February 23, 2024 • 42 mins
JK22 voices himself in a transparent and true way— he is no stranger to past destructive decisions and encourages dynamic changes in mentality concerning togetherness, legacy, and authentic self-expression.
Originally from Jackson, Michigan, and always on the road, he makes his inspiring mark across major metro areas and rural communities alike. This unique purpose and the relationships he builds along the way influence his alternative music that blends genres like jazz, country, rock and hiphop.
When he is not making music, JK22 is making music videos for his own projects and for others in his network.
As a creative, new perspectives are very important to him, and in 2021 he began collaborating with a Detroit local artist, Luchy Val. In 2023 they welcomed a third artist, LeNoira from Brooklyn, NY, to record with them,soon after solidifying a group called MadFocused.
It's all in the name— they Boast a prolific output and focused work ethic.
Together they've released 1 project thus far and are currently completing another, combining their innovative & experimental expressive styles.
In the near future they hope to reach and inspire more fans with their music, tour and perform for diverse audiences, and encourage the creative community with their stories.
Originally from Jackson, Michigan, and always on the road, he makes his inspiring mark across major metro areas and rural communities alike. This unique purpose and the relationships he builds along the way influence his alternative music that blends genres like jazz, country, rock and hiphop.
When he is not making music, JK22 is making music videos for his own projects and for others in his network.
As a creative, new perspectives are very important to him, and in 2021 he began collaborating with a Detroit local artist, Luchy Val. In 2023 they welcomed a third artist, LeNoira from Brooklyn, NY, to record with them,soon after solidifying a group called MadFocused.
It's all in the name— they Boast a prolific output and focused work ethic.
Together they've released 1 project thus far and are currently completing another, combining their innovative & experimental expressive styles.
In the near future they hope to reach and inspire more fans with their music, tour and perform for diverse audiences, and encourage the creative community with their stories.
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London studios. Today. We areexcited. Oh my god, I can't
believe we're in the second month oftwo thousand and twenty four. It seems
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Okay, this is what we've gotgoing on this week. We've got a
few events going on that we're goingto go over at the end of this
awesome interview. We have an amazingartist that we're going to be interviewing.
We're also going to be interviewing afew other folks. I can't give you
any names that We have some surpriseguests. The Red Carpet coming up here,
and we have the People's Choice Awardscoming up and will be hosting the
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People's Choice Awards. Will be thereon the red carpet with you guys.
We have a lot of exciting thingscoming up. Today. We're going to
be talking to a gentleman who voiceshimself in a transparent and true way.
He is no stranger to pass destructivedevisions and encourages dynamic changes in mentality concerning
together. This legacy and authentic selfexpression. Originally from Jackson, Michigan,
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and always on the road, hemakes his inspiring mark across the major rep
metro areas and rural communities alike.This unique purpose and the relationship he builds
along the way influenced his alternative musicthat blends genres like jazz, country,
rock, and hip hop. Whenhe's not making music, he's making music
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videos for his own projects and forothers in his network. As a creative,
new perspectives are very important to him, and in twenty twenty one,
he began collaborating with the Detroit localartist Lucci Val. In twenty twenty three,
they welcome the third artist, Leonora, from Brooklyn, New York,
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to record with them. Soon aftersolidifying a group called med Focus Mad Focused
correctly from saying that wrong mad focus. It's all in the name. They
boast a prolific output and focused musicwork ESIC. Together. They've released one
project thus far and are currently completinganother, combining their innovative and experimental expressive
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styles. In the near future,they hope to reach and inspire more fans
with their music, tour and performfor diverse audiences, and encourages the creative
community with their stories. Ladies thangym without further ado, I have none
of the prolific artists, none otherthan in South JK twenty two, JK,
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how are you? I'm good?Are you? Thanks? Having Yeah,
I'm so proudly. You've done someamazing things in such a short period
of time. I would say yourhustle muscle is second to none. But
thank you. I appreciate that verymuch. So tell us. I know
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that you're from Jackson, but tellus more about who you are and where
you're from. So I am.My name is James and I was born
in Jackson, Michigan. I grewup kinda like out of I guess,
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out of touch because I didn't havetechnology. I was more hands on working
on farm stuff like that, andso I've kind of grown into now the
society we have today of technology andactually being able to go out and make
your own things happen, which Iwas told I'll never be able to do
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because you have to be special todo that. So I kind of come
from that place. Wow, wow, you know what, you're breaking up
a little bit? Can you?Are you there? Yeah? There you
go? You broke up just alittle bit. What do you do?
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I know you do videography and recordingartists, but tell us a little bit
more about what you do. Doesthis sounds fascinating? Well, we kind
of do everything. It's it's beenlike a process to kind of peace along
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the way the different things we haveto do. Like each of us,
I've taken our own roles. I'vementioned in my bio that I'm working with
Lucci val He literally is the onethat allowed me to open up and start
doing music myself and not just shootingan image for what an artist is portraying
in their song. So it kindof brought like the two worlds together for
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me. And so not only doI shoot music videos, but We've done
two movies, a documentary, andI've worked with multiple artists throughout Detroit,
New York and I play French hornand other than that. Other than that,
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kind of just editing and filming forthe people that I'm networking with throughout
the community. So that's so amazing. What inspires you the most as an
artist? Because you've got movies,documentaries, music videos. To me,
you sound like a renaissance guy.I guess kind of what inspired me is
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like what was going on around me. And that's why it's fun because it's
always changing, and it's always anadventure, and it's always something new,
and it's always learning, and it'salways being able to help someone figure out
their next play. And that's whatI enjoy most is connecting people to their
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dreams as well, not just myown, because it takes a community to
build what we're doing. It does, it really does. And I love
the fact that you care about theother artists and developing them into their best
selves. What inspires you most asan artist? As an artist, I
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would say, oh, I wouldsay. I would say the lifestyle of
it, the pace of it,the freedom to be, like I said,
adventurous. I never wanted to stickto doing one thing. I always
wanted to do everything, Like Iwant to go play this sport, I
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want to go play that sport.I want to go drive cars, I
want to go run on the track, I want to whatever it was I
was doing, it was always somethingnew and exciting and adventurous. And I
think that's why I fell so hardin love with music, is like I
can do anything I want to do. I just have to manifest that into
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play and put the vision behind it. And that's what we've been doing is
just having fun. That's amazing.You get to live your life playing and
doing the things that you love whilemaking dollars and helping other people do the
same. That's amazing. What canyou do me a favorite? And tell
me when you're not recording music,what are you doing. So lately we've
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been doing behind the scenes for themovie Haley has Awakened and descend Off,
which are both out on TV now. I think yes. They are also
shooting for the artists in my networkand helping with We're kind of getting together
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a brand called Hummed Entertainment. Theyjust opened up a business. They got
embroidery going on. So we're kindof just like working in every direction and
upwards like clothing and now going ontours and uh, stuff like that and
kind of trying to get more involvedwith the community as well. Are you
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most comfortable behind the scenes or oncameras I would say I would say I
feel comfortable in both positions. However, I think it's most fun behind the
camera because I've been doing it myselfanyway, Like even when I'm filming my
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videos, most of the time,it's been me to this point, So
it's like I kind of get tosee both roles of it. I'll direct
it while I'm in it, andit's kind of fun to be able to
play both roles, I guess becauseit helps me work with other artists and
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makes my work with them easier,and it allows me to fluently understand what
they're going through and what I needto explain to them to make and come
together and flow. Wow. SoI would say it's all together. It's
just I don't know, fun,It's hard, but it's fun. No,
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it sounds amazing. Your shooting styletends to capture more natural, playful,
and authentic moments. How do youfind ways to keep your subjects comfortable
and engaged. That's why I wassaying to you earlier, it feels like
you're playing in life. But it'slike you're playing, but you're sharing that
and you're opening those doors for otherpeople to play and do all the things
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that makes your soul things. Soyou know, when you're shooting style,
how do you find ways to keepyour subjects comfortable and engaged. I tend
to catch them off guard, andI love to do that. That's like
my specialty is like, hey,come shoot this real quick, and the
artist doesn't know I've already shot halfof their their film off of the two
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shots we've had because they weren't.They were sweetly off guard with the fact
that I was shooting while they werewarming up and behind the scenes beforehand,
and so it kind of makes themfeel more loose. They're not like distracted
by it. It has to beperfect. So I would say the before
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and the after scenes mixed in withthe one piece is how I kind of
do that. And we just likeeventure. We just got back from the
ski resort and I'm sure Luci wasnot comfortable on that ski list because he's
scared of hikes, but he lookedcomfortable. Well, it's funny. You're
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funny. Sound you guys sound likeyou guys had fun though. Yeah,
it's fun. It's hard, butit's fun because it is what we made
of it. It's not like we'rebeing forced to do this. This is
what we love to do. Solove it. You can hear it in
your voice. You know, what'sthe most interesting environment or setting you've done
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a video? Win because you soundlike mister adventure guy. You know,
Oh guys, what wow? Iwould say the move I mean, you
know, yeah, probably hanging outof cars, like We'll have you know,
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one car either up front and I'mhanging out to some roof shooting the
person hanging out the sun roof forthe other one. Also, I would
say, yeah, the parties.Yeah, that's that's crazy. But I
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was trying to think of a reallygood one. But I really it's it's
like stuff I think that's crazy.Other people don't like. I like to
shoot in the woods, which mostpeople don't even think to do that.
Yeah, the mule that sounds fun. The go kart sounds fun. How
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is being a videoographer and shooting musicvideos open doors for you and other creative
fields because you do a lot aroundthe camera and behind it. Yeah,
it has open It's opened a lotof doors from me honestly. And the
cool part about it is it wasone one time I decided, you know
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what, I'm gonna go to thisstudio and I'd only other I've only done
like three four songs at that point, and I met Lucy. That's still
the person I work with today everysingle day, if not every single day,
every other day. And the wholegroup around us has grown and learned
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so much just over the past wordtwo years, three years of us meeting
and we now have thousands and thousandsand thousands of songs and just a couple
of years ago I didn't have any. So it's like from all different aspects
of it, from the makeup peoplewe met through the movie, to the
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directors and the people that were doingthe behind the scenes set up, and
all these opportunities kind of came intoplay and capitalize and it's fun because,
like I said, it's building acommunity and it's cool. That's that's one
of my favorite parts about it too, is the family. That's beautiful.
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When you build community and build aset of people around you that you can
call family, that's so important.And I mean major movie you always notice
that the people that stick together andhave family, they really get far in
life. So that's a that's anamazing mindset to have. It all comes
down to mindset. Let me askyou this, how many films have you
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worked on so far? And inthose films do you prefer a certain genre?
Like do you prefer comedy, horror, drama, you know, romantic
comedies? Tell us a little bitabout that. So I probably have done
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five at this point, I wouldsay, And that's like I'm talking we
sets, movie sets or big producedmusic videos, including my own or for
the City Boy was so a lotof different genres. I'm talking from rap,
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trap to country read to bluegrass toNew York drill to Chicago. I
mean, you name it basically allCalie now, Matt, so literally probably
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every genre except for Spremo at thispoint, Like that's the only one.
Yeah, wow, you're very challenged. I must say. When you worked
on Haley's you had the opportunity tohave a song on the soundtrack. How
pivotal was that moment for you asan artist? Like that's huge, right,
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Yeah, it was. It wasvery on the spot, Like,
actually, how we did it?We were making a song waiting for the
crew to show up to my houseto shoot in the woods, and I
was like, let's make a songabout the movie. And we had already
been filming for a couple of daysat this point, so I literally picked
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up from what I was filming andthe story that they were telling and told
the story. And when we showedit to the crew, they really enjoyed
it, and so they wanted toadd it. And that was it was
more like you said a mental thing. It was like me, me,
Okay, I'm really about to dothis. I'm really about to step up.
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This is really what we're going todo, So let's go all in
with it. And it has broughta lot of opportunity to us, from
features, to people reaching out tous, to people constantly like yo,
when you're going to drop that nextstuff for us? So it's been fun.
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God bless you on that. I'mreally proud to hear that. I
always like to hear when people havethat moment that is the game changer.
It's a pivotal moment. It changeseverything. And you got the chance to
experience that, and then you havepeople coming back and asking for more.
That's when you know you've done itright. I've noticed that on your recent
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project Million dollar question. You wereinspired there as well? What inspired your
direction and the concept? The conceptbehind that was every single song on that
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specific when we just dropped was kindof like we had done them back to
back to back to back to back, and they were all different styles but
the same sounds. The same soundis different way of expressing the emotion for
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it. And so we're talking aboutfrom the Pinnacle one where we're rapping about
on a ball like Mike, andthen we're going right into how to Try,
which is expressing emotion of Nobody taughtus how to try. Nobody taught
us how to get through hard times, but they all taught us you're not
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supposed to So where can I goto cry? Like? And we kind
of opened it up that way,and it's like it was all about the
sound and the bounce of the songsthat kind of set that up for us.
What makes the album different from theones you released in the past.
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I would say this is a waymore thought out prodect. This is a
well like song after song after songkind of keeps the listening engage, but
it was more authentic to ourselves asartists. And we've been working together for
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a while now, so we're havingfun playing with the stuff, and we've
built bonds throughout the people we're workingwith, so it more came together as
a family, as a feel avibe, and that's exactly what you want
with that album is something that thelistener is excited to Ooh, I can't
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wait to hear this song, ordang, that was short? How come
we can't hear that again? Andkeep them them engaged? You know,
speaking of songs, what's your favoritesong and tell us why, because yeah,
it does come back to that song. You know you got it on
repeat? You know that song forme probably when we made it was stick
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Up or how to Cry Right,And it was because when I first met
Luti and I first told him,like, yo, I really want to
take this seriously, but I needto learn somewhere. I need to I
need to sing and learn to singand fail at singing and try harder and
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get it. And with this album, I'm kind of rap singing and it's
a mix pop kind of and it'slike it it made me feel like we're
getting to that level of this.This next stuff that we're doing is going
to be some big stuff we're releasingand the things to come after that that
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we're already playing for. I'm reallyexcited for because of that, because each
time it's getting more thought out orauthentic to us and what we want to
have people see us for instead ofas right. And so when it comes
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back to this, you know,you've done a lot in a short period
of time. That takes a lotof motivation, mindset. It takes a
lot of uh, just change oflife and behavior in order for that to
happen. And you also have tohave a set of values. Tell us
what are the values in working inthis industry? I mean, what do
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you look for when you take yourvalues and you're picking another client or you're
picking an artist, what are thevalues that you look for. I am
looking for someone that is annoyingly readyto go at a given time, because
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that's how I was. It waslike it was like I was right there.
Okay, you need me to holdthe camera, Okay, I got
you. Do you need me toI'll do this song? Yeah, I'll
I'll jump on everse. Yeah I'llpay for that just to get on the
song. Are you hungry for it? Because when I see that and I
see that, they come to mewith a vision thought out, and like,
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this is what I want for thispart. If this is how I
want this to go, is thatpossible? It literally lays out exactly what
they want me to portray their artto be as a video, And it
shows that they truly care about thesport and they're not doing this for the
money, for the same, forany other reason, but they love to
do this and that's kind of howI like to pick the people I work
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with. Wow, you know,I noticed last year you released your first
project, American Gothics, and withthe third member Leonora. I won't make
sure of saying it right, Leiraor Leonora Leonora? What the concept for
this? Like inquiring minds want toknow? So our concept was Leonora is
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from New York and she was comingto collab down here in Michigan because I
had been going to New York forsome years and working with other artists down
there and filming people's videos, kindof reaching out to the studios, taking
artists through the studios to kind ofget a feel on where I would like
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to produce and who I would liketo produce with. And I met her
and she was like, I wasamazed, phenomenal singer like, Wow,
Wow, she just did that rightin front of me, and we wanted
to take that concept and put iton the road and show her our way
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or shower my way, show Lucie'sway. And we used that album to
piece together three totally different people thatcame together to do one thing, and
it was literally to have fun andto experience and meet each other's families and
go to the different places that we'retalking about we're at and working and getting
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them linked in with our people andlike we said, just continue as family,
because at the end of the day, it's not all about the music.
It's about the people you have aroundyou and why you're able to do
so and how you're able to getthere, and a lot of people forget
about that. And that's kind ofwhat that that inspired us to put out
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is that so wow, that's that'samazing that you even you know, the
way you speak about her. Ilike when you were talking about her,
right, I was like, Iwas like visualizing her, you know what
I'm saying. For a minute,I thought I would there. So you
know you kind of like Dragon Padle, Oh, you know what I mean,
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You're God Like I was Titchen likelike I was, you know,
Titchen like I was there and likewhat like I was watching her. So
it's like, you know, youdefinitely got the energy, you know,
to to pull people in and thenand then you know, let them experience
your world and just listening to you. I got a chance to do that.
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What is your favorite song from AmericanGothic? And tell us? Tell
us what's your favorite song? Andwhy is it your favorite song? Because
each song has its own world,you know, each song has its own
meaning, So tell us what's yourfavorite song. I think my favorite song
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is I don't even think I cansay it, but right for f sake,
Okay, But and the reason beingis because knowing CC and getting to
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know that fun side of CEC wasamazing as I'm sure as it was for
her to see me, because weliterally went on that song just to be
crazy and have fun and it turnedout to be the perfect song kind of
how we both were raised. LikeI'm saying, my mom would say,
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Christen's a bad habit, She's gonnawatch my mouth. I was so my
mom literally used to call or saythat to me all the time. Jimmy
Swerga, I promised I'm gonna watchthe mouth I was so she never would.
But it's just like that's that's somethingthat was a key factor of what
I'm talking about. It was justa whole different side of us. We
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were able to open up as artistsand kind of have fun with it.
Beautiful that that's beyond beautiful, andto have fun with it. You know,
it could start out as one thingand evolve into something completely else.
And that's that's another thing that's tome, what you're doing is magic.
But that's just my opinion. Youknow, what is it is? You
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know what has it been like togo from being an independent artist to building
a structured group? Mats focus?I mean the song that the word in
and of itself has me like Ijust immediately go into focus mode. But
tell us, tell us about that? You know what what is your You
know what has it been like togo from from that too, from independent
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to a structured group? It hasbeen hard, technical, fun, exciting
and kind of kind of a breadthof fresh air. I mean to me
at least because I'm filming, andwhen I'm filming, lo's either holding the
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camera or the light right behind me, or holding the mic up over the
movie set, whatever it is,we're all working together, and it's kind
of like, I don't I don'teven I don't know how to explain it.
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I get it, I get it. It's it's each Each has its
own structure, has its own youknow. Yeah, it it's you know,
right, And it takes it takesall of us just to make it
happen because what I don't know,Lou knows, and what Lou don't know,
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I may know, or CC mayknow, or the people around us
may know. And again back toour community, nobody is out here in
the game is going to give youthe game. And I've seen that over
and over with myself personally coming intobeing an artist. My easy way in
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was filming other people because I loveto do that and people liked what I
was doing with it. So thenthey find out I'm doing music and boom,
I'm oh, let's do a song. Okayoo woo woo. Now we're
shooting the video for that. Andso it's been fun and a lot of
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weight lifted off of my hands becauseI feel like we all have a part
instead of we're all carrying all thisweight and can only go so far.
Now we're moving together and it's easierto carry that weight when you create a
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dynamic, collaborative, in sync team. You have to think about you know,
for us just listening to you,is it more based on professionalism or
just good personalities? Probably a littleof both. And why I say that
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is because I don't, I guesslook at it in that way. I
look at it as is this personwilling to be there to fight through personal
and the family of it, likepersonal issues and then there's the family of
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an issues. Is this person inlove with what they do to the point
where I am? Because currently currentlyI feel that right now we are moving
in sync. And what I meanby that is where one's down, another
one is up and uplifting the othertwo or three people. And it's just
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motivation because we all have bad days, we have good is, we have
bad weeks, we have good weeks. It's and it's it's like I said,
kind of a weight lifted off ourshoulder and encouraging us instead of people
aren't kind of dissing be it soundslike it's a group journey, like as
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a collective, what are the goalsin ambition? Because like I said,
it seems like it's running as acohesive unit as one, you know.
Yeah, so you mean like upand coming things that you guys can work
out for. Yeah, No,Like what is you know, you guys
started this journey, you know,so what is the collective goal as you're
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you know of everyone, Like everyonehas an individual goal, but I was
just curious to know, is youguys working together? What is the collective
goal together? So our collective goaltogether is to give an opportunity and give
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things we didn't have coming into ourcareers, Like safe space is one.
You can't make art when you're notcomfortable where you're performing or where you're making
the art at and knowing that andgetting through that and just things. A
lot are things along that line.But it's for the people that are up
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and coming. We want to behelping, like teaching lessons at our studio
once once we get set up,that's what we're going to do. We're
going to start teaching lessons and howto produce and how to embroider your own
brands, which we're already starting todo that in April, and we are
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working on a three year project rightnow. Three years from now, we're
going to be dropping a documentary andthis is probably the first anybody's hearing about
that, but we just started that. We don't have a name for it
yet, but we are in themakings of that and just giving peaceful of
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vibes to the world because a lotis going on right now and nobody is
mad focused to give back. It'sall about themselves and a select group of
people. It's like, we reallywant to make that change into giving back
to people instead of stealing from peopleand taking from people and hurting people space.
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I would say that's so powerful.I could listen to this all day,
almost like you could a sermon apreacher too. You've got you've got
some you've got some energy that's prettypowerful. And what what you're what our
listeners want to know is what newprojects are coming out of Matt Focus as
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a group or the documentary. Tellus a little bit about that, and
then we're gonna wrap up and golisten to some of these songs you got
here. We got three songs herethat we're gonna we're gonna play and you're
gonna tell us that the name ofthe songs are and we're gonna play those
songs after this okay, that soundsgood. So, like I said,
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the documentary that's in three years.What you can look forward to now,
though, is a project we justdid for my birthday and we did it
at a ski resort over a shortperiod when Leonora was here. And we
have another project coming out with sevenTulos, Baby Baby Soup Paid Quoll probably
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Yale, and another project out inCali with Mad Love Anything Else Loud Wow.
You sound like you got quite abit coming up and I want to
be on board. Tell us thename of the song that we're going to
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be listening to today, because youare magic and all I get out of
you when I'm talking to you ismagic. I appreciate, Thank you very
much. The three songs are goingto be Time Capsule, and that's on
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the Million Dollar Question, and sois Cry, which will be the third
song you hear. And good Dayis the second and that's with me and
Boutsi and we do or No.That's hYP okay, Well, guys,
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we're going to get into it.You heard the man, now we're going
to hear his music. You arean inspiration, mister JK. You are
a inspiration. Keep doing what you'redoing because they don't make them like you
anymore. You mix old school withnew school and create it and create a
dope school. You know what I'msaying. So you have it's the next
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So you know, I come fromthe world of my my, my group
of people. You know, wecreated the rap Tane. We started the
rap Tane, and I just lovelistening to cats like you that come along
and you guys catch the drift,you catch the spirit and you just take
it to another level. And Ijust want to thank you for that,
you know, I want to thankyou for like opening doors and creating a
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you know, a conglomerate basically ofyour own people. And you guys have
you guys move as a unit.You know. Bob Marley said it as
the best. It's movement of thepeople, right exodus. So you are
what you're doing. It's a movementof the people. Brother, You're moving
the people into one direction and you'rehelping everyone live there, and that to
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me is dope. I appreciate that. Thank you that some heavy words,
and thank you for having me ontoday too. It's a blessing and I
look forward more. That's what yourenergy told me, brother, So I
had to tell you what it's tellingme. You know what I'm saying,
I appreciate Thank you. Absolutely yougot that good energy. You got good
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energy, you got good juju.And you know, even talking to you,
I can like, I literally likepsychically, you know, spiritually,
I can like sit on different artiststhat you remind me of as you're talking.
You know what I'm saying is like, Okay, he gonna make it.
He gonna make it, he gonnamake it. Because certain parkets come
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up as you're talking. So there'sdefinitely a psychic energy that you have going
that. When you talked about manifestationand miracles, you know you definitely you
woke that up. Thousands of songsyou woke that up. And so that
energy is all around you. Sowhoever is talking to you, if they're
really catch tapped in, they're gonnacap They're gonna catch the drift. And
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that's what I'm catching today is thedrift. I appreciate that. We look
forward to giving you more to listento. We want it all, brother,
we want it all. Now.Tell us how can we find you?
How can we go sweat you findyou? Listen to your music and
be a part of your crew.Okay, you can go on YouTube and
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it's mad focused. Also my topicis JK twenty two on there. We
got Luchi Veil. On Instagram,it's Capital J Capitol K twenty two at
Productions and that's JK Productions. Andyou got my Master United which has all
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my links and my link tree.You can find me on Spotify Music,
all all platforms to be to seethe movies. And I think that about
covers it well. We want tothank you so much for being online with
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and coming pop artists. I'm upand coming indie artists, and mainstream artists
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mainstreams. He's amazing. I feellike I'm talking to my friend. JK
is the bomb. JK twenty twoRookie is where it's at. You've got
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good energy, You're gonna make itbig, You're you're esthetically pleasing. You
got it going on, JK.And I just want to thank you for
choosing us to have the opportunity tointerview you. You understand because you definitely,
you definitely got the it factor.You got the it factor. Brother,
Well, thank you very much,and I can't wait to see you
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guys. A damn I can't waiteither. Anytime we welcome you. Anytime
you got anything going on, JK. Hit me up in an email and
I'll just say it. You knowwhat I'm saying right quick and say yo,
if y'all ain't got nothing going on. Go check out my boy JK.
You know it, such and suchwhere he's performing tonight. Boom.
That's it. Let us know becauseat this point you're in the loop with
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us. Now, you're with usnow. All right, thank you very
much. All right, JK,God bless you. Okay, guys,
we're gonna get into his song.We'll be right back. We're gonna go
pay some bills, and we'll beright back. JK. Thank you so
much, God bless you. Brother. I have a good one. You
two guys will be right back.We're gonna go pay some bills.
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believe we're in the second month oftwo thousand and twenty four. It seems
like time is flying. I'm tryingto figure out where it's going because I
want to fly with it. I'mtired. How about you, guys.
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Okay, this is what we've gotgoing on this week. We've got a
few events going on that we're goingto go over at the end of this
awesome interview. We have an amazingartist that we're going to be interviewing.
We're also going to be interviewing afew other folks. I can't give you
any names that We have some surpriseguests. The Red Carpet coming up here,
and we have the People's Choice Awardscoming up and will be hosting the
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People's Choice Awards. Will be thereon the red carpet with you guys.
We have a lot of exciting thingscoming up. Today. We're going to
be talking to a gentleman who voiceshimself in a transparent and true way.
He is no stranger to pass destructivedevisions and encourages dynamic changes in mentality concerning
together. This legacy and authentic selfexpression. Originally from Jackson, Michigan,
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and always on the road, hemakes his inspiring mark across the major rep
metro areas and rural communities alike.This unique purpose and the relationship he builds
along the way influenced his alternative musicthat blends genres like jazz, country,
rock, and hip hop. Whenhe's not making music, he's making music
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videos for his own projects and forothers in his network. As a creative,
new perspectives are very important to him, and in twenty twenty one,
he began collaborating with the Detroit localartist Lucci Val. In twenty twenty three,
they welcome the third artist, Leonora, from Brooklyn, New York,
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to record with them. Soon aftersolidifying a group called med Focus Mad Focused
correctly from saying that wrong mad focus. It's all in the name. They
boast a prolific output and focused musicwork ESIC. Together. They've released one
project thus far and are currently completinganother, combining their innovative and experimental expressive
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styles. In the near future,they hope to reach and inspire more fans
with their music, tour and performfor diverse audiences, and encourages the creative
community with their stories. Ladies thangym without further ado, I have none
of the prolific artists, none otherthan in South JK twenty two, JK,
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how are you? I'm good?Are you? Thanks? Having Yeah,
I'm so proudly. You've done someamazing things in such a short period
of time. I would say yourhustle muscle is second to none. But
thank you. I appreciate that verymuch. So tell us. I know
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that you're from Jackson, but tellus more about who you are and where
you're from. So I am.My name is James and I was born
in Jackson, Michigan. I grewup kinda like out of I guess,
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out of touch because I didn't havetechnology. I was more hands on working
on farm stuff like that, andso I've kind of grown into now the
society we have today of technology andactually being able to go out and make
your own things happen, which Iwas told I'll never be able to do
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because you have to be special todo that. So I kind of come
from that place. Wow, wow, you know what, you're breaking up
a little bit? Can you?Are you there? Yeah? There you
go? You broke up just alittle bit. What do you do?
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I know you do videography and recordingartists, but tell us a little bit
more about what you do. Doesthis sounds fascinating? Well, we kind
of do everything. It's it's beenlike a process to kind of peace along
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the way the different things we haveto do. Like each of us,
I've taken our own roles. I'vementioned in my bio that I'm working with
Lucci val He literally is the onethat allowed me to open up and start
doing music myself and not just shootingan image for what an artist is portraying
in their song. So it kindof brought like the two worlds together for
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me. And so not only doI shoot music videos, but We've done
two movies, a documentary, andI've worked with multiple artists throughout Detroit,
New York and I play French hornand other than that. Other than that,
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kind of just editing and filming forthe people that I'm networking with throughout
the community. So that's so amazing. What inspires you the most as an
artist? Because you've got movies,documentaries, music videos. To me,
you sound like a renaissance guy.I guess kind of what inspired me is
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like what was going on around me. And that's why it's fun because it's
always changing, and it's always anadventure, and it's always something new,
and it's always learning, and it'salways being able to help someone figure out
their next play. And that's whatI enjoy most is connecting people to their
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dreams as well, not just myown, because it takes a community to
build what we're doing. It does, it really does. And I love
the fact that you care about theother artists and developing them into their best
selves. What inspires you most asan artist? As an artist, I
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would say, oh, I wouldsay. I would say the lifestyle of
it, the pace of it,the freedom to be, like I said,
adventurous. I never wanted to stickto doing one thing. I always
wanted to do everything, Like Iwant to go play this sport, I
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want to go play that sport.I want to go drive cars, I
want to go run on the track, I want to whatever it was I
was doing, it was always somethingnew and exciting and adventurous. And I
think that's why I fell so hardin love with music, is like I
can do anything I want to do. I just have to manifest that into
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play and put the vision behind it. And that's what we've been doing is
just having fun. That's amazing.You get to live your life playing and
doing the things that you love whilemaking dollars and helping other people do the
same. That's amazing. What canyou do me a favorite? And tell
me when you're not recording music,what are you doing. So lately we've
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been doing behind the scenes for themovie Haley has Awakened and descend Off,
which are both out on TV now. I think yes. They are also
shooting for the artists in my networkand helping with We're kind of getting together
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a brand called Hummed Entertainment. Theyjust opened up a business. They got
embroidery going on. So we're kindof just like working in every direction and
upwards like clothing and now going ontours and uh, stuff like that and
kind of trying to get more involvedwith the community as well. Are you
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most comfortable behind the scenes or oncameras I would say I would say I
feel comfortable in both positions. However, I think it's most fun behind the
camera because I've been doing it myselfanyway, Like even when I'm filming my
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videos, most of the time,it's been me to this point, So
it's like I kind of get tosee both roles of it. I'll direct
it while I'm in it, andit's kind of fun to be able to
play both roles, I guess becauseit helps me work with other artists and
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makes my work with them easier,and it allows me to fluently understand what
they're going through and what I needto explain to them to make and come
together and flow. Wow. SoI would say it's all together. It's
just I don't know, fun,It's hard, but it's fun. No,
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it sounds amazing. Your shooting styletends to capture more natural, playful,
and authentic moments. How do youfind ways to keep your subjects comfortable
and engaged. That's why I wassaying to you earlier, it feels like
you're playing in life. But it'slike you're playing, but you're sharing that
and you're opening those doors for otherpeople to play and do all the things
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that makes your soul things. Soyou know, when you're shooting style,
how do you find ways to keepyour subjects comfortable and engaged. I tend
to catch them off guard, andI love to do that. That's like
my specialty is like, hey,come shoot this real quick, and the
artist doesn't know I've already shot halfof their their film off of the two
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shots we've had because they weren't.They were sweetly off guard with the fact
that I was shooting while they werewarming up and behind the scenes beforehand,
and so it kind of makes themfeel more loose. They're not like distracted
by it. It has to beperfect. So I would say the before
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and the after scenes mixed in withthe one piece is how I kind of
do that. And we just likeeventure. We just got back from the
ski resort and I'm sure Luci wasnot comfortable on that ski list because he's
scared of hikes, but he lookedcomfortable. Well, it's funny. You're
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funny. Sound you guys sound likeyou guys had fun though. Yeah,
it's fun. It's hard, butit's fun because it is what we made
of it. It's not like we'rebeing forced to do this. This is
what we love to do. Solove it. You can hear it in
your voice. You know, what'sthe most interesting environment or setting you've done
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a video? Win because you soundlike mister adventure guy. You know,
Oh guys, what wow? Iwould say the move I mean, you
know, yeah, probably hanging outof cars, like We'll have you know,
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one car either up front and I'mhanging out to some roof shooting the
person hanging out the sun roof forthe other one. Also, I would
say, yeah, the parties.Yeah, that's that's crazy. But I
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was trying to think of a reallygood one. But I really it's it's
like stuff I think that's crazy.Other people don't like. I like to
shoot in the woods, which mostpeople don't even think to do that.
Yeah, the mule that sounds fun. The go kart sounds fun. How
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is being a videoographer and shooting musicvideos open doors for you and other creative
fields because you do a lot aroundthe camera and behind it. Yeah,
it has open It's opened a lotof doors from me honestly. And the
cool part about it is it wasone one time I decided, you know
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what, I'm gonna go to thisstudio and I'd only other I've only done
like three four songs at that point, and I met Lucy. That's still
the person I work with today everysingle day, if not every single day,
every other day. And the wholegroup around us has grown and learned
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so much just over the past wordtwo years, three years of us meeting
and we now have thousands and thousandsand thousands of songs and just a couple
of years ago I didn't have any. So it's like from all different aspects
of it, from the makeup peoplewe met through the movie, to the
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directors and the people that were doingthe behind the scenes set up, and
all these opportunities kind of came intoplay and capitalize and it's fun because,
like I said, it's building acommunity and it's cool. That's that's one
of my favorite parts about it too, is the family. That's beautiful.
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When you build community and build aset of people around you that you can
call family, that's so important.And I mean major movie you always notice
that the people that stick together andhave family, they really get far in
life. So that's a that's anamazing mindset to have. It all comes
down to mindset. Let me askyou this, how many films have you
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worked on so far? And inthose films do you prefer a certain genre?
Like do you prefer comedy, horror, drama, you know, romantic
comedies? Tell us a little bitabout that. So I probably have done
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five at this point, I wouldsay, And that's like I'm talking we
sets, movie sets or big producedmusic videos, including my own or for
the City Boy was so a lotof different genres. I'm talking from rap,
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trap to country read to bluegrass toNew York drill to Chicago. I
mean, you name it basically allCalie now, Matt, so literally probably
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every genre except for Spremo at thispoint, Like that's the only one.
Yeah, wow, you're very challenged. I must say. When you worked
on Haley's you had the opportunity tohave a song on the soundtrack. How
pivotal was that moment for you asan artist? Like that's huge, right,
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Yeah, it was. It wasvery on the spot, Like,
actually, how we did it?We were making a song waiting for the
crew to show up to my houseto shoot in the woods, and I
was like, let's make a songabout the movie. And we had already
been filming for a couple of daysat this point, so I literally picked
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up from what I was filming andthe story that they were telling and told
the story. And when we showedit to the crew, they really enjoyed
it, and so they wanted toadd it. And that was it was
more like you said a mental thing. It was like me, me,
Okay, I'm really about to dothis. I'm really about to step up.
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This is really what we're going todo, So let's go all in
with it. And it has broughta lot of opportunity to us, from
features, to people reaching out tous, to people constantly like yo,
when you're going to drop that nextstuff for us? So it's been fun.
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God bless you on that. I'mreally proud to hear that. I
always like to hear when people havethat moment that is the game changer.
It's a pivotal moment. It changeseverything. And you got the chance to
experience that, and then you havepeople coming back and asking for more.
That's when you know you've done itright. I've noticed that on your recent
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project Million dollar question. You wereinspired there as well? What inspired your
direction and the concept? The conceptbehind that was every single song on that
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specific when we just dropped was kindof like we had done them back to
back to back to back to back, and they were all different styles but
the same sounds. The same soundis different way of expressing the emotion for
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it. And so we're talking aboutfrom the Pinnacle one where we're rapping about
on a ball like Mike, andthen we're going right into how to Try,
which is expressing emotion of Nobody taughtus how to try. Nobody taught
us how to get through hard times, but they all taught us you're not
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supposed to So where can I goto cry? Like? And we kind
of opened it up that way,and it's like it was all about the
sound and the bounce of the songsthat kind of set that up for us.
What makes the album different from theones you released in the past.
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I would say this is a waymore thought out prodect. This is a
well like song after song after songkind of keeps the listening engage, but
it was more authentic to ourselves asartists. And we've been working together for
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a while now, so we're havingfun playing with the stuff, and we've
built bonds throughout the people we're workingwith, so it more came together as
a family, as a feel avibe, and that's exactly what you want
with that album is something that thelistener is excited to Ooh, I can't
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wait to hear this song, ordang, that was short? How come
we can't hear that again? Andkeep them them engaged? You know,
speaking of songs, what's your favoritesong and tell us why, because yeah,
it does come back to that song. You know you got it on
repeat? You know that song forme probably when we made it was stick
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Up or how to Cry Right,And it was because when I first met
Luti and I first told him,like, yo, I really want to
take this seriously, but I needto learn somewhere. I need to I
need to sing and learn to singand fail at singing and try harder and
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get it. And with this album, I'm kind of rap singing and it's
a mix pop kind of and it'slike it it made me feel like we're
getting to that level of this.This next stuff that we're doing is going
to be some big stuff we're releasingand the things to come after that that
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we're already playing for. I'm reallyexcited for because of that, because each
time it's getting more thought out orauthentic to us and what we want to
have people see us for instead ofas right. And so when it comes
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back to this, you know,you've done a lot in a short period
of time. That takes a lotof motivation, mindset. It takes a
lot of uh, just change oflife and behavior in order for that to
happen. And you also have tohave a set of values. Tell us
what are the values in working inthis industry? I mean, what do
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you look for when you take yourvalues and you're picking another client or you're
picking an artist, what are thevalues that you look for. I am
looking for someone that is annoyingly readyto go at a given time, because
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that's how I was. It waslike it was like I was right there.
Okay, you need me to holdthe camera, Okay, I got
you. Do you need me toI'll do this song? Yeah, I'll
I'll jump on everse. Yeah I'llpay for that just to get on the
song. Are you hungry for it? Because when I see that and I
see that, they come to mewith a vision thought out, and like,
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this is what I want for thispart. If this is how I
want this to go, is thatpossible? It literally lays out exactly what
they want me to portray their artto be as a video, And it
shows that they truly care about thesport and they're not doing this for the
money, for the same, forany other reason, but they love to
do this and that's kind of howI like to pick the people I work
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with. Wow, you know,I noticed last year you released your first
project, American Gothics, and withthe third member Leonora. I won't make
sure of saying it right, Leiraor Leonora Leonora? What the concept for
this? Like inquiring minds want toknow? So our concept was Leonora is
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from New York and she was comingto collab down here in Michigan because I
had been going to New York forsome years and working with other artists down
there and filming people's videos, kindof reaching out to the studios, taking
artists through the studios to kind ofget a feel on where I would like
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to produce and who I would liketo produce with. And I met her
and she was like, I wasamazed, phenomenal singer like, Wow,
Wow, she just did that rightin front of me, and we wanted
to take that concept and put iton the road and show her our way
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or shower my way, show Lucie'sway. And we used that album to
piece together three totally different people thatcame together to do one thing, and
it was literally to have fun andto experience and meet each other's families and
go to the different places that we'retalking about we're at and working and getting
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them linked in with our people andlike we said, just continue as family,
because at the end of the day, it's not all about the music.
It's about the people you have aroundyou and why you're able to do
so and how you're able to getthere, and a lot of people forget
about that. And that's kind ofwhat that that inspired us to put out
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is that so wow, that's that'samazing that you even you know, the
way you speak about her. Ilike when you were talking about her,
right, I was like, Iwas like visualizing her, you know what
I'm saying. For a minute,I thought I would there. So you
know you kind of like Dragon Padle, Oh, you know what I mean,
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You're God Like I was Titchen likelike I was, you know,
Titchen like I was there and likewhat like I was watching her. So
it's like, you know, youdefinitely got the energy, you know,
to to pull people in and thenand then you know, let them experience
your world and just listening to you. I got a chance to do that.
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What is your favorite song from AmericanGothic? And tell us? Tell
us what's your favorite song? Andwhy is it your favorite song? Because
each song has its own world,you know, each song has its own
meaning, So tell us what's yourfavorite song. I think my favorite song
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is I don't even think I cansay it, but right for f sake,
Okay, But and the reason beingis because knowing CC and getting to
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know that fun side of CEC wasamazing as I'm sure as it was for
her to see me, because weliterally went on that song just to be
crazy and have fun and it turnedout to be the perfect song kind of
how we both were raised. LikeI'm saying, my mom would say,
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Christen's a bad habit, She's gonnawatch my mouth. I was so my
mom literally used to call or saythat to me all the time. Jimmy
Swerga, I promised I'm gonna watchthe mouth I was so she never would.
But it's just like that's that's somethingthat was a key factor of what
I'm talking about. It was justa whole different side of us. We
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were able to open up as artistsand kind of have fun with it.
Beautiful that that's beyond beautiful, andto have fun with it. You know,
it could start out as one thingand evolve into something completely else.
And that's that's another thing that's tome, what you're doing is magic.
But that's just my opinion. Youknow, what is it is? You
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know what has it been like togo from being an independent artist to building
a structured group? Mats focus?I mean the song that the word in
and of itself has me like Ijust immediately go into focus mode. But
tell us, tell us about that? You know what what is your You
know what has it been like togo from from that too, from independent
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to a structured group? It hasbeen hard, technical, fun, exciting
and kind of kind of a breadthof fresh air. I mean to me
at least because I'm filming, andwhen I'm filming, lo's either holding the
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camera or the light right behind me, or holding the mic up over the
movie set, whatever it is,we're all working together, and it's kind
of like, I don't I don'teven I don't know how to explain it.
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I get it, I get it. It's it's each Each has its
own structure, has its own youknow. Yeah, it it's you know,
right, And it takes it takesall of us just to make it
happen because what I don't know,Lou knows, and what Lou don't know,
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I may know, or CC mayknow, or the people around us
may know. And again back toour community, nobody is out here in
the game is going to give youthe game. And I've seen that over
and over with myself personally coming intobeing an artist. My easy way in
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was filming other people because I loveto do that and people liked what I
was doing with it. So thenthey find out I'm doing music and boom,
I'm oh, let's do a song. Okayoo woo woo. Now we're
shooting the video for that. Andso it's been fun and a lot of
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weight lifted off of my hands becauseI feel like we all have a part
instead of we're all carrying all thisweight and can only go so far.
Now we're moving together and it's easierto carry that weight when you create a
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dynamic, collaborative, in sync team. You have to think about you know,
for us just listening to you,is it more based on professionalism or
just good personalities? Probably a littleof both. And why I say that
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is because I don't, I guesslook at it in that way. I
look at it as is this personwilling to be there to fight through personal
and the family of it, likepersonal issues and then there's the family of
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an issues. Is this person inlove with what they do to the point
where I am? Because currently currentlyI feel that right now we are moving
in sync. And what I meanby that is where one's down, another
one is up and uplifting the othertwo or three people. And it's just
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motivation because we all have bad days, we have good is, we have
bad weeks, we have good weeks. It's and it's it's like I said,
kind of a weight lifted off ourshoulder and encouraging us instead of people
aren't kind of dissing be it soundslike it's a group journey, like as
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a collective, what are the goalsin ambition? Because like I said,
it seems like it's running as acohesive unit as one, you know.
Yeah, so you mean like upand coming things that you guys can work
out for. Yeah, No,Like what is you know, you guys
started this journey, you know,so what is the collective goal as you're
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you know of everyone, Like everyonehas an individual goal, but I was
just curious to know, is youguys working together? What is the collective
goal together? So our collective goaltogether is to give an opportunity and give
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things we didn't have coming into ourcareers, Like safe space is one.
You can't make art when you're notcomfortable where you're performing or where you're making
the art at and knowing that andgetting through that and just things. A
lot are things along that line.But it's for the people that are up
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and coming. We want to behelping, like teaching lessons at our studio
once once we get set up,that's what we're going to do. We're
going to start teaching lessons and howto produce and how to embroider your own
brands, which we're already starting todo that in April, and we are
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working on a three year project rightnow. Three years from now, we're
going to be dropping a documentary andthis is probably the first anybody's hearing about
that, but we just started that. We don't have a name for it
yet, but we are in themakings of that and just giving peaceful of
(34:24):
vibes to the world because a lotis going on right now and nobody is
mad focused to give back. It'sall about themselves and a select group of
people. It's like, we reallywant to make that change into giving back
to people instead of stealing from peopleand taking from people and hurting people space.
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I would say that's so powerful.I could listen to this all day,
almost like you could a sermon apreacher too. You've got you've got
some you've got some energy that's prettypowerful. And what what you're what our
listeners want to know is what newprojects are coming out of Matt Focus as
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a group or the documentary. Tellus a little bit about that, and
then we're gonna wrap up and golisten to some of these songs you got
here. We got three songs herethat we're gonna we're gonna play and you're
gonna tell us that the name ofthe songs are and we're gonna play those
songs after this okay, that soundsgood. So, like I said,
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the documentary that's in three years.What you can look forward to now,
though, is a project we justdid for my birthday and we did it
at a ski resort over a shortperiod when Leonora was here. And we
have another project coming out with sevenTulos, Baby Baby Soup Paid Quoll probably
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Yale, and another project out inCali with Mad Love Anything Else Loud Wow.
You sound like you got quite abit coming up and I want to
be on board. Tell us thename of the song that we're going to
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be listening to today, because youare magic and all I get out of
you when I'm talking to you ismagic. I appreciate, Thank you very
much. The three songs are goingto be Time Capsule, and that's on
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the Million Dollar Question, and sois Cry, which will be the third
song you hear. And good Dayis the second and that's with me and
Boutsi and we do or No.That's hYP okay, Well, guys,
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we're going to get into it.You heard the man, now we're going
to hear his music. You arean inspiration, mister JK. You are
a inspiration. Keep doing what you'redoing because they don't make them like you
anymore. You mix old school withnew school and create it and create a
dope school. You know what I'msaying. So you have it's the next
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So you know, I come fromthe world of my my, my group
of people. You know, wecreated the rap Tane. We started the
rap Tane, and I just lovelistening to cats like you that come along
and you guys catch the drift,you catch the spirit and you just take
it to another level. And Ijust want to thank you for that,
you know, I want to thankyou for like opening doors and creating a
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you know, a conglomerate basically ofyour own people. And you guys have
you guys move as a unit.You know. Bob Marley said it as
the best. It's movement of thepeople, right exodus. So you are
what you're doing. It's a movementof the people. Brother, You're moving
the people into one direction and you'rehelping everyone live there, and that to
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me is dope. I appreciate that. Thank you that some heavy words,
and thank you for having me ontoday too. It's a blessing and I
look forward more. That's what yourenergy told me, brother, So I
had to tell you what it's tellingme. You know what I'm saying,
I appreciate Thank you. Absolutely yougot that good energy. You got good
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energy, you got good juju.And you know, even talking to you,
I can like, I literally likepsychically, you know, spiritually,
I can like sit on different artiststhat you remind me of as you're talking.
You know what I'm saying is like, Okay, he gonna make it.
He gonna make it, he gonnamake it. Because certain parkets come
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up as you're talking. So there'sdefinitely a psychic energy that you have going
that. When you talked about manifestationand miracles, you know you definitely you
woke that up. Thousands of songsyou woke that up. And so that
energy is all around you. Sowhoever is talking to you, if they're
really catch tapped in, they're gonnacap They're gonna catch the drift. And
(39:31):
that's what I'm catching today is thedrift. I appreciate that. We look
forward to giving you more to listento. We want it all, brother,
we want it all. Now.Tell us how can we find you?
How can we go sweat you findyou? Listen to your music and
be a part of your crew.Okay, you can go on YouTube and
(39:57):
it's mad focused. Also my topicis JK twenty two on there. We
got Luchi Veil. On Instagram,it's Capital J Capitol K twenty two at
Productions and that's JK Productions. Andyou got my Master United which has all
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my links and my link tree.You can find me on Spotify Music,
all all platforms to be to seethe movies. And I think that about
covers it well. We want tothank you so much for being online with
us today wk im SM sixty onepoint one, Savage FM one hundred indie
(40:44):
hip hop, as well as wKIM FM sixty one point one, where
you hear interviews from the Red Carpet, whether we're talking to the rock Dwayne
Johnson or we're talking to Billy BobDarton. We have it all live right
here on the Red Carpet here inLos Angeles, California. We go live.
We interview the big names, bigevents. Please check us out the
(41:06):
k i MSM sixty one point one, check out the Ripoff Radio Show where
we expose, comment and expose peoplefor you know, taking people for a
fifth full of dollars. So ifyou're a business and you're out there,
be good to people because you don'twant to lose your business for a fifth
full of dollars. It's not worthit. And then of course you want
to hear our different interviews talking toup and coming hip hop artists, up
(41:30):
and coming pop artists. I'm upand coming indie artists, and mainstream artists
as well. Please take a listento us. This gentleman has hit the
mainstreams. He's amazing. I feellike I'm talking to my friend. JK
is the bomb. JK twenty twoRookie is where it's at. You've got
(41:50):
good energy, You're gonna make itbig, You're you're esthetically pleasing. You
got it going on, JK.And I just want to thank you for
choosing us to have the opportunity tointerview you. You understand because you definitely,
you definitely got the it factor.You got the it factor. Brother,
Well, thank you very much,and I can't wait to see you
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guys. A damn I can't waiteither. Anytime we welcome you. Anytime
you got anything going on, JK. Hit me up in an email and
I'll just say it. You knowwhat I'm saying right quick and say yo,
if y'all ain't got nothing going on. Go check out my boy JK.
You know it, such and suchwhere he's performing tonight. Boom.
That's it. Let us know becauseat this point you're in the loop with
(42:34):
us. Now, you're with usnow. All right, thank you very
much. All right, JK,God bless you. Okay, guys,
we're gonna get into his song.We'll be right back. We're gonna go
pay some bills, and we'll beright back. JK. Thank you so
much, God bless you. Brother. I have a good one. You
two guys will be right back.We're gonna go pay some bills.
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