June 5, 2025 • 34 mins
Welcome to the Reggae Hour Podcast, where we delve deep into the dynamic fusion of reggae and dancehall with the innovative storyteller, KVDENCE. Known for his cinematic soundscapes, KVDENCE blends his NYC upbringing with rich Jamaican roots, creating a fresh narrative in modern music.✨ Highlights of the Interview:
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- Roots and Influences: Discover how KVDENCE fuses NYC swagger with Jamaican rhythm.
- Creative Process: Insights into creating the cinematic dancehall hit "Elephant" with YowLevite.
- Behind the Music: Why KVDENCE sees music as his calling, not just a career.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another soul stirring episode of
the Reggae Hour podcast, where we bridge the timeless sounds
of reggae with forward thinking musical movements. Today, we have
the pleasure of introducing an artist whose sonic innovations have
drawn global attention and admiration. Introducing Cadence, a dynamic dance
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hall artist who goes beyond just riding rhythms, he redefines them.
Born in New York City and raised under the vibrant
skies of Mandeville, Jamaica, Cadence, also known as Jonathan Patterson,
embarked on his musical journey in the lively school yards
and dja sessions of his youth. His artistry is a
melodic meeting point of generations, where classic Jamaican vibes are
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revitalized with fresh modern production. Cadence's recent collaboration with Yowlevite
on the track Elephant signals a bold new step in
cinematic dance hall, blending orchestral textures with deep basslines for
an experience that's both groundbreaking and immersive. Of as Cadence
himself says, whether he's writing lyrics, crafting beats, or performing live.
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His drive is powered by an unshakable belief in the
stories that need to be told. Today, we'll dive deeper
into his creative vision, the heartbeat of his music, and
what lies ahead on his inspiring journey. Stay tuned as
we explore with Cadence the boundaries of dance hall and
its role in the evolving landscape of global music.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
How's it gord to day, Cadence.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You appreciate that introduction, man, that's amazing introduction. Appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh anytime, anytime man, I heard your music. Man, I
was like, yes, we definitely got to get them on
Reggae Hours. Yes, so definitely glad to have you.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Here's our pleasure to have you on our platform today.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Blast off.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
One night to make your dreams come away. Never monitar,
let me clean it be there.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Appreciate it. Yeah, I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's already all right. Tell me something. Can you share
more about your musical beginnings from New York to Jamaica? Like,
how did these locations influence yourself?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah? I mean I don't know, man, I've just been
into like I've been in the rap my whole life.
So like back in high school, I went to high
school in a place called Mandival, Jamaica. That's where I'm
right now. Actually it's Mandeville, Gilcester, you know what I mean. Yeah,
So back in high school, I would just be playing
piano and all that, and bro i would just be
rapping with my friends and I'd be like freestyling dancehall
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and everything. You know. So it wasn't that serious. It
didn't start off series. It was just fun. I just
like doing it. But I like doing it and I
go to the studio and all that, So you know
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Exactly, Man, Like what inspired you to even get into
it in the first place, you know, like with the
school yard DJ sessions and things of that nature.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
What inspired me to get into it? Man, I don't know.
It's like it's calling me, you know what I mean.
Like I didn't choose this life. This life kind of
chows me. So, Like I know, I used to go
to my grandma's friend's house back when I was a
little kid. She had this piano. It's like the only
musical instrument I could find back in those days. And
every time I got the chance to go around there,
I would I would just go on the piano and
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just start playing just like nonsense and try to make
it sound good, you know what I mean. So like yeah,
so eventually it's just like it just got to that
point where I got to like record, I went to
the studio for the first time.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
And already so yeah, so you was feeling that when
you got in that studio it was almost like home. Huh.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah. Man, when you get to the studio, it's just like, well,
the guy I was working with at the time, man,
he just knew how to like make you want work.
You know what it is like. You come to the
studio to work. You don't come to the studio to
figure out what it works about like you do that
at home. You come to the studio you work. So
like that's just been instilled in me since the very
first studio session. I can't like so yeah, humble beginnings,
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but having those real ones around me really helped me
keep being here. Like I've been here a long time,
You've been doing this a long time, I would.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Like exactly, man, I feel that when it goes, you
go to the studio and it's time to work. Like
I've been in the music industry since like ninety six,
and I remember going up my friends, studio and stuff
back then and back then, you know what I'm saying,
it was it was expensive to have a home studio.
So when you came in, if you wasn't ready to
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work for you wasn't gonna get that done because he
wasn't being a wait around.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
You're just spending your money, bro. I se I've seen
it happen. Bro. I used to work in the studio too,
you know, back in the day. But I've seen it happen,
happens to Oklan. I was just like, nah, I can't be.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Me right exactly. So when you get in there, what
keeps you, what keeps you driving, what keeps you going
towards the goal posting not slacking off and getting high
and doing what all these other foods be doing.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I'm saying for real, bro, it's just like, I mean,
so deep in this stuff right now. It's more like
I'm doing this for my family. I'm doing this for
the people around me, like my friends, my close friends.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Of course I'm doing it for me too because I
love this stuff. But it's just like I'm trying to
buy my grandma house out with you when more you
want me to say, I can't do that if I'm
working in a bank, bro, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Right now, I feel that one hundred percent they got
you working with the money, but you ain't. They ain't
got you working fun of money, you know what I'm saying.
So I feel that, you know all right? So tell me, like,
you got this collaboration with Yoli bite with Elephant, Like,
how did that even come about? What was the creative
process like? And did you get the right in the
studio with them?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
So that track? Actually, so I was just working on
this beat, you know what I mean, at my boy's house.
I was just like usual, like we're always doing this,
working on beats and stuff and just like freestyling on
them and stuff. So I made this beat, kind of
liked it more than the last few beats that I
was working on. But then I was just like, yo,
let me try something on this. A couple of days later,
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and my process is like I don't really write anymore
like sometimes I write. Usually I'm just freestyling on top
of stuff and seeing what was sticks, you know what
I mean? So I did that, I had the Elephant fight,
and I was just like this is crazy. I showed
y'all levite, and then it was just it was history
from there, you know what I mean, Like that's all
they took, and he just took it. He just messed
it up. He just completely just like made this beat
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just like something else that I didn't even know it
to like have become. I was like, wow, like, yo,
we made this together type of stuff. It's great.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Okay, So y'all not on y'all, y'all collaborated on the
beat and the lyrics like it, like it's noted for
a cinematic dance all. Feel like, how did you get
that musical plan to even the unique musical plan to
even them together like that?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Man, It's just it's my personality. I'm not gonna lie bro.
So I'm really like laid back, chill dude, you know
what I mean. So it comes across some my music,
like I can get hype and all that, but like naturally,
I'm pretty chilled. So I think for that track, it's
more like a hustler kind of a tract for me,
you know what I mean. Like, yeah, it's like modern
day Doncehall track type of stuff, but for me, it's
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like we hustling, y'all here working. We're trying to get
this bread. We're trying to get the elephant. You know
what I mean. The elephant in the room is the elephant,
you know what I mean. So it's just really that.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Already I feel that. I mean when you say we're
the elephant in the room, I'm the big man in
the room. So I'm the elephant, you know, elephant.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yes, And then you ain't making no If you ain't
making no big moves, you can't call yourself the big man.
So you're right about that. That's all about the hustle
and all about the grind. Now they say that your
journey is being described as moving beyond just a career.
How do you find meeting and inspiration in your care process?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Bro? The meaning comes across when you listen to any
kind of music. To be honest, it could be my
own music, like me listening to my own stuff, or
like like me listening to somebody else's music. You know
what I mean. To me, it's just like whatever makes
me feel this song deeply, I'm just like yo, I
want that. I want to be able to do that.
I want to make somebody feel something. So it's really
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just that, like That's why I think my job will
never be done, bro, Like, I'm always be doing this
because once you make something somebody feel one way, you're
gonna make somebody feel another way. You're gonna want to
make the next person feel another way. Bro, It's just ongoing.
That's why I love music. Bro, It's just there's no
limit to it.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah. Music is definitely like like math. It's like numbers.
You can come up with so many different creative ways
to put them together, and they're gonna mean something at
the end of the day, Like what have you gotten
out of your experiences? Like to tell us something that
you want the youth to be Like, okay that especially
the ones that's coming up in this game, they're gonna
come across this at some point in time. What is
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it that inspired you that they're going to be able
to experience?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I think for real, bro, it's just it's just a
love for creative man, Like you gotta you gotta look
at how the game is right now, Like you got
to be a social media person too. If you got
to be an artist, right, it's not just about the art,
but if you love the art that much, you're gonna
be willing to do the social media stuff, all the
stuff that comes along with being an artist, you know
what I mean. So for me, it's just you gotta
you gotta have a love for what you're doing.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Man.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
You gotta really wake up in the morning and be like,
on a day where you're don't doing nothing, you gotta
be like, yo, I'm really not doing nothing today. I
gotta do something today, man. Like that's really what it is.
Because life keeps going on, man, life not waiting on nobody.
So that's really it.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Man.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I don't have plenty of those days I wake up like, man,
I ain't doing nothing, man, should I even be doing anything?
So have you ever had those days where you just
didn't you you know, you gotta get it done, but
you just wasn't feeling it.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, all the time, man, I'm not gonna lie. It
happens all the time. You know. Inspiration, bro, It's not
one of those things where you're like, like, I don't
wait for inspiration for me to start getting to work,
you know what I mean. Like I get to work,
then I get inspired or I don't. You know, I
try making something and it's nothing, but at least I
tried something for that date. Because the next day I'm
try something again. So that's really what it is.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, I feel that, man. And you also got to
be careful about who you have around you too, because
you got people that can suck your energy up, and
you also gotta have people that can give you energy.
When you think about your team and the people that
you surround yourself with, like how instrumental are they in
your production process?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I would say they're pretty damn instrumental, bro, Like you can't.
Music is not a one man thing, you know what
I mean? Like it can be, but then it's just
a one man thing, you know what I mean. Music
is about even the person listening to it. Bro. You
gotta relate to people. What better way to relate to
people than starting with the people around you? Bro? My team, Bro,
they don't play around. Bro. My team serious, Bro, we
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don't play around. So yeah, we're going to put the hits. Bro,
that's what we're going for.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I like that, like anybody else on your team that
actually make music too, and that you do music with.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, Bro, my whole team, My whole team, My dog
King Junior, I got my girl Coco, you know, I
got my dog. I'm saying you know, I got I
can name a bunch of people, right. We all come
from a music making background, but like at the end
of the day, we all making music. It's kind of
like it's still fun, you know what I mean. When
you do it with everybody, it's like it's not work,
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you know what I mean. You don't feel pressure. Yeah,
you just feel nice. So it's just fun. Like you
like on days sometimes I don't even plan to be
doing music, I just end up doing it with my
dogs because they're just freestyle and I'm like, okay, am
I gonna sit down and not freestyle with them? Or Yeah,
it's just like that. Man, Just be open to the experience,
you know, don't fight the feeling.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Exactly, man. And that was the whole reason you used
to do it in the first place, especially in the
school yard. And I remember being in the lunch room
banging on the lunch tables and the whole crowd get
around during there's two people in the circle, and it
just was exciting. Man, Like, do y'all have those days? Like,
because I know you ain't in school now, but do
y'all have those days? But y'all get that like that
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in like public or do y'all just like sticking to
it in the studio.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
That's a good idea. I'm gonna keep that one. But yeah,
now we was we just keep it to the studio
for now, you know what I mean, Like I got
the studio here at my crib, so like we're working
all the time. Back in the days, Bro, we'd have
like desk beating sessions. I guess you call it that,
like you just you're just hitting the desk and shit.
People got around, Bro, got around to like watch what
we're doing and all that. It was good. So like, yeah,
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I'm gonna keep what you said in mind because it's
a good way to bring people together. I think exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
That's a new that's been like the dance hall version
of now you're being a drum sessions.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, Yeah that's something y'all get that going. Y'all need
to definitely put that on live stream and everything.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I'm gonna make sure sure y'all when we're doing that one, Bro,
No sweat already.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I like that. I now I know this new the
new music, the new wave of dance all right now
is hitting the world fast and hard. Do you see
it being able to a lot of people say that
they can't exist or exist on the same side as reggae.
Roots reggae, I bet the different. But I was wondering
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what is your viewpoint on that? Do you think that
they can exist or together or do you think it's
two things that have to be separated and respected in its.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Own rights, Like dance holland reggae, right, yeah, dance hall
and reggae, I would say, to be honest, man, they
come from the same place, but they're not the same thing,
you know what I mean. So like reggae is more
like roots, you know, it's more like it's about the
culture and all that stuff. Like Downshall is more like
culturally embracing certain things, you know what I mean, Like
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you embrace certain things about your lifestyle or certain things
about the streets lifestyle and that type of stuff, you
know what I mean. And regular you got the streets
lifestyle and there, but it's not the predominant like thing
that you're talking about, right, So there're two different things.
And then on the global scale, I'm gonna say, yeah,
that's all. Yeah, of course that more than has a chance. Bro,
What do you mean right now? Downshall is taking over
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right now. Afrobeat's taking over Bro right now. The biggest
thing happening right now in the rap is like Drake
and Kendrick Bro. But that's already done with Bro. So
it's back to downshalls, back to afro bro. That's just
what it is that.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I can agree with one hundred percent. And with afrobeats.
Afrobeats is taken as a monster in itself, Like how
do you see those two reconciling on the stage after
a while, because you know, you you have people that
talk about back like let's say in the nineties, East
Coast and West Coast, the two different styles couldn't coexist,
so they had to beat. Do you see that happening
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with afrobeats and UH and dance?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah? Because now I don't. I don't see it as
like I don't see the music like as a sport
that it is being like so politicized like that, you
know what I mean. I feel like, you know, one
day I could do a song with Rema or somebody
burna boy, you know what I mean. Like, but I
think the goal is just to create good music, you
know what I mean. You want to make something that's
going to take over the world, you know what I mean,
that's really what it is, and show people the unity
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that we're talking about. We're not just trying to make
it look like we got a little bit of unity.
We're trying to show them out. We made this banger.
This banger is bringing out together. That's what we're about.
That's what music is. So yeah, bro, Africa Jamaica when
you already I'm here.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Facts, I like that.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I like that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And you so you're performing in your Jamaica and you
do you go abroad or how's your performance?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
How does the stag I've been around Jamaica a bit.
I haven't been abroad yet to perform, supposed to be
doing that like this summer a lot. But yeah, I've
been traveling around Jamaica, Kingston, Montego, bay Ochi, Manduvu, my
home place, manduv You already know you're about to be
seeing me a lot more. But yeah, that's it, man.
We've just been doing a couple of shows, but mostly
performing in like bars and stuff. Because right now it's
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just like you're trying to connect to the people, you
know what I mean, the hearts of the streets. You're
not trying to be like y'all on stage all the time.
We're trying to be in the club. We're trying to
be in the bar, We're trying to be drinking with
the people. That's like, Yo, I like your song, I
read this song and whatever. You're trying to be chilling
with them exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You know, you got to be able to connect with
the people if you want to touch their hearts, you know.
And that's and it's very that's a very fickle thing
because people change their minds at the drop of a
dying Like, how would you do you see that? You're
you'll be ready? Are you positioned now for the next
big wave, the next big trand to hit dance?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Yeah, man, I'm ready, I'm ready. You just got to
be always watching. You gotta be you got to be
first to jump on that. And you got to be
the one that's like really spinning, putting your spin on that,
you know what I mean. It's like, just don't stop
doing it. Just be looking out even right now, there's
trends right now. That's not the next big trend. I'm
already looking at those, you know what i mean, We're
looking at everything, bro. That's a strategy.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Put us on something. What's the new train that that
that you're looking at right?
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Get that dropping now days? That don't need not be
fat beast. That's how ny front enough millions, person, I'm
not any things with that video figure make up beat
that figure topango right now, like mean enough supply sucking me?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Tell me how do you figure? Like first, what do
you what is your team called?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
So my team? I don't know. I can't really disclose
that right now. That's not official that right now, but
so that's that's my team, right that's my team right now.
We're working with y'all leave and friends for real and
all those guys on my side. I don't really give
us a name yet, but I'm think about that too.
But yeah, no, we just be working every day, bro.
We got fo Studio, we got Reaper, We be recording,
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we'll be making beats. We might not be making the
beats all the way to the end all the time,
but we'll be working on concepts, you know what I mean.
We be working on lyrics, we were working on freestyling.
We're just always working, bro. Even right now, like before
you call, we was working. When we're done, I'm gonna
get back to work and that's just.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
What it is.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Facts.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Hey, that's real man, when you're trying to make whenever
you're trying to make that mark on history, you can't
lay down and just let that come to you.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Man.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
It's like a lot of people that's what they do.
That's why I was speaking with another artists earlier today
and we were talking about people getting in their comfort
zone and they just don't want to get up and
move around. They're afraid of success. Like you obviously are
not afraid of success, nor like you have ever been
afraid of success. How do you when you're talking to
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somebody who seems like they are afraid of success, like,
what can you say to them that that can help
change their perspective on life?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I would say, Oh, my most brutally honest like advice
I could get to somebody like that, it's just try
something different for a while. If you feel that coming
back for you, if you feel it biting at you
that you need to get back to that, then you
know and then another thing you can do too. Once
you do that. If you feel like you feel resistance,
like what you said, like you don't want to wake up,
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you don't want to get out of bed, and you know,
first of all, make your bed, make your bed, firs
seeing in the morning. Right. But yeah, let's say you
don't want to get up if you're doing to do anything,
you don't want to work on your craft for example,
right means that you should be doing it. You're feeling
resistance towards It's exactly what you said. You're afraid of success.
Everybody is you know what I mean, the most successful
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person out there that you know there were something before
who you know them to be right now? You know
what I mean? So they were afraid of success to you.
Ever heard about imposter syndrome? Yeah, definitely imposter syndrome. Man,
it's a real thing. It just be happening. But eventually
you settle in. Just make sure that you're doing the
right thing for you.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And that's real. You know, you can't. A lot of
people don't know how to stick to them because they
don't even know who they are. I have this question
that I ask people who are forty years and up,
because by the time you forty years old, you know
you got your career, whether it's in music, or whether
it's in the industry, or whether it's and industrials or
whatever it's in. You have this career, and you notice
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career like the back of your hand. But I ask them,
when you retire, who are you? And a lot of
people go to start just telling me what they're doing
right now, Oh I'm a plumber or it is no, no, no,
no no, You're going to be retired, So yeah you are?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Who are you? What's your.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Right exactly? What is your legacy?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
So my question to you is growing up, what stories
are you looking to tell through your music about you?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Oh? That's easy, bro. I'm just here to show people
that this should really possible. Bro, you know what I mean. Like,
I'm the best example I can give for my friends
and my family around me and bro, so I'm gonna
share that with the world too. I'm gonna show them, y'all.
Look at where I came from, Look at where I'm
at now, look where we going. It's just a star yoh.
So we're just gonna show people, y'all. Just follow your dreams,
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you know what I mean. If you dream to be
like a nurse, if you dream to be a dentist,
a liar, like, just do your best to do what
you're doing. Whatever it is you do your best. That's
all that matter, bro, Because when you're gonna be here forever,
when you've gone, what people gonna say about you, Bro,
They're gonna say, Yo, this man, he kept doing that
same thing over and over again.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
That's what I want, right, I feel that. I feel
that one hundred percent. Let's get a little deep into
your upbringing. Like how you see you came from New
York City to Mandeville. What kind of a coulture shock
was that?
Speaker 6 (22:06):
So?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yeah, funny story, bro. So like I was born there.
I didn't really like grow up there in New York.
I was just born there. Basically, my whole family was here.
So like I was just back in Jamaica basically, So
I grew up here. So the first thing I can
remember is in Jamaica. So I just been here. And
the only thing is just like I don't know why,
but I gravitate towards like rap music a lot. Like
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I was listening to a lot of the fifty cent
Lil Wayne, you know those guys back in the day,
and it just I was a rapper bro up to
like a couple of years ago. I'm not gonna lie
like I had the dancehall thing. I did a couple
of dancehall songs and stuff because obviously I'm from Jamaica
and all that, But I never was like, yo, let
me become a dance artist. Did a couple of dancehall
songs like a year or two ago, and people are like, Yo,
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this is serious. So I'm just like, I like it.
I feel a lot more free on DANCEHNG. I'm not
gonna lie like it's more free than hip hop to me.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Okay, what's the difference. Tell me some differences between hip
hop and dancehall.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Differences between hip hop and dancehall. For one, you can
say whatever you want on don Sall, like whatever you want.
You can make random noises on your track and it's
gonna sound fire, you know what I mean. On hip hop,
I don't know. You gotta be a lot more meticulous
with that stuff. On Downsall, it's just like, yo, once
the beach is bumping, it's fire. But hip hop is like,
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oh his lyrics this, oh his flow died, he used
this nigga flow and all that, and hip hop. It's
also American culture hip hop, right, so it's like, yeah,
but how Aaron Jamaica is just like everybody on everybody
else's beat. That's how we roll, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah, yeah, no, I feel that had one hundred percent.
Like I remember, like when when I was coming up,
we had a master p with no limit and the
only sound effect that he may make them say like, man,
ain't nobody going hed die rear him?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
That's crazy though, Bro, That's what That's the thing about music, man,
Like it don't have to make sense, you know what
I mean, It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Right, It just has to relate. You got to just
be able to relate to it. And that's when when
you make And that's one thing I've When I listening
to dance all and I hear those sounds popular, it
comes right on time. It's like because I guess they
were just feeling the music, and they knew we was
going to be feeling the music like they was feeling
the music, so they knew whatever they were going to
spit out, we were going to be feeling. And they
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be right random gunshots, But how did he know? I
just felt like shooting up some ship.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
That's the thing, man, When you as an artist, bro,
you know how to like communicate to your audience. Bro,
That's all that matters. Man. That's I'm trying to get
to know my audience some more, bro, so I can
speak more to them, you know what I mean? Trying
to and I know everybody in my audience. I'm not
calling nobody out, but I'm trying to speak to you.
I'm trying to get right in there, you know what
I mean. Yeah, when they put gunshots and stuff in
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the tracks, Bro, that's exactly what it's doing. Bro's just
making you feel like, Holy, I'm really there. I feel
like I'm in this track right now. They know what
they're doing. Bro. Man, It's like, Yo, leave vite Bro.
He knows how to make them beats bro.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Right exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
How is it like working with the with the producer
like that, with a beat maker like that?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Fast? Like everything happening fast, Bro, Like everything happening so quick.
You ain't got no time to like review the track
that you're working on or nothing like that. You just
have to be like on it. You gotta be ready
to perform. You gotta be ready, Yo, you gotta show tomorrow.
You gotta go, bro. So I love that, honestly, I
love that. That's always a life I've been trying to
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live so now that it's just like it's actually happening.
But there's like stuff on the line. It's like man
trying to get Grandma to house though, So we gotta
do what you gotta do, you know what I mean.
So that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Ready, Now, you got future projects and themes that are
coming up. Which ones are you excited about? Which ones
are you trying to you? You're trying to let the
world get ready.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
For right now. I don't think I can talk about that.
I think I talk about it, but I will say this.
I say this though, after the elephant, we got something bigger.
How about that bigger than the elephant? Bigger than the
elephant right now? Man, that don't touch down yet though, Bro,
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that's not on this planet yet. Right now, Bro, So
right now, elephant the biggest thing on the line. Bro,
got you, I got you.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
So the elephant is he gotta come through and make
way he finished bodoze anything that's in a way make
way for this bigger elephant that's gonna come through. I
feel that.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
We got bangs, bro. I'm just say that, bro certified.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
That's really already well before we go with tell me
what how do you see your music like evolving in
the next coming years. Do you see yourself staying on
the dance all track, Do you see yourself go and
get to more theatrical albums or how do you see yourself?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
For me, Bro, I feel like my lane is like
it's just the art, you know what I mean. So,
like like you said, theatrical albums and all that, I
want to do dance all theatrical albums, you know what
I mean. I want to be the first dance artist
to do certain things, you know what I mean. Like
you got hip hop artists out there, like dare I
say his name, I would say Kanye West Bro Like
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pretty crazy, super crazy Kanye West kind of you know
what I mean. But Kanye West, Bro, like that guy,
he's innovating, you know what I mean, he innovating in
his genre. Drake, I could say he was innovating in
the genre. Kendrick, he innovating in the genre, you know
what I mean? Talking about rap. So in dancehall, we
got innovators back in the day. We got Vice Cantel,
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we got you know, all those guys from back in
the day. But nowadays it's like dancehall is just like
kind of the same, you know what I mean, Like
I'm not thising none of the other danced just heard,
nothing like that. But it's like we want to hear
something that's just like this is dancehall, you know what
I mean. I'm feeling like merchants, like I fro hip hop,
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you know all that stuff. Bro.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Oh wow, you get you be the first one across gym,
just like genre was like that and blended together. Man, Dad,
they'll be calling you, uh what's the name? Uh Superman,
the one I said he the first to do everything.
Get Lord.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I gotta look. I gotta look at the people who
came before me.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I got so many people I could name Bro again, Cartel,
you got Sean Paul, Bro, you got even the newer
guys alk Line, Popcorn and then my sighing, but yeah,
like uh yeah, all those guys, Bro, like they all
did their own thing. There's just a name from me
right now, and that's it. Facts. Make sure we do
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the right thing.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I hear you on that, man, and you doing the
right thing. Man. I hear the music, then the audience
y'all about to hear the music as well, So make
sure y'all tuning in, turn it up and zone out
because we got your boy Cadence about to be on
the mic in just a moment. Cadence, Man, is there
anybody that you want to give a shout out to?
Anybody you want to thank your props to and bring
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attention to the world.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. No, I want to give
a thanks to my team. First of all, y'all not
seeing them right now, but y'all big up in the cells,
you know yourselves on a big up y'all leave fight
French for real and on a big up. God tell
us fight all of them people that is he just
big up in the cells for all the people who
support me. Libya, big up yourself, yo. We just went
number six and uh and Libya on the chart, so
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big up Libya doing crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Congratulations.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Yeah you don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
That's real, man, That's what's up. That's a big move
right there. So congratulations on that, man. It ain't nothing
but else from you.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Number up bro.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
You already know, yes, sir, already. But as we conclude
the Society episode of The Reggae Our podcast, we reflect
on the enlightening journey into the vibrant world of Cadence
a dynamic force pushing the boundaries of dance all music today.
Cadus shared with us not only his unique artistic vision
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and creative process, but also the deeper narratives that his
music brings to life. We delved it to the harmonious
fusion of traditional Jamaican sounds with innovative modern production that
defines Katis's style, offering fresh perspectives on what dance all
could be. With tracks like Elephant his collaborations with Jodi
Bit Excuse Me, Kadus is setting new trends and redefining
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expectations within the genre. And heartfelt thank you to Caden's
for opening up about his inspirations and future aspirations. It's
through artists like him that the musical landscape continues to evolve,
bringing vibrant stories and sounds to the forefront. We hope
You've enjoyed this glimpse into Katus's musical odyssey and found
inspiration and his dedication to creating music that transcends boundaries.
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Make sure to keep your ear off for his upcoming
projects and follow his journey across streaming platforms for the
latest release and updates. You can find his URLs in
the description below. Thank you for joining us on his
musical exploration. Don't forget to stay tuned to Reggae al
for more captivating interviews with the innovators and icons of
the music world, and until then, keep the dance vibes
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alive and the music resident one love Cadence, thank you
once again for joining us here on Reggae Hour.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Thanks for having me me said you big of yourself.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yes sir, yes sir. Now this is Elephant by your
boy Cadence. Perfect, great interview, great interview. Man, appreciate the
love on that one.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Man.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
That one's a good one.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Man.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Hey, keep me in tune with everything that you're doing.
Every time y'all drop some let me know I'm to
write an article on this and I'm going to push
out Elephant. I'm gonna be pushing it out real hard.
So any new music, any new shows, anything like that,
let me know that. You know, I'm gonna put it
out there for you.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
All right, bro Y, I appreciate that, man, appreciate that any.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Time, many time. Already, brother, y'all get back to work, man,
and y'all have a great night.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Straight back to the boot. Bro y'all take it easy,
bro easy.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
All right, one love.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
So now we have snow time.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
We ain't even keep hot this shot. She cut it
like we leave all make that my face said, see
with mine be time. Then I'm brock off, back said,
dying the night. Seem like she wants to party. She
now stopping mistick keylingcart it Jonathan, see yoh the way
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that's bothering the music I played.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
I said, he.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
Can yellow Fabris, some ye men officer in your ride
yellow Fabris, some yellow bring some mind tonight more city.
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So this up reading my fears pretty coming like a
quick guy Donato set when around my left fire yell,
look but I know a bad gallao and pany to
a candy p event. That's a degree event. Yeah, it
seemed like she wants your party. She just pin on
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misticky and clad an jon and see all the ways
is bobbling the music drums because men in your vie
yellow Fabrius, some little officierian nervie yellow with a bras
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silway
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another soul stirring episode of
the Reggae Hour podcast, where we bridge the timeless sounds
of reggae with forward thinking musical movements. Today, we have
the pleasure of introducing an artist whose sonic innovations have
drawn global attention and admiration. Introducing Cadence, a dynamic dance
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hall artist who goes beyond just riding rhythms, he redefines them.
Born in New York City and raised under the vibrant
skies of Mandeville, Jamaica, Cadence, also known as Jonathan Patterson,
embarked on his musical journey in the lively school yards
and dja sessions of his youth. His artistry is a
melodic meeting point of generations, where classic Jamaican vibes are
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revitalized with fresh modern production. Cadence's recent collaboration with Yowlevite
on the track Elephant signals a bold new step in
cinematic dance hall, blending orchestral textures with deep basslines for
an experience that's both groundbreaking and immersive. Of as Cadence
himself says, whether he's writing lyrics, crafting beats, or performing live.
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His drive is powered by an unshakable belief in the
stories that need to be told. Today, we'll dive deeper
into his creative vision, the heartbeat of his music, and
what lies ahead on his inspiring journey. Stay tuned as
we explore with Cadence the boundaries of dance hall and
its role in the evolving landscape of global music.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
How's it gord to day, Cadence.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You appreciate that introduction, man, that's amazing introduction. Appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh anytime, anytime man, I heard your music. Man, I
was like, yes, we definitely got to get them on
Reggae Hours. Yes, so definitely glad to have you.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Here's our pleasure to have you on our platform today.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Blast off.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
One night to make your dreams come away. Never monitar,
let me clean it be there.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Appreciate it. Yeah, I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's already all right. Tell me something. Can you share
more about your musical beginnings from New York to Jamaica? Like,
how did these locations influence yourself?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah? I mean I don't know, man, I've just been
into like I've been in the rap my whole life.
So like back in high school, I went to high
school in a place called Mandival, Jamaica. That's where I'm
right now. Actually it's Mandeville, Gilcester, you know what I mean. Yeah,
So back in high school, I would just be playing
piano and all that, and bro i would just be
rapping with my friends and I'd be like freestyling dancehall
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and everything. You know. So it wasn't that serious. It
didn't start off series. It was just fun. I just
like doing it. But I like doing it and I
go to the studio and all that, So you know
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Exactly, Man, Like what inspired you to even get into
it in the first place, you know, like with the
school yard DJ sessions and things of that nature.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
What inspired me to get into it? Man, I don't know.
It's like it's calling me, you know what I mean.
Like I didn't choose this life. This life kind of
chows me. So, Like I know, I used to go
to my grandma's friend's house back when I was a
little kid. She had this piano. It's like the only
musical instrument I could find back in those days. And
every time I got the chance to go around there,
I would I would just go on the piano and
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just start playing just like nonsense and try to make
it sound good, you know what I mean. So like yeah,
so eventually it's just like it just got to that
point where I got to like record, I went to
the studio for the first time.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
And already so yeah, so you was feeling that when
you got in that studio it was almost like home. Huh.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah. Man, when you get to the studio, it's just like, well,
the guy I was working with at the time, man,
he just knew how to like make you want work.
You know what it is like. You come to the
studio to work. You don't come to the studio to
figure out what it works about like you do that
at home. You come to the studio you work. So
like that's just been instilled in me since the very
first studio session. I can't like so yeah, humble beginnings,
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but having those real ones around me really helped me
keep being here. Like I've been here a long time,
You've been doing this a long time, I would.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Like exactly, man, I feel that when it goes, you
go to the studio and it's time to work. Like
I've been in the music industry since like ninety six,
and I remember going up my friends, studio and stuff
back then and back then, you know what I'm saying,
it was it was expensive to have a home studio.
So when you came in, if you wasn't ready to
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work for you wasn't gonna get that done because he
wasn't being a wait around.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
You're just spending your money, bro. I se I've seen
it happen. Bro. I used to work in the studio too,
you know, back in the day. But I've seen it happen,
happens to Oklan. I was just like, nah, I can't be.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Me right exactly. So when you get in there, what
keeps you, what keeps you driving, what keeps you going
towards the goal posting not slacking off and getting high
and doing what all these other foods be doing.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I'm saying for real, bro, it's just like, I mean,
so deep in this stuff right now. It's more like
I'm doing this for my family. I'm doing this for
the people around me, like my friends, my close friends.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Of course I'm doing it for me too because I
love this stuff. But it's just like I'm trying to
buy my grandma house out with you when more you
want me to say, I can't do that if I'm
working in a bank, bro, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Right now, I feel that one hundred percent they got
you working with the money, but you ain't. They ain't
got you working fun of money, you know what I'm saying.
So I feel that, you know all right? So tell me, like,
you got this collaboration with Yoli bite with Elephant, Like,
how did that even come about? What was the creative
process like? And did you get the right in the
studio with them?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
So that track? Actually, so I was just working on
this beat, you know what I mean, at my boy's house.
I was just like usual, like we're always doing this,
working on beats and stuff and just like freestyling on
them and stuff. So I made this beat, kind of
liked it more than the last few beats that I
was working on. But then I was just like, yo,
let me try something on this. A couple of days later,
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and my process is like I don't really write anymore
like sometimes I write. Usually I'm just freestyling on top
of stuff and seeing what was sticks, you know what
I mean? So I did that, I had the Elephant fight,
and I was just like this is crazy. I showed
y'all levite, and then it was just it was history
from there, you know what I mean, Like that's all
they took, and he just took it. He just messed
it up. He just completely just like made this beat
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just like something else that I didn't even know it
to like have become. I was like, wow, like, yo,
we made this together type of stuff. It's great.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Okay, So y'all not on y'all, y'all collaborated on the
beat and the lyrics like it, like it's noted for
a cinematic dance all. Feel like, how did you get
that musical plan to even the unique musical plan to
even them together like that?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Man, It's just it's my personality. I'm not gonna lie bro.
So I'm really like laid back, chill dude, you know
what I mean. So it comes across some my music,
like I can get hype and all that, but like naturally,
I'm pretty chilled. So I think for that track, it's
more like a hustler kind of a tract for me,
you know what I mean. Like, yeah, it's like modern
day Doncehall track type of stuff, but for me, it's
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like we hustling, y'all here working. We're trying to get
this bread. We're trying to get the elephant. You know
what I mean. The elephant in the room is the elephant,
you know what I mean. So it's just really that.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Already I feel that. I mean when you say we're
the elephant in the room, I'm the big man in
the room. So I'm the elephant, you know, elephant.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yes, And then you ain't making no If you ain't
making no big moves, you can't call yourself the big man.
So you're right about that. That's all about the hustle
and all about the grind. Now they say that your
journey is being described as moving beyond just a career.
How do you find meeting and inspiration in your care process?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Bro? The meaning comes across when you listen to any
kind of music. To be honest, it could be my
own music, like me listening to my own stuff, or
like like me listening to somebody else's music. You know
what I mean. To me, it's just like whatever makes
me feel this song deeply, I'm just like yo, I
want that. I want to be able to do that.
I want to make somebody feel something. So it's really
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just that, like That's why I think my job will
never be done, bro, Like, I'm always be doing this
because once you make something somebody feel one way, you're
gonna make somebody feel another way. You're gonna want to
make the next person feel another way. Bro, It's just ongoing.
That's why I love music. Bro, It's just there's no
limit to it.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah. Music is definitely like like math. It's like numbers.
You can come up with so many different creative ways
to put them together, and they're gonna mean something at
the end of the day, Like what have you gotten
out of your experiences? Like to tell us something that
you want the youth to be Like, okay that especially
the ones that's coming up in this game, they're gonna
come across this at some point in time. What is
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it that inspired you that they're going to be able
to experience?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I think for real, bro, it's just it's just a
love for creative man, Like you gotta you gotta look
at how the game is right now, Like you got
to be a social media person too. If you got
to be an artist, right, it's not just about the art,
but if you love the art that much, you're gonna
be willing to do the social media stuff, all the
stuff that comes along with being an artist, you know
what I mean. So for me, it's just you gotta
you gotta have a love for what you're doing.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Man.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
You gotta really wake up in the morning and be like,
on a day where you're don't doing nothing, you gotta
be like, yo, I'm really not doing nothing today. I
gotta do something today, man. Like that's really what it is.
Because life keeps going on, man, life not waiting on nobody.
So that's really it.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Man.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I don't have plenty of those days I wake up like, man,
I ain't doing nothing, man, should I even be doing anything?
So have you ever had those days where you just
didn't you you know, you gotta get it done, but
you just wasn't feeling it.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, all the time, man, I'm not gonna lie. It
happens all the time. You know. Inspiration, bro, It's not
one of those things where you're like, like, I don't
wait for inspiration for me to start getting to work,
you know what I mean. Like I get to work,
then I get inspired or I don't. You know, I
try making something and it's nothing, but at least I
tried something for that date. Because the next day I'm
try something again. So that's really what it is.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, I feel that, man. And you also got to
be careful about who you have around you too, because
you got people that can suck your energy up, and
you also gotta have people that can give you energy.
When you think about your team and the people that
you surround yourself with, like how instrumental are they in
your production process?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I would say they're pretty damn instrumental, bro, Like you can't.
Music is not a one man thing, you know what
I mean? Like it can be, but then it's just
a one man thing, you know what I mean. Music
is about even the person listening to it. Bro. You
gotta relate to people. What better way to relate to
people than starting with the people around you? Bro? My team, Bro,
they don't play around. Bro. My team serious, Bro, we
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don't play around. So yeah, we're going to put the hits. Bro,
that's what we're going for.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I like that, like anybody else on your team that
actually make music too, and that you do music with.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, Bro, my whole team, My whole team, My dog
King Junior, I got my girl Coco, you know, I
got my dog. I'm saying you know, I got I
can name a bunch of people, right. We all come
from a music making background, but like at the end
of the day, we all making music. It's kind of
like it's still fun, you know what I mean. When
you do it with everybody, it's like it's not work,
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you know what I mean. You don't feel pressure. Yeah,
you just feel nice. So it's just fun. Like you
like on days sometimes I don't even plan to be
doing music, I just end up doing it with my
dogs because they're just freestyle and I'm like, okay, am
I gonna sit down and not freestyle with them? Or Yeah,
it's just like that. Man, Just be open to the experience,
you know, don't fight the feeling.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Exactly, man. And that was the whole reason you used
to do it in the first place, especially in the
school yard. And I remember being in the lunch room
banging on the lunch tables and the whole crowd get
around during there's two people in the circle, and it
just was exciting. Man, Like, do y'all have those days? Like,
because I know you ain't in school now, but do
y'all have those days? But y'all get that like that
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in like public or do y'all just like sticking to
it in the studio.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
That's a good idea. I'm gonna keep that one. But yeah,
now we was we just keep it to the studio
for now, you know what I mean, Like I got
the studio here at my crib, so like we're working
all the time. Back in the days, Bro, we'd have
like desk beating sessions. I guess you call it that,
like you just you're just hitting the desk and shit.
People got around, Bro, got around to like watch what
we're doing and all that. It was good. So like, yeah,
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I'm gonna keep what you said in mind because it's
a good way to bring people together. I think exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
That's a new that's been like the dance hall version
of now you're being a drum sessions.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, Yeah that's something y'all get that going. Y'all need
to definitely put that on live stream and everything.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I'm gonna make sure sure y'all when we're doing that one, Bro,
No sweat already.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I like that. I now I know this new the
new music, the new wave of dance all right now
is hitting the world fast and hard. Do you see
it being able to a lot of people say that
they can't exist or exist on the same side as reggae.
Roots reggae, I bet the different. But I was wondering
(13:35):
what is your viewpoint on that? Do you think that
they can exist or together or do you think it's
two things that have to be separated and respected in its.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Own rights, Like dance holland reggae, right, yeah, dance hall
and reggae, I would say, to be honest, man, they
come from the same place, but they're not the same thing,
you know what I mean. So like reggae is more
like roots, you know, it's more like it's about the
culture and all that stuff. Like Downshall is more like
culturally embracing certain things, you know what I mean, Like
(14:06):
you embrace certain things about your lifestyle or certain things
about the streets lifestyle and that type of stuff, you
know what I mean. And regular you got the streets
lifestyle and there, but it's not the predominant like thing
that you're talking about, right, So there're two different things.
And then on the global scale, I'm gonna say, yeah,
that's all. Yeah, of course that more than has a chance. Bro,
What do you mean right now? Downshall is taking over
(14:26):
right now. Afrobeat's taking over Bro right now. The biggest
thing happening right now in the rap is like Drake
and Kendrick Bro. But that's already done with Bro. So
it's back to downshalls, back to afro bro. That's just
what it is that.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I can agree with one hundred percent. And with afrobeats.
Afrobeats is taken as a monster in itself, Like how
do you see those two reconciling on the stage after
a while, because you know, you you have people that
talk about back like let's say in the nineties, East
Coast and West Coast, the two different styles couldn't coexist,
so they had to beat. Do you see that happening
(15:01):
with afrobeats and UH and dance?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah? Because now I don't. I don't see it as
like I don't see the music like as a sport
that it is being like so politicized like that, you
know what I mean. I feel like, you know, one
day I could do a song with Rema or somebody
burna boy, you know what I mean. Like, but I
think the goal is just to create good music, you
know what I mean. You want to make something that's
going to take over the world, you know what I mean,
that's really what it is, and show people the unity
(15:25):
that we're talking about. We're not just trying to make
it look like we got a little bit of unity.
We're trying to show them out. We made this banger.
This banger is bringing out together. That's what we're about.
That's what music is. So yeah, bro, Africa Jamaica when
you already I'm here.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Facts, I like that.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I like that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And you so you're performing in your Jamaica and you
do you go abroad or how's your performance?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
How does the stag I've been around Jamaica a bit.
I haven't been abroad yet to perform, supposed to be
doing that like this summer a lot. But yeah, I've
been traveling around Jamaica, Kingston, Montego, bay Ochi, Manduvu, my
home place, manduv You already know you're about to be
seeing me a lot more. But yeah, that's it, man.
We've just been doing a couple of shows, but mostly
performing in like bars and stuff. Because right now it's
(16:11):
just like you're trying to connect to the people, you
know what I mean, the hearts of the streets. You're
not trying to be like y'all on stage all the time.
We're trying to be in the club. We're trying to
be in the bar, We're trying to be drinking with
the people. That's like, Yo, I like your song, I
read this song and whatever. You're trying to be chilling
with them exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You know, you got to be able to connect with
the people if you want to touch their hearts, you know.
And that's and it's very that's a very fickle thing
because people change their minds at the drop of a
dying Like, how would you do you see that? You're
you'll be ready? Are you positioned now for the next
big wave, the next big trand to hit dance?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Yeah, man, I'm ready, I'm ready. You just got to
be always watching. You gotta be you got to be
first to jump on that. And you got to be
the one that's like really spinning, putting your spin on that,
you know what I mean. It's like, just don't stop
doing it. Just be looking out even right now, there's
trends right now. That's not the next big trend. I'm
already looking at those, you know what i mean, We're
looking at everything, bro. That's a strategy.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Put us on something. What's the new train that that
that you're looking at right?
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Get that dropping now days? That don't need not be
fat beast. That's how ny front enough millions, person, I'm
not any things with that video figure make up beat
that figure topango right now, like mean enough supply sucking me?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Tell me how do you figure? Like first, what do
you what is your team called?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
So my team? I don't know. I can't really disclose
that right now. That's not official that right now, but
so that's that's my team, right that's my team right now.
We're working with y'all leave and friends for real and
all those guys on my side. I don't really give
us a name yet, but I'm think about that too.
But yeah, no, we just be working every day, bro.
We got fo Studio, we got Reaper, We be recording,
(18:12):
we'll be making beats. We might not be making the
beats all the way to the end all the time,
but we'll be working on concepts, you know what I mean.
We be working on lyrics, we were working on freestyling.
We're just always working, bro. Even right now, like before
you call, we was working. When we're done, I'm gonna
get back to work and that's just.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
What it is.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Facts.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Hey, that's real man, when you're trying to make whenever
you're trying to make that mark on history, you can't
lay down and just let that come to you.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Man.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
It's like a lot of people that's what they do.
That's why I was speaking with another artists earlier today
and we were talking about people getting in their comfort
zone and they just don't want to get up and
move around. They're afraid of success. Like you obviously are
not afraid of success, nor like you have ever been
afraid of success. How do you when you're talking to
(19:04):
somebody who seems like they are afraid of success, like,
what can you say to them that that can help
change their perspective on life?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I would say, Oh, my most brutally honest like advice
I could get to somebody like that, it's just try
something different for a while. If you feel that coming
back for you, if you feel it biting at you
that you need to get back to that, then you
know and then another thing you can do too. Once
you do that. If you feel like you feel resistance,
like what you said, like you don't want to wake up,
(19:34):
you don't want to get out of bed, and you know,
first of all, make your bed, make your bed, firs
seeing in the morning. Right. But yeah, let's say you
don't want to get up if you're doing to do anything,
you don't want to work on your craft for example,
right means that you should be doing it. You're feeling
resistance towards It's exactly what you said. You're afraid of success.
Everybody is you know what I mean, the most successful
(19:54):
person out there that you know there were something before
who you know them to be right now? You know
what I mean? So they were afraid of success to you.
Ever heard about imposter syndrome? Yeah, definitely imposter syndrome. Man,
it's a real thing. It just be happening. But eventually
you settle in. Just make sure that you're doing the
right thing for you.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And that's real. You know, you can't. A lot of
people don't know how to stick to them because they
don't even know who they are. I have this question
that I ask people who are forty years and up,
because by the time you forty years old, you know
you got your career, whether it's in music, or whether
it's in the industry, or whether it's and industrials or
whatever it's in. You have this career, and you notice
(20:37):
career like the back of your hand. But I ask them,
when you retire, who are you? And a lot of
people go to start just telling me what they're doing
right now, Oh I'm a plumber or it is no, no, no,
no no, You're going to be retired, So yeah you are?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Who are you? What's your.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Right exactly? What is your legacy?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
So my question to you is growing up, what stories
are you looking to tell through your music about you?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Oh? That's easy, bro. I'm just here to show people
that this should really possible. Bro, you know what I mean. Like,
I'm the best example I can give for my friends
and my family around me and bro, so I'm gonna
share that with the world too. I'm gonna show them, y'all.
Look at where I came from, Look at where I'm
at now, look where we going. It's just a star yoh.
So we're just gonna show people, y'all. Just follow your dreams,
(21:31):
you know what I mean. If you dream to be
like a nurse, if you dream to be a dentist,
a liar, like, just do your best to do what
you're doing. Whatever it is you do your best. That's
all that matter, bro, Because when you're gonna be here forever,
when you've gone, what people gonna say about you, Bro,
They're gonna say, Yo, this man, he kept doing that
same thing over and over again.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
That's what I want, right, I feel that. I feel
that one hundred percent. Let's get a little deep into
your upbringing. Like how you see you came from New
York City to Mandeville. What kind of a coulture shock
was that?
Speaker 6 (22:06):
So?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yeah, funny story, bro. So like I was born there.
I didn't really like grow up there in New York.
I was just born there. Basically, my whole family was here.
So like I was just back in Jamaica basically, So
I grew up here. So the first thing I can
remember is in Jamaica. So I just been here. And
the only thing is just like I don't know why,
but I gravitate towards like rap music a lot. Like
(22:27):
I was listening to a lot of the fifty cent
Lil Wayne, you know those guys back in the day,
and it just I was a rapper bro up to
like a couple of years ago. I'm not gonna lie
like I had the dancehall thing. I did a couple
of dancehall songs and stuff because obviously I'm from Jamaica
and all that, But I never was like, yo, let
me become a dance artist. Did a couple of dancehall
songs like a year or two ago, and people are like, Yo,
(22:49):
this is serious. So I'm just like, I like it.
I feel a lot more free on DANCEHNG. I'm not
gonna lie like it's more free than hip hop to me.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Okay, what's the difference. Tell me some differences between hip
hop and dancehall.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Differences between hip hop and dancehall. For one, you can
say whatever you want on don Sall, like whatever you want.
You can make random noises on your track and it's
gonna sound fire, you know what I mean. On hip hop,
I don't know. You gotta be a lot more meticulous
with that stuff. On Downsall, it's just like, yo, once
the beach is bumping, it's fire. But hip hop is like,
(23:26):
oh his lyrics this, oh his flow died, he used
this nigga flow and all that, and hip hop. It's
also American culture hip hop, right, so it's like, yeah,
but how Aaron Jamaica is just like everybody on everybody
else's beat. That's how we roll, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah, yeah, no, I feel that had one hundred percent.
Like I remember, like when when I was coming up,
we had a master p with no limit and the
only sound effect that he may make them say like, man,
ain't nobody going hed die rear him?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
That's crazy though, Bro, That's what That's the thing about music, man,
Like it don't have to make sense, you know what
I mean, It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Right, It just has to relate. You got to just
be able to relate to it. And that's when when
you make And that's one thing I've When I listening
to dance all and I hear those sounds popular, it
comes right on time. It's like because I guess they
were just feeling the music, and they knew we was
going to be feeling the music like they was feeling
the music, so they knew whatever they were going to
spit out, we were going to be feeling. And they
(24:32):
be right random gunshots, But how did he know? I
just felt like shooting up some ship.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
That's the thing, man, When you as an artist, bro,
you know how to like communicate to your audience. Bro,
That's all that matters. Man. That's I'm trying to get
to know my audience some more, bro, so I can
speak more to them, you know what I mean? Trying
to and I know everybody in my audience. I'm not
calling nobody out, but I'm trying to speak to you.
I'm trying to get right in there, you know what
I mean. Yeah, when they put gunshots and stuff in
(25:01):
the tracks, Bro, that's exactly what it's doing. Bro's just
making you feel like, Holy, I'm really there. I feel
like I'm in this track right now. They know what
they're doing. Bro. Man, It's like, Yo, leave vite Bro.
He knows how to make them beats bro.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Right exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
How is it like working with the with the producer
like that, with a beat maker like that?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Fast? Like everything happening fast, Bro, Like everything happening so quick.
You ain't got no time to like review the track
that you're working on or nothing like that. You just
have to be like on it. You gotta be ready
to perform. You gotta be ready, Yo, you gotta show tomorrow.
You gotta go, bro. So I love that, honestly, I
love that. That's always a life I've been trying to
(25:43):
live so now that it's just like it's actually happening.
But there's like stuff on the line. It's like man
trying to get Grandma to house though, So we gotta
do what you gotta do, you know what I mean.
So that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Ready, Now, you got future projects and themes that are
coming up. Which ones are you excited about? Which ones
are you trying to you? You're trying to let the
world get ready.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
For right now. I don't think I can talk about that.
I think I talk about it, but I will say this.
I say this though, after the elephant, we got something bigger.
How about that bigger than the elephant? Bigger than the
elephant right now? Man, that don't touch down yet though, Bro,
(26:32):
that's not on this planet yet. Right now, Bro, So
right now, elephant the biggest thing on the line. Bro,
got you, I got you.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
So the elephant is he gotta come through and make
way he finished bodoze anything that's in a way make
way for this bigger elephant that's gonna come through. I
feel that.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
We got bangs, bro. I'm just say that, bro certified.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
That's really already well before we go with tell me
what how do you see your music like evolving in
the next coming years. Do you see yourself staying on
the dance all track, Do you see yourself go and
get to more theatrical albums or how do you see yourself?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
For me, Bro, I feel like my lane is like
it's just the art, you know what I mean. So,
like like you said, theatrical albums and all that, I
want to do dance all theatrical albums, you know what
I mean. I want to be the first dance artist
to do certain things, you know what I mean. Like
you got hip hop artists out there, like dare I
say his name, I would say Kanye West Bro Like
(27:32):
pretty crazy, super crazy Kanye West kind of you know
what I mean. But Kanye West, Bro, like that guy,
he's innovating, you know what I mean, he innovating in
his genre. Drake, I could say he was innovating in
the genre. Kendrick, he innovating in the genre, you know
what I mean? Talking about rap. So in dancehall, we
got innovators back in the day. We got Vice Cantel,
(27:52):
we got you know, all those guys from back in
the day. But nowadays it's like dancehall is just like
kind of the same, you know what I mean, Like
I'm not thising none of the other danced just heard,
nothing like that. But it's like we want to hear
something that's just like this is dancehall, you know what
I mean. I'm feeling like merchants, like I fro hip hop,
(28:13):
you know all that stuff. Bro.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Oh wow, you get you be the first one across gym,
just like genre was like that and blended together. Man, Dad,
they'll be calling you, uh what's the name? Uh Superman,
the one I said he the first to do everything.
Get Lord.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I gotta look. I gotta look at the people who
came before me.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I got so many people I could name Bro again, Cartel,
you got Sean Paul, Bro, you got even the newer
guys alk Line, Popcorn and then my sighing, but yeah,
like uh yeah, all those guys, Bro, like they all
did their own thing. There's just a name from me
right now, and that's it. Facts. Make sure we do
(28:54):
the right thing.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I hear you on that, man, and you doing the
right thing. Man. I hear the music, then the audience
y'all about to hear the music as well, So make
sure y'all tuning in, turn it up and zone out
because we got your boy Cadence about to be on
the mic in just a moment. Cadence, Man, is there
anybody that you want to give a shout out to?
Anybody you want to thank your props to and bring
(29:17):
attention to the world.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. No, I want to give
a thanks to my team. First of all, y'all not
seeing them right now, but y'all big up in the cells,
you know yourselves on a big up y'all leave fight
French for real and on a big up. God tell
us fight all of them people that is he just
big up in the cells for all the people who
support me. Libya, big up yourself, yo. We just went
number six and uh and Libya on the chart, so
(29:39):
big up Libya doing crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Congratulations.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Yeah you don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
That's real, man, That's what's up. That's a big move
right there. So congratulations on that, man. It ain't nothing
but else from you.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Number up bro.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
You already know, yes, sir, already. But as we conclude
the Society episode of The Reggae Our podcast, we reflect
on the enlightening journey into the vibrant world of Cadence
a dynamic force pushing the boundaries of dance all music today.
Cadus shared with us not only his unique artistic vision
(30:15):
and creative process, but also the deeper narratives that his
music brings to life. We delved it to the harmonious
fusion of traditional Jamaican sounds with innovative modern production that
defines Katis's style, offering fresh perspectives on what dance all
could be. With tracks like Elephant his collaborations with Jodi
Bit Excuse Me, Kadus is setting new trends and redefining
(30:38):
expectations within the genre. And heartfelt thank you to Caden's
for opening up about his inspirations and future aspirations. It's
through artists like him that the musical landscape continues to evolve,
bringing vibrant stories and sounds to the forefront. We hope
You've enjoyed this glimpse into Katus's musical odyssey and found
inspiration and his dedication to creating music that transcends boundaries.
(31:03):
Make sure to keep your ear off for his upcoming
projects and follow his journey across streaming platforms for the
latest release and updates. You can find his URLs in
the description below. Thank you for joining us on his
musical exploration. Don't forget to stay tuned to Reggae al
for more captivating interviews with the innovators and icons of
the music world, and until then, keep the dance vibes
(31:25):
alive and the music resident one love Cadence, thank you
once again for joining us here on Reggae Hour.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Thanks for having me me said you big of yourself.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yes sir, yes sir. Now this is Elephant by your
boy Cadence. Perfect, great interview, great interview. Man, appreciate the
love on that one.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Man.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
That one's a good one.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Man.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Hey, keep me in tune with everything that you're doing.
Every time y'all drop some let me know I'm to
write an article on this and I'm going to push
out Elephant. I'm gonna be pushing it out real hard.
So any new music, any new shows, anything like that,
let me know that. You know, I'm gonna put it
out there for you.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
All right, bro Y, I appreciate that, man, appreciate that any.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Time, many time. Already, brother, y'all get back to work, man,
and y'all have a great night.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Straight back to the boot. Bro y'all take it easy,
bro easy.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
All right, one love.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
So now we have snow time.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
We ain't even keep hot this shot. She cut it
like we leave all make that my face said, see
with mine be time. Then I'm brock off, back said,
dying the night. Seem like she wants to party. She
now stopping mistick keylingcart it Jonathan, see yoh the way
(32:47):
that's bothering the music I played.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
I said, he.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
Can yellow Fabris, some ye men officer in your ride
yellow Fabris, some yellow bring some mind tonight more city.
(33:16):
So this up reading my fears pretty coming like a
quick guy Donato set when around my left fire yell,
look but I know a bad gallao and pany to
a candy p event. That's a degree event. Yeah, it
seemed like she wants your party. She just pin on
(33:38):
misticky and clad an jon and see all the ways
is bobbling the music drums because men in your vie
yellow Fabrius, some little officierian nervie yellow with a bras
(34:06):
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