November 4, 2024 • 38 mins
In this exclusive episode of **B.O.S.S. Radio’s Reggae Hour**, Mr. E sits down with reggae sensation **Teego Don**. Known for blending reggae, dancehall, and hip-hop, Teego’s music delivers powerful messages of motivation and positivity. From growing up in **Portmore, Jamaica**, to navigating the challenges of the industry, Teego shares his unique journey and how he uses music to uplift listeners worldwide. 🎤
Teego Don also addresses a crucial cultural issue: the **Bob Marley Beach predicament**. In this candid conversation, he opens up about the fight to preserve one of Jamaica's most important landmarks 🌊.
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Teego Don also addresses a crucial cultural issue: the **Bob Marley Beach predicament**. In this candid conversation, he opens up about the fight to preserve one of Jamaica's most important landmarks 🌊.
👉 **Listen Now:**
https://www.sbcmovement.com/2024/10/exclusive-interview-with-teego-don-on.html
🎧 You can also find the interview on your favorite platforms:
- **Apple Podcasts:** https://music.apple.com/us/artist/teego-don/1522118025
- **Spotify:** https://open.spotify.com/artist/7c7ZCMuPSfjLQAWTF1Bdqn
- **Audiomack:** https://audiomack.com/teego-don-1
- **Spreaker:** https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reggae-hour--2646280
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- **4 oz Sea Moss Gel** for just **$2**
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Don't miss this powerful interview and an amazing self-care combo! 🌿✨ #TeegoDon #ReggaeHour #BOSSRadio #SeaMoss #ReggaeMusic #BobMarleyBeach
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Oh my fault, ac, I had to cut that that
sound the last interview idea. I had to call him
back because I totally forgot to cut that thing.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Go.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I just got it set up in my areas for
me to be able to do interviews here. So but
it's working perfectly now. Al Ry, all right, so we'll go.
We're gonna be recording in five four three two.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Hold up, reggae lovers, have you heard of tig Don?
If not, you're missing out. Trust me. T Go Don
hails from Saint Andrew, Jamaica, and he's been creating vibes
since he was just eleven years old. His music is
all about positivity, motivation, and pushing you to be the
best version of yourself. T Go Don doesn't just make music.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
He is music.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
His beats hit hard, his lyrics are real, and the energy.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Is just contagious.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
In his upcoming interview, Tego's going deep, sharing his journey
from Fort Moore and his take on the Bob Marley
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Speaker 1 (01:45):
All right, everybody, welcome back your boy, miss the e
Boss of the South Side Bosses here, Oh reggae out
with t go Don in the building. How's it going
this afternoon over there where you win?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yes, sir big Off, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
We had a time anytime after hearing your music. We
had to get you home.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
When that music was sitting to us, it was like, yeah,
we're gonna put them all. We got to get this interview.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Thank you any time, now I hear that you've been
writing music yourself since you was eleven years old. Like
how they growing up in port More like influence your music?
How did they influence your style?
Speaker 5 (02:23):
It influenced me a lot because it's like an urban
fitty in Jamaica. It's like a whole community, but it's
so large with schemes and different sections that everybody from
all walks of life from Jamaica tend to come to
port More and live. So it broaden your horizon and
it gives you a lot of insights from different people
(02:46):
walks of life.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, that's great to hear. See that's what we like
to hear. People when they listening to music, they want
to hear themselves in that music. They want to be
able to relate to it. So you getting all that
influence from other people of the coaches that visit port
More and grow up in port More, that I can
hear it in your music. So I didn't want to
give you your props on that one as well.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Respect for story. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Any time now your music goes beyond the typical reggae
dance hallhard.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
You know what time it is, Come on winter business, Hey.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
From here it's at prime time age.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Can you share what initially sparked that passion, uh for
you to jump in such a genre at a young age.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
From being where I first landed.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
When I landed when I was young, and when I
was about ten eleven in New York, I was influenced
by the bigger boys on the block.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Yeah, they would always come out to the little speaker
almost like a karaoke speaker, and everybody would DJ.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
And they wouldn't have given.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Me the mic because I was the youngest, being that
they were high school boys, you know, seventeen sixteen, that
age eighteen, and they would always DJ. I will pass
them going to school, going to the store, always on
a car, a dging and I.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Said, yo, I want to you know, you know I
like that song.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
And that's what I you know, it's something is gearing
me to go towards them and say, let me try,
let me try it.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And they wouldn't have given me the microphone.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
And until maybe days days later, one of the boys said, yo,
give them an I try, give him the microphone, let
him try. And from then it was a freestyle and
I ended up being a song and I wrote it
all the way I've been writing since then, and never stop.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Give God thanks and all for life.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yes see, that's what driving. When you have a passion
that drives you, you're not gonna take no for an answer.
And I know how it is being the youngest because
my click was good of boys and I was the
gut of babies, so I already know I was the
youngest of the clique, So I know how that is.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You say you want your music to be more than
just music. You mentioned that the sound is a powerful
wool that help you motivate and uplift. What message do
you hope listens to take away from your music?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Something positive always, because in life, you know negative and
positive there is.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I'm not gonna lie. None of us is perfect.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
But I always put something positive in my music, whether
it's to uplift, whether it's to ENLiGHT, or whether it's
to cheer you up or bring you from a sad
day to a happy day. So always try to do
something positive no matter what. As I'm human, I'm not perfect.
I'm hoping that my fans and the audience would take
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that positivity and run with it.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Now, in today's reggae and dance, all scene. How do
you balance the sultry sounds and the rhythms with the
positive messages that you aim to deliver.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
How I balance it? I have a team.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
I have a good support team around me, my engineers,
my prs, Yeah, friends, family, very supportive and in life,
another key thing is when you have people around you
that's surround you good people. One of the biggest push
or the biggest influence for me would be when they
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believe in me more than I believe in myself. Yes,
that's the kind of people I try, and I would
give that advice to anybody else out there that anything
you're doing in life, it's all as best to have
a good support team that's even believing in it more
than you.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Who is the artisf are you who are the CEO?
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Or you who are trying to accomplish a goal or
aim or mission or you know that part of life
where you're trying to accomplish your goals and you have
people around you that's really pushing you and they really
believe in you more than you. Man, it is a wonderful,
awesome feeling to have those people around you. If you
don't have them, you need to find some of them.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yes, that much I will agree with because you know,
if you want to be a winner, you have to
surround yourself with winners. And winners have an attitude. They
don't win all the time. They have an attitude, they
have a drive, they have a personality that en zoos
I don't give up no matter what. And if you're
going through that, that that tremendous turmoil to where it
makes you want to throw on a towel. You got
(07:19):
people who depend on you, who is like, uh no,
So that is wonderful advice. But I accept that with
the whole heart because it's been times where you don't
have anybody and you got to keep pushing yourself and
be able to focus on your goal not what is
(07:39):
some of the things besides your support system that help
you focus on that goal and accomplishing it.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Working out. I like to work out.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
It frees my mind and my body, keeps me looking young,
fresh reality, it gives it's like a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
And making sure I eat right. Yeah, those of the
things that keeps me going too.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah. Read and then during your leisure time, do you
play like cors dominoes, anything and just get your mind
off of music.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, I play sports.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
One of my favorite sports is two of them, actually
basketball my first love, and soccer, meaning because I migrant
so young, so when I came to America, I was
around a lot of Americans and they played b ball,
you know, yeah, so I gravitated to it and it
was actually going good. Almost made it to the league. Actually,
(08:37):
I don't know if you know Kevin, he's John Stark's brother.
He used to coach us. Oh wow, yeah, so yeah, it.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Was something that I thought I was probably being in
that league. But you know, another life lesson.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
My parents were like, no, go to school, pick up
that book, pencil and pen right, and go be a
lawyer and be a doctor.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
And they didn't mean know a bad bite.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
But I learned from that to know that my kids,
whatever they tried to expire to be, I'm going to
support them and not shun them or even give them
a chance and say go ahead try then if it
don't work, have something to fall back on. But the
old days, they were just bent on you got to
do better than me. I went to fifth grade and dropped.
(09:23):
The highest grade for me was fifth grade, or you know,
I didn't go to school, or we need you to
be the first in the family to get a degree,
and they had driving them, which I don't knock them,
but you live and you learn and you try to
build on what they did or did not do to
make it better for your kids in the future.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah, and a lot of I hear that a lot
about from a lot of parents now, how they strive
for their kids to be the greatest in this or
it's almost like they already planning their life out for
them when they was pushing you to drive to get
your to be the first one in the family to
get a degree. Did that feel like a lot of
pressure that it was placing on you at a young
age or did you just feel like you knew that
(10:05):
that technically wasn't your life path.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It wasn't.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I wouldn't say at that age at that time, you know,
still a young and you know, nineteen twenty, you just
think that, Okay, I'm listening to my parents and okay,
and yeah, why not, that's a goal I could accomplish too. Yeah,
let me just go ahead and accomplish that. And then
I did, and I said, here you go, right, because
(10:34):
what you wanted, that's not.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
What I wanted exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Put it in a sarcast a minute, if you get
what I mean.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Oh yeah, parents tend to want to, like you said earlier,
want to channel how they want their child to be.
Your do But in the end results you have to
do what you do because you're going to be with
you for the rest of your life, not with your parents.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Truth. Truth.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Then if you're not happy with your self because you
decided to go down the path that you knew wasn't
right for you, then that's something that you have to
go back reverse and try to find your own path.
It's a lot of people. I was discussing this with
my wife. A lot of people their purpose in life
can be driven down to paperwork, meaning that if it
ain't quantified about work by getting up in the morning,
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clock again, clocking out, going to a couple of functions
in the community with your family, and then going a
bit and waking up and doing it all over again,
if it doesn't quantify to that, then they didn't live
a life. And I'm just like, what about that? Does
that say about you? So my next question is what
(11:43):
does your music say about you?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
It speaks volume.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
A lot of it is what I experienced and what
I went through, and you could tell some of my
styles if you listen closely.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I used to write hip hop rap, so it's like
it's a mixture.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
If you listen to some of the lyrics for some
of my songs I put I try, I tend to
put that style in it, and a couple of bars
a couple of songs, you will hear it. But yeah,
I try to give my best and put all of
me in that song. So when you're hearing it, you're
not hearing some fake artists or something made up. It's
actually what I've been through and what I've seen good.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Because we have enough industry plants, we need some real
people to ask you to put out real music. Yeah,
but I see that you're very active in the community.
What's the projects that you like, the work on that
you want the community that you want the world to
know about. Possibly actually help in these projects.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I would like them to, you know, be positive, because
the world have enough negativity in it and me bringing
my music is to just bring you on your daily
life journey and keep you motivated.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
That's good. Kind of which song you save? Me? A
few songs, But what's which one of those songs do
you want to get you to listen.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
To one of the songs. I think it's called make
it Aka make it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You know about brother thand love look a well, come
from Reberta Brada real lets.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
So when we come pan Mananada, be goot.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
My friend Surrin a friend killer you got your snof
for them, then my head and and some gal wa
move like she then wan't take man things and play them.
You can be mill if you can't be my friend
mana kill friend like friends seller shop money can't buy love.
He and them sello Jesus to pilot them sell your food.
(13:40):
And that's why I know by the friends, the more
dady them see me take them to Michelle Max done
them your gil friend, you would gill. If you will
make it me make it rebret A Brada, look afar.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
We all come from.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Rebert A Breda ing. Let's when we come from Mananada.
Because my friend Surrey bone a friend.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
If you will make it, me make it showing love
to your brother and your sister, you know saying that, look,
there's no envy, there's no jealous in this.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
If you make it, I'm gonna make it too. So
just hang on, brother, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
So I would like them to take that one and
know that a lot of positive stuff is in it,
a lot of eye opening lines are in it, and
just about to go about living your life and knowing that, Look,
everybody could make it. Everybody can eat everybody your sight
to everybody. There's no need for the envy, the jealous
and the killing of each other. We could all make
it if we just hanging there and just be positive.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That's a great message right there. You know, it's a
lot of people who going through them hard times who
need to hear that message that you can still make it.
Just keep pushing forward.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
With that being said, in the community, you give back
so much. What's important in your community, Like where you're
at now, what's important to you about that community? Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Okay, okay? The old folks. I like to help them out.
For some reason.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
The community that I end up moving into, I was
I didn't know, because you know, you're looking, and you're looking,
and then you see people are always either inside or
at work or about their business. And eventually when I
settled in, I realized that it's like at least fifty
percent old folks around me. Most of them were retired,
(15:27):
so I tried to help them out, sometimes mowing their grass.
I tried to help them put a fixture, you know.
I tried to help them. You know, if it's anything
with a car, I can help I could fix, or
you know, with their technology, because sometimes you know, with
their technology. Not all of them are computer savvy. So
I tried to give back by helping the older folks
(15:49):
in my community.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
And that's commendable because I don't understand how we got
away from that. As a fact, you would think they
took care of you. Now you take care of them, right.
I don't understand how we got away from that, But
I am so happy to hear that you are doing that.
And I'm pretty sure you got your children involved in
that as well.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Perfect, So that's the next generation. This is how we
break generational curses. I like that. I like that Now
with that being in your music and reggae having a
global influence on it's just pretty much a lot of
events that's going on in the world. How would you
what do you think is the key to maintaining is
ou fantasy while reaching a whole.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
New audience reading, staying up the current events and.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Hanging out with myself a lot, because being out tends
to influence you to go with the crowd.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Being out too much tend to.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Drive you to do what the n crowd is doing
or what they're doing, and you don't want to stick
out like a sore thumb and saying, come on, we're
all doing this. Why you're not joining in while you
come along? So I tend to try to balance it
where I have. I make sure I set aside every
day some me time for me so I can meditate
and come down and just relax and humble, and you know,
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let God speak to me that you know positive things
that I can do and help to isolate myself rather
than being in the in crowd ever much. Because sometimes
when you're in the market, there's a lot of noise,
but you know what you want to go pick up, right,
So you go pick up what you need to pick up,
and then you leave. I go out with them, I
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hang with them. I listen and I look, I observe,
and then I leave and go back to my lab.
And then I portray what I do with my music
to give them that good message.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
And that sounds like a great way to stay grounded.
And and I just know that you're also a spiritual man.
Tell us about your faith.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, I believe in God. I'm God fearing.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
You know.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
I have a mixture of both in my family. I
have as you know, I have ball Eds and so
to speak, and I have Rastafarians like yourself. So that's it,
you know, Thank God. I hope you don't have no
devil worship of He is real, He doesn't exist. But
that's my faith and just sticking to those two and
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that's what we roll with. And you know, I don't
try to discriminate to say, oh, your God is not real.
My God is real, and oh it's this way and
that way. I can't judge. Only one man can judge,
and that's the man above, you know. So I write
to be positive.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
That's what thing I did notice about your music is
universal when it talks about when when it doesn't really
talk about faith, exhibits faith in your words, don't talk
about it describes faith, but it doesn't describe oh, Christianity
or Islam or this or that. It describes a universal
oneness when it becomes to the to the to the
(19:08):
most high, Like how did you come across your spirituality?
Like what opened you up to the most to the God.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
It's just proven him, proven him.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Besides going up in a Christian background, you know, because
we did our thing when I was young. We didn't,
you know, go to Sunday school and get up and
you have to go to church and you have to
you know, we will a lot of the time would
scull it, or you will say cut it. We would
go to the park instead, go shootball, and or we
would go play video games and then come back like, yeah,
(19:44):
we went to church today. And knowing that you go
to church, so growing up and then I said, you
know what, let me test the waters. Let me let
me test to see if there's really a God. And
every day I prove him more and more, you know,
I waken up and my limbs moving, and just proving
to him, you know that I'm ready to be one
(20:07):
of his servants, and seeing that him speaking truly is
hard to prove it every day that he sent me
a new message, or he's just moved obstacles, or he
just brings me with good people like yourselves together.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Man, that's a great way to explain that a lot
of people have probably heard you say, prove it. You
tempting God by telling him to prove it. But you
just said it the perfect way, by you speaking, by
you moving, by you waking up in the morning. And
it's just pure proof that He does exist. And from
that proof you ask to be worthy enough for that proof.
I mean that is, you can't get no more poetic
(20:42):
than that. That's a wonderful thing. With everything that's going
on with the world right now, with the wars, it's
kind of it's hard to see how if people even
still even believe in him, let alone want to follow
his ways. Now, your music, it actually resonates for a
minute with me any for its conscious and motivational things like.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
How do you feel?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Like?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
What do you? What do I know?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
You probably don't have any lyrics that pertain to the wars,
But what about your lyrics? Can you take and apply
it to this war so that these wars that's going
on all over the earth, so that people can feel
better and know that there's a better day coming.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
I would like to give them more of me, you know.
It's it's it's not it's so much music and different
genres out there. It's some some days it's challenging more
than some in the studios too. For you, Like you
would look and you would see everybody like you know,
the ig TikTok, and you're like, yos, this is it.
(21:45):
And then you're like, yeah, this is it too, and
you try to think and you try to say no,
you know what, I'm still going to try to go positive,
to show the people and the world that there is
more than just war. There is more to life than
just you know, vanity and territorial and fighting for land
and fighting for this and that, and you know, there's
(22:07):
all there's a there's an inside you that you know
that you didn't know who you were going to be
or what when you first worked. So here you are
now in the world and the earth, trying to dominate
and trying to take over. I try to tell them
and teach them to be humble, because that would bring
you back to ground zero and let you know that, Look,
I'm just a man and I want to just pass
(22:30):
on what I can pass on to the next generation,
my kids, your children, you know, the community, the world
at large. We need to come back together like how
we used to be, and hopefully it will get there
one day, slowly but surely.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yes, you're right, You're so right about that, love the
way you answered that one, because if we got to
start with the next generation. One of my favorite models
is why am I waste of time with all these
brown folks when it's all this church, all these children
now here they can use this knowledge. Most adults they're
stuck in their ways and they believe that they're right.
(23:07):
And I mean they may be or they may not be,
but it's nothing we could do at that point. So
you have to focus on in this generation and break
that generational curse. Do you see reggae and dance all
being a key factor in that task?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
It's like it's it's like a tugo war, I would say,
or how could I put it? Reggae and danceall Now
it's it's from one place, but it's two different genres,
you know, two different worlds, so to speak.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Dan saul Is is more of the outside of parents.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
What you see that the bling, the high, the car
the girls that this the vanity right is more of
this soul. Reggae is more meditation, corner reggae, more of
lighting up the incense and giving praises and herbs, and
you know, it's a deeper feeling. So I tried to
(24:08):
balance being who I am, you know, not to know
what's going to hold in the future, but for now
I try to balance by doing both and not just
sticking to one genre. So I tried to reach out
in that way. I can reach out to some dance
all people that don't listen to reggae, and same thing
vice versa.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Right, Okay, I like that. I like that, you know,
because it's a lot of conversation going on about with
the evolution of reggae, and a lot of people they
try to distance the evolution of SKA, rock steady reggae,
(24:49):
and then you have different genres that some people say
compliment it, such as dancehall, soca afrobeats. It compliments, but
it does it actually blend? And well, what is your
in your understanding of that?
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Yeah, the music has been everybody has a space, I think,
you know, and music will evolve coming from like you said,
sky and from rock steady and the one drops and
you know, everybody up their space, I believe.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
And you know the good thing about it is that
it's going to always evolve no.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Matter how we try to say, oh, this is what
it should sound like in the next five years or
ten years, because you know, dext generation is gonna come
and they're gonna come at new ideas and you want
to have them, you know, branch out also, and you
want to have them to express themselves in that way
where our appearance was.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Would hear our music and say, when I was younger,
what's that noise? Turn it off?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
It's not like noise, And I'm like, oh boy, and yeah,
the same thing their parents would tell them.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
So I'm trying not to go that route.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
I'm trying to be open minded where everybody could have
their space and grow and evolve and bring different ideas
to the table.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Man, I love it. Are you working with any young
artists at this.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Moment currently in a sense, yes and no. I'm working
with younger engineers, younger producers. I'm tapping in with them,
so they keep me up to day and they keep me,
you know, as you would say, more contemporary and what's
going on because a lot of them I'm working with now,
(26:39):
they're giving me that new sound. And you know that
these great ideas that they come and me, being the artist,
I just come do my job and deliver it in
the right way so it comes out complete.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
But yeah, there's some matter of fact. I just met
a young artist yesterday.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
He's twenty three and he's he's a rap, he sings
and everything, and he has Jamaican background, but he was
born in America. So it's a potential that there's a
lot going to be coming for me in the future
as I'm meeting a lot of young artists.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
That's good, that's great, And it's actually when you say
you work with young engineers, that's actually something I promote
to every artist is to get those engineering skills because
if you do not make it as an artist, not
trying to put nobody down, but just in case you're
part of that ninety percent that don't make it, you
(27:36):
got a technical talent, a technical skill that you can
now fall back on that will keep you in the
music industry, keeping you up to date with what's going on,
keeping you relevant, and maybe one day your time will blow.
Working with these young engineers, you say, they keep you
up to date, they keep you grounded. Do you see
yourself like having an extended time in this music industry
(28:00):
from that alone.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yes, it does.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
It gives you life, It gives me hope, and you
know because now I'm tapping in with the next generation
that's coming up.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
So yes, it gives me an a leverage.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Good, that's what's up. That's what's up. See, and that's
how and I like how you keep the youth and
you tend to the youth, and you tend to the elderly.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Correct, that's right there.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
It's exactly how we're supposed to be. We're supposed to be.
Like if you're going to be stretched in, that's how
you get stretched that's the way to be stretched in.
That's how you want to be because at least you know,
being stretched in, you're doing something not only for the
past generation, but you're also utilizing to build for the
future generation. Correct, all right, that's beautiful. Now when it
(28:49):
comes to Jamaica, you know right now, it's uh very
big fiasco going on down there where Bob Marley Beach
is trying. They're trying to privatize it and pretty much
keep it so that the Native Jamaicans cannot.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Go to that beach.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
They already started construction on it, and there's a there's
a social group jabim j A B B j A
b b E m their jab excuse me, they're actually
combating the developers of that land. I just wanted to
get your opinion about privatization of your homeland and not
(29:26):
being able to access it.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It's been going on on and off for decades. Actually,
you know, human nature.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
It's sad that this day and time, with so much
technology and so much you know, other things that that's
been invented to keep us entertained and you know, so
much things that we can do to keep ourselves happy,
that people still tend to go to that or resort
to that way where they want to segregate people and
(29:59):
isolate people. And you know, I'm not for it, but
hopefully one day we can bridge that gap.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yes, because when I heard about it, I was just like, man,
it's it's colonization hall over again. It's like it just
won't stop. And with that, with that being a big fiasco,
especially since it's what it's been fifty two years since
Jamaica has gotten this independent independence, it seems like there's
just the more you fight for it depends, the more
(30:29):
they just want to step all over you would think, right, right, So,
what suggestions do you have for the future generations to
probably combat this, if not like completely keep it away?
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Just to keep an open mind, you know, and if
you want to have your way or have things in
a certain order.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
That's why they have something called rules and laws. You
put them in place.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
You know that.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
I could understand you lose a membership, you get kicked out,
or accept true, but to completely not give up just
to judge.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
That's not for us to do.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
To just look at a person and judge them that
I don't support. You have to give a person a
chance because you don't know what they have inside or
what they have to say, you know, like the saying
innocent until proven guilty. You know, you want to give
people a chance before you just you know, disgard them
or just judge them to be something bad or negative
(31:27):
just by the look of their skin or their hear
Man can just.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Said it better myself. That is the exact truth. Man,
to go, don This has been a great conversation. Man,
I love it. I love it. Everything that you were
saying is right on point. I can I can relate
to everything. I knew this because I just got to
listening to your music and I can relate to your music.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I'm gonna spend it for more too. Don't worry.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I was just about to ask you that any wrote
music you got out there and tell everybody where they
can find your music it.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Yes, yes, all platforms, Spotify, these, Amazon, I'm across all
platforms T E, E, g O, Space, d O N
so two words, t go done and you can find
me every a YouTube you name it, all digital platforms.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I'm there.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
You already heard it from the man himself. So who
hit that light following subscribe button on your favorite streaming
service to t go done? David, I'm telling you you're
gonna be feeling just like me real good.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
All right.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Is there any projects that you got coming out that
you want to tell us about and get us ready for.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah, I'm dropping some a single.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
Actually it's coming out sometime either by the end of
this month or early November.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I have some new songs. Not gonna say too much
about it.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
I like to keep my people as a you know,
engage and surprise them because they never know what or
which way I'm gonna go with it. But there will
be a message in it though he get it. I'm
always working, always in the studio, and believe me, tap
like you said, and you know, subscribe and tapping and
join my links, and you won't be disappointed.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Always working, definitely won't be disappointed. Is there any shout outs,
any people that you want to put put their names
out and give thanks to.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
First of all, shout you out in story and shout
you out your radio station, your podcast, you know, big
it up, Big up. That works also in Jamaica. Shout
out to my engineers. Shout out to South Spoon, Shout
out to reci Rivosa. Shout out to all my peoples,
my fans, everybody that's listening. Shout out to all my
you know DJs that play my songs. Shout out to
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all the person radio personnels. I appreciate you guys, all
my fans that's streaming.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
I love you guys.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Shout out to the world.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yes, definitely. Man, once again, thank you for joining Goods.
This has been a wonderful conversation. I can't wait to
hear this.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
I love the movement.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yes, I love it already. Well, we're gonna definitely keep
in touch everybody you heard where you can find him
out on all your favorite streaming services. Hit that light,
follow subscribe button, that's t go done. On social media,
you're on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
And all that right, Yes they've heard, yes, all of that, Yes,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
So y'all know where to get a met And if
you missed that release next month, don't you're gonna kick
yourself in the ad. So go ahehead, hit that subscribe button,
so and hit that notification button so you can get
told when he drops it.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
You heard me?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
T go done. Thank you so much, sir. You have
a wonderful afternoon at A and keep the grind up.
We're gonna be in touch.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Thank you. I appreciate it, all right. It's the movement, blessen.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Yes, hey, hey think yo give me the girl theme
sim girl, the forty girl them don't you see the girl?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (35:11):
J tell me what's up?
Speaker 3 (35:13):
How we mail?
Speaker 6 (35:14):
We band your future and off not is their world coming?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Who what you like?
Speaker 6 (35:18):
I'm not enough? And a candle light? A J tell
me what's up? How we's me? O ye bad featuring
off not their word coming? Who what you like?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Enough?
Speaker 6 (35:29):
But first you get it fire mama, don't me get
set it. She's don't it so me call it to me?
Was it? Don't? I mean make sure she get it
in us A brown song? I mean he's up the
water come No, what enough? Ay J? Tell me what's up?
(35:51):
How we's mail? Head band? Your future enough? Not their
word coming?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Who?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
What you like?
Speaker 6 (35:55):
I'm not enough? Candlelight a J? Tell me what's a week?
May oh ban your futuring off?
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Not?
Speaker 6 (36:03):
Is their word coming?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Woo?
Speaker 6 (36:04):
What you like in a bad sing? Your name twinkle
the meta phity stars, Twinkle twinkles lecal a medi but
you're not simple and the boy can't pink your melank
your by I G but enough of Alines, I may
have a may have Malin and Marie stand to Caligarista
medical in Nagaki. Ay J, now tell me what's of
(36:28):
a week? Mayad ban your futiring off?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Not?
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Is their word coming?
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Woo?
Speaker 1 (36:32):
But you like?
Speaker 3 (36:33):
And not enough?
Speaker 6 (36:34):
Candle li hey J, no tell me what's off?
Speaker 5 (36:37):
A week?
Speaker 6 (36:38):
May head band your futiring off?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Not?
Speaker 6 (36:40):
Is their word coming? Woop? What you like in a bad.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
One? Then?
Speaker 6 (36:47):
One by one, ten, two,
Oh my fault, ac, I had to cut that that
sound the last interview idea. I had to call him
back because I totally forgot to cut that thing.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Go.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I just got it set up in my areas for
me to be able to do interviews here. So but
it's working perfectly now. Al Ry, all right, so we'll go.
We're gonna be recording in five four three two.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
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Speaker 1 (00:46):
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Speaker 4 (00:47):
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Speaker 5 (00:51):
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Speaker 1 (01:45):
All right, everybody, welcome back your boy, miss the e
Boss of the South Side Bosses here, Oh reggae out
with t go Don in the building. How's it going
this afternoon over there where you win?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yes, sir big Off, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
We had a time anytime after hearing your music. We
had to get you home.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
When that music was sitting to us, it was like, yeah,
we're gonna put them all. We got to get this interview.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Thank you any time, now I hear that you've been
writing music yourself since you was eleven years old. Like
how they growing up in port More like influence your music?
How did they influence your style?
Speaker 5 (02:23):
It influenced me a lot because it's like an urban
fitty in Jamaica. It's like a whole community, but it's
so large with schemes and different sections that everybody from
all walks of life from Jamaica tend to come to
port More and live. So it broaden your horizon and
it gives you a lot of insights from different people
(02:46):
walks of life.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, that's great to hear. See that's what we like
to hear. People when they listening to music, they want
to hear themselves in that music. They want to be
able to relate to it. So you getting all that
influence from other people of the coaches that visit port
More and grow up in port More, that I can
hear it in your music. So I didn't want to
give you your props on that one as well.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Respect for story. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Any time now your music goes beyond the typical reggae
dance hallhard.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
You know what time it is, Come on winter business, Hey.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
From here it's at prime time age.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Can you share what initially sparked that passion, uh for
you to jump in such a genre at a young age.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
From being where I first landed.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
When I landed when I was young, and when I
was about ten eleven in New York, I was influenced
by the bigger boys on the block.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Yeah, they would always come out to the little speaker
almost like a karaoke speaker, and everybody would DJ.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
And they wouldn't have given.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Me the mic because I was the youngest, being that
they were high school boys, you know, seventeen sixteen, that
age eighteen, and they would always DJ. I will pass
them going to school, going to the store, always on
a car, a dging and I.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Said, yo, I want to you know, you know I
like that song.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
And that's what I you know, it's something is gearing
me to go towards them and say, let me try,
let me try it.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And they wouldn't have given me the microphone.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
And until maybe days days later, one of the boys said, yo,
give them an I try, give him the microphone, let
him try. And from then it was a freestyle and
I ended up being a song and I wrote it
all the way I've been writing since then, and never stop.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Give God thanks and all for life.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yes see, that's what driving. When you have a passion
that drives you, you're not gonna take no for an answer.
And I know how it is being the youngest because
my click was good of boys and I was the
gut of babies, so I already know I was the
youngest of the clique, So I know how that is.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You say you want your music to be more than
just music. You mentioned that the sound is a powerful
wool that help you motivate and uplift. What message do
you hope listens to take away from your music?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Something positive always, because in life, you know negative and
positive there is.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I'm not gonna lie. None of us is perfect.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
But I always put something positive in my music, whether
it's to uplift, whether it's to ENLiGHT, or whether it's
to cheer you up or bring you from a sad
day to a happy day. So always try to do
something positive no matter what. As I'm human, I'm not perfect.
I'm hoping that my fans and the audience would take
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that positivity and run with it.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Now, in today's reggae and dance, all scene. How do
you balance the sultry sounds and the rhythms with the
positive messages that you aim to deliver.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
How I balance it? I have a team.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
I have a good support team around me, my engineers,
my prs, Yeah, friends, family, very supportive and in life,
another key thing is when you have people around you
that's surround you good people. One of the biggest push
or the biggest influence for me would be when they
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believe in me more than I believe in myself. Yes,
that's the kind of people I try, and I would
give that advice to anybody else out there that anything
you're doing in life, it's all as best to have
a good support team that's even believing in it more
than you.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Who is the artisf are you who are the CEO?
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Or you who are trying to accomplish a goal or
aim or mission or you know that part of life
where you're trying to accomplish your goals and you have
people around you that's really pushing you and they really
believe in you more than you. Man, it is a wonderful,
awesome feeling to have those people around you. If you
don't have them, you need to find some of them.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yes, that much I will agree with because you know,
if you want to be a winner, you have to
surround yourself with winners. And winners have an attitude. They
don't win all the time. They have an attitude, they
have a drive, they have a personality that en zoos
I don't give up no matter what. And if you're
going through that, that that tremendous turmoil to where it
makes you want to throw on a towel. You got
(07:19):
people who depend on you, who is like, uh no,
So that is wonderful advice. But I accept that with
the whole heart because it's been times where you don't
have anybody and you got to keep pushing yourself and
be able to focus on your goal not what is
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some of the things besides your support system that help
you focus on that goal and accomplishing it.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Working out. I like to work out.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
It frees my mind and my body, keeps me looking young,
fresh reality, it gives it's like a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
And making sure I eat right. Yeah, those of the
things that keeps me going too.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah. Read and then during your leisure time, do you
play like cors dominoes, anything and just get your mind
off of music.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, I play sports.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
One of my favorite sports is two of them, actually
basketball my first love, and soccer, meaning because I migrant
so young, so when I came to America, I was
around a lot of Americans and they played b ball,
you know, yeah, so I gravitated to it and it
was actually going good. Almost made it to the league. Actually,
(08:37):
I don't know if you know Kevin, he's John Stark's brother.
He used to coach us. Oh wow, yeah, so yeah, it.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Was something that I thought I was probably being in
that league. But you know, another life lesson.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
My parents were like, no, go to school, pick up
that book, pencil and pen right, and go be a
lawyer and be a doctor.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
And they didn't mean know a bad bite.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
But I learned from that to know that my kids,
whatever they tried to expire to be, I'm going to
support them and not shun them or even give them
a chance and say go ahead try then if it
don't work, have something to fall back on. But the
old days, they were just bent on you got to
do better than me. I went to fifth grade and dropped.
(09:23):
The highest grade for me was fifth grade, or you know,
I didn't go to school, or we need you to
be the first in the family to get a degree,
and they had driving them, which I don't knock them,
but you live and you learn and you try to
build on what they did or did not do to
make it better for your kids in the future.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah, and a lot of I hear that a lot
about from a lot of parents now, how they strive
for their kids to be the greatest in this or
it's almost like they already planning their life out for
them when they was pushing you to drive to get
your to be the first one in the family to
get a degree. Did that feel like a lot of
pressure that it was placing on you at a young
age or did you just feel like you knew that
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that technically wasn't your life path.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It wasn't.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I wouldn't say at that age at that time, you know,
still a young and you know, nineteen twenty, you just
think that, Okay, I'm listening to my parents and okay,
and yeah, why not, that's a goal I could accomplish too. Yeah,
let me just go ahead and accomplish that. And then
I did, and I said, here you go, right, because
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what you wanted, that's not.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
What I wanted exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Put it in a sarcast a minute, if you get
what I mean.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Oh yeah, parents tend to want to, like you said earlier,
want to channel how they want their child to be.
Your do But in the end results you have to
do what you do because you're going to be with
you for the rest of your life, not with your parents.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Truth. Truth.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Then if you're not happy with your self because you
decided to go down the path that you knew wasn't
right for you, then that's something that you have to
go back reverse and try to find your own path.
It's a lot of people. I was discussing this with
my wife. A lot of people their purpose in life
can be driven down to paperwork, meaning that if it
ain't quantified about work by getting up in the morning,
(11:23):
clock again, clocking out, going to a couple of functions
in the community with your family, and then going a
bit and waking up and doing it all over again,
if it doesn't quantify to that, then they didn't live
a life. And I'm just like, what about that? Does
that say about you? So my next question is what
(11:43):
does your music say about you?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
It speaks volume.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
A lot of it is what I experienced and what
I went through, and you could tell some of my
styles if you listen closely.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I used to write hip hop rap, so it's like
it's a mixture.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
If you listen to some of the lyrics for some
of my songs I put I try, I tend to
put that style in it, and a couple of bars
a couple of songs, you will hear it. But yeah,
I try to give my best and put all of
me in that song. So when you're hearing it, you're
not hearing some fake artists or something made up. It's
actually what I've been through and what I've seen good.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Because we have enough industry plants, we need some real
people to ask you to put out real music. Yeah,
but I see that you're very active in the community.
What's the projects that you like, the work on that
you want the community that you want the world to
know about. Possibly actually help in these projects.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I would like them to, you know, be positive, because
the world have enough negativity in it and me bringing
my music is to just bring you on your daily
life journey and keep you motivated.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
That's good. Kind of which song you save? Me? A
few songs, But what's which one of those songs do
you want to get you to listen.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
To one of the songs. I think it's called make
it Aka make it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You know about brother thand love look a well, come
from Reberta Brada real lets.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
So when we come pan Mananada, be goot.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
My friend Surrin a friend killer you got your snof
for them, then my head and and some gal wa
move like she then wan't take man things and play them.
You can be mill if you can't be my friend
mana kill friend like friends seller shop money can't buy love.
He and them sello Jesus to pilot them sell your food.
(13:40):
And that's why I know by the friends, the more
dady them see me take them to Michelle Max done
them your gil friend, you would gill. If you will
make it me make it rebret A Brada, look afar.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
We all come from.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Rebert A Breda ing. Let's when we come from Mananada.
Because my friend Surrey bone a friend.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
If you will make it, me make it showing love
to your brother and your sister, you know saying that, look,
there's no envy, there's no jealous in this.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
If you make it, I'm gonna make it too. So
just hang on, brother, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
So I would like them to take that one and
know that a lot of positive stuff is in it,
a lot of eye opening lines are in it, and
just about to go about living your life and knowing that, Look,
everybody could make it. Everybody can eat everybody your sight
to everybody. There's no need for the envy, the jealous
and the killing of each other. We could all make
it if we just hanging there and just be positive.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That's a great message right there. You know, it's a
lot of people who going through them hard times who
need to hear that message that you can still make it.
Just keep pushing forward.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
With that being said, in the community, you give back
so much. What's important in your community, Like where you're
at now, what's important to you about that community? Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Okay, okay? The old folks. I like to help them out.
For some reason.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
The community that I end up moving into, I was
I didn't know, because you know, you're looking, and you're looking,
and then you see people are always either inside or
at work or about their business. And eventually when I
settled in, I realized that it's like at least fifty
percent old folks around me. Most of them were retired,
(15:27):
so I tried to help them out, sometimes mowing their grass.
I tried to help them put a fixture, you know.
I tried to help them. You know, if it's anything
with a car, I can help I could fix, or
you know, with their technology, because sometimes you know, with
their technology. Not all of them are computer savvy. So
I tried to give back by helping the older folks
(15:49):
in my community.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
And that's commendable because I don't understand how we got
away from that. As a fact, you would think they
took care of you. Now you take care of them, right.
I don't understand how we got away from that, But
I am so happy to hear that you are doing that.
And I'm pretty sure you got your children involved in
that as well.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Perfect, So that's the next generation. This is how we
break generational curses. I like that. I like that Now
with that being in your music and reggae having a
global influence on it's just pretty much a lot of
events that's going on in the world. How would you
what do you think is the key to maintaining is
ou fantasy while reaching a whole.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
New audience reading, staying up the current events and.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Hanging out with myself a lot, because being out tends
to influence you to go with the crowd.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Being out too much tend to.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Drive you to do what the n crowd is doing
or what they're doing, and you don't want to stick
out like a sore thumb and saying, come on, we're
all doing this. Why you're not joining in while you
come along? So I tend to try to balance it
where I have. I make sure I set aside every
day some me time for me so I can meditate
and come down and just relax and humble, and you know,
(17:20):
let God speak to me that you know positive things
that I can do and help to isolate myself rather
than being in the in crowd ever much. Because sometimes
when you're in the market, there's a lot of noise,
but you know what you want to go pick up, right,
So you go pick up what you need to pick up,
and then you leave. I go out with them, I
(17:44):
hang with them. I listen and I look, I observe,
and then I leave and go back to my lab.
And then I portray what I do with my music
to give them that good message.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
And that sounds like a great way to stay grounded.
And and I just know that you're also a spiritual man.
Tell us about your faith.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, I believe in God. I'm God fearing.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
You know.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
I have a mixture of both in my family. I
have as you know, I have ball Eds and so
to speak, and I have Rastafarians like yourself. So that's it,
you know, Thank God. I hope you don't have no
devil worship of He is real, He doesn't exist. But
that's my faith and just sticking to those two and
(18:31):
that's what we roll with. And you know, I don't
try to discriminate to say, oh, your God is not real.
My God is real, and oh it's this way and
that way. I can't judge. Only one man can judge,
and that's the man above, you know. So I write
to be positive.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
That's what thing I did notice about your music is
universal when it talks about when when it doesn't really
talk about faith, exhibits faith in your words, don't talk
about it describes faith, but it doesn't describe oh, Christianity
or Islam or this or that. It describes a universal
oneness when it becomes to the to the to the
(19:08):
most high, Like how did you come across your spirituality?
Like what opened you up to the most to the God.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
It's just proven him, proven him.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Besides going up in a Christian background, you know, because
we did our thing when I was young. We didn't,
you know, go to Sunday school and get up and
you have to go to church and you have to
you know, we will a lot of the time would
scull it, or you will say cut it. We would
go to the park instead, go shootball, and or we
would go play video games and then come back like, yeah,
(19:44):
we went to church today. And knowing that you go
to church, so growing up and then I said, you
know what, let me test the waters. Let me let
me test to see if there's really a God. And
every day I prove him more and more, you know,
I waken up and my limbs moving, and just proving
to him, you know that I'm ready to be one
(20:07):
of his servants, and seeing that him speaking truly is
hard to prove it every day that he sent me
a new message, or he's just moved obstacles, or he
just brings me with good people like yourselves together.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Man, that's a great way to explain that a lot
of people have probably heard you say, prove it. You
tempting God by telling him to prove it. But you
just said it the perfect way, by you speaking, by
you moving, by you waking up in the morning. And
it's just pure proof that He does exist. And from
that proof you ask to be worthy enough for that proof.
I mean that is, you can't get no more poetic
(20:42):
than that. That's a wonderful thing. With everything that's going
on with the world right now, with the wars, it's
kind of it's hard to see how if people even
still even believe in him, let alone want to follow
his ways. Now, your music, it actually resonates for a
minute with me any for its conscious and motivational things like.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
How do you feel?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Like?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
What do you? What do I know?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
You probably don't have any lyrics that pertain to the wars,
But what about your lyrics? Can you take and apply
it to this war so that these wars that's going
on all over the earth, so that people can feel
better and know that there's a better day coming.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
I would like to give them more of me, you know.
It's it's it's not it's so much music and different
genres out there. It's some some days it's challenging more
than some in the studios too. For you, Like you
would look and you would see everybody like you know,
the ig TikTok, and you're like, yos, this is it.
(21:45):
And then you're like, yeah, this is it too, and
you try to think and you try to say no,
you know what, I'm still going to try to go positive,
to show the people and the world that there is
more than just war. There is more to life than
just you know, vanity and territorial and fighting for land
and fighting for this and that, and you know, there's
(22:07):
all there's a there's an inside you that you know
that you didn't know who you were going to be
or what when you first worked. So here you are
now in the world and the earth, trying to dominate
and trying to take over. I try to tell them
and teach them to be humble, because that would bring
you back to ground zero and let you know that, Look,
I'm just a man and I want to just pass
(22:30):
on what I can pass on to the next generation,
my kids, your children, you know, the community, the world
at large. We need to come back together like how
we used to be, and hopefully it will get there
one day, slowly but surely.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yes, you're right, You're so right about that, love the
way you answered that one, because if we got to
start with the next generation. One of my favorite models
is why am I waste of time with all these
brown folks when it's all this church, all these children
now here they can use this knowledge. Most adults they're
stuck in their ways and they believe that they're right.
(23:07):
And I mean they may be or they may not be,
but it's nothing we could do at that point. So
you have to focus on in this generation and break
that generational curse. Do you see reggae and dance all
being a key factor in that task?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
It's like it's it's like a tugo war, I would say,
or how could I put it? Reggae and danceall Now
it's it's from one place, but it's two different genres,
you know, two different worlds, so to speak.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Dan saul Is is more of the outside of parents.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
What you see that the bling, the high, the car
the girls that this the vanity right is more of
this soul. Reggae is more meditation, corner reggae, more of
lighting up the incense and giving praises and herbs, and
you know, it's a deeper feeling. So I tried to
(24:08):
balance being who I am, you know, not to know
what's going to hold in the future, but for now
I try to balance by doing both and not just
sticking to one genre. So I tried to reach out
in that way. I can reach out to some dance
all people that don't listen to reggae, and same thing
vice versa.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Right, Okay, I like that. I like that, you know,
because it's a lot of conversation going on about with
the evolution of reggae, and a lot of people they
try to distance the evolution of SKA, rock steady reggae,
(24:49):
and then you have different genres that some people say
compliment it, such as dancehall, soca afrobeats. It compliments, but
it does it actually blend? And well, what is your
in your understanding of that?
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Yeah, the music has been everybody has a space, I think,
you know, and music will evolve coming from like you said,
sky and from rock steady and the one drops and
you know, everybody up their space, I believe.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
And you know the good thing about it is that
it's going to always evolve no.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Matter how we try to say, oh, this is what
it should sound like in the next five years or
ten years, because you know, dext generation is gonna come
and they're gonna come at new ideas and you want
to have them, you know, branch out also, and you
want to have them to express themselves in that way
where our appearance was.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Would hear our music and say, when I was younger,
what's that noise? Turn it off?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
It's not like noise, And I'm like, oh boy, and yeah,
the same thing their parents would tell them.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
So I'm trying not to go that route.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
I'm trying to be open minded where everybody could have
their space and grow and evolve and bring different ideas
to the table.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Man, I love it. Are you working with any young
artists at this.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Moment currently in a sense, yes and no. I'm working
with younger engineers, younger producers. I'm tapping in with them,
so they keep me up to day and they keep me,
you know, as you would say, more contemporary and what's
going on because a lot of them I'm working with now,
(26:39):
they're giving me that new sound. And you know that
these great ideas that they come and me, being the artist,
I just come do my job and deliver it in
the right way so it comes out complete.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
But yeah, there's some matter of fact. I just met
a young artist yesterday.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
He's twenty three and he's he's a rap, he sings
and everything, and he has Jamaican background, but he was
born in America. So it's a potential that there's a
lot going to be coming for me in the future
as I'm meeting a lot of young artists.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
That's good, that's great, And it's actually when you say
you work with young engineers, that's actually something I promote
to every artist is to get those engineering skills because
if you do not make it as an artist, not
trying to put nobody down, but just in case you're
part of that ninety percent that don't make it, you
(27:36):
got a technical talent, a technical skill that you can
now fall back on that will keep you in the
music industry, keeping you up to date with what's going on,
keeping you relevant, and maybe one day your time will blow.
Working with these young engineers, you say, they keep you
up to date, they keep you grounded. Do you see
yourself like having an extended time in this music industry
(28:00):
from that alone.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yes, it does.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
It gives you life, It gives me hope, and you
know because now I'm tapping in with the next generation
that's coming up.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
So yes, it gives me an a leverage.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Good, that's what's up. That's what's up. See, and that's
how and I like how you keep the youth and
you tend to the youth, and you tend to the elderly.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Correct, that's right there.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
It's exactly how we're supposed to be. We're supposed to be.
Like if you're going to be stretched in, that's how
you get stretched that's the way to be stretched in.
That's how you want to be because at least you know,
being stretched in, you're doing something not only for the
past generation, but you're also utilizing to build for the
future generation. Correct, all right, that's beautiful. Now when it
(28:49):
comes to Jamaica, you know right now, it's uh very
big fiasco going on down there where Bob Marley Beach
is trying. They're trying to privatize it and pretty much
keep it so that the Native Jamaicans cannot.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Go to that beach.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
They already started construction on it, and there's a there's
a social group jabim j A B B j A
b b E m their jab excuse me, they're actually
combating the developers of that land. I just wanted to
get your opinion about privatization of your homeland and not
(29:26):
being able to access it.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It's been going on on and off for decades. Actually,
you know, human nature.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
It's sad that this day and time, with so much
technology and so much you know, other things that that's
been invented to keep us entertained and you know, so
much things that we can do to keep ourselves happy,
that people still tend to go to that or resort
to that way where they want to segregate people and
(29:59):
isolate people. And you know, I'm not for it, but
hopefully one day we can bridge that gap.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yes, because when I heard about it, I was just like, man,
it's it's colonization hall over again. It's like it just
won't stop. And with that, with that being a big fiasco,
especially since it's what it's been fifty two years since
Jamaica has gotten this independent independence, it seems like there's
just the more you fight for it depends, the more
(30:29):
they just want to step all over you would think, right, right, So,
what suggestions do you have for the future generations to
probably combat this, if not like completely keep it away?
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Just to keep an open mind, you know, and if
you want to have your way or have things in
a certain order.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
That's why they have something called rules and laws. You
put them in place.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
You know that.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
I could understand you lose a membership, you get kicked out,
or accept true, but to completely not give up just
to judge.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
That's not for us to do.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
To just look at a person and judge them that
I don't support. You have to give a person a
chance because you don't know what they have inside or
what they have to say, you know, like the saying
innocent until proven guilty. You know, you want to give
people a chance before you just you know, disgard them
or just judge them to be something bad or negative
(31:27):
just by the look of their skin or their hear
Man can just.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Said it better myself. That is the exact truth. Man,
to go, don This has been a great conversation. Man,
I love it. I love it. Everything that you were
saying is right on point. I can I can relate
to everything. I knew this because I just got to
listening to your music and I can relate to your music.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I'm gonna spend it for more too. Don't worry.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I was just about to ask you that any wrote
music you got out there and tell everybody where they
can find your music it.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Yes, yes, all platforms, Spotify, these, Amazon, I'm across all
platforms T E, E, g O, Space, d O N
so two words, t go done and you can find
me every a YouTube you name it, all digital platforms.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I'm there.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
You already heard it from the man himself. So who
hit that light following subscribe button on your favorite streaming
service to t go done? David, I'm telling you you're
gonna be feeling just like me real good.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
All right.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Is there any projects that you got coming out that
you want to tell us about and get us ready for.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah, I'm dropping some a single.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
Actually it's coming out sometime either by the end of
this month or early November.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I have some new songs. Not gonna say too much
about it.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
I like to keep my people as a you know,
engage and surprise them because they never know what or
which way I'm gonna go with it. But there will
be a message in it though he get it. I'm
always working, always in the studio, and believe me, tap
like you said, and you know, subscribe and tapping and
join my links, and you won't be disappointed.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Always working, definitely won't be disappointed. Is there any shout outs,
any people that you want to put put their names
out and give thanks to.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
First of all, shout you out in story and shout
you out your radio station, your podcast, you know, big
it up, Big up. That works also in Jamaica. Shout
out to my engineers. Shout out to South Spoon, Shout
out to reci Rivosa. Shout out to all my peoples,
my fans, everybody that's listening. Shout out to all my
you know DJs that play my songs. Shout out to
(33:47):
all the person radio personnels. I appreciate you guys, all
my fans that's streaming.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
I love you guys.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Shout out to the world.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yes, definitely. Man, once again, thank you for joining Goods.
This has been a wonderful conversation. I can't wait to
hear this.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
I love the movement.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yes, I love it already. Well, we're gonna definitely keep
in touch everybody you heard where you can find him
out on all your favorite streaming services. Hit that light,
follow subscribe button, that's t go done. On social media,
you're on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
And all that right, Yes they've heard, yes, all of that, Yes,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
So y'all know where to get a met And if
you missed that release next month, don't you're gonna kick
yourself in the ad. So go ahehead, hit that subscribe button,
so and hit that notification button so you can get
told when he drops it.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
You heard me?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
T go done. Thank you so much, sir. You have
a wonderful afternoon at A and keep the grind up.
We're gonna be in touch.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Thank you. I appreciate it, all right. It's the movement, blessen.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Yes, hey, hey think yo give me the girl theme
sim girl, the forty girl them don't you see the girl?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (35:11):
J tell me what's up?
Speaker 3 (35:13):
How we mail?
Speaker 6 (35:14):
We band your future and off not is their world coming?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Who what you like?
Speaker 6 (35:18):
I'm not enough? And a candle light? A J tell
me what's up? How we's me? O ye bad featuring
off not their word coming? Who what you like?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Enough?
Speaker 6 (35:29):
But first you get it fire mama, don't me get
set it. She's don't it so me call it to me?
Was it? Don't? I mean make sure she get it
in us A brown song? I mean he's up the
water come No, what enough? Ay J? Tell me what's up?
(35:51):
How we's mail? Head band? Your future enough? Not their
word coming?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Who?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
What you like?
Speaker 6 (35:55):
I'm not enough? Candlelight a J? Tell me what's a week?
May oh ban your futuring off?
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Not?
Speaker 6 (36:03):
Is their word coming?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Woo?
Speaker 6 (36:04):
What you like in a bad sing? Your name twinkle
the meta phity stars, Twinkle twinkles lecal a medi but
you're not simple and the boy can't pink your melank
your by I G but enough of Alines, I may
have a may have Malin and Marie stand to Caligarista
medical in Nagaki. Ay J, now tell me what's of
(36:28):
a week? Mayad ban your futiring off?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Not?
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Is their word coming?
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Woo?
Speaker 1 (36:32):
But you like?
Speaker 3 (36:33):
And not enough?
Speaker 6 (36:34):
Candle li hey J, no tell me what's off?
Speaker 5 (36:37):
A week?
Speaker 6 (36:38):
May head band your futiring off?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Not?
Speaker 6 (36:40):
Is their word coming? Woop? What you like in a bad.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
One? Then?
Speaker 6 (36:47):
One by one, ten, two,
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