January 18, 2025 • 38 mins
In this episode Markivus interviews singer, songwriter and producer Will Matic.
About Will Matic:
Will Matic is a singer/songwriter/producer from Greenville, SC. Raised on gospel and soul music, Will started singing at the tender age of six and picked up piano in his early teenage years. It was then that he knew he would make music that would inspire and influence anyone who hears his concrete lyrics and dynamic instrumentals.
From R&B to gospel, hip hop to rock, funk, to country, Will has all the tools to make timeless music that reaches the hearts and souls of many generations to come. His sound has been described as edgy yet consoling and very positive with motivational themes. Will Matic is well entrenched in his own right to make music for all ages for a long time, humbly touching lives and uniting us along the way.
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About Will Matic:
Will Matic is a singer/songwriter/producer from Greenville, SC. Raised on gospel and soul music, Will started singing at the tender age of six and picked up piano in his early teenage years. It was then that he knew he would make music that would inspire and influence anyone who hears his concrete lyrics and dynamic instrumentals.
From R&B to gospel, hip hop to rock, funk, to country, Will has all the tools to make timeless music that reaches the hearts and souls of many generations to come. His sound has been described as edgy yet consoling and very positive with motivational themes. Will Matic is well entrenched in his own right to make music for all ages for a long time, humbly touching lives and uniting us along the way.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
M HM, keep it the Youth Radio by every great
song is even greater story. I'd like to say, what's
uthing to everybody who's listening to us on speaker, Spotify,
(00:57):
Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Alexa. You know this show
we interview celebrities, entertainers, motivational people. But today we have
a very special interview. Me and this guy go way
back sitting on my little brother. We go back back
(01:19):
in the day. So I want to give him his
flowers because I seen him. I mean, man, I've been
knowing this man since he was a young man until
now and just seeing him grow and going to his
own as a musician, so I definitely wanted to have
him on the show. He's a singer, songwriter and producer
from Greenville, South Carolina. Raised on gospel and soul music.
He started singing at the tenor age of six, picked
(01:41):
up the piano in his early teenage years, and if
you're in the South Carolina area. You heard about this, brother,
Ladies and gentlemen, we have Willa Maddick here on deeper
than music radio. Will O Mattick.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
How you doing, Man, what's up? Bro? I'm good? Good.
How you do I'm.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Good Man, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
So.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Man, been in the North Carolina area for about I
want to say, about two years. And Brother, this is
the coldest January. I feel like I'm back in the Midwest.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah, so I just.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, so, just a little history. Man, it's my little
brother right here. Man. We've been knowing each other for
a long time. Man, I never knew, Bro. Like, I
ain't gonna lie to you. Man. The first time I
saw you before, I was like, Man, I didn't know. Well,
I didn't know he had a voice like that. Man,
Like I remember you playing football and oh yeah, we're
(02:41):
also base St. Louis, Mississippi. Shout out to base St. Louis.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So my first question is, Man, when did you know
that you wanted to be a musician?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Ah, Man, I would say I would say around six
or seven years old. Man, that's when I first started
singing in church, and and I was already already had
my my admirations and my idols and stuff like that.
(03:14):
Of course, Mike Jack, guys back then with Boys the Men,
Bobby Brown, all the popular R and B acts, And
I was like, you know, if I had an opportunity
to do something like that one day, I know I'd
be happy. So and then with the whole church thing thing,
(03:40):
you know, I knew my voice, you know it it
kind of you know, give people hope and inspiration. I see,
I saw the reactions and stuff like that, and how
how you know how much people really enjoyed, you know,
me singing. I was like, you know, this could be
something that I could I would love to make a
living doing. So Yeah, that's that's when it started for me, because.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
The whole time I did not know, man, because you
remember back when I started with the Bomb Entertainment, you
like the Bomb and.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
But then yes, yeah, and you mentioned man another question.
I think like we're child's of the eighties. Man, So
you already mentioned one of your well two of your influences. Man.
Who are what other celebrities influenced you? Man, that you
looked up to?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Like?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Man, I want to be like them or in the
team like them.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I think probably will Smith more than anybody. I kind
of I kind of saw when like with the show
and with his music. Man, I'm like, you know, he
if he can do all that, and why can I?
And let's see who else. I had some family too, man.
(04:56):
I can remember, like my very first you Ford music
experience was at a actually at a church concert. My uncle's,
my mom, aunts, cousins all in the choir on the microphone,
leading songs, playing the instruments and stuff like that church
was packed like it was like a like a like
(05:18):
a seventy five eighty person choir and it was it
was dope.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I can still remember. It was like like ninety one
something like that. And yeah, that that really it really
jumped it off for me. Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And then also I didn't really I didn't realize you
played piano too, man, So when did you learn the piano?
Like when did you start?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Bro? I started piano, like probably like ten or eleven.
I would want my older cousin played and he had
I remember him getting a new keyboard and every time
we would go over to their house, I would and
he wouldn't be in his room. I was sneaking there
and kind of jump on the keyboard until he until
he come up from behind me thump me in the
(06:05):
back of the head and tell me to get up
and get off his stuff. But like when while I
was doing that, like I would hear him. I would
hear him play songs like back then that's when he
like really started playing at church and stuff like that.
And I would hear him play songs off the radio though,
and I would particularly particularly remember him playing this one
(06:26):
particular song. It was R. Kelly's when a woman fed
up and I was just and I would just and
I just eavesdrop and kind of listen. He leave the room.
I go in there and and try to mimic and
mock what he played, just based off you know what
I heard my ear memory. So I taught myself that song. Eventually,
(06:52):
like day days later, times later, you know, going back
jumping on him. I go back and I play that
song and I started putting my own kind of fingering
together my chords and stuff like that, and yeah, that
was the first song I ever played. And from there,
(07:12):
once I eventually got my own keyboard when I was fifteen,
I do the same thing, just listening to songs off
the radio and just try to pick them up.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And play them by ear so self taught man best
way man. And do you remember the first time that
you actually performed man, and how that felt?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah? Yeah, And it was in church when I first
played the played the keyboard because my uncle he had
he saw me, and he had he saw that. He
saw that. The same way I learned how to play
that R. Kelly song was the same way I learned
how to play a few songs that he used to
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teach the choir and they used to sing on Sundays.
So it was one particular song that I learned on
my own. And he called me. He called during church.
He caught me up to the to the piano to
play the song. And I didn't even know he was
gonna do it. And you know it's church man, you
know we are we are like always he about to
(08:20):
do what he about to do? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
I went up there and play and play the song,
and it was it was great.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Your family knew. They was like all right, you know, uh,
my cousin, you know he plays, and yeah, we're gonna
we're gonna go ahead and get him on in and
let the world. Let Willie bless our church. Man, was
you nervous? So he was just like, hey, okay, I'm
gonna go ahead and it's my time to shine.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I was. I was a little nervous, but like I
always felt comfortable because it's like it's like I knew
he had my back. Was like, just just do it
like this, and I got you do it like you've
always been doing that after rehearsals at my house. You know,
just just do it like you've been doing And I
(09:09):
got you back, and I knew. I knew that's the
only thing that I had to do for the whole song,
just that just the just did the particular chords in
that particular part. And as long as I had that,
he had everything else. He's directing the choir and somebody
on the drums, bass, guitar, my mama up there singing
on the choir, So I was, I was. I was
(09:32):
straight man. After after like a few a few measures,
a few of the first measures.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Of the song, I was like, yeah, I like this,
so we got the background and inspiration. So to the
listeners that haven't heard of Will Mattic, am I saying
that right, will O Mattic, Will Maddick, Yeah, will Matic
gotcha just just like ill Madic, I kind of okay,
(09:58):
I didn't even I didn't even know that. Okay, shut
off the nas. Hey, So, how would you describe your
sound man, and what do you bringing? What do you
bring into music? Like to somebody who hasn't heard Will Mattic, like,
how would you describe your sound and what do you
bring into music?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Man? I would say, I would say real, I would
say inspirational, spiritual, man, And these are I and I.
I write and I play based off like one hundred
percent feeling like things that I've been through. My partner,
(10:37):
my partner and co writer Kelly Blaze, He's written me
songs with stuff that he's been through, and I've I've
related to him and partially been through him. It's kind
of like kind of like JD did with Usher on
like confessions and stuff. It's been kind of like that.
It's it's not it's more of your traditional R and B.
(11:01):
I dibble into pop a little bit, and you know,
it just gives you that feeling of something real And
I think you now, I'm glad you asked me that
because it kind of makes me want to elaborate on
a little bit with the with the whole thing about
R and B dying. It's it's only and I think
(11:24):
it it's sort of it's sort of kind of fizzing
out or kind of fizzed out because there wasn't enough
blues in it, like R and B is is R
and B is rhythm and blue. It's it's been too
much rhythm like it's it's not enough blues and what
(11:45):
I mean by rhythm like it's too much of like
too much of like uh, I would say fake, fake
stories and stuff. That's that's so popularized when it that
doesn't have anything to do with love, but every everything,
everything to do everything to do with with with lust.
(12:09):
I'll say it like that. But it's too many, too
many love songs and not enough love songs. Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
You know what I'm saying, Say what you say, what
you want to say about r KLS. But he had
a stepping in the name of love, and I like
to say I like to say this, man. So that's
why I struggle. I struggle with like with you know,
I'm working on some new material, but I struggle with
you saying that you say about R B. I struggle
(12:38):
with hip hop and my My funniest story was I
was doing the show and these cats were like yo,
s my d and blah blah blah blah and then
good night God bless. Like you said, man, it's lustful.
(13:00):
It's not love song. It's like when's the last time?
Hey man?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Late? Great?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
No, not even late man, He's still around like my
man's I was just listening babyface. Man, we need some babyface. Yeah,
we need we need some of that.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
We need that.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
And I'm glad you said that. Man, we need love.
So that segues to what my next thing, And I'm
glad you said that.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I want to I.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Want to showcase two of your songs, and the first
one we have is Beautiful. So before we go into beautiful, man,
can you can you give us a rundown on this song?
What was the inspiration and what are the listeners in for?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Oh man? First off, that song, I just got chill
bump just thinking about it. I forgot I sent you out.
But Beautiful, it's just it's just a culmination of a
feeling of an effatuation that you have, uh, that a
man has for a woman, and a lot of a
(13:59):
lot of time, you know, when guys are speaking about
their feelings for the woman. It comes off his corning.
But but if man is real with itself and he
wants to really on his woman in a in the
in the biggest light, I could say this is what
that song is my uh my partner, Kelly Blaze, he
(14:23):
had he wrote, he started it off, he wrote it,
and he he demoed it, and I was like, man,
give me this song. I'm gonna change some things up.
I'ma I'm gonna write it. I'm gonna continue to write
and finish it out, write the rest of the chorus,
rest of the second verse and stuff like that, and
(14:44):
I'm gonna I'm gonna turn it into something more of
R and B. Because he had his had like a
more When he demoed it, it had like a like
a for real Neptunes pop feel, and I was like,
I was like, man, this is this is something that
R and B needs. This is this is this is
one of those love stories that you know R and
B needs. Country had Country Country music has those stories. Man.
(15:07):
I forgot to mention that earlier country music has those
those those storytelling songs, those those high, you know, heavy
feeling songs, and R and B just don't have no more.
So I was like, man, yeah, let me get this.
Yeah and yeah man, so we uh we got in.
(15:28):
I put the keys down. My production partner shout out
the days on eighty five. I must I'm gonna send
him to you. He he put all the sounds around it,
found a dope sample for it. We uh and before
and right before I released it, I reached out to
my buddy AJ McDonnel, who just had a baby girl
(15:51):
last night. He uh, okay, yeah, congrat bro. He he
put down the guitars on it, man. He that's that's
that's him. Featured on the song is Will Madden feature
and AJ McDaniel, and I sent it to him. He
went on Facebook Live and played the song and he's
just just playing all kinds of different guitar stuff on it.
(16:14):
I was like, hey, man, let's just get in the
studio and and put the guitars on there because I
haven't released it yet. He was like, okay, bet so man,
we did that, and that's what happened.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Ladies and gentlemen, here we go, beautiful special guest Will
Maddie here on Deeper than Music.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
I never sold so high that I can't see forever.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Doing nothing else, survive off this sanity.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
I'm getting your.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Work at my heart, my strength and shelter.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
You're just like beautiful and ll be everything to mine.
Bring me to my limits to taming is looking.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I love to feeling to get it to me.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Doorn to me, beautiful, beautiful, You don't be believing I'm
alone with you, cutiful beautiful the tube. Don't believe it.
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I'm alone you are.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Ain't no limit girl, You're giving me a treasure.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I feel some new.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
I'm obile joint and it's Clara.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Sy and you can't have made me more. To make
me to be better, I promise you that I'll be.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Born than you.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Everything nything you mine, bring me to my limits to
jun made me.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
This look.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Tity. I love to anything to get it to me.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Don to beautiful, dude, beautiful you not believing time in
love with you, jutiful jutiful the tune to not believe
(18:46):
it time alone with you.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That's doing it here, bringing back, bringing back, bringing back
the love and R and B music. Man, Hey, that
was dope, man, Thank.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
You, bro, thank you appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
And that's uh yeah, man, that's that's how we do it,
that's how we do it. So, Like, what would be
your dream collaboration? Man, if you had any celebrities that
you could collaborate with, Like, what would be your dream collaboration?
There could be more than one celebrity, Man, who would
will Maddick want to work with?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Man? To be honest, Bro, you mentioned R Kelly earlier
and and man, it's uh he I gotta it's a
lot of a lot of his influence, you know. Uh yeah,
it's it's in my everything. I'm talking about stage president,
song making all of that. My favorite artist all time,
(20:03):
besides Mike Jacket is Kanye Man. Just to be able
to sit in the room with him and and uh
break down beats and work on music. Man, it'll be
dope them two right off the bat. As far as female,
(20:24):
I would have to say, I would have to say Sisa.
I like her vibe, man, I like I like what
she does with her music, her pen game crazy mm hmm.
And yeah I like that I like her.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah yeah, And you mentioned man like again, Man, we
we separating the we're talking about the art at the artist.
Forget man like that. Dude wrote you are not alone, bro,
Like he didn't like damn it better than Mike. You
know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, yeah, sure. How did
(21:08):
it evolve from you going to church and then man,
I see you performing everywhere? Like how did that? What
was the genesis of all that?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Man? Well, I was living in Charleston for a while
and I met I met this I met this girl.
We we dated for a little while, and she was
singing in the band and I was like, Okay, it's cool.
(21:37):
I'm gonna come check y'all out. And the first time
I seen the band, I was like, okay, I want
to be in a band now. And it was a
it was an opportunity. Uh well, I'm gonna say this.
There wasn't an opportunity for me to join the band
until I mentioned I was like, look, man, just I'll
sing for free, like y'all don't have to pay me anything, like,
(21:59):
I just I just want to, you know, get my
feet wet. Because it was time for me to do
something new. Anyway. I had. I had done the church
thing at that point. I was kind of tired of it.
I had I actually played and sang with this gospel
quartet group and that had kind of got old. And
(22:20):
I was living in Charleston, like away from a lot
of family, so a lot of the a lot of
the music opportunities that I had back you know, back
here at home. It wasn't it wasn't there in Charleston.
So I was like, let me just join this band.
And I performed with the band. I loved it, they
enjoyed me, and I would probably still be doing gigs
(22:43):
with their band today if I didn't move back home.
So I moved back home and I ran into another
cousin who who also had a band, and I had
plans on starting a new one and he had already
had a band. So I was like, man, I'll just
join your band. And his his name is uh Bobby
(23:04):
Moran BJ and the name of the band was Orion's Belt.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And remember that, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Yeah man, So he had Orion's Belt. I joined and
it was like, man, you want to We did a
couple of shows, like well, I did a couple of rehearsals.
He was like, man, you want to be permanent with
a Rayons belt? Like yeah, man, So we just started
killing doing shows and uh, I started bringing in like
new musicians and stuff, making the band bigger, you know,
I sound bigger. BJ ended up giving me the band.
(23:33):
He got married, had had a kid, and you know,
I did a couple of other things with his career
and his family and stuff like that. He gifted me,
you know, his his baby, his uh little Ryan's belt
and we man, we we used to kill man. And
that that that's when I really you know, got into
(23:56):
you know, into the public doing gigs and stuff like that,
negotiating deals make sure me and my guys get paid,
and doing shows and entertaining man. And yeah, that was
that was around two thousand and eight, two thousand and
nine where that really started kicking off of me, man,
And I was like, yeah, this is dope, man, that's
what where it is.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Man. So next we're gonna preview another song. Like I said,
we got two songs from Will Will Maddick Celebration of
Love Celebrate Love. Man. Can you give us the backstory
on this before we preview it to our listeners.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, this was a little deep. My my wife's grandmother,
she had a she had she had a really bad
seizure and she she was hospitalized. She was living in
Indy Aannapolis at the time, so we had to travel
(24:51):
up there and at the time, she was also caregiving
for her husband who was also ill. So we got
up there and there was a whole lot of family
issue stuff going on that we didn't know, and it
got to a point where, you know, we had to
sit down with the family and just have a meeting
(25:13):
just to just to have some stuff out, and everybody realized,
you know, there's a whole lot of misunderstandings and a
lot of frustration. It's a lot of you know, it's
a lot of different stuff goes down once, you know,
an elderly family member gets up in age and you know,
people you know, got to pitch in and take care
of them and stuff like that. So and it's far
(25:35):
from us, like that side of her family all the
way up and in the Annapolis. So with all of
that going on and all that chaos, I was able
to go over. You know, one of my wife's aunt's
house founder a baby grand piano in her basement, and
I had just started playing these melodies on a piano
and I had just learned a certain chre which it's
(25:56):
just it's a flat seven cored and I was putting
that in the song. Was going back and forth from
that chord to the major one and the kid d
and I just I just came up with the chords
celebri love Love, I put some chords together. I wrote
some words down in the midst of you know now,
(26:19):
you know, being sick in the hospital for weeks and
stuff like that. She actually lives with us now, she's
been with us about five years now, and she she's
doing well. She's she's doing with a what a what
a I wouldn't say old, but a gold woman should
do without a care in the world. Just knits all
day and take care of of our dogs and stuff
(26:40):
like that. But yeah, I wrote. I wrote that song partially.
I got it. I came back home. Uh, we had
my wife and I just bought a house. I had
a I'm gonna trying to wrap it up. We had
just bought a house. I had some friends over, my
production part and of course he came over. While everybody's downstairs,
(27:00):
uh party, and it was New Year's Eve. It was
like a housewarmer New Year's Eve party. Everybody's downstairs partying.
My partner and now upstairs writing that song writing and
finished finishing writing that song. We did it and finished
it that night. I recorded a few months later and
we came up with it. That's how we got to
(27:21):
celebrate love.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Hey, man, there we go, man, hey, and this is deep.
Don't worry about it, baby, this is deep in than music.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
We want to hear the story about the music. So
ladies and gentlemen, special guests will mattic. Here we go
with celebrate love.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Life has pleasure in hats, pain, complicated, people left everywhere.
You may never know my name, but love has ways
up keeping us somewhere. I've seen it all. Can't create
(28:12):
the hives and make us hold and then we all
see the infoy it is and we will know you
want me to hold this rain. We won't save us
(28:34):
swimming little time is near. There's no peace when we're
alone because we don't understand the things we fear. Celebrate, Celebrate, Celebrate,
(29:05):
Celebrate long. If the diamond is forever and time will
always pass. History can guide us.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Before a tention lane for a moment.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
We can wake up for a second.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Week and breathe.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
We can heal our hearts enough to forgive a memory.
Can't create the hearts and make us whole.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
Do we all see the info what it is?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
And we will not.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Celebrate Line, Celebrate Lone Celfreeves celebrate lines.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
If we can find a way to top it up
our ride, let the.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Sun shine in the hearts and.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
Take over our minds, we can change the world.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
One man at Attacks.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Celebrates, Celebraednes.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Celebred, celebrate.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
A little bit. It's got one of your uh, one
of your idols and.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yeah that yeah, that's that be is crazy man, And
it was it was a match main of heaven. When
we was in the in the lab cooking that up. Man,
I was like, man, I and it's that feel too.
It's it's one of those it's one of those world
inspirational songs man. So I mean it was it was
only right for me to to give reference to the
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work that that Mike has already done and laid the
groundwork for. And I just I just I just feel it,
you know, feeling in my spirit to to make that
type of music, man, to to have to if if
I can't, if I can't be the change, then I
want to at least affect it. And I want inspired
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just like he did, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
And then like the music has a world message and
it's talking about love man, because you know what I
was actually thinking about it, like, Man, nobody's really doing
what he did, like Earth Song, we Are the World,
Heal the world. Nobody's really like you said, man, the
love is. We need that love. Man. So man, I
(32:25):
want you right now with seamless promotion time, man, because
you do so much work. Man, I see you out there. Man, Like,
so where can people hear you where you're gonna be performing?
It's a shameless promotion time.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Word Okay. My next show January twenty fourth, This upcoming Friday,
I'll be at Blues Boulevard Jazz in Greenville, South Carolina,
downtown with my band Will Maddick and friends. Oh man,
we kill it about every month. We haven't been back
since November. I took a little break for the holidays.
(32:59):
But listen, we get down and there I'm talking about
R and B funk. We can even do a little
bit of rock, definitely gospel. It's all in there. Follow
me on I g I'm at I am Will Maddick.
There's a link in my bio that goes straight to
my link tree page to where you can stay in
(33:20):
contact with me. Shoot me your email so I can
let you know when's the next show, the next song releases,
and stuff like that. Also, I just dropped some new merch.
New merchant is available on that side as well. Just
click the tab and you'll see the shirts and the
hoodies everything I'm doing with that. Yeah. Also, I do
(33:44):
have an official music video to another one of my songs.
It's called Complications. You can check that out on YouTube.
You'll see that tab on the site as well. And yeah,
that's about it. Just stay in contact with me. The
best way is the follow me on i G again.
That's I am Will Maddick, and I'll just keep you
(34:05):
up and down on everything I'm doing. This music journey
that I'm on. I mean, I love where I'm at,
but I love even more where I'm headed. So yeah,
stay up with me.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Man.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
So the last two questions I got bro Well, the
first one I asked them separately. First question, man, at
the end of the day, when it's all said and done, man,
you rock and roll R and B Hall of fame. Man,
what do you want to be remembered for with your art?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Hmm? I want to influence people to be able to
tell their own story because they saw me tell mine.
No matter how corner you think it may be, or
no matter how no not even you know, no matter
how wacky think you are, because it's somebody out there
(34:59):
that you can aspire. If somebody out there you can reach,
it's somebody out there you can help. And I just
want I want people to to hit my heart in
and uh, to see my works and see themselves and
be like, you know, I can do that too. Everybody
who's a fan of me, I want them to be
(35:20):
a fan of themselves, you know. So yeah, and and
I want people to know that that. I want people
to see my light. Matthew five fourteen says, be the
light of the world, no matter where you're at. That's
why my music is not just for church. My music
(35:43):
is not just for you know arenas. Uh, my music
is not just for you know, chilling writing, you know,
riding in your car. You know. I want to make
I want to make music. I want to do songs
that everybody can enjoy, everybody can feel inspired from. So
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that's why I'm at with.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
That, Okay. And then the last question, what does music
mean to will Matty?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Mm hmmmh.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Music is is a gift that's that's given and and
and that should be given my My talents that that
I got from my parents are from God their mind.
But it's for me to use and to give, you know,
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to God's people. And that's what music means to me.
It's it's it's therapeutic. It it gives me an avenue
and a safe place to create, to be able to
be creative and to use out that that's everybody's superpower.
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Their their creativity is their superpower. And and it allows
me to to to do that and and it actually
it actually allows me to save myself and and to
save myself from doing stuff that I shouldn't be doing.
But but yeah, this is this is like, this is
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this is what I can lean on. This is what
I can lay on. This is what I can rest on.
Is this music and these gifts and talents that God
gave me.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Mm hmm yeah. Man and ladies and gentlemen, another awesome
episode with will O Matic and hey, if finn greens
your area, check them out, check them out on social media.
You heard them, Willmatic, thank you for taking the time, brother.
And this is Willmatic signing off on Deeper than Music.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
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Deeper than muse, the coll of you, the fans, the
truth simply, the truth is the Linked is the new,
the neat sick, the coll of you, the fans, the
truth simply, the truth is the Linked is the new US.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
M HM, keep it the Youth Radio by every great
song is even greater story. I'd like to say, what's
uthing to everybody who's listening to us on speaker, Spotify,
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Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Alexa. You know this show
we interview celebrities, entertainers, motivational people. But today we have
a very special interview. Me and this guy go way
back sitting on my little brother. We go back back
(01:19):
in the day. So I want to give him his
flowers because I seen him. I mean, man, I've been
knowing this man since he was a young man until
now and just seeing him grow and going to his
own as a musician, so I definitely wanted to have
him on the show. He's a singer, songwriter and producer
from Greenville, South Carolina. Raised on gospel and soul music.
He started singing at the tenor age of six, picked
(01:41):
up the piano in his early teenage years, and if
you're in the South Carolina area. You heard about this, brother,
Ladies and gentlemen, we have Willa Maddick here on deeper
than music radio. Will O Mattick.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
How you doing, Man, what's up? Bro? I'm good? Good.
How you do I'm.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Good Man, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
So.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Man, been in the North Carolina area for about I
want to say, about two years. And Brother, this is
the coldest January. I feel like I'm back in the Midwest.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah, so I just.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, so, just a little history. Man, it's my little
brother right here. Man. We've been knowing each other for
a long time. Man, I never knew, Bro. Like, I
ain't gonna lie to you. Man. The first time I
saw you before, I was like, Man, I didn't know. Well,
I didn't know he had a voice like that. Man,
Like I remember you playing football and oh yeah, we're
(02:41):
also base St. Louis, Mississippi. Shout out to base St. Louis.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So my first question is, Man, when did you know
that you wanted to be a musician?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Ah, Man, I would say I would say around six
or seven years old. Man, that's when I first started
singing in church, and and I was already already had
my my admirations and my idols and stuff like that.
(03:14):
Of course, Mike Jack, guys back then with Boys the Men,
Bobby Brown, all the popular R and B acts, And
I was like, you know, if I had an opportunity
to do something like that one day, I know I'd
be happy. So and then with the whole church thing thing,
(03:40):
you know, I knew my voice, you know it it
kind of you know, give people hope and inspiration. I see,
I saw the reactions and stuff like that, and how
how you know how much people really enjoyed, you know,
me singing. I was like, you know, this could be
something that I could I would love to make a
living doing. So Yeah, that's that's when it started for me, because.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
The whole time I did not know, man, because you
remember back when I started with the Bomb Entertainment, you
like the Bomb and.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
But then yes, yeah, and you mentioned man another question.
I think like we're child's of the eighties. Man, So
you already mentioned one of your well two of your influences. Man.
Who are what other celebrities influenced you? Man, that you
looked up to?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Like?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Man, I want to be like them or in the
team like them.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I think probably will Smith more than anybody. I kind
of I kind of saw when like with the show
and with his music. Man, I'm like, you know, he
if he can do all that, and why can I?
And let's see who else. I had some family too, man.
(04:56):
I can remember, like my very first you Ford music
experience was at a actually at a church concert. My uncle's,
my mom, aunts, cousins all in the choir on the microphone,
leading songs, playing the instruments and stuff like that church
was packed like it was like a like a like
(05:18):
a seventy five eighty person choir and it was it
was dope.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I can still remember. It was like like ninety one
something like that. And yeah, that that really it really
jumped it off for me. Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And then also I didn't really I didn't realize you
played piano too, man, So when did you learn the piano?
Like when did you start?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Bro? I started piano, like probably like ten or eleven.
I would want my older cousin played and he had
I remember him getting a new keyboard and every time
we would go over to their house, I would and
he wouldn't be in his room. I was sneaking there
and kind of jump on the keyboard until he until
he come up from behind me thump me in the
(06:05):
back of the head and tell me to get up
and get off his stuff. But like when while I
was doing that, like I would hear him. I would
hear him play songs like back then that's when he
like really started playing at church and stuff like that.
And I would hear him play songs off the radio though,
and I would particularly particularly remember him playing this one
(06:26):
particular song. It was R. Kelly's when a woman fed
up and I was just and I would just and
I just eavesdrop and kind of listen. He leave the room.
I go in there and and try to mimic and
mock what he played, just based off you know what
I heard my ear memory. So I taught myself that song. Eventually,
(06:52):
like day days later, times later, you know, going back
jumping on him. I go back and I play that
song and I started putting my own kind of fingering
together my chords and stuff like that, and yeah, that
was the first song I ever played. And from there,
(07:12):
once I eventually got my own keyboard when I was fifteen,
I do the same thing, just listening to songs off
the radio and just try to pick them up.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And play them by ear so self taught man best
way man. And do you remember the first time that
you actually performed man, and how that felt?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah? Yeah, And it was in church when I first
played the played the keyboard because my uncle he had
he saw me, and he had he saw that. He
saw that. The same way I learned how to play
that R. Kelly song was the same way I learned
how to play a few songs that he used to
(07:57):
teach the choir and they used to sing on Sundays.
So it was one particular song that I learned on
my own. And he called me. He called during church.
He caught me up to the to the piano to
play the song. And I didn't even know he was
gonna do it. And you know it's church man, you
know we are we are like always he about to
(08:20):
do what he about to do? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
I went up there and play and play the song,
and it was it was great.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Your family knew. They was like all right, you know, uh,
my cousin, you know he plays, and yeah, we're gonna
we're gonna go ahead and get him on in and
let the world. Let Willie bless our church. Man, was
you nervous? So he was just like, hey, okay, I'm
gonna go ahead and it's my time to shine.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I was. I was a little nervous, but like I
always felt comfortable because it's like it's like I knew
he had my back. Was like, just just do it
like this, and I got you do it like you've
always been doing that after rehearsals at my house. You know,
just just do it like you've been doing And I
(09:09):
got you back, and I knew. I knew that's the
only thing that I had to do for the whole song,
just that just the just did the particular chords in
that particular part. And as long as I had that,
he had everything else. He's directing the choir and somebody
on the drums, bass, guitar, my mama up there singing
on the choir, So I was, I was. I was
(09:32):
straight man. After after like a few a few measures,
a few of the first measures.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Of the song, I was like, yeah, I like this,
so we got the background and inspiration. So to the
listeners that haven't heard of Will Mattic, am I saying
that right, will O Mattic, Will Maddick, Yeah, will Matic
gotcha just just like ill Madic, I kind of okay,
(09:58):
I didn't even I didn't even know that. Okay, shut
off the nas. Hey, So, how would you describe your
sound man, and what do you bringing? What do you
bring into music? Like to somebody who hasn't heard Will Mattic, like,
how would you describe your sound and what do you
bring into music?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Man? I would say, I would say real, I would
say inspirational, spiritual, man, And these are I and I.
I write and I play based off like one hundred
percent feeling like things that I've been through. My partner,
(10:37):
my partner and co writer Kelly Blaze, He's written me
songs with stuff that he's been through, and I've I've
related to him and partially been through him. It's kind
of like kind of like JD did with Usher on
like confessions and stuff. It's been kind of like that.
It's it's not it's more of your traditional R and B.
(11:01):
I dibble into pop a little bit, and you know,
it just gives you that feeling of something real And
I think you now, I'm glad you asked me that
because it kind of makes me want to elaborate on
a little bit with the with the whole thing about
R and B dying. It's it's only and I think
(11:24):
it it's sort of it's sort of kind of fizzing
out or kind of fizzed out because there wasn't enough
blues in it, like R and B is is R
and B is rhythm and blue. It's it's been too
much rhythm like it's it's not enough blues and what
(11:45):
I mean by rhythm like it's too much of like
too much of like uh, I would say fake, fake
stories and stuff. That's that's so popularized when it that
doesn't have anything to do with love, but every everything,
everything to do everything to do with with with lust.
(12:09):
I'll say it like that. But it's too many, too
many love songs and not enough love songs. Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
You know what I'm saying, Say what you say, what
you want to say about r KLS. But he had
a stepping in the name of love, and I like
to say I like to say this, man. So that's
why I struggle. I struggle with like with you know,
I'm working on some new material, but I struggle with
you saying that you say about R B. I struggle
(12:38):
with hip hop and my My funniest story was I
was doing the show and these cats were like yo,
s my d and blah blah blah blah and then
good night God bless. Like you said, man, it's lustful.
(13:00):
It's not love song. It's like when's the last time?
Hey man?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Late? Great?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
No, not even late man, He's still around like my
man's I was just listening babyface. Man, we need some babyface. Yeah,
we need we need some of that.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
We need that.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
And I'm glad you said that. Man, we need love.
So that segues to what my next thing, And I'm
glad you said that.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I want to I.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Want to showcase two of your songs, and the first
one we have is Beautiful. So before we go into beautiful, man,
can you can you give us a rundown on this song?
What was the inspiration and what are the listeners in for?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Oh man? First off, that song, I just got chill
bump just thinking about it. I forgot I sent you out.
But Beautiful, it's just it's just a culmination of a
feeling of an effatuation that you have, uh, that a
man has for a woman, and a lot of a
(13:59):
lot of time, you know, when guys are speaking about
their feelings for the woman. It comes off his corning.
But but if man is real with itself and he
wants to really on his woman in a in the
in the biggest light, I could say this is what
that song is my uh my partner, Kelly Blaze, he
(14:23):
had he wrote, he started it off, he wrote it,
and he he demoed it, and I was like, man,
give me this song. I'm gonna change some things up.
I'ma I'm gonna write it. I'm gonna continue to write
and finish it out, write the rest of the chorus,
rest of the second verse and stuff like that, and
(14:44):
I'm gonna I'm gonna turn it into something more of
R and B. Because he had his had like a
more When he demoed it, it had like a like
a for real Neptunes pop feel, and I was like,
I was like, man, this is this is something that
R and B needs. This is this is this is
one of those love stories that you know R and
B needs. Country had Country Country music has those stories. Man.
(15:07):
I forgot to mention that earlier country music has those
those those storytelling songs, those those high, you know, heavy
feeling songs, and R and B just don't have no more.
So I was like, man, yeah, let me get this.
Yeah and yeah man, so we uh we got in.
(15:28):
I put the keys down. My production partner shout out
the days on eighty five. I must I'm gonna send
him to you. He he put all the sounds around it,
found a dope sample for it. We uh and before
and right before I released it, I reached out to
my buddy AJ McDonnel, who just had a baby girl
(15:51):
last night. He uh, okay, yeah, congrat bro. He he
put down the guitars on it, man. He that's that's
that's him. Featured on the song is Will Madden feature
and AJ McDaniel, and I sent it to him. He
went on Facebook Live and played the song and he's
just just playing all kinds of different guitar stuff on it.
(16:14):
I was like, hey, man, let's just get in the
studio and and put the guitars on there because I
haven't released it yet. He was like, okay, bet so man,
we did that, and that's what happened.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Ladies and gentlemen, here we go, beautiful special guest Will
Maddie here on Deeper than Music.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
I never sold so high that I can't see forever.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Doing nothing else, survive off this sanity.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
I'm getting your.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Work at my heart, my strength and shelter.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
You're just like beautiful and ll be everything to mine.
Bring me to my limits to taming is looking.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I love to feeling to get it to me.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Doorn to me, beautiful, beautiful, You don't be believing I'm
alone with you, cutiful beautiful the tube. Don't believe it.
(17:47):
I'm alone you are.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Ain't no limit girl, You're giving me a treasure.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I feel some new.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
I'm obile joint and it's Clara.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Sy and you can't have made me more. To make
me to be better, I promise you that I'll be.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Born than you.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Everything nything you mine, bring me to my limits to
jun made me.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
This look.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Tity. I love to anything to get it to me.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Don to beautiful, dude, beautiful you not believing time in
love with you, jutiful jutiful the tune to not believe
(18:46):
it time alone with you.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That's doing it here, bringing back, bringing back, bringing back
the love and R and B music. Man, Hey, that
was dope, man, Thank.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
You, bro, thank you appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
And that's uh yeah, man, that's that's how we do it,
that's how we do it. So, Like, what would be
your dream collaboration? Man, if you had any celebrities that
you could collaborate with, Like, what would be your dream collaboration?
There could be more than one celebrity, Man, who would
will Maddick want to work with?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Man? To be honest, Bro, you mentioned R Kelly earlier
and and man, it's uh he I gotta it's a
lot of a lot of his influence, you know. Uh yeah,
it's it's in my everything. I'm talking about stage president,
song making all of that. My favorite artist all time,
(20:03):
besides Mike Jacket is Kanye Man. Just to be able
to sit in the room with him and and uh
break down beats and work on music. Man, it'll be
dope them two right off the bat. As far as female,
(20:24):
I would have to say, I would have to say Sisa.
I like her vibe, man, I like I like what
she does with her music, her pen game crazy mm hmm.
And yeah I like that I like her.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah yeah, And you mentioned man like again, Man, we
we separating the we're talking about the art at the artist.
Forget man like that. Dude wrote you are not alone, bro,
Like he didn't like damn it better than Mike. You
know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, yeah, sure. How did
(21:08):
it evolve from you going to church and then man,
I see you performing everywhere? Like how did that? What
was the genesis of all that?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Man? Well, I was living in Charleston for a while
and I met I met this I met this girl.
We we dated for a little while, and she was
singing in the band and I was like, Okay, it's cool.
(21:37):
I'm gonna come check y'all out. And the first time
I seen the band, I was like, okay, I want
to be in a band now. And it was a
it was an opportunity. Uh well, I'm gonna say this.
There wasn't an opportunity for me to join the band
until I mentioned I was like, look, man, just I'll
sing for free, like y'all don't have to pay me anything, like,
(21:59):
I just I just want to, you know, get my
feet wet. Because it was time for me to do
something new. Anyway. I had. I had done the church
thing at that point. I was kind of tired of it.
I had I actually played and sang with this gospel
quartet group and that had kind of got old. And
(22:20):
I was living in Charleston, like away from a lot
of family, so a lot of the a lot of
the music opportunities that I had back you know, back
here at home. It wasn't it wasn't there in Charleston.
So I was like, let me just join this band.
And I performed with the band. I loved it, they
enjoyed me, and I would probably still be doing gigs
(22:43):
with their band today if I didn't move back home.
So I moved back home and I ran into another
cousin who who also had a band, and I had
plans on starting a new one and he had already
had a band. So I was like, man, I'll just
join your band. And his his name is uh Bobby
(23:04):
Moran BJ and the name of the band was Orion's Belt.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And remember that, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Yeah man, So he had Orion's Belt. I joined and
it was like, man, you want to We did a
couple of shows, like well, I did a couple of rehearsals.
He was like, man, you want to be permanent with
a Rayons belt? Like yeah, man, So we just started
killing doing shows and uh, I started bringing in like
new musicians and stuff, making the band bigger, you know,
I sound bigger. BJ ended up giving me the band.
(23:33):
He got married, had had a kid, and you know,
I did a couple of other things with his career
and his family and stuff like that. He gifted me,
you know, his his baby, his uh little Ryan's belt
and we man, we we used to kill man. And
that that that's when I really you know, got into
(23:56):
you know, into the public doing gigs and stuff like that,
negotiating deals make sure me and my guys get paid,
and doing shows and entertaining man. And yeah, that was
that was around two thousand and eight, two thousand and
nine where that really started kicking off of me, man,
And I was like, yeah, this is dope, man, that's
what where it is.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Man. So next we're gonna preview another song. Like I said,
we got two songs from Will Will Maddick Celebration of
Love Celebrate Love. Man. Can you give us the backstory
on this before we preview it to our listeners.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, this was a little deep. My my wife's grandmother,
she had a she had she had a really bad
seizure and she she was hospitalized. She was living in
Indy Aannapolis at the time, so we had to travel
(24:51):
up there and at the time, she was also caregiving
for her husband who was also ill. So we got
up there and there was a whole lot of family
issue stuff going on that we didn't know, and it
got to a point where, you know, we had to
sit down with the family and just have a meeting
(25:13):
just to just to have some stuff out, and everybody realized,
you know, there's a whole lot of misunderstandings and a
lot of frustration. It's a lot of you know, it's
a lot of different stuff goes down once, you know,
an elderly family member gets up in age and you know,
people you know, got to pitch in and take care
of them and stuff like that. So and it's far
(25:35):
from us, like that side of her family all the
way up and in the Annapolis. So with all of
that going on and all that chaos, I was able
to go over. You know, one of my wife's aunt's
house founder a baby grand piano in her basement, and
I had just started playing these melodies on a piano
and I had just learned a certain chre which it's
(25:56):
just it's a flat seven cored and I was putting
that in the song. Was going back and forth from
that chord to the major one and the kid d
and I just I just came up with the chords
celebri love Love, I put some chords together. I wrote
some words down in the midst of you know now,
(26:19):
you know, being sick in the hospital for weeks and
stuff like that. She actually lives with us now, she's
been with us about five years now, and she she's
doing well. She's she's doing with a what a what
a I wouldn't say old, but a gold woman should
do without a care in the world. Just knits all
day and take care of of our dogs and stuff
(26:40):
like that. But yeah, I wrote. I wrote that song partially.
I got it. I came back home. Uh, we had
my wife and I just bought a house. I had
a I'm gonna trying to wrap it up. We had
just bought a house. I had some friends over, my
production part and of course he came over. While everybody's downstairs,
(27:00):
uh party, and it was New Year's Eve. It was
like a housewarmer New Year's Eve party. Everybody's downstairs partying.
My partner and now upstairs writing that song writing and
finished finishing writing that song. We did it and finished
it that night. I recorded a few months later and
we came up with it. That's how we got to
(27:21):
celebrate love.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Hey, man, there we go, man, hey, and this is deep.
Don't worry about it, baby, this is deep in than music.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
We want to hear the story about the music. So
ladies and gentlemen, special guests will mattic. Here we go
with celebrate love.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Life has pleasure in hats, pain, complicated, people left everywhere.
You may never know my name, but love has ways
up keeping us somewhere. I've seen it all. Can't create
(28:12):
the hives and make us hold and then we all
see the infoy it is and we will know you
want me to hold this rain. We won't save us
(28:34):
swimming little time is near. There's no peace when we're
alone because we don't understand the things we fear. Celebrate, Celebrate, Celebrate,
(29:05):
Celebrate long. If the diamond is forever and time will
always pass. History can guide us.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Before a tention lane for a moment.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
We can wake up for a second.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Week and breathe.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
We can heal our hearts enough to forgive a memory.
Can't create the hearts and make us whole.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
Do we all see the info what it is?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
And we will not.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Celebrate Line, Celebrate Lone Celfreeves celebrate lines.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
If we can find a way to top it up
our ride, let the.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Sun shine in the hearts and.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
Take over our minds, we can change the world.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
One man at Attacks.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Celebrates, Celebraednes.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Celebred, celebrate.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
A little bit. It's got one of your uh, one
of your idols and.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yeah that yeah, that's that be is crazy man, And
it was it was a match main of heaven. When
we was in the in the lab cooking that up. Man,
I was like, man, I and it's that feel too.
It's it's one of those it's one of those world
inspirational songs man. So I mean it was it was
only right for me to to give reference to the
(31:40):
work that that Mike has already done and laid the
groundwork for. And I just I just I just feel it,
you know, feeling in my spirit to to make that
type of music, man, to to have to if if
I can't, if I can't be the change, then I
want to at least affect it. And I want inspired
(32:00):
just like he did, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
And then like the music has a world message and
it's talking about love man, because you know what I
was actually thinking about it, like, Man, nobody's really doing
what he did, like Earth Song, we Are the World,
Heal the world. Nobody's really like you said, man, the
love is. We need that love. Man. So man, I
(32:25):
want you right now with seamless promotion time, man, because
you do so much work. Man, I see you out there. Man, Like,
so where can people hear you where you're gonna be performing?
It's a shameless promotion time.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Word Okay. My next show January twenty fourth, This upcoming Friday,
I'll be at Blues Boulevard Jazz in Greenville, South Carolina,
downtown with my band Will Maddick and friends. Oh man,
we kill it about every month. We haven't been back
since November. I took a little break for the holidays.
(32:59):
But listen, we get down and there I'm talking about
R and B funk. We can even do a little
bit of rock, definitely gospel. It's all in there. Follow
me on I g I'm at I am Will Maddick.
There's a link in my bio that goes straight to
my link tree page to where you can stay in
(33:20):
contact with me. Shoot me your email so I can
let you know when's the next show, the next song releases,
and stuff like that. Also, I just dropped some new merch.
New merchant is available on that side as well. Just
click the tab and you'll see the shirts and the
hoodies everything I'm doing with that. Yeah. Also, I do
(33:44):
have an official music video to another one of my songs.
It's called Complications. You can check that out on YouTube.
You'll see that tab on the site as well. And yeah,
that's about it. Just stay in contact with me. The
best way is the follow me on i G again.
That's I am Will Maddick, and I'll just keep you
(34:05):
up and down on everything I'm doing. This music journey
that I'm on. I mean, I love where I'm at,
but I love even more where I'm headed. So yeah,
stay up with me.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Man.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
So the last two questions I got bro Well, the
first one I asked them separately. First question, man, at
the end of the day, when it's all said and done, man,
you rock and roll R and B Hall of fame. Man,
what do you want to be remembered for with your art?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Hmm? I want to influence people to be able to
tell their own story because they saw me tell mine.
No matter how corner you think it may be, or
no matter how no not even you know, no matter
how wacky think you are, because it's somebody out there
(34:59):
that you can aspire. If somebody out there you can reach,
it's somebody out there you can help. And I just
want I want people to to hit my heart in
and uh, to see my works and see themselves and
be like, you know, I can do that too. Everybody
who's a fan of me, I want them to be
(35:20):
a fan of themselves, you know. So yeah, and and
I want people to know that that. I want people
to see my light. Matthew five fourteen says, be the
light of the world, no matter where you're at. That's
why my music is not just for church. My music
(35:43):
is not just for you know arenas. Uh, my music
is not just for you know, chilling writing, you know,
riding in your car. You know. I want to make
I want to make music. I want to do songs
that everybody can enjoy, everybody can feel inspired from. So
(36:03):
that's why I'm at with.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
That, Okay. And then the last question, what does music
mean to will Matty?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Mm hmmmh.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Music is is a gift that's that's given and and
and that should be given my My talents that that
I got from my parents are from God their mind.
But it's for me to use and to give, you know,
(36:41):
to God's people. And that's what music means to me.
It's it's it's therapeutic. It it gives me an avenue
and a safe place to create, to be able to
be creative and to use out that that's everybody's superpower.
(37:02):
Their their creativity is their superpower. And and it allows
me to to to do that and and it actually
it actually allows me to save myself and and to
save myself from doing stuff that I shouldn't be doing.
But but yeah, this is this is like, this is
(37:26):
this is what I can lean on. This is what
I can lay on. This is what I can rest on.
Is this music and these gifts and talents that God
gave me.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Mm hmm yeah. Man and ladies and gentlemen, another awesome
episode with will O Matic and hey, if finn greens
your area, check them out, check them out on social media.
You heard them, Willmatic, thank you for taking the time, brother.
And this is Willmatic signing off on Deeper than Music.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
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