z,
more Kendrick, more cold, you know, type of thing. Not
necessarily I'm not necessarily a pop artist when it comes
(20:56):
to top forty, you know, things like that as far
as my preyer friends goes. But I write it all
the time. Those are the things that those are the
melodies that are just in my head and that you know,
I naturally gravitate to when I'm writing.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
For other people.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Right, So me personally, though, when I'm speaking about writing,
I guess prior to I guess why I am now
because it's what we're talking in the past tense. I
was narrating my life a lot. You know, a lot
of narrations coming from Joy Road and libinoids. I' from
Detroit Michigan.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
What up though, you better give it you better give
it up to Jake Della, you know what.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
You know?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
When I was laughing because when he said he said Detroit,
I'm like, that's Detroit kind of sound. But you know
what's cool though, And I can see how lyrical you
really are is you can I can hear that song
right and I hear that the patents because she she
looked at me, what do you mean? I said, this, dude,
is a lyrical It goes because lyricists can make an
(22:01):
easy record like that, and you knew how simple it
really was, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
That's why, like when.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
You said all that about with the lyricists and the
soul and the way that you are, I was, And
he's a great writer. I was like he knew what
he was doing because he studied that era that was
just happening, and he was like, Yo, this is the
sound right now.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
But I'm so good at what I do. I can
write that sound easily like a.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Lot of things.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Also that that song really doesn't connect with my artistry
a lot because it sounds nothing like my art you know,
on a consistent basis.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
More people that.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Song has a life of its own as a life
of its own. It has a fan base of its own,
It has everything of its own, literally of its own
that has literally nothing to do with me, which is
a beautiful thing for me because I get to create
things for the culture and I don't necessarily have to
be a slagh to the culture.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I really I respect that a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah, I still get to go, you know, take my
niece out to the movies, you know, other than go
out to eat with my family and enjoy myself, you know,
without the constant pressures.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Of in the star doing the little file walking around
having this soul cold bodyguards and stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Right. I love that though, because you know what was
ill about him?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
He probably doesn't, you see, like the kind of artists
that basically is more kind of like not saying to yourself,
but more kind of like the type person that wants
to be.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Normal but loves doing music very much.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
So you know, to start them, really you would looking
just for like something to push on for the culture.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yeah, so there's no the beauty of it is like
love it. The fifteen minutes of fame. Let me know,
I didn't need an hour.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Ooh, I like that Oh man.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
He's coming up with some good stuff today.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
I did it for y'all, you know, said.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Right, two minutes of fame, I realized I didn't need
the hour.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah I did. I definitely didn't need an hour of this.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Too.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I want to really give a big shout out to him.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
We give a big shout to party Man and the
show the Game, you know, because again we have the show.
We have a show too on ninety seven point three FM,
The Heat, right and in Michigan. In Michigan too, grand
shout out to him too, you know what I'm saying,
because his show is dope too, because right after mine,
(24:40):
ladies and gentlemen, that's right.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I can also find me co hosting on that joint too,
maybe every now and then too on the Heat.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, really, yes he does, because I heard him the
other day too. I'm listen. I'm in tune. I'm why,
but I'm in tune. So I'll be listening and listening
and I'll be cheering on. You know.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
It's good to have a good team, man, and it's
good to have people that really.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Want to work with the artists. One thing that people understand, man,
the smart the best thing for an artist.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Is the promotion. Yeah, like you could go out and
write a record.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
But if you're not you know what I mean, Like,
if you don't have a game plan, you don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Where you push it, you don't know who's going to
take take charge of it, you don't put money in
your problem why you're doing it?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You know, because seriously, that is why we have all
the radio stations that we have around the country and
in international, right, but let me just focus on the States, Okay,
all right, So we have several around the country. But
the reason why we have gotten stations that we've also
gotten rid of, right because with the brand that we
(25:51):
have and the artists that we have, we want to
place them in the stations that are relevant for them.
You know, I'm trying to So it's not like we're
just picking any station. We're picking certain locations, certain stations
seating their demographics. I mean, there's a lot of like
people think, oh, they just put it on stations and
(26:12):
that's it. There's a lot of work behind that.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
We're trying to help people go play film, We're trying
to help people go go were trying to get them
up there in the top and the media base charge.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Okay, so you know we try to build no because
I'm saying we build that relationship with because there are
some stations that we not that we dropped. It's not
like we just said, you know, okay, you know, good
for us. It was just they were just not good
for the artists. It's not so much about what's good
for our brand. It's what stations can actually enhance the
We're not going to put you know, wrap art it.
(26:46):
We're gonna, oh well, let's go to Detroit, Let's go
to Atlanta, let's go to Chicago. You know, I'm trying
to say, it makes sense. It makes sense, like, okay,
so if we have these type of artists and stuff
like that, let's get these radio stations, the ones not
just also the ones that are the most popular. But
then it's like then we started moving up until oh,
let's put them in Italy, let's put them in Greece,
(27:08):
let's put them in Germany, let's put them in Australia.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
You're actually gonna be premier.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
They're gonna put me on your record actually and your shows,
the first one, first one, first one in Germany, Germany.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
So I'm putting you into Yeah, I wanted to give
you that man.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Yeah, not actually shoot German stats.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
They're amazing.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Germany loves me.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Oh really, Oh they're gonna love you more now big time.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
So that is actually because I saw you. I saw
when you posted that really and they had the big
German flag on that, like, okay, I see you on
the interaction the kid, that's what. Yeah, Germany is definitely
is rocking with your boy in the city heavy and
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
That is good to know because you know what that's
that's the kind of feedback I like from the artists
that we have on the show and stuff, because you know,
we're not always the brainchild of everything, right, and sometimes
when we get good feedback because you're the one who travels.
You're the one who goes from state to state and
goes wherever to perform and to sing and stuff like that,
so you probably have a little bit more of an
(28:09):
idea where we can go, you know, you know what
I'm saying, like they can get I'm glad he gave
me the feedback, you know, because now we know Germany
is m City's boy.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You know, we just got to keep him there and
that's it.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Now, right, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
So, now, after that song started picking up because I
remember watching an interview on if I'm correct, on Genius okay,
and you were. They were talking with you, right, you
are genius.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, why is he smiling? And why are you smiling?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Not?
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Because what I like genius is really like to me.
I like genius because Genius breaks down all the lyrics.
Oh okay, and I like what you were basically talking
about one Genius like when you were. That's why I
knew what kind of artists I was actually going to
bring up here because.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I get worried about my sometimes I'm worried about what
I did saying myself his interview, I'm like, oh.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
No, it wasn't bad at all, No, not at all.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
I like the way they broke it up. I like
the way that you basically, you know what I mean,
conduct yourself in there. So that's why I started, because
the thing is, man, before I bring somebody up on
this platform, I got to know what they're about first,
because I'm real culture. I'm not going to be putting
in it all because somebody got certain numbers and somebody's
going platinum.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
So I'm not bringing them up here.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I'm bringing somebody up here that's going to basically be
about what they say. They're about the way that they
push it, and they really care about the you know
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
They really care.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
About their craft, and you're one of them. That's why
I'm pushing you into the walls for war, into.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
The putting too hard into the walls.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Wanted to say the wheels.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Oh, okay, I'm just saying don't put I just reading.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Don't push it, Okay. So I also want to talk
about his new projects.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Mom.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I want to know what this is all about, because
it says I'm your new project. Mom Spaghetti inspired by
Detroit Legend Detroit Legend, M and N puked up dinner
from the hit song Lose Yourself. Screams. Okay, go ahead,
tell me more about that one.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
Mom's spaghetti. Yeah, spaghetti, Mom Spaghetti is it's such a
beautiful grace.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
I really love it.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Was It's really fun.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I'm trying to actually think right of like, I don't
remember that. I don't remember the moment that it came,
but I was I remember creating like I'm in this
space where I'm like I'm in album mode, but not
because I'm not really I'm just I'm probably being too
(30:54):
intimate with you, got me, and I'm giving you too
much info, So like, I'm really not an album mode.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
I'm kind of in mixed tape mode.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
And like, for those who don't understand the difference between
the two, is a mixtape, it's kind of like already
created song, so you're kind of like, how can I
make a compilation? Album mode is kind of like I'm
starting from scratch, right, I got new beats, new sounds,
I'm starting the writing process. So I'm not an album mode.
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I'm in mixed tape mode. I have a collection of songs.
I have a collection of things that haven't been released yet,
and I'm at the point where it's like, Okay, how
do I market this or how do I present this
to my fans in a way that's digestible for them?
Speaker 6 (31:41):
And it kind of just put me The vibe was.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
That was just the vibe fun ready these week arms
are heavy, It's vomit on this sweater already.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Mon spaghetti mom Gaddy.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
It was like where it is because that's how I
feel like.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
My palms are sweaty, my knees weak, my palms are heavy.
Is vombit on my sweater already? See I'm nervous, but
on the surface you feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
So that's just.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Ready to drop bombs and the keeps all forgetting what
he wrote down.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
The whole cra opens.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Like how corny and cliche, like does it have to
be that I'm from Detroit.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
At the end of the day, like it.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Was like a no brainer, you know, like, okay, well
you have to pay howmage to them? You know, in
that way, and and that was kind of just like
my thing, howmage to a Detroit legend kind of you know,
the parallels of the empathy if I understand exactly how
you feel, you know that moment right before you lose,
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you know, you just give it all and lose yourself.
So that's where I was at with it.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
You can do now and for me, like you can
do it like out the is Ravioli or something if
you want our Towrdolini. I'm I'm you know, I'm partial
to Greek.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
She's Greek.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Ado.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
There you go, Alphea, there you go. We're done. We're done, okay,
So anyway, just.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Put a giant gyro up on the cover, that's so
like ethnical.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Okay, well your Greek? What do you want me to talk?
I don't know when ever?
Speaker 6 (33:33):
I would love it.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
So anyway, can we get to can we get to
the song?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Let's get to the record.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I want to get to the song. So let's just
play the song. Please. Addicted to my ex.
Speaker 9 (33:46):
Let everybody out there be listening to my Man and
City and you know what is addicted to my ex
and we about to really get it. You ready, no
d NA radio slash your energetic show live right now
for everybody out there. That's how we're gonna be getting
it right now. You want to set it off or
(34:06):
set it off? Let's go City, set it off, Come on.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
More, come on.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
I'm pict flexing my every.
Speaker 10 (34:20):
I'm but I keep that on the No, no, no,
I keep that on you.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
I think I'm addicted to flexing on my own. I
think I'm addicted to flexing.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
My I think I'm addicted to flexing my O.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
I think I'm addicted to flexing on my own in Miami.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It's my international plans. I'm adicted.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
I flexed on my ex ey time that she me.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I know I'm she.
Speaker 10 (34:59):
Said, I ain't shitten my birming the places I took her.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
She getting out of court.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
I pushed it on this he.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Stuff, and she trying to ignore it.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Man.
Speaker 10 (35:08):
Yeah, I'm thought of the witnesses spite of that, but
she'd be catching a bust seeing her procuring.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I'm picking her up. When I pulled up, I gave
her a finger.
Speaker 11 (35:16):
I'm probably just.
Speaker 10 (35:17):
Didn't return it. I take it right back from my eye.
Ain't gonna never get back with her unless she touk
me like dragular. Listen, I'm telling you, I see your republic.
It's stun on the You see this coat?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Boy?
Speaker 10 (35:26):
Why keep her around? And she just got drum and
jump off the boat. I sent her a text and
told her I love her.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
And sent her reply.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
She blow on my phone and won't leave me alone.
So I'm predicted a fletion. No, my oh, held it
down there. We're fun in my own. I'm like, but
I keep that on the low.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
No, no, keep that on the.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
I think I'm addicted to flexing. No, my oh, I
think I'm addicted to flexing.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
No, my own.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
On my own and now.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
My home.
Speaker 11 (36:08):
Baby, I show up to all of her family investments.
Speaker 10 (36:19):
For mama still love me, and she got looking so
jelly if I'm.
Speaker 11 (36:24):
Really upset, but might even under her flat.
Speaker 10 (36:28):
As soon as she come up and hugged me, I
look and I say, she telling her friends, and I ain't.
Speaker 5 (36:32):
The man you mean?
Speaker 10 (36:34):
I noticed she want me to people in my road
you flee speaking of roadies. I left her locause she's
wasted my time. She's trying to come up with her,
but I can I see her. I'm legally, but I'm flagging, like.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Listen, lift, I'm swagging.
Speaker 10 (36:47):
If you had me, then you has been looking at
me now with your fashion Mike, his name is yasmine.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
I never do because for my.
Speaker 10 (36:53):
Passing life a college example, trying the man, I.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Don't give a damn.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
So I'm.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
No my own heading down they were for in my
own clothes.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I'm like, but I keep that.
Speaker 7 (37:07):
On the No. No, no, I think I'm anadict this
to flexing, No my own. I think I'm addicted to flexing,
No my own. I think I'm addicted to flexing.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
No my own.
Speaker 7 (37:22):
I think I'm addicted to flexing, No my home, flexing
on my own.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
I'm gonna dick it to Okay. I love that Oh, I'm.
Speaker 12 (37:45):
Not gonna lie to you like you are having in
that studio. Yeah, it seemed like you basically were like,
I know, I.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Am still.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I love the I love the.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Let me say one thing real quick, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I like the kittens on that record.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
That kitten's on the record is crazy, didn't I?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yeah? Man, I heard that. I was like, damn, you.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Know back because I've honestly never did it again, really never.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
I've never done it ever again.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I am just I.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Should do that again?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Should you should? What are you nuts?
Speaker 3 (38:37):
What are you nuts?
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Question?
Speaker 3 (38:41):
You never did?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
What is he? He had a winning formula and that's
like him having a gorgeous, beautiful fast race car and
he's like, you know what, I'll take the Toyota on
the racetrack instead.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
You just don't do that. True.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
That's like me having, right that beautiful race car you're
talking about, yeah, and me still having that beautiful race
car ten years later.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Oh oh, now you're gonna go with me with race
cards now right now you're using my euphemism.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
But you got to take out the engine on that one.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Okay, it is a classic.
Speaker 6 (39:19):
Now, it's a classic. It's know how those.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Pay listen, Dude, I am still fla. It's only him
on that record. No, Now, don't tell me you knew
I knew it because you knew.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
But a record especially for you, for me, especially for you,
for me. I'm sat to this record because when I
play this record for people, the disclaimer is what only
person on this song.
Speaker 6 (39:56):
I have to let people know that what.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
You're listening to is everything voice that you hear on
this song belongs to me. So I'm gonna send you there.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
You know what it is. Because the thing is, it's
like he's the kind of guy, right he can fool
people in a room, Like he can go in the bathroom, right,
and then the people will think there's a party going
on in there, and he can do all these different
kind of voices and be like, Yo, what is m
City doing in there? They wouldn't know because he has
I'm just.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Saying that's a bad analogy.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Okay, I'll think of another analogy. I'm just saying I'm.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Going to say. Now I'm going to say like that.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Okay, I'm gonna say, if you're going up and battling
the rapper, right, yeah, you're battling somebody you'll never He's
so creative that you won't even know who hit you
with that stole, you know what I'm saying. That's how
I look at it, me as an artist, always taking
a look like, bro, he can.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Hit you with that.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
He'll be up on stage and all I den I,
and then you'd be like damn.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
And then all of a sudden he'll come off with
probably like a lyrical kind of record that you probably
would he because I.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Want to hear one of your lyrical records.
Speaker 6 (41:03):
Yeah, they're all over the place.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
You want to I got to hear one of your
lyrical ones.
Speaker 6 (41:09):
You gotta.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Oh anyway, they're all over the place.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Oh I am listen.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
I'm not saying they all get overshadowed by addicted, right,
And I.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Can see that. I can see that.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Well that's going to happen when you have something that
is on fire.
Speaker 6 (41:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
I mean they's been on fire for ten years.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
And I've only been on fire for like the last
ten to fifteen minutes since about it.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Oh God, there you go.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
That's it. But you know what I really appreciate, you know,
he is so like real Okay, because a lot of
them that are out there they're all fake. You're not fu.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
God, stop the bomb in that one.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
You know, he's just not fake. I can tell you know.
And it's this is my first interaction with you.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
You love the art, I love the music.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
How many times have I picked out like psychic? Right,
like that psychic ability that I have.
Speaker 4 (42:09):
Bro, we go to a lot of showcases, right, and
we walk out of the showcase.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Yeah I would.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
I would not walk out on They make us guests
like literally judges, and it's like I can't even stay
in the room half of the time.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Yeah, because it's just like, you know, what it is
is that everybody is like so.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
The same, the same, and he's nobody like you. Right.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
The crazy thing is I was like, yo, he's an
artist because look, nobody justices like that.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Not in a bad way. It's just nobody judging nobody.
Speaker 4 (42:42):
It's so comfortable nobody you can I can always see
like a real creative artist because artists.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
Like that.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Nobody normal. No, the normal person doesn't. That's no, come on.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
He's in his artist form all the time.
Speaker 4 (43:05):
You can see it, even when he gets dressed, even
when he writes, when he wakes up that's an artist
form like you, a real artist.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
A real artist can see another real artist. Okay, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (43:18):
Because I can see it, I can always go like this, really, yo,
he's he's dope artist.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
There was an artist that came to the showcase.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
Right that had electronic electronic can literally like this, but
it wasn't like his real hand.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
His real hand was underneath it. I was like, this
dude is gonna be insane. And he was.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
An electronic arm.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
You don't remember that he had the thing like this
with the shelt down here and he had an arm
like that.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Oh you're talking about yeah, shout out to Will. But
all I'm saying is he's yeah, I see what you're
saying about him.
Speaker 8 (43:52):
Now, No, he just you he's very artsy now he
just knows what he's doing, so artsy, see, very mindful.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
All right. So now I want to get to Now
I want to get to dope. A couple of cool questions.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
How was it when you first heard that single and
that single started popping off the way it did, m.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
What was your first reaction?
Speaker 4 (44:18):
You know what I'm saying, Like, when did you realize
it was starting to just go and had a life
of its own.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
So that record, I said, that record had a very
had a very interesting life.
Speaker 6 (44:33):
Though.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
That is a record, and I mean this in the
most humble way, that is a record that it was
a no brainer.
Speaker 6 (44:41):
We kind of all knew it was a hit.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
It was one of those records you played in the
studio and everybody says the same thing.
Speaker 6 (44:47):
That's it, that's it, that's it.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
So it wasn't like something that we knew, wasn't it.
It was something that we knew what was it, and
we knew that we had to nurture it properly.
Speaker 6 (45:00):
We had to do the right thing with it. We
have a hit record, Now, what are you going to
do with it?
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
What I was gonna say. Was a lot of times
you can have hit records, but it dies.
Speaker 4 (45:14):
Yeah, I'm when it gets to the public because of
the marketing, the promotion and the puns you know behind it.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
Yeah, I mean I remember it though. It was you
know yesterday, I'm still broke his hell, sleeping on my
girlfriend's grandmother's couch and I wake up.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
At the top of the night house anytime you want,
and I.
Speaker 6 (45:36):
Wake up and you know, it's like the daily thing.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
You check the phone and I think it's like at
ten thousand views, and it's like, oh wow, that's you know,
that's pretty exciting. I've had numbers even bigger numbers than
that before, but not necessarily that quick, or on something
that didn't have a video. It was just a song.
Song was just on YouTube, and it did about ten
thousand one day. I remember walking up like, oh wow,
(45:59):
ten thousand, nice, and then I think the next day
it might have been are like seventeen thousand, and the
next day it was at like twenty something thousand, and
I was like, oh.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
Wait, people are listening to it, right, listen.
Speaker 6 (46:14):
Are people listening to this?
Speaker 3 (46:15):
But a lot of people are listening to this, and
a lot of people are listening to this. They're listening
to it over and over again.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Yeah, that's true, that's true over again.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
So I think once after like literally after the first
day at ten it did ten thousand, I think literally
like the next day it was at seventeen, and then
you know, the next day just kept going up like
by the fives and tens. Right. I was like, all right,
that's it, it's gone, guys. I remember waking up one
day to twenty thousand views. Wow, and remember processing the
(46:51):
fact that overnight, twenty thousand people had listened to that song,
just overnight, like somewhere without me knowing, without any you know,
knowledge or recollection of what's going on.
Speaker 6 (47:01):
People are listening, you know, to the music. And so
that was.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
Pretty much it, you know what it is too, though,
I think a lot of times, like even with a
couple of like songs that he has done, I see
a lot it's not just about timing. It's about believe
it or not. I think it's the month that you
put that song out, or the time of the year,
or if there's a special holiday. I think there's a lot.
(47:27):
I think it has a lot to do with that too,
because a lot of people don't want to hear a
summer song in January.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
Well, again, it's quarters, you know.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Right, you know, I'm trying to say so because sometimes
you may you've put out a song right that it's
not doing so it's doing okay, But then as you
just make sure you just keep on getting it played everywhere,
you know, and then sometimes all it takes is that
one moment in time where that song just hits at
(48:00):
the right time, and then boom.
Speaker 6 (48:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
So I do agree. I agree one hundred. But there
is a thin line in that perspective that has the
opportunity to keep artists kind of at bay to a
point where they won't release music at all. Right, And
here's my my perspective. You're just now hearing the song, right,
(48:24):
who loved.
Speaker 6 (48:25):
The song Where the Fall?
Speaker 2 (48:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (48:29):
I released that eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
I know that's the crazy start.
Speaker 3 (48:34):
At least eight years ago in the summer.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (48:39):
If the thing is right, if I if I have
a mindset of perfect month, perfect time, perfect season, I'll
never drop what is the perfect what is.
Speaker 6 (48:51):
The perfect time?
Speaker 3 (48:52):
You are correct?
Speaker 6 (48:53):
But the trick with that.
Speaker 3 (48:55):
Is already have the music out, Yeah, already have the
man and let the people decide when they.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Right, exactly right.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
And I tell her too everything you know he's catching it.
Speaker 6 (49:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (49:09):
Two months later down the line and it's summertime, and
you know, my friend just happens to play this song
and I fall in.
Speaker 6 (49:14):
Love with it.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
That's just when I fell in love with it. I
caught it in the summer. I caught it at that
time in boom. Now it's a part of that eraror right,
or that that.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
Real quick, right, real quick.
Speaker 4 (49:24):
I mean to cut you off, but there's a record
that I did my father in twenty twenty one that
got on Billboards twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
Two years later.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
You know what I'm saying. So like, that's what I
was telling them two years.
Speaker 3 (49:36):
No, So I released Addicted originally in twenty fifteen August
twenty fifteen of August. I didn't release the video until
twenty sixteen. Oh wow, you know so, Like I said, Bro,
(49:59):
we were sitting, we're sitting on the record for a year,
and then on top of sitting it on there, we
I didn't sign to Atlantic until we dropped the video
in January. I didn't sign to Atlantic until May. What
you're talking about another six months?
Speaker 2 (50:16):
You know?
Speaker 4 (50:17):
For fourteen million to today on Atlantic, just on that
YouTube one more time. You have fourteen million just on
there on their set.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
I've been robbed of almost a billion in streams.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
I believe it. I believe I believe it.
Speaker 3 (50:35):
So I'm talking about there's there's been multiple fifty million
stream videos that have been taken down, removed, multiple, not
not one, not too you know, multiple and in the
in the hundreds of millions you know that have been
taken down. That's in if you can well, I'm not
(50:57):
sure if you guys will be able to like track
the time. But even that twenty sixteen period of vine
TikTok musically YouTube alone had hundreds of millions of streams
on that song. I can search it today and can't
find most of any of them.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
And there's no there's no way of of we tracking
that or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (51:20):
You might can go back to the twenty fifteen stats
and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
They can't take away within their hearts. You know it's there,
it's imprinted. Whoever played it fifty million times will remember that.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
We'll remember it, man, that's true.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
At the end of the even you're killing it.
Speaker 6 (51:42):
Yeah, I don't guess.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
I don't fear because the real is happening regardless.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
You got that right, So just remember his song Addicted
to my ex It's on its way to one hundred
million streams on Spotify. I want to thank you so much.
I've enjoyed you so much, man, mister j I love him.
But give everybody your call, signed on IG and everything
where they can find you.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
So listen, guys, I'm always being banned off IG because
I'm a bit too explicit for the platform. But catch
me at please pay Papa or ig you can create
find me at created by Papua everywhere else.
Speaker 1 (52:24):
Please pay Papa. I'm gonna ask you on the side
of what that means, but you know, okay, please pay.
I love him, Please pay Papa.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
Very artie, very crazy, very artsy.
Speaker 1 (52:34):
I'm telling you, he's so artsy. I love you. Thank
you so much, EMC Junior for coming on the show.
We really appreciate it. Shout out to Pati Ali, we
love you too.
Speaker 4 (52:43):
And remember everybody watched the game too. I mean listen
to the game as well. The game over in ninety
seven point ninety seven point three in Michigan. Baby, Okay,
So again, thank you so much for coming on the show.
And I hope, I hope you tune in again Sunday
nights at eight PM's Eastern Standard time right here DNA
(53:06):
Live Paradise Studios. Thank you again. Peace out, everybody, see
you next week.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
Peace out, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm daddy and I'm out there and we are being
a love baby.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
What's going on everybody?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
You know what I got. We got some special shout outs.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Go ahead, give me a special shout out.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So you want to do the birthdays first, yeah, man, okay,
we'll do the birthdays.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
First off.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I want to say happy birthday to my boy Chris
shout out, and Natasha too, Man, much love.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It was a great day yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yeah, we had such a nice you know what.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It felt good, not really like you know, talking about
like music that much.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You talk about music at all?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I know.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Okay, So we had a great time with Chris and Natasha.
And happy birthday Chris again.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
And also to be shut out to my brother, my
baby brother, Joey.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Man, much love to you man. You turn sixteen today, man,
and you know what, my brother love you man.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I love you to death. Bro, Happy birthday. Everybody's hearing
you right now. That's my baby brother right there. Ain't
no games, ain't no jokes. Muscle up to him. Mom, Hello,
Hi Mom, Rosie, Justina love y'all.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
So I also go, yeah, Mom, I know your birthday's
coming up to next week, next week, don't worry, I
got something for you.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Are you done?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Okay. I also wanted to shout out to Miss Jay.
I had the pleasure of, you know, being there for
one of her performances on Friday night. She was at
the famous food festival in Deer Park at the Tanker Outlets.
There was so much food, but I got to eat
(01:49):
her up. I mean, she was just I mean Miss
Jay and the Misfits. They are fabulous and her dad
was on guitar. I mean, you can't get any better
than that. You got to check her out Miss Jay
and the Misfits. Also shout out to my boy Barry
and Christy they were there as well. Of course they're
part of their team, but it was just you know,
(02:10):
when you have a nice set a group of people
and we all get along and it's just so much fun.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
So also I wanted to shout out to Howard my boy.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
La are we doing out there?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And Gina and of course Miss Debbie my girl, she
helps me out with everything. Also to Chris Milo of
course every brother.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Definitely, I'm going to show you guys charts in the second.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, every day of the week, dude, Chris Milo, we
love you. Also to everybody that is on our platform,
you know, like Chris Milo, Ronkat Baker, Grace Ka Rhymes,
Miss Jay, you guys are just phenomenal and we love you.
So we have obviously the media base. So every week
(03:00):
we're showing the charts to show.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
You what media base and digital radio radio tracks.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Y'ah know too. Be shout out to Michael.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, so I mean it's just a it's a really
good thing. So I mean, I'm glad that everybody that's
on board gets to if you want to put.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
The charts up, Yeah, put the charts up.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Okay, if you can put the charts up, we got
media base.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And right now, that's digital tracker right there.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Bibi shout to my man Hoodie and stuff like that,
because his record started to honestly catch fire, so big
big shout out to him.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Man shout Christophomlo as well.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
He caught fire this week too as well a couple
other records.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Be shout to Miss Jay. She's always up in the
always up inside the charts. My LA connects over there.
Be big shout out to my man DJ Green God,
he's killing it right now.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Show time Poppy his girl too, you know. And big big.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Shout out to Jaka of course, and Charles Hamilton be
shout to you too, because you're reaching very high goals
right now on the charts.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Okay, do we have the media base one?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Put it hit the media. Get the media base all
right now when you look inside the media base.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
No, it's hard for yat to see right now. But
bach and hold up. Okay, I gotta say too, Baby
shout out.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
To my man two on here. You know what I'm saying. Okay,
m City Junior.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Theylling it right now to on the media charts as
well as digital radio track of charts. He's not just
he's just like, he's just not he's moving. He's killing
it right now.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
But he's killing it.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So baby shout out to him, big shotut to shot,
big shouts to go ahead to shot.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Also to our boy in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The heat,
the heat, ninety ninety seven point three.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
The heat.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
And then you got our guys in Miami the Place
FM eighty eight point seven in Boss Radio. You got
DJ Yo Yo, you got Scorpio, you got Cory and
I missed oh showtimehead am I missing anybody? Got I
got them all? Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So with that he said scorpio.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Right, Oh did I say scorpio?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I just did. But listen, big.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Shout out to my May and Reggie Lanees and definitely
watched this show too. Man the the high Rise Man,
big big shout out to him, Big shout out to
Blue Dias, big shout out to David l and Showcase.
We keep him on that record, big shout to my man.
Gave big shout out to all the independent artists that
are coming on to.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I keep telling everybody something.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
You can say something.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Man, DNA's killing it too. Give us some love.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I'm just playing there's love. But listen, we're gonna be
right back with a great yes man.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
What a great guest, great great great great great great
great guy. And his name is m City Junior. After
this commercial break, we'll be right right back.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
You put your head up right now.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
We're inside the water with ourselves.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You America. We gonna wake up from this where the
real Americans at where we act.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Man, you blinded and you lie, You just send suicide
your own Everyone pretenses love you for messing you whopping
homes laughing without the way you can't even afford food
and everybody looking at you whack.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It's so rude.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
They thinking that they love you your skin, that's what
they see. They don't understand the militant weller speed. But
they ain't good that they got. They just play for
each other. I said of water trying to come for us,
kill one enough. But I woke up last night. I
gotta talk to my pants. You tell them listen, we
gotta march and what do we get?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You laughing?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
You cry and where you feel in the skating and
say you went all the time. They just him and
they don't modesty you doors, bringing their dowers over the life.
They're like, it's what they want to try and put
you inside with a lock and spend no block.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
It's all you want to hear.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Were just the cops screaming.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Likes us now all the side and we're thinking prices
and putting that to there because crashing.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
The crisis now they hate didn't tell the way how
they even look.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
They try to like usself go with Domn trying to
play the one that get his child every time, trying
to get it fo overshop.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Tell your gods they have.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
The love and try to turning. Now we're close with
the phone next to weekach other's years, but wet my
social distance, say cale hoo ony years and trying to
act like we ain't one inside at home.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
We acting like that we ain't wanted way inside home.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
I said, we want to go. Said look fine, hold on.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You can't say, said he And we're back, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yes we are, okay, So please welcome to the show.
Rap artist m City Junior.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Please, mister worldwide, mister national, mister. We are killing it
right now, all over.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I know you know what. I am so excited to
have him, I really am. But let me just say,
let's go. I want to first the only two things
I want to point out is that he was just
signed to Atlantic Records, correct, Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Okay, so wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I'm just letting. I just want to put my two
points across first, okay. And then also that song that
we're going to play later, the Addicted to My Ex
I love it. By the way, it's on its way
to a hundred million streams on spot We need that
a million streams on Spotify, and it's on its way
(09:12):
to double platinum.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
By put it higher go ahead.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
That's a fact, Thank y'all. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I feel like introduction to like one of those fights,
you know what I'm saying, Like I just got rumble.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Like, but yeah, I was gonna say, how does it
feel with that build up that, you know, as it's
now progressing and getting all that attention, how does that
make you feel right now?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Man, I think that's that's a good question.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I think it's really for me, it's really setting like
sitting back and kind of observing. It's kind of like
a marathon kind of feel, you know, tethon thing. So
I've been pushing this record for quite some time, like
just staying on it, constantly promoting it, constantly keeping it
in the fans face, and the fans love it, like
(10:06):
they're constantly reinventing things and reinventing ways to I guess,
like express how they feel with this song. So that's
a great feeling to literally see the fans keep reinventing
ways to push the song, to dance to the song,
to you just to be involved with it. That's probably
(10:26):
like the greatest feeling for sure, because I don't know
where they come.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Up with it, But no, I love it.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Man.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I was watching with the two girls and all that
I take people. I was like, yeah, I was like,
I said, man, TikTok on that.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, we're gonna surprise you. But you know we're not
that good of actors.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Okay, you're not. I am.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Are you challenging me right now?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Okay, I'm just saying all I'm saying. It's a really
I mean, it's it's a crazy song.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
You know, I love it. I'll take this.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
This is it. I was like, yeah, okay, it's a
crazy but you know what it is is that you
can do so many songs right, and you put him
out there and you don't know what's going to hit
at what particular time. You never know what.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Was your mindset when you were making that record.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Make some money. Yeah, I was writing. I was actually
in a writing session when I did that record.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
I originally wrote that song for Young Thug.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I was writing for Atlantic at the time, writing for
Meek Mill, writing for Jezus or something.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Like the Atlantic artist at the time that I was
writing for, and.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Thug and my management just didn't see how to I
at the time. And so he came back and he's
like Yo, it's still a great record through the record yourself.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
And so I did you know, so, I think at
the time, I was just in my bag.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I was just in a writing bag, you know, just
really and I just wanted to capture something for like
the era, you know what I'm saying, Like I kind
of just really wanted to capture something for the era.
I wanted to Like I heard that a while ago
that that's really what good music does.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Good music capture time capsule basically.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
It always it always basically just you know, promotes that era.
So you always when you hear that record, you go
right back into the era memory exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
So the fact that I was intentionally searching for that
energy and I believe I channeled it pretty well, you know,
that's a great thing for me.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
I enjoyed that part.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, I I you know, we were bumping like what
do you call that? Like, you know, I'll spinning it.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I'll be spinning it and everyone be looking at me
and be like what do you It would be like Yo, yeah, yeah,
I like that record. Yo, can I get that record? Ticket? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Go ahead, But you know, I'm doing dishes or something,
and he's like coming up I'm buying, you know, like, yeah,
what's like, Oh my god, stop it, just stop it.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You're not my ex. I can't. I can't.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Well I'm not your ex, but I will be if
you keep doing that.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
No divorce remix.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Me, cause you know me me with the I do
like rap music. I'm not you know. I like every genre.
You know that, but there are only certain rap songs
I will be honest, that really catch me. You know,
I am not a person that will like every rap
song out there. So when this was played, just even
(13:30):
by the intro, I right, even just by the intro,
I was where'd you go? Where you go in m City?
Get back here?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And he's still here. He's still here, He's still here.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
All I'm saying is that from the first like introduction
and everything that that. You know what, Let me just
say one thing. Okay, I'm an old I'm an old sort.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Right, go ahead, let's hear this.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
But it's always been about the I'm just telling you
the truth. It's all about the intro because it's a setup. Okay.
It's just like an actor going for a movie roll
or whatever and their auditioning. It's the it's the way
you present it's the way you're you're leading into the song, right,
and if if the start song doesn't grab you.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Suspenseful right, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
And it's like I just the intro right away to
the when before the song starts, I'm like, it grabs you.
It grabs you, and then you're singing and all that
little background vocals and stuff like that. It you know,
it brings you in and it keeps you there. A
lot of rap songs for me, they start off decent
(14:39):
and then by like the first.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
And then you're lost.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, I'm like, oh my god, where was this going?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
You know, you don't have the concept like you had
the concept keep running and running and running around.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I love the concept.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
The concept is crazy because nobody really talks about starting
on the X, but everybody wants to, you know what
I'm saying. So like when he came up with that,
I was like, yeah, that's like when I heard the record.
I' but yeah, and the way that basically it's something
that everybody has.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
You have an ex. I have an ex.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I know you do, yeah big.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Time, but no, but you know, also I wanted to
say is also give props to the producer of that
song and also the vocals. Whoever else is on that
song with you.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
There is absolutely no one else on that song with me.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
That is me talking about them.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
That is all you.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Totally. Blew you just blew my mind. I was sure
there was someone else. I'm like, damn, that is really
good too.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Then my question to you too, man, is let's get
back into Let's get back into So they told you
to just take the record and go.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Were you already signed to Atlantic and you were just
writing for him?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yep, I was just really writing for him. I wasn't
signed to him at all. I was actually writing for
them and not having and not having the most fun. Right.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
You know, I don't know if anybody knows really about
the songwriting world, but it's not.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Why don't why don't you talk to them real quick
about It's not easy.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You know, it's not It's not the easiest thing. It's
not like I guess artists very perspective. Know, it's in perspective.
So the decision of something being a hit is someone's opinion. Yeah,
and that and most most of the time it's the
opinion of the person who controls the budget, so you know,
(16:38):
you can write a trash song and if the person
controlling the budget believes in it, it's a right and
that's just what it is. So yeah, songwriting, and they
really don't listen to you when you when you don't
have a long, extensive rap sheet of hits.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
You know, they're kind of just taking it in as how.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Do I can? I can explain it as like an
extra in acting, like a back your background dancer, you know, like, oh,
if the main character slips and falls, well we'll grab it,
you know. But if you're not you know, some if
you're not the dream or Neo or you know what
I'm saying, or some high profile songwriter hit maker, then
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it's kind of hard to get your your things in there.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Yeah, I'm putting the door and then to actually come
and listen to you one more time, usually like because I've.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Done a little bit of songwriting as well. It's very hard.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
A lot of people don't realize it's very hard to
get inside the door when you don't have anything. It's
like have like a portfolio, it's like having basically like
you know, the regular job, I mean, like a job, college.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Degree, basically that's how they look at it realactly.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It's like, you know what when you say a I
I a song, right, they're looking for hits and the
question is, well, what have you you know, what have
you written?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
And if you again, this is the music industry. So
if you don't have any act that reflect the music industry,
you know, you're kind of overlooked.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So that's actually, that's really kind of a shame because
there are a lot of people like you and him,
let's say, right, that have such great not just potential,
that have real heart and real genuine soul for the
music that you do, right, and they would be you know,
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this guy may have something that is so special in
a song, right, and they they're overlooked because they're not
a jay Z or a big time.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
But that's always gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
It's kind of stupid.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
But the way I look at it too is jay
Z started somewhere. Now started somewhere, it is, but.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Back then it was different.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And have the term, have the term. You need experience
to get experienced. So it's not necessarily I mean, you know,
you can cry about it, you can boohoo it sucks,
but it's just the way the world works. You know,
if I was going for a dental assistant job, I
would still need experience to get experience. It doesn't matter
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higher experienced people and reputable people with reputable work.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
And you know how.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Much you talent is not always is going to be
you know the experience. You know, experience speaks talent a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Now, I'm very I want to ask a questions.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
So when you bought that record in and Thug said
his management said that you should just do it?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
No no, no, management said that. I soug Thug into
up passing on it. They didn't end up seeing out
an eye on the record. I can see, and Doug
had a lot going on at the time too. So
at this time, maybe take you back, like we're in
twenty sixteen, twenty fifteen, so we're talking about rich Gang
is just now live in effect him and Kwan is
really live and effect him and Birdman situation is brand new.
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So it's just a lot of you know, a lot
of moving parts.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
At the time, ye neither to make.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
One of these situations where it wasn't seen eye to
eye on what was going on. It could even been
like management and label issues again, Atlantic is like, well,
it's a hit record, so yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Are you going to pass on it? Or you know,
are you gonna do it yourself?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
And you were like, I'm just doing it already wrote it?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Were they?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Were they when they were like, all right, did you?
Were you looking to be an artist where he's just
looking to basically be a writer.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
So I was.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I'm a very different artist, I guess from what I saw, right.
My personal preference is more conscious, is more jay Z,
more Kendrick, more cold, you know, type of thing. Not
necessarily I'm not necessarily a pop artist when it comes
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to top forty, you know, things like that as far
as my preyer friends goes. But I write it all
the time. Those are the things that those are the
melodies that are just in my head and that you know,
I naturally gravitate to when I'm writing.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
For other people.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Right, So me personally, though, when I'm speaking about writing,
I guess prior to I guess why I am now
because it's what we're talking in the past tense. I
was narrating my life a lot. You know, a lot
of narrations coming from Joy Road and libinoids. I' from
Detroit Michigan.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
What up though, you better give it you better give
it up to Jake Della, you know what.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
You know?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
When I was laughing because when he said he said Detroit,
I'm like, that's Detroit kind of sound. But you know
what's cool though, And I can see how lyrical you
really are is you can I can hear that song
right and I hear that the patents because she she
looked at me, what do you mean? I said, this, dude,
is a lyrical It goes because lyricists can make an
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easy record like that, and you knew how simple it
really was, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
That's why, like when.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
You said all that about with the lyricists and the
soul and the way that you are, I was, And
he's a great writer. I was like he knew what
he was doing because he studied that era that was
just happening, and he was like, Yo, this is the
sound right now.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
But I'm so good at what I do. I can
write that sound easily like a.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Lot of things.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Also that that song really doesn't connect with my artistry
a lot because it sounds nothing like my art you know,
on a consistent basis.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
More people that.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Song has a life of its own as a life
of its own. It has a fan base of its own,
It has everything of its own, literally of its own
that has literally nothing to do with me, which is
a beautiful thing for me because I get to create
things for the culture and I don't necessarily have to
be a slagh to the culture.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I really I respect that a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah, I still get to go, you know, take my
niece out to the movies, you know, other than go
out to eat with my family and enjoy myself, you know,
without the constant pressures.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Of in the star doing the little file walking around
having this soul cold bodyguards and stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Right. I love that though, because you know what was
ill about him?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
He probably doesn't, you see, like the kind of artists
that basically is more kind of like not saying to yourself,
but more kind of like the type person that wants
to be.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Normal but loves doing music very much.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
So you know, to start them, really you would looking
just for like something to push on for the culture.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yeah, so there's no the beauty of it is like
love it. The fifteen minutes of fame. Let me know,
I didn't need an hour.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Ooh, I like that Oh man.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
He's coming up with some good stuff today.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
I did it for y'all, you know, said.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Right, two minutes of fame, I realized I didn't need
the hour.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah I did. I definitely didn't need an hour of this.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Too.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I want to really give a big shout out to him.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
We give a big shout to party Man and the
show the Game, you know, because again we have the show.
We have a show too on ninety seven point three FM,
The Heat, right and in Michigan. In Michigan too, grand
shout out to him too, you know what I'm saying,
because his show is dope too, because right after mine,
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ladies and gentlemen, that's right.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I can also find me co hosting on that joint too,
maybe every now and then too on the Heat.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, really, yes he does, because I heard him the
other day too. I'm listen. I'm in tune. I'm why,
but I'm in tune. So I'll be listening and listening
and I'll be cheering on. You know.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
It's good to have a good team, man, and it's
good to have people that really.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Want to work with the artists. One thing that people understand, man,
the smart the best thing for an artist.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Is the promotion. Yeah, like you could go out and
write a record.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
But if you're not you know what I mean, Like,
if you don't have a game plan, you don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Where you push it, you don't know who's going to
take take charge of it, you don't put money in
your problem why you're doing it?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You know, because seriously, that is why we have all
the radio stations that we have around the country and
in international, right, but let me just focus on the States, Okay,
all right, So we have several around the country. But
the reason why we have gotten stations that we've also
gotten rid of, right because with the brand that we
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have and the artists that we have, we want to
place them in the stations that are relevant for them.
You know, I'm trying to So it's not like we're
just picking any station. We're picking certain locations, certain stations
seating their demographics. I mean, there's a lot of like
people think, oh, they just put it on stations and
(26:12):
that's it. There's a lot of work behind that.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
We're trying to help people go play film, We're trying
to help people go go were trying to get them
up there in the top and the media base charge.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Okay, so you know we try to build no because
I'm saying we build that relationship with because there are
some stations that we not that we dropped. It's not
like we just said, you know, okay, you know, good
for us. It was just they were just not good
for the artists. It's not so much about what's good
for our brand. It's what stations can actually enhance the
We're not going to put you know, wrap art it.
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We're gonna, oh well, let's go to Detroit, Let's go
to Atlanta, let's go to Chicago. You know, I'm trying
to say, it makes sense. It makes sense, like, okay,
so if we have these type of artists and stuff
like that, let's get these radio stations, the ones not
just also the ones that are the most popular. But
then it's like then we started moving up until oh,
let's put them in Italy, let's put them in Greece,
(27:08):
let's put them in Germany, let's put them in Australia.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
You're actually gonna be premier.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
They're gonna put me on your record actually and your shows,
the first one, first one, first one in Germany, Germany.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
So I'm putting you into Yeah, I wanted to give
you that man.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Yeah, not actually shoot German stats.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
They're amazing.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Germany loves me.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Oh really, Oh they're gonna love you more now big time.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
So that is actually because I saw you. I saw
when you posted that really and they had the big
German flag on that, like, okay, I see you on
the interaction the kid, that's what. Yeah, Germany is definitely
is rocking with your boy in the city heavy and
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
That is good to know because you know what that's
that's the kind of feedback I like from the artists
that we have on the show and stuff, because you know,
we're not always the brainchild of everything, right, and sometimes
when we get good feedback because you're the one who travels.
You're the one who goes from state to state and
goes wherever to perform and to sing and stuff like that,
so you probably have a little bit more of an
(28:09):
idea where we can go, you know, you know what
I'm saying, like they can get I'm glad he gave
me the feedback, you know, because now we know Germany
is m City's boy.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You know, we just got to keep him there and
that's it.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Now, right, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
So, now, after that song started picking up because I
remember watching an interview on if I'm correct, on Genius okay,
and you were. They were talking with you, right, you
are genius.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, why is he smiling? And why are you smiling?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Not?
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Because what I like genius is really like to me.
I like genius because Genius breaks down all the lyrics.
Oh okay, and I like what you were basically talking
about one Genius like when you were. That's why I
knew what kind of artists I was actually going to
bring up here because.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I get worried about my sometimes I'm worried about what
I did saying myself his interview, I'm like, oh.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
No, it wasn't bad at all, No, not at all.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
I like the way they broke it up. I like
the way that you basically, you know what I mean,
conduct yourself in there. So that's why I started, because
the thing is, man, before I bring somebody up on
this platform, I got to know what they're about first,
because I'm real culture. I'm not going to be putting
in it all because somebody got certain numbers and somebody's
going platinum.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
So I'm not bringing them up here.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I'm bringing somebody up here that's going to basically be
about what they say. They're about the way that they
push it, and they really care about the you know
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
They really care.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
About their craft, and you're one of them. That's why
I'm pushing you into the walls for war, into.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
The putting too hard into the walls.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Wanted to say the wheels.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Oh, okay, I'm just saying don't put I just reading.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Don't push it, Okay. So I also want to talk
about his new projects.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Mom.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I want to know what this is all about, because
it says I'm your new project. Mom Spaghetti inspired by
Detroit Legend Detroit Legend, M and N puked up dinner
from the hit song Lose Yourself. Screams. Okay, go ahead,
tell me more about that one.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
Mom's spaghetti. Yeah, spaghetti, Mom Spaghetti is it's such a
beautiful grace.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
I really love it.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Was It's really fun.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I'm trying to actually think right of like, I don't
remember that. I don't remember the moment that it came,
but I was I remember creating like I'm in this
space where I'm like I'm in album mode, but not
because I'm not really I'm just I'm probably being too
(30:54):
intimate with you, got me, and I'm giving you too
much info, So like, I'm really not an album mode.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
I'm kind of in mixed tape mode.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
And like, for those who don't understand the difference between
the two, is a mixtape, it's kind of like already
created song, so you're kind of like, how can I
make a compilation? Album mode is kind of like I'm
starting from scratch, right, I got new beats, new sounds,
I'm starting the writing process. So I'm not an album mode.
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I'm in mixed tape mode. I have a collection of songs.
I have a collection of things that haven't been released yet,
and I'm at the point where it's like, Okay, how
do I market this or how do I present this
to my fans in a way that's digestible for them?
Speaker 6 (31:41):
And it kind of just put me The vibe was.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
That was just the vibe fun ready these week arms
are heavy, It's vomit on this sweater already.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Mon spaghetti mom Gaddy.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
It was like where it is because that's how I
feel like.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
My palms are sweaty, my knees weak, my palms are heavy.
Is vombit on my sweater already? See I'm nervous, but
on the surface you feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
So that's just.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Ready to drop bombs and the keeps all forgetting what
he wrote down.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
The whole cra opens.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Like how corny and cliche, like does it have to
be that I'm from Detroit.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
At the end of the day, like it.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Was like a no brainer, you know, like, okay, well
you have to pay howmage to them? You know, in
that way, and and that was kind of just like
my thing, howmage to a Detroit legend kind of you know,
the parallels of the empathy if I understand exactly how
you feel, you know that moment right before you lose,
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you know, you just give it all and lose yourself.
So that's where I was at with it.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
You can do now and for me, like you can
do it like out the is Ravioli or something if
you want our Towrdolini. I'm I'm you know, I'm partial
to Greek.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
She's Greek.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Ado.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
There you go, Alphea, there you go. We're done. We're done, okay,
So anyway, just.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Put a giant gyro up on the cover, that's so
like ethnical.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Okay, well your Greek? What do you want me to talk?
I don't know when ever?
Speaker 6 (33:33):
I would love it.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
So anyway, can we get to can we get to
the song?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Let's get to the record.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I want to get to the song. So let's just
play the song. Please. Addicted to my ex.
Speaker 9 (33:46):
Let everybody out there be listening to my Man and
City and you know what is addicted to my ex
and we about to really get it. You ready, no
d NA radio slash your energetic show live right now
for everybody out there. That's how we're gonna be getting
it right now. You want to set it off or
(34:06):
set it off? Let's go City, set it off, Come on.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
More, come on.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
I'm pict flexing my every.
Speaker 10 (34:20):
I'm but I keep that on the No, no, no,
I keep that on you.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
I think I'm addicted to flexing on my own. I
think I'm addicted to flexing.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
My I think I'm addicted to flexing my O.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
I think I'm addicted to flexing on my own in Miami.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It's my international plans. I'm adicted.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
I flexed on my ex ey time that she me.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I know I'm she.
Speaker 10 (34:59):
Said, I ain't shitten my birming the places I took her.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
She getting out of court.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
I pushed it on this he.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Stuff, and she trying to ignore it.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Man.
Speaker 10 (35:08):
Yeah, I'm thought of the witnesses spite of that, but
she'd be catching a bust seeing her procuring.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I'm picking her up. When I pulled up, I gave
her a finger.
Speaker 11 (35:16):
I'm probably just.
Speaker 10 (35:17):
Didn't return it. I take it right back from my eye.
Ain't gonna never get back with her unless she touk
me like dragular. Listen, I'm telling you, I see your republic.
It's stun on the You see this coat?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Boy?
Speaker 10 (35:26):
Why keep her around? And she just got drum and
jump off the boat. I sent her a text and
told her I love her.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
And sent her reply.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
She blow on my phone and won't leave me alone.
So I'm predicted a fletion. No, my oh, held it
down there. We're fun in my own. I'm like, but
I keep that on the low.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
No, no, keep that on the.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
I think I'm addicted to flexing. No, my oh, I
think I'm addicted to flexing.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
No, my own.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
On my own and now.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
My home.
Speaker 11 (36:08):
Baby, I show up to all of her family investments.
Speaker 10 (36:19):
For mama still love me, and she got looking so
jelly if I'm.
Speaker 11 (36:24):
Really upset, but might even under her flat.
Speaker 10 (36:28):
As soon as she come up and hugged me, I
look and I say, she telling her friends, and I ain't.
Speaker 5 (36:32):
The man you mean?
Speaker 10 (36:34):
I noticed she want me to people in my road
you flee speaking of roadies. I left her locause she's
wasted my time. She's trying to come up with her,
but I can I see her. I'm legally, but I'm flagging, like.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Listen, lift, I'm swagging.
Speaker 10 (36:47):
If you had me, then you has been looking at
me now with your fashion Mike, his name is yasmine.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
I never do because for my.
Speaker 10 (36:53):
Passing life a college example, trying the man, I.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Don't give a damn.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
So I'm.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
No my own heading down they were for in my
own clothes.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I'm like, but I keep that.
Speaker 7 (37:07):
On the No. No, no, I think I'm anadict this
to flexing, No my own. I think I'm addicted to flexing,
No my own. I think I'm addicted to flexing.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
No my own.
Speaker 7 (37:22):
I think I'm addicted to flexing, No my home, flexing
on my own.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
I'm gonna dick it to Okay. I love that Oh, I'm.
Speaker 12 (37:45):
Not gonna lie to you like you are having in
that studio. Yeah, it seemed like you basically were like,
I know, I.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Am still.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I love the I love the.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Let me say one thing real quick, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I like the kittens on that record.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
That kitten's on the record is crazy, didn't I?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yeah? Man, I heard that. I was like, damn, you.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Know back because I've honestly never did it again, really never.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
I've never done it ever again.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I am just I.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Should do that again?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Should you should? What are you nuts?
Speaker 3 (38:37):
What are you nuts?
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Question?
Speaker 3 (38:41):
You never did?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
What is he? He had a winning formula and that's
like him having a gorgeous, beautiful fast race car and
he's like, you know what, I'll take the Toyota on
the racetrack instead.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
You just don't do that. True.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
That's like me having, right that beautiful race car you're
talking about, yeah, and me still having that beautiful race
car ten years later.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Oh oh, now you're gonna go with me with race
cards now right now you're using my euphemism.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
But you got to take out the engine on that one.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Okay, it is a classic.
Speaker 6 (39:19):
Now, it's a classic. It's know how those.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Pay listen, Dude, I am still fla. It's only him
on that record. No, Now, don't tell me you knew
I knew it because you knew.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
But a record especially for you, for me, especially for you,
for me. I'm sat to this record because when I
play this record for people, the disclaimer is what only
person on this song.
Speaker 6 (39:56):
I have to let people know that what.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
You're listening to is everything voice that you hear on
this song belongs to me. So I'm gonna send you there.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
You know what it is. Because the thing is, it's
like he's the kind of guy, right he can fool
people in a room, Like he can go in the bathroom, right,
and then the people will think there's a party going
on in there, and he can do all these different
kind of voices and be like, Yo, what is m
City doing in there? They wouldn't know because he has
I'm just.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Saying that's a bad analogy.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Okay, I'll think of another analogy. I'm just saying I'm.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Going to say. Now I'm going to say like that.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Okay, I'm gonna say, if you're going up and battling
the rapper, right, yeah, you're battling somebody you'll never He's
so creative that you won't even know who hit you
with that stole, you know what I'm saying. That's how
I look at it, me as an artist, always taking
a look like, bro, he can.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Hit you with that.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
He'll be up on stage and all I den I,
and then you'd be like damn.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
And then all of a sudden he'll come off with
probably like a lyrical kind of record that you probably
would he because I.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Want to hear one of your lyrical records.
Speaker 6 (41:03):
Yeah, they're all over the place.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
You want to I got to hear one of your
lyrical ones.
Speaker 6 (41:09):
You gotta.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Oh anyway, they're all over the place.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Oh I am listen.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
I'm not saying they all get overshadowed by addicted, right,
And I.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Can see that. I can see that.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Well that's going to happen when you have something that
is on fire.
Speaker 6 (41:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
I mean they's been on fire for ten years.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
And I've only been on fire for like the last
ten to fifteen minutes since about it.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Oh God, there you go.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
That's it. But you know what I really appreciate, you know,
he is so like real Okay, because a lot of
them that are out there they're all fake. You're not fu.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
God, stop the bomb in that one.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
You know, he's just not fake. I can tell you know.
And it's this is my first interaction with you.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
You love the art, I love the music.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
How many times have I picked out like psychic? Right,
like that psychic ability that I have.
Speaker 4 (42:09):
Bro, we go to a lot of showcases, right, and
we walk out of the showcase.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Yeah I would.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
I would not walk out on They make us guests
like literally judges, and it's like I can't even stay
in the room half of the time.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Yeah, because it's just like, you know, what it is
is that everybody is like so.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
The same, the same, and he's nobody like you. Right.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
The crazy thing is I was like, yo, he's an
artist because look, nobody justices like that.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Not in a bad way. It's just nobody judging nobody.
Speaker 4 (42:42):
It's so comfortable nobody you can I can always see
like a real creative artist because artists.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
Like that.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Nobody normal. No, the normal person doesn't. That's no, come on.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
He's in his artist form all the time.
Speaker 4 (43:05):
You can see it, even when he gets dressed, even
when he writes, when he wakes up that's an artist
form like you, a real artist.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
A real artist can see another real artist. Okay, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (43:18):
Because I can see it, I can always go like this, really, yo,
he's he's dope artist.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
There was an artist that came to the showcase.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
Right that had electronic electronic can literally like this, but
it wasn't like his real hand.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
His real hand was underneath it. I was like, this
dude is gonna be insane. And he was.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
An electronic arm.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
You don't remember that he had the thing like this
with the shelt down here and he had an arm
like that.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Oh you're talking about yeah, shout out to Will. But
all I'm saying is he's yeah, I see what you're
saying about him.
Speaker 8 (43:52):
Now, No, he just you he's very artsy now he
just knows what he's doing, so artsy, see, very mindful.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
All right. So now I want to get to Now
I want to get to dope. A couple of cool questions.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
How was it when you first heard that single and
that single started popping off the way it did, m.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
What was your first reaction?
Speaker 4 (44:18):
You know what I'm saying, Like, when did you realize
it was starting to just go and had a life
of its own.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
So that record, I said, that record had a very
had a very interesting life.
Speaker 6 (44:33):
Though.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
That is a record, and I mean this in the
most humble way, that is a record that it was
a no brainer.
Speaker 6 (44:41):
We kind of all knew it was a hit.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
It was one of those records you played in the
studio and everybody says the same thing.
Speaker 6 (44:47):
That's it, that's it, that's it.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
So it wasn't like something that we knew, wasn't it.
It was something that we knew what was it, and
we knew that we had to nurture it properly.
Speaker 6 (45:00):
We had to do the right thing with it. We
have a hit record, Now, what are you going to
do with it?
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
What I was gonna say. Was a lot of times
you can have hit records, but it dies.
Speaker 4 (45:14):
Yeah, I'm when it gets to the public because of
the marketing, the promotion and the puns you know behind it.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
Yeah, I mean I remember it though. It was you
know yesterday, I'm still broke his hell, sleeping on my
girlfriend's grandmother's couch and I wake up.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
At the top of the night house anytime you want,
and I.
Speaker 6 (45:36):
Wake up and you know, it's like the daily thing.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
You check the phone and I think it's like at
ten thousand views, and it's like, oh wow, that's you know,
that's pretty exciting. I've had numbers even bigger numbers than
that before, but not necessarily that quick, or on something
that didn't have a video. It was just a song.
Song was just on YouTube, and it did about ten
thousand one day. I remember walking up like, oh wow,
(45:59):
ten thousand, nice, and then I think the next day
it might have been are like seventeen thousand, and the
next day it was at like twenty something thousand, and
I was like, oh.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
Wait, people are listening to it, right, listen.
Speaker 6 (46:14):
Are people listening to this?
Speaker 3 (46:15):
But a lot of people are listening to this, and
a lot of people are listening to this. They're listening
to it over and over again.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Yeah, that's true, that's true over again.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
So I think once after like literally after the first
day at ten it did ten thousand, I think literally
like the next day it was at seventeen, and then
you know, the next day just kept going up like
by the fives and tens. Right. I was like, all right,
that's it, it's gone, guys. I remember waking up one
day to twenty thousand views. Wow, and remember processing the
(46:51):
fact that overnight, twenty thousand people had listened to that song,
just overnight, like somewhere without me knowing, without any you know,
knowledge or recollection of what's going on.
Speaker 6 (47:01):
People are listening, you know, to the music. And so
that was.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
Pretty much it, you know what it is too, though,
I think a lot of times, like even with a
couple of like songs that he has done, I see
a lot it's not just about timing. It's about believe
it or not. I think it's the month that you
put that song out, or the time of the year,
or if there's a special holiday. I think there's a lot.
(47:27):
I think it has a lot to do with that too,
because a lot of people don't want to hear a
summer song in January.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
Well, again, it's quarters, you know.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Right, you know, I'm trying to say so because sometimes
you may you've put out a song right that it's
not doing so it's doing okay, But then as you
just make sure you just keep on getting it played everywhere,
you know, and then sometimes all it takes is that
one moment in time where that song just hits at
(48:00):
the right time, and then boom.
Speaker 6 (48:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
So I do agree. I agree one hundred. But there
is a thin line in that perspective that has the
opportunity to keep artists kind of at bay to a
point where they won't release music at all. Right, And
here's my my perspective. You're just now hearing the song, right,
(48:24):
who loved.
Speaker 6 (48:25):
The song Where the Fall?
Speaker 2 (48:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (48:29):
I released that eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
I know that's the crazy start.
Speaker 3 (48:34):
At least eight years ago in the summer.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (48:39):
If the thing is right, if I if I have
a mindset of perfect month, perfect time, perfect season, I'll
never drop what is the perfect what is.
Speaker 6 (48:51):
The perfect time?
Speaker 3 (48:52):
You are correct?
Speaker 6 (48:53):
But the trick with that.
Speaker 3 (48:55):
Is already have the music out, Yeah, already have the
man and let the people decide when they.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Right, exactly right.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
And I tell her too everything you know he's catching it.
Speaker 6 (49:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (49:09):
Two months later down the line and it's summertime, and
you know, my friend just happens to play this song
and I fall in.
Speaker 6 (49:14):
Love with it.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
That's just when I fell in love with it. I
caught it in the summer. I caught it at that
time in boom. Now it's a part of that eraror right,
or that that.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
Real quick, right, real quick.
Speaker 4 (49:24):
I mean to cut you off, but there's a record
that I did my father in twenty twenty one that
got on Billboards twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
Two years later.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
You know what I'm saying. So like, that's what I
was telling them two years.
Speaker 3 (49:36):
No, So I released Addicted originally in twenty fifteen August
twenty fifteen of August. I didn't release the video until
twenty sixteen. Oh wow, you know so, Like I said, Bro,
(49:59):
we were sitting, we're sitting on the record for a year,
and then on top of sitting it on there, we
I didn't sign to Atlantic until we dropped the video
in January. I didn't sign to Atlantic until May. What
you're talking about another six months?
Speaker 2 (50:16):
You know?
Speaker 4 (50:17):
For fourteen million to today on Atlantic, just on that
YouTube one more time. You have fourteen million just on
there on their set.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
I've been robbed of almost a billion in streams.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
I believe it. I believe I believe it.
Speaker 3 (50:35):
So I'm talking about there's there's been multiple fifty million
stream videos that have been taken down, removed, multiple, not
not one, not too you know, multiple and in the
in the hundreds of millions you know that have been
taken down. That's in if you can well, I'm not
(50:57):
sure if you guys will be able to like track
the time. But even that twenty sixteen period of vine
TikTok musically YouTube alone had hundreds of millions of streams
on that song. I can search it today and can't
find most of any of them.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
And there's no there's no way of of we tracking
that or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (51:20):
You might can go back to the twenty fifteen stats
and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
They can't take away within their hearts. You know it's there,
it's imprinted. Whoever played it fifty million times will remember that.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
We'll remember it, man, that's true.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
At the end of the even you're killing it.
Speaker 6 (51:42):
Yeah, I don't guess.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
I don't fear because the real is happening regardless.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
You got that right, So just remember his song Addicted
to my ex It's on its way to one hundred
million streams on Spotify. I want to thank you so much.
I've enjoyed you so much, man, mister j I love him.
But give everybody your call, signed on IG and everything
where they can find you.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
So listen, guys, I'm always being banned off IG because
I'm a bit too explicit for the platform. But catch
me at please pay Papa or ig you can create
find me at created by Papua everywhere else.
Speaker 1 (52:24):
Please pay Papa. I'm gonna ask you on the side
of what that means, but you know, okay, please pay.
I love him, Please pay Papa.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
Very artie, very crazy, very artsy.
Speaker 1 (52:34):
I'm telling you, he's so artsy. I love you. Thank
you so much, EMC Junior for coming on the show.
We really appreciate it. Shout out to Pati Ali, we
love you too.
Speaker 4 (52:43):
And remember everybody watched the game too. I mean listen
to the game as well. The game over in ninety
seven point ninety seven point three in Michigan. Baby, Okay,
So again, thank you so much for coming on the show.
And I hope, I hope you tune in again Sunday
nights at eight PM's Eastern Standard time right here DNA
(53:06):
Live Paradise Studios. Thank you again. Peace out, everybody, see
you next week.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
Peace out, ladies and gentlemen.
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