December 29, 2025 • 23 mins
In this engaging interview, DJ Pup Dawg sits down with Grammy-winning songwriter and artist Joelle James as she returns to her "second home," Boston. The conversation dives deep into Joelle’s impressive career, from her early YouTube discovery by Chris Brown in her Berklee dorm to writing culture-shifting hits for major artists. Joelle shares the heartfelt philosophy behind her music, her dedication to spotlighting local Boston talent, and the inspiration behind her upcoming EP, I-Scream Scoop Two, which features the lead single "Love Over Everything." From hilarious stories about singing the National Anthem at the NBA Finals to a fun game of trying to pronounce tricky Massachusetts town names like "Haverhill" and "Leicester," this episode is packed with gems about resilience, manifestation, and her mission to give back to the city that "made" her.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, straight from Pakistan to La to Boston in the studio.
I can't believe it's been this long since you've been
back in the studio. Joel James, What up are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
What a pub? I'm good? Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I see your schedule. You are moving NonStop. You've been
moving NonStop for a long time. I've been tired looking
at your schedule.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
No, it's all fun when you love what you do.
It's that's never work. You're never busy. Yo.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
You got so much going on and i've uh, did
you ever walk around with the Grammy?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
No? Why not?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's a little heavy, not even like the first week, like, hey,
I got a no nothing.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
No, I put it right in my parents' house.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Oh man, give it to them so they can look
at it and know that all their dedication to me
as a young kid went somewhere.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I love it, man, Joel James in your Grammy winner
so many times nominated, you're nominated again this year. Congratulations,
Thank you so much. Is it just like a normal
thing now? Is it like a you know how people
are always chasing something now for some reason, if a
year doesn't happen, where you get a Grammy, which I
don't see that happening anytime soon. Is it like a
you know, like when you were just excited about the
next one, the next one?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Are you Do you have that mindset or are you
just like I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I always strive for the next one to be the one?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
And I don't want to say that it's like something
that's just regular to me, because it's absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But I do know that when.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I feel like it's regular.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
When I first came into the industry, you know, I
was art I'm an artist, yeah first, But when I
really started to write and give my songs away, I
did make a pack to myself where I was like,
if I'm gonna give these songs away, I want them
to be that artist single or that song that changes
the artist life. If I'm gonna give my baby away,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
So in the beginning, let's go back to the beginning
of writing days, because now you probably have you definitely
have that pull where I'm gonna give you the song,
this is gonna be the single, This is what you
guys are gonna work on. If it's not, I'm gonna
go over here with this. You can do that now.
But as a as a as a writer who's coming
in the game, you don't have that leverage, right, So
what's some of that advice you would give and did
(01:56):
you do that from the beginning, Like, no, you're not
getting my record if you're not gonna be if it's
not going to be a single, like you do that
from the beginning.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I do know that I felt.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I mean, let's first off say that manifesting is so
real that like when I told myself, if I'm going
to do this, I want it to be the one.
But I think at the end of the day, you
have to just keep creating. And yes, there were moments
where you know, I didn't want to give my babies
away and like these are my stories about my life,
Like how could I do that?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
But that's what music is for.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It's to have people relate, all different types of people,
different stories relate.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You know a story that.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I wrote right okay, Joel James is in here right now,
me and you. There's no mic in front of us
right now, even though there is there's cameras everywhere. When
an artist talks about a record about their personal thing
and it came from you.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Like you like, Hello, that's not your story, that's my story.
Has that ever happened?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I mean, yeah, but you know that's what this game
is all about. Wow, I want my my sound.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
To cope, you know the world. So you have to give,
give it out. You get to keep what you give.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
So they maybe were able to relate.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Maybe they were going through a similar situation like this
new project, the EP that's coming out in February. Thank
you so much for trusting me with it early, great,
great body, everyone else I would trust, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And it's solely produced in Boston.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, I was gonna ask you did Was that something
that was special to you that you wanted to do that?
Obviously you're alumni of Berkeley Music, huge music school out here.
Why was that so important for you for this project?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
You know, I look at Boston as my second home
and I've been embraced here and I just feel a
special type of feeling when I come here. So yeah,
I mean my story it started here, from Berkeley to
starting my company of Vanilla Factory, to being an artist lives.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, it all started here back to my YouTube day.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
YouTube day is when I was doing my YouTube videos
and my door room and That's how I got discovered
by Chris Brown. So like literally the DNA of my
story started in Boston. So that's why I'm very loyal
to the city and I love coming back here. And
what I really want to do, like kind of what
I talked to you about earlier was I'm not from here,
(04:17):
You're not from here, but we came here and we're
making a difference. And what I really want to do
is take the artists, local artists from Boston and put
a spotlight on them.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Like I've given my songs.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
To bigger artists with big labels, big budgets, right, But
to me, giving to the young talent of Boston is
really what's important because if you look around, the stars
of Boston are the athletes.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Shout out to them?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
You know, we went championship, but there's no artists that's
of today.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
There are like.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Shout out to be a shout out Joiner, but like
there's no big, big artists that has had a spotlight
on them here in Boston.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It's been a while since like the eighties, right, I think.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
That, Yeah, I really want to make that my goal.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Nice Well, I love that we were talking about that
off air about and I always say that like La
raised me, but Boston made me, you know, like you know,
I have a lot of love out here, and you know,
I kind of how are you going to deal with
some of the artists that it's great, you know, I've
kind of been in that same situation where I want
to help these Boston artists, but then sometimes their.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Egos come in the way and they're not knowing the
business and not understanding.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Because I think me, Bob, you now too have been
able to like we'll turn purple trying these telling these
artists the same thing what they got to do. There's
no blueprint, but there is data on what kind of works, right,
So are you ready to deal with that with these artists?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I'm ready, and with any artists, I'm ready. I'm a Taurus.
I'm very strong minded, so I can deal with it.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
And shout out to our girl, just Senya, because she's
a tourist too, so we you.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Know, we.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Have a whole project done on Boston's own Puerto Rican
girly Senya and.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Super talented and amazing, like one of those girls that
she's so talented that you just want to be like
she knows she's talented, but you could be It's like.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
No, come on, she's gonna get it. She's gonna get it.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I heard she's getting it though.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Period.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I can't wait for you to hear all the music
she has, plus the stuff she's been dropping, and she's
What I love about her is she that's from day
one when you introduce me to her, like why I
wanted to work with hers, when she told me her story, Like, oh,
I snuck into the Berkeley Summer program and I did this,
Like anybody who has that type of passion for their
craft that they're sneaking in and they're doing whatever it takes,
(06:33):
posting one hundred times a day, tiktoks, whatever the case
may be, Like they might have an ego like you
were saying, like the Boston artists might have that little whatever.
It's the only way that driving force is something that
that's really what you need to get to that level.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
So it's funny how I'm here talking to Joel James
about her and her project. And this is the kind
of girl you are. You've you talked about everybody else
with yourself again, this is what's great about you. You've
always ever since I've known you, you and your team
have always been trying to uplift everybody around you. But
by your flowers, man, you're Grammy winner, nominated, You got
major placements. You you which is weird also which is great,
(07:19):
not weird. Sorry that's a weird word. But you always
do the national anthem when it's the Lakers and the Celtics,
how do you how do you choose? Because you're again
you're a Boston girl.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Now, I'm sorry to the LA people. I am a
Celtics face. Love the Lakers, love the Clippers, yep.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
But when it comes to those two, I always have
I always have a yellow shirt period or else have a.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yellow shirt underneath. Yeah, because I do. I grew up
on the Magic and the Kobe. Look what's behind you? Like,
you know what I mean. But again, look it's right
next to them.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You know our boy baby yes to the game five?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So I get torn now, So I kind of now
I've been going now going to the La Celtics games
just because I'm like, I want.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
To cheer for both.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I understand that, and because you're a man like the
breed of the fandom, LA, I get it. But for me,
this is actually a special story when I was a
very young girl.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I think I was ten, maybe probably younger eight.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Maybe I sang when it was Kobe and Shaq, oh
wow for the Lakers, and I remember, like my head,
I was like these guys were huge comparred to me.
I was like a little little girl to me, like
those are the Lakers that era. Rest in peace to Mamba,
but those were the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
What's in nerve system? Like when you go to do
the national anthem?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I will when I did Game five, I was beyond nervous.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I was beyond nervous. They were My whole team was
like yelling at me like chill out. I was like,
I have never like I and I when I am
getting in that moment, that game mode, I get like
super serious to the point where it could it could.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Feel like I might be snapping or just.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
A little short, which makes sense. You're you're the one
that's gotta go perform.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Thank you, pup.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I'm with you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That's my mentality.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
It's a whole different one to go out there of
what I do.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Like when it comes to DJ and they're like you
just gotta go mix, I'm like, I'm the one that's
gonna get killed if I don't do a good job,
you guys are gonna be able to get get back
on the car.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Thank you, pub That's exactly I'm the one.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Asked leave her alone, guys.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Okay no, But I was extremely nervous, and I just
remember I kept saying like, you got this, you got this,
Like you have to just talk to yourself and speak
that into you know what you're about to go do.
And I actually am really proud of my performance that night.
It was the energy of the whole you know, remember
(09:51):
that was six one seven day, won the game, five
won the champion banner eighteen, so that whole day, the
energy of it, it was just literal dream.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Plus the parade I was on.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I was on the roof at the Lenox Hotel while
the duck boats were going by, so.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, we can't get to you, guys, canna get to us.
We're gonna get to you.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It was the craziest thing I've ever experienced. It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Good congratulations on everything. This ice cream too, Scoop two.
Are we gonna how long are we gonna stick with
this series? Because ice cream is obviously the what we
eat and stuff. But the way you have it is
I'm screaming, yeah, what's ice? Yeah, so what's the what's
the thought process? It's a double on tundrum, right.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I'm glad you asked that. It's kind of like a
triple on tantra.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Because ice cream my brand, Vanilla factory that I started
here in Boston. It came from my nickname at Berkeley,
which was Vanilla Okay, And well, you know, I'm from
a very small town in southern California, shout out Marietta, California.
And when I came out here, I was like just
(10:56):
introduced to a brand new culture. And you know, I've
always been a super soulful girl, like I sang on
showtime at the Apollo, I would my favorite artist ever
ever is Aretha Franklin. So I've always had this soul,
and I guess when I came here and was immersed
in more culture, I got that name. And also because
(11:17):
I genuinely love ice cream, especially vanilla ice cream, got it.
So I was at JP Licks, I was all over
the place, didn't matter how cold it was, eating ice cream.
And yeah, obviously Big Bob began the Marathon brand with Nipsey,
So when I started to be in his circle, Vanilla
Factory was my brand.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
But it means more than just vanilla or ice cream.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It really is something that I want to do with
my music is serve love to people the way the
way the ice cream makes us feel. When we're going
through a breakup, going through depression, whatever it may be,
ice cream makes everything better. And then if you're celebrating
and happy, it makes.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It just that much better.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Scream love.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So I'm screaming love.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
That's ice cream. I don't know if you remember. I
hustle Yep, that was the the we.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Call him the King. That was Nip's website.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I hustle, and just like what we do now, we
live on these things. I got my ice cream everything.
But it also has to do with now our whole
world is on the internet Internet screaming in Yeah, I
think I'm gonna keep the ice Cream series going.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
We'll see how many scoops we get. Nice but scoop
two for now.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Five five song ep, nice little story. A lot of
a lot of people can relate to this. Falling in love,
the breakup, second chance, what every.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Girl need, what every girly goes through, and yeah, the
love story. And it's even deeper than that because my
song Love Over Everything, which is my single is really
just about what we need in the world right now,
like Love over Everything is what is more?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
What more is there to say?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Seguey, Let's get into the record right now, go to
an introducer for everybody, and then we'll play this one
right here. This is the EP that's coming out in
February's ice Cream two Scoop two.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Sorry, ice Cream Scoop two. This is Love over Everything.
Introduce it.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Hey, Boston, this is my new record, Love Over Everything.
Thank you Pop Dog for premiering it. I Love You
ninety four or five.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Another great one right there, George James in the building.
Trust to the homie tag tag did that one to bag?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Did that?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Straight out of Boston? Shout out American antagonist And rumor
has it? You know, I got to go to my
brother's closing show of the Breezy Bowl in New Orleans,
right unreal Caesar Dome sold out where the Super Bowl
was this year, So rumor has it?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Maybe get him on the record.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Oh really, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Another idea we had.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
You know, Big Bob was one of the first people
just to discover Globe.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And she did say she wants to do an R
and B album.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Okay, okay, and I have a.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Few R and B hits under my belt.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
How do you how do you know which records to
give away and which ones to keep? How do you
how do you got to go through that? Or do
you write for them?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Like now, Glorilla say she wants to do an RB album,
are you gonna sit with her for a little bit
and kind of pick her brains and figure her out?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Or do you give your show?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I feel like I could go through my catalog and
see what you know.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I feel like her, like you kind of know her
her sound and her vibe. Not by now with all
her amazing hit records shout out to my girl glow.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
But yeah, I'd love I mean with her obviously we
go in.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
But for example, like the Coco record on Site that's
nominated on her album I'm that record, I had, you.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Know, boot up, I had.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I have boot Up with you on it.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yes, you do, so, you know, just depends if the
artist connects to it like Coco really connected to on Site.
She told me, like the song spoke to me.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
I was like Okay, there you go. Is your baby now,
you know, I remember with the glow.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I was there that day in the studio with you
guys when she came in and you were there. Yeah,
when all the girls came.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
In, all the girls, everyone was crying.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I don't know what was happening. It was just.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
She was a star from day one though. I told her, like, girl.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah, your charisma on camera, Like, I'm just so proud
of her.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Because look at that.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
And she ain't going nowhere right nowhere. But I just
you can't hear her going hard on that record, couldn't you. Yeah,
And I feel like when she starts singing about like
love and a little more, now she's in love.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Okay, so she got a ball player.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Right, Yeah, she was brandon ingram yeh.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Don't follow that. I follow music. I'm sorry, but that's good.
That's great. It's great. It's great. I'm glad she's happy. No.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yeah, so now she can do so exactly. So that's
where I come in because I'm the queen of loves.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
There it is, man, and you're doing this a lot
of branding. Obviously.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Your whole team is all about branding. It's I think
branding more than anything is what you guys are all about.
Ice cream trucks you performing for talk about some of
these performances.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
I'm so excited because I'm performing at the Museum of
ice Cream.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yes, I've never heard of a museum.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You've never for gott to go. Take your wife.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
It sounds like it's for little kids, because yes, little
kids in ice cream go hand in hand. But it's
so magical there that your inner child will come out.
It's amazing. You get ice cream everywhere you go, and
they have a bar, so it helps the adults out too.
I love a little champagne ice cream float. That's my specialty,
(16:36):
got it.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
But yeah, like it's.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Magical in there, so you're performing in there too.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
The fact that I.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Think I'm the first artist that's doing like a show
or like a pop up there, So I'm so blessed
because I'm the ice cream queen.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And then this ice cream truck. Are you actually handing
out ice cream or do we have your team doing
it with your face to hand it out?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You're going to be in this ice cream truck.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I've perfected my soft serves.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Oh, it's actually all that.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Yeah, have you ever been to the commons, Like what
side of the road it is like Arlington and Boylston. Yep,
my favorite ice cream truck is there. Oh shout out
to Boston Frosty.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Do you take their truck truck?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Oh you are okay? Nice. So it's not just a
rapper kind of ice cream. You actually have like a
soft serve in there and everything.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
The best kind of ice cream is really ice cream,
okay with with sprinkles. I know they call them Jimmy's
out here, but rainbow sprinkles, okay.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Or rainbow Jimmy's. If you're in the area, you know
exactly what it is.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
All right. Well, Joelle, I know you've got a lot
of shows out here. I know you've been out here
for a long time. But there's a game I play
with everybody that comes in town. It's gonna be a
fun game. It's gonna be easy game for you since
you grew up out here. Oh wait, speaking of growing
up out here and going to Berkeley, that's an alumni situation.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
There's a lot of camaraderie, keep in touch. I mean
a lot of the reason why I wanted to go
to Berkeley was because of the networking and because excuse me,
super Bowl National anthem Berkeley alumni Charlie poofs Right, So.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Which was that was just announced? Which is you know
he could hit notes like that where.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
He's like a music He's like the ultimate Berkeley student.
He's so musical, like the musical nerd. I don't know
if you follow him, but he does all his videos
and tiktoks about theory and all that stuff. I don't
know how I made it through with all those there's
a lot of smarty pants out here. I just have
a special intrinsic love for music and somehow made it through.
(18:25):
But all the technical schooling stuff crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
But that's Charlie all day. But yeah, we I mean
all alumni.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I feel sometimes there's a little I don't know, you
go to the industry like, oh, you don't need to
go to school to do this for your life. But
when there's a Berkeley kid out there in the industry,
like we always kind of give each other that.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
You know, there's a lot of behind the scenes guys
like band members and engineers that.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
All on Like Alicia's keees. I think her whole team
is our Berkeley John legend. I think his team is.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
All her shot Antia shout out keythan Foster. Keithan is
actually the one who brought me to Ryles in Cambridge
where I'm at Big Bob.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Oh wow, okay, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
If it weren't for keith And I wouldn't be here.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Wow. Okay. And he's I know, he's got a big
record with Tiana Taylor right.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Now that it is Grammy nominated.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Good look at that, Look at that?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
All right?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
So this game is you're on stage, all right, and
you're gonna shout out. We can't just say Boston anymore,
especially since you're from out here.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
I'm not from out here, am, but I'm not. So
what do I say?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You're gonna you're gonna shout out all these cities names. Okay, Okay,
so I just but you're on stage, So Joe, what up?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Boston? Is Joel James each city at a time.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Okay, go for it, Hi, Boston, it's your number one Boston.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Girly, that's an easy one.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Okay, Worcester, you can't ask me, no, you gotta be
on stage. You're on stage.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Oh but so I just say hot to them.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Yeah, you're like shouting about what's up?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Worcester.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
See, it's what's the Oh.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I'm gonna look at Aaron now for the rest of these. Oh, wait,
I think I know this one. What's up? Haveril have?
What's up?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
That's wrong? That's wrong, that's wrong, it's wrong.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
What is it? Havebr Hill.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Harol?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Oh boy, you would think you know I've watched your
show enough times, you would think I know how to
say these by now.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
This one's a big, a big I don't know you, Sage.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
You can't say I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Hey, League Lee, Sester, Laser Lay Custer.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Ready, it's just Lester. I don't know how either. Look
I have to write it down myself.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Okay, Okay, that makes me feel better.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Okay, go for it.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Next one, Sage, what a fitch bird? You got that
one right?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Okay, that's a little number. Okay, I swear I know
how to say this. Hey Gloucester, Gloucester in the building?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Walk? Wrong's close?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
But Glas, okay, Hey Leo Minster Minster in the building?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
No Lemonster Lemons?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Oh that makes sense now, yes, okay, Lemons? What up?
Sagus Saugust?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Okay you got that one, yep.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
High tweaks Bury Twix Marry in the building twos Marys.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Where is this?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
No idea?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Okay, I know this one. I know this one.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Okay, High Peabody, Peabody, Peabody, Peabody, Peabody.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
What's up? Okay? Oh, I know this one. I actually
spent Christmas here one year. It's the most beautiful place.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
You better get you better get this on high situate.
Hey you got it, Joel Jayson.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Go check out her new project that's coming out, scream
Scoop two out in February. You got a Christmas song
out right now, kiss Me for Christmas. Congratulations on that.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Thank you out Toby Gadd, the big producer of If
I Were a Boy, Big Girls.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Don't Cry, and John legends all of me.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
He had me on his Christmas album this year and
the song has kissed Me for Christmas, So I'm super excited.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
You're constantly saying busy. How can they watch all your journeys?
What's your one social media that you like?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Really on?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Joel James on YouTube, YouTube, Joel.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
James on Instagram?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
What else is there? X? I really want to start
my Twitch. Come on, pup, we should start twitch together.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Man.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I want to do so many things. But I was
telling Aaron behind the scenes. It's gonna this next year.
Let me get grasp on this new world that I
got right now. But yes, we're gonna make it happen.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Okay, and then TikTok. Of course, TikTok's got Joel James.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Now, can I ask for one favor? Yes, of course,
got all this happening. I know you're tight in with
your boy Kevin Hart and all the movie stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You want to roll.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I don't want to roll. Okay, any movies that are
in Boston, all you guys, listen here, any movies that
are in Boston when they shoot the car scene, Oh,
they gotta have the number one Afternoon Drive guy saying
something in the background with jam and playing on the radio.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Period. Why wouldn't they have that?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
All Boston movies need to have that going forward, if
it's Kevin Hart related.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Or anything related. Yes, okay, we're gonna manifest that.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
We're gonna make.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
My face is for radio, so I don't I'm cool
with not being.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
You know, but your voice needs to be in that movie.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Voice definitely needs to be in the movie period.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Okay, Okay, we're gonna make a happen.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
We're gonna make it happen there it is, Joe, what
do you want to tell Boston before you get out
of here?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Boston, I love you so much.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I'll be singing on Friday at the Laker game, So Celtics,
please don't break my heart.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Let's win this one. And I'm excited to sing at.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
The Christmas tree lighting tomorrow at the Commons. I will
see all you guys out there, and thank you so
much for accepting me and loving me as your honorary
Boston girly, love you,
Yeah, straight from Pakistan to La to Boston in the studio.
I can't believe it's been this long since you've been
back in the studio. Joel James, What up are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
What a pub? I'm good? Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I see your schedule. You are moving NonStop. You've been
moving NonStop for a long time. I've been tired looking
at your schedule.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
No, it's all fun when you love what you do.
It's that's never work. You're never busy. Yo.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
You got so much going on and i've uh, did
you ever walk around with the Grammy?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
No? Why not?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's a little heavy, not even like the first week, like, hey,
I got a no nothing.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
No, I put it right in my parents' house.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Oh man, give it to them so they can look
at it and know that all their dedication to me
as a young kid went somewhere.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I love it, man, Joel James in your Grammy winner
so many times nominated, you're nominated again this year. Congratulations,
Thank you so much. Is it just like a normal
thing now? Is it like a you know how people
are always chasing something now for some reason, if a
year doesn't happen, where you get a Grammy, which I
don't see that happening anytime soon. Is it like a
you know, like when you were just excited about the
next one, the next one?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Are you Do you have that mindset or are you
just like I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I always strive for the next one to be the one?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
And I don't want to say that it's like something
that's just regular to me, because it's absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But I do know that when.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I feel like it's regular.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
When I first came into the industry, you know, I
was art I'm an artist, yeah first, But when I
really started to write and give my songs away, I
did make a pack to myself where I was like,
if I'm gonna give these songs away, I want them
to be that artist single or that song that changes
the artist life. If I'm gonna give my baby away,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
So in the beginning, let's go back to the beginning
of writing days, because now you probably have you definitely
have that pull where I'm gonna give you the song,
this is gonna be the single, This is what you
guys are gonna work on. If it's not, I'm gonna
go over here with this. You can do that now.
But as a as a as a writer who's coming
in the game, you don't have that leverage, right, So
what's some of that advice you would give and did
(01:56):
you do that from the beginning, Like, no, you're not
getting my record if you're not gonna be if it's
not going to be a single, like you do that
from the beginning.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I do know that I felt.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I mean, let's first off say that manifesting is so
real that like when I told myself, if I'm going
to do this, I want it to be the one.
But I think at the end of the day, you
have to just keep creating. And yes, there were moments
where you know, I didn't want to give my babies
away and like these are my stories about my life,
Like how could I do that?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
But that's what music is for.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It's to have people relate, all different types of people,
different stories relate.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You know a story that.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I wrote right okay, Joel James is in here right now,
me and you. There's no mic in front of us
right now, even though there is there's cameras everywhere. When
an artist talks about a record about their personal thing
and it came from you.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Like you like, Hello, that's not your story, that's my story.
Has that ever happened?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I mean, yeah, but you know that's what this game
is all about. Wow, I want my my sound.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
To cope, you know the world. So you have to give,
give it out. You get to keep what you give.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
So they maybe were able to relate.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Maybe they were going through a similar situation like this
new project, the EP that's coming out in February. Thank
you so much for trusting me with it early, great,
great body, everyone else I would trust, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And it's solely produced in Boston.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, I was gonna ask you did Was that something
that was special to you that you wanted to do that?
Obviously you're alumni of Berkeley Music, huge music school out here.
Why was that so important for you for this project?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
You know, I look at Boston as my second home
and I've been embraced here and I just feel a
special type of feeling when I come here. So yeah,
I mean my story it started here, from Berkeley to
starting my company of Vanilla Factory, to being an artist lives.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, it all started here back to my YouTube day.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
YouTube day is when I was doing my YouTube videos
and my door room and That's how I got discovered
by Chris Brown. So like literally the DNA of my
story started in Boston. So that's why I'm very loyal
to the city and I love coming back here. And
what I really want to do, like kind of what
I talked to you about earlier was I'm not from here,
(04:17):
You're not from here, but we came here and we're
making a difference. And what I really want to do
is take the artists, local artists from Boston and put
a spotlight on them.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Like I've given my songs.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
To bigger artists with big labels, big budgets, right, But
to me, giving to the young talent of Boston is
really what's important because if you look around, the stars
of Boston are the athletes.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Shout out to them?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
You know, we went championship, but there's no artists that's
of today.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
There are like.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Shout out to be a shout out Joiner, but like
there's no big, big artists that has had a spotlight
on them here in Boston.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It's been a while since like the eighties, right, I think.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
That, Yeah, I really want to make that my goal.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Nice Well, I love that we were talking about that
off air about and I always say that like La
raised me, but Boston made me, you know, like you know,
I have a lot of love out here, and you know,
I kind of how are you going to deal with
some of the artists that it's great, you know, I've
kind of been in that same situation where I want
to help these Boston artists, but then sometimes their.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Egos come in the way and they're not knowing the
business and not understanding.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Because I think me, Bob, you now too have been
able to like we'll turn purple trying these telling these
artists the same thing what they got to do. There's
no blueprint, but there is data on what kind of works, right,
So are you ready to deal with that with these artists?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I'm ready, and with any artists, I'm ready. I'm a Taurus.
I'm very strong minded, so I can deal with it.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
And shout out to our girl, just Senya, because she's
a tourist too, so we you.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Know, we.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Have a whole project done on Boston's own Puerto Rican
girly Senya and.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Super talented and amazing, like one of those girls that
she's so talented that you just want to be like
she knows she's talented, but you could be It's like.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
No, come on, she's gonna get it. She's gonna get it.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I heard she's getting it though.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Period.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I can't wait for you to hear all the music
she has, plus the stuff she's been dropping, and she's
What I love about her is she that's from day
one when you introduce me to her, like why I
wanted to work with hers, when she told me her story, Like, oh,
I snuck into the Berkeley Summer program and I did this,
Like anybody who has that type of passion for their
craft that they're sneaking in and they're doing whatever it takes,
(06:33):
posting one hundred times a day, tiktoks, whatever the case
may be, Like they might have an ego like you
were saying, like the Boston artists might have that little whatever.
It's the only way that driving force is something that
that's really what you need to get to that level.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
So it's funny how I'm here talking to Joel James
about her and her project. And this is the kind
of girl you are. You've you talked about everybody else
with yourself again, this is what's great about you. You've
always ever since I've known you, you and your team
have always been trying to uplift everybody around you. But
by your flowers, man, you're Grammy winner, nominated, You got
major placements. You you which is weird also which is great,
(07:19):
not weird. Sorry that's a weird word. But you always
do the national anthem when it's the Lakers and the Celtics,
how do you how do you choose? Because you're again
you're a Boston girl.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Now, I'm sorry to the LA people. I am a
Celtics face. Love the Lakers, love the Clippers, yep.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
But when it comes to those two, I always have
I always have a yellow shirt period or else have a.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yellow shirt underneath. Yeah, because I do. I grew up
on the Magic and the Kobe. Look what's behind you? Like,
you know what I mean. But again, look it's right
next to them.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You know our boy baby yes to the game five?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So I get torn now, So I kind of now
I've been going now going to the La Celtics games
just because I'm like, I want.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
To cheer for both.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I understand that, and because you're a man like the
breed of the fandom, LA, I get it. But for me,
this is actually a special story when I was a
very young girl.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I think I was ten, maybe probably younger eight.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Maybe I sang when it was Kobe and Shaq, oh
wow for the Lakers, and I remember, like my head,
I was like these guys were huge comparred to me.
I was like a little little girl to me, like
those are the Lakers that era. Rest in peace to Mamba,
but those were the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
What's in nerve system? Like when you go to do
the national anthem?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I will when I did Game five, I was beyond nervous.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I was beyond nervous. They were My whole team was
like yelling at me like chill out. I was like,
I have never like I and I when I am
getting in that moment, that game mode, I get like
super serious to the point where it could it could.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Feel like I might be snapping or just.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
A little short, which makes sense. You're you're the one
that's gotta go perform.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Thank you, pup.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I'm with you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That's my mentality.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
It's a whole different one to go out there of
what I do.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Like when it comes to DJ and they're like you
just gotta go mix, I'm like, I'm the one that's
gonna get killed if I don't do a good job,
you guys are gonna be able to get get back
on the car.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Thank you, pub That's exactly I'm the one.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Asked leave her alone, guys.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Okay no, But I was extremely nervous, and I just
remember I kept saying like, you got this, you got this,
Like you have to just talk to yourself and speak
that into you know what you're about to go do.
And I actually am really proud of my performance that night.
It was the energy of the whole you know, remember
(09:51):
that was six one seven day, won the game, five
won the champion banner eighteen, so that whole day, the
energy of it, it was just literal dream.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Plus the parade I was on.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I was on the roof at the Lenox Hotel while
the duck boats were going by, so.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, we can't get to you, guys, canna get to us.
We're gonna get to you.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It was the craziest thing I've ever experienced. It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Good congratulations on everything. This ice cream too, Scoop two.
Are we gonna how long are we gonna stick with
this series? Because ice cream is obviously the what we
eat and stuff. But the way you have it is
I'm screaming, yeah, what's ice? Yeah, so what's the what's
the thought process? It's a double on tundrum, right.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I'm glad you asked that. It's kind of like a
triple on tantra.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Because ice cream my brand, Vanilla factory that I started
here in Boston. It came from my nickname at Berkeley,
which was Vanilla Okay, And well, you know, I'm from
a very small town in southern California, shout out Marietta, California.
And when I came out here, I was like just
(10:56):
introduced to a brand new culture. And you know, I've
always been a super soulful girl, like I sang on
showtime at the Apollo, I would my favorite artist ever
ever is Aretha Franklin. So I've always had this soul,
and I guess when I came here and was immersed
in more culture, I got that name. And also because
(11:17):
I genuinely love ice cream, especially vanilla ice cream, got it.
So I was at JP Licks, I was all over
the place, didn't matter how cold it was, eating ice cream.
And yeah, obviously Big Bob began the Marathon brand with Nipsey,
So when I started to be in his circle, Vanilla
Factory was my brand.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
But it means more than just vanilla or ice cream.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It really is something that I want to do with
my music is serve love to people the way the
way the ice cream makes us feel. When we're going
through a breakup, going through depression, whatever it may be,
ice cream makes everything better. And then if you're celebrating
and happy, it makes.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It just that much better.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Scream love.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So I'm screaming love.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
That's ice cream. I don't know if you remember. I
hustle Yep, that was the the we.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Call him the King. That was Nip's website.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I hustle, and just like what we do now, we
live on these things. I got my ice cream everything.
But it also has to do with now our whole
world is on the internet Internet screaming in Yeah, I
think I'm gonna keep the ice Cream series going.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
We'll see how many scoops we get. Nice but scoop
two for now.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Five five song ep, nice little story. A lot of
a lot of people can relate to this. Falling in love,
the breakup, second chance, what every.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Girl need, what every girly goes through, and yeah, the
love story. And it's even deeper than that because my
song Love Over Everything, which is my single is really
just about what we need in the world right now,
like Love over Everything is what is more?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
What more is there to say?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Seguey, Let's get into the record right now, go to
an introducer for everybody, and then we'll play this one
right here. This is the EP that's coming out in
February's ice Cream two Scoop two.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Sorry, ice Cream Scoop two. This is Love over Everything.
Introduce it.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Hey, Boston, this is my new record, Love Over Everything.
Thank you Pop Dog for premiering it. I Love You
ninety four or five.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Another great one right there, George James in the building.
Trust to the homie tag tag did that one to bag?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Did that?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Straight out of Boston? Shout out American antagonist And rumor
has it? You know, I got to go to my
brother's closing show of the Breezy Bowl in New Orleans,
right unreal Caesar Dome sold out where the Super Bowl
was this year, So rumor has it?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Maybe get him on the record.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Oh really, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Another idea we had.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
You know, Big Bob was one of the first people
just to discover Globe.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And she did say she wants to do an R
and B album.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Okay, okay, and I have a.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Few R and B hits under my belt.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
How do you how do you know which records to
give away and which ones to keep? How do you
how do you got to go through that? Or do
you write for them?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Like now, Glorilla say she wants to do an RB album,
are you gonna sit with her for a little bit
and kind of pick her brains and figure her out?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Or do you give your show?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I feel like I could go through my catalog and
see what you know.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I feel like her, like you kind of know her
her sound and her vibe. Not by now with all
her amazing hit records shout out to my girl glow.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
But yeah, I'd love I mean with her obviously we
go in.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
But for example, like the Coco record on Site that's
nominated on her album I'm that record, I had, you.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Know, boot up, I had.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I have boot Up with you on it.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yes, you do, so, you know, just depends if the
artist connects to it like Coco really connected to on Site.
She told me, like the song spoke to me.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
I was like Okay, there you go. Is your baby now,
you know, I remember with the glow.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I was there that day in the studio with you
guys when she came in and you were there. Yeah,
when all the girls came.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
In, all the girls, everyone was crying.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I don't know what was happening. It was just.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
She was a star from day one though. I told her, like, girl.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah, your charisma on camera, Like, I'm just so proud
of her.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Because look at that.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
And she ain't going nowhere right nowhere. But I just
you can't hear her going hard on that record, couldn't you. Yeah,
And I feel like when she starts singing about like
love and a little more, now she's in love.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Okay, so she got a ball player.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Right, Yeah, she was brandon ingram yeh.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Don't follow that. I follow music. I'm sorry, but that's good.
That's great. It's great. It's great. I'm glad she's happy. No.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yeah, so now she can do so exactly. So that's
where I come in because I'm the queen of loves.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
There it is, man, and you're doing this a lot
of branding. Obviously.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Your whole team is all about branding. It's I think
branding more than anything is what you guys are all about.
Ice cream trucks you performing for talk about some of
these performances.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
I'm so excited because I'm performing at the Museum of
ice Cream.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yes, I've never heard of a museum.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You've never for gott to go. Take your wife.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
It sounds like it's for little kids, because yes, little
kids in ice cream go hand in hand. But it's
so magical there that your inner child will come out.
It's amazing. You get ice cream everywhere you go, and
they have a bar, so it helps the adults out too.
I love a little champagne ice cream float. That's my specialty,
(16:36):
got it.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
But yeah, like it's.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Magical in there, so you're performing in there too.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
The fact that I.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Think I'm the first artist that's doing like a show
or like a pop up there, So I'm so blessed
because I'm the ice cream queen.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And then this ice cream truck. Are you actually handing
out ice cream or do we have your team doing
it with your face to hand it out?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You're going to be in this ice cream truck.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I've perfected my soft serves.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Oh, it's actually all that.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Yeah, have you ever been to the commons, Like what
side of the road it is like Arlington and Boylston. Yep,
my favorite ice cream truck is there. Oh shout out
to Boston Frosty.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Do you take their truck truck?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Oh you are okay? Nice. So it's not just a
rapper kind of ice cream. You actually have like a
soft serve in there and everything.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
The best kind of ice cream is really ice cream,
okay with with sprinkles. I know they call them Jimmy's
out here, but rainbow sprinkles, okay.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Or rainbow Jimmy's. If you're in the area, you know
exactly what it is.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
All right. Well, Joelle, I know you've got a lot
of shows out here. I know you've been out here
for a long time. But there's a game I play
with everybody that comes in town. It's gonna be a
fun game. It's gonna be easy game for you since
you grew up out here. Oh wait, speaking of growing
up out here and going to Berkeley, that's an alumni situation.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
There's a lot of camaraderie, keep in touch. I mean
a lot of the reason why I wanted to go
to Berkeley was because of the networking and because excuse me,
super Bowl National anthem Berkeley alumni Charlie poofs Right, So.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Which was that was just announced? Which is you know
he could hit notes like that where.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
He's like a music He's like the ultimate Berkeley student.
He's so musical, like the musical nerd. I don't know
if you follow him, but he does all his videos
and tiktoks about theory and all that stuff. I don't
know how I made it through with all those there's
a lot of smarty pants out here. I just have
a special intrinsic love for music and somehow made it through.
(18:25):
But all the technical schooling stuff crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
But that's Charlie all day. But yeah, we I mean
all alumni.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I feel sometimes there's a little I don't know, you
go to the industry like, oh, you don't need to
go to school to do this for your life. But
when there's a Berkeley kid out there in the industry,
like we always kind of give each other that.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
You know, there's a lot of behind the scenes guys
like band members and engineers that.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
All on Like Alicia's keees. I think her whole team
is our Berkeley John legend. I think his team is.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
All her shot Antia shout out keythan Foster. Keithan is
actually the one who brought me to Ryles in Cambridge
where I'm at Big Bob.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Oh wow, okay, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
If it weren't for keith And I wouldn't be here.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Wow. Okay. And he's I know, he's got a big
record with Tiana Taylor right.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Now that it is Grammy nominated.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Good look at that, Look at that?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
All right?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
So this game is you're on stage, all right, and
you're gonna shout out. We can't just say Boston anymore,
especially since you're from out here.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
I'm not from out here, am, but I'm not. So
what do I say?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You're gonna you're gonna shout out all these cities names. Okay, Okay,
so I just but you're on stage, So Joe, what up?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Boston? Is Joel James each city at a time.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Okay, go for it, Hi, Boston, it's your number one Boston.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Girly, that's an easy one.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Okay, Worcester, you can't ask me, no, you gotta be
on stage. You're on stage.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Oh but so I just say hot to them.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Yeah, you're like shouting about what's up?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Worcester.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
See, it's what's the Oh.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I'm gonna look at Aaron now for the rest of these. Oh, wait,
I think I know this one. What's up? Haveril have?
What's up?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
That's wrong? That's wrong, that's wrong, it's wrong.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
What is it? Havebr Hill.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Harol?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Oh boy, you would think you know I've watched your
show enough times, you would think I know how to
say these by now.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
This one's a big, a big I don't know you, Sage.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
You can't say I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Hey, League Lee, Sester, Laser Lay Custer.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Ready, it's just Lester. I don't know how either. Look
I have to write it down myself.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Okay, Okay, that makes me feel better.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Okay, go for it.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Next one, Sage, what a fitch bird? You got that
one right?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Okay, that's a little number. Okay, I swear I know
how to say this. Hey Gloucester, Gloucester in the building?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Walk? Wrong's close?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
But Glas, okay, Hey Leo Minster Minster in the building?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
No Lemonster Lemons?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Oh that makes sense now, yes, okay, Lemons? What up?
Sagus Saugust?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Okay you got that one, yep.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
High tweaks Bury Twix Marry in the building twos Marys.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Where is this?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
No idea?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Okay, I know this one. I know this one.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Okay, High Peabody, Peabody, Peabody, Peabody, Peabody.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
What's up? Okay? Oh, I know this one. I actually
spent Christmas here one year. It's the most beautiful place.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
You better get you better get this on high situate.
Hey you got it, Joel Jayson.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Go check out her new project that's coming out, scream
Scoop two out in February. You got a Christmas song
out right now, kiss Me for Christmas. Congratulations on that.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Thank you out Toby Gadd, the big producer of If
I Were a Boy, Big Girls.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Don't Cry, and John legends all of me.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
He had me on his Christmas album this year and
the song has kissed Me for Christmas, So I'm super excited.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
You're constantly saying busy. How can they watch all your journeys?
What's your one social media that you like?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Really on?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Joel James on YouTube, YouTube, Joel.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
James on Instagram?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
What else is there? X? I really want to start
my Twitch. Come on, pup, we should start twitch together.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Man.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I want to do so many things. But I was
telling Aaron behind the scenes. It's gonna this next year.
Let me get grasp on this new world that I
got right now. But yes, we're gonna make it happen.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Okay, and then TikTok. Of course, TikTok's got Joel James.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Now, can I ask for one favor? Yes, of course,
got all this happening. I know you're tight in with
your boy Kevin Hart and all the movie stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You want to roll.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I don't want to roll. Okay, any movies that are
in Boston, all you guys, listen here, any movies that
are in Boston when they shoot the car scene, Oh,
they gotta have the number one Afternoon Drive guy saying
something in the background with jam and playing on the radio.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Period. Why wouldn't they have that?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
All Boston movies need to have that going forward, if
it's Kevin Hart related.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Or anything related. Yes, okay, we're gonna manifest that.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
We're gonna make.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
My face is for radio, so I don't I'm cool
with not being.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
You know, but your voice needs to be in that movie.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Voice definitely needs to be in the movie period.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Okay, Okay, we're gonna make a happen.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
We're gonna make it happen there it is, Joe, what
do you want to tell Boston before you get out
of here?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Boston, I love you so much.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I'll be singing on Friday at the Laker game, So Celtics,
please don't break my heart.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Let's win this one. And I'm excited to sing at.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
The Christmas tree lighting tomorrow at the Commons. I will
see all you guys out there, and thank you so
much for accepting me and loving me as your honorary
Boston girly, love you,
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