September 21, 2023 • 32 mins
Dive into the rhythm and rhymes of South Florida's own S.A. Vents. In this exclusive interview, explore the journey of this innovative hip-hop artist and producer, from his raw and intuitive freestyle approach to the emotion-driven narratives behind tracks like “Streets.” Discover the experiences and inspirations that have shaped his unique blend of old and new school hip-hop.
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scenes and into the minds of theseincredible human beings, you know the ones
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world. Well, guys, weare here today with s A. Vent,
the sensational hip hop artist and producerrepresenting Brownwerd County, Florida, with
a unique sound crafted from a meltingpot of musical influences and a knack for
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genuine freestyle. His recent single Streetsis resonating deeply with fans, and with
that's less welcome, let's say eventsto the show. Yo, yo,
yo, what us up? Welcome? Hey, how are you doing?
How are you doing? Pretty good? Man? How are you? I'm
good? I'm good. Thanks absolutelyman. So, man, welcome to
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the show. First and foremost,before we get into the why and how
you do music, we want toknow about the who that's doing this awesome
music. Man, So tell itto us straight. How did you discover
your passion for creating music? Allright? So, basically, it's something
that I always kind of was into. I started with actually songwriting first before
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anything else. Before I got intoany of the performing or producing or anything.
I've been doing that since I wasaround say eight years old, eight
to nine years old. I wasdoing it with like my cousins and my
family and stuff, and we wouldalways perform at family parties and just mess
around whatever song kind of popular.We would kind of just do our own
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thing for that. And then meand my cousin we would be writing poetry,
Ryan's songs, just all kinds ofthings like that. And then after
that I got into the production sideof things. Like I was writing all
like from eight to nine off untilthe round I would say sixteen seventeen around
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there. And then around that ageis when I actually got into the producing.
I got on fl studio and Iwas just cooking up beats and stuff.
I had this old Nissan Ultima andI would have I had subbed in
the trunk and I would just alwaysplay my beats and music I liked on
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there, and I was just like, what kind of drove me at first
when I was making the beasts becauseI was just really was really into the
base and all that I just wasstarting to cook up. And then I
got into a couple of years afterthat, I got my first home studio
when I moved to Atlanta from Florida, and that's when I got into the
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actually recording my own vocals. Andat the time, I moved in to
my aunt's addict and her son wasan engineer in Atlanta, so he kind
of got me refined with the wholelike act my actual first project around that
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time, this is around twenty twentyone. And then from there I went
to the Art Institute of Atlanta.I was there for around a year,
a year and a half, andthen kind of just dropped out of there.
I couldn't really afford the tuition anymore. I was getting a little expensive,
and I didn't really like the mathclasses and all that. I was
trying to go for music, andI was kind of stubborn. And that's
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kind of crazy, right, howdo you throw all those other subjects in
there? Look, we just herefor the music party, you know what
I mean. It's crazy, butyeah, yeah, So I ended up
after that, I ended up comingback to South Florida, and I was
working in studios at the engineer andjust working with different genres of music,
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any kind of genre you could think. I was working with all artists,
networking with people, and that's kindof how I well, I learned a
lot of music theory and things likethat at the artistitude, but I really
refined it working in the studio withdifferent artists and a lot of different personalities.
Just getting to know people and justworking on different sounds and everything like
that, and all that kind ofcrafted my whole sound where I'm at now.
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And then I worked so I wasin the studios and then I worked
with another engineer. He was olderand older guy. He was based out
of Miami. He's uh. Hewas in the industry for a good amount
of time. He worked with likesome called big names, and he kind
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of directing me in the past,like to where I'm where I am now,
to just be more real with mymusic and not just kind of going
there and just do barbar barbar.Just try and like actually relate to people
and have a message with my music. Don't just say whatever. And then
he unfortunately ended up getting murdered.That was twenty twenty two, the start
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of twenty twenty two, where I'mlike March April, and I kind of
shifted things for me because there wassomeone that was really I guess guiding as
far as that goes. And thenyeah, that'd leave me to where I
am now. I kind of justwent on the route of started songwriting when
into producing and then rapping, andI guess it's been called singing. I'm
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not obviously, I'm not like aballast singer or nothing like that, but
go into the engineering and then everythingjust comes together and I kind of make
a package of the artists I amtoday. For sure, Man yeah,
sure yea and man, unfortunate tohear about the tragic loss of your mentor.
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Have you had a chance to unpackthat in the song get? I
actually have a project coming out thatI was working on with him. I
recorded like over one hundred songs withhim, and I'm just basically just breaking
down the what I have no asfar as like a strict song, like
just speaking about that, and sincenow I haven't really recorded that yet,
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I kind of like, I don'tknow, I have a weird way of
dealing with stuff like that, becausethat same year I actually lost my grandmother
too, so it was just alot of a lot of death. Honestly,
Yeah, not to get too deep, but what do you mean about
a weird way? How do youprocess, especially especially an artist, Well,
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I kind of, especially with likemy mentor, it was almost initially
like I completely just like cease everything, Like I wasn't recording, I wasn't
writing, I wasn't doing nothing.I kind of just sat there and processed
things because I was like he wasliterally the first, like I've worked with
so many people, and he wasthe first one that was actually like yo,
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he put his time, energy,effort, everything into like my craft
and me as a person. SoI was like all right, cool,
and I was like, damn,it's like a sign for me to go
on a different router, different pathor anything like that. And then after
just like some soul searching and thingslike that, I was like, wow,
all right, I just got touse that as like motivation and just
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use basically what he taught me andjust keep pushing forward and just stay on
the grind and just stay focused onwhat he obviously saw something in me.
So just stay focused on that,and it really work on that. And
that's kind of how I dealt withthat, you know, no matters like
I wasn't necessarily like I don't soundbad. I wasn't like sitting here like
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sad. It's so I was morelike just like I guess, looking within,
just kind of seeing what it is, you know, Yeah, I
don't know. It's still until thisday, I'm still like I can't believe
I haven't. And I was actuallysupposed to be in a session. The
more it happened the morning he gotlike shot, I was supposed to book
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a session that morning, but Iended up I had car troubles and I
couldn't make it down to the studio. Man, man, I think I
kind of can relate to how youfeel, you know, by looking within.
One of my best friends passed likea year ago, and it just
happened suddenly, like we had allthese plans and it's like one day those
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plans are no more and it's like, what do I do with this energy?
Now? Are you know? Likequestion of my own mortality too?
It's like, man, I couldjust drop any second like he did,
and you know, yeah, it'sthat uh, it's that uh forking the
road is which which you know,stuff like that. So I think I
know he's just talking about bro,I'm sorry about your sorry about your friend.
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Now appreciate that. Yeah, So, man, can you share a
defining moment from your life that hassignificantly shaped your perspective and approach to your
music and mission. The finding moment, I would say, was actually deciding
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that the engineering thing, as faras being a post time engineer, wasn't
for me and my actual passion wasthe artist side of things. And it
was when I was working at thelast studio I was working at I got
I wouldn't say I got fired,but I was just bugging heads with the
owner, like the lead engineer,and I just really realized because all the
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artists that, like, at thetime I was working with some like bigger
name artists. I just saw howthey treated engineers like me and the other
people I was working with, andI was just like, this isn't This
isn't something I wanted to do.And then I fully stepped into just like
the artist side of things. Istill make my own vocals and do things
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like that, but that's kind ofwhat I guess made me realize my true
passion. You know what I mean, sir? So are you saying that
these established artists are a holes?Not all of them, But there's like
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a lot of ego involved, AndI I mean, don't get me wrong,
Like there's when you create your art, you have to be confident in
what you do and things of thatnature. But when you're treating other people
like they're less than you are,like they're just there's like a a workhorse
or something, just something like tojust get this done, get this done,
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get this done, and you don'ttreat them like a human. Then
it kind of bothers me that way, because I treat everyone with the same
amount of respects basically, so Ican't I just don't relate to that,
but I'm not trying to throw anyoneout of the bus or do anything like
that, you know, So yeah, for sure, No, I'm going
somewhere with it. So as anartist yourself, you're you're getting into the
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gang. I'm a little bit inthe industry too, and I've been told
that for certain people you have toact that way because it's the only way
that you could either get respect orget something done. It's like a level
or or a sense of superstardom,you know or don't. I don't know
why attitude or being acting like you'rehiding someone else is a part of that,
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but apparently in that world it is. That's what I was told.
So as you're you're an artist,you're a people's person. You understand what
it feels like from the other side. As you're coming up though, and
they're telling you have to be thisway or that way to fit your persona,
how do you adjust or how doyou approach that? Do you change
or you know, you tell usYeah, I kind of when it comes
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down to that situation, I kindof like how we're talking now that this
is actually how I just communicate howI talk. But when it when I'm
gonna say I'm performing, or I'mdoing music video, or I'm just I
have to be in a certain light. I kind of I don't want to
say I turn into like essay events, the person, but I kind of
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embody my music and my art.I don't really I don't really see the
person going up into that, likeme, my personality going up into where
I am now. I just seethe finished product of essay events. And
again there's no ego attached to itor arrogance or anything. But it's just
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I step into that. So Ikind of, I guess, carry myself
with more confidence and I believe inwhat I'm doing in that moment or in
the in the time that I haveto be in the light. You know
what I mean? Yes, serious, sir? Alright, alright, we
are about to jump into streets andthen we'll be right back with more as
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a vents. Stay tuned. Ikeep running to you and never under the
keep running to you and not runningthe streets. No, not running these
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streets. No, I keep runningto you. No under keep running to
you and learning trees. Now runningthese streets. No. Yeah, you
think I want these holes that ain'tlike a picture. I know down to
my soul. I'm a loyal nigga. Why are they always trying to accuse
the innocence? But I live upin your head and you won't see me
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pay your rent. That's a fact. He come back, baby, don't
they back? That's the only timeI'm talking about how you'll back? Baby?
Coming me my privately? Does allthree tracks? Fanty launch a raygirl?
You a snack? Want to eatit up? After that? I'm
by they eat it up? Sapyour ask for a lager? I might
eat you work. I might askwhat can you buy that? Whoever whipping
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out too much? Make you comequick? No, you know you said
it. Come and get your fistquick. I know that you and Dick
did. Shiite me too. Ikeep running to you and learn learning,
keep running to you and learning thetrees. Now I running the streets.
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No, I keep running to youand learning the keep running to you and
learning the street. Now I runningthe streets. Told you not. Don't
worry about nobody in the last.Focus on the future, and we can
make this Boby her last girl.Don't let it be the same old song.
A new place, setting a newthrone. There's no question that you
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try me you, but a niggalike meat don't need some real connection.
I'd rather lay it with you thanget him. My hearty section, you
my best selection. How to makethem out. I think you got a
little attitude. I fucking out baby, tell me that you standing ring,
but let me I swear, comein pain, let me say you don't
come baby, say my name.Yeah. I told just how to keep
you in a team. Make youcome quick. No, you know how
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you said it. Come and getyour fish and quick. I know that
you and Dick did shiite me too. Keep you I'm trying. No,
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no, kid, keep bring youstreet, I'm not street. No.
Alright, alright, all right,welcome back, Welcome back, guys.
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Man, that was dope. Thatwas super dope. I don't know,
man, he has like this classyflow. Was it just the production that
brought that flow out? But Yo, this was very classy, very clean,
you know, oh man, veryvery dope. All right. I
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even just giving some advice. Thechoices yours. Uh, let's see,
Carol, Yes, sir, Oh, okay, let's see. I mean
I could maybe just do a littlewell sixteen maybe or something like that,
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or and then maybe some words ofadvice. I don't know, I can.
I could do the arngest words ofadvice for us to do. Well
what you what you're feeling right now? Yeah, that's cool, man,
because you could do both far allright, I mean, I guess I'll
do. Let' see if I havethe breath for this right nowledge and when
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we're here pacing back and forth,all right, so let me know,
let me know you're ready, readywhen you are? All right? So
see, Okay, there's a finessof ventilations. I heard this been a
drought. We'll here's some precipitation.I swear that I've been so patient was
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never a mitigation that manifest It takestime. Now I'm really tapping into something
that you'll never find been hitting gemkilling shit like it's Colin Bonne. See
both sides. I can help it. I'm a Gemini. Never pick up
on the exit, give him anotherchance to lie. Had my mind trapping.
I was tangled all up in theirthighs. Sent one on one.
I thought I found the one onehundred times. Really had the people closest
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to me wish my mind of minds. It's a shame, ain't it.
I'm the blame, ain't it.I can hate the picture. I'm the
one who fucking painted see the palmtrees, blue skys. No vacation dis
awards on it. And I'm nottalking PlayStation another murder on the news.
I had to change the station.I'm never gassing up a bitch through the
inflation, and I've been here beforeit because my soul is ancient. I'm
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just spilling out my spirit. CanI annotate it? That's just how it
is. And I'm waving other headof sucker anyways, all right, So
that's the that's a little a littlething right there. And then words of
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advice, So basically, don't don'tspend too much time focused on other people's
opinions and how they view you asa person because at the end of the
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day, you know what's best foryou, and life kind of unfolds if
you stick to your calling or justyour passion. And there's gonna be a
lot of people along the way that'sgoing to try and deter you or tell
you what you're doing is stupid orthat you just don't know what you're doing.
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And I feel like with persistence andpatience and putting in hard work and
persevering that anything can happen. Andno matter what, if you're should for
the stars, just send up onthe moon if anything, So don't give
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up. And yeah, just staystay focused. Alright, alright, man,
streets is something else? Man?Tell me what's the magic that makes
a particular beat speak to you?Especially this one? Something like that would
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really spoke to me was the baseline, Like I usually a lot of the
beasts that I would work on wouldhave like just eight awaits hidden like some
heart at the weights and stuff,and that that inspires me a different way
to just I guess say different things. But that beat, when it kind
of immediately spoke to me, likethat song in particular, it only took
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me like fifteen twenty minutes to makethat song because I'm more of like a
a punching type of rapper. Sowhen I heard that, I immediately just
the melody came into my head andI was just at the booth and I
got the hook down. And thenonce I heard the hook, I was
like, Okay, I can gostraight from that into the verses because it's
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I'm speaking off of experience and offof the relationship I was in. So
it was something that was just cameto me naturally. Like obviously some other
songs are different, but that wasin particular, that was something that just
flowed naturally do to that baseline.Absolutely, Man, Where can our listeners
connect with you online and hear moremusic? Okay, so Instagram is gonna
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be at say events, Twitter isgonna be as underscore a underscore events.
You can find me on TikTok alsoat start events, got me on Spotify,
after music, all the major streamingplatforms assay events, same thing as
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do events, YouTube essay events.And yeah, that's basically where I'm at.
Where I'm at with the socials andall the alright, alright, man,
one last question, your passion forexperimenting with different sounds is evident.
What's the sound or style that youhaven't tried yet but they're curious to explore.
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I would say like that alternative kindof rock type sound like I want
to eventually perform with, like thelive band and all that, because I
feel like that just brings a wholenew experience to music as well. So
that's something that in the future,Like, I have a couple of people
that I work within the past,like bands and stuff that I definitely want
(27:52):
to cut something up with because Ido enjoy making different sounds, different types
of music. Absolutely, man,that's was up all right? Brother man.
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Guys? Welcome to the show you'relistening to vr L. That's Vigilantes Radio
live right here on Ihearts Radio andI'm your host, Dnie. Our interviews
are designed to go beyond music,news, books, art, acting,
films, technology, education, entrepreneurship, entertainments, and sometimes even past the
thing that we call the ego.Our interviews are designed to go behind the
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scenes and into the minds of theseincredible human beings, you know the ones
we're out there given to. They'reawful me, for you and for the
world. Well, guys, weare here today with s A. Vent,
the sensational hip hop artist and producerrepresenting Brownwerd County, Florida, with
a unique sound crafted from a meltingpot of musical influences and a knack for
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genuine freestyle. His recent single Streetsis resonating deeply with fans, and with
that's less welcome, let's say eventsto the show. Yo, yo,
yo, what us up? Welcome? Hey, how are you doing?
How are you doing? Pretty good? Man? How are you? I'm
good? I'm good. Thanks absolutelyman. So, man, welcome to
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the show. First and foremost,before we get into the why and how
you do music, we want toknow about the who that's doing this awesome
music. Man, So tell itto us straight. How did you discover
your passion for creating music? Allright? So, basically, it's something
that I always kind of was into. I started with actually songwriting first before
(06:08):
anything else. Before I got intoany of the performing or producing or anything.
I've been doing that since I wasaround say eight years old, eight
to nine years old. I wasdoing it with like my cousins and my
family and stuff, and we wouldalways perform at family parties and just mess
around whatever song kind of popular.We would kind of just do our own
(06:29):
thing for that. And then meand my cousin we would be writing poetry,
Ryan's songs, just all kinds ofthings like that. And then after
that I got into the production sideof things. Like I was writing all
like from eight to nine off untilthe round I would say sixteen seventeen around
(06:51):
there. And then around that ageis when I actually got into the producing.
I got on fl studio and Iwas just cooking up beats and stuff.
I had this old Nissan Ultima andI would have I had subbed in
the trunk and I would just alwaysplay my beats and music I liked on
(07:11):
there, and I was just like, what kind of drove me at first
when I was making the beasts becauseI was just really was really into the
base and all that I just wasstarting to cook up. And then I
got into a couple of years afterthat, I got my first home studio
when I moved to Atlanta from Florida, and that's when I got into the
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actually recording my own vocals. Andat the time, I moved in to
my aunt's addict and her son wasan engineer in Atlanta, so he kind
of got me refined with the wholelike act my actual first project around that
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time, this is around twenty twentyone. And then from there I went
to the Art Institute of Atlanta.I was there for around a year,
a year and a half, andthen kind of just dropped out of there.
I couldn't really afford the tuition anymore. I was getting a little expensive,
and I didn't really like the mathclasses and all that. I was
trying to go for music, andI was kind of stubborn. And that's
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kind of crazy, right, howdo you throw all those other subjects in
there? Look, we just herefor the music party, you know what
I mean. It's crazy, butyeah, yeah, So I ended up
after that, I ended up comingback to South Florida, and I was
working in studios at the engineer andjust working with different genres of music,
(08:39):
any kind of genre you could think. I was working with all artists,
networking with people, and that's kindof how I well, I learned a
lot of music theory and things likethat at the artistitude, but I really
refined it working in the studio withdifferent artists and a lot of different personalities.
Just getting to know people and justworking on different sounds and everything like
that, and all that kind ofcrafted my whole sound where I'm at now.
(09:05):
And then I worked so I wasin the studios and then I worked
with another engineer. He was olderand older guy. He was based out
of Miami. He's uh. Hewas in the industry for a good amount
of time. He worked with likesome called big names, and he kind
(09:26):
of directing me in the past,like to where I'm where I am now,
to just be more real with mymusic and not just kind of going
there and just do barbar barbar.Just try and like actually relate to people
and have a message with my music. Don't just say whatever. And then
he unfortunately ended up getting murdered.That was twenty twenty two, the start
(09:52):
of twenty twenty two, where I'mlike March April, and I kind of
shifted things for me because there wassomeone that was really I guess guiding as
far as that goes. And thenyeah, that'd leave me to where I
am now. I kind of justwent on the route of started songwriting when
into producing and then rapping, andI guess it's been called singing. I'm
(10:16):
not obviously, I'm not like aballast singer or nothing like that, but
go into the engineering and then everythingjust comes together and I kind of make
a package of the artists I amtoday. For sure, Man yeah,
sure yea and man, unfortunate tohear about the tragic loss of your mentor.
(10:41):
Have you had a chance to unpackthat in the song get? I
actually have a project coming out thatI was working on with him. I
recorded like over one hundred songs withhim, and I'm just basically just breaking
down the what I have no asfar as like a strict song, like
just speaking about that, and sincenow I haven't really recorded that yet,
(11:05):
I kind of like, I don'tknow, I have a weird way of
dealing with stuff like that, becausethat same year I actually lost my grandmother
too, so it was just alot of a lot of death. Honestly,
Yeah, not to get too deep, but what do you mean about
a weird way? How do youprocess, especially especially an artist, Well,
(11:28):
I kind of, especially with likemy mentor, it was almost initially
like I completely just like cease everything, Like I wasn't recording, I wasn't
writing, I wasn't doing nothing.I kind of just sat there and processed
things because I was like he wasliterally the first, like I've worked with
so many people, and he wasthe first one that was actually like yo,
(11:50):
he put his time, energy,effort, everything into like my craft
and me as a person. SoI was like all right, cool,
and I was like, damn,it's like a sign for me to go
on a different router, different pathor anything like that. And then after
just like some soul searching and thingslike that, I was like, wow,
all right, I just got touse that as like motivation and just
(12:16):
use basically what he taught me andjust keep pushing forward and just stay on
the grind and just stay focused onwhat he obviously saw something in me.
So just stay focused on that,and it really work on that. And
that's kind of how I dealt withthat, you know, no matters like
I wasn't necessarily like I don't soundbad. I wasn't like sitting here like
(12:39):
sad. It's so I was morelike just like I guess, looking within,
just kind of seeing what it is, you know, Yeah, I
don't know. It's still until thisday, I'm still like I can't believe
I haven't. And I was actuallysupposed to be in a session. The
more it happened the morning he gotlike shot, I was supposed to book
(13:03):
a session that morning, but Iended up I had car troubles and I
couldn't make it down to the studio. Man, man, I think I
kind of can relate to how youfeel, you know, by looking within.
One of my best friends passed likea year ago, and it just
happened suddenly, like we had allthese plans and it's like one day those
(13:24):
plans are no more and it's like, what do I do with this energy?
Now? Are you know? Likequestion of my own mortality too?
It's like, man, I couldjust drop any second like he did,
and you know, yeah, it'sthat uh, it's that uh forking the
road is which which you know,stuff like that. So I think I
know he's just talking about bro,I'm sorry about your sorry about your friend.
(13:48):
Now appreciate that. Yeah, So, man, can you share a
defining moment from your life that hassignificantly shaped your perspective and approach to your
music and mission. The finding moment, I would say, was actually deciding
(14:09):
that the engineering thing, as faras being a post time engineer, wasn't
for me and my actual passion wasthe artist side of things. And it
was when I was working at thelast studio I was working at I got
I wouldn't say I got fired,but I was just bugging heads with the
owner, like the lead engineer,and I just really realized because all the
(14:33):
artists that, like, at thetime I was working with some like bigger
name artists. I just saw howthey treated engineers like me and the other
people I was working with, andI was just like, this isn't This
isn't something I wanted to do.And then I fully stepped into just like
the artist side of things. Istill make my own vocals and do things
(14:54):
like that, but that's kind ofwhat I guess made me realize my true
passion. You know what I mean, sir? So are you saying that
these established artists are a holes?Not all of them, But there's like
(15:15):
a lot of ego involved, AndI I mean, don't get me wrong,
Like there's when you create your art, you have to be confident in
what you do and things of thatnature. But when you're treating other people
like they're less than you are,like they're just there's like a a workhorse
or something, just something like tojust get this done, get this done,
(15:37):
get this done, and you don'ttreat them like a human. Then
it kind of bothers me that way, because I treat everyone with the same
amount of respects basically, so Ican't I just don't relate to that,
but I'm not trying to throw anyoneout of the bus or do anything like
that, you know, So yeah, for sure, No, I'm going
somewhere with it. So as anartist yourself, you're you're getting into the
(15:58):
gang. I'm a little bit inthe industry too, and I've been told
that for certain people you have toact that way because it's the only way
that you could either get respect orget something done. It's like a level
or or a sense of superstardom,you know or don't. I don't know
why attitude or being acting like you'rehiding someone else is a part of that,
(16:22):
but apparently in that world it is. That's what I was told.
So as you're you're an artist,you're a people's person. You understand what
it feels like from the other side. As you're coming up though, and
they're telling you have to be thisway or that way to fit your persona,
how do you adjust or how doyou approach that? Do you change
or you know, you tell usYeah, I kind of when it comes
(16:48):
down to that situation, I kindof like how we're talking now that this
is actually how I just communicate howI talk. But when it when I'm
gonna say I'm performing, or I'mdoing music video, or I'm just I
have to be in a certain light. I kind of I don't want to
say I turn into like essay events, the person, but I kind of
(17:15):
embody my music and my art.I don't really I don't really see the
person going up into that, likeme, my personality going up into where
I am now. I just seethe finished product of essay events. And
again there's no ego attached to itor arrogance or anything. But it's just
(17:37):
I step into that. So Ikind of, I guess, carry myself
with more confidence and I believe inwhat I'm doing in that moment or in
the in the time that I haveto be in the light. You know
what I mean? Yes, serious, sir? Alright, alright, we
are about to jump into streets andthen we'll be right back with more as
(18:00):
a vents. Stay tuned. Ikeep running to you and never under the
keep running to you and not runningthe streets. No, not running these
(18:22):
streets. No, I keep runningto you. No under keep running to
you and learning trees. Now runningthese streets. No. Yeah, you
think I want these holes that ain'tlike a picture. I know down to
my soul. I'm a loyal nigga. Why are they always trying to accuse
the innocence? But I live upin your head and you won't see me
(18:45):
pay your rent. That's a fact. He come back, baby, don't
they back? That's the only timeI'm talking about how you'll back? Baby?
Coming me my privately? Does allthree tracks? Fanty launch a raygirl?
You a snack? Want to eatit up? After that? I'm
by they eat it up? Sapyour ask for a lager? I might
eat you work. I might askwhat can you buy that? Whoever whipping
(19:07):
out too much? Make you comequick? No, you know you said
it. Come and get your fistquick. I know that you and Dick
did. Shiite me too. Ikeep running to you and learn learning,
keep running to you and learning thetrees. Now I running the streets.
(19:29):
No, I keep running to youand learning the keep running to you and
learning the street. Now I runningthe streets. Told you not. Don't
worry about nobody in the last.Focus on the future, and we can
make this Boby her last girl.Don't let it be the same old song.
A new place, setting a newthrone. There's no question that you
(19:52):
try me you, but a niggalike meat don't need some real connection.
I'd rather lay it with you thanget him. My hearty section, you
my best selection. How to makethem out. I think you got a
little attitude. I fucking out baby, tell me that you standing ring,
but let me I swear, comein pain, let me say you don't
come baby, say my name.Yeah. I told just how to keep
you in a team. Make youcome quick. No, you know how
(20:18):
you said it. Come and getyour fish and quick. I know that
you and Dick did shiite me too. Keep you I'm trying. No,
(20:40):
no, kid, keep bring youstreet, I'm not street. No.
Alright, alright, all right,welcome back, Welcome back, guys.
(21:03):
Man, that was dope. Thatwas super dope. I don't know,
man, he has like this classyflow. Was it just the production that
brought that flow out? But Yo, this was very classy, very clean,
you know, oh man, veryvery dope. All right. I
forgot to mention that we have atradition that it's called the hot seat,
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and that's where we invite our specialguests to perform for us. So let's
go ahead and bring at say backyo, yo, yo, welcome back
and back live with us and inour hot seat. I don't know if
you know about this, but weallow our guests to perform, whether that's
rapping, sinking and poetry, spokenword jokes, stories, instruments, or
(21:48):
even just giving some advice. Thechoices yours. Uh, let's see,
Carol, Yes, sir, Oh, okay, let's see. I mean
I could maybe just do a littlewell sixteen maybe or something like that,
(22:11):
or and then maybe some words ofadvice. I don't know, I can.
I could do the arngest words ofadvice for us to do. Well
what you what you're feeling right now? Yeah, that's cool, man,
because you could do both far allright, I mean, I guess I'll
do. Let' see if I havethe breath for this right nowledge and when
(22:32):
we're here pacing back and forth,all right, so let me know,
let me know you're ready, readywhen you are? All right? So
see, Okay, there's a finessof ventilations. I heard this been a
drought. We'll here's some precipitation.I swear that I've been so patient was
(22:53):
never a mitigation that manifest It takestime. Now I'm really tapping into something
that you'll never find been hitting gemkilling shit like it's Colin Bonne. See
both sides. I can help it. I'm a Gemini. Never pick up
on the exit, give him anotherchance to lie. Had my mind trapping.
I was tangled all up in theirthighs. Sent one on one.
I thought I found the one onehundred times. Really had the people closest
(23:15):
to me wish my mind of minds. It's a shame, ain't it.
I'm the blame, ain't it.I can hate the picture. I'm the
one who fucking painted see the palmtrees, blue skys. No vacation dis
awards on it. And I'm nottalking PlayStation another murder on the news.
I had to change the station.I'm never gassing up a bitch through the
inflation, and I've been here beforeit because my soul is ancient. I'm
(23:36):
just spilling out my spirit. CanI annotate it? That's just how it
is. And I'm waving other headof sucker anyways, all right, So
that's the that's a little a littlething right there. And then words of
(23:56):
advice, So basically, don't don'tspend too much time focused on other people's
opinions and how they view you asa person because at the end of the
(24:22):
day, you know what's best foryou, and life kind of unfolds if
you stick to your calling or justyour passion. And there's gonna be a
lot of people along the way that'sgoing to try and deter you or tell
you what you're doing is stupid orthat you just don't know what you're doing.
(24:44):
And I feel like with persistence andpatience and putting in hard work and
persevering that anything can happen. Andno matter what, if you're should for
the stars, just send up onthe moon if anything, So don't give
(25:11):
up. And yeah, just staystay focused. Alright, alright, man,
streets is something else? Man?Tell me what's the magic that makes
a particular beat speak to you?Especially this one? Something like that would
(25:32):
really spoke to me was the baseline, Like I usually a lot of the
beasts that I would work on wouldhave like just eight awaits hidden like some
heart at the weights and stuff,and that that inspires me a different way
to just I guess say different things. But that beat, when it kind
of immediately spoke to me, likethat song in particular, it only took
(25:56):
me like fifteen twenty minutes to makethat song because I'm more of like a
a punching type of rapper. Sowhen I heard that, I immediately just
the melody came into my head andI was just at the booth and I
got the hook down. And thenonce I heard the hook, I was
like, Okay, I can gostraight from that into the verses because it's
(26:18):
I'm speaking off of experience and offof the relationship I was in. So
it was something that was just cameto me naturally. Like obviously some other
songs are different, but that wasin particular, that was something that just
flowed naturally do to that baseline.Absolutely, Man, Where can our listeners
connect with you online and hear moremusic? Okay, so Instagram is gonna
(26:42):
be at say events, Twitter isgonna be as underscore a underscore events.
You can find me on TikTok alsoat start events, got me on Spotify,
after music, all the major streamingplatforms assay events, same thing as
(27:03):
do events, YouTube essay events.And yeah, that's basically where I'm at.
Where I'm at with the socials andall the alright, alright, man,
one last question, your passion forexperimenting with different sounds is evident.
What's the sound or style that youhaven't tried yet but they're curious to explore.
(27:29):
I would say like that alternative kindof rock type sound like I want
to eventually perform with, like thelive band and all that, because I
feel like that just brings a wholenew experience to music as well. So
that's something that in the future,Like, I have a couple of people
that I work within the past,like bands and stuff that I definitely want
(27:52):
to cut something up with because Ido enjoy making different sounds, different types
of music. Absolutely, man,that's was up all right? Brother man.
We appreciate you for spending some timewith us and sharing your music.
Thank you for having me really appreciationAbsolutely, take care you too. But
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