November 24, 2025 • 68 mins
Tony Roy returns to REGGAE HOUR with a bag full of truth and history.
In this unfiltered reasoning with Zionya, Tony shares legendary studio stories with icons like Dennis Brown and Beres Hammond, wild moments from international tours, and deep reflections on authenticity in reggae. This is roots reggae in its purest form — culture, courage, and conversations only a true veteran can deliver. 🗓 Streaming LIVE Nov 25, 2025 @ 7 PM CST
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In this unfiltered reasoning with Zionya, Tony shares legendary studio stories with icons like Dennis Brown and Beres Hammond, wild moments from international tours, and deep reflections on authenticity in reggae. This is roots reggae in its purest form — culture, courage, and conversations only a true veteran can deliver. 🗓 Streaming LIVE Nov 25, 2025 @ 7 PM CST
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Every episode of the Reggae Hour Podcast dives deep into reggae’s heartbeat — the stories, struggles, and spirit that unite the African diaspora. From Kingston to Cape Town, London to Lagos, we bring reggae’s message of truth, love, and liberation to the world. 🎙️ Subscribe & Tune In:
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Because that one had created a huge impact, you know,
and the rega scene, and it opened so many doors
that when on my mind coming, you know, it's like, okay,
that's Tony Wild with bad boy Johnny. So you know,
(00:21):
let's receive it. Man, it's a gi it's a giant.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
She said, why go West school? You don't listen to
listen to Ida when she said why you want school?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah, balabad Vinnie. But then you know people used to
tape the dance and.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Balla bad Minnie anget that hubble the six foot six.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, here you are now, you know, ranking with those guys.
You know, it's a give Johnny.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Johnny gun Johnny Guy, Johnny Gun.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, balla bad Vinnie, Double looping guards Bop Tallaba angering
a double looping guard six foot six.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Blessed Love Family. Today we welcome a true son of Jamaica,
the man whose voice carried the soul of D People
and the power of D roots. From the humble beginnings
with the Chosen People Band to stand in upon stage
with legends like Dennis Brown, Berris Hammond and Buju Banton.
Toni Roy has kept the fire Bannon fade decades. His
(01:32):
smooth vocals and conscious lyrics remained with that regain a fade.
It evolved with tunes like bad Boy Johnny Ran and
up the Foundation Radio Network charts and his new EP
On My Mind reaching number one pound Richie Bee's album
top ten in a Jamaica. Tony Ray continue to prove
that true roots regain never did. So hit that subscribe
(01:55):
and notification button so you can be reminded on November
twenty fourth, at seven pm CENT Time to hear one
of the greatest voices of our time, Tony Roy.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Tony Roy, welcome home, my brother, Welcome back to Reggae Hour.
How you feeling.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Give tanks a rada. It's a blessing, long long time, man.
I give thanks for the opportunity once again so regularly.
You know what I mean. It's a blessing.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Definitely glad to have you back. And Tony, the last
time we talked was before On my Mind Masshup was
on the chart. Like since then, we see you doing
like big stages and like, what's the last show you
did that remind you of why you love performing live?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh? Man, I did so many. The last one I
did was that really give me that great great feeling
was ban on the Sun over there in Annapolis, and
that's where I first dropped I Love You to Want Me,
(03:03):
you know, and I got a good, real good reception
from that, you know. And then since then, that truck
just took off like a bomb shell. You know.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yeah, yes, man, And I've been hearing your new music
and I can just say I'm not surprised to hear
that that actually took off. Man, So tell me about
out there in the Neflix, Like, how did they receive you?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh? Man, it was a lot of joy, you know,
a lot a lot of joy. They didn't want us
to stop, you know. Yeah, as a matter of fact,
we weren't the headliner, and they were disappointed. They were like, wow,
you guys should have been the headliner, because after we
got off the stage, it's like most of the people
(03:52):
they just start to leave because you know what came
after they weren't too happy about, like came out, you know.
So yeah, it was a joy, you know, real joy.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
I know, man, I could just imagine how great it
would have been to just be able to be in
that crowd, just being able to witness, man, Because like
you said, you get some talent, but not only talent,
but you got experience behind you, Like I know, you
share studio space with like legends from Dennis Brown, Bearis Hammond.
But tell me a story, Like, what's one session that
you would never forget? Maybe one of them magic movie nights,
(04:29):
music nights when like the music just took go.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Actually, one night that I will never forget was the
night I opened for Dennis Brown in Toronto. You know.
It was magic feeling is not the very It was
more than a magical feeling. You know. I was so
(04:55):
so overwhelmed, you know, because to know that he's one
of the persons that I've been admiring for so many years.
You know, he's more than the mentor to me, you know,
and I got the privilege still hoping for him. It
was a jib you know.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Yeah, man, I could just I could just imagine. Man,
they say, don't meet your heroes, but I don't believe
in that. I want to meet mine, because great lives,
you know, they great men, They great people. You know
what I'm saying. For real, man, for real, every artist
that got to go on one tour, they I mean,
(05:36):
at least go on tour. They got that one tour story,
the one way everything goes sideways but end up being
like the most memorable. What's one of the Tony Royce
stories from the road that still make you like just
laugh or when you think about it, they're like, oh
my god, that happened.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Actually it was I'm Not a show that I did
in Toronto, you know. And when I heard the playback
of the of the tape back then it was recorded
on cassette tape, you know. And when I heard the
(06:15):
playback of the show, honestly, I couldn't believe it was me,
you know, I just couldn't believe. Yeah, I was shocked
when I heard it, you know, but yeah, it was
a give when I heard it, and I was I
was proud of myself, you know. The song, the sound,
(06:48):
the song, the presentation of the song. It was awesome.
It was awesome, you know, man. And that the journey
that I'm had, I need to continue and that's why
I'm doing what I'm doing up to today, you know.
(07:09):
And I'm still gonna push it too, you know. Yep,
as long as the breath is in the body told
him I are gonna deliver. And when I said deliver,
I'm gonna continue to deliver. Positive music? You know, that's it?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Yes, Son, you and you do man when like we
talk about a lot of songs. But I'm curious, like,
what's the wildest creative process that you've had in the studio.
I mean, you come up with some great positive music
and a lot of people like to think when they
hear positivity that that's boring, but you have shown that
that is the truth. Like what's your processing? And have
(07:51):
you ever had one of the moments where the lyrics
of the rhythm just come like the spirit and just
take over your body?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But actually I'm getting that feeling right now from the
last ep on my mind. Yes, to be honest with you,
the feedback that I got and I've been getting up
to today about the EP, it's awesome. It's awesome. It's
(08:23):
just pure positive vibes, you know, pure positive vibes. And
I love that, you know, because it takeing me more
and more in different different area and different places, and
more and more people are opening up now to Tony
(08:44):
because of the last EP. And I give tanks, you know,
I give tanks. And I also give tanks for the
single before that bad Boy Johnny, because that one I'd
created a huge impact, you know, and the rega scene,
(09:05):
and it opened so many doors that when on my
mind coming you know, it's like, okay, that's Tony right
with Bad Boy Johnny. So you know, let's receive it. Man.
It's a gie. It's a gie. So it just made
me feel like what I'm doing is a good thing
(09:31):
and the people loving it, and I'm just gonna continue
doing it, you know. That's it.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Did the success of Bad Boy Johnny catch you by surprise?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
No? Not really, No, because, like I said, the first
time I drop it, I actually drop it the first
time in Philadelphia, and the respond that I got I was, Yeah,
that was a because the respond that I got from
(10:03):
the crowd just dropping the song for the first time
and to hear the people singing in it like word
to word, it was where is this people get this
song from? And I'm just dropping the song? You know?
It was amazing? Amazing. Yep.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
So yeah, would you say, out all the show, because
you don't perform from US, Jamaica, Canada, would you say
this is the crowd that surprised you the most, like
that that energy coached you off guard and almost brung
you to tears.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yes that night, Yes, definitely that night because to know
that the song it was the same night the song
was released, the very same day the song was released,
and it happened to be doing the show the night
in Philly and to hear the crowd was singing the
(11:01):
song like word for word and you know, yeah, it
was like I said, it was a wonderful, wonderful feeling.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Yeah, And they still do that to this day, huh,
Because I mean when Bad Boy Johnny come on when
I be at work, I guess who's singing it out loud?
And I heard phone, so they getting nothing but the lyrics.
Do you cat yourself walking around sometimes walking around the
(11:32):
house and just be like, oh my god, am I
singing this song right now?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah? For for real, it happens. It happens, and up
to today, that's that song. That song is my ring tone,
you know, Yeah, that's my ring tone. And it just
bring back a lot of memories when I heard it.
And to know that the very first night when they
(11:58):
dropped it was so well received, you know. So yeah,
how did they.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Receive you backstage? When you got off the stage and
they heard that they had the whole crowd just chanting
your music.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, man, like I said. It was well received and
the people were happy to know that they were a
part of their celebration. To know that that was the
first time it was dropping, and you know, we were
loving it together. So yeah, yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Now you've worked with like some giants, But have you
ever been like in a room where you had to
stop and be like, man, I'm here right now, long
this is one of the greats, and I'm here with
this person right now, anybody like that you've ever been
in the studio with?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yes, you know, the last time I got that feeling
was when I was working doing the collaboration with Josie
Will and they struck longing for your Love. Because to
know that Joseph Will is a DJ from long time
(13:15):
and still raining, and to know that I grew up
and was amongst him doing a collaboration with him, Yeah,
it was pretty much exciting and cool. You know, up
to today, I still remember that moment.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
What's What's song?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Was that? What's song?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Declared for your love?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Longing for your love? That's do you come from?
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Finding club?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Finding one?
Speaker 6 (13:57):
You know, the one.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You go around, tell him stand.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Person, Jesus look all along I'll be checking for you
to give to you might know I love so to
do and now jumping to you.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
Respect this dude and volt you of just following up
the chosen few and no woman that we prow your
love stand for it.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
This isn't them bring thew me throw your love to
stand for it. This is a them bring me to
like sho be over that.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
To just come right in and let it us turn
off the plas.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Your eyes.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
You gives your beauty, but a close your side, just
me now and every.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
It will be your ready tread dogs.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I wish what I wish your really know? Yes, I
wish what I is your really know?
Speaker 9 (15:10):
She says it what you right from Max to jump
bore pleasure and bet a count Jos and him a
long time and water beyond that stand a pull over
cousin most chose one.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I wish father we should really do. I wish father
we should really look come along. I've been checking for you.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
To give to you my love.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
I love you, I love talking.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
We make his king mo you o just the chosen
full and that will not for your love.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Ladies, don't you love.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Ra and wanted want you can't get it?
Speaker 9 (16:05):
And get it, get it, don't want it to go
the rye by you know your trees A woman choose
you will by the way your tears up, girl, and
by them diamonds, not by the around dear world god yea,
by our cats. The wheel by our house has a
treaty two about like the mouth.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Your eyes, your beauty, but al your side.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Just love me and y with being your d.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Loveing for your love starts with a grace, and talking
for your love starts for this is a grace.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Baby, longing for.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
You, for you to pull so fred out that dumb yes,
dumb girl girl, if I'm going to rush at a
(17:12):
little bit mountain bond and was a little from we're
both sing down the hollo tight me my betty, I'm
too low b sef for toose.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
One your.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Teeth put your.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Son when you say you grew up with him like
listening to him like yeah, used to used to go
to his the sound system that he used to put
out to the parties that he used to the DJ.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Wait. To be honestly to you, I used to hear
the tapes because I couldn't go to dance at the
extendard is when those guys were you know, teering so
to speak, tearing up in the place, you know, I
guess growing up and even when I was profounding with
the school band back in the days, I had to
(18:01):
get permission from my parents to go home with the band,
you know, and then after that straight home. So like
going to the dances just on my own, it was
like no, no, but I could hear the tapes because
back then, you know, people used to tape the dance
(18:22):
and if the castaid playing all over the street and
you know, so yeah to know that, yeah, you couldn't
be in the dance at that time, but yeah, here
you are now, you know, ranking.
Speaker 10 (18:34):
With those guys, you know, it's a give. Yeah, like
it came a long way, long way, long way.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Is there anybody you're looking forward to working with that
you have not necessarily had the chance to Probably the
chance has it presented itself.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yes, to be honest with you, Over the years, I
tell my I would love to do a collaboration with Lucia,
you know, and up to know, I still haven't crossed it.
I'm looking forward for that opportunity to come one day,
you know. Yeah, to be a gi went with meat.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Right exactly. Yeah, I know. He just they they did
a collaboration for The Mighty Rooksmen that came out earlier
this year, a couple of months ago. So he's still
he's definitely putting in a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
So I could.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
I can hear y'all on the track together. I can
hear that.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, I'll be looking up for that one definitely. So
if you get me spread the rod out and giving
giving my song, I'll be hopping for that. You know,
you know we own it. Just tell him Tony I
say it would love to do a collaboration with him
one day, Yes.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Sir, definitely know we'll be on that a sad right
matter of fact, I'm gonna put a pin in that
and we're gonna get back with you now. But now,
I remember the last time you mentioned producing your own music, Like,
how's that sad things been going for you?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
When it's still going on, you know, because I'm still
in the production hera right now, because right now I'm
doing a lot more stuff to be coming on for
the coming year. And yeah, that's what we're doing. I
have my own label, which is Wireless Records, and yeah,
(20:38):
I'm still still doing that. I'm gonna get the chance
to get a big, big sign up from the big
producer yet, so I still got to do my own,
you know. And I'm up with what's going on so
for right now. So no rush, right, no rush. The
(20:59):
time The time is the time.
Speaker 11 (21:01):
Now, I know.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Do you still prefer to be in control or are
you letting some of the younger engineers in the rhythm
builders kind of bring some new flavor?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well as you as you speak about the engineer, I'm
actually working with three different engineer right now, you know.
So I just mainly put the lyrics together, give them
my insight of what I would like, and they do
(21:31):
the mastermind most of the mastermind behind it, you know.
And when I hear the product that they put together,
it's like yay, RNA, but nine enough, ten times it's yeay.
You know. So I give tanks, I give thanks. I
really got some strong, you know, team behind my back.
(21:56):
And I'm talking about man like or less man like speckle,
man like er Smith junior, you know, and man like
another engineer I got here in in the United States.
(22:18):
You know, it's it's cool. So I give thanks, give thanks, yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
And you can tell but listen to the production quality
of your music that you have to have a team
for that type of quality right there, you can't be
doing that quality.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
And I tried to. I tried to stay more with
the authentic sound, you know. And that's one of my
one of my goal right now to stay with the
original sound. You know. I don't know too much of there.
Not to knock any anyone or any sound, but you
(22:59):
see it, when you used to a certain song and
you get what you want from that song, then I
tend to stick with that song, you know.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Yes, that's how you put the Tony Roy.
Speaker 11 (23:12):
Stamp on it, right, because it's like I have a
strong love for the brass section.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
With the saxophone, the real saxophone and trumpet and trumbone.
And I don't know, I just can't. I just can't
digest the keyboard, you know. Someone, But don't get me wrong,
you know, you got some some songs from some keyboards.
(23:46):
That song really like the ants, the authentic arns. But
I like to hear when the slide.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
You know, that's the real roots. You want to have
the roots of it, you know. And that's that's been
a major conversation. I mean, it's always been a major
conversation trying to make sure that they separate the slackness
from the roots reggae. But like right now, it's a
lot of uh uh uh. It's a lot of people
that's coming into reggae and they don't know the difference.
(24:20):
So it's a lot of people who coming into this
culture and they're confusing dance all or slackness with actual reggae.
So there's a lot of people there's there's you know,
it's a lot of like authentic people who know the
music who are trying to educate people about it. Like,
what's one thing that if you came across somebody who
had uh mistaken roots like ruths reggae for dance hall
(24:44):
or even vice versa, what's something you would tell them
in order to help them differentiate the twos.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Well, from what I know is the don sound is
not really there are ten take reggae, you know, it's
it's a different field. You know, it's a different feel
and we we we come from the era where when
(25:13):
they talk when they used to talk about dance sile,
it's actually the venue you understand, it's actually the venue
where the DJ would play the A side, and then
later on when the DJ, the DJ come down now
(25:33):
with the flip side, which is the version, and then
you have my like lone range and you name them
used to DJ in the dance side, you know, but
for some reason they come up with this thing now
way it's more like a more like an our soca style,
(25:58):
you know, mix with with with the one drop, and
they're calling it a down side, but not to knock anybody,
but you know, it's it's doing his thing and people
are loving it. So you know, I give them, I
give them them props with that, you know. But I'm
(26:19):
there original reggae, love us rock man, you know, and
that's what I'm gonna stick with. That's it.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
That's from talking.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Odd core oddcore reggae, love.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
It, love it, you know. And and since we're talking
about legacy, like when them play Tony Roy thirty years
from now, which song do you want them to say
that that right there with the spirit of Tony Roy.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Oh my god, Well I'm looking at this song right now,
just one yeah, that song is a song that actually
(27:14):
create a mark way way back and up to today.
It's still creating some some impact and also the original
Hunger for your Love. That's that's the original piece of
(27:36):
longing for your love. You know, Hunger for your Love
was the original before longing for your Love came. So
Hunger for your Love it's just me by myself and
longing for your love. It was a combination with me
and Josie Will So those two songs gonna be the
(28:01):
torn ye Mark just going and Hungry for your Love,
not to say, bad boy Johnny and love You to
Want Me not gonna stand out. But it's just the
(28:21):
way I see those two sounds.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
No, my fans may see different. You know, I can't
judge for them, but you know what I feel is
what I feel it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Yes, definitely, definitely, man be definitely gonna have to look
up hung We're gonna have to look that one up. Yes,
So definitely be eight again. I got another gym to
be hanging on for that. We're gonna be playing after
this interview, so stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Now.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
We know you've always pushed positive, Reydae, and I'm starting
to notice that the youth, even though they have this
the dance hall music, they are coming back to starting
with coming back to roots like I've heard a new
artist quality quality. He has fantastic routs music young too,
it's like twenty two years old young, and his music
(29:20):
sounds like he has an old soul. Like is there
any of the new generation that maybe you've been reasoning
with or maybe even want of the record with.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
The Yeah, we're talking about man like chronics and man like.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
This.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
This is Martin, Christopher Martin under those guys. Yeah, those
guys they have a feel that they're bringing by they
authentic sounds if you listen to some of those songs,
(30:05):
you know, So those guys they are pushing some positive
energy and I love that. You know, quite a few
there where that I don't even remember some of their name,
but yeah, because what I noticed, in fact is the
music scene is it's something that it's going around, you know,
(30:33):
and the old time stuff is like coming back. And
I don't know if it's like people get tired of
certain stuff, why certain things are just surfacing back. But
for example, not to not to not to stray from it,
(30:53):
but if you look at the the tape players at
one time, you couldn't see any any casts it player
in the store, and if you notice they are coming
back vinyl is coming back too, right, So it's a
(31:19):
thing that who knows, later on it might be just
feel vinyl again. You might soon see them jukebox in
the in the in the clubs. I don't know, if
you know those days when you used to have a
jukebox in the in the in the in the bars
and the clubs with the vinyer. You never know, because
(31:45):
right now I got one radio DJ who is prittical
and practical and mad with me because he needs certain
songs from me to play in the club, and it
requires for it to be and vinyl, because in the
club they don't play CDs and they don't play the laptop.
(32:11):
It's vinyl. And you have a special love for one
of my songs that every day he told me, you
need that song and vinyl so he can play it
in the club. So who knows. I'm thinking strongly that
my next album or my next EP I might do.
(32:34):
I'm looking towards doing some vinyl also with that, you know,
and also CD and then also you can get it
E P three m P three wise, so you know,
because the way all things are going right now, you
(32:56):
have to move with the time, you know, And what's
what's happening?
Speaker 5 (33:01):
So that's it, Yes, sir, you're definitely right about that vinyl.
It's people are really starting to want that, uh, that
that authentic grainy sound back. You can't knock it. I mean,
(33:21):
even when the music ain't playing and the record is
just playing by itself and they're just crackling and popping.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
That's a you can't get thathing from the CD exactly.
You can't get that from the CD. That's original.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Exactly. And I even know that there's some artists trying
to think of who they were. There was some artists
that actually released music on strictly vinyl. Uh, and oh man,
I'm trying to trying to remember who it was. I
know it was a black queen and from not mistaken,
but anyways, it was just a lot of artists that
(34:02):
just like, they have projects that they just released strictly
on vinyl, and it sounds like because it was supposed
to be strictly played for the club. Because over here
in the United States is kind of different. A lot
of these DJs aren't really DJ's. Their music players and
they're using the laptop, they're using the the CDs and
(34:26):
they just play pressing skill and press a button and
it automatically blends in. You know, they don't actually have
to do themselves. So when you see an actual DJ
up there with vinyl, you know that that's a real
talent of skill right there. And the party always is
more jumping when you have a DJ that pulls out
that vinyl.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Yeah yeah, And that DJ's working because you got to
be moving from box to box, picking up records, cleaning
record on, you know, keep the poject flooring, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And at the same time, the song, the song that
that the vinyl presents, it's none replace some of the
(35:11):
you know, it's none replace.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Yes, exactly like you and and and when you talk
about the difference between slackness and reggae, I wouldn't want
to hear no slackness on vinyl. It's because the frequencies,
like you were saying earlier, you like the authentic sound
from the authentic instrument versus that synthesized sound. That synthesized
(35:36):
sound has a different tone, the different harmony, and it's
from what I read is actually a dangerous harm dangerous tone,
the dangerous notes that they're hit hitting because there artificial
notes and that's kind of missing about thought process when
you're in the studio and you're dealing with real musicians, Like,
(35:57):
what's the process? Like, tell me how do you get
the how you all get on the same page, because
I know you've been doing this for whilst, you got
the experience behind well.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
In the in the studio we do we do live,
live stuff. I use the real drums, drum set with
five piece or six piece, you know, and the piano
and they synthesizer to give you the bubble and stuff
(36:29):
like that, and then the saxophoni is coming, the guitar,
the percushions, the old nine yard, you know, the real stuff.
If you listen, if you listen keenly to my production,
then you will know what I'm saying. You know, you
(36:51):
can hear the distinct if sound from the tambourine, the
colbert everything. You know, it's it's pronounced, you know, it's
not no keyboard giving you the the Cobell song are
the congo sound is authentic, you know, And that's what
(37:15):
I love about, you know, my recording, you know. And
it don't get me wrong, it costly, Yeah, it costs me.
And that's what that's that's one of the reason why
a lot of people are strained away from that because
(37:36):
of the costs, you know, and to be honest with you,
the way how this industry is going right now, you're
putting in more in production than what you're receiving, you know.
But at the end of the day, like you mentioned earlier,
thirty years from now, the song it's gonna stand out
(38:03):
just the same. You know, you're not gonna tiere to
hear that song because that song is authentic, you know,
because if you listen, if you listen, like about Marley
track right now, Dennis Brown track from way back then,
you know, it still stands out. It still stands out
(38:24):
because they were well made, you know, and it's the
original authentic song. So that that came the t ray.
It's not going nowhere, you understand. So it's it's it's
it's all depends on the individual what you want all
(38:44):
of the music, you know, in terms of your production,
you know. But for me, I do whatever it takes
to get my song the way I want it, and
that's it, you know. I tried to stay today roots
(39:05):
the foundation and that's it. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
And you're right, you can definitely hear it in the production.
You actually no music and you're not just somebody who
just press play and let anything play. You actually know
you can hear that. You can even hear where the
guitarists didn't mean they hit the extra stream, but it's
made a good sound.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
So to produce, yeahs, they don't get that. The thing.
The thing that I love about they authentic production. You know,
it's just take the vocal out of it, right, and
(39:53):
you can still enjoy the instrumental because I know you do.
You do you remember back in the days, you used
to have the version and the instrumental, no folk and
it was enjoyable. So those are the stuff that I
(40:20):
first not like, you know, And that's what I'm feeding
the people with until I can't feed him no more.
And that's it.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Be hungry.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Yeah, can you say I was. I was brought up
in that era, you know. Yeah, that's that's that's the
ear I was brought up in. So I don't know
know how the way to present the music to the people,
you know, that's the way I know of And hey,
(41:00):
that's what I'm gonna do. My brother ask what's up?
Speaker 5 (41:03):
And we ain't gonna ask you to do nothing else,
all right, yeah, right, Well when just we want to
get a little bit to know you a little bit more.
We want to get to know who Tony Royd the
man is, not just Tony roy the artist. So tell
me that the funny r heartfelt story that you got
either not even just backstage or on tour, but just
(41:25):
in life in general. Maybe he was walking down the street,
or you was in the market or something. Somebody stopped
you had a conversation. What was something that stuck to
you that showed that can show us exactly who Tony
Royd the.
Speaker 6 (41:38):
Bands mm hmmm ah yes, that's so many teens and
that because in my my out of word of.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
My life journey is I am. I am a mechanic
by by professional, you know, and it's a giant more
time when you walking on the street and you see
somebody car broke down on the side of the road
(42:15):
and you can stop and give them a help and
you know, keep them moving. Sometime when you do a
good job to a customer and the next thing you know,
days after they call you up just to say, a man,
I appreciate the work that you did because my car
(42:37):
is doing this and my car is doing that. I'm
so happy. I'm glad I met you. And you know,
so a lot of stuff, like you know, going on
the street, going to the store, you meet people. You
see people at the cash register struggling to pay the
(43:00):
bill and holding up the line, and the next thing
you know, you say, hey, you need some help, don't
worry about it. I got you, and you take care
of them. And I remember one day I I pay
a bill for a lady. I don't know her from
Adam Naive and she was she was in front of me,
(43:25):
and I know that she pick up some stuff and
when I take a stock, she was putting them back,
putting back some of the stuff. They the cashier was
putting them to the side. And when I look at
the stuff that she was putting back, I realized that
it was like stuff for some kids. So I turned
(43:48):
to turn to the cash here and said she don't
want them, and she said no. So I asked her
you don't want those, and she hold her head down
and I said, don't worry take them. I got you,
and I take care of them for her. And to
(44:11):
my surprise, when she left, and then I finished my
shopping and walk outside. She was near bout her car,
and she came over to me and, oh, thank you
very much, thank you ver, I say, it's okay. I'm
glad I was able to help you, you know. And
you could see the joy in her. Oh she was
(44:35):
happy because she was really in need of the stuff
for our kids, you know, and stuff like that made
me feel worth living, you know. Yeah, right living, So
not just the music alone. I do a lot of
good stuff on the face of the hearth for people,
(44:56):
and you know, I'm happy to or that. Yeah, I'm
alive and well and can be called upon for some
reason somehow to help some people in many different ways,
you know what I mean. Yeah, because that's what life
is a boat, you know, life is not just for
(45:18):
yourself alone, you know, as long as you can give
my heap hands some weird somehow to somebody. You don't
even have to have a connection with them, you know,
like that, but you see in need, somebody need help
and you can't help, you know. It's a joy, you know.
Speaker 5 (45:41):
So, yeah, that's a beautiful act. A lot of people,
especially in this day and time, everybody to be like
that in order to be able to make it through
the turmoil and all the evil that is taken over
and is in control right now. The only way we
(46:02):
be able to beat it is love. That right, there
is better example of.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
You know, it's it's it's it's sad to know that
you have to know somebody, you know, because before you
can render a help, you know, right, it's exactly, you know.
You know. One other things that that gets to me
these days is somebody is in danger, somebody need to
(46:35):
be rescued somehow somewhere, and the first thing you can
think of is to pick your phone up and start
a video, you know, instead of render some form of assistance,
because it's a life, you know. But the first thing
(46:56):
you can think of pick up your phone to video
and send it all the way across the world to
get some likes, and you don't care if that person
is gonna make it. You know, we need to we
need to show more love amongst mankind these days, you know,
(47:19):
and this world would be a better place, you know.
It doesn't matter what color our one nation and your eye.
You know, we need to show more love. You know,
we're too selfish these days, Yeah, too selfish.
Speaker 5 (47:40):
We're seeing the pit, we're seeing the hole that we're digging,
and it's like the people who are screaming, hey, stop digging,
or just not being heard right now. But it's a
lot of it's especially in the music realm, and you
get these people who, if you listen to the music
gets slacked. They just straight negative, They just straight destructive.
(48:02):
Their lyrics suggests even if you don't go out and
commit none of these acts yourself, you ingesting these words,
these lyrics is damaging psyche in its own right. What
is it, like could we do in order to be
able to reach the masses in order to get them
(48:23):
out of that hypnosis? Because they obviously are hypnotized, because
who would drink poison on purpose? So what would be
something you would want to do on a mask if
you had the stage to put on something massive for
the whole world, what would be what you would do?
What idea would you have to get the whole world dehypnotized?
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Like I said, it's the greatest thing for me right
now is to get everybody together. You know, whatever we
can do to get unity.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
That that the base of life right now? That that's
that's the goal right now, you know, And once we
have unity, we got strengths, you understand. So whatever it's
gonna take for us to do right now, that's what
(49:25):
we need to work on right now, you know, That's
what we need to work on, because we are not
here for ourselves alone, you know. And we we this
(49:46):
really and we are like a chain right without the link,
it can't go wrong. So we depend on each other.
As much as you think you're big and you're strong,
and you have all the money in the world, you
(50:07):
can't make it by yourself. You just can't make it
by yourself.
Speaker 3 (50:14):
You know.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
We need each other. And it doesn't matter what that
person do, as long as it's something positive in life.
We need each other, you know. For example, everybody couldn't
be a singer, everybody couldn't be a DJ. Everybody couldn't
be a shoemaker, everybody couldn't be a dressmaker. Somebody have
(50:41):
to till the sile and plant the food for us
to eat, you know. So we need to respect each
and every person on the face of the earth. Once
we're dealing with positive things, you know, and let's stay positive.
(51:06):
I'm sure. More love, that's it. That's all I'm preaching,
you know, more love.
Speaker 5 (51:13):
I year that I hear that man, And you know,
with that being said, let's let's let's put let's give
you the uh like, let's let's hypothetically say you have
the stage to put on the Roots Revival Concert twenty
twenty six, that the whole thing is pushing love and unity.
(51:35):
What is five artists or five bands or mismatch that
you think?
Speaker 1 (51:41):
See?
Speaker 5 (51:41):
I mean, could you perform with Bears Hammond, you perform
with Boo Ju BoNT, and you perform with the Whaling Souls?
Who would you build? What dream lineup would you build
for this Roots Revival concert?
Speaker 1 (51:52):
Oh? You touch you touched out willing soul for sure,
have to be in the mix. Barrius Right and Boudio,
Joseph Will Louisiana. You know, you know, you know you
(52:17):
know this, but I was I was watching him yesterday
and uh on a YouTube channel. Maxi Price, Oh it's
Maxy Price.
Speaker 5 (52:34):
You know he doesn't get enough recognition. No, no, yes,
definitely a power.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
Yeah. You have a song with Maxy Price and various Amon,
Marxi Price, Barius and I think it was Dennis Brown,
I I I'm not mistaken. Sugar Minor maybe in it too,
(53:06):
But that song is a powerful song, and to me,
that song didn't get the recognition that it should have
gotten to me. And that's one of the biggest problems
(53:29):
right now in the world, because the music is a
message for the people, right but the positive messages I
kept back. They're holding back the positive messages for some
(53:49):
reason why, I don't know, you know, because, believe it
or not, we players of instruments and singers, we are
who the people are listening to and look up to.
Speaker 6 (54:12):
We are role.
Speaker 1 (54:14):
Positive role models, and whatever we go outside there and preach,
that's what the people are gonna gravitate too, right. So
that's why we've gotta be careful of what we project
out there to the audience because they look up on us,
(54:40):
right And that's why me and myself, it's very hard
for me to, like I would say, records certain type
of stuff because you know, people looking up onto me
for type of material and I can't drift from that,
(55:08):
you know, I can't and I won't, you know. And
that's it. So we need more positive music to be
heard to the people. And that's one other thing that
can bring the people together more if they're hearing more
(55:30):
and more consciousness every day, you know, because the message
is out there, but they're not getting it. There are
a lot of positive music out there right now that
not have been playing the way they should be playing,
(55:53):
you know, And I don't know when it's gonna check what.
I would love for it to change in the right direction,
you know, because like I said, music alone shall live,
(56:15):
and the people need to be hearing more and more,
especially in time like no. We need more positive stuff
to lean on, you know what I mean, Because it's
not pretty out there right now.
Speaker 10 (56:33):
It is not.
Speaker 1 (56:36):
Pretty. So you get about and face the world every day.
I'm not hearing some positive stuff to keep you up.
It's odd, you know, it's odd. So but I'm here.
I'm trying to do my team, my portion, my contribution
(56:56):
to the industry. And I just give tanks people like you,
you know, radio this jacket like you who consider me
as one of the positive singers and to be playing
my music. That's why you're talking today, you know. I
(57:19):
give tongues for people like you, you know, and just
keep on doing what you're doing, my brother, and you know,
the day will come when the world will realize that
he love is the answer.
Speaker 5 (57:36):
Yes, I just want to thank you for making music
that I can raise my children listening to. I used
to be in rap and hip hop, and when I
had my kids, I realized I can't even let them
hear none of my music. I stopped. I was like,
I tried to put out one positive rap CD right
(57:59):
before I stop rapping. I try to put out a
positive way. I am pretty proud of it. But like
you said, positivity does not get any kind of push,
it doesn't get any kind of notoriety. So it was like,
you know what I love reggae. Reggae is the message
of unity, of peace, love, truth, just in freedom. So
(58:22):
why don't I just cross over and just stay there?
Speaker 1 (58:25):
You said something, You said something. Just know that it
modeled me when you say that, because that's one of
my preaching every day. My belief is never ever to
(58:47):
go on stage and sing a song that tomorrow I
hear my kids, I'm singing it, and I'm gonna turn
her on to them and say, don't sing that song, right,
because the only answer that I'm gonna hear from them
is Daddy, I heard you singing. What am I gonna say? Okay?
(59:14):
I can sing what you not to sing. So my
thing is I can't sing. I create anything that I
have to tell my kids don't sing. You know, whatever
I sing or whatever I create, it's gonna be children like.
(59:38):
They're gonna love it, and there will be no need
for the DJ to be playing and muting any part
of it. You know, anytime I send a song to
a radio DJ, and I'm telling you this, like I
(01:00:00):
tell all my radio DJs, anytime I send you a song,
you don't have to screen that the night before you
go on the year, you don't and you won't have
to do that. I will never ever send you a
song where you're gonna have to screen it. You can
(01:00:21):
in the midst of your show. You can play it.
If you just get it and you're in the middle
of the show, you should be able to put that
in right now. Hey, look, I just got a track
from Tony rde brand New. I don't even hear it yet.
Listen to this. You won't disappoint it, because that's my belief.
(01:00:42):
You know, I hate to hear some DJs say I
gotta listen it first before I put it on the here,
what's your sense?
Speaker 8 (01:00:52):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
It don't make no sense. It's like it's like the
teacher teaching, you know, and then when when yeah, she
reached a certain part of the subject, she mute, what
this that? And then she skip over that. No no, no, no,
(01:01:16):
no no no.
Speaker 5 (01:01:17):
Right now, you ain't making no sense.
Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
Right, you know. So, like I said, it depends on
the individual to you know, how they see life and
what they want out of their career, you know, because
I want my music to be playing years after I'm
nowhere around and people can say, yes, that was toning Awry,
(01:01:45):
very very ray, you know, and you know, people still
loving it and enjoying it, you know, just like oh
the old veteran them paved the way for us, and
their music is still playing and can enjoy them to
the fullest. You know. So I give times for all
(01:02:06):
of those veterans are passed. I'm gone. I'm like Alton
Ellis John All they are Williston And you know all
of those guys their music still living on right. No,
I still pop in a couple of those sundstage or sometimes,
you know, because those music are good music, you know.
(01:02:28):
And yeah, and that's all I want my music them
to be down the road, you know, right.
Speaker 5 (01:02:39):
Right about that man, you write about that and day
we already know in thirty years, they gonna know who
Tony Roy is before we wrap up My brother Man,
what's coming next? And you got any unreleased tracks, a
new project, or maybe you collab with another legend we
should be looking out for.
Speaker 1 (01:03:02):
Seriously, Tonorize always working in the studio and I got
some new tracks coming on for the next year. I'm
not dropping anything more for this year because I'm still
pushing the latest EP. The next track that is getting
(01:03:24):
some good rotation now from it is on My Mind,
which is a Taple truck, you know, So we're still
pushing that right now. But currently, yeah, I'm in the
studio working on some more stuff next year definitely, and
(01:03:45):
they're looking good. They're looking good and as soon as
they're ready, you know, you'll get them, don't worry. Definitely
get them.
Speaker 5 (01:03:56):
We're gonna be pushing on my Mind at the end
of this interview with them other tracks that we were
just talking about. So y'all make sure y'all tune in
turn up his Zone out because we got to Roy
in here high. Tony is always a blessing when we
readson my king Man, and every time you pass through,
you drop wisdom and vibes that remind the people what
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reggae really means. Man the family. It's not the last
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Owl until we link again.
Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
This is mister.
Speaker 5 (01:04:46):
He's saying, keep the roots alive, keep the heart pure,
and keep the reggae flowing. One love always, And this
is Tony Roy on my mind.
Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
Can't get you. You can't get you, can't get you
off for money. No, no, no, he can't get you
off of mine. No mater, what try You're die this
school too mine, baby, can't get you off of mine?
(01:05:24):
No mater, what.
Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
Tries you're die this school into mine?
Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
It was my just when we made.
Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
It's no fire now you.
Speaker 9 (01:05:42):
Did good.
Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
Fire burning in my soul.
Speaker 5 (01:05:52):
And it's getting getting out of some too.
Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
He get you off from mind? No mantle?
Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
What try you die?
Speaker 3 (01:06:04):
This loop so bad.
Speaker 9 (01:06:09):
And you offer mine?
Speaker 3 (01:06:11):
No mantle, what tries you die?
Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
This loop.
Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
It's a mind. When I look into your eyes.
Speaker 8 (01:06:27):
When you've got me hit no time, when I see
your beautiful.
Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Side, when you got me.
Speaker 7 (01:06:44):
Get you off of mind, No Manta won Try you
die this loop, Smile.
Speaker 5 (01:06:56):
You off of mine, no.
Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
Matter what ry you like this flu to Marge, he said,
getting get one. It was mudgic when we made.
Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
It's no finer buntain.
Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
I am burnished in my soul.
Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
And it's getting.
Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
Our cool.
Speaker 6 (01:07:54):
You off for mine?
Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
You much and what's try?
Speaker 5 (01:08:00):
You don't this root to bad?
Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
What you offer bide by lord, ride for no.
Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
Good?
Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
The game you want, but you don't know mind your
pads are Roman. You don't don't get you offer mine
your pads ride
Because that one had created a huge impact, you know,
and the rega scene, and it opened so many doors
that when on my mind coming, you know, it's like, okay,
that's Tony Wild with bad boy Johnny. So you know,
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let's receive it. Man, it's a gi it's a giant.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
She said, why go West school? You don't listen to
listen to Ida when she said why you want school?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah, balabad Vinnie. But then you know people used to
tape the dance and.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Balla bad Minnie anget that hubble the six foot six.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, here you are now, you know, ranking with those guys.
You know, it's a give Johnny.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Johnny gun Johnny Guy, Johnny Gun.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, balla bad Vinnie, Double looping guards Bop Tallaba angering
a double looping guard six foot six.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Blessed Love Family. Today we welcome a true son of Jamaica,
the man whose voice carried the soul of D People
and the power of D roots. From the humble beginnings
with the Chosen People Band to stand in upon stage
with legends like Dennis Brown, Berris Hammond and Buju Banton.
Toni Roy has kept the fire Bannon fade decades. His
(01:32):
smooth vocals and conscious lyrics remained with that regain a fade.
It evolved with tunes like bad Boy Johnny Ran and
up the Foundation Radio Network charts and his new EP
On My Mind reaching number one pound Richie Bee's album
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Speaker 5 (02:06):
Tony Roy, welcome home, my brother, Welcome back to Reggae Hour.
How you feeling.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Give tanks a rada. It's a blessing, long long time, man.
I give thanks for the opportunity once again so regularly.
You know what I mean. It's a blessing.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Definitely glad to have you back. And Tony, the last
time we talked was before On my Mind Masshup was
on the chart. Like since then, we see you doing
like big stages and like, what's the last show you
did that remind you of why you love performing live?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh? Man, I did so many. The last one I
did was that really give me that great great feeling
was ban on the Sun over there in Annapolis, and
that's where I first dropped I Love You to Want Me,
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you know, and I got a good, real good reception
from that, you know. And then since then, that truck
just took off like a bomb shell. You know.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yeah, yes, man, And I've been hearing your new music
and I can just say I'm not surprised to hear
that that actually took off. Man, So tell me about
out there in the Neflix, Like, how did they receive you?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh? Man, it was a lot of joy, you know,
a lot a lot of joy. They didn't want us
to stop, you know. Yeah, as a matter of fact,
we weren't the headliner, and they were disappointed. They were like, wow,
you guys should have been the headliner, because after we
got off the stage, it's like most of the people
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they just start to leave because you know what came
after they weren't too happy about, like came out, you know.
So yeah, it was a joy, you know, real joy.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
I know, man, I could just imagine how great it
would have been to just be able to be in
that crowd, just being able to witness, man, Because like
you said, you get some talent, but not only talent,
but you got experience behind you, Like I know, you
share studio space with like legends from Dennis Brown, Bearis Hammond.
But tell me a story, Like, what's one session that
you would never forget? Maybe one of them magic movie nights,
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music nights when like the music just took go.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Actually, one night that I will never forget was the
night I opened for Dennis Brown in Toronto. You know.
It was magic feeling is not the very It was
more than a magical feeling. You know. I was so
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so overwhelmed, you know, because to know that he's one
of the persons that I've been admiring for so many years.
You know, he's more than the mentor to me, you know,
and I got the privilege still hoping for him. It
was a jib you know.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Yeah, man, I could just I could just imagine. Man,
they say, don't meet your heroes, but I don't believe
in that. I want to meet mine, because great lives,
you know, they great men, They great people. You know
what I'm saying. For real, man, for real, every artist
that got to go on one tour, they I mean,
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at least go on tour. They got that one tour story,
the one way everything goes sideways but end up being
like the most memorable. What's one of the Tony Royce
stories from the road that still make you like just
laugh or when you think about it, they're like, oh
my god, that happened.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Actually it was I'm Not a show that I did
in Toronto, you know. And when I heard the playback
of the of the tape back then it was recorded
on cassette tape, you know. And when I heard the
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playback of the show, honestly, I couldn't believe it was me,
you know, I just couldn't believe. Yeah, I was shocked
when I heard it, you know, but yeah, it was
a give when I heard it, and I was I
was proud of myself, you know. The song, the sound,
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the song, the presentation of the song. It was awesome.
It was awesome, you know, man. And that the journey
that I'm had, I need to continue and that's why
I'm doing what I'm doing up to today, you know.
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And I'm still gonna push it too, you know. Yep,
as long as the breath is in the body told
him I are gonna deliver. And when I said deliver,
I'm gonna continue to deliver. Positive music? You know, that's it?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Yes, Son, you and you do man when like we
talk about a lot of songs. But I'm curious, like,
what's the wildest creative process that you've had in the studio.
I mean, you come up with some great positive music
and a lot of people like to think when they
hear positivity that that's boring, but you have shown that
that is the truth. Like what's your processing? And have
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you ever had one of the moments where the lyrics
of the rhythm just come like the spirit and just
take over your body?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But actually I'm getting that feeling right now from the
last ep on my mind. Yes, to be honest with you,
the feedback that I got and I've been getting up
to today about the EP, it's awesome. It's awesome. It's
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just pure positive vibes, you know, pure positive vibes. And
I love that, you know, because it takeing me more
and more in different different area and different places, and
more and more people are opening up now to Tony
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because of the last EP. And I give tanks, you know,
I give tanks. And I also give tanks for the
single before that bad Boy Johnny, because that one I'd
created a huge impact, you know, and the rega scene,
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and it opened so many doors that when on my
mind coming you know, it's like, okay, that's Tony right
with Bad Boy Johnny. So you know, let's receive it. Man.
It's a gie. It's a gie. So it just made
me feel like what I'm doing is a good thing
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and the people loving it, and I'm just gonna continue
doing it, you know. That's it.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Did the success of Bad Boy Johnny catch you by surprise?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
No? Not really, No, because, like I said, the first
time I drop it, I actually drop it the first
time in Philadelphia, and the respond that I got I was, Yeah,
that was a because the respond that I got from
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the crowd just dropping the song for the first time
and to hear the people singing in it like word
to word, it was where is this people get this
song from? And I'm just dropping the song? You know?
It was amazing? Amazing. Yep.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
So yeah, would you say, out all the show, because
you don't perform from US, Jamaica, Canada, would you say
this is the crowd that surprised you the most, like
that that energy coached you off guard and almost brung
you to tears.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yes that night, Yes, definitely that night because to know
that the song it was the same night the song
was released, the very same day the song was released,
and it happened to be doing the show the night
in Philly and to hear the crowd was singing the
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song like word for word and you know, yeah, it
was like I said, it was a wonderful, wonderful feeling.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Yeah, And they still do that to this day, huh,
Because I mean when Bad Boy Johnny come on when
I be at work, I guess who's singing it out loud?
And I heard phone, so they getting nothing but the lyrics.
Do you cat yourself walking around sometimes walking around the
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house and just be like, oh my god, am I
singing this song right now?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah? For for real, it happens. It happens, and up
to today, that's that song. That song is my ring tone,
you know, Yeah, that's my ring tone. And it just
bring back a lot of memories when I heard it.
And to know that the very first night when they
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dropped it was so well received, you know. So yeah,
how did they.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Receive you backstage? When you got off the stage and
they heard that they had the whole crowd just chanting
your music.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, man, like I said. It was well received and
the people were happy to know that they were a
part of their celebration. To know that that was the
first time it was dropping, and you know, we were
loving it together. So yeah, yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Now you've worked with like some giants, But have you
ever been like in a room where you had to
stop and be like, man, I'm here right now, long
this is one of the greats, and I'm here with
this person right now, anybody like that you've ever been
in the studio with?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yes, you know, the last time I got that feeling
was when I was working doing the collaboration with Josie
Will and they struck longing for your Love. Because to
know that Joseph Will is a DJ from long time
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and still raining, and to know that I grew up
and was amongst him doing a collaboration with him, Yeah,
it was pretty much exciting and cool. You know, up
to today, I still remember that moment.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
What's What's song?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Was that? What's song?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Declared for your love?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Longing for your love? That's do you come from?
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Finding club?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Finding one?
Speaker 6 (13:57):
You know, the one.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You go around, tell him stand.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Person, Jesus look all along I'll be checking for you
to give to you might know I love so to
do and now jumping to you.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
Respect this dude and volt you of just following up
the chosen few and no woman that we prow your
love stand for it.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
This isn't them bring thew me throw your love to
stand for it. This is a them bring me to
like sho be over that.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
To just come right in and let it us turn
off the plas.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Your eyes.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
You gives your beauty, but a close your side, just
me now and every.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
It will be your ready tread dogs.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I wish what I wish your really know? Yes, I
wish what I is your really know?
Speaker 9 (15:10):
She says it what you right from Max to jump
bore pleasure and bet a count Jos and him a
long time and water beyond that stand a pull over
cousin most chose one.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I wish father we should really do. I wish father
we should really look come along. I've been checking for you.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
To give to you my love.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
I love you, I love talking.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
We make his king mo you o just the chosen
full and that will not for your love.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Ladies, don't you love.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Ra and wanted want you can't get it?
Speaker 9 (16:05):
And get it, get it, don't want it to go
the rye by you know your trees A woman choose
you will by the way your tears up, girl, and
by them diamonds, not by the around dear world god yea,
by our cats. The wheel by our house has a
treaty two about like the mouth.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Your eyes, your beauty, but al your side.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Just love me and y with being your d.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Loveing for your love starts with a grace, and talking
for your love starts for this is a grace.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Baby, longing for.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
You, for you to pull so fred out that dumb yes,
dumb girl girl, if I'm going to rush at a
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little bit mountain bond and was a little from we're
both sing down the hollo tight me my betty, I'm
too low b sef for toose.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
One your.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Teeth put your.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Son when you say you grew up with him like
listening to him like yeah, used to used to go
to his the sound system that he used to put
out to the parties that he used to the DJ.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Wait. To be honestly to you, I used to hear
the tapes because I couldn't go to dance at the
extendard is when those guys were you know, teering so
to speak, tearing up in the place, you know, I
guess growing up and even when I was profounding with
the school band back in the days, I had to
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get permission from my parents to go home with the band,
you know, and then after that straight home. So like
going to the dances just on my own, it was
like no, no, but I could hear the tapes because
back then, you know, people used to tape the dance
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and if the castaid playing all over the street and
you know, so yeah to know that, yeah, you couldn't
be in the dance at that time, but yeah, here
you are now, you know, ranking.
Speaker 10 (18:34):
With those guys, you know, it's a give. Yeah, like
it came a long way, long way, long way.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Is there anybody you're looking forward to working with that
you have not necessarily had the chance to Probably the
chance has it presented itself.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yes, to be honest with you, Over the years, I
tell my I would love to do a collaboration with Lucia,
you know, and up to know, I still haven't crossed it.
I'm looking forward for that opportunity to come one day,
you know. Yeah, to be a gi went with meat.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Right exactly. Yeah, I know. He just they they did
a collaboration for The Mighty Rooksmen that came out earlier
this year, a couple of months ago. So he's still
he's definitely putting in a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
So I could.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
I can hear y'all on the track together. I can
hear that.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, I'll be looking up for that one definitely. So
if you get me spread the rod out and giving
giving my song, I'll be hopping for that. You know,
you know we own it. Just tell him Tony I
say it would love to do a collaboration with him
one day, Yes.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Sir, definitely know we'll be on that a sad right
matter of fact, I'm gonna put a pin in that
and we're gonna get back with you now. But now,
I remember the last time you mentioned producing your own music, Like,
how's that sad things been going for you?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
When it's still going on, you know, because I'm still
in the production hera right now, because right now I'm
doing a lot more stuff to be coming on for
the coming year. And yeah, that's what we're doing. I
have my own label, which is Wireless Records, and yeah,
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I'm still still doing that. I'm gonna get the chance
to get a big, big sign up from the big
producer yet, so I still got to do my own,
you know. And I'm up with what's going on so
for right now. So no rush, right, no rush. The
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time The time is the time.
Speaker 11 (21:01):
Now, I know.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Do you still prefer to be in control or are
you letting some of the younger engineers in the rhythm
builders kind of bring some new flavor?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well as you as you speak about the engineer, I'm
actually working with three different engineer right now, you know.
So I just mainly put the lyrics together, give them
my insight of what I would like, and they do
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the mastermind most of the mastermind behind it, you know.
And when I hear the product that they put together,
it's like yay, RNA, but nine enough, ten times it's yeay.
You know. So I give tanks, I give thanks. I
really got some strong, you know, team behind my back.
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And I'm talking about man like or less man like speckle,
man like er Smith junior, you know, and man like
another engineer I got here in in the United States.
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You know, it's it's cool. So I give thanks, give thanks, yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
And you can tell but listen to the production quality
of your music that you have to have a team
for that type of quality right there, you can't be
doing that quality.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
And I tried to. I tried to stay more with
the authentic sound, you know. And that's one of my
one of my goal right now to stay with the
original sound. You know. I don't know too much of there.
Not to knock any anyone or any sound, but you
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see it, when you used to a certain song and
you get what you want from that song, then I
tend to stick with that song, you know.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Yes, that's how you put the Tony Roy.
Speaker 11 (23:12):
Stamp on it, right, because it's like I have a
strong love for the brass section.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
With the saxophone, the real saxophone and trumpet and trumbone.
And I don't know, I just can't. I just can't
digest the keyboard, you know. Someone, But don't get me wrong,
you know, you got some some songs from some keyboards.
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That song really like the ants, the authentic arns. But
I like to hear when the slide.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
You know, that's the real roots. You want to have
the roots of it, you know. And that's that's been
a major conversation. I mean, it's always been a major
conversation trying to make sure that they separate the slackness
from the roots reggae. But like right now, it's a
lot of uh uh uh. It's a lot of people
that's coming into reggae and they don't know the difference.
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So it's a lot of people who coming into this
culture and they're confusing dance all or slackness with actual reggae.
So there's a lot of people there's there's you know,
it's a lot of like authentic people who know the
music who are trying to educate people about it. Like,
what's one thing that if you came across somebody who
had uh mistaken roots like ruths reggae for dance hall
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or even vice versa, what's something you would tell them
in order to help them differentiate the twos.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Well, from what I know is the don sound is
not really there are ten take reggae, you know, it's
it's a different field. You know, it's a different feel
and we we we come from the era where when
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they talk when they used to talk about dance sile,
it's actually the venue you understand, it's actually the venue
where the DJ would play the A side, and then
later on when the DJ, the DJ come down now
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with the flip side, which is the version, and then
you have my like lone range and you name them
used to DJ in the dance side, you know, but
for some reason they come up with this thing now
way it's more like a more like an our soca style,
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you know, mix with with with the one drop, and
they're calling it a down side, but not to knock anybody,
but you know, it's it's doing his thing and people
are loving it. So you know, I give them, I
give them them props with that, you know. But I'm
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there original reggae, love us rock man, you know, and
that's what I'm gonna stick with. That's it.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
That's from talking.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Odd core oddcore reggae, love.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
It, love it, you know. And and since we're talking
about legacy, like when them play Tony Roy thirty years
from now, which song do you want them to say
that that right there with the spirit of Tony Roy.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Oh my god, Well I'm looking at this song right now,
just one yeah, that song is a song that actually
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create a mark way way back and up to today.
It's still creating some some impact and also the original
Hunger for your Love. That's that's the original piece of
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longing for your love. You know, Hunger for your Love
was the original before longing for your Love came. So
Hunger for your Love it's just me by myself and
longing for your love. It was a combination with me
and Josie Will So those two songs gonna be the
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torn ye Mark just going and Hungry for your Love,
not to say, bad boy Johnny and love You to
Want Me not gonna stand out. But it's just the
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way I see those two sounds.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
No, my fans may see different. You know, I can't
judge for them, but you know what I feel is
what I feel it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Yes, definitely, definitely, man be definitely gonna have to look
up hung We're gonna have to look that one up. Yes,
So definitely be eight again. I got another gym to
be hanging on for that. We're gonna be playing after
this interview, so stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Now.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
We know you've always pushed positive, Reydae, and I'm starting
to notice that the youth, even though they have this
the dance hall music, they are coming back to starting
with coming back to roots like I've heard a new
artist quality quality. He has fantastic routs music young too,
it's like twenty two years old young, and his music
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sounds like he has an old soul. Like is there
any of the new generation that maybe you've been reasoning
with or maybe even want of the record with.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
The Yeah, we're talking about man like chronics and man like.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
This.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
This is Martin, Christopher Martin under those guys. Yeah, those
guys they have a feel that they're bringing by they
authentic sounds if you listen to some of those songs,
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you know, So those guys they are pushing some positive
energy and I love that. You know, quite a few
there where that I don't even remember some of their name,
but yeah, because what I noticed, in fact is the
music scene is it's something that it's going around, you know,
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and the old time stuff is like coming back. And
I don't know if it's like people get tired of
certain stuff, why certain things are just surfacing back. But
for example, not to not to not to stray from it,
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but if you look at the the tape players at
one time, you couldn't see any any casts it player
in the store, and if you notice they are coming
back vinyl is coming back too, right, So it's a
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thing that who knows, later on it might be just
feel vinyl again. You might soon see them jukebox in
the in the in the clubs. I don't know, if
you know those days when you used to have a
jukebox in the in the in the in the bars
and the clubs with the vinyer. You never know, because
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right now I got one radio DJ who is prittical
and practical and mad with me because he needs certain
songs from me to play in the club, and it
requires for it to be and vinyl, because in the
club they don't play CDs and they don't play the laptop.
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It's vinyl. And you have a special love for one
of my songs that every day he told me, you
need that song and vinyl so he can play it
in the club. So who knows. I'm thinking strongly that
my next album or my next EP I might do.
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I'm looking towards doing some vinyl also with that, you know,
and also CD and then also you can get it
E P three m P three wise, so you know,
because the way all things are going right now, you
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have to move with the time, you know, And what's
what's happening?
Speaker 5 (33:01):
So that's it, Yes, sir, you're definitely right about that vinyl.
It's people are really starting to want that, uh, that
that authentic grainy sound back. You can't knock it. I mean,
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even when the music ain't playing and the record is
just playing by itself and they're just crackling and popping.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
That's a you can't get thathing from the CD exactly.
You can't get that from the CD. That's original.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Exactly. And I even know that there's some artists trying
to think of who they were. There was some artists
that actually released music on strictly vinyl. Uh, and oh man,
I'm trying to trying to remember who it was. I
know it was a black queen and from not mistaken,
but anyways, it was just a lot of artists that
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just like, they have projects that they just released strictly
on vinyl, and it sounds like because it was supposed
to be strictly played for the club. Because over here
in the United States is kind of different. A lot
of these DJs aren't really DJ's. Their music players and
they're using the laptop, they're using the the CDs and
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they just play pressing skill and press a button and
it automatically blends in. You know, they don't actually have
to do themselves. So when you see an actual DJ
up there with vinyl, you know that that's a real
talent of skill right there. And the party always is
more jumping when you have a DJ that pulls out
that vinyl.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Yeah yeah, And that DJ's working because you got to
be moving from box to box, picking up records, cleaning
record on, you know, keep the poject flooring, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And at the same time, the song, the song that
that the vinyl presents, it's none replace some of the
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you know, it's none replace.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Yes, exactly like you and and and when you talk
about the difference between slackness and reggae, I wouldn't want
to hear no slackness on vinyl. It's because the frequencies,
like you were saying earlier, you like the authentic sound
from the authentic instrument versus that synthesized sound. That synthesized
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sound has a different tone, the different harmony, and it's
from what I read is actually a dangerous harm dangerous tone,
the dangerous notes that they're hit hitting because there artificial
notes and that's kind of missing about thought process when
you're in the studio and you're dealing with real musicians, Like,
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what's the process? Like, tell me how do you get
the how you all get on the same page, because
I know you've been doing this for whilst, you got
the experience behind well.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
In the in the studio we do we do live,
live stuff. I use the real drums, drum set with
five piece or six piece, you know, and the piano
and they synthesizer to give you the bubble and stuff
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like that, and then the saxophoni is coming, the guitar,
the percushions, the old nine yard, you know, the real stuff.
If you listen, if you listen keenly to my production,
then you will know what I'm saying. You know, you
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can hear the distinct if sound from the tambourine, the
colbert everything. You know, it's it's pronounced, you know, it's
not no keyboard giving you the the Cobell song are
the congo sound is authentic, you know, And that's what
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I love about, you know, my recording, you know. And
it don't get me wrong, it costly, Yeah, it costs me.
And that's what that's that's one of the reason why
a lot of people are strained away from that because
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of the costs, you know, and to be honest with you,
the way how this industry is going right now, you're
putting in more in production than what you're receiving, you know.
But at the end of the day, like you mentioned earlier,
thirty years from now, the song it's gonna stand out
(38:03):
just the same. You know, you're not gonna tiere to
hear that song because that song is authentic, you know,
because if you listen, if you listen, like about Marley
track right now, Dennis Brown track from way back then,
you know, it still stands out. It still stands out
(38:24):
because they were well made, you know, and it's the
original authentic song. So that that came the t ray.
It's not going nowhere, you understand. So it's it's it's
it's all depends on the individual what you want all
(38:44):
of the music, you know, in terms of your production,
you know. But for me, I do whatever it takes
to get my song the way I want it, and
that's it, you know. I tried to stay today roots
(39:05):
the foundation and that's it. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
And you're right, you can definitely hear it in the production.
You actually no music and you're not just somebody who
just press play and let anything play. You actually know
you can hear that. You can even hear where the
guitarists didn't mean they hit the extra stream, but it's
made a good sound.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
So to produce, yeahs, they don't get that. The thing.
The thing that I love about they authentic production. You know,
it's just take the vocal out of it, right, and
(39:53):
you can still enjoy the instrumental because I know you do.
You do you remember back in the days, you used
to have the version and the instrumental, no folk and
it was enjoyable. So those are the stuff that I
(40:20):
first not like, you know, And that's what I'm feeding
the people with until I can't feed him no more.
And that's it.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Be hungry.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Yeah, can you say I was. I was brought up
in that era, you know. Yeah, that's that's that's the
ear I was brought up in. So I don't know
know how the way to present the music to the people,
you know, that's the way I know of And hey,
(41:00):
that's what I'm gonna do. My brother ask what's up?
Speaker 5 (41:03):
And we ain't gonna ask you to do nothing else,
all right, yeah, right, Well when just we want to
get a little bit to know you a little bit more.
We want to get to know who Tony Royd the
man is, not just Tony roy the artist. So tell
me that the funny r heartfelt story that you got
either not even just backstage or on tour, but just
(41:25):
in life in general. Maybe he was walking down the street,
or you was in the market or something. Somebody stopped
you had a conversation. What was something that stuck to
you that showed that can show us exactly who Tony
Royd the.
Speaker 6 (41:38):
Bands mm hmmm ah yes, that's so many teens and
that because in my my out of word of.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
My life journey is I am. I am a mechanic
by by professional, you know, and it's a giant more
time when you walking on the street and you see
somebody car broke down on the side of the road
(42:15):
and you can stop and give them a help and
you know, keep them moving. Sometime when you do a
good job to a customer and the next thing you know,
days after they call you up just to say, a man,
I appreciate the work that you did because my car
(42:37):
is doing this and my car is doing that. I'm
so happy. I'm glad I met you. And you know,
so a lot of stuff, like you know, going on
the street, going to the store, you meet people. You
see people at the cash register struggling to pay the
(43:00):
bill and holding up the line, and the next thing
you know, you say, hey, you need some help, don't
worry about it. I got you, and you take care
of them. And I remember one day I I pay
a bill for a lady. I don't know her from
Adam Naive and she was she was in front of me,
(43:25):
and I know that she pick up some stuff and
when I take a stock, she was putting them back,
putting back some of the stuff. They the cashier was
putting them to the side. And when I look at
the stuff that she was putting back, I realized that
it was like stuff for some kids. So I turned
(43:48):
to turn to the cash here and said she don't
want them, and she said no. So I asked her
you don't want those, and she hold her head down
and I said, don't worry take them. I got you,
and I take care of them for her. And to
(44:11):
my surprise, when she left, and then I finished my
shopping and walk outside. She was near bout her car,
and she came over to me and, oh, thank you
very much, thank you ver, I say, it's okay. I'm
glad I was able to help you, you know. And
you could see the joy in her. Oh she was
(44:35):
happy because she was really in need of the stuff
for our kids, you know, and stuff like that made
me feel worth living, you know. Yeah, right living, So
not just the music alone. I do a lot of
good stuff on the face of the hearth for people,
(44:56):
and you know, I'm happy to or that. Yeah, I'm
alive and well and can be called upon for some
reason somehow to help some people in many different ways,
you know what I mean. Yeah, because that's what life
is a boat, you know, life is not just for
(45:18):
yourself alone, you know, as long as you can give
my heap hands some weird somehow to somebody. You don't
even have to have a connection with them, you know,
like that, but you see in need, somebody need help
and you can't help, you know. It's a joy, you know.
Speaker 5 (45:41):
So, yeah, that's a beautiful act. A lot of people,
especially in this day and time, everybody to be like
that in order to be able to make it through
the turmoil and all the evil that is taken over
and is in control right now. The only way we
(46:02):
be able to beat it is love. That right, there
is better example of.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
You know, it's it's it's it's sad to know that
you have to know somebody, you know, because before you
can render a help, you know, right, it's exactly, you know.
You know. One other things that that gets to me
these days is somebody is in danger, somebody need to
(46:35):
be rescued somehow somewhere, and the first thing you can
think of is to pick your phone up and start
a video, you know, instead of render some form of assistance,
because it's a life, you know. But the first thing
(46:56):
you can think of pick up your phone to video
and send it all the way across the world to
get some likes, and you don't care if that person
is gonna make it. You know, we need to we
need to show more love amongst mankind these days, you know,
(47:19):
and this world would be a better place, you know.
It doesn't matter what color our one nation and your eye.
You know, we need to show more love. You know,
we're too selfish these days, Yeah, too selfish.
Speaker 5 (47:40):
We're seeing the pit, we're seeing the hole that we're digging,
and it's like the people who are screaming, hey, stop digging,
or just not being heard right now. But it's a
lot of it's especially in the music realm, and you
get these people who, if you listen to the music
gets slacked. They just straight negative, They just straight destructive.
(48:02):
Their lyrics suggests even if you don't go out and
commit none of these acts yourself, you ingesting these words,
these lyrics is damaging psyche in its own right. What
is it, like could we do in order to be
able to reach the masses in order to get them
(48:23):
out of that hypnosis? Because they obviously are hypnotized, because
who would drink poison on purpose? So what would be
something you would want to do on a mask if
you had the stage to put on something massive for
the whole world, what would be what you would do?
What idea would you have to get the whole world dehypnotized?
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Like I said, it's the greatest thing for me right
now is to get everybody together. You know, whatever we
can do to get unity.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
That that the base of life right now? That that's
that's the goal right now, you know, And once we
have unity, we got strengths, you understand. So whatever it's
gonna take for us to do right now, that's what
(49:25):
we need to work on right now, you know, That's
what we need to work on, because we are not
here for ourselves alone, you know. And we we this
(49:46):
really and we are like a chain right without the link,
it can't go wrong. So we depend on each other.
As much as you think you're big and you're strong,
and you have all the money in the world, you
(50:07):
can't make it by yourself. You just can't make it
by yourself.
Speaker 3 (50:14):
You know.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
We need each other. And it doesn't matter what that
person do, as long as it's something positive in life.
We need each other, you know. For example, everybody couldn't
be a singer, everybody couldn't be a DJ. Everybody couldn't
be a shoemaker, everybody couldn't be a dressmaker. Somebody have
(50:41):
to till the sile and plant the food for us
to eat, you know. So we need to respect each
and every person on the face of the earth. Once
we're dealing with positive things, you know, and let's stay positive.
(51:06):
I'm sure. More love, that's it. That's all I'm preaching,
you know, more love.
Speaker 5 (51:13):
I year that I hear that man, And you know,
with that being said, let's let's let's put let's give
you the uh like, let's let's hypothetically say you have
the stage to put on the Roots Revival Concert twenty
twenty six, that the whole thing is pushing love and unity.
(51:35):
What is five artists or five bands or mismatch that
you think?
Speaker 1 (51:41):
See?
Speaker 5 (51:41):
I mean, could you perform with Bears Hammond, you perform
with Boo Ju BoNT, and you perform with the Whaling Souls?
Who would you build? What dream lineup would you build
for this Roots Revival concert?
Speaker 1 (51:52):
Oh? You touch you touched out willing soul for sure,
have to be in the mix. Barrius Right and Boudio,
Joseph Will Louisiana. You know, you know, you know you
(52:17):
know this, but I was I was watching him yesterday
and uh on a YouTube channel. Maxi Price, Oh it's
Maxy Price.
Speaker 5 (52:34):
You know he doesn't get enough recognition. No, no, yes,
definitely a power.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
Yeah. You have a song with Maxy Price and various Amon,
Marxi Price, Barius and I think it was Dennis Brown,
I I I'm not mistaken. Sugar Minor maybe in it too,
(53:06):
But that song is a powerful song, and to me,
that song didn't get the recognition that it should have
gotten to me. And that's one of the biggest problems
(53:29):
right now in the world, because the music is a
message for the people, right but the positive messages I
kept back. They're holding back the positive messages for some
(53:49):
reason why, I don't know, you know, because, believe it
or not, we players of instruments and singers, we are
who the people are listening to and look up to.
Speaker 6 (54:12):
We are role.
Speaker 1 (54:14):
Positive role models, and whatever we go outside there and preach,
that's what the people are gonna gravitate too, right. So
that's why we've gotta be careful of what we project
out there to the audience because they look up on us,
(54:40):
right And that's why me and myself, it's very hard
for me to, like I would say, records certain type
of stuff because you know, people looking up onto me
for type of material and I can't drift from that,
(55:08):
you know, I can't and I won't, you know. And
that's it. So we need more positive music to be
heard to the people. And that's one other thing that
can bring the people together more if they're hearing more
(55:30):
and more consciousness every day, you know, because the message
is out there, but they're not getting it. There are
a lot of positive music out there right now that
not have been playing the way they should be playing,
(55:53):
you know, And I don't know when it's gonna check what.
I would love for it to change in the right direction,
you know, because like I said, music alone shall live,
(56:15):
and the people need to be hearing more and more,
especially in time like no. We need more positive stuff
to lean on, you know what I mean, Because it's
not pretty out there right now.
Speaker 10 (56:33):
It is not.
Speaker 1 (56:36):
Pretty. So you get about and face the world every day.
I'm not hearing some positive stuff to keep you up.
It's odd, you know, it's odd. So but I'm here.
I'm trying to do my team, my portion, my contribution
(56:56):
to the industry. And I just give tanks people like you,
you know, radio this jacket like you who consider me
as one of the positive singers and to be playing
my music. That's why you're talking today, you know. I
(57:19):
give tongues for people like you, you know, and just
keep on doing what you're doing, my brother, and you know,
the day will come when the world will realize that
he love is the answer.
Speaker 5 (57:36):
Yes, I just want to thank you for making music
that I can raise my children listening to. I used
to be in rap and hip hop, and when I
had my kids, I realized I can't even let them
hear none of my music. I stopped. I was like,
I tried to put out one positive rap CD right
(57:59):
before I stop rapping. I try to put out a
positive way. I am pretty proud of it. But like
you said, positivity does not get any kind of push,
it doesn't get any kind of notoriety. So it was like,
you know what I love reggae. Reggae is the message
of unity, of peace, love, truth, just in freedom. So
(58:22):
why don't I just cross over and just stay there?
Speaker 1 (58:25):
You said something, You said something. Just know that it
modeled me when you say that, because that's one of
my preaching every day. My belief is never ever to
(58:47):
go on stage and sing a song that tomorrow I
hear my kids, I'm singing it, and I'm gonna turn
her on to them and say, don't sing that song, right,
because the only answer that I'm gonna hear from them
is Daddy, I heard you singing. What am I gonna say? Okay?
(59:14):
I can sing what you not to sing. So my
thing is I can't sing. I create anything that I
have to tell my kids don't sing. You know, whatever
I sing or whatever I create, it's gonna be children like.
(59:38):
They're gonna love it, and there will be no need
for the DJ to be playing and muting any part
of it. You know, anytime I send a song to
a radio DJ, and I'm telling you this, like I
(01:00:00):
tell all my radio DJs, anytime I send you a song,
you don't have to screen that the night before you
go on the year, you don't and you won't have
to do that. I will never ever send you a
song where you're gonna have to screen it. You can
(01:00:21):
in the midst of your show. You can play it.
If you just get it and you're in the middle
of the show, you should be able to put that
in right now. Hey, look, I just got a track
from Tony rde brand New. I don't even hear it yet.
Listen to this. You won't disappoint it, because that's my belief.
(01:00:42):
You know, I hate to hear some DJs say I
gotta listen it first before I put it on the here,
what's your sense?
Speaker 8 (01:00:52):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
It don't make no sense. It's like it's like the
teacher teaching, you know, and then when when yeah, she
reached a certain part of the subject, she mute, what
this that? And then she skip over that. No no, no, no,
(01:01:16):
no no no.
Speaker 5 (01:01:17):
Right now, you ain't making no sense.
Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
Right, you know. So, like I said, it depends on
the individual to you know, how they see life and
what they want out of their career, you know, because
I want my music to be playing years after I'm
nowhere around and people can say, yes, that was toning Awry,
(01:01:45):
very very ray, you know, and you know, people still
loving it and enjoying it, you know, just like oh
the old veteran them paved the way for us, and
their music is still playing and can enjoy them to
the fullest. You know. So I give times for all
(01:02:06):
of those veterans are passed. I'm gone. I'm like Alton
Ellis John All they are Williston And you know all
of those guys their music still living on right. No,
I still pop in a couple of those sundstage or sometimes,
you know, because those music are good music, you know.
(01:02:28):
And yeah, and that's all I want my music them
to be down the road, you know, right.
Speaker 5 (01:02:39):
Right about that man, you write about that and day
we already know in thirty years, they gonna know who
Tony Roy is before we wrap up My brother Man,
what's coming next? And you got any unreleased tracks, a
new project, or maybe you collab with another legend we
should be looking out for.
Speaker 1 (01:03:02):
Seriously, Tonorize always working in the studio and I got
some new tracks coming on for the next year. I'm
not dropping anything more for this year because I'm still
pushing the latest EP. The next track that is getting
(01:03:24):
some good rotation now from it is on My Mind,
which is a Taple truck, you know, So we're still
pushing that right now. But currently, yeah, I'm in the
studio working on some more stuff next year definitely, and
(01:03:45):
they're looking good. They're looking good and as soon as
they're ready, you know, you'll get them, don't worry. Definitely
get them.
Speaker 5 (01:03:56):
We're gonna be pushing on my Mind at the end
of this interview with them other tracks that we were
just talking about. So y'all make sure y'all tune in
turn up his Zone out because we got to Roy
in here high. Tony is always a blessing when we
readson my king Man, and every time you pass through,
you drop wisdom and vibes that remind the people what
(01:04:20):
reggae really means. Man the family. It's not the last
time Tony Roy was soon touched back on Reggae Owl.
So trust me on that. If you love hearing these stories,
the real roots, the backstage moments, the memories from reggae's
golden time, make sure you subscribe, follow and stay tuned.
More allegens, more love, more liberty right here on Reggae
(01:04:43):
Owl until we link again.
Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
This is mister.
Speaker 5 (01:04:46):
He's saying, keep the roots alive, keep the heart pure,
and keep the reggae flowing. One love always, And this
is Tony Roy on my mind.
Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
Can't get you. You can't get you, can't get you
off for money. No, no, no, he can't get you
off of mine. No mater, what try You're die this
school too mine, baby, can't get you off of mine?
(01:05:24):
No mater, what.
Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
Tries you're die this school into mine?
Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
It was my just when we made.
Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
It's no fire now you.
Speaker 9 (01:05:42):
Did good.
Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
Fire burning in my soul.
Speaker 5 (01:05:52):
And it's getting getting out of some too.
Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
He get you off from mind? No mantle?
Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
What try you die?
Speaker 3 (01:06:04):
This loop so bad.
Speaker 9 (01:06:09):
And you offer mine?
Speaker 3 (01:06:11):
No mantle, what tries you die?
Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
This loop.
Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
It's a mind. When I look into your eyes.
Speaker 8 (01:06:27):
When you've got me hit no time, when I see
your beautiful.
Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Side, when you got me.
Speaker 7 (01:06:44):
Get you off of mind, No Manta won Try you
die this loop, Smile.
Speaker 5 (01:06:56):
You off of mine, no.
Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
Matter what ry you like this flu to Marge, he said,
getting get one. It was mudgic when we made.
Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
It's no finer buntain.
Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
I am burnished in my soul.
Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
And it's getting.
Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
Our cool.
Speaker 6 (01:07:54):
You off for mine?
Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
You much and what's try?
Speaker 5 (01:08:00):
You don't this root to bad?
Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
What you offer bide by lord, ride for no.
Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
Good?
Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
The game you want, but you don't know mind your
pads are Roman. You don't don't get you offer mine
your pads ride
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