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September 9, 2025 45 mins
In this episode of Dope Interviews, Warren Shaw sits down with Teflon Young King, one of reggae and dancehall’s most powerful voices, to break down his new album Life Scriptures. From his early days clashing in high school to becoming a global artist, Teflon shares his journey, the inspiration behind his music, and why staying rooted in culture and consciousness matters now more than ever.

We dive into the making of Life Scriptures, collaborations with Jesse Royal, Bugle, Pressure Buss Pipe, and Anthony B, plus the messages of resilience, love, and spiritual growth that fuel the project. Teflon also opens up about owning his label, mentoring young artists, and preparing for his international tour.

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Buy Life Scriptures: https://music.apple.com/bz/album/life-scriptures-album/1830346811

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Reggie Dance Award from it seeing me. But what I
say is the rest of them? No no, Then selvity
them back against the wall. I see anything it far away?
Do you see anything mar because you have said then
no no. Then selfty them back against the wall. Because
you take a par from all our music and then
they want to push it aside.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
And when they reach I forefront, you each a cross.
You didn't even know which we which direction for.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
That's why drawing us, keep evolving us the past ready
and then then for the past to go and see them.
We are downside. I take them and go up to
see them. We are non change. I just one can
change the younger. They might inject some new songs. And
even we have lowered them for experiment because one of
them might go end up final next big dancer zone.

(00:47):
That's what they're there for them there for carry and
the legacy a dance and reggae.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
So we can't fight stop.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Closing the stems. Stope, were closing the stems Lenex.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
What's good?

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Everybody?

Speaker 5 (01:03):
Welcome to Dope Interviews, brought to you by the Mighty
nineteen Media Group. I'm the host Warren Shaw season nine
and I'm kicking it off extremely lovely. I get to
tap into my culture, the dance all reggae culture and
the virtual building. Today I'm sitting down with a voice
of power and purpose and reggae and dance all here
to talk about his new project, Life Scriptures. He's bringing

(01:24):
messages of resilience, love, spiritual growth to the world. We're
diving into his journey, his business moves, the impact he hopes.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Leave on the culture.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
My guy, Teflong, young King Tef, while go on, boss,
how do you feelings?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Great tings?

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Thank you very much for even having the on the platform,
and is a Pledgeriu the friends, them, of the people
and worldwide much love staff A right, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
So we're already off to an amazing star again.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
And Tef, I just have to ask your music it
often comes, like I said, it carries those messages of
love and spiritual awareness.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
When did you when you were entering the music business,
what made it?

Speaker 5 (02:04):
What made you decided that was going to be the
lend that you're going to operate in that kind of
that voice of consciousness.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Honestly, when I just started in music, I went. I
left from high school straight into the music industry. And
then I wasn't singing just positive music. I was just
being I was just a youth being a youth, you know,
you know, just singing en off what we're seeing in
in an Arona sour on in the communities, and what
people want to hear at the time, and what we

(02:30):
think people want to hear at the time. So you know,
I started out just like any others you with in
the industry, you know, leaving from high school, beating the
decks and making lyrics, clashing, and then you know, a
transition forward when I start actually recording, because this was
high school beating the decks, vising, clashing, you know, those

(02:53):
clashings the regular, But the transitions start when I start
recording and the people are heard my vocal and then
direct me in a direction where I realized I eventually
found myself for real.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
I think that's obviously a very well thought, I thought
out answer that brings you into kind of like the
journey of honing your proverbial craft.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Do you write all of your own songs? Everything everything
is written by you?

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yes, I do, And I actually reach the stage of
not writing.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
No, it's just feeling a melody and message.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Tell me more about that.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
So, like from a rapper stand point, like it's more
freestyle when you depend the mic or I kind of
I was.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
No, no, it's not freestyle. It's not freestyle. I just
go into top what I want to know, I want
to feel.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
It's orchestrated. We take time, so I'll make it. But
it's not something that I'm reading off of paper. It's
followarding out from the inner person and also from.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
The reading what the rhythm feel. The reading type of
feel that the ralthm.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Is giving you give you the energy and it also
did direct you in the direction of what to say.
Undis specifically because every bit speaks to you in a
different way. So the time where you are going to
take a papen as write a song for this rhythm, hello,
the rhythm to actually speak to your sake, it can
then direct the message that to go on the rhythm

(04:19):
in a way where people.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Can accept it. I hear rdim speaks volumes, I should
say yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
No, it makes it makes perfect sense.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
And then so sometimes take me a little bit behind
the scenes, like because you see a lot of things
that are portrayed from in the music industry. Right, so
a producer now like they make a rhythm and do
they sometimes say to you listen, this is the kind
of look and feel or you said, no, man, this
is what I feel, and that's what's going to go
on this track.

Speaker 6 (04:44):
Sometimes sometimes sometimes and sometimes when a producer send you
a song RTHM. Sorry, the type of producer automatically make
you know the type of music that he's looking for.
Then the rim the type reading is odd so to
see energy, so you know you can't go you knew

(05:05):
what you knew the direction then and dear, let's put
the reading over eight years.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Second of the type of person who send the.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Riadim to be to you, then you know you can't
send crap you Afrikaina directly deny direction. We're even him
that that produced like your field when it get that sound, you.

Speaker 5 (05:20):
Know, yeah, yeah yeah, So the reggae and dancehall industry
and you kind of touched on it in the beginning,
like you know you sometimes you was clashing and you
know those types of situations.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Where are you now and when.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
It comes to that, because so from a hip hop perspective,
I'm sure you saw the whole Drake Kendrick thing whatever whatever,
And then sometimes clashes beefs whatever you want to call them,
depending on your culture, they can kind of forward your
your career, so to speak. But from what I've seen,
and you could obviously correct me if I'm wrong, in
the dance sall space, yes, the classes are usually.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Real for the most part.

Speaker 7 (05:56):
Mostly they're real and it's not usually used to elevated care.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
You see, you see you sometimes see people kind of
jump in to try to maybe make a name for themselves.
But where do you stand on on that? And have
you ever had classes that are memorable and kind of.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
In your mind, ah, clashes worse from high school days
when I was clashing against my high school peers. In
the industry, Yeah, we're seeing songs over my specifically attack
attack about that person, but we didn't set the names. Yes,
because like in Jerminica, to award, you know, you might

(06:31):
feel like you want to truely awards said or said
two things. But the class culture in Jamiica is very,
very essential, I would say, because it's sharply a skill.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
You push artists to a next bond.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
You pushed artists to a next dimension where I would
say it makes your creative. The creative fads go hard
when you think you make your when you're in a class,
you make your think because you don't want to lose.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
You want to you want to come out as that winner.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
So at the other day I would think you try
everything in a year post the teams said the right thing,
So clash sharp here and then the class no help after.
If you winner clash and the people is with you,
then you after you know if they're from the class, know,
you know, differentiated, know you know, sayo and a class
young the people And because I'm here, you.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Win that clash already.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
So no, you have to kind of come with a
body of music now for many and that funds make
them still with you.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
So it good, it's great.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
So I I am not here to say, well, I
know with clash, college class culture is great. But no,
as no always see it in modern time, it has
evolved from all we knew it back then. No is
a personal feelings and if you don't get personal, then
we don't want.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
To be a part.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
As in you all start people physically and them so
then that that all the fun like the friends even
their friends are help announce them energy.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
They to me that.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Take away all the gi all the fun, the creativity,
miner really and entertained by the physical badness. No more
so at that part I know in them type of
class in nowhere. It made me say, you, I think
it's a clash this more so like a person and
then that people up getting each other.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
I understand, yeah, man, yeah, man for sure, for sure.

Speaker 5 (08:15):
And I think that's obviously a wise man and experienced
persons kind of approach because there's some some people there.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
We've been there, we've been there, We've been as we said,
we're as That's what I'm saying. We're starting to start like,
oh I am to grow you had, But it's not
like me here a bash it me know it wenno
it like it too? Because what are class sounds? And
what if I do play it sounds you know?

Speaker 2 (08:38):
True?

Speaker 1 (08:38):
And so in my life And yeah, guys, yeah yeah, said.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Against ax Man.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
So it's created that energy and of its sons pierced
in our drena. But if he stepped all that about
the then and I think we need.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
To see that, yeah, brou And again it's a lot
of trying to protect your energy.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Now the state of life, like though you don't need.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
That, we need fun, we need happiness and if if
you're sing on clash and we'll find anything that's good,
but anything is, there's there's something.

Speaker 7 (09:09):
So where are don't we're of similar generation?

Speaker 5 (09:12):
I don't know for similar age, but in terms of
like you know, how I grow in terms of music
and especially regain and dance all.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
One of the things I've been reflecting on a lot
lately is and this isn't to knock the.

Speaker 5 (09:24):
New generation, because everybody has a time, right, but I
feel like artists are lacking in some ways kind of diversity.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
And you don't seem to lack that right.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
You have the ability you can sing a culture or
for people who know whatever, like that kind of a
culture related song or a dance saw song, a dance song,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (09:43):
Like you have those abilities to kind of go in
different lanes.

Speaker 5 (09:46):
Now I listen to some artists and it's pure gun
tune they sing, or it's only only you know, dancing tunes.
They can sing, they don't have the ability to cross
reference all aspects of the dance all or regay culture.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
Would you agree with that? And when do you think
that shift started?

Speaker 1 (10:01):
If you do agree, I do agree with that because
the artists nowadays are seeing quote unquote what the people
wanted to hear that they're saying. I saw you came
on platforms and said I was seeing culture and nobody
was listening to me. And then I started seeing why
people hear and then it becomes the biggest artist. So

(10:24):
sometimes you blame the artists and my family if you
feed and so and it's your job. Yeah, so that
that kind of you understand. But did new you shift
start from when my name started on my advice?

Speaker 2 (10:46):
You're that easy? But it's the true brod? Is it
that that lack energy, that lack everything, that does one mindset?
We cannot sit on and do anything and said anything.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
When I might have to stand up and sing funny
tool and feeling in cherish it and love it more.
And if your world key is better, you want to
forgot it make you go harder when I man have
to scandal sit on, relax.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
And work and liliens and saying cano swim in one side.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
So your even the top, you know, you know, you
know your energy fever thing because become so easy effortless,
but swing over and say very and tomorrow people have
it as the biggest son.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
And I might were putting effort and we're people say
yeah that you know that. So these little things shift nothing,
shift energy, you shift direction, you shift feeling, you shift wordplay,
and shift topics because the topic what sit.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
On DJO you know, and then went, wait a minute,
I feed the music while it's sturned up.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
True, get ready, I didn't get that and to them
if you see them.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
This is a great part to kind of transition. And
on the other side of the break after we that's
kind of this last question. We'll talk more about about
your your album, but not that at all, right, I
think again and everybody asks perspective, and so you know,
Bogio did say on Drink Champs about a year ago

(12:34):
he gave an explanation for between the difference between reggae
and dan saw in his opinion.

Speaker 7 (12:39):
So I'm going to play a quick clip here now
it's about a minute long.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
You'll let it play. We're going to come back.

Speaker 7 (12:45):
I want to get your take, you know, if you agree, disagree,
or what you would add to his statement.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
So you ready?

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (12:52):
So I was really the people express themselves.

Speaker 8 (12:55):
Where will get more sexual lives, We'll get more Slangyamusic
is where we speak to the soul. No reggae music
is what our ancestors and our forefathers left with us
to keep us close to the connection to God.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Because this music wasn't given to us by a man.

Speaker 9 (13:10):
This is music was a defined music sent to an
island of an hundred and father for square miles. We
came along as a later generation of music Chians who
knew that our predecessors understood the assignment and we needed
to understand the assignment. So I see myself as a
last last of the monecons in a reggae musicaid. That's

(13:33):
a fear who come with that old school knowledge, who
knows that this music must feed my people, educate them,
uplift them, eradicate negativity from.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Their minds, and allow them to whine.

Speaker 9 (13:45):
At the same time, it's gods.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
I have to get your your reactions to that statement
in itself.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Because you're right, You're right, get my car wrong, career dance,
all the experiment you have, you would come in and
you have dance chuck dancer. Yeah, you know whatice afro
and come from, dancal then reggae. I found this and
they can't do experiment with that something they have to
leave that alone that powerful. If I put that that

(14:15):
the true I have, So reg dancea is a little
experiment plays the true and you would come in and
new sound dancer take on to it.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
But where would you say everything right? I must say
I am the flash as the one, then the one.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Then when my ancest does them start the thing hm
and still here they are still know realized that even
though reggae music them said last the poets weighted, I
would them know it when I and I checked right now.
We had to give people this pace because people were complaining,

(14:55):
People were saying reggae music is too dominant, and other
pe people start fight reggae music because of the message
and the direction of lead the people, you know, So
reggae had to give them a little speace because we
all are human being, we all the music we have.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Drawing as we have everything we are for shier. So
we give them the time and space.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Not but now even the seeing people and when repower
our drawing our music to look all right, we need
back because they don't know what to do. They don't
know that because their music is just half a song
of half our bandwagon. It's in a really authentic dance
at reality a reggaealting and dance award from it. But

(15:38):
what we have say is the rest of them. Then
sefty them back against the wall. I see anything it forward?
Do you see anything of Marcus?

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Say no?

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Then thirty them back against the war because you take
a rip from all our music and then you want
to push it past side.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
And when you reach I forefront, no, your each I crossed.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
You didn't even know which we which direction forgot That's
why drawings keep evolving us. Then pass readya and then
then fire where I pass it, Go and see if
we are dancer. I take time and go up and
see if we are not chip. I just one thing,
change the younger you them injects on new songs. And
even we allowed them for the experiment because one of

(16:19):
them might go and find our next big dancer song.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
That's why they're there. For them. They're carry on the
legacy a dancer regga. So we can't fight them. So
do you?

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Then when I make this song them and we just
come with righteousness as regular artists like we youself the album,
then foul do it in counteract them, teach them because
we are Minagua like me today so twenty five, twenty
five years ago, a ten year, I've got a fifteen year.
It's just a Matthewer person were growing up, I mean
openly with situation better than all me.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Bee would I give with it? Five ten years ago?
So no, Minaga said do you my experiment and.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Then them sold read about the one they were ripping,
rip front with draw them people. Them were more important
because you would run through with gin. I try things,
hey you tale with entry things, but people and then
push the drawing side and then we never reach our
part in our life. No a Marcus, you have the speech.
I catch them you're now don't know yourself back against
the album and then see they know we lift our

(17:17):
past dan sil and reggae steer soft feared so the people.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Then after that was embrace what is always not just
me as an artist.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
I say I want as an artist, the people, the members,
the people and support this from deal one before me
ban you know I'm a band and concede that one.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
So right, no way thing we have forgive them spears.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
But right now one time where we're stepping forward, know
that if he look Jesse Ray album B album, Everybody
a j album No because we realized that we have
give the give them the time and spears and even
you them know actually need and I know we have
helped them ever helped far with the draa itself as
in reggae dance, sile by the and with with some

(18:01):
message music find Somebody dance. I READI Yeah, that's not
I said, that's not only but we'll just everything you
name says just we're not to fight you. Then we
make them expert, the experienced, experience the time they might
do an experiment, and we have addressed the ones.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Then we are from and beniquely that's what you said that.

Speaker 5 (18:23):
Yeah, man, I mean respect the foundation, like there's time
for innovation, but still remember where I kind of it came.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
From for sure, Yeah mam, yeah man.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
Let's take a quick break, y'all. We're talking with the
amazing Teflon Young King. Make sure you follow them an
I g at Teflon Underscore Young King and get that
new album Live Scriptures. We'll be right back here on
the other side of this break here and't build news.

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Speaker 5 (19:01):
And we're back here on Dope interviews with the Boss
teflon Young King again. Make sure you follow them on
an iig Teflan Underscore Young King get that album like Scriptures,
and that's exactly what we're going to talk about here now.
Before the breaks mentioned some big artists as well too,
Jesse Wild, Bugle, Pressure, Bus Pipe, all those people dropping
albums and they're also on Live Scriptures.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
So tef School, Yeah, you know that's mine. I've been
buying many names me.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
You know, true, true, true Truth. What inspired the album name?

Speaker 10 (19:36):
Right?

Speaker 4 (19:36):
What what about your personal experiences? Say?

Speaker 2 (19:39):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (19:40):
This album here is going to be called Live Scriptures.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Ah, I did Tears Ears up here in album.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
I did Tears a GI album, and then after I
did those two albums, it was time for me to
present that next body of work to the world. So
when I look in modern time, no, I see a
lot of things that has not been spoken about in
the Bible, just like, for example, the Internet. The internet

(20:11):
is the next tool that they have right now, swaying
and distracting a lack of mines right now. So these
things I've never been spoken about in the in the Bible.
So when I look at it, I was going to
name it Scriptures after life, you know, because the things
that I'm about to sing about is what is going

(20:33):
on no. So it's not about what has been spoken
about in the Bible.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
It's about no. And I see it as my scriptures
as in the Matthewmatuk Janney Roman right freedom pad.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, So I would say I am injecting my part
not in the Bible, but in the diaspora of the
people where they can actually feel this as a scripture
the Bible with energy because the scriptures, when would I say,

(21:07):
people reap and I the best motivation, Pope, when my
copy rise off the mind the b two sons and
what I met them and them song. I get to
see them energy to whoras if you had to read
some script channelists and song and if you can balance
everything at once, you understand me.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
I said, so the name. I thought about the name
because I knew I was going.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
To sing about no, and I wanted to feel like
an extension of not just the Bible, but I know
in a different way feeling close to a scripture when
I feel when I.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Read it, you know why you feel?

Speaker 3 (21:44):
You know.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
What do you feel when you produce or work with
an album like this? And it's so deeply personal with
all the meaning. You know, as you just kind of
illuminated as kind of behind it, then who you decide
to work with becomes even that much more important, don't it. Right?
So when you're reaching out to pressure and wrote Jesse Royal,
Anthony b those types of people what goes into that process?

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Right?

Speaker 5 (22:09):
And you know when you when you pick up a
call and say, yo, I needed to jump on this
on like kind of.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Top walk with through those or you're gonna all right?
I see.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
The direction is the most essential bad because remember you're
doing a project. It's not just like you're doing a
sum where you can just send them already Mark So.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Or you're doing no, I do it.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
I inject myself in all the recordings, like try to
be there, be there, not just to say I'm gonna
say tell someone what to say, no what the energy
as they're coming, keep it within that m So. I
have injected myself in most of the recordings. Only one

(22:50):
recording I wasn't there. I think it was Jesse Rayle
and Give Times everything sty went through right properly, car
you know know for the amy thing and it's not
like I got because I'm I don't know what the
things just I want to be a part of you
know that that that creative energy right because of my album.
I may I created the album. Why shouldn't I be

(23:11):
a part of it? From injurctyself in the recordings, and
we choose the artists them moving go for a dance
artists for a project like this, you make no sense
for come say I may have tried to change emphasis
something when we are said, you understand I want to
forgot for the people and who did answer what we
have said? And these these same set of people with

(23:35):
any promotion anything move do you know? Push them through
the line is sway and likewise from their angle series,
so it becomes more powerful, it becomes more strong. We
hear a Teflan Boglab Jesse Ray pressure Anthony be at
that away people and why you I don't think the
people are you mean life? So other dance are young
you in a different rems. So we have to choose

(23:58):
the artists wisely and from from I'm there in the recording,
I would choose to choose the artists first, then there
in the recording. Next step is actually being there when
it's mixed. Yeah, in fully injected my life six thirty
seven thirty in the morning. We're in the studio from

(24:20):
like nine ten in the night PM and like six
a and seven thirty AM to seven A and we
get in know that the student mixing mixing this project specifically,
so and I was.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
The one who was there. We cook food with this.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
We start with God's moke, getting back the well. We understand,
we took a break, we get so. I was fully
injected in this album in direction, in artists, in song
quality and everything. So yes, I am fully injected in
this album. And that's why I did that because the title,

(24:57):
the artists, everything, the direction with the half a day night,
because it's not like somebody has idea, it's my idea.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
So to keep everybody und shocked, you don't know, I
really kind of did.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
If you do everything mixing, even the mixing, the mixed
radio here, No, the mix that I maybe the first
set of mixed when I.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
Send them and I got them this is that wasn't
the mix that come out. The mix that came out
is doing that I.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Went there and actually spend time away Chofflin Theodor was
the theater and yeah, and honestly, even when we finished
the project, even the engineer was like, you know you're
right for you want message Genuay see. So that is
how this album came alive. I injected myself in every
aspect of this album.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
Congratulations first and foremost again you know with that, And
I think sometimes you talk to artists and the label,
the engineer, the producer, all the things, right, they're trying
to steer it a certain type of way, but you
are of a certain kind of established space right now

(26:05):
where you can say, no, man, this is what I want.
Right And the fact that you're getting artists that you
are going to feature on there too that speak to it,
Like you're not trying to go viral just for say
oh this person is hot right now.

Speaker 7 (26:17):
It's intentional and that.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
Says a lot about you as an artist, you as
an individual, as a man. Yeah, I mean for the
type of things that you're kind of produced out there.
So I want to commend you enough for that, like
for truth for true.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
That's amazing because I could have I could really run them.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Some other artists and I could get there and I
would get the clubs because yes, I am te but
the direction yeah, and they are good artists.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
They are very good artists. Them's not the diact.

Speaker 7 (26:48):
It speaks right and and live scripture wasn't wasn't their
time right now?

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Maybe our next album, but not this one.

Speaker 5 (26:57):
When you have something that's so deep to personal and
he injected yourself in the way that you have, like
you said, right, I know this is going to be
a little cliche, but can you even.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Pick a favorite song?

Speaker 7 (27:08):
Can you have a favorite track with something that's so
personal to you?

Speaker 4 (27:12):
No?

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Like, even when I hear the engineer told me his
favorite song, it was the last time I expected him
to say it was like you're great. Okay When he
told me that, yo, you know, like like you woke
up and call me and say, you know, say you're great.
It's a big song in a different and I was

(27:34):
I was expecting him to say, maybe a collaboration with
me or somebody, and you understand. So when he said that,
I actually tried to find that song after the album
when we said all right, this'll be my you know,
I'm go to some but honestly, if I'm a go
to one eventually just lead me to the next and

(27:55):
the next, so eventually.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
But I love all the songs, but you have I know,
not because we love them. We have to know what
we do.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
So I love all of them first and foremost, but
we have to first got on the giant one as
a team and pick which one we think, So before
start net move, I will start move like like what
we did the Pressure but Spike video one, we just
shoot that video because that was one of the first
decisions remixed, all right, but really it's one of the things,
one of the collabs first as as video as video

(28:27):
and stuff and promote and which was the wag one
with Pressure and.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Honestly it was our great choice.

Speaker 5 (28:34):
So yeah, yeah, album is doing well, like it's climbing
charts and again all for the reasons that we've you know,
kind of already indicated.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
So what's next in terms of continued promotion? Can you
give us a sneak peek.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
Of like what might be the next release or next video?
I mean, you have so many great things to kind
of choose from. And before I have to say, I
don't don't think I was familiar when Toledo.

Speaker 4 (29:01):
I wasn't familiar.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
I was. I was listening.

Speaker 7 (29:03):
I was like, wait, did it Mike, It just switched
up speaking Spanish.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Right, no, no, no no, But I wasn't yes no,
and it wasn't me. But what it kind of brings
a different flavor to my album. Toledo. I met Toledo
when I was voicing that album.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
It was what we always doing some work with Cizila
Anthony B and Toledo was also there and that's when
I met Toledo and then he was like, yo.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
I need you on my album. And I was like, yo,
all right, you know, I.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Think I need a little Spanish on my album. But
he's also begging casta Rica. He's doing reggae, he's doing
culture music, conscious music.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
So it wasn't a bad choice.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
And it is out of the box for me as
in I am also I'm always people expect the reggae
and the dancer are the more reggae. So when the
here reggae in a Spanish no, it was woa. Like
people A lot of people be like, yo, you know
like that song for me because frame different?

Speaker 4 (30:02):
Yeah no, but it was it was it cut me
off going.

Speaker 7 (30:07):
That's you know, you're you're vibing, and all of a sudden,
I was like, wait.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Hold on, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
I'm a big up to leader and Tolida is a
great artist and them good not just an artists, a
good person.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:20):
So I mean so, but strategically, like you know, is
that because of even that now that we can we're
not We're not looking for clicks and whatever the case
we be, but strategically, because of the cross generation, the
cross promotion that can happen, would that be a you know,
potential number two song to reach.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Out for the visual adds. Toledo is actually in Europe
right now.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Okay, okay, So I spoke to him like three days ago,
and he's getting ready to get back to Costa Rica.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
And when he gets back to Costa Rica, it's gonna go.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
It's like when they say it's gonna do like two
shows and then he's gonna head to the US because
I'm in the US. So he's gonna actually come to
the US maybe in middle of October, the ending of October.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
So I don't have that video, but we have other videos.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
So we're gonna continue to just keep it rolling until
we actually get our hands on that video, you know.

Speaker 5 (31:13):
Okay, So from a touring standpoint, now, do you have
plans to kind of tour perform all the songs some
live scriptures and obviously the other songs from the catalog
in general. Talk to me a little bit about that
and some future plans here in the coming months.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Well, I would love to perform all the songs from
my chetalog, which is kind of impossibly take how it was.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
My catalog is so beuge.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Respect Yeah, but yes, I will be performing songs from
the live scripture album.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
I just did my first release album release.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Party in Port Charlotte in that in Florida, right, So
it was a great look, keeper turnout, the energy, you know,
we had like the free shirts and we signed the
autographs and it was a great look.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
People really supported the album and support the turnout.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
And everything was looking great. Now we took a little break,
get back off oul and the drawing board.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
No, we're going to do New York.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
The nineteen of September, which is this month in Brooklyn
Below Food Restaurant with Cesil. I was just there a
couple of days ago, and now we will be there
like within the nineteen of September, which is this month,
so we're going and then I we'll be moving from
there to California for the third in Baliina's same album

(32:29):
release party. And we moved to Oregon the fourteen, and
then we moved to one next place I remember and
in place that I'm so sorry for the listeners whatever
and intelligent, but that place every time a charm might
name I can remember. But we have a few shows
where we're gonna, you know, go on the road and
then from there, I think the next move is going

(32:51):
to be out after us like Canada, UK and further
you know, kind of expanded the listenership and the fun base.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Who won for Symaphia Aminica never wi never see me, you.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
Know, no, man, that's that's respect. And you know, I
think with all the stuff that you have going on,
can't remember everything, but I.

Speaker 5 (33:10):
Know one of the things that for sure is that
you do put on a good show, right, and that aspect,
how do you how do you ensure that you translate
something in some ways right?

Speaker 4 (33:23):
So like so follow me here for a second.

Speaker 5 (33:25):
Something that is like really meant to be kind of
like conscious and uplifting so to speak. It's not always
the most hype when you're trying to watch it like
from a from a stage show standpoint.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
How do you translate that from bring that energy?

Speaker 2 (33:42):
All right? You see when people, oh am I watching foolishness?

Speaker 1 (33:47):
When I am when speak for myself when we watch
on stage show and missus some it's not profounding, would
not be in so inter feel good to me. So
mister righteousness, it's sound good to me. I mean a
lower deep never said so, I guess I feel them
in that. I had a mindset because when I see
righteousness like if me s like just the other day,
I watch your show whenever you gonna tell you I

(34:07):
have a show, and I was fighting to watch the show.
And may I tell everybody that they students. You know,
it's the first I am sitting and watching a show
like this, watching them artist a profund because these said
the artists and not really my type is already listener
watch But all right, it's a glitch glitch, glitch, glitch
glitch anyway.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
You know, so we change it and go find one
culture event and it runs smooth. Let me tell them
see it?

Speaker 1 (34:32):
So any good always over even man, So the people
were always said them. Now I said, the good show them,
And I said, I guess, reboot the internet and start again,
reboot and start again, because I don't see no problem.
So maybe I have problem what I'm doing. But the
people are the people and mindset man. The people never

(34:55):
blame everything, fine, fault with everything and everything just because
they don't want But people, you have to say, stop
blaming and stop finding reasons and detours why you don't
want to observe a balance in your life.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
It's your life. We only can put it to the
bringing to the forefront.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
If you don't want to instill certain more as amongst
your child, amongst even in your life, what more can
we do? Believe as a Marcus you have we said,
now I'm gonna do yourself back against the wild.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
So what never too late?

Speaker 1 (35:27):
No, never, because people no idea is embrace so much
things with people with kids embrace the worst things.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Sometimes when they're like, come on, you know, I remember
I have a role.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
We have a responsibility, and you can't want other people
blame other people say that have responsibility for you're a child.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
When you, as a man, the first world.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Made your child see and look up to now be
able to present yourself as a parent or you.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Should then don't even thinks.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
So I may tell people people it's not righteousness, not things,
not reggae music.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Now see is is it time you does not have feet?
No more?

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Is just people are overlooked and grasp towards what they
want to and then find things.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
I say, you know, I do.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
You answer that? Well? Last two because I know you
know obviously you're very, very busy. I have so many
things going on.

Speaker 5 (36:21):
I did want to ask you a little bit about
the role that you're playing out in terms of almost
kind of like the management and administration, Like you are
in a space now where but I believe correctly you
know you are on the creative side, but you also
are trying to help young artists as well too with
your own kind of like label and management company.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
Talking me a little bit about that aspect and how
that's working for you.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
All Right, Since I've been in the US, it's kind
of been a little bit ectice because ninety percent of
my artists who I work with our engine fact this model,
and I've been all off Jamika for almost here, like
going to ninety six seven, eight nine months a couple
of months. Well, so you know, for the past few
months while I've been here, my album has been so

(37:09):
you take so much time, so we just moved that
after the way you know, we get that half we
call it the cutting board. We get it off the
cotting board now and we just see who which is management.
So as his riadom no, he is putting together to
about release with some of the old artists, somebody at

(37:29):
some major as so, so it was because I was
focusing on the album we have to find out, couldn't
focus on a project solely for the artists.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
We have to kind of put the juggling. But it's
still helped because I am also.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
And the reading and we're promoting our reading that you
are and some more people will you know, gravitate to
you eventually, So we helped. But normally when I'm in
Jommia Canoe, we have the Jabalans. They may have may
have so much seen some with spend money too, video
with them, do everything and it's not all about the money.

(38:05):
Is that about what I'm supposed to do because you
bless you and you're supposed to do so. Honestly, even
though men are in a Jemmy Cando and I help
as much as I would it's by time a jump
forward in a jumm it only even so much work putting.
I've been putting in so much work. And you know,
if I grow, more people that want to help. Know

(38:27):
so I thought the one that we did that well
suppose to help already will be there.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
But you know more more are here.

Speaker 5 (38:34):
No, I mean truly a lot of many one people, right,
And the notion of really trying to help and grow
because you've been in I've I've listened, I've learned. I
know a lot of your stories, some of which we
did not get into here today, understand, and you know
what I mean, Listen, You've seen some things and had
to kind of really grow and and and mature as
an individual and as a man and as an artist

(38:55):
in essence to really.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
Not kind of go a different direction. But trying to
help people is really really amazing.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
Last one, last one for you is when you look
back at this project, Live Scriptures, the work that you're doing,
you know, even with some of these young artists back
in Ja, just what is the indelible mark that you
want to leave? Like, what is one thing that you
want people to say when when you say you know
what I've I've done all I can do.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
What does about the work of Taplon Young King kind
of stand.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
For to change life mind and the minds mindset of
people who are not thinking in their own way?

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Are our progressive way? Are to better them?

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Sorrow owned in just my music is just so lift
you from one dimension to a next dimension from If
you are positive already, it makes you salidify you more
and if you are getting there and bring you there
and if you have a plan for God a comfiean yeah,
you're right?

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Or what is so? My music is my music is
for uplifting.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
So even if people don't remember the flesh, as long
as my music is being uplift, uplift the nation that
would that is what.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
I sing it for because I sang all these songs
from my heart.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
I've never been in the student and remember that even
when I've got I've gotten paid to do music, when
I'm doing that song, I don't remember about that money,
not at all, because I am not doing it just
because I got paid.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
I'm doing it from the heart.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
So it's and I'm doing it to uplift the people,
to people, to better myself, to send a message and
to remind the people of themselves. These are these are
the few things that I do send message, remind people
of themselves, uplift people better. I could change mindset and
make people becomes a better energy, a better person of themselves,

(40:46):
a better you.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Are better you can definitely be a better you. So
that will do. That's how I we do sing righteousness delive.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
I live it too, and definitely when people see if sill,
then care ass or be a part of it, then
can feel it. Then a journal Just before God, you're
at the mc lady and our son and carry Arson
and she said, you know someone when when you first
cat my forward. I thought she was going to ask
before some financial energy MS, say janeal Tire.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
I didn't have it at the time, and we don't
even ask. Sorry, I just say, no, it's not it's
not that far award for we're bringing my son. You
tell him so when you get the he's supposed to
be somebody like you. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
All right, the money thing kind of sap on my brain.
But this no through the roof.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
So no, no, see myself as a road matter, not
just in my you, my kids. Come, I got treated
that about means a road man forever you told me.

Speaker 4 (41:43):
Congratulations. I cannot continue.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
I cannot heap enough praise on individual you are and
the message that you are putting out there into this
into this world in a very very unique.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
Time like this is urious times.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Need I'm and let me tell us something.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
I am one of the u them where this was
supposed that the energy the world was supposed to get
this from all five or six or seven.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
I am one of them. With they missed.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
They replaced me with some other people and then the
other people has let them down in modern times. So
just that even up in the twentieth century, David still
a rule over Goliad.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
So it is that is going on now.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
They have given Goliad so much strength and blow them
up and know they have becomes as weak and as
smile in the team spark.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
They are blow up in a spark. But this part
has grown leave them. So no they're still small.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
Yeah, lyrics that lyrics, and we are growing.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
We're still growing like we have never yet immune to ours, partner,
our space. We keep growing because we know that just
placed us in our surrounding that evolve. It's evolving surroundings,
so we keep evolved with the sourrounding and with toward space.
So they just blow up and feel like it's going
to stop at them, and when they check they're still
front space.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
They would stretch out Dan where they didn't have before.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
Toft don't don't hurt him. Don't hurt him.

Speaker 5 (43:07):
He is, he is the amazing teftl On, Young King.
I want to thank you so much for sharing your story.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Boss.

Speaker 4 (43:14):
We wish you nothing but continue success.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (43:18):
The album is out live scriptures. Make sure you cop
that on whatever musical platform. Make sure you know you
get it legally the whole time.

Speaker 7 (43:27):
Make sure you.

Speaker 5 (43:29):
Do again follow my Tephlon Underscore, Young King. Teflon, thank
you so much for joining us here.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
On Dope Abuse.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Thank you very much for worrying and the finds out
there keep us supporting music.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Thank you very much much.

Speaker 4 (43:41):
Love, I am Orange Shaw. You can follow me a
Dope Underscore interviews or at the Warrenshaw.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
You know what it is man, Another dope interviews with
the Boss teft On, Young King Yo, and we're out together.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
We stand the buyer. We never depiction is one. Strive
to put him data working as a team working toward
a dream. It's not even work when the team is
the dree or it's not a fernt. We got a
home back, a band of brothers to counteract. Then he
attack one hard in fact, forget what the blood saying.
Dope is worth flows in his fans DNA, So it's

(44:16):
doing for the love, give to the max, listen to opinion.
But weact to facts and remember that together with a ship,
but separate, just.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Pieces of it shooting.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
Dope's worth flows in the stands DNA. Dope's worth flows
in the Stam's DNA.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
Family represent like a tree with names on it. We're free,
no change on it.

Speaker 11 (44:45):
Believe the pain's going out to see We come together
like questions on the quiz Moja flow and viz man,
you know what it is and the thing the instance,
this is gonna hate this lesson organize them the like
a tropical depression.

Speaker 7 (44:56):
My simple list across some mic and ghost peppers.

Speaker 11 (44:59):
Because I'm just the black growing up to be a shepherd,
moon lightened as a weapon to protect the children.

Speaker 4 (45:04):
Every brother is a father.

Speaker 11 (45:05):
Dynasties were building Max Jay and k Babay and Isaai
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