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the episode. Hello everybody, andwelcome back to the chatroom for another epic
episode. Yeah, it's been anincredible month. It's far and heare today.
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We have such an incredible gift.I'm sure you all know him already.
My guest today is Darryl. Howare you doing, my brother.
I'm good, man, I'm good. This busy week, but I'm good.
I'm good, I'm good, I'mblessed. Oh yeah, man,
if you're busy, it means thatyou're on the right part. But man,
we love to do Yeah. Man, So, how have been your
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years of I'm a good start oryou know, bad start? How can
you read it? You know,I'll say good start because what happened was
I released my EP later in theyear, you know, and being that
you know, as an upcoming artist, you don't have the leeway to release
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a music video soon after you releasea project because you know, at least
that's my strategy because I'm very calculatedwith how I do think. So I
was trying to get people to listenin first. I don't believe in as
an upcoming artist, you know,when you release a project or even a
single. Rather, I let thepeople decide with this song des terms of
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music video or not. So we'regoing on my streams the audio they're not
doing well, then that means maybethe song is not doesn't deserve a music
video. You know, I don't. I never want to make the dis
myself because you don't know, wasteyour your your resources. So yeah,
so yeah, man, I whatI decided to do was just give my
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EP longevity and I started. Ireleased a music video early this year,
and yeah, it's doing very well. Yeah yeah, yeah, I was
actually I was actually watching it earlieron today and I'm like, yeah,
man, I think last week you'reon take, you're on tin K,
and now you're on eighteen. Soit's definitely making stride, bro. But
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now man, it's it's incredible tohear. It's incredible to hear that you
on part and you love how thingsare going. But we're actually gonna go
into that video question a little bitlater on just to shed more light on
that. But yeah, bro,I just wanted to start off things by
asking you, g like, becauseI remember you from primary school. In
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primary school, dude, you werejust rugby player, you know, you
know, playing for him his rugbyplay a day. And then suddenly in
high school, I see Daryl issinging, what inspired you to go down
that road? Man? I wouldn'tcall it inspiration. I would call it
more of a calling. You know. Now, more than ever, I
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feel like, you know this,this is what I'm meant to do.
Like my purpose, my purpose tobe on this planet, uh, is
to make music. So but whenI started the reason why I said say
this is because just looking at whereit started, my mom was she was
a part time musician gospel though primaryschool. Like you said, I was
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a rugby player at school, youknow. And but all my friends,
my close circle at school was everyonewas in the school jazz band. And
I can't play an instrument for jack. So being a part of that group,
you know, you end up becauseyou can't play instruments, yet you
end up having you find ways tofit in. So lyrics were the best
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thing I could figure out. Andat the start, you know, I
was rapping, so this was likegrade six, you know, but we're
just playing out even high school clog. It was just releasing songs, but
just for vibe. It was thesame way with I think at the time
though these guys from John's Dammast orsomething like that, I don't remember,
remember they're great, So so peoplewere just people were just releasing songs for
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fun, you know. Up asix. That's when I realized, like,
not, this is something that Ireally want to do and you know,
make it my own and create alift. So I started chasing it.
I got serious and yeah, no, no, that's that's a that's
an interesting story. Gee. Andlike just in terms of your branding broke
because like obviously these are things thatyou were thinking about during the times you
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were probably like missing around, right. You You've got the trademark color purple.
So when I see purple, usuallythe first thing I think about is
you're you're like the fantasy called albumthinking were not album art, but the
picture, you know, because theseis purple on it. But you know
what I mean. But anyway,why why why the proper thing just happened?
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But as because I woke up becauselike you said, you know,
Brandy, so like and like Isaid, I'm a very calculated quession.
Like I just I woke up andI was like, I need to give
the people that support me your name. You know, yeah, I just
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woke I just woke up, andthat was my mission for the day.
It's like, I need to givethem a name. And I was like,
but what you know, I can'tcall them the Darryl supporters or you
know, and I used to andI always I used start the sneap name
called buss Port. So I alwayskept on telling people joined this journey,
jump on the bus, let's doit together. And then one of my
friends kind of was like, butthat's corny, bro, don't don't bus
joined the bus busbort that's and thenpropo just came to my head. And
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this is when I started singing.And you know, I was singing about
love at the time, but Ididn't want to stick to the romantic type
of love. And yeah, soin my head and to me, propo
describes the different levels of love.You know, it could be because I
couldn't use the white hearts, becausethe white heart was peace, the green
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one was positivity, the red onewas romance, the black one was just
dark. So Proper just seemed likeit combined all all of those you know,
phelix into one exactly. So Iwas like, this is what I
want to do. And then Itook it and I was like, proper
to me, it just seems likesomething that is. If I decided to
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say I want to open a foundation, for example, I could use a
proper color. I decided to sayI want to have a I want to
have a studio, I could useproper lights. You know, it just
made sense and yeah I went withit and yeah, that's that's dope.
Yeah, like sorry, just outof curiosity, bro. So this is
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literally like a day, Like youtook a day to think about this and
obviously research all the elements and stufflike that. No, man, that's
dope. Yeah, like it was. It was really it happened just like
you know, like one after theother. Like you know, when something
when something is genuine, it doesn'ttake time to lost, you know,
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it's just there. They're they're likeideas really just flow when you're in the
right path. So yeah, it'sjust worked out for the best, and
people took it, people accepted itbecause I also didn't want to call them
fans. Yeah, I felt likeleva I was at for me to say
I have fans, was just kindof like, Yo, who do you
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think you are? You've got freakingto to to followers. What do you
mean you have fans? You know? So I was like, nah,
let me, let me look fora different name to give the people that
support me, because, like Iwrite like I'm one of those people,
like I like to think myself ofmyself as like different from everyone else,
because the people that support me supportme like I've got like a group of
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people that really ride with me,you know, so like musically, So
when it came to it, Iwas like, okay, but like my
fans and all my fans, thisis family, bro. I might not
have met or talked to these people, but the way they're supporting me,
they're supporting like they're the ones thatwent into the booth and sang the song.
So you know, just it justmade sense to stop calling them fans,
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and you know, called the proclamationand so yeah, dog one hundred
percent, Bro, I do understandwhat you mean there, and now it's
pretty cool that you thought about itand it was, you know, a
quick process. So she moving onto the actual music. And this is
something I'm one hundred percent short alot of fuel. A lot of the
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people in Purple Nation sort of saythey want to know ge, why don't
you collaborate a lot? Bro?I think I can count all your collaborations
with like one hand, Bro,So I'm pleaciate a little bit of light
with that. Why do you preferworking alone? It's not really preference.
Uh, it's a it's an energything. Granted, you know, uh,
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you've got to be collaboration to helpyou grow, right. But at
the same time, the people thatyou talk about, yes, you can
count them with one hand. Butlike if if it's five people, is
probably because the same person as I'vecollaborated with them like three times. So
Lloyd's so Fuji down Major. Ithink those are the top three for my
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songs. Uh. The other personthat I collaborated with didn't even sing.
There was a saxophone talent the maps. So for me, it was just
like I collaborated with Lloyd because Iconsider Lloyd a big brother, right,
He's I wouldn't say everything, butmost of the things that I know when
it comes to making music is becauseof him. Like till today, I'm
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still learning, you know, downmajor again, big brother. Like when
I when I have issues, Ihit him up and we talk. We
chop it up. He talks.But I think you should do this.
I think you should do that.You should do this, you know,
because they with me when I Fujiagain, He's been very supportive. He
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talks to me every time. He'salways reaching out, Yo, we should
look up. Yo, I wantto do this for you want. So
it just made sense because of energythat we had at the time. You
know. So when I'm and itjust so happens that when I'm when our
energy is right, when I'm writinga song, I just happened to not
be able to finish the second person. I'm like, hey, but Lloyd
does sound good on this major.It sounds good in this food, sound
good and this you know. Icalled them and I'm like, Yo,
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I've got a track. Do youwant to jump on? Sure, we
hit the studio and collaborate, right, And there are collaborations that I'm looking
to do. But like I said, I'm very late. So I'm just
it's one of those things where you'rewaiting for the right song to use it
for the right moment because you don'tI don't want to waste collaborations either.
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I'm going to make sure because sometimesyou do collaborations just because people are doing
collaborations. I'm not moving like that. I've got to I've got a plan,
bro, and it's been moving.I've been moving according to plans so
far. So if I sway fromthe plan, you know, I might,
you know, mess up everything.So it's just kind of if I'm
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going to strive for better, Ijust work harder to move faster. But
I'm not gonna completely get out ofthe path that I'm in just so that
you know, I fit in withwhat everyone else is doing. So that's
that's really yeah, And I thinkalso, I also think like you need
to. It's it's also a thingof creating your sound at the beginning,
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yeah, exactly, because you collaboratea lot and one knows what you're about
exactly. So then now when you'resong pops and it's got like sixty five
features, when you then try todo a song you'll go where people be
like, but that's not yeah exactly. You kind of have to stick to
your path and get your fan base, people that appreciate what you do already
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by yourself, and then when youget that, you can start, you
know, doing what you do.You. Yes, that's that's pretty small
and talking of calculating, right,Bro, Like I ran into you,
I think it was was it threeor four years ago? If I run
into you a lot of times,but I think it was four years ago
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when or two years ago when weactually spoke about your meal, Yeah,
exactly, one hundred percent. Andwe talked about Office actually, and you
know, Officer for me personally,is one of my favorite songs from you.
And we talked about about you releasinga video for Officer. So I
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wanted to ask about that. Andthere's a question for me everybody listeners,
Yeah, I want to know,but Bro, why didn't you end up
making a video for Officer? Bro? The thing is number one? Yes,
i'mna I'm gonna say you're not theonly one that's asked about it.
Just from my head. There's Voodoothat's he's always like, yo. But
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you know what, if you don'trelease some music like We're Gonna Fight.
Yeah, it's a couple of people. Mitch feels the same way t DK
like people feel. And I knowa lot of people want it, but
like the reason why I didn't doit, it's just that I felt like,
as much as it's a good song, I've passed that, you know,
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I didn't use the opportunity whilst itwas still there. And it's unfortunate,
granted, But like it might bea special song simply because it doesn't
have a music video, you know, that might keep that mystical not mystical.
But it's just just that, youknow, even like ten years from
now, you have that nostalgia yothat song. It's it's just one of
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those things. You know, itwas a good song, but where I
am now and where I'm going,the song that it does, it wouldn't
make sense to to to it's afavorite. Yeah, it's a favorite to
people that were granted. Like forexample, I know there's some people that
first listen to Fantasy because that arestill great. Fantasy is the best,
you know, but the people rightnow that are saying Samantha is the best,
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and the people that are saying Fallingis the best. People that are
saying depen is the so you know, and everyone everyone that's saying depend is
the best is everyone that came atdepleted first. Yeah, I feel you.
I feel you. Even though theylistening to other songs, they prefer
people that said people that like Samantha. Yeah, people that like Samantha listen
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to Samantha fors, people that likeOfficer listen to Officers. So it's like
one of those things where I've goneone up, I feel so going backwards
is not a way to go.You just gotta take you out. You
missed that video, keep it going, you know. So Yeah, it's
just the time is passed. It'sbeen almost three years now, so there's
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no I guess I don't see theneed for it anymore. I guess so
one hundred percent. And like,on the same note, bro, because
we're talking about videos. Your videosare so interesting, geez. So in
I think in Fever, you're kidnapped, in Samantha, your goal was shot.
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Being in Timpindi, you you brokesome girls heart. Bro. What's
happening? Gee? Like the storylines? Man, how you're coming up with
this? You know, with thesebizarre situations in your songs like please tell
us, Uh, it's hard topresenting me the ideas one hundred percent me
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I I when I start writing,yeah, I get ideas and I get
ideas like, hey, like whatsomeone verse one? I'm thinking, h
put this video video like this wouldbe dope for this song, right,
I write it down when I'm working, just having an ordinary day, I
get music video ideas like scripts.Then I just write it down. So
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by the time I'm done with asong, I've got a step of options,
you know, to to to gowith number one, number two.
I always think, you know,like if you're not going to have again,
I'm an upcoming artist, so rightnow, money is not available,
right Like, it's not. It'snot it's not it's not in a limited
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infinity supplies. It's not a limitedsupply of it. So you need to
find other ways to make it work. You know, if you're not gonna
have flying, flying cars and youknow, the spaceships, you might as
well. You don't have a budgetfor that, So you're gonna have to
think out of the box make itmore entertaining. And we're living in an
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era where visual presentation as important inthe music, and so it comes to
a point where I'm like, okay, so if people are going to like
the song, then I'm going tohave to paint a story. You know.
Samantha was a good song, butthe video also gave that exactly ending,
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And yo, bro, why didyou do that? Like what's going
on? Exactly like that? Letinvoked conversation, And that's always my goal
with everything, like I want toinvoke conversation. I want you guys like
after watching, like what the hellhappened? You're like, why what was
he thinking? Feel the same thinglike you were just watching a normal video
until you realize I was in thetest and kidnapped, you know, and
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then Samantha, Yeah someone got shot, my girl got shot. The pin
there like it was a dope video, like oh snap, okay, dope
scenes, Okay, this is niceday is it is actually number number two
on China all right, MTV basedMTV take that's dope. That's dope.
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Yeah. So it's just one ofthose things that this guy he didn't go
back to his girl, and likea lot of people asking, hey,
Amanda, only one that noticed thatthis this dude just left his girl by
the service station and went to aparty. He never came back, you
know, and already I keep itlike that, And it's just that I
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like leaving people in suspense cliff hangers, you know, and you know you
discussed the conclusion on your own,So yeah, that's no. It makes
it beacause you know, h Dog, Like you know, some of these
these videos of yours, bro,it's just mind blowing. You know.
We do talk about them sometimes withthe homies. But now keep crossing your
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arts with that regards Dog. SoI think the last question that I have
with actually regards to music right beforewe move on to the next bit,
is how you handling the rise tothe talk, bro, Because you know,
although you're upcoming right, you knowyou're there now, do you get
what I mean? Like you arepart of the conversation when it comes to
Zimbabwe music, So how are youhandling all that? Ha ha ha.
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So we're gonna stop right there fora little bit and we're gonna hear what
Darrow had to say for that questionthis coming Friday. So this ends the
first part of Darrow's interview. Wowwow wow wow. So far it's been
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