Interview with Harold Andrews - The Culture News

Interview with Harold Andrews - The Culture News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon, Welcome on the Culture News.
My name is David Cerebro and I have the pleasure
to have today on Iheartraadi on the Culture News and
many of the platform a wonderful hip hop artist that
name Harold Andrews. Harold Andrews, he's from New Jersey, not
far from us, and he has released a new track

(00:23):
which we really enjoyed called this is Why. The track
is now available and of course encourage everyone to go
out there. He grew up listening one of my favorite artists,
Busta Rhymes, who I met actually recently. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
artist Harold Andrews is with us over the phone. Harold,

(00:47):
how are you today.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm doing very great. I'm happy to be here.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Thank you so much for being with us. I really
appreciate it. So would you be so kind to tell
us where you're from and how did you stop music?

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Okay, Well, I was born in Maryland actually, and maybe
let's say around first second grade is when I moved
out to Patterson, New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
I've always been interested in music. When I was a child,
my mother tried to get me piano. She tried to
take time to teach me how to learn the piano,
but I didn't really get too far in it. So
I don't really play by key. I play by ear

(01:35):
because I just didn't have time to really focus on that.
So when I was in Patterson, I mostly grew up
listening to hip hop and R and B, and I
was always motivated by music. I wasn't creating my own
music at the time, but I was always around it. Actually,
one of my uncles, his name is Rake Goodman. He

(02:01):
passed away a few years back, but he was in
a group called The Moments. They switched their name to
Ray Goodman and Brown. I'm not sure if you ever
heard of him because many years ago, but they did
a song called Special Haiti or something like that. I
think I think it was a big hit back in

(02:22):
the day. But I used to always visit him in Englewood,
New Jersey because his son. I used to hang out
out with his son a lot, and he used to
always play his music in the in the car. So
music was always around me, you know. But I just said,
being a little bit not in the same age rank
as him, we was more into hip hop. But as

(02:44):
I said, music has always been around me, and you know,
it wasn't until I was, i say, my last year
of high school. It's when I actually, like two thousand
and five is when I decided I wanted to start
writing my own music and creating the beats to it
and the words to it, and being the artist, musician

(03:08):
and the whole nine. I didn't get to singing gift
like most of the people in my family, like my
uncle and a lot of other elders in the family,
but I still had the gift for the desire to
create music as far as writing, producing beats and stuff
like that. So I was real, very interested in it

(03:28):
all my life, you know, but I just I didn't
take it to I didn't really get into it until
after I left high school, my last year of high school,
and from then on, I've just been working a little
at the time whenever I can to save up to
get my own equipment. And a friend of mine taught
me how to how to actually use certain, you know,

(03:51):
certain things, So when I bought it, I already knew
how to actually work it. So as far as the
actually mixture, the you know, the amplify everything that you know, everything,
it takes to actually make a beat mix and master it,
puts the voice over it. I knew how to do
all of that before I even bought the my own

(04:12):
like a studio equipment, So you know, yeah, but.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
What you're doing really well with with what you're doing,
and then this is this is really beautiful to hear,
this nice path. So now fast forwarding to this new
track called this Is Why, which we're gonna play today,
can you tell us a little bit about the story
of the song but also the track, but also what

(04:39):
was your process of making it?

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Well, the process was I was putting my life experiences
and the things I've seen in my community into the
into the song, and that's what motivated me to write
the song. The things I was going through, you know,

(05:03):
personal things I was going through at home and as
I said, things I was going through that I've seen
other people go throughout out in the urban communities, and
it just motivated me to just write this song. And
I wanted to put my spirituality in it, but not
sound too preachy because as I said, I'm into hip hop.

(05:23):
I grew up in the hip hop era, but I
wanted to be able to reach so I wanted to
be able to reach the people that I wanted to
reach so they can understand me but not sound too
much like a preacher. But I wanted to put the
spirituality part into it as well because I've always been
a spiritual person. I always believed in a higher power.
So the whole concept of the song is through all

(05:46):
the struggles I've been going through and the things I've seen,
I still kept relying on a higher power and to
help me through it. So that's pretty much like the
song was like a big prayer. You know. It's like
I'm bring to a higher power to help me get
through all these things that I've been through and explaining

(06:08):
to this higher power that you know that it got
me through a lot of other things, so you know,
continue to keep helping me out, you know, and you know,
don't allow me to fall, you know, Like I want
to reach my dream and reach my goal. I want
to be as successful in a life as I can be,
so you know, through all the obstacles, you know, I'm

(06:29):
reaching out to this higher power for actually help. So
like the whole goal is to try to uplift the
urban urbanity community and to get them to seek out
a higher power for help as well. And like you
know in the sea, if a lot of them can
relate to my story and they can you know and
buy them relating to my story, that can that can

(06:51):
help them also connect on the spiritual note as well.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
This is why by the wonderful hip hop artist Harold
and Drews, who definitely knows how to talk about his music.
That is one thing that we'll really appreciate. So before
we start to play your new track and we say
goodbye to each other, what are your your next projects?

Speaker 2 (07:16):
My next project is pretty much sor rely. I have
five projects are already in motion, so I'm working on the
six track as we speak. I haven't finished that. But
as far as every everything else is already in next emotion,
I'm just getting. I'm just fining. I'm just here right
now getting the finances ready to fund them all, to

(07:39):
get them all sent out to radio stations and so all.
So that's what takes time. So but like I said,
my next project is going to be pretty much like
I don't want to give out too much information until
I actually be able to promote it. I mean as
far as over the air like this, you know. But

(08:01):
just now I got five of the projects already done,
and as I said, I'm just waiting to finance and
push them out there for the world to hear. I mean, well,
they're already on YouTube and other platforms like Spotify, pretty
much every every music platform, but as far as they're

(08:22):
not they're not all out on the radio yet. So
as I said, I'm just taking my time getting the
finances up so I can have all of them songs
playing all over the world to be able to reach
a broad amount of people.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
And indeed a beautiful way of bringing your music out there.
This is absolutely lovely. We're so glad that to have
a Harold and Drew's Today with us. He has released
this new track called This Is Why, which we are
so happy to feature today exclusively on l heart Rate
right now, This Is Why by Harold Andrews statue with us.

(09:04):
It's a beautiful day