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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Final week of the Big Fresne Fair. See King Karmen.
It's be ninety five R and B night out going
on this Saturday night at the Big Fresne Fair, Nivia
Lloyd and of course this guy right here, Mario.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We gotta answer. We gotta enter the chat. We gotta
enter the chat with the Mario love it. Oh, it's real,
I love it.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Cee King Karmen is be ninety five Mario. Dude, you
sound just as good today as when you jumped on
the scene. And think about it, bro, You've been doing
this for years. Some artists may be able to hit
a run here and there, but not you. It's almost
like you still got the full array of vocals.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I mean, you know, it takes me back to being
a kid right right into my mom's living room, you know,
singing that my cousin's birthdays, and singing at church and
just really being a lover of the art and listening
to music that I was too young to listen to,
trying to hit all the boys to men vocals and
singing Michael Jackson, and you know, just just being surrounded
(00:59):
by so much you know, authentic in real music man, honestly,
and taking a liking to it and never just singing
because I loved it. When you love something and then
it ends up being in profession, it's kind of like
you you had good karma from your past lifestyle, you
know what I'm saying. So it's like, that's how I
feel about it.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
We're talking to Marios King Karmen being ninety five, amazing
music for years is what he's been giving us from
just a friend to braid my hair, let me love.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You, he say, break my hair. Is like I was
what fifteen years old, and I had already put justin
for knout and my hair was half and half out,
and I couldn't go home to let the girl at
the time that was breaking my hair. I couldn't go
home to let her break my hair. So I literally
was I was mad sitting in the studio, and so
I left out of the room and I came back
(01:46):
in the room and he had half the song written already.
So when you hear that song, like I think, I
think like we underestimate sometimes as artists, Like these days,
it's like how our daily lives can be the spirits
that can live for every music and that's stuff. Would
it takes some times as simple as that the song.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Let Me Love You. Did you have any idea it
was going to stand the test of time and become
that iconic?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I would be lying to you if I say yes,
I'm gonna be honest with you. This is my second album, right.
This is when you are working with the producers and
writers and you have like a bunch of writers and
producers coming through, and you're working for two weeks, and
then let Me Love You is like one of the
last songs you record out of like thirty songs. I
just want to get the song right, but then something
(02:32):
special happens where you go to the studio the next day,
in all the files for the whole song disappears. The
only song that happened for during these whole sessions was
let Me Love You. Like the vocals everything that you
know Protus was different back then, and so this was
two thousand and two and everything shut down. So I
had to re record the whole song again the next day.
But I had been living with the song and listening
(02:53):
to it, so I had a different type of connection
with the song, and so I went in there and
I resung everything, and it came out ten times better.
But I was only eighteen years old, so it's like
my first time I was singing about love in this capacity.
But the crazy part about letting Me Love You is
that I've been the other side on that. I've been
the guy that I'm talking about in this song. Now
(03:15):
you know what I'm saying. Like I've been, I've lived
both sides of the song. You know what I'm saying.
So it's interesting how everything comes for a circle.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Song is iconic.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So but it's the people, bro, it's the fans. It's
the fans I think the most. It's one of the
songs that connects us to most on stage where everybody's
singing it. You know what I'm saying, whether you came
with your friends, your boyfriend, your wife, your mom, like
your kids, like it's just one of those records.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Oh, it's one of those records. And I would arguably
say it may be one of the greatest R and
B songs of all time, if not top five. I
would fight anybody on.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
That man from your List to God is. And also
I feel like you might be right.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I mean, seriously, when you think about it, where you
think about the classics, you think about the legends. You
think about people that put together music that hits our soul,
and you talk about the longevity of it. This is
a song from young to old. Everybody knows and everyone
feels a certain way about it. Like you said, you've
(04:23):
already lived both sides of this song. People, women, you
name it, relationships, they know it. They're like, wait a minute,
hold on this. This song's this song hits different And
that's why you said two thousand and two, here we
are twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Five, two thousand and five.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Ye, nonetheless, Yeah, two thousand and five to twenty twenty five.
It's a song that it doesn't matter where you are
when you hear it, even in other genres. Everyone knows
let Me Love You.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
There's not a place in the world that I performed
that that record wasn't known. And that's the blessing of
being able to to have one of those in my catalog,
you know. Working on this new project which is called
mood Swings. By the way, it's coming out November, right before,
right before my tour. It's called mood Swings. The first
single is out right now. It is called Nobody but Us,
So make sure y'all check that out. Home, it's coming
(05:16):
out soon. But you know, being able to make me
music and to like have like you know, being my
own competition. Really, you know what I'm saying, I'm a
competition with myself, with my own records, with being able
to reinvent myself over and over again. That's what it takes.
But you don't forget these moments and these songs that
(05:37):
will live forever and live through you, lives, through my fans, lives,
through our you know, our connection with each other. This
is what drives it. Bro you know what you do
at radio, Being able to play your favorite music like
this is all that drives it. Excited about listening to
the stage, making sure we create states never be done
in Fresno as far as me and my fans, you know.
(06:00):
So I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Mario. We're excited to have you here from R and
B night Out. And before we let you go, we
got to talk about you know, you being on the
Mass Singer. That was an amazing season, arguably probably one
of the best seasons of the Mass Singer ever. But
your versus battle was legendary. And I mean we're not
gonna go too far into it, but you kind of
took the words out of our mouth when Jeremiah was
(06:23):
on stage singing.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
We Hey versus not for everybody, It's not for everybody,
but not honestly speaking, I think I think it's it's
one of them things where it's like, you know, you
gotta know what you're getting yourself into stuff on that stage.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
You do, you know you do and you had It's like,
it's not one of them things where you could be like,
you know what, bro oh versus happening, I'm gonna get
a little cameo like you could really catch cross fires.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, that's exactly what happened, Bru trying to hand out roses.
It wasn't working. It wasn't working. We're talking to Mario
having a good time. He's gonna be here for R
and B night out this Saturday night at the Big Friends,
No Fair. Mario was the Wasp on season twelve of
The Mass singer I know why you didn't win, but
in my opinion, you should have won. Why did you
not win that season?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Man? It's it's very simple, all right. Listen words to
men I grew up. Listen, I wouldn't be where I
am today if it was anybody else I would be
able to be questionable, right, I will still say that
in a certain episode, I feel like I definitely, you know,
I should have tooken the Crown home. However, I understand
(07:31):
it's and they are legends. They are legends, and I
love boys, men and I and I'm so happy I
was able to share the stage with them, and I
wouldn't want it to be anybody else.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Well, I'll tell you right now, I have enjoyed you
for years, my brother. I think that you're an amazing
artist and amazing talent, a generational talent. Thank you so
much for coming through with being on the show this morning.
We cannot wait to see you at R and B
Night Out at the Big Friends No Fair.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It's about to go up in a crazy way. I
can't wait to see y'all there. Were put on a
great dough and you know we're gonna make it memorable.
I can't wait to see y'll there.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Let's get it, Mario right there, make sure you get
your tickets. Big Friends, No Fair, R and B Night Out.
It's going to be a hell of a time. Nivia,
Lloyd and Mario, c K and Carmen is B ninety
five by the way, we're looking for calling them in
nine right now, two four seven, fifty five ninety five.
We got tickets for you. Good luck,
Final week of the Big Fresne Fair. See King Karmen.
It's be ninety five R and B night out going
on this Saturday night at the Big Fresne Fair, Nivia
Lloyd and of course this guy right here, Mario.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We gotta answer. We gotta enter the chat. We gotta
enter the chat with the Mario love it. Oh, it's real,
I love it.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Cee King Karmen is be ninety five Mario. Dude, you
sound just as good today as when you jumped on
the scene. And think about it, bro, You've been doing
this for years. Some artists may be able to hit
a run here and there, but not you. It's almost
like you still got the full array of vocals.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I mean, you know, it takes me back to being
a kid right right into my mom's living room, you know,
singing that my cousin's birthdays, and singing at church and
just really being a lover of the art and listening
to music that I was too young to listen to,
trying to hit all the boys to men vocals and
singing Michael Jackson, and you know, just just being surrounded
(00:59):
by so much you know, authentic in real music man, honestly,
and taking a liking to it and never just singing
because I loved it. When you love something and then
it ends up being in profession, it's kind of like
you you had good karma from your past lifestyle, you
know what I'm saying. So it's like, that's how I
feel about it.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
We're talking to Marios King Karmen being ninety five, amazing
music for years is what he's been giving us from
just a friend to braid my hair, let me love.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You, he say, break my hair. Is like I was
what fifteen years old, and I had already put justin
for knout and my hair was half and half out,
and I couldn't go home to let the girl at
the time that was breaking my hair. I couldn't go
home to let her break my hair. So I literally
was I was mad sitting in the studio, and so
I left out of the room and I came back
(01:46):
in the room and he had half the song written already.
So when you hear that song, like I think, I
think like we underestimate sometimes as artists, Like these days,
it's like how our daily lives can be the spirits
that can live for every music and that's stuff. Would
it takes some times as simple as that the song.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Let Me Love You. Did you have any idea it
was going to stand the test of time and become
that iconic?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I would be lying to you if I say yes,
I'm gonna be honest with you. This is my second album, right.
This is when you are working with the producers and
writers and you have like a bunch of writers and
producers coming through, and you're working for two weeks, and
then let Me Love You is like one of the
last songs you record out of like thirty songs. I
just want to get the song right, but then something
(02:32):
special happens where you go to the studio the next day,
in all the files for the whole song disappears. The
only song that happened for during these whole sessions was
let Me Love You. Like the vocals everything that you
know Protus was different back then, and so this was
two thousand and two and everything shut down. So I
had to re record the whole song again the next day.
But I had been living with the song and listening
(02:53):
to it, so I had a different type of connection
with the song, and so I went in there and
I resung everything, and it came out ten times better.
But I was only eighteen years old, so it's like
my first time I was singing about love in this capacity.
But the crazy part about letting Me Love You is
that I've been the other side on that. I've been
the guy that I'm talking about in this song. Now
(03:15):
you know what I'm saying. Like I've been, I've lived
both sides of the song. You know what I'm saying.
So it's interesting how everything comes for a circle.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Song is iconic.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So but it's the people, bro, it's the fans. It's
the fans I think the most. It's one of the
songs that connects us to most on stage where everybody's
singing it. You know what I'm saying, whether you came
with your friends, your boyfriend, your wife, your mom, like
your kids, like it's just one of those records.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Oh, it's one of those records. And I would arguably
say it may be one of the greatest R and
B songs of all time, if not top five. I
would fight anybody on.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
That man from your List to God is. And also
I feel like you might be right.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I mean, seriously, when you think about it, where you
think about the classics, you think about the legends. You
think about people that put together music that hits our soul,
and you talk about the longevity of it. This is
a song from young to old. Everybody knows and everyone
feels a certain way about it. Like you said, you've
(04:23):
already lived both sides of this song. People, women, you
name it, relationships, they know it. They're like, wait a minute,
hold on this. This song's this song hits different And
that's why you said two thousand and two, here we
are twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Five, two thousand and five.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Ye, nonetheless, Yeah, two thousand and five to twenty twenty five.
It's a song that it doesn't matter where you are
when you hear it, even in other genres. Everyone knows
let Me Love You.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
There's not a place in the world that I performed
that that record wasn't known. And that's the blessing of
being able to to have one of those in my catalog,
you know. Working on this new project which is called
mood Swings. By the way, it's coming out November, right before,
right before my tour. It's called mood Swings. The first
single is out right now. It is called Nobody but Us,
So make sure y'all check that out. Home, it's coming
(05:16):
out soon. But you know, being able to make me
music and to like have like you know, being my
own competition. Really, you know what I'm saying, I'm a
competition with myself, with my own records, with being able
to reinvent myself over and over again. That's what it takes.
But you don't forget these moments and these songs that
(05:37):
will live forever and live through you, lives, through my fans, lives,
through our you know, our connection with each other. This
is what drives it. Bro you know what you do
at radio, Being able to play your favorite music like
this is all that drives it. Excited about listening to
the stage, making sure we create states never be done
in Fresno as far as me and my fans, you know.
(06:00):
So I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Mario. We're excited to have you here from R and
B night Out. And before we let you go, we
got to talk about you know, you being on the
Mass Singer. That was an amazing season, arguably probably one
of the best seasons of the Mass Singer ever. But
your versus battle was legendary. And I mean we're not
gonna go too far into it, but you kind of
took the words out of our mouth when Jeremiah was
(06:23):
on stage singing.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
We Hey versus not for everybody, It's not for everybody,
but not honestly speaking, I think I think it's it's
one of them things where it's like, you know, you
gotta know what you're getting yourself into stuff on that stage.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
You do, you know you do and you had It's like,
it's not one of them things where you could be like,
you know what, bro oh versus happening, I'm gonna get
a little cameo like you could really catch cross fires.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, that's exactly what happened, Bru trying to hand out roses.
It wasn't working. It wasn't working. We're talking to Mario
having a good time. He's gonna be here for R
and B night out this Saturday night at the Big Friends,
No Fair. Mario was the Wasp on season twelve of
The Mass singer I know why you didn't win, but
in my opinion, you should have won. Why did you
not win that season?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Man? It's it's very simple, all right. Listen words to
men I grew up. Listen, I wouldn't be where I
am today if it was anybody else I would be
able to be questionable, right, I will still say that
in a certain episode, I feel like I definitely, you know,
I should have tooken the Crown home. However, I understand
(07:31):
it's and they are legends. They are legends, and I
love boys, men and I and I'm so happy I
was able to share the stage with them, and I
wouldn't want it to be anybody else.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Well, I'll tell you right now, I have enjoyed you
for years, my brother. I think that you're an amazing
artist and amazing talent, a generational talent. Thank you so
much for coming through with being on the show this morning.
We cannot wait to see you at R and B
Night Out at the Big Friends No Fair.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It's about to go up in a crazy way. I
can't wait to see y'all there. Were put on a
great dough and you know we're gonna make it memorable.
I can't wait to see y'll there.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Let's get it, Mario right there, make sure you get
your tickets. Big Friends, No Fair, R and B Night Out.
It's going to be a hell of a time. Nivia,
Lloyd and Mario, c K and Carmen is B ninety
five by the way, we're looking for calling them in
nine right now, two four seven, fifty five ninety five.
We got tickets for you. Good luck,
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