1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,879 And we have a couple of fine gentlemen here on the couch. We have 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,759 Cody Pope and Byron Gee. How are you guys? Hey doing great? 3 00:00:07,839 --> 00:00:11,960 Thanks so much for having us, Absolutely absolutely so um and you guys are 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:16,359 going to perform and this is very cool. Have you ever performed sitting on 5 00:00:16,399 --> 00:00:21,399 a couch before? Honestly, and I think this is the first for us. 6 00:00:21,399 --> 00:00:24,480 Definitely a different vibe, first time here, first time performing on a 7 00:00:24,559 --> 00:00:29,079 couch. Yeah, yeah, there it is there, It is okay? 8 00:00:29,199 --> 00:00:31,679 Should all right? Are you guys ready? Yeah? We are ready? 9 00:00:31,719 --> 00:00:38,679 All right, Here we go. The song title is called off of our 10 00:00:38,759 --> 00:00:43,439 debut album Together and Meet Me in Gate City. That is Cody Pope and 11 00:00:43,479 --> 00:01:03,759 I am Byron Gee. I turned thirty and felt I had a cracker. 12 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,359 Two. People love to just sit back and laugh at you, miraculously think 13 00:01:07,359 --> 00:01:11,480 that life is just gonna turn around. Same people always telling you to turn 14 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,200 your frown, turn it down music, glad what neighbors? I do this 15 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:19,120 for real ones and no, my true players. Not no sense thinking you're 16 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:25,120 flipping up quick or like clipping bricks or cooking it like this quick. I 17 00:01:25,239 --> 00:01:27,799 had needles in my arm. Money in the same felt the treason from my 18 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:32,640 dogs, looking funny in their face, almost sat down for a couple for 19 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:36,319 defending the turf. This planet truly hates me. I'm no friend of the 20 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:40,040 earth, trail blazing. I don't need to ride a coat tail. Things 21 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:44,120 I've survived are the same things that most failed tried to ride the waves but 22 00:01:44,159 --> 00:01:47,359 couldn't fix a boat's sail. Like all this into Hope's fault. I was 23 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:52,640 watching Hope fail. Broken pottery manned with the gold dust, never ashamed to 24 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:57,359 make repairs to the yold us cracks in our armor only show we have history. 25 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,200 If you don't get it, it don't mean it's a distant me. 26 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:05,599 Broken pottery man with the gold dust, never ashamed to make repairs to the 27 00:02:05,719 --> 00:02:09,039 old dust cracks and our armor only show we have history. If you don't 28 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:13,360 get it, it don't mean it's this to me. You might catch me 29 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:17,479 prowling down Vine Street or at the crib holding them my dime piece. Might 30 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:22,319 see me at the record store chilling with my niece. Every song is a 31 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:27,319 capsule, like it's my dig digarria of the mouth things I spit specific thing. 32 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,360 No, I'm gifted like I flow cost the specific you miss every shot 33 00:02:30,479 --> 00:02:34,800 that you don't take. Shoot so much, you might meet me at my 34 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,360 own way. Wait wait, see began big like a soda in the three 35 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:42,360 piece, like Jordan with the three peak seed stuck on repeat. We like 36 00:02:42,479 --> 00:02:46,080 the hot boys, Turk Juvie and Big Man. We freshest man he when 37 00:02:46,159 --> 00:02:49,919 he's making beats for Wheezy best believe me being greedy, get you left behind. 38 00:02:50,439 --> 00:02:53,120 Everybody meet their maker friends with death in time, My breath is rhymes, 39 00:02:53,159 --> 00:02:57,759 my un crime, body, shrine piss excellent with these, might as 40 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:02,039 well bottle up the wine. Broken pottery mended with the gold dust, never 41 00:03:02,199 --> 00:03:07,400 be Shane to make repairs to the old dust cracks, and Alma only show 42 00:03:07,439 --> 00:03:09,680 we have history. If you don't get it, it don't mean it's a 43 00:03:09,719 --> 00:03:15,639 dis to me. Broken pottery mended with the gold dust, never Shane to 44 00:03:15,759 --> 00:03:19,599 make repairs to the old dust cracks, and am the only show we have 45 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,879 history. If you don't get it, it don't mean it's a dist to 46 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:28,520 me. Preach. Oh you guys sound great, Hey, thank you man 47 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:32,000 man absolutely if you're just joining us, Cody Pope and Byron g are here 48 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,199 with us live in studio. That was not a studio track. That is 49 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,000 them performing live. Here they are on the couch with us, and gentlemen, 50 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,439 I have some good news if you want to keep going, well, 51 00:03:42,479 --> 00:03:45,120 if you're gonna twist my arm because I'd love to hear Mark. Yeah, 52 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,800 I finally I figured out how to get that folder over beautiful. So you 53 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:52,919 want you want just the next track? Sure? So this track two is 54 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:57,879 called Scary Stories. We just had this going throughout college radio in North America 55 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:00,680 and it was really cool to see how far it went. So h Excel 56 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,800 is kind of like the first proper single from the album, if you will, 57 00:04:03,919 --> 00:04:08,199 So shout out to everybody that helped make this one count. It's a 58 00:04:08,199 --> 00:04:11,479 little more rapid he rapped than the last one. Yeah, cool, cool, 59 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:14,439 All right, are you ready? Yes sir? All right, here 60 00:04:14,439 --> 00:04:25,199 we go. Shout out to DJ Meth on the Scratches, Manchester's finest Yes, 61 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:53,199 Sir, rap raps stand sign Yo. Don't talk to me about a 62 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,800 wrapper with no book of flames. Don't look the way I'll burn the bridge 63 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,079 with one book of flames. Shook with Shane, took a look and play 64 00:05:00,079 --> 00:05:02,560 The crooked game cooks the same. But the word you say don't mean a 65 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:08,319 thing. You want your masters because nobody wants trash. Don't flaunt that means 66 00:05:08,319 --> 00:05:13,480 the label won't call back. Do something to magnitude before flexing attitude. Say 67 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:17,079 you don't give it up until people lamat at you. Only positive fib okay, 68 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:23,399 you opportunists, surround yourself with toxic people just to push your music integrity 69 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,920 and sacrifice me tona before success can't be new to when people be lying to 70 00:05:28,079 --> 00:05:31,399 the press, here the remind minds that rappers are actors to what's this man's 71 00:05:31,439 --> 00:05:35,199 intention with all the questions he's asking you? So I clearly want to run 72 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:40,480 until they fall face first instead of go in the slow clumps at the pace 73 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,759 first? What taste worse with a bit of frank friends becoming fosed with someone 74 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,560 who plans to use against you what they know all one and the same, 75 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,839 all one in the equal We both can't live. You gotta die before the 76 00:05:51,879 --> 00:05:57,519 sequel gave me life. Taking yours is not a problem. Taught plunge with 77 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,720 a knife before they say they got him this that I do take every penny 78 00:06:00,759 --> 00:06:03,800 in breath, So no what I have no fear. I'm already friends with 79 00:06:04,079 --> 00:06:09,360 death? Why so Sifricus because life's so hard. Somehow, a lot of 80 00:06:09,399 --> 00:06:14,319 these frauds so left me scar trusted in people who wouldn't give me a crumb 81 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:18,000 to live, having to napgate humanity. It's dumb to live still swinging, 82 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:23,519 still fighting, I show why trying. Y'all tough on song, Facebook all 83 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:28,439 crying bitch, probably sell your journals out, refused. I'm the world's night 84 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:40,480 man. Nobody's dreaming for you. Preach you guys will have to excuse me 85 00:06:40,759 --> 00:06:44,240 skipping out a couple of phrases here and there, trying to trying to keep 86 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:48,800 it give it cleaning, radio clean. So just you know, but I 87 00:06:48,879 --> 00:06:51,959 love doing this. This is really cool man. It's all a great way 88 00:06:51,959 --> 00:06:57,120 for us to uh share the album with people. I love this. Oh, 89 00:06:57,199 --> 00:06:59,759 it's great here and you guys live in the in the studio like this. 90 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,360 This is awesome. Thank you. Yeah, it's cool. It's been 91 00:07:01,399 --> 00:07:04,920 a while since we've got to perform or really rock these. You know, 92 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,920 we've been so busy with doing We we both do like event planning and stuff 93 00:07:09,959 --> 00:07:13,279 like that, and we do a lot of booking of shows and we run 94 00:07:13,319 --> 00:07:17,199 a record label together. So it's like it's been probably months since we've played 95 00:07:17,199 --> 00:07:19,759 a show, so it's nice to just even be here, kind of like 96 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:25,000 flexing the muscle again. Yeah. Yeah, well let's talk about some of 97 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,959 that stuff and then and then if you guys want to do another track, 98 00:07:27,959 --> 00:07:30,600 I'd love to hear another track in a few minutes. But yeah, yeah, 99 00:07:30,639 --> 00:07:34,160 tell me about now. So, Cody, I've interviewed you, I 100 00:07:34,199 --> 00:07:38,040 think once, maybe twice. Yeah, I think it was once. It 101 00:07:38,079 --> 00:07:40,480 was like I want to say it was twenty fifteen, when you were doing 102 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:44,879 Local Outbreak in Laconia. Yeah, yeah, long time ago. Yeah. 103 00:07:44,879 --> 00:07:46,600 Now, how long have the two of you been working together, because it 104 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,279 sounds like you do do a lot of stuff together, right, yeah, 105 00:07:49,319 --> 00:07:54,240 just um, just over the last like two years now. Okay, we 106 00:07:54,279 --> 00:07:57,519 had met We're both from Nashua, New Hampshire, so we met through like 107 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:01,759 the Gate City hip hop community there. Yeah, and he had just sent 108 00:08:01,839 --> 00:08:03,800 me a couple of beats and what was going to be a couple of songs 109 00:08:03,879 --> 00:08:09,680 turned into an album. Us doing the album turned into him coming on board 110 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:13,439 to help me run the record label. And honestly, ever since we've like 111 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:18,000 found this symbiosis in our partnership, things have just taken off tremendously for both 112 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:20,639 of us, and yeah, I think we both attribute a lot of that 113 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,560 to the partnership because we'd both been out here. We've been out here for 114 00:08:24,639 --> 00:08:30,319 over a decade on our own, making waves, but not anything sustainable. 115 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,000 And you know, now ever since we've put this album out, things have 116 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:37,399 really opened up for us fortunately. Yeah. Now, do you guys always 117 00:08:37,399 --> 00:08:41,799 perform together at this point or do you ever still do solo shows or how 118 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:46,519 does that work? So he does solo shows as a producer, so so 119 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:52,200 Cody Pope and Byron Gee. He produces all the music for us and is 120 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,039 like composing all of that, you know, working with any of the instrument 121 00:08:56,039 --> 00:08:58,960 players we work with, anything like that. And so he can go out 122 00:09:00,039 --> 00:09:03,639 and do like DJ shows and gigs like that where it's like, um, 123 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:09,639 he'll go and play his beats and things of that nature. I don't I 124 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:13,399 honestly could go out and do shows without him, But we have so much 125 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:18,799 fun performing together that any opportunity I get to perform, I try to get 126 00:09:18,879 --> 00:09:24,120 him involved. Yeah. He's really good about supporting me live too, where 127 00:09:24,639 --> 00:09:26,960 you know, when we do certain you know, I'll get offers to open 128 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,799 for certain artists where you know, for example, we just opened for Nonfiction 129 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:35,080 a few weeks back, sold out at the Shaftky and it was great. 130 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,440 But um, anybody that's familiar with nonfiction that's like a really heavy, like 131 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:43,120 you know, hardcore hip hop, and so some of the songs from our 132 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,799 album are a little more soulful. But you know, I have a really 133 00:09:46,919 --> 00:09:52,759 deep back catalog, so he'll learn songs from my back catalog and we'll go 134 00:09:52,799 --> 00:09:56,399 and play. You know, we never play the same set twice basically, 135 00:09:56,799 --> 00:10:01,039 and he's really good about playing my old catalog songs with the songs that we've 136 00:10:01,039 --> 00:10:05,519 made oh sorry, made together now okay, okay, And Byron, did 137 00:10:05,519 --> 00:10:09,080 you like what what did you start doing first, producing or rapping or what 138 00:10:09,159 --> 00:10:13,840 like? What what came first for you? I started producing first to rap, 139 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,320 so I was writing and stuff. This was you know, back early 140 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:24,519 two thousands. Yeah, and uh, I I wasn't real you know on 141 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:30,240 like the YouTube find beats and stuff. So I really got fruity loops and 142 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:35,600 learned how to produce beats basically for myself to rap over. Okay, yeah, 143 00:10:35,799 --> 00:10:41,240 you know, over the years, I just liked producing more and uh 144 00:10:41,399 --> 00:10:45,720 engineering, mixing, mastering that type of stuff. Yeah, and uh, 145 00:10:45,799 --> 00:10:50,240 I kind of just gave the didn't really write as much anymore. I kind 146 00:10:50,279 --> 00:10:54,960 of gave that the backseat and to focus on the other things where I was 147 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:58,000 like, I really was needed because you know, a lot of people out 148 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:03,000 in this area. Um, you know, it's easy to pick up a 149 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,039 pen and a pad. You know, it doesn't cost a lot of money 150 00:11:05,279 --> 00:11:09,440 and just get your thoughts out. And a lot of people didn't really have 151 00:11:09,519 --> 00:11:11,559 the bed to you know, lay their lyrics down too. So I kind 152 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:18,480 of took that helm and and and started to progress in that producing and engineering 153 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:22,519 rather than the writing and stuff. Okay, okay, um, but you 154 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:28,840 still you still do some writing, not much. I'm getting back. I'm 155 00:11:28,879 --> 00:11:31,840 trying to pressure them too. I tell them all the time. I go, 156 00:11:31,919 --> 00:11:33,360 Byron, we got to put out a rap album for you on help. 157 00:11:33,399 --> 00:11:37,080 I'm working on this stuff. You know, not a lot of people 158 00:11:37,159 --> 00:11:41,440 now, but I'm slowly getting back into it, you know, bring something 159 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:45,159 different to the table for the next projects we have coming up. Yeah. 160 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:48,080 Yeah, and you guys tell me about the label. You started that together, 161 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:52,200 the two So I started that back in twenty eighteen. Um, I 162 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:56,440 had I had started a different record label back in twenty ten, and I 163 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:01,279 did that on my own for like eight years. Decided it was time, 164 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:03,360 you know, it had run its course, closed the doors. I had 165 00:12:03,399 --> 00:12:07,320 also like taken some time off I you know, the this was a little 166 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:11,720 before the pandemic, but the pandemic also kind of put that into motion too. 167 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,559 I had like a three year hiatus, and I started doing a lot 168 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:20,919 of different writing. I was writing poetry. I'd written a couple of screenplays 169 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,679 for like radio screenplays. Yeah, I got I got really into like old 170 00:12:24,759 --> 00:12:30,240 radio dramas from like the forties and fifties and stuff like that. And so 171 00:12:30,279 --> 00:12:35,240 I kind of wrote this like detective sci fi story that takes place in Nashua 172 00:12:35,279 --> 00:12:37,919 in like the fifties and had a bunch of voice actors come and I put 173 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,759 like two years into that, and then I was right, you know, 174 00:12:41,799 --> 00:12:45,879 and that so that just kind of opened me up to I love hip hop. 175 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:48,759 I love everything that I do, but I want to create a label 176 00:12:50,039 --> 00:12:54,080 or some sort of distribution house that I can put all of my art out 177 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:58,000 through. Yeah, And then so I'd spent a couple of years kind of 178 00:12:58,039 --> 00:13:01,039 just getting the branding right, figure out what I was going to do next 179 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:07,120 as an artist, and when he came along, it was just like the 180 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:11,559 It was like, I can't explain how perfect the timing was, where both 181 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:16,120 of us wanted the same thing, but both of us brought the thing that 182 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:20,600 the other person didn't do, where it was like I always, you know, 183 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,600 ever since I was a kid, pretty much, I wanted to like 184 00:13:22,639 --> 00:13:26,399 have a record label and be a musician and do all this stuff. But 185 00:13:26,519 --> 00:13:31,279 I'm not an audio engineer. I don't know things about bit rates and file 186 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,159 sizes, and you know, distributors will ask us questions and I'm like, 187 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:39,080 oh, well, I'm gonna pass that off to my man over here. 188 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:43,759 And you know, so even in my personal goals, him coming on board 189 00:13:43,759 --> 00:13:48,720 has allowed me to pursue my like professional goals at a rate of speed that 190 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:52,080 I wouldn't have been able to without having a partner like that. That was 191 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:58,320 like equitably invested emotionally and everything else. Oh yeah, yeah, oh very 192 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,960 cool. It's like really yeah, yeah, it was. It was perfect 193 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,240 time, and for sure because you had just released The Howling Man, and 194 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:09,080 I think you were just like like what's next, and you were throwing shows 195 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:16,360 and stuff, and I was just I had recently just really like released my 196 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:20,840 first two instrumentals on like digital. Yeah. Other than that, it was 197 00:14:20,879 --> 00:14:24,159 just a hard drive full of stuff, you know what I mean. So 198 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:28,919 joining up with him, I put out a whole basically beat tape last year, 199 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,480 full album. We put it on physical and CD and sold it out 200 00:14:33,639 --> 00:14:39,759 and and we've released uh, like seven I think it's seven records on the 201 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:45,200 label since he came on board. Kidding, we did three. We did 202 00:14:45,919 --> 00:14:50,080 three instrumental albums so far. We did our Meet Me and Gate City album. 203 00:14:50,519 --> 00:14:56,639 We did another we did worked with a vocalist who's based out of Salem 204 00:14:56,679 --> 00:15:00,399 now who was like into a little more modern style of music, and we 205 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:05,080 did a project for him that Byron had curated. We have like a sampler 206 00:15:05,159 --> 00:15:09,000 out as well. So we we got super busy right from the jump, 207 00:15:09,039 --> 00:15:13,639 and we had a whole roster of artists that really were just ready to work, 208 00:15:13,759 --> 00:15:18,480 and we got really fortunate too. Um, we're at record number ten 209 00:15:18,879 --> 00:15:22,399 in our catalog. I had put out the first couple of Cody Pope records 210 00:15:22,399 --> 00:15:24,960 on my own, but so yeah, so as of as of right now, 211 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:28,879 we're at we're going into record eleven this summer, and so just for 212 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:33,200 for that like couple of years of time. You know, some of the 213 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,840 CDs have sold out and we're on second runs. Some of them were still 214 00:15:35,919 --> 00:15:39,000 kind of figuring out how to who the audience is and how we're going to 215 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:43,840 market. But this experience has been like everything that I've wanted to do in 216 00:15:43,879 --> 00:15:48,200 life, and so I feel so fortunate to be kind of like fulfilling all 217 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:52,000 of these ideas that I had for so many years. That's awesome. Now, 218 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,960 how does that work with CDs now? Because some people think that actually, 219 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,279 I don't know if this is true. I read somewhere that in twenty 220 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:03,679 twenty two it was the first year that Vinyl Byron you look like you already 221 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:07,519 know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that supposedly the first year that Vinyl 222 00:16:07,559 --> 00:16:11,639 actually outsold CDs. Yeah, I don't. I don't know if that's true. 223 00:16:11,879 --> 00:16:14,039 No, I've I've definitely read that too. I don't know if it 224 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,440 was twenty two or twenty three, but one of those years it definitely has 225 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:19,720 happened. And it's not to my surprise at all, you know, Like, 226 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,919 and I love Vinyl too, don't you know. That's people get it 227 00:16:23,919 --> 00:16:29,600 twisted because we put so much of our catalog on CD. Yeah, it's 228 00:16:29,639 --> 00:16:33,440 just like, from from a consumer standpoint, a lot of that people don't 229 00:16:33,519 --> 00:16:37,679 understand that vinyl has insane turnaround times, oh my gosh, and it's a 230 00:16:37,799 --> 00:16:44,240 huge labor of investment. And so if we wanted to put ten records out 231 00:16:44,279 --> 00:16:47,559 on vinyl, that would have never happened. You know that that would have 232 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:51,639 cost us tens of thousands of dollars that we didn't have access to months and 233 00:16:51,759 --> 00:16:55,159 months and months lead time. Yeah, you know. Instead, we were 234 00:16:55,200 --> 00:17:00,200 able to using CDs allowed us to get artists off the ground quickly who didn't 235 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:04,160 have a platform but could utilize our you know, we had venues that we 236 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:07,640 booked shows at in our own booking company. We had the record label, 237 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:12,440 which our office also doubles as the studio with the ISO booth and the control 238 00:17:12,559 --> 00:17:17,839 room in a podcast lounge and a photo area, and so artists that came 239 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:22,480 to work with us had basically all of the resources at their disposal, and 240 00:17:22,519 --> 00:17:26,880 so it allowed us to kind of do the artist development that we grew up 241 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:30,440 seeing happen, but that clearly doesn't happen anymore. So it was like the 242 00:17:30,559 --> 00:17:33,960 artists didn't have to compromise anything. All we needed them to do was show 243 00:17:34,079 --> 00:17:37,880 up and create the best art they could make, you know, not sacrifice 244 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,480 their integrity. We would be the ones to figure out how to package it, 245 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:45,640 distribute it, sell it, the whole nine. And we got really 246 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:48,519 lucky. A lot of these guys had never played a show before, and 247 00:17:48,599 --> 00:17:53,960 now they've played through all the East. They have CDs distributed all over the 248 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:00,240 country, like they're making really big headways, and it makes us really out 249 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,759 that we got to be involved in that and still keep sight of what we 250 00:18:03,799 --> 00:18:07,839 want to do as artists as well. Yeah that's fantastic. Yeah, I 251 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,000 do want to talk to you more about that, but I also want to 252 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,079 hear another song. You guys want to do another another songs? Sure, 253 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,480 so we go with the next h Yeah, we'll go with track three. 254 00:18:15,519 --> 00:18:18,599 So this one, this one's called Superpowers. This one, this one's for 255 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,279 all the artists tuning in. Whatever your medium is. You're a writer, 256 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:27,400 a photographer, a painter, you're a radio DJ, whatever your thing is, 257 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,720 you know that your art is your superpower. And as soon as you 258 00:18:30,759 --> 00:18:34,000 put that down and you stop wielding that sword every day, you lose touch 259 00:18:34,079 --> 00:18:37,799 with what makes you you, and so this is all about using your superpowers. 260 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,680 Nice, nice, all right here, Cody Pope and Byron g Live 261 00:18:41,720 --> 00:19:00,240 in studio. Superpowers, use your super powerful lets use your super powerful Otherwise 262 00:19:00,279 --> 00:19:03,799 you might wake up and find your lose your power. Use your superpowers, 263 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:08,559 use your superpowers. Otherwise you might wake up and find you lose your power. 264 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:14,559 Use your superpowers, use your superpowers. Otherwise you might wake up and 265 00:19:14,599 --> 00:19:21,000 find your los your power. Use your superpowers. Use your superpowers. Yo, 266 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,279 Nev Campbell scramble, not know when I'm ghosts face never writt an example 267 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:30,200 of man show. When the Most Taste slam like Titanic in the midst of 268 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,599 a boat race, jam just like a sandwich. I'm best with bread and 269 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:37,440 most case flee. Marvin in me always starving from a feast, stomach grumbling. 270 00:19:37,599 --> 00:19:42,039 You'll have to pardon the beasts and then me scrumbling, stumbling on their 271 00:19:42,039 --> 00:19:45,519 speech. That's why I shop in my knives and I land on my feet 272 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:52,039 earth the kitchen flow like Catwoman's balance, Someday's stoic, some days of magnum 273 00:19:52,079 --> 00:19:56,839 heart and madlics signals of misery giving me bops like Travis's crazy, but not 274 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:02,640 insane, constantly wreaking havoc, Elliot cool via the Long Goodbye. They're telling 275 00:20:02,759 --> 00:20:07,000 me that I'm fooled for having Knights on the prize, cries from the audience, 276 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,000 but critics viewing lies. It's like I live cinematic by ticket you when 277 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:14,720 nights, y'all. The movies understand me better than most of my friends. 278 00:20:14,839 --> 00:20:18,559 Songs I hear in my headphones heait me from feeling dead. Books are my 279 00:20:18,599 --> 00:20:22,440 favorite authors. Responses. I never had a superpower. The monsters are never 280 00:20:22,559 --> 00:20:26,640 bad. The movies understand me better than most of my friends. Songs I 281 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,839 hear in my headphones keep me from feeling dead. Books are my favorite authors. 282 00:20:30,839 --> 00:20:34,920 Responsors. I never had when as your superpower? The monsters are never 283 00:20:36,039 --> 00:20:40,519 bad. Nick and not watching Nick and Knight and maybe Breathless. I make 284 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,599 off from the heart that some deemed reckless. In the morning, play your 285 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:48,440 Love Supreme for breakfast. Before I hit the road, I leave a pearl 286 00:20:48,559 --> 00:20:52,119 necklace. Do I come here? Often? Hallucinations of grandeur travel far and 287 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:56,559 wide, but always come back to New Hampshire. Tropica Virgo Pope reading Tropic 288 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:03,240 of Cancer, Suspiria and student Transfer Dancer. I'm letting it Coe when blowing 289 00:21:03,319 --> 00:21:07,319 smoke with parasites in Heaven, A beautiful loser who music writes like confessions different 290 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,319 out my rear window, will real romanitarian. Now watch him die, You're 291 00:21:11,319 --> 00:21:15,720 watch him ride like a cherry get. I will let you bevery get. 292 00:21:15,759 --> 00:21:18,200 You will find the body aught has given me your life. That won't me 293 00:21:18,319 --> 00:21:22,279 time for hobbies stays keep moving faster to when laps like Ricky Bobby y, 294 00:21:22,319 --> 00:21:27,680 I'm exhibited and gall LaBrie you locked out of the lobby. Ah, I 295 00:21:27,799 --> 00:21:32,079 love it. I love it, Cody Pope and Byron's here here with us 296 00:21:32,079 --> 00:21:36,759 in studio and uh I love the positivity. Awesome, thank you. You 297 00:21:36,759 --> 00:21:38,599 know that was that was really important for me. You know, people that 298 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:45,519 know my back catalog a lot of what got me, I, you know, 299 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,839 have a very like dark past, much like a lot of people, 300 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:55,160 and so like my first few albums really dealt with me learning how to cope 301 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,400 and recover and deal with some of the things that I had been through, 302 00:21:57,799 --> 00:22:03,200 and so it was incredibly cathartic music. But looking back on it, some 303 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:07,680 of it is really hard to listen to, and I can understand why not 304 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,160 only for me. I mean Obviously I know why it's hard for me, 305 00:22:10,279 --> 00:22:15,119 but I can understand why for the average listener. It's you know, if 306 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,640 you're in a tough spot, listening to somebody that's trying to climb out of 307 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,839 a tough spot, you're either going to see motivation or you're going to see 308 00:22:21,839 --> 00:22:26,720 struggle. And so when we got together to work on music, I had 309 00:22:26,759 --> 00:22:30,440 always told him I was like, one of the things that's really important for 310 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:34,519 me going forward is I don't want to lose sight of how I write and 311 00:22:34,559 --> 00:22:38,640 how raw and vulnerable. I try to keep my storytelling, but I just 312 00:22:38,759 --> 00:22:44,200 want to show that there's like a flip side to the coin and that I've 313 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,799 been able to turn some of these things around. And so meet me in 314 00:22:47,839 --> 00:22:49,640 Gate City. I really feel like it is like the first album where I've 315 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:55,519 tried to exercise that mentality of like, look, I can address that things 316 00:22:55,559 --> 00:22:59,759 are horrible and everything is tough, but I need to show people that I 317 00:22:59,799 --> 00:23:03,519 have strength to overcome adversity and that hopefully they will too, right right, 318 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,160 Yeah, No, I like that absolutely. If you got any questions or 319 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:10,920 anything at all for these guys, the studio line is open six ZO three 320 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:15,079 two five O six Z seven six three two five six ZO seven Again, 321 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,920 we have Cody Pope and Byron Gee here with us in studio. Ronda in 322 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,640 the chat room, our friend from California. She says, Damn, y'all 323 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,640 got folks driving looking at me. Funny because I'm popping and locking in the 324 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:33,119 car. Let's love these guys awesome much love. Yeah, Jenny is enjoying 325 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:37,599 it very much. She says, they are awesome. I love this awesome. 326 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,640 Thank you. Let's see. Chris from the band Edgewise is asking about 327 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:47,920 the label if it's a genre specific No, because he says, asking for 328 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:49,960 a friend, I don't know if you guys know Edgewise, Yeah, no, 329 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,359 shout out to them. They're you know, they're definitely notable around around 330 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,480 the New England culture. Oh yeah yeah, and I even't wear their hat 331 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:02,920 right But no, so me personally, like I grew up in like the 332 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:07,240 punk and hardcore realm. That was very much what got me into being in 333 00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:11,240 the music scene and caring and being as passionate about music because I am. 334 00:24:11,839 --> 00:24:14,799 When I was like twelve years old, my sister brought me to some of 335 00:24:14,839 --> 00:24:18,480 my first hardcore shows, and some of my friends brought me to my first 336 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:22,799 punk shows and that just carried me through life and so I still carry a 337 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:27,640 huge love and passion for all that. And my taste is eclectic anyway. 338 00:24:27,759 --> 00:24:32,079 So when you look at the roster, we have a lot of hip hop 339 00:24:32,079 --> 00:24:34,880 on our roster, but that's also because, like we're hip hop artists and 340 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,920 so we move in that circle and it's easy for us to move like that. 341 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,240 But we actually just did a record label pop up shop at Bridge nine 342 00:24:42,279 --> 00:24:47,279 Records in Boston, which is like a more like hardcore like a kind of 343 00:24:47,279 --> 00:24:49,880 like a legendary hardcore label. Yeah, And we set up shop and we're 344 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,799 just talking with a bunch of other record labels and sharing game and trading records 345 00:24:53,799 --> 00:24:57,200 and stuff, and you know, it's really important for us to show people 346 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:02,440 the parallels that hip hop, punk, rock, hardcore, metal, you 347 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,039 know, even like gonzo journalism, all of these different things that we like, 348 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:10,400 love, motorcycle culture, all these things parallel in so many different ways. 349 00:25:10,599 --> 00:25:14,200 Yeah, and it's important for our music to kind of represent a lot 350 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,960 of that like working class ethic as opposed to just like what people expect from 351 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:26,119 hip hop traditionally, right right, Yeah, absolutely very cool. Melanie Liberty 352 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,599 from the great state of Vermont. Also really enjoying you guys. Yeah, 353 00:25:29,839 --> 00:25:33,799 much love show out to Vermont. Vermont is Vermont has always been good to 354 00:25:33,839 --> 00:25:37,839 the hell Hound crew. Our first show this year, actually we did, 355 00:25:37,079 --> 00:25:41,480 I want to say it was January something. I forget what the date was, 356 00:25:41,519 --> 00:25:44,640 but it was snow and it was in January. We played up at 357 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,519 Sugar Loaf Mountain. We played. They have like a little bar up there 358 00:25:48,559 --> 00:25:52,680 where they do some crazy hip hop shows, and so we brought everybody that 359 00:25:52,759 --> 00:25:56,279 was on the record label roster up there and played and it was like one 360 00:25:56,319 --> 00:26:00,279 of the funniest shows we've ever done. So we got a ton a love 361 00:26:00,319 --> 00:26:03,400 for Vermont. Shout out to mister Burns, Shout out to all the Vermont 362 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:07,599 crew up there. Very nice. Yeah, Chris from my edgewise, she 363 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:12,039 says love Cross Promotion will connect awesome. Yeah, please please get in touch 364 00:26:12,079 --> 00:26:18,200 with us Hellhelm Publishing dot com. At Hellhelm Publishing you can get a hold 365 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:22,039 of us anywhere. Check out all our music we got. We got CD 366 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,400 samplers that we try to put in the local record stores and stuff like that. 367 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:29,519 So if you're connected to a record store and you care about physical music. 368 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,680 Get in touch with us and we'll give you some free stuff to give 369 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:36,880 out. Yeah yeah, excellent. Also a board seven one of our friends 370 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:41,880 from Greensboro, North Carolina checking in in the chat as well. Um. 371 00:26:41,319 --> 00:26:44,839 Yeah, so so it's funny. You know, I used to work for 372 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,119 you guys. Remember Strawberries. Yeah yeah, oh yeah, I used to. 373 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,359 I used to work there. I worked at a bunch of different locations, 374 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,440 but um, I remember people and you know, and then eventually it 375 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,759 became fye. But I remember when I worked there, and I left that 376 00:26:57,839 --> 00:27:03,799 company in twenty thirteen, but even then, people were People would come in 377 00:27:03,839 --> 00:27:06,960 and they'd be like, wow, people still buy CDs, And I mean, 378 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,079 what do you guys think it is that, you know, in this 379 00:27:08,279 --> 00:27:11,400 digital age, some people still want a CD. I assume it's because if 380 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,559 you're really a fan of somebody, you want the artwork, you know, 381 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,599 and yeah, you just want everything that goes with it. I think there's 382 00:27:18,599 --> 00:27:22,200 just so much that goes into that listening experience where it's, like you said, 383 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,640 having the artwork, being able to open the liner notes. You know. 384 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,319 One thing we talk about all the time, especially me being like an 385 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:32,240 old like punk and hardcore kid, is like I learned about music through liner 386 00:27:32,319 --> 00:27:36,920 notes. I would be finding out about bands and I would blind by CDs 387 00:27:37,079 --> 00:27:41,240 at Newberry Comics or at Strawberries off of what this band had in their liner 388 00:27:41,319 --> 00:27:45,799 notes. And so we try to carry that on as well and thank people 389 00:27:45,799 --> 00:27:48,119 from our community and artists and people that really matter to us. You know. 390 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:52,240 We try to tell the story of how the record was made. All 391 00:27:52,279 --> 00:27:56,680 the photography is usually done by like our team in house. Shout out to 392 00:27:56,759 --> 00:27:59,920 nicolete Ryan, my girlfriend. She did the cover for Meet Me and Gate 393 00:28:00,039 --> 00:28:03,359 City as well as a lot of our other albums. And so there's like 394 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:07,480 that part of it. There's like the listening part of it, which is 395 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,039 like when you put a CD in, whether you're in the car or at 396 00:28:10,039 --> 00:28:14,279 home cleaning the house or whatever, you're gonna probably listen to it top to 397 00:28:14,319 --> 00:28:18,279 bottom. It's an easy play to just put on and let it skip, 398 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:23,599 versus having it on a digital playlist or something. We're not adverse to, 399 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,079 like the digital streaming world, you know, we jokingly we will say that 400 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:32,359 we are from time to time, but UH CDs have just provided a great 401 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,400 benefit to us. Obviously, they help us fund the label and fund you 402 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,720 know, people are people understand that they're investing in keeping our label going and 403 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,480 and helping us pay these artists, even if it's a couple hundred bucks here 404 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,799 and there. We're investing in keeping them going and building upon their platform, 405 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,480 So that part of it's really important. And then there's just like a collectibility 406 00:28:52,519 --> 00:28:56,359 to it too, where it's like, you know, having all of the 407 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,759 different catalog numbers and having the c D and which artwork are you going to 408 00:29:00,839 --> 00:29:03,680 display on your shelf you know? Or which one are you going to listen 409 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,960 to in the car? You know? It creates conversation. People have to 410 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,440 come up and talk to us at the merch table. We know who our 411 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:18,359 listeners are. We have so many of the names and addresses of the people 412 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,759 that support us, and so we can contact them directly and keep that line 413 00:29:22,759 --> 00:29:29,960 of communication open without getting lost in We're not that popular on Instagram. We 414 00:29:30,039 --> 00:29:32,799 don't get that many likes on a post, so no one's going to see 415 00:29:32,839 --> 00:29:37,079 our next video. Those things are gonna We're always gonna have to overcome that 416 00:29:37,119 --> 00:29:41,960 adversity. But why not have this like handshake deal where it's like, you 417 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,759 like our music, so you're going to be the first one to get it, 418 00:29:45,799 --> 00:29:48,039 and we're going to give it to you in the best format and the 419 00:29:48,039 --> 00:29:51,200 best quality that we can do. Yeah, and these people, you know, 420 00:29:51,279 --> 00:29:52,799 and the more of these people buy the CDs, we're going to be 421 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:57,240 able to do vinyl eventually well, and we'll keep expanding because we love physical 422 00:29:57,279 --> 00:30:00,160 media as a whole. You'll notice in the gift pack that I gave you 423 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,759 there's actually a book in there. We put out a book in twenty twenty 424 00:30:04,799 --> 00:30:07,960 one. I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and open this now. Yeah, 425 00:30:08,039 --> 00:30:11,200 go for it. I'm talking about Yeah, definitely, please do. Um. 426 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,559 We we helped co publish a book with the Underground Writers Association and so 427 00:30:15,599 --> 00:30:19,839 it's a it's a volume of all poetry of people from like New Hampshire and 428 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:25,640 South Africa. Um. So it was a really cool collaboration that the Underground 429 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:30,039 Writers Association pulled together and we got really lucky to help co publish that. 430 00:30:30,119 --> 00:30:33,559 But I've always wanted to put out books, and so that was kind of 431 00:30:33,599 --> 00:30:37,400 like our first foray into getting the books printed and how to learn how to 432 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:42,079 do all that. This is really well sealed. Yeah. By the by 433 00:30:42,119 --> 00:30:45,160 the way, Jenny, they brought one for you too, so I'll be 434 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:49,359 bringing you home one of these. But um, I'm thinking, I'm do 435 00:30:49,359 --> 00:30:52,519 you guys want to do another song? I mean I won't say no, 436 00:30:53,519 --> 00:30:57,440 why don't because I'm thinking if you want to do another song, and while 437 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:02,759 you're doing that, I'll figure out how to open At least we know it's 438 00:31:02,759 --> 00:31:07,160 secure. Shout out to everyone that orders through our web store, because now 439 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,200 you know that our packaging is secure. When you get your packs in the 440 00:31:10,279 --> 00:31:11,680 mail, I can attest. No, that's a good thing. That's a 441 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:15,519 good thing. But yeah, I'll find something sharp dough open it with. 442 00:31:15,759 --> 00:31:19,720 But yeah, you guys want to do uh we go, let's jump to 443 00:31:19,799 --> 00:31:23,680 seven. I think seven? Yeah? No, sorry, you think of 444 00:31:23,759 --> 00:31:30,359 six? Six is six is diminished? Seven? Is the Business? The 445 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,200 Realness? Yeah, I have it. I have it numbered wrong. We 446 00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:37,839 wrote down a different set. That's another reason why we make CDs has a 447 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,759 track listing on the back. Yeah, gotcha got yeah? This song, 448 00:31:41,839 --> 00:31:44,759 this, this, this song, this little this little ditty right here is 449 00:31:44,799 --> 00:31:48,559 called the Realness. Oh, the Realness? Oh what did I said? 450 00:31:48,599 --> 00:31:51,200 The Business? Why did? That's a great title to shout out to the 451 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:55,720 business. Though it's a great hardcore band. There you go. All right? 452 00:31:55,799 --> 00:31:57,240 Yeah, boy, maybe I need to get my eyes checked. I'd 453 00:31:57,279 --> 00:32:00,200 lasic and everything. I'm starting to wonder. All right, So the realness, 454 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,720 that's the one you're doing. All right? Cool? All right here 455 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:06,440 it is the realness. This is uh Cody, Pope and Byron g with 456 00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:32,000 us live in studio. Ladi la dot yeah, Laidli Nili dot do Ladi 457 00:32:32,079 --> 00:32:45,599 daid dot doah, Laidli dot do yo. My life is bever nest in 458 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:50,000 coldtrane mixed in a blender. Most days are complicated, beautiful if I remember. 459 00:32:50,119 --> 00:32:52,799 Lately, though I hate me. I can't take no more Novembers. 460 00:32:52,279 --> 00:32:55,519 My best days was a knighted too, had a bender. I thought I 461 00:32:55,640 --> 00:33:00,400 was moving on up like mister Jefferson. You know I'm gonna lose who Just 462 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:04,960 waiting for a check again, checking in having hard times lately, texting friends, 463 00:33:05,119 --> 00:33:07,200 got money coming, but so broke. I needed second hand, my 464 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:12,759 family, sunny days and happy songs. I can't relate frankly, the reasons 465 00:33:12,759 --> 00:33:15,640 that I'm laughing wrong. No, I got skill, though I'll be laughing 466 00:33:15,799 --> 00:33:20,279 y'all. Just need a path that I can successfully travel. Long Babbitt long, 467 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,400 calling them maybe existing burning up. I feel bad more in my jams. 468 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:27,400 Ain't got you turning up, whish when I had shows more of you 469 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,160 was turning up. But life goes on and hopefully but y'all just learning. 470 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:37,279 Rarara the rab man yell boom boom boom, the bap so fell. The 471 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,400 raw in this should not deter you from the realness. That's why it's raw, 472 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:45,680 because you gotta truly feel this. Ra ra ra the rab man yell 473 00:33:45,279 --> 00:33:50,279 boom boom boom, the bap so fell. My raw in this should not 474 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,440 deter you from the realness. That's why it's raw, because you gotta truly 475 00:33:53,519 --> 00:33:58,920 feel that. To understand man is to crack the algorithm. Pieces I can 476 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,160 formulate, but better to give it rhythm, hard, to give the ants 477 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:06,039 to start him off with the mission to ants to life is like an endless 478 00:34:06,039 --> 00:34:09,760 acquisition. Life be dish and meet things my stomach can't handle. No money 479 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:14,000 for, no family, no pictures on no mantle. Matter of fact, 480 00:34:14,039 --> 00:34:17,079 my life feel pretty dismantled. I take the blame for some things, money, 481 00:34:17,119 --> 00:34:22,599 mishandled. A lot of this just feel a little circumstantial. Wand to 482 00:34:22,599 --> 00:34:25,679 write how long I live with her financials, ask for pepperoni. They just 483 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:30,199 give you antchophies. Can't stand the looney from none of these damn homy fingers 484 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:34,840 to my head in the shape of a gun. Enough vitamin D. I 485 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,639 have to take the sun. Wanna be a good enough man to raise the 486 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:42,320 sun. But I'm worried I'll be a failure if i can't raise the funds. 487 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:50,639 I'm done. Wow, I love those lyrics are fantastic. Thank you 488 00:34:50,679 --> 00:34:53,199 man. I appreciate that absolutely absolutely. If you're just joining us, we 489 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:57,480 have Cody Pope and Byron g with us. And for those of you watching 490 00:34:57,519 --> 00:35:00,800 online, I'm gonna put the camera back on me for moments I want to. 491 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:05,840 So this is the I did get the package open, and so this 492 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,280 is this is the book that you were the wonderful book that actually the camera's 493 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:12,559 over here, the wonderful book that you were talking about, this poetry book. 494 00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,800 Very cool. So so you obviously, so you don't put out only 495 00:35:17,159 --> 00:35:20,920 CDs, No, no, no, no, We're trying to expand as 496 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,599 much as possible. Most of our music catalog is on CD right now, 497 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:29,199 but we try to do books. We have like podcasts on YouTube and stuff 498 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:34,000 like that. Um. Cool. It's really just about keeping the like giving 499 00:35:34,079 --> 00:35:39,199 artists of any artistic medium that fit that, like raw vulnerable storytelling. That's 500 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,920 really I guess if you had to give us an aesthetic, it's about just 501 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:49,280 being creatively free but still you know, being able to execute professionally and get 502 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,719 that across. Very cool. And also a copy on CD of Meet Me 503 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:58,400 and Gate City, Cody Pope and Byron g And there's there's the back of 504 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,199 it there. And so you said your girlfriend did did the artwork for this? 505 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:05,800 Yeah, yeah, she did the French. She did all the photography 506 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,679 for that one, as well as a lot of our other records. Too 507 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,880 cool cool, Yeah, I like it, very nice. And also as 508 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:15,599 a sampler a crew called hell Hound. Now hell Hound is the name of 509 00:36:15,639 --> 00:36:17,559 the label, correct, Yeah, hell Hound Publishing, hell Hound Publishing. 510 00:36:17,679 --> 00:36:22,480 Yeah, very cool. Okay, so this has uh yeah, quite a 511 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,960 few. How many? How many artists you have actively on the label right 512 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:30,840 now? So it's it's interesting because typically what we do is like one album 513 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:35,760 at a time. So some of the artists that we've put out records for 514 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:39,440 finished their album with us and are now moving on to other things. And 515 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,639 then we have some people that are in the midst of an album cycle right 516 00:36:43,679 --> 00:36:49,679 now. So we probably have like five, five or six active artists, 517 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,960 but then we have like seven or eight in total on the roster, some 518 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,880 of who we just at this point distribute the record that they did with us. 519 00:36:58,119 --> 00:37:00,159 Okay, okay, we have a call. I think somebody wants to 520 00:37:00,159 --> 00:37:02,199 talk to you. Guys. Hey, Matt, this is actually you calling 521 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:07,559 in. Thanks for taking my call. Wow, this is wonderful. I 522 00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:12,719 always dreamt of the day where I'd get to talk to myself. I'm curious 523 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,480 if you remembered to pick up toilet paper or if you plan to do it 524 00:37:15,519 --> 00:37:17,800 on the way home. We need it to wipe our little bottom. Oh 525 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:22,559 my goodness. Wow, I did not know that we were out, but 526 00:37:22,599 --> 00:37:25,360 I'm really glad that you told or I'm really glad that I told me. 527 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,719 Our little bottom can get a bit messy. Sometimes it feels like we use 528 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:35,079 too much of that dang stuff toilet paper, I mean right right, toilet 529 00:37:35,119 --> 00:37:37,880 paper. I've remember actually called was John Hopwood. Oh John. I've always 530 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,840 thought of him as a father figure, mostly because he always tries to spank 531 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:45,679 my little bottom. I never let him, but he keeps asking this must 532 00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:50,320 be an ai thing. Yes, he does, he does. How did 533 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:54,719 I know that? I just mostly wanted to say that I am very nice 534 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,880 and very much a sweet little boy, and even though my bottom gets a 535 00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,480 bit messy, I am a nice guy and someone that people love. H 536 00:38:02,119 --> 00:38:06,440 that's very nice. Uh, thank you. Oh and one more thing, 537 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,000 Hopwood looks like an eighty six year old toddler and he makes us mush up 538 00:38:09,039 --> 00:38:15,920 bananas for him for lunch. Well, yes, yes, that is uh. 539 00:38:15,119 --> 00:38:17,840 Goodbye, Matt be at home in the mirror, thank you? Yes, 540 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,519 wow, very sad. I'll tell you what. That's a first for 541 00:38:21,559 --> 00:38:24,360 me. I've never gotten to h speak to myself now. Is it possible 542 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:30,400 that someone puts something into my energy drink? Uh? And I just hallucinated 543 00:38:30,639 --> 00:38:34,920 all of that. I mean, I don't know. Somebody must have put 544 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:39,000 something in my something too. There. Yeah, Wow, that was that 545 00:38:39,119 --> 00:38:44,760 was crazy. I felt like I spoke a little bit faster just now than 546 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:49,320 I usually do on the phone. Well maybe not anyway. Wow, all 547 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,360 right, Well I'm glad you guys were here for that. Yeah. First, 548 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,960 Yeah, that was that was never a dull moment up up in here. 549 00:38:57,159 --> 00:39:00,119 That was fun. That was fun. Oh. Also, too in 550 00:39:00,159 --> 00:39:05,360 the package just before we sew those uh some stickers here in a couple of 551 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,840 cards. Thank you for your support. Absolutely, no, you guys. 552 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:12,159 Um, yeah, I'm really impressed with what you guys are doing. By 553 00:39:12,199 --> 00:39:14,800 the way, how long is uh? I know you told me this already, 554 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:16,199 I'm sure, but how long is the label? When did the label 555 00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:21,320 start? Twenty eighteen? Okay, yeah, like you guys, so that's 556 00:39:21,519 --> 00:39:23,320 what five years? So yeah, got a math, but it seems like 557 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:27,639 you guys have accomplished a lot in uh in five years. That's that's really 558 00:39:27,679 --> 00:39:30,280 impressive. Yeah, definitely. I feel really fortunate. It took us a 559 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,039 couple of years to like get it off the ground, but these last two 560 00:39:32,119 --> 00:39:36,480 years have just been phenomenal for us. Learned a whole lot, a whole 561 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,519 lot in these last two years. Yeah for sure. Yeah. Bill Fee 562 00:39:39,559 --> 00:39:45,320 is in the chatwoman much love to Fee the evolutionist lyrical h Yeah, he 563 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:51,320 says, Cody Pope and Byron Glenn are the bomb. Let's go love the 564 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,840 songs yep, and that's out to you. Bill Jenny says, Oh, 565 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:58,719 I love stickers, Yes, she does. Us. Hit us up Hellhound 566 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,639 Publishing dot Com. We'll hook you up with some stickers for sure. Ye 567 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,960 there you go, there you go. Um, did you guys want to 568 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,199 do one more song before we run out of time? Or I mean I'm 569 00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:13,119 not not like opposed. Yeah, I mean yeah, I'm up for whatever 570 00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:17,559 one you think we should do. Matt, you pick, he's a dealer's 571 00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:24,119 choice. Oh my goodness. Um, four and nine are skits? Oh 572 00:40:24,159 --> 00:40:29,880 okay, so, um, I know this is no. Nine's not a 573 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:35,480 skit. I think eight is oh nine is called chopping stone. Oh yeah, 574 00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:39,000 so that's like an interlude? Oh oh okay? Uh? Or what 575 00:40:39,079 --> 00:40:44,320 about an anthemic? Yeah, I was either that I was in, say 576 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,360 anthemic or PDSD. Yeah, that could be kind of cool. So either 577 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:54,400 what is that eleven? Or six? Yeah, since six is diminished it 578 00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:59,440 says yeah yeah, oh yeah, is that that's the right one though? 579 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:01,119 Or yeah it can we yeah? Can we do? So we don't. 580 00:41:01,159 --> 00:41:05,679 We don't play this song live. It shows this kind of goes back to 581 00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:07,880 um, you know, when you're when you're playing live, you got to 582 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:12,559 keep a certain energy yea. Um. But when I wrote this, we 583 00:41:12,599 --> 00:41:15,639 wrote this song for the album, and it's a little bit of a concept 584 00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,679 song. Um, I was really in there's like an old NAS song that 585 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,800 he does from like the perspective of the gun. Yeah, and uh, 586 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:27,599 you know, I gave you power and so I kind of took uh, 587 00:41:27,679 --> 00:41:30,760 well you'll figure it out by the end of the song, but I took 588 00:41:30,039 --> 00:41:35,400 something that I was dealing with and tried to manifest it into its own person. 589 00:41:36,039 --> 00:41:38,639 And so like throughout the song, you'll quickly pick up who PD is. 590 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:43,760 The song's called PTSD. Okay, this was track six. I just 591 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,840 want to make sure I grabbed the r I one. Yes, Oh that's 592 00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:49,199 great, all right, cool, all right here here they are Cody Pope 593 00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:53,079 and Byron g live in studio about a minute. Since we don't say, 594 00:41:53,119 --> 00:41:57,960 don't don't yell at me for having my cheat sheet out here, I just 595 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,199 figure it. We never do this one, it's cool to do it here 596 00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:14,079 for a little rare radio performance. Shout out to everybody holding on. I 597 00:42:14,159 --> 00:42:16,679 knew this cat PTSD. He was always testy, the type to have a 598 00:42:16,679 --> 00:42:21,280 few drinks sake, come and test me. Pete would never ever dare to 599 00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:25,400 be bested, even if it means his ask God arrested, always stressing hard 600 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:29,800 to understand why your men will leave it. Let the hands fly on a 601 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,280 damn fly. One of the views whom y'all never seen, the man cry. 602 00:42:32,519 --> 00:42:37,559 Whatever you plan to do, he's probably anti sent nickel, comedian at 603 00:42:37,559 --> 00:42:40,320 everyone's expense, funny till it's on you. You're probably on the fence, 604 00:42:40,519 --> 00:42:45,679 willing to make tests a lot. They don't mend opinion so strong, My 605 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,679 god, they don't bend. Nobody's asking, nobody know how he doing. 606 00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:52,840 Look like he's winning, but really inside he's losing. Maybe not the race, 607 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:58,599 but the destiny that's looming, a type of hell. Most man, 608 00:42:58,679 --> 00:43:01,280 I can't stand the man I see in the mirror man, that the man's 609 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:05,960 way morer and way clearer. They say life is beauty, But some days 610 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,760 I feel a less fever or death, even if she being nearer. Man, 611 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:12,760 I can't stand the man. I see in the mirror of man, 612 00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,239 that the man's way mar and way clearer. They say life is beauty, 613 00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:20,000 was some days I fear her less fear or death, even if she being 614 00:43:20,119 --> 00:43:23,239 nearer. It hurts him to hate and fail this hard. It's worth it 615 00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:27,679 to wait. They want him to stall. Don't feel like he's making it 616 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,440 too Next fall, I can't take it. Can't fake it at all. 617 00:43:31,159 --> 00:43:37,400 That damnage American prosperity doesn't say that only to talk scarily. Life is not 618 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:42,920 a dream everily merrily these days, honest is something that summer's there to be. 619 00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,480 Trying to write to those who may relate. But if you feel this 620 00:43:45,599 --> 00:43:49,960 feeling, and I hope you find real escape. Not supposed to use eye 621 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,480 as much as I do. But when I was stuck on age and want 622 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,920 to die, dude, life will get better feels like another lie too. 623 00:43:57,079 --> 00:44:00,119 I don't want to live in a world where I get lied to, the 624 00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:02,599 want to misconstrue you as on my side, dude, just to wait in 625 00:44:02,679 --> 00:44:07,199 the time to say goodbye. Man, I can't stand the man I see 626 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,559 in the mirror, the man that demands way more, every way clever. 627 00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:14,880 They say life is beauty, but some days I fear less be Rogette, 628 00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,400 even if she being nearer. Man, I can't stand the man I see 629 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:21,800 in the mirror, the man that demand's way more, ring, way cleverer. 630 00:44:22,039 --> 00:44:25,039 They say life is beauty, but some days I fear less be Rogette, 631 00:44:25,079 --> 00:44:39,679 even if she'd be nearer. Not too shabby, Yeah, well done, 632 00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:43,679 gentlemen, Well done. I love it. I love it. Guys. 633 00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:45,199 We are just about out of time, so I want to make sure 634 00:44:45,639 --> 00:44:49,800 before we go. I want to make sure everybody knows where to find you 635 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,599 online, where to keep up with what you're doing, your website, any 636 00:44:52,679 --> 00:44:54,880 social media, upcoming shows, you want us to know about anything at all, 637 00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:59,239 Just to make sure our listeners know where to find you. Awesome, 638 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,239 Thank you so much for having us. It's been a blast, honor to 639 00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:05,719 be here. Everybody that's been tuned in, Thank you guys for all the 640 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:08,920 love. Once again, we're Cody Pope and Byron g On behalf of Hellhound 641 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:15,599 Publishing. You can find us at www dot Hellhound Publishing dot com or at 642 00:45:15,679 --> 00:45:21,760 Hellhound Publishing. Across social media, you can find me personally at Cody Pope 643 00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:28,000 HC. That's Hellhound Crew cross platforms, and you can find Byron at BG 644 00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:31,960 six oz three excellent, excellent. Do you have any shows coming up in 645 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:37,079 the area? Yeah, So next Sunday we're gonna be playing at the Nashua 646 00:45:37,119 --> 00:45:38,960 Farmers Market. We're actually gonna be doing a two hour set that day, 647 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,840 so we're gonna be Yeah, So it's gonna be a rare set for us. 648 00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:45,480 Where We're pulling out a lot of deep cuts, a lot of unreleased 649 00:45:45,519 --> 00:45:50,280 songs, obviously songs from Meet Me and Gate City. But yeah, it's 650 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:52,760 gonna be a really special performance. We haven't performed in a while now, 651 00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:57,360 so this is going to be a really big way for us to kick in 652 00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,719 the door. It's the first farmers market of the season for Nashua, and 653 00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:05,159 being some Gate City boys, we love anything. Yeah, you know, 654 00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,599 different audience than our usual crowd, so we really love trying to cater to 655 00:46:08,639 --> 00:46:13,000 those kind of events. You know, we always appreciate a good challenge, 656 00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:16,079 and I say that in an endearing way because you know, the non hip 657 00:46:16,159 --> 00:46:21,639 hop listener is different than the people that are going out of their way sure 658 00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:23,719 to take it in. So we always try to challenge ourselves to put on 659 00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:30,079 an extra special show that will welcome everybody graciously hopefully. And I think what 660 00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,320 you guys do is accessible in that way anyway. Thank you. That's really 661 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:34,920 yeah, yeah, absolutely