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Speaker 1 (00:07):
I'm going to ask you to talk.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm even co host Rule Boy Artists alongside Missus Melan
and Rains and today we're here with Kai More.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Nice to have you back again. Nice to be with you.
So go ahead and introduce yourself to the people.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Whatever that's your boy, the R and B prodigy Kai
A and you know, just see man and good energy,
A lot of.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Good here right now.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yes, yes, So my first time saying you performed, Kyle,
it was it was doing a mixer because of the weather.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It was.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It was kind of it was supposed to be in person,
I bust boys and post of DC or we did
it versionly right, and uh, that was my first time
saying you perform in general? So what inspired you? And
is what inspired you to become a performing artist, particularly
an R and B artist?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Man, I would really mostly say it's like based off
my mother, like or just like based off of the
news got heard of growing up, like just how it
made me feel, and just you know, so many albums,
so many like just songs.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I feel like it was the soundtrack to my childhood,
just hearing.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
And I'm not like I never like sung like a choir,
none of that.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I never had a whole coach. I'm self touched. So
that's literally how I learned to say just listening to.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
The radio, it's powerful.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
So, how has your journey as an artist been so far?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I'm gonna be real, it's not an easy one.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I feel like, especially growing up in this generation, it's
not as easy as it used to be because there's
so many people doing it, so many people singing, and
you know, social media. It's like you really got to
like stand out to you know, really just be unique.
And I feel like it's still I still find always
(01:49):
a person through it because you know, that's that's the
type of I am.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Street performing, you know, with my with my siblings when
I was eight years old, so you.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Know, you knowing to me right right now.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
So with that journey, you know, being that it's not
as easy as you would like it, how do you
stay motivated with you know, potato to perform, Potato to
play music?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Really just my uh my impact you know that I
have on like, you know people, you know, especially the youth.
I feel like I'm an advocate for the youth. I'm
an advocate for mint weel. I didn't been through my
own journey of it. You feel me like, and uh,
you know, I feel like that's what it really allows
me to keep pushing through. Like every time that I
see that somebody tell like you just as.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Simple as like you made my day, you know, like
you know it's.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Just something simple? Is that?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It really just you know, drives me, keeps me going. Also,
just like the feeling that the music gives me. You know,
I feel like I'm a I'm a.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Music level like ive music. I just always have I
listen to.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
All the grades like the Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, and
that's what you know, keeps me going.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I feel like it's awesome. So I know that you
make a music, amazing music. I've heard you seeing covers,
but you also write your own song?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Is music your only focus?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Are you? Do you do other things creative lead as well.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I'm not a drug I mean I'm not.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'm a songwriter. It's a lot of things that I
feel like I don't puote myself into.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I don't even people feel like, you know, what do
you love to do or what's the jump real music
that you do?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I feel like I don't bother myself in as being
the R and B artist, I write pop songs, I
could write songs. I can write, so I can write whatever.
It's just really and that's how right. I don't write
a song like this is going to be an R
and B song. That's just like whatever comes to me,
it comes to me from God, you know I feel. So,
how do you say you was a youth advocate?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Right? So what's your message?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
It could be a message that you convey through your
music or why you're writing, or just in general, what
is the message that you want youth who are inspired
to be any kind of artist or performing artists, what's
your message to them?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I would say to anybody out there, can you destined
to become who you live to be? That's that's something
that I always, you know, believe himself. That's something like
as a sixteen year old kid, like I wrote all
my mirror like growing up, like I just I've always
been big on like affirmations and you know, just a manifestation.
I have manifested a lot of the situations that I've
been in, like even down to me signing the contract
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and everything.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
But it's also comes with the you know work.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I'll say that also, like yes, manifestation is good, but
you got to put those feet forward. You know, you
got to make those steps, and you know it's the
only way that you're gonna really get what you want.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
It's hard work, Like even this music, this is hard work.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Is not easy, you know, like going to the studio
singing and you gotta keep going take at the take.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You know, it's a lot.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
And I know every single kid is not gonna.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Want to do music, but you know that applies to
every single aspect in life for Colood.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Right, I heard you touch on mental health.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I want to ask you as a young man, not
just as an artist, but just in general, like what
are some of the challenge just that you have had,
maybe mental and emotionally. You don't have to be, you know,
super explicit, but as a young man navigating, like what
are some things you're noticing or you been through and
you don't mind sharing.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Man, I have been through a lot. I've been through
a journey.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It's just I feel like as a young black man,
first off, just finding like self, love with myself and
uh just trying to you know, gain my confidence. You
feel me because I feel like a lot of black
you know, young black man. Of course, I really hate
that you don't keep saying this way. We don't really
have like good figures as father's you know a lot
of times. So me growing up and you find my way,
(05:37):
Like just growing up in Bartmore, I had to really,
you know, learn a few things myself, you know, and
along the way that is a good thing because a
lot of people, you know, we gotta go through the
process of things. A lot of our journeys aren't the same.
So I just found my way. And yeah, I was
just I would just really say, uh, just stick with y'all,
you feel me, stick with what you you believe with
(05:59):
your So yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Said, you started off doing street performers, right, can you
remember all the time? Uh? Well, can you remember the
song or any kind of performance that you did doing
the street?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Like what was your first performance doing the street performance?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
When we say like that, I can.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I don't know the exact song, but I.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Know back then I was like a really big one
Michael Jackson and like the Jackson five and I was
out there singing with uh, I want to say, three
of my siblings at the time, and uh we were
singing like you know, I'll be there. Uh, you know,
a lot of like more then just had me out
there singing song fingalesmprovised.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
With the lyrics a little bit making mom.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
But yeah, they had me singing everything out there, especially
like my uh my sister's too than me, Like she.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Was like really like the singer of the family.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So I had to.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Really like, you know, it was me, I tell a
lot of times, but.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, we just we grew wan a lot a lot
of songs. But Michael Jackson, that was somebody that felt
like in story.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I love his story and like.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
You know, something that I could really do as a
artist is somebody that really had like genuine love for music.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
What are some of the things that you see for
yourself some of the things maybe you already did on
a certain level, but you wanted it to be bigger,
Certain things that you haven't done yet that you would
like to embark upone.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Man, it's a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It's a lot that I always I feel like I'm
a perfectionist for one So it's like I just be
wanting what I what I do you know, embark on
to you know, be done well and be done right.
Like I see with my music, I do have a
single out, but I don't have a lot of music out,
you know right now, I don't really have too much
ef than about a few years back my label dropped
an independent uh when we dropped a collaboration righting project,
(07:51):
and uh that's with me and a few other artists
just on my label. But other than that, don't live
too much music. I do want to get into acting more.
I have a few auditions. Uh, that's something that I
definitely Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I have a love for.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
That's like my second love other than music.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
So uh, I want to get into that.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
And my mother's an artist too, so she's actually actually
got a painter when she paints.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
A lot of news around the city.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
So I feel like paying it will be something, you know,
I want to get into. I also write about you
a lot of things that I do. You know, it's
kind of bratch off for what she does. I feel
like that's the reason why you know I am the
artist I am because my mother, you know, kind of
instilled in us like when we just saw growing up.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So it's in my DNA the sense, gotcha, gotcha? So what.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
So when so when you when you think about your
music and the things that you're write, what's the process,
you know what I'm saying, like the like how how
when you put into the paper or the yeah to
the paper. What are your thoughts when you write your
own music? And and do you write for other people?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I do? I feel like write people in my mind. But
also it's like it could be like real life situations.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
You know, like a lot of times when I'm writing,
it's different, Like I can sit there with with the book.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
And be playing and out I'll write.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
But a lot of times it just flows out of me,
like maybe have to write up and down. At the times,
I just take my phone and record.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
While I'm just you know, singing over a beat, and
then it just flow just like that. Like bes back
and lost my grandmother to cast. That was like something
that kind of you know, really stuck with me, like really.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Kind of hard.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
So I just you know, put a bet.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I wrote this one song. U. It really was like.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
You know, and it's real emotions, and I was like
I was I even looked at it like a wow.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Here, I kind of just blew out me, you know.
But it's because of those real row emotions. So I
feel like that's the best way to write a song
for real, those real emotions.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Okay, what I want to say body work, but individual
song that you've written, either even if it's not been released,
what has been your favorite and what was it about?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
What inspired it? Hm? Hmmm that's my favorite? Mm hmm,
I got a few. I feel like this is why
I just did recently.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Uh and uh it's called a lot of soul, and
uh what inspired it? It's kind of like my joermanout
you feel me like, I just felt like a lot
of times, you know, we we did we.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Realize out here we don't really know we nobody really
has a truly blueprint to life. We all, you know,
were walking our journey and we figuring out the pieces
too along the way.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So uh yeah, I just somehow fact a lot of soul,
you know when I'm you know, by myself and I'm
sitting along with my thoughts and just trying to you know,
figure it out, trying to find a way, trying to
like that's the ways of you know, and uh, we
all to find our way and sometimes.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
We might fe like we're losing it up, but you know, you.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Gotta keep that faith, you know, keep keep that mind,
you know, strong and really just a daily.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
It's a daily process. But you know, we all get that,
you know, little I've just had one more question.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I seem like you've come from a background full of artists, right, Uh,
what ways do your family expire you to just keep
pushing and whatever form you have as far as the
performance or even down to wanting to do some acting.
What ways do they encourage you or expire you to
just go ahead out into that.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I gonna lie my family like, they.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Definitely encourage my mother, my No. One thing.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You know, I always shout out my mom, did ye,
She's like my number one family.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
She She's definitely like poored into that.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That's very important, you know for young people really you know,
people around them, people they feel like they're family and friends.
It's the poor int to them because that's going to
really like, you know, it's really blink like. That's why
I was gonna you know, blein really beautiful like you know,
And I feel like I do believe that, you know,
a lot of us come from a.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Lot of poverty, a lot of.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
You know, you know, bad situations.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
But I do believe that, you know, I'm not product
of my environment.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I feel like, no, it should be a product of
the environment.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You know, if anything should inspire you, you know, to
be better and you know, come back, you know, just
change change your communities, change you know, your people, make
or just give them something to look up to in
as suage, you know, I.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Want to ask you what advice would you give to
maybe like a ten year old you and as you
finished up, you can let us know where to find you.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
What all you got coming out? Things like that? Okay,
I would I would don't grow up too fast, you know,
enjoy enjoy this. I feel like with social media, like
I do, I think these kids are just.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Way too advanced, you know, these you know parents, you know,
give them a littlectra supervision or whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But I would tell them to appreciate, you know, where
they are right now.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Like I don't know that might be.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Too much for them.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Just appreciate where you're at and stay fairless, That's what
I would say, Stay fearless. Yeah, where can we find you?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Y'all can all follow me at I.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Am Kyle More on our social media platforms that spelled
I A M K A I underscore more.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
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Speaker 2 (13:10):
Subscribing my YouTube channel at Kaye More that's spelled K
I A m or r and uh yeah, that's.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
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