April 28, 2021 • 23 mins
As things are starting to open us, Nomad N3lson is already performing live again.
The Boston based Hip Hop artist is touring the region in promotion of his new album "Sorry in Advance" and is getting ready to release new material. Sourcing beats from around the world, Nomad is always looking for inspiration to take his game to another level.
We talked to N3lson about his process in songwriting, working with people from across the planet, and finally getting to do concerts once again.
The Boston based Hip Hop artist is touring the region in promotion of his new album "Sorry in Advance" and is getting ready to release new material. Sourcing beats from around the world, Nomad is always looking for inspiration to take his game to another level.
We talked to N3lson about his process in songwriting, working with people from across the planet, and finally getting to do concerts once again.
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go, Mark? I'm sorry,I thought you were I'm sorry. Yeah,
I'll attend to get out of you. Hey. This is Lance and
Anna from Free Radio and Anna,and you're listening to Somewhere in Vegas.
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Yeah, my Fay, you know, that's that's usually what happens with me.
I go to Vegas and I getlost, and so I end up
somewhere in Vegas. Somewhere in Vegas. But I just don't know where it
is. I'm not quite sure.Yeah, we get ready, it's gonna
be hot. It's in Vegas.Checkoutart be there or be square. My
(02:15):
guest at this time is a verytalented hip hop artist, and you know,
he's really working the Northeastern circuit.He's gonna be having concerts throughout the
throughout the pretty much throughout the summer, barring barring COVID what happens there.
You guys can check out his newalbum Sorry in advance. He's going to
(02:37):
be performing that he has he hasactually already performed at this past weekend,
which in New Hampshires. Or It'sgoing to be great, and he's gonna
have new music throughout overout May everysingle Friday, so you'll be able to
hear new tunes as well. Wehave a Nomad Nelson on with us right
now. How you doing, Nomad? I'm doing great. Thanks for having
me here. It's a pleasure.Yeah. You know the things you're trying
(03:00):
to open up here in Vegas Juneone, we're hearing that Nevada is going
to try to open up, youknow, pretty much as much as it
possibly began. I don't know howit is out there in the Northeast.
I think there are a couple ofvenues. You said that you're going to
be playing in New Hampshire as well. How is the how's the outlook for
you right now in terms of,you know, your state opening up for
(03:22):
some of the places that you'd hopefullyhave concerts. So actually, I just
got a message from my team sayingthat they are this Friday going to be
talking about the mass restrictions and startingto laying up on a lot of the
COVID restrictions that they were dealing with. So that's going to be a great
(03:44):
news for moving forward to looking concertsand shows for the summertime. Yeah,
you know, I said, we'rekind of opening up here in Vegas,
so it'll be interesting interesting to seehow everything kind of goes with that as
well. I mean, they wereexpecting to do, uh, they were
expecting to do the Electric Days ofHornival next month, but obviously the COVID
(04:05):
receptions have not really been been upin yet. But what the Electric Days
of Cornraval we're saying is is that, uh, come October, we'll be
having that event. So things areopening up and hopefully we'll get more concerts
out there as well. How's itbeen for you? I mean, obviously
you can you couldn't can necessarily perform, but how what was it like for
(04:27):
you know, this past year andespecially kind of creating new music. UM,
So it's been up and down recently, just with the whole COVID situation
going on. I felt like itwas a blessing honestly, because it freed
up a lot of my time sothat way I could focus more on my
music and get more out to myfans UM. And then I had started
(04:48):
to set up some more shows.I actually had a show um a couple
of weeks back, opening up forfamous artist Chef G. But unfortunately the
day of the concert ended up gettingcanceled just because of COVID situations that still
weren't fully figured out yet. Butthat concert is getting rescheduled. The date
(05:14):
is two DD determined as COVID lawsstart to lighten up a bit, which
is great, but it really helpsme focus more on my craft and getting
more beats and making more connections withpeople because there wasn't really much going on,
you know, everybody was inside kindtrying to stay as safe as they
(05:34):
can. How is it. Howis it for you to you know,
you know, be able to seewhat's been going on and obviously write music
and probably there's some stuff that youprobably had in your back pocket that you
haven't you know, really developed thatmuch as well. And obviously with the
new album Near so Under, expressyourself a little bit more on that.
I mean, tell me a littlebit about, you know, the songwriting
(05:58):
process this past year. Yeah,so with the songwriting process, my engineer
actually was getting unfortunately, was gettingsick and I'm not sure it was due
to COVID or just what was goingon at the time, but he was
getting sick. So I wasn't ableto get a lot of my songs produced
(06:20):
at the time. So a lotof them were written and finished on my
end, but I couldn't find aproducer to actually get them up to studio
sound quality. But he ended upgetting better and I ended up actually finding
another producer in the mix of allof that that helped me get this EP
(06:40):
going and these other songs that youguys will end up hearing at May.
So it was like an up anddown, but I ended up not letting
it keep me down and knowing thatthere are still people out there, you
know that are able to help andstill work, you know, because like
that's what their passions are. SoI've also had a lot of things to
(07:03):
talk about in my music because ofwhat has been going on in COVID and
the things that we have been seeingin the news of that nature. So
I do address some of those topicsin my songs. Yeah, I mean,
it's so sot an ongoing battle too. I know, I know there
was a it was a very hugevictory yesterday, but you know, there's
(07:24):
still there's still a long ways togo um in terms of that as well.
So hopefully hopefully things only get betterfrom here. Uh you know,
hopefully things you know, get backback to at least some kind of I
guess moral normousmmency, but fingers crossedon that. Yeah, exactly. With
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with with with the you know,with with with the beats and the music
that you use, I mean,I mean, is it is it is
It's something that the producers bring toyou. Do you got it? Do
you get any input from or anyany from all you know, other people
that send them send them to you. I'm kind of show me about that
process. Yeah. So, um, usually I would go browsing on beat
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Star, which is a very greatsite if you are starting off looking for
beats, and then through my connectionthrough um this app called Clubhouse, I've
been meeting some more producers that domake beats and that they have been sending
out some beats over to me exclusivelyfor me to work on. So I
have those as well that I've beenworking on. But the ones that most
(08:35):
people are going to hear soon arethe beat Star beats that I've found through
different producers that I have put themup for purchase and I have gotten in
contact with them and they have sentme some personal beats as well to work
on. So there's going to beplenty more coming for this year. That's
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amazing about is the fact that youknow, with the network sites like like
beat star is is that you canwork for producers probably halfway across the planet,
because you know, Europe has haspeople that that you know, that
produce a DJs that produce really sickbeats. I mean, we could we
could have people from India, youknow, you know, contributing to the
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website of the site as well.I mean, you know, how's that
for you to to to be ableto work with a lot of these talented
people that you may not have evenmet, you know, halfway across the
country or halfway away across the globe. UM. Actually, it's one of
my favorite parts about this UM beingin the music industry is meeting and networking
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with people all over the world.UM. I'm actually doing free features throughout
the entire year so that way Ican network and meet even more people.
UM. But I love meeting likedifferent talents out there because I know that
everybody is creative in their own way, and not one producer sounds like another
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there. So the opportunity just tojust to talk with them and see the
story behind some of their beats reallyis eye opening and helps me as a
writer and a creator altogether, becauseit made I'd like to think as myself
as an artist, not like arapper, because as my genre, I
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guess is very versatile. So Idon't turn down many beats that are offered
to me because I like to expandon the areas that I feel because a
lot of my music is how Ifeel, so I don't like to constrict
myself to just one genre. AndI think that the more you meet different
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producers and people all over the places. They bring in their culture into their
work and you're able to broaden yourhorizons. Which is my favorite part about
making music is working with everybody aroundthe world, you know, because I
feel as though that everybody has somethingto give. Yeah, and it gives
you, you know, it givesa kind of a sense of unity almost
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too. You know, to beable to work with a lot of different
people from a lot of different nations, do a lot of different different It's
a lot of different races and creedsand all that as well. So I
mean, yeah, I can.Yeah, it's got to be it's gotta
be fun to kind of, youknow, explore some of the some of
the you know, some of thedifferent different beats that you get across the
gospel planet. So yeah, Ican understand that as well. You know,
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tell me a little bit about,you know, some of your influences
growing up, you know, someof the people that that you listen to
uh before and you know, andand got you into into being an artist.
Yeah. So I'm a nineties baby, um So, I grew up
in that era and I was listeningto a lot of different types of Musicum,
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I grew up kind of on Tupacand Biggie and then more into the
R and B section. Then I'vealso kind of got into some more of
I guess alternative and indie music.Was also some more music that I started
to listen to as I was growingup, because I kind of just appreciated
(12:16):
all music. It stopped becoming justabout who I was listening to and started
to turn into what I was listeningto. And then what ended up getting
me to pull the trigger and startmaking music was I have my little brother
in my fraternity who makes music,very talented dvo G. I'm actually performing
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with him this weekend, but hewas making music and freestyling and I just
wanted to work with him and makemusic with him. And I was just
basically like, how how can Iwork with you? You know, like
how where do I start? Youknow? And basically told me, you
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know, you just gotta you justgotta start, you know, you just
gotta start making music and start writingstuff down. And that's what I ended
up doing, and then now Ihave a song with him, you know.
So it kind of started there forme. But I've always been a
music love here from day one.It's kind of been my outlet whenever I'm
feeling sad, or whenever I'm feelinghappy, or whenever I'm not too sure
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what I'm feeling. Usually musics mightgo too. Do you usually carry a
notebook around with you to to sitdown any line of the lyrics? I
know a lot of people just doit on their phone sometimes, but do
you do you kind of you know, have that that that place where you
can just put down you know,maybe you think of a lyric while you're
walking someplace, or you're for realizesomething, you know. Yeah, So
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at first, when I was makingmusic, I did carry around a notebook
with me, But then I wouldbe someplace where I wouldn't want to bring
the notebook with me, just becauseI didn't want to ruin the notebook or
was the notebook or forget it oranything like that. So I thought it
was more efficient for me to startkind of a journal in my phone notes
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where I would if I came acrosssomething that I liked or that I heard,
or that I kind of caught myattention, I would either twist it
up, you know, and kindof write it down for later projects.
What was it like to be thefirst time he came into a studio and
did you learn a lot from thatexperience. So the first time I went
into a studio was with my firstproducer, and it wasn't like the I
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guess, the picture perfect studio thatyou would see in the movies. It
was kind of just in the basement. He had just been kind of setting
up his studio as well. Hehad some sound canceling foam on the walls,
and it really just had a microphoneand in a laptop, and so
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it wasn't really nothing too crazy.But the talent is what made up for
everything else. Um So I wasable to really get into my my zone
in the sense because I wasn't loggeddown by you know, all the crazy
technology and all the fancy stuff thatyou do see in the movies. Although
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they do help, but I feelthough that you really don't need all those
things to get going in your career. Yeah, you know, I mean
sometimes simpler is some simpler is alittle bit better too. I mean,
it's it's it's sometimes I think Iwas just talking to somebody else, another
anover another nomad, another momad artists. Strangely enough, um um, he
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was talking about, you know,overproduction and sometimes overthinking stuff and overthinking,
you know, maybe putting too muchinto a song, you know, and
sometimes you have to kind of stripit back to what to to some of
some of its parts as it were. Yeah, so you know, sometimes
simpler is just simply better, honestly. Yeah, But the feeling is definitely
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always a great feeling any studio thatI go into, it's just kind of
the like, is this real lifesituation? You know, And it's like
I'm making my dreams happen with everystep that I take, you know,
And it's just kind of a greatfulfilling feeling, you know. And it's
like, once you're in that kindof mood, in that zone, it
really doesn't matter where you are andgoing you know, going into this new
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album what you know, I thinkit's it's somewhat important to think about the
order of the songs or you know, how yew you you know, put
the tracks on the list, andhow people listen to it. Obviously you're
doing the whole album and concert.I'm assuming you're doing it in track order.
Kind of tell me a little bitabout that process. Yes, so
sorry in advance as an EP thatI'm releasing two songs. The first song
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is called Player, and I talkabout basically how the world is seen and
how rappers portray certain things that theyglamorize, but the outside world doesn't really
understand why they're camerarizing it, youknow, throughout the kind of behind the
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curtains thing. And then the nexttrack is the one that I have a
feature with my little brother Sweet Dvogcalled Soul Freestyle, So that one is
kind of another personal but up toeast song where you can kind of just
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sit back and really dive into thelyrics. I didn't want to bouse my
audience down with a hook or achorus because I feel as though get played
out. Like although that they arecatchy, I feel as though that the
verses are really the story of thesong. Wanted to emphasize that in that
(18:03):
song as well. So that's kindof why I did that. And then
I called it Sorry in advance becauseI was taking a spin on trying something
new and was adding in a melodicsection in the beginning that some will like
and some may not, you know, but it is what it is,
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and it kind of wraps everything intogether, like how some people are kind
of only will listen to a songbecause of somebody's voice, but they won't
understand the lyrics on what they're sayingand vice versa. So I kind of
wanted to attack that point as wellin my songs. So it kind of
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all wraps in together. It's oneyeah, you know, you know,
and really I mean talk a littlebit, you know, going on to
a performance for more importantly this albumobviously, you know, putting a certain
song in a certain position in thealbum more, you know, kind of
the order the album that you wanted. I mean, you know that thought
process. I mean, you know, obviously you kind of want to get
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them a drawn in, you know, early on in the album, you
know, bring in, bring insome really cool stuff in the middle of
it to keep them going, andthen you know, finished strong. I
mean, tell me a little bitabout your bought process there. Yeah,
So I've I've been bouncing around acouple of songs to really think about which
ones I should release because it hasbeen a little bit since I have put
(19:36):
out some music. So I wantedto really grasp the my audience's attention,
like to let them know that I'mstill here and I'm still making music.
Just that things have kind of sloweddown due to the COVID issues, but
I'm still here and I'm still gonnabe providing them with all the great music
(19:57):
and all the great ideas that Ihave. And then I ended up deciding
on these songs because of the ninetiesfield that the beat gave me, because
it brings kind of like that childhoodmemory for me, and I know it
will for a lot of my fans. And then the second song was another
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song that was kind of like myday one type goal, kind of being
released out into the world and justreally talking about some real topics, you
know, not just kind of nonsense. You know that everybody can dance around
two, but still provide context,you know, as well as a great
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beat and a great production. Haveyou had the opportunity to come out here
to make it so all? Actually, that's funny you say that I'm planning
a trip to go out there.I believe the ninth to the eleventh I
will be trying to go out theretrying to see the McGregor fight, and
then we'll be hanging out for theother days. Well, I mean that's
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pretty cool. I mean there's somany I said that we're kind of waiting
on some of the clubs to kindof open up, and once those up
with up, then I'm pretty suresome of the artists are going to be
starting rotating fruits. So hopefully you'llbe able to You'll be able to you'll
be able to maybe perform out here, you know, instead of just being
a tourist as it were, sofigures crossed on that. Yeah, definitely,
I want to be able to performin every crevice of the world,
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So definitely Vegas is on the listfor a performance place. Now, where
can people find you? On socialmedia? On social media, my name
is Nomad Nelson. People are havingInstagram. I'm also on all platforms Spotify,
iTunes, SoundCloud, title TikTok aswell as my name on those platforms
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is Nomad Nelson and that's Nelson withthe three not an E. And make
sure you guys check out you know, sorry advance. The music is out
wherever you get your music as well, and hopefully, like you said,
you'll also will start touring out herea little bit as well, and you
know, enjoy yourself while you're outhere out here in Vegas. Yeah,
(22:23):
no, it definitely will, AndI would love to have like a follow
up interview in the future, youknow, kind of like a progress interview
to you know, see like dayone where we were and then kind of
down the line where we are now. Definitely, once once that new music
comes out, we'll definitely keep intouch. Best of luck to you coming
(22:45):
up this summer and we'll, youknow, once then some of the new
music starts rolling out, we'll getyour back on. Yeah, awesome,
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Hey, what's up? This isSeth Green and you are listening to Somewhere
in Vegas with Mark and I amso hot. I would desperately like a
glass of water. Please please giveme some water. This is Cindy Preston
and I'm with Mark. I'm SomemarinVegas. Hi. This is Melissa Peterman
from CMPs to Singing d and thetelevision show Freeba and I have to tell
(00:23):
you I just have to get itoff my chest. I love Somewhere in
Vegas with Mark. Hi. Yah. This is Sath Glasgow and Jim Wahaspita.
You're listening to Mark. I'm samarin Vegas and you better watch out.
You know how to fund you're notlistening. Hi. This is Shannon
Egan from Whippe and I love Somewherein Vegas. It's Mark. Hey,
this is Lee Allen Vegas. It'sSomewhere in Vegas. Talton was Mark with
(00:47):
a queue. This is Courtney Cronin. You're listening to Somewhere in Vegas with
your host Mark, and I wouldmake sure to listen every week because he's
a shirt bet. This is themoney Man, Any money about two tickets
of Paradise and this, you knowwhat somewhere in Vegas. What happens in
Vegas Space Vegas. Hi, thisis Crystal Kale and I love Somewhere in
Vegas with Mark. Hi. Thisis Cherry Nunn from Berlin and you're listening
(01:10):
to Mark somewhere in Vegas. Hi. This is Mirka Laurie from Josh Veden
Stallhouse. There are three flowers ina vase and I'm listening to Somewhere in
Vegas with Mark. Hi. Thisis Aaron Hill and you are listening to
Mark on blog talk radio and somewherein Vegas. Mark is a great guy.
Hi, this is Pulaski. I'mstill trying to figure out Mark Pico's
(01:30):
sexuality, but I know you're listeningto Somewhere Live in Vegas. Did you
go, Mark? I'm sorry,I thought you were I'm sorry. Yeah,
I'll attend to get out of you. Hey. This is Lance and
Anna from Free Radio and Anna,and you're listening to Somewhere in Vegas.
(01:51):
Yeah, my Fay, you know, that's that's usually what happens with me.
I go to Vegas and I getlost, and so I end up
somewhere in Vegas. Somewhere in Vegas. But I just don't know where it
is. I'm not quite sure.Yeah, we get ready, it's gonna
be hot. It's in Vegas.Checkoutart be there or be square. My
(02:15):
guest at this time is a verytalented hip hop artist, and you know,
he's really working the Northeastern circuit.He's gonna be having concerts throughout the
throughout the pretty much throughout the summer, barring barring COVID what happens there.
You guys can check out his newalbum Sorry in advance. He's going to
(02:37):
be performing that he has he hasactually already performed at this past weekend,
which in New Hampshires. Or It'sgoing to be great, and he's gonna
have new music throughout overout May everysingle Friday, so you'll be able to
hear new tunes as well. Wehave a Nomad Nelson on with us right
now. How you doing, Nomad? I'm doing great. Thanks for having
me here. It's a pleasure.Yeah. You know the things you're trying
(03:00):
to open up here in Vegas Juneone, we're hearing that Nevada is going
to try to open up, youknow, pretty much as much as it
possibly began. I don't know howit is out there in the Northeast.
I think there are a couple ofvenues. You said that you're going to
be playing in New Hampshire as well. How is the how's the outlook for
you right now in terms of,you know, your state opening up for
(03:22):
some of the places that you'd hopefullyhave concerts. So actually, I just
got a message from my team sayingthat they are this Friday going to be
talking about the mass restrictions and startingto laying up on a lot of the
COVID restrictions that they were dealing with. So that's going to be a great
(03:44):
news for moving forward to looking concertsand shows for the summertime. Yeah,
you know, I said, we'rekind of opening up here in Vegas,
so it'll be interesting interesting to seehow everything kind of goes with that as
well. I mean, they wereexpecting to do, uh, they were
expecting to do the Electric Days ofHornival next month, but obviously the COVID
(04:05):
receptions have not really been been upin yet. But what the Electric Days
of Cornraval we're saying is is that, uh, come October, we'll be
having that event. So things areopening up and hopefully we'll get more concerts
out there as well. How's itbeen for you? I mean, obviously
you can you couldn't can necessarily perform, but how what was it like for
(04:27):
you know, this past year andespecially kind of creating new music. UM,
So it's been up and down recently, just with the whole COVID situation
going on. I felt like itwas a blessing honestly, because it freed
up a lot of my time sothat way I could focus more on my
music and get more out to myfans UM. And then I had started
(04:48):
to set up some more shows.I actually had a show um a couple
of weeks back, opening up forfamous artist Chef G. But unfortunately the
day of the concert ended up gettingcanceled just because of COVID situations that still
weren't fully figured out yet. Butthat concert is getting rescheduled. The date
(05:14):
is two DD determined as COVID lawsstart to lighten up a bit, which
is great, but it really helpsme focus more on my craft and getting
more beats and making more connections withpeople because there wasn't really much going on,
you know, everybody was inside kindtrying to stay as safe as they
(05:34):
can. How is it. Howis it for you to you know,
you know, be able to seewhat's been going on and obviously write music
and probably there's some stuff that youprobably had in your back pocket that you
haven't you know, really developed thatmuch as well. And obviously with the
new album Near so Under, expressyourself a little bit more on that.
I mean, tell me a littlebit about, you know, the songwriting
(05:58):
process this past year. Yeah,so with the songwriting process, my engineer
actually was getting unfortunately, was gettingsick and I'm not sure it was due
to COVID or just what was goingon at the time, but he was
getting sick. So I wasn't ableto get a lot of my songs produced
(06:20):
at the time. So a lotof them were written and finished on my
end, but I couldn't find aproducer to actually get them up to studio
sound quality. But he ended upgetting better and I ended up actually finding
another producer in the mix of allof that that helped me get this EP
(06:40):
going and these other songs that youguys will end up hearing at May.
So it was like an up anddown, but I ended up not letting
it keep me down and knowing thatthere are still people out there, you
know that are able to help andstill work, you know, because like
that's what their passions are. SoI've also had a lot of things to
(07:03):
talk about in my music because ofwhat has been going on in COVID and
the things that we have been seeingin the news of that nature. So
I do address some of those topicsin my songs. Yeah, I mean,
it's so sot an ongoing battle too. I know, I know there
was a it was a very hugevictory yesterday, but you know, there's
(07:24):
still there's still a long ways togo um in terms of that as well.
So hopefully hopefully things only get betterfrom here. Uh you know,
hopefully things you know, get backback to at least some kind of I
guess moral normousmmency, but fingers crossedon that. Yeah, exactly. With
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with with with the you know,with with with the beats and the music
that you use, I mean,I mean, is it is it is
It's something that the producers bring toyou. Do you got it? Do
you get any input from or anyany from all you know, other people
that send them send them to you. I'm kind of show me about that
process. Yeah. So, um, usually I would go browsing on beat
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Star, which is a very greatsite if you are starting off looking for
beats, and then through my connectionthrough um this app called Clubhouse, I've
been meeting some more producers that domake beats and that they have been sending
out some beats over to me exclusivelyfor me to work on. So I
have those as well that I've beenworking on. But the ones that most
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people are going to hear soon arethe beat Star beats that I've found through
different producers that I have put themup for purchase and I have gotten in
contact with them and they have sentme some personal beats as well to work
on. So there's going to beplenty more coming for this year. That's
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amazing about is the fact that youknow, with the network sites like like
beat star is is that you canwork for producers probably halfway across the planet,
because you know, Europe has haspeople that that you know, that
produce a DJs that produce really sickbeats. I mean, we could we
could have people from India, youknow, you know, contributing to the
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website of the site as well.I mean, you know, how's that
for you to to to be ableto work with a lot of these talented
people that you may not have evenmet, you know, halfway across the
country or halfway away across the globe. UM. Actually, it's one of
my favorite parts about this UM beingin the music industry is meeting and networking
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with people all over the world.UM. I'm actually doing free features throughout
the entire year so that way Ican network and meet even more people.
UM. But I love meeting likedifferent talents out there because I know that
everybody is creative in their own way, and not one producer sounds like another
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there. So the opportunity just tojust to talk with them and see the
story behind some of their beats reallyis eye opening and helps me as a
writer and a creator altogether, becauseit made I'd like to think as myself
as an artist, not like arapper, because as my genre, I
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guess is very versatile. So Idon't turn down many beats that are offered
to me because I like to expandon the areas that I feel because a
lot of my music is how Ifeel, so I don't like to constrict
myself to just one genre. AndI think that the more you meet different
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producers and people all over the places. They bring in their culture into their
work and you're able to broaden yourhorizons. Which is my favorite part about
making music is working with everybody aroundthe world, you know, because I
feel as though that everybody has somethingto give. Yeah, and it gives
you, you know, it givesa kind of a sense of unity almost
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too. You know, to beable to work with a lot of different
people from a lot of different nations, do a lot of different different It's
a lot of different races and creedsand all that as well. So I
mean, yeah, I can.Yeah, it's got to be it's gotta
be fun to kind of, youknow, explore some of the some of
the you know, some of thedifferent different beats that you get across the
gospel planet. So yeah, Ican understand that as well. You know,
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tell me a little bit about,you know, some of your influences
growing up, you know, someof the people that that you listen to
uh before and you know, andand got you into into being an artist.
Yeah. So I'm a nineties baby, um So, I grew up
in that era and I was listeningto a lot of different types of Musicum,
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I grew up kind of on Tupacand Biggie and then more into the
R and B section. Then I'vealso kind of got into some more of
I guess alternative and indie music.Was also some more music that I started
to listen to as I was growingup, because I kind of just appreciated
(12:16):
all music. It stopped becoming justabout who I was listening to and started
to turn into what I was listeningto. And then what ended up getting
me to pull the trigger and startmaking music was I have my little brother
in my fraternity who makes music,very talented dvo G. I'm actually performing
(12:39):
with him this weekend, but hewas making music and freestyling and I just
wanted to work with him and makemusic with him. And I was just
basically like, how how can Iwork with you? You know, like
how where do I start? Youknow? And basically told me, you
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know, you just gotta you justgotta start, you know, you just
gotta start making music and start writingstuff down. And that's what I ended
up doing, and then now Ihave a song with him, you know.
So it kind of started there forme. But I've always been a
music love here from day one.It's kind of been my outlet whenever I'm
feeling sad, or whenever I'm feelinghappy, or whenever I'm not too sure
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what I'm feeling. Usually musics mightgo too. Do you usually carry a
notebook around with you to to sitdown any line of the lyrics? I
know a lot of people just doit on their phone sometimes, but do
you do you kind of you know, have that that that place where you
can just put down you know,maybe you think of a lyric while you're
walking someplace, or you're for realizesomething, you know. Yeah, So
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at first, when I was makingmusic, I did carry around a notebook
with me, But then I wouldbe someplace where I wouldn't want to bring
the notebook with me, just becauseI didn't want to ruin the notebook or
was the notebook or forget it oranything like that. So I thought it
was more efficient for me to startkind of a journal in my phone notes
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where I would if I came acrosssomething that I liked or that I heard,
or that I kind of caught myattention, I would either twist it
up, you know, and kindof write it down for later projects.
What was it like to be thefirst time he came into a studio and
did you learn a lot from thatexperience. So the first time I went
into a studio was with my firstproducer, and it wasn't like the I
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guess, the picture perfect studio thatyou would see in the movies. It
was kind of just in the basement. He had just been kind of setting
up his studio as well. Hehad some sound canceling foam on the walls,
and it really just had a microphoneand in a laptop, and so
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it wasn't really nothing too crazy.But the talent is what made up for
everything else. Um So I wasable to really get into my my zone
in the sense because I wasn't loggeddown by you know, all the crazy
technology and all the fancy stuff thatyou do see in the movies. Although
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they do help, but I feelthough that you really don't need all those
things to get going in your career. Yeah, you know, I mean
sometimes simpler is some simpler is alittle bit better too. I mean,
it's it's it's sometimes I think Iwas just talking to somebody else, another
anover another nomad, another momad artists. Strangely enough, um um, he
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was talking about, you know,overproduction and sometimes overthinking stuff and overthinking,
you know, maybe putting too muchinto a song, you know, and
sometimes you have to kind of stripit back to what to to some of
some of its parts as it were. Yeah, so you know, sometimes
simpler is just simply better, honestly. Yeah, But the feeling is definitely
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always a great feeling any studio thatI go into, it's just kind of
the like, is this real lifesituation? You know, And it's like
I'm making my dreams happen with everystep that I take, you know,
And it's just kind of a greatfulfilling feeling, you know. And it's
like, once you're in that kindof mood, in that zone, it
really doesn't matter where you are andgoing you know, going into this new
(16:29):
album what you know, I thinkit's it's somewhat important to think about the
order of the songs or you know, how yew you you know, put
the tracks on the list, andhow people listen to it. Obviously you're
doing the whole album and concert.I'm assuming you're doing it in track order.
Kind of tell me a little bitabout that process. Yes, so
sorry in advance as an EP thatI'm releasing two songs. The first song
(16:55):
is called Player, and I talkabout basically how the world is seen and
how rappers portray certain things that theyglamorize, but the outside world doesn't really
understand why they're camerarizing it, youknow, throughout the kind of behind the
(17:15):
curtains thing. And then the nexttrack is the one that I have a
feature with my little brother Sweet Dvogcalled Soul Freestyle, So that one is
kind of another personal but up toeast song where you can kind of just
(17:38):
sit back and really dive into thelyrics. I didn't want to bouse my
audience down with a hook or achorus because I feel as though get played
out. Like although that they arecatchy, I feel as though that the
verses are really the story of thesong. Wanted to emphasize that in that
(18:03):
song as well. So that's kindof why I did that. And then
I called it Sorry in advance becauseI was taking a spin on trying something
new and was adding in a melodicsection in the beginning that some will like
and some may not, you know, but it is what it is,
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and it kind of wraps everything intogether, like how some people are kind
of only will listen to a songbecause of somebody's voice, but they won't
understand the lyrics on what they're sayingand vice versa. So I kind of
wanted to attack that point as wellin my songs. So it kind of
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all wraps in together. It's oneyeah, you know, you know,
and really I mean talk a littlebit, you know, going on to
a performance for more importantly this albumobviously, you know, putting a certain
song in a certain position in thealbum more, you know, kind of
the order the album that you wanted. I mean, you know that thought
process. I mean, you know, obviously you kind of want to get
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them a drawn in, you know, early on in the album, you
know, bring in, bring insome really cool stuff in the middle of
it to keep them going, andthen you know, finished strong. I
mean, tell me a little bitabout your bought process there. Yeah,
So I've I've been bouncing around acouple of songs to really think about which
ones I should release because it hasbeen a little bit since I have put
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out some music. So I wantedto really grasp the my audience's attention,
like to let them know that I'mstill here and I'm still making music.
Just that things have kind of sloweddown due to the COVID issues, but
I'm still here and I'm still gonnabe providing them with all the great music
(19:57):
and all the great ideas that Ihave. And then I ended up deciding
on these songs because of the ninetiesfield that the beat gave me, because
it brings kind of like that childhoodmemory for me, and I know it
will for a lot of my fans. And then the second song was another
(20:22):
song that was kind of like myday one type goal, kind of being
released out into the world and justreally talking about some real topics, you
know, not just kind of nonsense. You know that everybody can dance around
two, but still provide context,you know, as well as a great
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beat and a great production. Haveyou had the opportunity to come out here
to make it so all? Actually, that's funny you say that I'm planning
a trip to go out there.I believe the ninth to the eleventh I
will be trying to go out theretrying to see the McGregor fight, and
then we'll be hanging out for theother days. Well, I mean that's
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pretty cool. I mean there's somany I said that we're kind of waiting
on some of the clubs to kindof open up, and once those up
with up, then I'm pretty suresome of the artists are going to be
starting rotating fruits. So hopefully you'llbe able to You'll be able to you'll
be able to maybe perform out here, you know, instead of just being
a tourist as it were, sofigures crossed on that. Yeah, definitely,
I want to be able to performin every crevice of the world,
(21:36):
So definitely Vegas is on the listfor a performance place. Now, where
can people find you? On socialmedia? On social media, my name
is Nomad Nelson. People are havingInstagram. I'm also on all platforms Spotify,
iTunes, SoundCloud, title TikTok aswell as my name on those platforms
(22:02):
is Nomad Nelson and that's Nelson withthe three not an E. And make
sure you guys check out you know, sorry advance. The music is out
wherever you get your music as well, and hopefully, like you said,
you'll also will start touring out herea little bit as well, and you
know, enjoy yourself while you're outhere out here in Vegas. Yeah,
(22:23):
no, it definitely will, AndI would love to have like a follow
up interview in the future, youknow, kind of like a progress interview
to you know, see like dayone where we were and then kind of
down the line where we are now. Definitely, once once that new music
comes out, we'll definitely keep intouch. Best of luck to you coming
(22:45):
up this summer and we'll, youknow, once then some of the new
music starts rolling out, we'll getyour back on. Yeah, awesome,
thanks a lot, No bad forbeing on the show, all right,
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