October 21, 2024 • 32 mins
Ari Daye King opens up about her debut project, 3:33. She dives into the inspiration behind the album's creation and the personal growth that influenced its sound. Ari shares how the project reflects her spiritual journey, the significance of the numbers "3:33," and the unique blend of genres she explored.
2:30 1st Song5:00 Embracing fear
6:50 The Process of Creativity
9:20 Meaning behind 3:33
10:14 The Red Car Theory
11:54 Layering/Heaven Only Knows
15:54 The Song Ari is most proud of
18:38 Songs with hidden meaning
20:45 Ari’s Top 5 R&B Songs
24:30 The $100 Million Question
28:04 Ice Cream check
30:05 Wednesday Wisdom
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2:30 1st Song5:00 Embracing fear
6:50 The Process of Creativity
9:20 Meaning behind 3:33
10:14 The Red Car Theory
11:54 Layering/Heaven Only Knows
15:54 The Song Ari is most proud of
18:38 Songs with hidden meaning
20:45 Ari’s Top 5 R&B Songs
24:30 The $100 Million Question
28:04 Ice Cream check
30:05 Wednesday Wisdom
You can listen to the radio show every Wednesday @ 11 AM EST
1280AM on your Radio 📻
metradio.ca Online 💻
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
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Here in the cut, we challenge our guest to finish
type of ice cream before the end of the conversation.
We have a special guest here today. Happy to have
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you in the building, Arid King. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Thank you for having me. I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Tell us about this flavor that you chose and what
do you think your chances are of actually getting this
done before the end of the show.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Um well, I chose Tara missum hm because I love
coffee and I loved here too. The chances of me
actually finishing this, I'm gonna say maybe seven out of.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Ten oh that's pretty hot.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I like ice cream, okay, okay, and I.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Like to eat.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Okay, seven out of ten I like. I like those chances.
We'll all se check back in. But seven out of
ten I think is pretty good. Me. I'm not a
good multitasker in my head, I think I am, and
then once it takes me half an hour to do
a ten minute thing, it doesn't work out so good.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So far delicious Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
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guys as well. Those who are lactose intolerant. Wow, favors few. Yeah,
if you know why you're tummy to work in, eva's
gonna be with that.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I used to be lactose intolerant.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So had that happen? You just know anymore?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I just yeah, I just grew out of it.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Weird.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Wow. Yeah, Okay, I guess it's your God's favorite. It
must be yeah, something like that. It's been basically a
little over a year since your first single, which it
feels crazy, it's like that doesn't feel like that long ago.
But again, a little over a year since your first single,
and I want to go before that, what was kind
of the lead up to the first single, the start
(02:20):
of you putting that song together and then you deciding Okay,
this is actually going to see the light of day.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Hmmm, that's a loaded question to start with. I think
like music was a very long time coming for me.
I wrote my first song when I was maybe grade six,
So I just got to a point where I was like,
I either go for this or I don't. But the
thought of me being like old and gray and looking
(02:47):
back on my life and being like I didn't even
try that scared the crap out of me. So so yeah,
right before I released Nostalgia, I kind of had this
epiphany and I was just like, even if it's just
for me, even if nobody likes my music, Like clearly,
this is something that I need to do because it's
just something that does not leave me, Like the idea
doesn't leave me, the inspiration never leaves me. I always
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have ideas for new songs, and it's just like I'm
constantly feeling it, so I was like, even if it's
only for my best self, I have to release it.
So it was very liberating.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
That's pretty wholesome. I actually love that cool. But I
want to know, before you had that moment where you're like,
I'm actually doing this, what was the fight for you
not doing it? Because you're not a spring chicken. Between
grade six and now is a little bit of time.
So in between that you're so rude.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
What was kind of the push you had within yourself
of like, I still like music, clearly, I self passion
for it, but I'm not doing it. Talk about that
was going on kind of internally.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I think honestly, I think it was a confidence thing
for me. I mean we all struggle with confidence. I
do think even the people that seem the most confident
still have their days. But for me, and also too,
like I like my family's West Indian, like old school
(04:16):
West Indian, so they like more practical, yes, career bad
confirmed yeah right so, and don't get me wrong, like
my family's very supportive. But because I kind of had
that lack of confidence in myself, I really didn't think
that like my music was anything special, and that's really
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sad to say, because it is. And unfortunately, the more
I showed people my music, and the more I saw
people's reactions and they were like, this is really good,
my confidence slowly started to build. And then eventually it
just got to a place where I was like, I
have a responsibility actually, like I feel like God has
given me this gift and I have a responsibility to
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sh my music.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
There's this quote I would have remember who said it,
but it says anything you want to do, do it scared.
And it's kind of like taking that leap of like
even if you're not ready, still hopping into it. And
I think even this show was kind of a little
bit of that as well, So I totally understand of
like before you even get you're like, I'm not even
good enough to even do this, you know what I mean?
(05:23):
And I think that we all have a moment where,
whether it's artificial or real, you just got to find
a way to believe it, right, Like whether it's like
someone tells you or you just have that irrational confidence
that's kind of all it takes me Like, Okay, I'm doing.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
It, this is what it is now, and It really
is as simple as that. Like I think we also
overcomplicate things, It really is as simple as that. And
also too, you can't expect other people to believe in
you if you don't believe in yourself like you have to.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It starts with you, right.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So yeah, yeah, I think hearing your music like you
sound like such a natural and I think you've done
something with this project particular, but just with like your
sound in general that I think some people are trying
to achieve. And from being around so many artists musicians
of different disciplines, I can kind of like I'm a
drummer myself, and so I can kind of feel when
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it's like you think this is cool or you have
like that natural talent, And it's interesting to think that
you didn't feel like you were good enough when I
think you do have that kind of natural feel for it.
I do that some people don't have. So when you started,
how are you in terms of comparing yourselves to others?
That's something that I feel like people deal with before
they start, and then once they get in, it's like
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a whole different ball game. Did you deal with that
at all or were you kind of, you know, good
when you came in right away.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Oh, I was wonderful. I'm just kidding. I don't know, like.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I never had the urge to try and replicate anybody
or I just have a lot of respect for creativity
in itself and I love I think that's part of
the reason why my music is so special, because I
really like value the process from start to finish of
even like feeling something or having an idea and like
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executing it. And a lot of the time when I'm
writing a song, like I have no clue where it's
going to go. I don't even I don't put it
in a box. I don't even name it usually until
like the very end, just because I'm very open to
like what the process has for me, which I think is.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
A really beautiful like song and dance.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
So I think just because that has always been my
mindset and I've always had such a value for that,
I think by the time I actually started to go
after it, it was it just it felt it came
very natural to me. I just it's the one thing
in life where I feel like I'm one hundred percent
in my own skin, like I'm doing what I was
(07:52):
literally designed and made to be doing. Music and writing
and playing instruments and now production is the only thing
in life that really gives me that feeling.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, I feel like there's almost an ease that I think, again,
not everybody has, because I think you can tell when
someone's imitating a certain sound, and then you can tell
when someone's like, Okay, no, this is coming from them.
And what you did with this project, which I think
is very rare, it's like it captures a feeling like
(08:23):
I think too, like you just said no, because I
think even though I hope so voice, I hope so.
But even though it's short, every time I listen to it,
it's almost like it's a different feeling after, you know.
And it reminds me of like a movie when you
watch a movie, and like you wear in a certain
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mood before you watch the movie and the movie's done
and you're kind of like, how was I even feeling
before this? I don't even remember now. So I feel
like you have captured that the three three three. We
just experienced it ourselves before we start recording. This is
divine intervention. Talk about what that three three three means
to you.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, So, I I really view my life in like
chapters and seasons, and I feel things like very deeply.
It's a blessing and a curse. I know there are
many people that way, but I just like my capacity
to feel things is very, very deep. And so throughout
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my life, I've always seen numbers, and I noticed that
when like when I'm going through a specific season or
coming out even more so of a specific season, I'll
stop seeing those numbers and I'll start see start seeing
a whole new set of numbers. So when I was
writing this EP, I was seeing three thirty three like everywhere,
multiple times a day, like license plate. I would just
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pick up my phone, it would be three thirty three.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
And so.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
And also too, as I started to kind of research
like what three three three means like angel number wise
and things like that, it was very centered around like
creativity and prosperity and like growth and expansion and things
like that, and it just it was so aligned with
where I was in my life season wise, and I
was like, no, this needs to be the name of
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the EP. So that's where that came from.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I like it. Obviously we're here for the angel numbers.
One thing I always think about is this, I don't
know what the actual theory is called, but I'm calling
them the red car theory. And this idea of you know,
how much red cars you can see on the way
over here? You can't say because you weren't paying attention.
But then if I asked you to see any red cars, notice,
then you see any. I always think about that because
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that's like a sense of it's almost like a power
you have internally to see those things. And I think
that sometimes we don't acknowledge our own power when it
comes to seeing those things, and and it can be
something small, but it's like knowing you have that power
in the first place is part of, you know, kind
of tapping into it. And I had it today. Also
(10:54):
not as deep as the three three three or the
red cars. But I bought my first pair of crocs,
maybe my own pair of crocs. I'm not with y'all
our team Crocs, Like I bought the ones that look
like mules. They don't got the holes in them, they're
still fly like, don't get it twisted. I'm not one
of y'all, Okay, But after buying this pair of Crocs,
I'm now noticing everyone who's wearing crocs or slippers like
(11:17):
I probably saw five people after I went to the
store who were in a full fit with slippers on,
And I never noticed that before, But now that I'm
in a full fit with slippers on, I'm noticing it
much more. So. I think that that's something that once
you're aware of it, you can almost apply it to anything.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I think that's also so it's so important that like
you choose where you place that energy, right because it
holds weight, Like what goes on up here holds so
much weight in terms of what eventually happens around you, right,
So I think it's like acknowledging those things and it's like, no,
I want to also pour my energy into that too, you.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Know, Heaven only knows. That's my favorite song really, And
there's a back and worth that you do with your
own vocals. Talk about putting that together. I think that
that gives a song like a certain energy that kind
of makes it flow a little bit. So talk about
that back and forth that you do and how you
kind of came with that.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yeah, I I think that's just like a stylistic Like
I just love a lot.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Of background vocals.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I always have, Like I grew up in churches too,
so like choirs. I love the sound of like a
solid choir, and a lot of my favorite artists their
background vocals are just like insane, like Laila Hathaway, even Kailani.
I think KRT background vocals are really dope. But yeah,
(12:41):
so that's that's one of the most enjoyable pieces of
the puzzle.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
For me.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
When I am creating is just like singing with myself,
harmonizing with myself. I just like stuff to sound very,
very full. And I love that you said it embodies
a feeling, because that's that's.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
One of my main goals.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yeah, I want to make you feel something when you
listen to it, like I want it to be someone
of an escape mentally. So I think all the background
vocals and like the layering I think really contributes to that.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
No, it makes it very full, like it reminded me
of Cleo soul Mother, like that era that's my baby
girl like love Clo. She's amazing, reminding me of that
era of her. But talk about I guess the concept
of the song, like I think that there's a joy
that's that's sonically in some of these records, and I
think you do match with the lyrics. So talk about
(13:28):
putting these songs together lyrically. Heaven only knows in particular,
but just you know, the whole project.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Hmm, what's time to we have let's see Heaven only knows.
I mean I can point plane tell you what it's about.
It's about It is about like love, It's about losing
love finding love again. It's about like that question. Sometimes
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that's like lingers and it's like what if things were different,
like only knows. At some point you just have to
kind of give it to God or the universe or
whatever you believe in and just acknowledge that, like we're
not meant to have the answers to everything, not even
to everything that happens to us, right, Sometimes, so that
song is really like almost like a peace offering with
myself of just like Heaven only knows, and that's okay,
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I don't know what would have or could have gone differently,
but it's just like acknowledging the love that was there
and being grateful for it because sometimes the answer is
just like Heaven only knows, Like maybe it was just
that season and that's all it was.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
But yeah, personally I find it comforting when I when
I think I know the song's about and then it
matches up with what you say, so love that for me.
But it felt like it was like the comfort of
the unknown, that's exactly. Yeah, And I think that that's
like such a hard place to get to romantically, especially
like when you want something to work out and it
doesn't work out and.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
You just got to like or even just not knowing why.
It's like you can go crazy thinking about it and
racking your brain, but at some point it's like that's a.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Whole podcast that. Yeah, Like, thank god I don't have
that why gene in me. I had it a little
bit when I was younger, but I like like.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
The wiser you get, the older you get.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah, And like a lot of my girlfriends when they're
asking why about something that happened, I'm like, it actually
doesn't matter. It doesn't like you know it actually like
I know, you think it really really matters, but it
really really doesn't. So the comfort of that, I think
is something that's like a sign of growth. You're like okay,
like I don't know the answer to this, but I'm
actually okay answer. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
And there's a lot of beauty in that too, Like
there's a lot of beauty in just being like I'm okay,
not knowing. Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It's it's tough obviously to deal with, but I think
that there is that, I don't know, like you kind
of feel stronger, You're like, you know, I'm I'm okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know. I think that's.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Resilience that you build in those moments in life.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Is there a particular song that you're proud of from
the project that you're like, Wow, I killed that.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
I think maybe the Reason it's the last one. I mean,
I'm super proud of the whole thing. I'm super proud
of the whole thing. I really I love it. I
absolutely love it. I listen to it all the time,
and I find it very healing and therapeutic.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
So my hope is that it does that for other people.
But if I have to pick one favorite, I would
probably say the Reason.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
What about the Reason? And are you so proud of.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I think like, melodically and musically and instrumentally the Reason.
My thought process behind the Reason was even outside of
the lyrics, because I'm a huge lyrics girl. I love
and really appreciate solid lyricism. But even outside of that
my goal with the reason was to actually capture the
feeling through the instrumental and like the sound and the
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vibe of the song, even aside from the lyrics, And
so honestly, like sometimes I even just to that instrumental
and I'm just like, I mean, I wrote it, so
it makes sense that I would just understand it. But
I think I felt really proud when I finished that.
Listening back, I was like, Yeah, this embodies exactly what
I was feeling at the time, even outside of the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, there's definitely a lot of feelings on the record.
I think that's why I say you really do capture
a feeling, because my thing is, I know not every
listener is going to catch the lyrics all the time.
Like if you even think about the songs that we
used listen to when we were kids, oh my gosh,
and some of the lyrics like low Wins Lollipop obviously
comes to mind right away, where it's like we were
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screaming that in middle school, in elementary school, in high school,
like it was nobody's business. They know nothing about no lollipops.
And so thinking about that, I'm like, a great song
lyrically doesn't mean, everyone's going to understand it lyrically, and
it's kind of the job of the instrumental and the
production to kind of lead the person to water in
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a sense. And so I feel like you've done that
cool on this where it's like I don't want to
call them the dumber listeners, but you know, those other
those other listens, but my asses they can understand as well,
because I think that is the the real part of
me too. That is the universal language. It's in music itself. Yeah,
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where it's like I don't need to understand nothing that
she is going through, but I could feel it in these.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Chords, even like songs like Selena. I listened to Selena
so much growing up. Did I know a word of
what she said? Did I still sing every word? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Absolutely? Was it pronounced correctly? Absolutely not? But like you just.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Feel it's just music is so joyous, like you just
you don't need to understand it fully again, it's just
the feeling. It's the feeling that it gives you, and
it can resonate with you even for reasons beyond you,
you know, which is really cool.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
One hundred percent. The song I think of is two
songs by di'angelo Brown Sugar. That song is about weed.
This whole time, I had no idea. I had no idea,
and then shit, damn motherfucker, which might be one of
my favorite songs from him. That song is always gonna
be riled up. I didn't know why. Maybe two or
three years ago I finally realized the song is about
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his wife and his best friend cheating together and him
killing them.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Did that actually happen? I mean not the killing part,
but did that happen?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I think the cheating thing actually happened. And I'm like, yeah,
like that's the kind of song that would come from that.
So I think I heard a song thousands of times,
and then only a few years ago I was like,
oh damn, like he went through it. So yeah, there's
a bunch of songs like that where you're like, in
the time, we don't even get it, but later on
it kind of makes sense. Now before you get out
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of here, we gotta do a top five. Okay, we
gotta do a top five. Now I'm gonna I'm gonna
walk with you. You're alone on this top five, and
it's top five R and B artists. Okay, Now, this
is a personal talk only R and B. You can
go R and B soul, neo soul, can kind of
mix it up, but only R and B. Now, I'm
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gonna give someone mind just to kind of get your
brain roll in. But it's your personal favorites, Okay, it
doesn't have to be you know whoever. People are gonna
are gonna say. Now, obviously anyone knows me number one, D'Angelo,
that's that's my goat. Cleo Soul I would have to
put in there as well.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I would agree.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Laurent Hill has to be in there for me. Maxwell, huge,
huge Maxwell fan, and my fifth spot. There's a bunch
of people I could put in here, but if I'm
gonna be honest, it has to be Jeremi. Jeremia probably
most underrated in R and B. All my Jeremi fans
out there, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Those
(20:41):
europe mixtapes absolutely classics. So that's my five. Do you
have a five kind of your favorite R and B artist?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
It's hard to say, like only R and B because
I love so many different styles of music, Like it
would be easier just to give you, like my top five.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I feel like the topic over is even harder because
you've got so much to choose from. R and B.
Is like you can choose your like eighteenth favorite artists
and give them some shine.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Lauren Hill's definitely m hmm. Like of course, maybe even
number one Cleos Soul is also in there for me.
Layla Hathaway is also in there for me. That's three.
I would say Brandy's pretty up there. Yeah, yeah, I
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also love Maxwell and DiAngelo.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Okay, so now you got six. So you said you
wanted to go just mainstream, and you went over the mark,
so clearly you had more than enough. Anyone else want
to give an road mentioned.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
To hm hmm, I mean, oh yeah, how did I
leave Miss Do?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I'm sorry? Eric yea, Erica don't. Absolutely absolutely, She's up
there for sure. Yeah yeah, I think those are that
those are I feel like we put a lot of
the old school legends, you know. I think Jeremih is
the only I guess Clio Soul.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Too, yeah up there for me.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's like I feel like the group
that makes the kind of like music that we like
that has that that soul in it.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah, and like a little bit fusiony too.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but I want to feel the pain
in your music, you know what I mean? Like yeah,
and then if you want to go like super old
school Teddy Pendergrass, absolutely in there. Luther Vandross, Oh yeah.
Luthor was one of the first artists that I remember
where I was when he when he died. Really yeah, yeah,
I was. I was at a family like gathering and
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I've seen a bunch of I wasn't hit to it.
I was too young at that point, but a bunch
of my aunties they were losing it. They were losing it. Yeah,
they love them to Luthor. So I was like, Okay,
this guy must be the real deal. And then my
recent statch of that got more hit. But I was like,
y'all acting like I died, Like.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
So I expect the same amount.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
No, one hundred percent. Like it's funny. That's kind of
the mark now of like how impactful an artist is
to me at least is when they passed, Like how
much do the people who are not fans get tapped in?
Like when Nipsey Hustle died, so many people became Nipsy
fans like right away. Yeah, So if you don't have that,
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then it's like there's levels, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeah, Prince was also princes up there, commons and pearls.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Oh my god, Prince. So I was on a cruise
and it was like eighties themes and music for the
whole week. So they had like an eighties musical, like
eighties karaoke, and I'll suely a bunch of Prince was
played and the person who was singing most of the
time couldn't hit like half of the falsettos, and they
would just fake it and just starting to start screaming.
(23:59):
It was so it was so funny, like they wouldn't
even try, like like the false little would come and
they would just start yelling.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It sounded good though they knew funny.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but I was trying to hit the notes,
so you can imagine how dumb it sounded. Like they're
just screaming. I'm screaming, give us no. I want to
listen to the podcast and people who enjoy the radio shows,
so you know, stay stay. You don't got to hear
me saying yeah, absolutely not, absolutely not. When people get
(24:31):
a one hundred million dollars, they get an exotic animal. Okay,
I do not make the rules see you see it
all the time, like Tyson with his tiger, Justin Bieber
with his monkey, Michael Jackson with his monkey. I feel
like we're overdue for a pop start coming out with
an animal. Maybe Peter has has done their work well
and put a stop to that, but I feel like
we're overdue. But when you get to one hundred million dollars,
(24:54):
what is an animal? Of course we speak in to
existence here. When you get a hundred million dollars, what
is an animal that you'd break into your life?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I mean, a monkey is so cliche, but they're so cute.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Okay, I'm not mad at that. I'm not.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Little baby pig A baby, little baby piglet would be
very cute.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
So what happens when it grows up?
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Like I'm just kidding. Love them, I love them their
whole life. Or maybe an elephant. A baby elephant would
be so cute, and then I would just keep it
in like my backyard.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
So you just want babies, maybe you need like a
like a animal foster care service, and they spend the
first couple years of their life with you, and then
once they go out of it, you send them on their.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Way, like love them really really good.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
This is how you should be loved your whole life
and then be like, well find it, go find it.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah, you're gonna they're gonna have a madament issues for sure.
Like they're gonna be compared to me. Yeah, they're like,
this is what I got for the first years of
my life. I never got a Since they're in the
zoo getting looked at.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
It's actually really mean to me.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Then undred tily mean a few guys, And that's what
I'm saying. All right, listen, you an million dollars so
you can do whatever you want with it. Yeah, Like
and maybe you just have like, you know, steak in
a zoo or something.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Yeah, when I get there, I'll consult with you.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
We can figure it out together.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Okay, okay, uh. I think he chose monkey, elephant, and
pig but have three animals apparently probably the weirdest mix
we've had of animals on this show. Chris, you agree
with that, Yeah, piggy, elephant, and monkey. I'm trying to
think who would be like the alpha in that situation.
(26:37):
That's that's what my brain is trying to wrap around.
Like you know, when someone has a dog and a cat.
Usually the cat is the one who runs things. Like
who is the cat out of these three animals?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I think it'd be the monkey.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I think so too.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I think the elephant would just be like pushed around everywhere. Yeah, yeah,
a big softy probably.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, I think it would be the monkey as well. Yeah.
The th is the one for me that I probably
couldn't get past because my uncle in Jamaica has pigs
on its property and seeing his little pigs, I'm like, overrated, man, overrated,
They're so cute, I don't I don't think so man
dirty and they eat their own doodo like that, you
(27:18):
can't get past that. Like like we go past a
lot of things, you know what I mean, Like you know,
but there's this level he do do Yeah, Like that's
really what is what's going on? Like they're eating their
own doodo and it's.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Like, not my piggy. My piggy is gonna have really
good manners.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You know what you're set up for. You're going to
be that like grandparent. I think their kid is the
sweetest and your kids selling drugs, drugs and terrorizing the
streets and you're like, my little Jimmy would never Okay,
I see the vision. Now, I see the vision. Okay,
your kids can do no.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Wrong in your No, I wouldn't go that far.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
But that's what it's giving.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
It's not my intention.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Not my intention, and we'll see cross that bridge and
we get to it. As a man, it's my duty
to put words in your mouth. Let's see where you're
at with ice cream. This is not it's not getting
seventy percent. Let's show the camera over here. Yeah, she's
got a lot left, a lot left. I guess you're
doing your job in terms of answering question.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I was trying to be a good guest.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Okay, okay, that's fair, but I guess you got that
to take with you. But you tried your best. You
absolutely tried your best. I want to see more people
finish the ice cream for the rest of season three.
Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
It's hard because you're talking. You're right.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Here's the thing. I may start suggesting people to bring
someone with you, and we just got like an ice
cream eater. Like I don't like that. I don't like
the way that sounds, but you know what I mean, Like,
just bring bring your bring your best eater.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I d.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Bring your best eater. That's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I'll sign up for that for that role.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah. Oh, just because in season one we had the
big the big things I ask you, like the Briar's size.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
That's just me.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
No, it was insane. But you know, different time, different times.
So now that we have a smaller batch, I would
think that we have more people finishing, but I'm always
the case. But season four, well we'll have that new thing.
Bring your best eater.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
You should do like a little sm SMRMR SMR is
eating the microf.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Oh my goodness. Like I don't want to kinkshame, but
that is one of those things that I just don't
I just don't understand.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I don't either.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
It's like someone whispered in your ear and you were like.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Kind of cringe, get off of me. Yeah, And it's
like the hot breath.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
And to think that someone would put both AirPods in and.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Turn it off to that, it's true put.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
In their search bar, like like that's probably one of
the most like least harmful kinks. But I would judge
someone for really, Like I just I just I'm I
work in audio, so maybe I shouldn't be as judgmental
about that, but I feel like, why would you you know,
we're off the rails now, that's not not important, not important.
(30:05):
So we have the second on the radio show, call
Wednesday Wisdom or for a motivational quote. We're saying either
you remind yourself of or the people around you. What's
that saying for you? Hmmm?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
The first one that comes to mind is you can
only meet somebody else to the depths of where you've
met yourself.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Yeah, that's like a mantra for me because I feel
like it's a reminder to like do the hard work
within yourself because when you meet people that are deserving,
like you can meet them at the same depth.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I like that, and there's a lot healing in that.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So No, I like the lot that that reminds me
of my actual header on Twitter it's be kind. Life
is a mirror. Yeah, so I like that a lot. Yeah.
Thank you for all the gems you dropped today. Thank you.
I really appreciate you being here on the show.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
No, honestly, I really really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
We're gonna appreciate it all You're not gonna win that one. Listen,
I'm a gratitude king. Okay, you're not gonna win that battle.
That's the battle you're not gonna win. Thank you to
EVAs for supplying us with the ice cream. Once again,
Thank you for everyone for making it to this far
into the podcast. Make sure you find us on the
interwebs at the Cool Table Live on Instagram, at the
Cool Table on YouTube. You can find me on TikTok
(31:29):
at Adrielsmiley dot com. And until next time, know yourself,
know your worth.
Old man.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey everyone, this is Neo.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
It's your boy, Funky, the coolest teen rapper online.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
What's up? It's me ALFI. You're listening to the Cool
Table with a.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Listening to the You're listening to the Cool Table. You're
listening to the Cool Table. And I'm not sure if
you know this, but right now you're in the cut
with my man Adril Smile.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good night. Welcome
to the Cool Table. My name is Adro Smiley Akaadrosmiley
dot Com aka Adril Smiley Official aka the Godfather. Now
Here in the cut, we challenge our guest to finish
type of ice cream before the end of the conversation.
We have a special guest here today. Happy to have
(00:42):
you in the building, Arid King. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Thank you for having me. I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Tell us about this flavor that you chose and what
do you think your chances are of actually getting this
done before the end of the show.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Um well, I chose Tara missum hm because I love
coffee and I loved here too. The chances of me
actually finishing this, I'm gonna say maybe seven out of.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Ten oh that's pretty hot.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I like ice cream, okay, okay, and I.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Like to eat.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Okay, seven out of ten I like. I like those chances.
We'll all se check back in. But seven out of
ten I think is pretty good. Me. I'm not a
good multitasker in my head, I think I am, and
then once it takes me half an hour to do
a ten minute thing, it doesn't work out so good.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So far delicious Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Big shout out to EVAs. They are ice cream sponsor
for all of season three. You can find them on
Bloor Street and I think they have placed in Mississauga
as well. But Evasional Chimneys, all the great flavors and
all you vegans out there, they got flavors for you
guys as well. Those who are lactose intolerant. Wow, favors few. Yeah,
if you know why you're tummy to work in, eva's
gonna be with that.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I used to be lactose intolerant.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So had that happen? You just know anymore?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I just yeah, I just grew out of it.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Weird.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Wow. Yeah, Okay, I guess it's your God's favorite. It
must be yeah, something like that. It's been basically a
little over a year since your first single, which it
feels crazy, it's like that doesn't feel like that long ago.
But again, a little over a year since your first single,
and I want to go before that, what was kind
of the lead up to the first single, the start
(02:20):
of you putting that song together and then you deciding Okay,
this is actually going to see the light of day.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Hmmm, that's a loaded question to start with. I think
like music was a very long time coming for me.
I wrote my first song when I was maybe grade six,
So I just got to a point where I was like,
I either go for this or I don't. But the
thought of me being like old and gray and looking
(02:47):
back on my life and being like I didn't even
try that scared the crap out of me. So so yeah,
right before I released Nostalgia, I kind of had this
epiphany and I was just like, even if it's just
for me, even if nobody likes my music, Like clearly,
this is something that I need to do because it's
just something that does not leave me, Like the idea
doesn't leave me, the inspiration never leaves me. I always
(03:10):
have ideas for new songs, and it's just like I'm
constantly feeling it, so I was like, even if it's
only for my best self, I have to release it.
So it was very liberating.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
That's pretty wholesome. I actually love that cool. But I
want to know, before you had that moment where you're like,
I'm actually doing this, what was the fight for you
not doing it? Because you're not a spring chicken. Between
grade six and now is a little bit of time.
So in between that you're so rude.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
What was kind of the push you had within yourself
of like, I still like music, clearly, I self passion
for it, but I'm not doing it. Talk about that
was going on kind of internally.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I think honestly, I think it was a confidence thing
for me. I mean we all struggle with confidence. I
do think even the people that seem the most confident
still have their days. But for me, and also too,
like I like my family's West Indian, like old school
(04:16):
West Indian, so they like more practical, yes, career bad
confirmed yeah right so, and don't get me wrong, like
my family's very supportive. But because I kind of had
that lack of confidence in myself, I really didn't think
that like my music was anything special, and that's really
(04:37):
sad to say, because it is. And unfortunately, the more
I showed people my music, and the more I saw
people's reactions and they were like, this is really good,
my confidence slowly started to build. And then eventually it
just got to a place where I was like, I
have a responsibility actually, like I feel like God has
given me this gift and I have a responsibility to
(04:59):
sh my music.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
There's this quote I would have remember who said it,
but it says anything you want to do, do it scared.
And it's kind of like taking that leap of like
even if you're not ready, still hopping into it. And
I think even this show was kind of a little
bit of that as well, So I totally understand of
like before you even get you're like, I'm not even
good enough to even do this, you know what I mean?
(05:23):
And I think that we all have a moment where,
whether it's artificial or real, you just got to find
a way to believe it, right, Like whether it's like
someone tells you or you just have that irrational confidence
that's kind of all it takes me Like, Okay, I'm doing.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
It, this is what it is now, and It really
is as simple as that. Like I think we also
overcomplicate things, It really is as simple as that. And
also too, you can't expect other people to believe in
you if you don't believe in yourself like you have to.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It starts with you, right.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So yeah, yeah, I think hearing your music like you
sound like such a natural and I think you've done
something with this project particular, but just with like your
sound in general that I think some people are trying
to achieve. And from being around so many artists musicians
of different disciplines, I can kind of like I'm a
drummer myself, and so I can kind of feel when
(06:13):
it's like you think this is cool or you have
like that natural talent, And it's interesting to think that
you didn't feel like you were good enough when I
think you do have that kind of natural feel for it.
I do that some people don't have. So when you started,
how are you in terms of comparing yourselves to others?
That's something that I feel like people deal with before
they start, and then once they get in, it's like
(06:33):
a whole different ball game. Did you deal with that
at all or were you kind of, you know, good
when you came in right away.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Oh, I was wonderful. I'm just kidding. I don't know, like.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I never had the urge to try and replicate anybody
or I just have a lot of respect for creativity
in itself and I love I think that's part of
the reason why my music is so special, because I
really like value the process from start to finish of
even like feeling something or having an idea and like
(07:13):
executing it. And a lot of the time when I'm
writing a song, like I have no clue where it's
going to go. I don't even I don't put it
in a box. I don't even name it usually until
like the very end, just because I'm very open to
like what the process has for me, which I think is.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
A really beautiful like song and dance.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
So I think just because that has always been my
mindset and I've always had such a value for that,
I think by the time I actually started to go
after it, it was it just it felt it came
very natural to me. I just it's the one thing
in life where I feel like I'm one hundred percent
in my own skin, like I'm doing what I was
(07:52):
literally designed and made to be doing. Music and writing
and playing instruments and now production is the only thing
in life that really gives me that feeling.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, I feel like there's almost an ease that I think, again,
not everybody has, because I think you can tell when
someone's imitating a certain sound, and then you can tell
when someone's like, Okay, no, this is coming from them.
And what you did with this project, which I think
is very rare, it's like it captures a feeling like
(08:23):
I think too, like you just said no, because I
think even though I hope so voice, I hope so.
But even though it's short, every time I listen to it,
it's almost like it's a different feeling after, you know.
And it reminds me of like a movie when you
watch a movie, and like you wear in a certain
(08:44):
mood before you watch the movie and the movie's done
and you're kind of like, how was I even feeling
before this? I don't even remember now. So I feel
like you have captured that the three three three. We
just experienced it ourselves before we start recording. This is
divine intervention. Talk about what that three three three means
to you.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, So, I I really view my life in like
chapters and seasons, and I feel things like very deeply.
It's a blessing and a curse. I know there are
many people that way, but I just like my capacity
to feel things is very, very deep. And so throughout
(09:23):
my life, I've always seen numbers, and I noticed that
when like when I'm going through a specific season or
coming out even more so of a specific season, I'll
stop seeing those numbers and I'll start see start seeing
a whole new set of numbers. So when I was
writing this EP, I was seeing three thirty three like everywhere,
multiple times a day, like license plate. I would just
(09:43):
pick up my phone, it would be three thirty three.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
And so.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
And also too, as I started to kind of research
like what three three three means like angel number wise
and things like that, it was very centered around like
creativity and prosperity and like growth and expansion and things
like that, and it just it was so aligned with
where I was in my life season wise, and I
was like, no, this needs to be the name of
(10:09):
the EP. So that's where that came from.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I like it. Obviously we're here for the angel numbers.
One thing I always think about is this, I don't
know what the actual theory is called, but I'm calling
them the red car theory. And this idea of you know,
how much red cars you can see on the way
over here? You can't say because you weren't paying attention.
But then if I asked you to see any red cars, notice,
then you see any. I always think about that because
(10:32):
that's like a sense of it's almost like a power
you have internally to see those things. And I think
that sometimes we don't acknowledge our own power when it
comes to seeing those things, and and it can be
something small, but it's like knowing you have that power
in the first place is part of, you know, kind
of tapping into it. And I had it today. Also
(10:54):
not as deep as the three three three or the
red cars. But I bought my first pair of crocs,
maybe my own pair of crocs. I'm not with y'all
our team Crocs, Like I bought the ones that look
like mules. They don't got the holes in them, they're
still fly like, don't get it twisted. I'm not one
of y'all, Okay, But after buying this pair of Crocs,
I'm now noticing everyone who's wearing crocs or slippers like
(11:17):
I probably saw five people after I went to the
store who were in a full fit with slippers on,
And I never noticed that before, But now that I'm
in a full fit with slippers on, I'm noticing it
much more. So. I think that that's something that once
you're aware of it, you can almost apply it to anything.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I think that's also so it's so important that like
you choose where you place that energy, right because it
holds weight, Like what goes on up here holds so
much weight in terms of what eventually happens around you, right,
So I think it's like acknowledging those things and it's like, no,
I want to also pour my energy into that too, you.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Know, Heaven only knows. That's my favorite song really, And
there's a back and worth that you do with your
own vocals. Talk about putting that together. I think that
that gives a song like a certain energy that kind
of makes it flow a little bit. So talk about
that back and forth that you do and how you
kind of came with that.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yeah, I I think that's just like a stylistic Like
I just love a lot.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Of background vocals.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I always have, Like I grew up in churches too,
so like choirs. I love the sound of like a
solid choir, and a lot of my favorite artists their
background vocals are just like insane, like Laila Hathaway, even Kailani.
I think KRT background vocals are really dope. But yeah,
(12:41):
so that's that's one of the most enjoyable pieces of
the puzzle.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
For me.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
When I am creating is just like singing with myself,
harmonizing with myself. I just like stuff to sound very,
very full. And I love that you said it embodies
a feeling, because that's that's.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
One of my main goals.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yeah, I want to make you feel something when you
listen to it, like I want it to be someone
of an escape mentally. So I think all the background
vocals and like the layering I think really contributes to that.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
No, it makes it very full, like it reminded me
of Cleo soul Mother, like that era that's my baby
girl like love Clo. She's amazing, reminding me of that
era of her. But talk about I guess the concept
of the song, like I think that there's a joy
that's that's sonically in some of these records, and I
think you do match with the lyrics. So talk about
(13:28):
putting these songs together lyrically. Heaven only knows in particular,
but just you know, the whole project.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Hmm, what's time to we have let's see Heaven only knows.
I mean I can point plane tell you what it's about.
It's about It is about like love, It's about losing
love finding love again. It's about like that question. Sometimes
(13:56):
that's like lingers and it's like what if things were different,
like only knows. At some point you just have to
kind of give it to God or the universe or
whatever you believe in and just acknowledge that, like we're
not meant to have the answers to everything, not even
to everything that happens to us, right, Sometimes, so that
song is really like almost like a peace offering with
myself of just like Heaven only knows, and that's okay,
(14:17):
I don't know what would have or could have gone differently,
but it's just like acknowledging the love that was there
and being grateful for it because sometimes the answer is
just like Heaven only knows, Like maybe it was just
that season and that's all it was.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
But yeah, personally I find it comforting when I when
I think I know the song's about and then it
matches up with what you say, so love that for me.
But it felt like it was like the comfort of
the unknown, that's exactly. Yeah, And I think that that's
like such a hard place to get to romantically, especially
like when you want something to work out and it
doesn't work out and.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
You just got to like or even just not knowing why.
It's like you can go crazy thinking about it and
racking your brain, but at some point it's like that's a.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Whole podcast that. Yeah, Like, thank god I don't have
that why gene in me. I had it a little
bit when I was younger, but I like like.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
The wiser you get, the older you get.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah, And like a lot of my girlfriends when they're
asking why about something that happened, I'm like, it actually
doesn't matter. It doesn't like you know it actually like
I know, you think it really really matters, but it
really really doesn't. So the comfort of that, I think
is something that's like a sign of growth. You're like okay,
like I don't know the answer to this, but I'm
actually okay answer. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
And there's a lot of beauty in that too, Like
there's a lot of beauty in just being like I'm okay,
not knowing. Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It's it's tough obviously to deal with, but I think
that there is that, I don't know, like you kind
of feel stronger, You're like, you know, I'm I'm okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know. I think that's.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Resilience that you build in those moments in life.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Is there a particular song that you're proud of from
the project that you're like, Wow, I killed that.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
I think maybe the Reason it's the last one. I mean,
I'm super proud of the whole thing. I'm super proud
of the whole thing. I really I love it. I
absolutely love it. I listen to it all the time,
and I find it very healing and therapeutic.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
So my hope is that it does that for other people.
But if I have to pick one favorite, I would
probably say the Reason.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
What about the Reason? And are you so proud of.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I think like, melodically and musically and instrumentally the Reason.
My thought process behind the Reason was even outside of
the lyrics, because I'm a huge lyrics girl. I love
and really appreciate solid lyricism. But even outside of that
my goal with the reason was to actually capture the
feeling through the instrumental and like the sound and the
(16:54):
vibe of the song, even aside from the lyrics, And
so honestly, like sometimes I even just to that instrumental
and I'm just like, I mean, I wrote it, so
it makes sense that I would just understand it. But
I think I felt really proud when I finished that.
Listening back, I was like, Yeah, this embodies exactly what
I was feeling at the time, even outside of the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, there's definitely a lot of feelings on the record.
I think that's why I say you really do capture
a feeling, because my thing is, I know not every
listener is going to catch the lyrics all the time.
Like if you even think about the songs that we
used listen to when we were kids, oh my gosh,
and some of the lyrics like low Wins Lollipop obviously
comes to mind right away, where it's like we were
(17:38):
screaming that in middle school, in elementary school, in high school,
like it was nobody's business. They know nothing about no lollipops.
And so thinking about that, I'm like, a great song
lyrically doesn't mean, everyone's going to understand it lyrically, and
it's kind of the job of the instrumental and the
production to kind of lead the person to water in
(17:58):
a sense. And so I feel like you've done that
cool on this where it's like I don't want to
call them the dumber listeners, but you know, those other
those other listens, but my asses they can understand as well,
because I think that is the the real part of
me too. That is the universal language. It's in music itself. Yeah,
(18:19):
where it's like I don't need to understand nothing that
she is going through, but I could feel it in these.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Chords, even like songs like Selena. I listened to Selena
so much growing up. Did I know a word of
what she said? Did I still sing every word? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Absolutely? Was it pronounced correctly? Absolutely not? But like you just.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Feel it's just music is so joyous, like you just
you don't need to understand it fully again, it's just
the feeling. It's the feeling that it gives you, and
it can resonate with you even for reasons beyond you,
you know, which is really cool.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
One hundred percent. The song I think of is two
songs by di'angelo Brown Sugar. That song is about weed.
This whole time, I had no idea. I had no idea,
and then shit, damn motherfucker, which might be one of
my favorite songs from him. That song is always gonna
be riled up. I didn't know why. Maybe two or
three years ago I finally realized the song is about
(19:14):
his wife and his best friend cheating together and him
killing them.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Did that actually happen? I mean not the killing part,
but did that happen?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I think the cheating thing actually happened. And I'm like, yeah,
like that's the kind of song that would come from that.
So I think I heard a song thousands of times,
and then only a few years ago I was like,
oh damn, like he went through it. So yeah, there's
a bunch of songs like that where you're like, in
the time, we don't even get it, but later on
it kind of makes sense. Now before you get out
(19:43):
of here, we gotta do a top five. Okay, we
gotta do a top five. Now I'm gonna I'm gonna
walk with you. You're alone on this top five, and
it's top five R and B artists. Okay, Now, this
is a personal talk only R and B. You can
go R and B soul, neo soul, can kind of
mix it up, but only R and B. Now, I'm
(20:04):
gonna give someone mind just to kind of get your
brain roll in. But it's your personal favorites, Okay, it
doesn't have to be you know whoever. People are gonna
are gonna say. Now, obviously anyone knows me number one, D'Angelo,
that's that's my goat. Cleo Soul I would have to
put in there as well.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I would agree.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Laurent Hill has to be in there for me. Maxwell, huge,
huge Maxwell fan, and my fifth spot. There's a bunch
of people I could put in here, but if I'm
gonna be honest, it has to be Jeremi. Jeremia probably
most underrated in R and B. All my Jeremi fans
out there, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Those
(20:41):
europe mixtapes absolutely classics. So that's my five. Do you
have a five kind of your favorite R and B artist?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
It's hard to say, like only R and B because
I love so many different styles of music, Like it
would be easier just to give you, like my top five.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I feel like the topic over is even harder because
you've got so much to choose from. R and B.
Is like you can choose your like eighteenth favorite artists
and give them some shine.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Lauren Hill's definitely m hmm. Like of course, maybe even
number one Cleos Soul is also in there for me.
Layla Hathaway is also in there for me. That's three.
I would say Brandy's pretty up there. Yeah, yeah, I
(21:31):
also love Maxwell and DiAngelo.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Okay, so now you got six. So you said you
wanted to go just mainstream, and you went over the mark,
so clearly you had more than enough. Anyone else want
to give an road mentioned.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
To hm hmm, I mean, oh yeah, how did I
leave Miss Do?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I'm sorry? Eric yea, Erica don't. Absolutely absolutely, She's up
there for sure. Yeah yeah, I think those are that
those are I feel like we put a lot of
the old school legends, you know. I think Jeremih is
the only I guess Clio Soul.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Too, yeah up there for me.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's like I feel like the group
that makes the kind of like music that we like
that has that that soul in it.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah, and like a little bit fusiony too.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but I want to feel the pain
in your music, you know what I mean? Like yeah,
and then if you want to go like super old
school Teddy Pendergrass, absolutely in there. Luther Vandross, Oh yeah.
Luthor was one of the first artists that I remember
where I was when he when he died. Really yeah, yeah,
I was. I was at a family like gathering and
(22:45):
I've seen a bunch of I wasn't hit to it.
I was too young at that point, but a bunch
of my aunties they were losing it. They were losing it. Yeah,
they love them to Luthor. So I was like, Okay,
this guy must be the real deal. And then my
recent statch of that got more hit. But I was like,
y'all acting like I died, Like.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
So I expect the same amount.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
No, one hundred percent. Like it's funny. That's kind of
the mark now of like how impactful an artist is
to me at least is when they passed, Like how
much do the people who are not fans get tapped in?
Like when Nipsey Hustle died, so many people became Nipsy
fans like right away. Yeah, So if you don't have that,
(23:29):
then it's like there's levels, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeah, Prince was also princes up there, commons and pearls.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Oh my god, Prince. So I was on a cruise
and it was like eighties themes and music for the
whole week. So they had like an eighties musical, like
eighties karaoke, and I'll suely a bunch of Prince was
played and the person who was singing most of the
time couldn't hit like half of the falsettos, and they
would just fake it and just starting to start screaming.
(23:59):
It was so it was so funny, like they wouldn't
even try, like like the false little would come and
they would just start yelling.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It sounded good though they knew funny.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but I was trying to hit the notes,
so you can imagine how dumb it sounded. Like they're
just screaming. I'm screaming, give us no. I want to
listen to the podcast and people who enjoy the radio shows,
so you know, stay stay. You don't got to hear
me saying yeah, absolutely not, absolutely not. When people get
(24:31):
a one hundred million dollars, they get an exotic animal. Okay,
I do not make the rules see you see it
all the time, like Tyson with his tiger, Justin Bieber
with his monkey, Michael Jackson with his monkey. I feel
like we're overdue for a pop start coming out with
an animal. Maybe Peter has has done their work well
and put a stop to that, but I feel like
we're overdue. But when you get to one hundred million dollars,
(24:54):
what is an animal? Of course we speak in to
existence here. When you get a hundred million dollars, what
is an animal that you'd break into your life?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I mean, a monkey is so cliche, but they're so cute.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Okay, I'm not mad at that. I'm not.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Little baby pig A baby, little baby piglet would be
very cute.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
So what happens when it grows up?
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Like I'm just kidding. Love them, I love them their
whole life. Or maybe an elephant. A baby elephant would
be so cute, and then I would just keep it
in like my backyard.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
So you just want babies, maybe you need like a
like a animal foster care service, and they spend the
first couple years of their life with you, and then
once they go out of it, you send them on their.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Way, like love them really really good.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
This is how you should be loved your whole life
and then be like, well find it, go find it.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah, you're gonna they're gonna have a madament issues for sure.
Like they're gonna be compared to me. Yeah, they're like,
this is what I got for the first years of
my life. I never got a Since they're in the
zoo getting looked at.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
It's actually really mean to me.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Then undred tily mean a few guys, And that's what
I'm saying. All right, listen, you an million dollars so
you can do whatever you want with it. Yeah, Like
and maybe you just have like, you know, steak in
a zoo or something.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Yeah, when I get there, I'll consult with you.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
We can figure it out together.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Okay, okay, uh. I think he chose monkey, elephant, and
pig but have three animals apparently probably the weirdest mix
we've had of animals on this show. Chris, you agree
with that, Yeah, piggy, elephant, and monkey. I'm trying to
think who would be like the alpha in that situation.
(26:37):
That's that's what my brain is trying to wrap around.
Like you know, when someone has a dog and a cat.
Usually the cat is the one who runs things. Like
who is the cat out of these three animals?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I think it'd be the monkey.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I think so too.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I think the elephant would just be like pushed around everywhere. Yeah, yeah,
a big softy probably.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, I think it would be the monkey as well. Yeah.
The th is the one for me that I probably
couldn't get past because my uncle in Jamaica has pigs
on its property and seeing his little pigs, I'm like, overrated, man, overrated,
They're so cute, I don't I don't think so man
dirty and they eat their own doodo like that, you
(27:18):
can't get past that. Like like we go past a
lot of things, you know what I mean, Like you know,
but there's this level he do do Yeah, Like that's
really what is what's going on? Like they're eating their
own doodo and it's.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Like, not my piggy. My piggy is gonna have really
good manners.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You know what you're set up for. You're going to
be that like grandparent. I think their kid is the
sweetest and your kids selling drugs, drugs and terrorizing the
streets and you're like, my little Jimmy would never Okay,
I see the vision. Now, I see the vision. Okay,
your kids can do no.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Wrong in your No, I wouldn't go that far.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
But that's what it's giving.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
It's not my intention.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Not my intention, and we'll see cross that bridge and
we get to it. As a man, it's my duty
to put words in your mouth. Let's see where you're
at with ice cream. This is not it's not getting
seventy percent. Let's show the camera over here. Yeah, she's
got a lot left, a lot left. I guess you're
doing your job in terms of answering question.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I was trying to be a good guest.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Okay, okay, that's fair, but I guess you got that
to take with you. But you tried your best. You
absolutely tried your best. I want to see more people
finish the ice cream for the rest of season three.
Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
It's hard because you're talking. You're right.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Here's the thing. I may start suggesting people to bring
someone with you, and we just got like an ice
cream eater. Like I don't like that. I don't like
the way that sounds, but you know what I mean, Like,
just bring bring your bring your best eater.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I d.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Bring your best eater. That's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I'll sign up for that for that role.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah. Oh, just because in season one we had the
big the big things I ask you, like the Briar's size.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
That's just me.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
No, it was insane. But you know, different time, different times.
So now that we have a smaller batch, I would
think that we have more people finishing, but I'm always
the case. But season four, well we'll have that new thing.
Bring your best eater.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
You should do like a little sm SMRMR SMR is
eating the microf.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Oh my goodness. Like I don't want to kinkshame, but
that is one of those things that I just don't
I just don't understand.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I don't either.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
It's like someone whispered in your ear and you were like.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Kind of cringe, get off of me. Yeah, And it's
like the hot breath.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
And to think that someone would put both AirPods in and.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Turn it off to that, it's true put.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
In their search bar, like like that's probably one of
the most like least harmful kinks. But I would judge
someone for really, Like I just I just I'm I
work in audio, so maybe I shouldn't be as judgmental
about that, but I feel like, why would you you know,
we're off the rails now, that's not not important, not important.
(30:05):
So we have the second on the radio show, call
Wednesday Wisdom or for a motivational quote. We're saying either
you remind yourself of or the people around you. What's
that saying for you? Hmmm?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
The first one that comes to mind is you can
only meet somebody else to the depths of where you've
met yourself.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Yeah, that's like a mantra for me because I feel
like it's a reminder to like do the hard work
within yourself because when you meet people that are deserving,
like you can meet them at the same depth.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I like that, and there's a lot healing in that.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So No, I like the lot that that reminds me
of my actual header on Twitter it's be kind. Life
is a mirror. Yeah, so I like that a lot. Yeah.
Thank you for all the gems you dropped today. Thank you.
I really appreciate you being here on the show.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
No, honestly, I really really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
We're gonna appreciate it all You're not gonna win that one. Listen,
I'm a gratitude king. Okay, you're not gonna win that battle.
That's the battle you're not gonna win. Thank you to
EVAs for supplying us with the ice cream. Once again,
Thank you for everyone for making it to this far
into the podcast. Make sure you find us on the
interwebs at the Cool Table Live on Instagram, at the
Cool Table on YouTube. You can find me on TikTok
(31:29):
at Adrielsmiley dot com. And until next time, know yourself,
know your worth.
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