The BTA Interview.

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there's a type of loneliness that doesn't come from being alone.
It comes from being with someone but still feeling like

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something's missing. And that's a different kind of silence because
on the outside everything may look fine, but on the
inside something just isn't connected. And most people they don't
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He turned that feeling into music, not just event, but
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Tonight's Guest is a hip hop artist and producer who

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brings a unique blend of vulnerability, structure, and emotional depth
to his music. Known for creating calming, relationship centered tracks,
his latest single, Lonely Lately, explores the complex reality of
feeling disconnected even within a relationship. With roots in the

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church and a background that shaped both his discipline and perspective,
he delivers music that balances honesty, positivity, and relatability. So
please join me in saying welcome friend to b t
A Yo yo yo, welcome to the show.

Speaker 6 (04:49):
Thank you, thank you e us for love man to
Ducts and I appreciate.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
It absolutely, man, absolutely, it was my pleasure. Again, man,
welcome to the show. We are supersited to have you
with us tonight. Man. Before we yeah, I'm super excited
to be there. Thank you. Yes, sir, Man, before we
just really jump into everything. Uh Man, what's been on

(05:13):
your heart and mind lately?

Speaker 6 (05:16):
Well, I know I've just released a single Calls Only lately,
but you know I was actually engaged now I wanted
to getting married. So yeah, that's on my that's what
my my radar right now. And the person that I

(05:36):
was only with I actually discussed with them and we
worked through it, you know. So I when you're making
some some more music here, So.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Then congratulations on the engagement.

Speaker 6 (05:50):
Thank you. I appreciate it, sir.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
So the relationship this song was about, is that the
fiance or is that like a past relationship.

Speaker 6 (06:00):
It is the fiance because it's a long distance relationship.
It's it was like some hurdles there, you know what
I'm saying. So at the time I was I was
I was feeling lonely because I just we wasn't talking
as much and we actually kept breaking up. I was like,
really in a bad situation. I I was homeless and

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just going through some things with my mental health, and yeah,
I was listening to everything with the girl missing that
song and yeah, I looked at that Let's good and
I just was driving to that song a lot, and
I was like, I'm gonna make a song like that,
but it to be about what I'm going through and

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maybe maybe other people can connect with it, like I'm
connecting with that song.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
That was listening to, you know.

Speaker 6 (06:52):
So that's kind of how that that happened.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah, So what did your significant other hill about this record?

Speaker 6 (07:04):
Well, she likes it. She likes it a lot, But
at the time we were like it was a lot
of tears, you know, and a lot of uh, a
lot of sadness, especially with the with the situation that
I was in where I was like at the time,
I was housed and everything, but I was living with
my mom and sister and it was overcrowded, hurting my

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two nephews. It was overcrowded in the three bedroom, so
it was a lot of other personal things going on,
and uh so it was a really sad time at
at and so she was really sad about it. But yeah,
I I had to capture that with music because I'm
a musician and I'm an artist, and that's what I do,

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you know, And and I shared it with with with
anybody who wants to listen.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Absolutely, When when people hear your music over time, what
do you want them to understand about love connection and
real relationships.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
Well, I want them to understand that there's always someone
out there for them. You know, a lot of people.
Even in the song Lonely Lately doing the verses, I
took time to describe what I wanted from someone. And
I think that there's always love out there waiting for

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whoever wants it, you know, soulmates and things like that.
And you should definitely not settle for less. You shouldn't
settle for less. You shouldn't compromise on what you want.
You should understand and know your love language, you know,
and just really put that energy out there and attract

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the person that you that you love, you know that
you want to be married to that you want to
maybe have children with it's atit waiting, you know, and
you should definitely not give up on it.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
Absolutely. So you already told us. I walked us through,
you know, the reason for the song and the feelings
that came surrounding the song. But I want to talk
about the core of it. You know, there's a lot
of there's a lot of lonely hearts in this world,
a lot of people who are lonely and in relationships.

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You know that that is a terrible feeling to be
with someone but also alone with the someone, like being
in the crowded room but you're alone, right. So yeah,
so yeah, man, we know that you were going through
these periods of time. You mentioned hurdles, you mentioned, you know,

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all kinds of obstacles that kind of stood in a
way or that that virtually the effected the way you
were feeling too. But what did your loneliness feel like?

Speaker 6 (10:09):
The loneliness that I felt, it felt like like isolation,
you know, like I didn't have anybody necessarily at all
like to go to. But you know I had people,
like maybe a counselor or something to go through, but
not not someone to hug or you know, someone to

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I had. I had been married previously, so I kind
of had to the gist of it, like going out
on dates and things like that, you know, or spending
Christmas together. So after that ended, you know, it's been like,
what like ten years later, I'm trying to do that
with this one with this one woman, and it's just

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not what I want at that moment. But you know,
we're gonna we're gonna really try harder, especially if we
together in person. So, you know, I think I answered
the question.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
So, man, you said you were an artist and you
needed to express it. You know, this is the best
way that you could express it. Man, what part of that?
Part of those feelings hit you the hardest?

Speaker 6 (11:30):
Just this the sadness, you know, the sadness. I lost
a lot of people in life as well. You know
a lot of us have people have passed away, and
that that adds to the loneliness and this this feeling
of sadness that just feels like it's encompassing you and

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and you can't get away from it. Like when I
first heard the beat so Lonely Late Lately, you know,
I knew that was the beat that I wanted to use.
I knew it because it was this just a reverb
that I that I heard in the sound in the song,
and I was like, yeah, that's that's exactly what it

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feels like to be like this lonely, like even a
cave or something like that, you know, all by yourself.
So you know, yeah, it's just definitely the sadness. And
I think that a lot of people, you know, if
you if you type in lonely in Google or you

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know something about loneliness, what pops up is like the
suicide hotline and if you want to reach out for help.
So loneliness is definitely something that and I understood that
even when I made the song. It's definitely a mental
health crisis as well to be in. So you know,

(12:57):
I was very serious about the songs self and making
it into a positive thing as well, not so much
just a sad song that promotes, you know, like feelings
of loneliness.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
So yeah, yeah, man, And now I can guarantee you
there's a lonely person right now listening to this interview. Yeah,
and it's it's just as common as catching the flu.
You know, there's always someone with a flood with bronchiatis,

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with some kind of illness. Loneliness can be an illness too,
for the heart of the soul, for the mind. Yeah,
the desolate place to be, especially when you are craving community,
or just a touch, just it's just a touch, you know.

Speaker 6 (13:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just like you want to
reach out and touch someone and you know, just something
that I was an expound on. It's not just about
you know, a romantic relationship be there. It can be
about as I mentioned, like missing some people that passed on,
you know, or missing some people who maybe want to

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college and just fitting lonely without them being there. You know.
It's common, like you said, as common as the food.
So I hope that anyone listening to me right now
can can just gather hope, you know, and be hopeful,
imagine what you want you know, and and and don't

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compromise on it. Don't be like, well, I think that's
a little too much to want, you know, or desire.
Just want and desire and let God do the rest.
Nothing in the do the rest.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yeah. One thing that you mentioned was that you know,
when you searched in Google lonely, the suicide hotline popped up,
and that only gives me the notion that there are
people suffering in silence and not talking about their loneliness.
Why do you think that is?

Speaker 6 (15:14):
Because I think it's because when you're in loneliness like that,
you really don't believe that there's anyone out there anyway,
And especially when you've isolated yourself, you know, and you
just by yourself all the time, you start to think
no one even really cares about these problems really, you know.

(15:37):
And so I think that's why a lot of people
don't talk about it, because it's being lonely. It's just
like the crisis that you're in makes you believe things
that are not true about how people feel, about how
people respond to it. So I think that community is

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very important. It's it's very important, like this radio show now,
the things that we're talking about is community, and just
to listen to this show, you know, is a step
in a really positive direction for listeners who are lonely
or listeners who are depressed and going through these things

(16:22):
that make them feel lonely. So it's about finding avenues
and channels and outlets like Major Lanti's Radio that that
what people can express themselves this way.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
Yes, Yes, that's what we're here for, man, to extend
the expressions.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
That are.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Litter yet, you know, to really dive in between the
lines from the music. Even though we interview all walks
of life, all industries, we really started out just musicians
interview and musicians, and you know, we furthered their reach.
But the sole purpose was to dive in behind the

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meaning of these lyrics and these melodies and why artists
like you put their soul on these tracks. I wanted
to ask you, man, yes, sir, in your experience, Man,
where do most relationships fall short?

Speaker 6 (17:31):
It's just most relationships fall short because we're just we
get what people were incompatible with, you know, mainly because
of one of the reasons, the loneliness. But especially when
we're young, I think that we we when we find
people that make us feel excited inside, you know, to

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share memories with and moments with, and but we ignore
the red the red flags, you know, and the signals
that this person may be abusive, or this person may
be you know, narcissist or something like that. So a
lot of us get the short end the stick. And

(18:16):
you know, we wound up sad, and only because we
got cheated on though, because we got divorced. Someone divorced us,
and a lot of times a lot of people take
financial losses from that. So I think the answer to
your questions, we're just not compatible with the person. And
it's not about hating them or anything like that, you know,

(18:39):
it's just about just moving on and just keeping it
in your mind's eye that there's somebody out there for me.
I know it, you know, yeah, I like that.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
Man. So, man, you were very vulnerable in this song.
This track is honest, it's personal. Was it difficult for
you to be this open?

Speaker 6 (19:04):
It was? It was. It was difficult because it's other
people listening, you know. Like I said something about making
off my mom's couch and stuff like that, and I
just touched a little bit on the homelessness that I experienced,
so just I never had done that in music, and

(19:24):
it was it was kind of hard, felt kind of
felt kind of hard to do. But you know, I
feel better that I have it out there and I
put that out there. But on top of that, being
lonely and expressing that the loneliness was also kind of
hard to do because I don't think a lot of

(19:47):
people knew I was that lonely, you know, and I
don't think they knew that. So but let the next
facts to be I want to keep the same theme,
you know, don't I don't want to necessarily take off
of me my fans who are lonely ish. The next
track could be it'd be nice as well, It'll be

(20:10):
nice as well.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
Cool. Cool. I mean, we're talking about loneliness relationships. But
there's also a silver lining in the song as well. Uh,
you do offer hope within the pain. I believe you
hint it to. Even with the loneliness, there's still hope.
So why did you feel it was important to include that?

Speaker 6 (20:34):
Well, you know, my religious background always makes me like
do that just talking just remember in the days where
I had to talk not just like from a podium,
but just just one on one with people who are
going through things in life, and just understanding the the

(20:55):
frequency and vibration that I that I could feel offering
them hope at the end, you know, offering them hope
just something to imagine that's true, not the false hope,
but just something to imagine that they desire. Just helping
them do that. And and so even with this song,

(21:19):
I wanted to do that I want to. I just
know that there are lonely people out there and I
wanted to do that. And it's it's a great feeling.
It's rewarding to the brain. Compassion is That's what Dalai
Lama said. So you know, acts of compassion are rewarding
to the brain. So it's rewarding as well to make

(21:39):
a song to inspire people who are going through loneliness,
which is also depression, to be honest with you, So
it's it's it's rewarding, it's it's it's a it's a
god given good feeling.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
Yeah. Man, I used to have this line in my
music saying that I didn't even know I was depressed.
All these years I was living with depression, didn't even
know it.

Speaker 6 (22:07):
That's how it is. It's really sneaky. It sneaks up
on you and before you know, you don't have any
energy and you just don't want to be bothered and
be depressed. You know. It's it's very common. It's very common.
But there are a lot of techniques, a lot of
things out there, like cognitive of restructuring and reframing. These

(22:31):
things that people can google if they want to, that
can really help with depression. You know, a lot of
a lot of people have something called cognitive distortions on
how like it's distorted how you see things. And so
if you want to type in CBT, you know, cognitive distortions.

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These are really powerful times to know. It's half the
battle knowing, you know. So if there listening and the
time hasn't look that up, I hope that can help you.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
Alright, alright, well guys, we're about to jump into some music.
We have BT a lonely late. We'll be right back.
Stay tuned.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
I keep the true, I keep it like monks will do,
Like monks will do.

Speaker 7 (23:29):
I'm in my lane, I'm in my name, I'm.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
Comfortable, I'm comfortable, I'm into you.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
I'm invincible. And this that makes sense to your wonder
what it would thanks?

Speaker 6 (23:42):
I wonder what what that?

Speaker 1 (23:44):
If I had my way of wonder?

Speaker 4 (23:46):
What it with that? If I had that break?

Speaker 7 (23:50):
How many songs I mag?

Speaker 6 (23:52):
How many rudes I break?

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Just to have you?

Speaker 4 (23:55):
My way.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
Means me?

Speaker 6 (24:01):
Yeah when I say.

Speaker 7 (24:07):
Now, and I can tell that you are as well.
Rhyme schemes so clever, I would dare to say, never
ever could it be figured out? Made it off? My
mother's couch paid the dudes. I can't play the blues
if I'm in the game, they will pay to lose
thor bell rings.

Speaker 6 (24:25):
Please says you.

Speaker 7 (24:26):
You can join a team, you can sew the scene,
you can do anything that you want to dream.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
Bell's the tricks.

Speaker 7 (24:31):
I'm not what it seems mentioned my name and bells
were ding and so about the main with a diamond rings.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
We got sides of things that can sell.

Speaker 6 (24:37):
The rain just focused.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
I was hit.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
If you noticed you a diamond I noticed no this
wonder what.

Speaker 7 (24:45):
It would take A wonder what it would.

Speaker 6 (24:47):
Take if I had my way.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Of wonder, what it would.

Speaker 7 (24:51):
Take if I had you to stay? How many songs
I list, how many rudes I break just to have
you my way?

Speaker 6 (25:00):
Please speed me when I said.

Speaker 7 (25:10):
N ah, and I can tell that you are as well.
You can breathe now, I guess right now I can
pipe down.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
You know you're just my type.

Speaker 6 (25:20):
Now, Like Keith, board chokes and we go brokes just
to get folks so that we're so dope that we
blow smoke.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
We make no jokes.

Speaker 7 (25:27):
Who we gave smokes? Page and notes, Turn the page
and the folks is out here.

Speaker 6 (25:32):
It's hard to miss.

Speaker 7 (25:33):
Everybody else is just bargaining love sold to bring the
sergeant in pld us to love, bring the pardons in.
The rich is on the cards again and were marching
in in this hearts again. A part of me is
hard to lead, able to wait to just pardon me?

Speaker 4 (25:47):
How about the roads became?

Speaker 6 (25:49):
How about you taking my hand?

Speaker 7 (25:51):
You know I can show you the way we love it.

Speaker 6 (25:54):
We'll take our stand.

Speaker 7 (25:55):
Thank God, I'm in love again, love us warm and
souldis man conquest, take overland, start you night souls again.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
And I mentioned you.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
When I don't know. Yeah, and I.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
Can tell that you are as well.

Speaker 7 (26:20):
Love me, baby, open your mind to me, open says
to me. And we lived happily high away attraction being
with That's exactly, in fact, a chilling, in fact fact chilling.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
All right, all right, welcome back again. That was lonely lately.
I like this record. I like this record a lot.
All right, They say, dany, what do you like about
this record? Well, I'll tell you what I like about
this record. First of all, uh, the production one of
my favorite favorite all time producer. He doesn't get a

(27:02):
lot of recognition, at least not on my side of
the coast, Clams Casino, A man Clams Casino. So this
put me because I have a lot of favorite tracks
from Clam and this kind of put me in that
same vibe that I always get when I listened to
Clams Casino. Any production by him, so off top that was,

(27:25):
you know, golden in my musical book. Secondly, the flow,
the flow that the cadence, the flow that BTA did
mesh very well with production. And he's a producer, so
you know how to work certain syllables within you know,

(27:45):
the how can I say it so that you non
musicians would know what I mean? Stop being too technical.
But he knows how to place his syllables in words
right in the sweet spot of the production. And that
comes with time and skill. You just don't jump in

(28:06):
the rap gain on how to do that. That comes
with time and skill. So that's number two. Number three,
My favorite part of the lyric was when he said
doorbell rings and I hope that you, I hope it's you.
Something like that. I don't want to butcher it. I
can't do a verbatim, but man, I felt that to
my core because I've had moments like that where I

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heard the door and knock, the phone ring and I'm looking.
Text goes off and I'm checking and like I break
my neck to check it and it wasn't her. And
the point the disappointment that just takes over in that
moment when you're when you're used to someone texting or
calling at a certain time, and when that's all gone

(28:49):
and you get those notifications, you think it's them and
it's not, and it's like it's like sitting at a
restaurant and you see the server with food and he's
looking at you, right in your eye, and he walks
right past you. Oh man, it's not my food. All right, bro,
it's not your food. That kind of disappointment. So I
felt that lyric to my core. I appreciated that one
a lot. All right, let's go ahead and bring BTA

(29:11):
back Yo yo yo, welcome back, Welcome back, yo.

Speaker 6 (29:16):
What's up? I'm back? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Yes, sir, yes, sir man, I really love the track
dope record.

Speaker 6 (29:21):
Bro, thank you for that. Yeah, I appreciate it, little,
he said to you. I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
Yeah, absolutely, man. So let's talk about the production. How
did you start this record lyrics first, music first, or
what was the whole what was the whole concept?

Speaker 6 (29:42):
So you know, you like, as you mentioned, I'm a
producer as well. So I was like, well, I'm outsource
my beat because I just I just my beats are
really experimental and I just wanted to see how I
can vibe on somebody else's sacks. So I went on
bestars dot com and I was listening to some of
the ads, some of the beats, and that one popped

(30:04):
up and I just immediately, like I said, I just
immediately liked it, and I liked to have to take
start songs at the beginning in the vocals, and so
it was just produced really well, sounded really great. I
went on ahead and bought it, bought the license and

(30:24):
found a studio called Classic Studios in Chicago and setting
the appointment for them that they had a really good
view and as you can see, they have good, good
production quality, And nicked up with Thomas da Vinci and
went over to the studio and used the norm in

(30:45):
the Lady seven. I think, and man, I mean, he's
had a really nice day, had a really nice setup.
It was one of my first times been a really
nice setup like that. Yeah, it was like my third time.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yeah, me myself. Man, I'm used to the bedroom studios.
Yeah yeah, make shift studio, go in a closet.

Speaker 6 (31:09):
Yeah. I had something like that as well. Yeah, I had.
I have some confidence, like in the basement the ceiling
was low enough for me to like well up these
staple guns or something like that and made a made
a sound booth that way, would like ten it and stuff.
So it's fun to do that type of thing.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, especially when you can get a
polished sound, just like if you went to upscale studio.

Speaker 6 (31:41):
Yeah. That's the that's the the magic of it. You know,
that's what we all aiming towards. So when we have
home studios, that's getting that professional studio sound with those
with those virtual instruments and virtual effects, you know.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
So yeah yeah man, I can definitely attest to that.
My first my debut album, I had styles P, Busy Bone,
Lazy Bone, pastor Troy on the records. Uh yeah man,
and all of that was was recorded in the like
my living room.

Speaker 6 (32:17):
Yeah, let's see. And I would have did it, but
I have I'm having housing. It's it, so I just
want I went on to head onto the studio. I
just I just wanted to see what it was like
as well. Yeah, pro studio and that's fine. It's expensive,
but it's fun.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
Man. I've cut records in the car, so.

Speaker 6 (32:43):
That's that's dope. I've like mixed my music in the car.

Speaker 4 (32:48):
Yeah, it's like there's nothing, it's nothing second to carspe
I keep telling people that if you want to do
like a soundtick of your record bumping in the car.

Speaker 6 (32:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. I had my laptop hoo stuff.
That's my day, my recent days when I was using
reason and I ended up making the song eventually a
years later, but I just really trying to get these
piano keys to sound right, so I had to use

(33:19):
my car speakers.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
So, man, you mentioned I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (33:26):
Go ahead, I said, those are the days, yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
Brother, yeah. Man. You mentioned that you had a religious background,
and your background in church vaped you. What lessons from
that experience still guide you today?

Speaker 6 (33:45):
Just knowing that there's a power of a higher power
beyond myself that a lot of people don't really experience
or feel until you need them, you know, and or her,
and you know, it's like I just I just know that,

(34:09):
and even though I don't go to church anymore. Like
I used to go to church every Sunday, I don't
go to church every Sunday anymore. I still believe in that,
but I believe that there isn't one correct religion, you know.
I don't believe that people are going to hell like
of you know, like some a lot of uh extremists believe.

(34:31):
So I just try to I just try to do
my own thing, you know, because I I really don't
like the idea of judging other people. And and I
love all people, you know, I love all religion. But uh,
I do try to keep in mind that there is
a higher power. I believe in Jesus personally, and I

(34:52):
believe that, uh you could call them higher power when
you're in need of.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
When you're in need, Yes, sir man, you can say
the name on this show, Jesus. You could say the name.
I know. Some podcasts be like you know, and you
draw a parallel between preaching and rapping. Do you ever

(35:22):
put the medicine? I heard this thing the other day
on the radio. If you want to feed your dog medicine,
dick the peel or whatever it is inside of a hamburger,
and they won't know what the team medicine. So I like, yeah,
and I like to think that about humans. If you
put positivity, if you put Jesus, if you put God

(35:45):
the higher Power, into music, into everyday speech, you're giving
people the medicine. They don't even know it.

Speaker 6 (35:54):
Yeah, I think so too. I actually, I really do.
I do believe that, and I am doing that. I am,
and I think some of us have just called and
led to do things like that, you know, in the world,
because people may ask, like, what's the incentives? And I

(36:15):
mentioned that it is rewarding. I just c your mind.
But beyond that, it's just like, I don't know what
else to do or think about or make music about,
except for things that can help other people and inspire them,
you know. So I feel like I am putting the
medicine in there with en the tuns, you know, within

(36:39):
the melodies even.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
Absolutely. Man, you know, I want to ask you this
because you know you brought it up, so I'm had
to go there. You mentioned Jesus. I'm a believer Jesus,
I'm a leaver of heaven and Hell, and I'm still

(37:05):
on the fence about judging. I'm still on the fence
because I'm learning myself, I'm gonna be honest and just
put that out there. So I'm I'm on the line
about my feelings about judging, how you judge other people
and how you receive judgment, because if I understand the
scriptures correctly, you're not supposed to do that and let

(37:26):
your own eye is clean from the planet. Yeah, And
as I kept telling my children, I'm not I mean,
they look at me like I'm holy, and I'm like, no,
no way, definitely not holy. So when it comes to
things like that, because I'm aware that I'm still a

(37:49):
work in progress, but I don't negate the fact that
you know, Jesus did say saying no more. So there's
there's no there's no real excuse about whatever's coming out
of your heart. So I'm going to say this, man,
you moved away from labeling yourself as a Christian rapper.

(38:11):
I myself am a Christian, a Bible thumping, gun toting Christian.
And you say what, Yeah, well, I won't say you say,
but my listeners may say, what, you're a gun tote Christian. Yeah.
There's a chapter in the Bible Old Testament where they
were rebuilding the Jerusalem Wall and they had a hammer

(38:31):
in one hand and a sword in the other hand.
Yea yeah. And then there's another story, that's right. There's
another story where Jesus instructed some of disciples to go
purchase swords. And there was a member of his twelve
disciples who was a zealot, and a zealot was a rebel.

(38:53):
They call them knife guys or knife something knife men,
so they were used to violence. And I'm sure I
forgot his name, which which disciple, But I'm sure he
didn't just drop his trade, you know, Peter, No, no, no, no,
it was.

Speaker 6 (39:11):
Peter had a sword as well, you know.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
He did, he did. But this was the garden son
of Zevity. I believe. I can't remember the name off top.

Speaker 6 (39:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:24):
But but anyway, man, you moved away from labeling yourself
as a Christian rapper. What led to that decision?

Speaker 3 (39:32):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (39:32):
Well, you know, I actually I don't know. I didn't
think I moved away from label myself as a Christian rapper.
I think I might have said that because I kept
the name. I just took a break on it though,
because I want to I want to understand other religions more.

(39:53):
When I say being judg mental I don't. I don't
want to analyze people like be analyzed and I'm giving
them arms to other diagnosed. It's like I'm a doctor
or something like that. You know. I do want to
judge them according to the scriptures, but I don't want
to past judgment. I don't want to. I don't want
to shoot people away because of the religion.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
You know.

Speaker 6 (40:13):
Right now, I work at a food restaurant with nothing
but people who are Muslims, you know, and we're calling
each other brother and I told them I'm a Christian
and stuff, and it's like a really really cool work environment,
and so yeah, I don't. I don't. I don't necessarily

(40:34):
wanna want to pass judgment on them on where they
go when they when they die and stuff like that,
you know. But uh, I do want to make more
Christian music, Christian rap music. I ask some Christian rap
drafts for some your music. But I just wanted to
explore a little bit of soul music, you know, see

(40:57):
how I see how we'll do with that, And I
do like to listen to it. I don't want to
be hypocritical and or you know, act like I don't
listen to rap music or soul music and I'm just
like strictly a Christian rapper, so but I do stick
to my values, you know, and my morals and my
ethics and vrture.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
So that's that, right, yes, sir, Yes, sir? All right, man,
Where can our listeners connect with you on the internet
and check out more music?

Speaker 6 (41:33):
Yeah, you can definitely connect with me on Instagram. I'm
a BTA the Mixer on Instagram bt A d A
the Mixer, and you can also look me up on
Spotify of course, on YouTube this type of BTA Lonely
Lately and all your or Apple music or whatever story
you like to listen to music on. And you can

(41:53):
find me on X on vgen the Mixer. I think
that's all of it.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
BTA leave us with this. For someone listening right now
who feels alone in their relationship, what's one thing they
need to.

Speaker 6 (42:13):
The one thing that you need to hear is that
you're never alone. You're never alone because you do have God,
you have Jesus, you have the Holy Spirit, and you
reach out to them and reach out and pray and God,
you know, he specializes in these things and he can
even heal your relationship. A current relationships so don't give up. Hope, love.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
I love it, I love it, and listeners. Just in
case you need those links to his music and social media,
I will have those in the description of this episode
and in the show notes, so all you guys have
to do is click those links. You know, some feelings
are very hard to play. Life can hurt at times.

(43:00):
I do know that as someone who has lived a life,
who's been through his own share of pain and loneliness.
But when someone puts them into music like this, you
realize you're not the only one. And there was a
time that I believe and I still believe this, if

(43:24):
all the lonely people come together here their loneliness, you
wouldn't be lonely in So make sure you guys tap
in with BTA and check out Lonely Lately and tonight,
yes tonight, and the car and the shower, in the bed,
in a restaurant, wherever you are, be honest with yourself

(43:46):
about what you feel. That's where the growth starts. Don't
lose sight. Thank you so much, BTA. It was a
pleasure having you welcome.

Speaker 6 (43:55):
It was a pleasure being here. I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
Sir, Yes, sir, man take but.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
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Speaker 8 (44:13):
Just asking my questions we get cool responses. I think
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that you can do things different outside of expectations, because
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