Speaker 1: That is I don't know. That is Fate One, who
is here with us in studio and we're going to
speak with him in just a moment. Really looking forward
to this. But what a great track to kick off
the third hour, hour number three of Matt Connorton unleashed
on this Saturday, August seventeen, twenty twenty four. Jenny is
here as well, of course, at the news table, President
and account of our Yes, yes, and we have Fate
One here with us in studio. How are you welcome?
Speaker 2: I'm doing well, I'm doing well. How are we today?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 1: Good? Did we meet you through Hope the Rapper?
Speaker 4: Was?
Speaker 2: I believe that a post that Hope the Rap will
put up is oh what led us to be here today?
Speaker 1: Right right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Something he put up? And then I reached out to
that directly to Jen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we've got We've been doing this ten weeks
of New World Radio premieres of Hope the Rapper Singles,
and yeah it's been a big success, and today this
was week ten, the last one eviction notice that we
played a little bit ago. But yeah, another great track
from him. He's he's amazing, he's so talented, and of
course he was one of us during the first hour today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, correct me if I'm wrong. I think you guys
did problems right, Yes, yes, I was on problem.
Speaker 4: Us.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, cool? Yeah you've done. Have you done a
couple of tracks with him?
Speaker 2: I have a few that I have done, some unreleased
and some released, yes, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: And that track I don't know is that brand new?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: That's fairly new.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: The one that I'm pushing right now that I've just
been working on, uh, you know, just making sure to
get it out there. It's some plain, bold message, nice
quick sweet. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Can you pull that mic in a little yeah that yeah,
that makes up?
Speaker 2: How are we doing?
Speaker 1: Oh that's better? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, absolutely right. So you said,
you know, you were talking off air about you've got
a video coming up for.
Speaker 2: That or yes, So I shot a video about two
weeks ago and I'll be releasing it next week Nextaturday
on my birthday.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay? Is that the Will this be the
first video you've done?
Speaker 2: No, this will be my ninth video. Oh ok yeah yeah,
oh wow. It'll be the first video I do with
Crispy Pick, which is a photographer out of Manchester.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, And how did you get connected with UH?
Is that is? Is that a person or is that
there the company?
Speaker 2: That that is a person and a company?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 2: So Crispy Pick we originally connected about two years ago.
I booked him for a showcase as a photographer. Yeah,
he's been working ever since.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, okay, this will be did you say
this will be the first one with UH with Crispy? Okay?
How did you do the previous ones? Did you work
with somebody else or was it all DIY.
Speaker 2: Or so all the previous ones I have dealt with
probably three or four videographers. Yeah. So out of my
nine videos, four of those videos are from One Eye Visuals.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, Hope Hope work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Him and I we you know, around the
same circle, around the same people, and we've been lucky
enough to just have great talent and then just great
people around us to continue to work with us. And
then you know a few other videographers Dynamic TV and
Guild Videos okay, you know, which is just all great
people all around and stuff like that. I've mainly worked
a lot with One Eye Visuals and I continue I'm
going to continue working with him as well as we
have some plans and some ideas for some future projects
and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, how do you define the genre that that
you're working in, because it's.
Speaker 2: It's kind of so it's a mix. So I'm a
singer songwriter, yeah, However, the way that I write, I
write like a.
Speaker 1: Rapper, right, Yeah, that's interesting to me. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So my writing process is like you know, rapper brain almost,
you know. So I throw in you know, punchlines, the
ball entendres, yeah, and then I'm singing it. Yeah. So
I like to call it something like an R and
B hip hop because ninety percent of the beats I
choose our hip hop. Yeah, but I'm always singing behind them,
whether I'm doing it in a different tone or you know,
less vocals, more vocals, you know. Yeah, so say I
sound like a rapper, Yeah, but I don't classify myself
as a rapper. I'm a singer, songwriter, vocal engineer.
Speaker 1: Right right. Yeah, No, that's interesting to me because when
I first when you send me your music and I'm
I'm It's like each of the tracks it starts out,
it sounds like I'm expecting rapping and then you're singing
and it's like, oh, it's interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, It's how I diversify myself. And you know, it's
just what I originally loved. You know. I grew up
listening to hip hop, hip hop, R and B, Latin music, merengue.
It's just a melting pot of music. And I've taken
those influences and just have kind of created my own
sound where I have mastered it, and you know, I
feel like it's I'm one of the only ones doing
that kind of sound. You don't hear many artists like
myself today, you know, And it's just something that I
enjoyed doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I was commenting to off air. I appreciated
that I didn't not that I mind doing it, but
I didn't have to make any radio edits.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which was nice. Yeah. You know, I pride myself
of making not only my job easier, but also, you know,
making sure that my lyrics and everything fit into play
so that way I don't have to censor myself I
have to change lyrics. I don't have to, you know,
memorize two different versions of a song, yes, which is
something that's difficult within itself.
Speaker 1: You know right right.
Speaker 2: You know, when you have a portfolio like myself, you know,
it's a lot to remember.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you get me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just keeping it simple, you know, simplicity is genius.
I do believe in the words that I say as well,
just practice what I preach.
Speaker 1: How many you mentioned your portfolio? How many songs have
you recorded.
Speaker 2: So released? I have, you know, anywhere from twenty to
thirty songs? Oh okay, yeah, so out. Yeah, you know,
it could could be a little less, but I don't
have that exact number unreleased. I have over one hundred songs.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I own my own studio, so I have the ability
to just go wake up, go right into my studio
and get get to working.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I have that freedom and that accessibility. So that's
an upside rather than having to go book a session work,
you know, pay for two hours, which I still do sure,
but I would much rather have it at home. The
reason why I learned to engineer and to edit my
own vocals was because I would go to a studio
and it would hear my vocals and immediately want to
add auto tune to it. Yeah, and it's cool. I
understand what that that plugin does and what it's for
but certain songs didn't need it, certain songs didn't call
for it. But every engineer that I wanted wanted to
add into it. So I learned, you know, I sat
down with these engineers side by side while paying for
my time, and I, you know, watch and just paid
attention and that I did some further research, educated myself,
took classes on pro tools, a pro tool certified engineer,
and you know it's been going from there. That song
I don't know, mix and mastered by myself.
Speaker 1: No kidding, Yeah, yeah, outstanding.
Speaker 2: So it's nice when you can do it yourself, and
therefore you don't have to explain what you're looking for, right.
You know, that sound in your head right, and you
can just pretty much duplicated right then and there yea me.
And that's the beauty of musicaalistically. That's one thing that
I love is just hearing something in my head and
then creating it and putting it in sound.
Speaker 1: That's That's one of the things that's so interesting about
creating music is that, you know, everyone everyone's different and
has kind of their own process. And we were even
talking about this today with Hope the Rapper when he
was on with us in the first hour because he's
someone who really likes to collaborate and kind of have
somebody else's ideas brought into the process, whereas it sounds
like you're more someone who you knows what you know,
what you want and that's that's what you're gonna do,
to the point that you took the time to learn
how to do it yourself exactly.
Speaker 2: You know, nothing against other engineers or anything, but you
know when you're telling an engineer like all right, let's
do it this way, this way, this way, and then
they try everything that they can to get that sound,
but you know, you go and then you get a
final mix and it's not what you want and you
need a revision that requires more money, more time. One
thing I don't like doing in this world is wasting
time or money. Money we can get back. We can
never get our time back. True, you know, so time
to me is very important. You know, money is replaceable.
Speaker 1: You know, when when you would run into that, like
the engineer or the producer who's telling you no, no, no,
we should do it this way. Is that like what
is their motive? Like do they are they kind of
saying to you, this is how you have to do
it to fit in so you can have a hit
or or is it more just we just think it
sounds better this way.
Speaker 2: It could be more of the we just think it
sounds better this way, you know, more opinionative, you know,
And that's good, that's awesome. I take constructive criticism very well.
But that's not how I want it to sound. Yeah,
if I'm paying for this time and I'm paying for
something to sound a certain way, I would expect it
to be the way at least you know, close to
what I want.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: It's like when you go purchase something at a store
and you want that item. You know you're gonna go
get that item at that size, right, You're not gonna
go get it two sizes larger or the one that's
a different color, but it still has all the same wordings.
It's not what you really wanted, right, Yeah, try and
you know, make sure you get that that particular thing.
And you know, I could blame some of my OCD
for that, but that's why it took the time to
learn it, you know.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 2: You know, if ah and being in this studio, you know,
I've had people where they were suggestive towards the way
I should do certain things. You know. The song problems
would help the rapper. I did not write that chorus.
That was something that Hope wrote. He's a great lyricist,
you know, so he has a good time when it
comes to writing. And then, you know, we changed it
last minute in the studio, and then I took a
couple of takes, you know, and they were like, all right,
we got to do it over again. You know this
that all right? Boom? That was it? That one? All right,
we gotta dub that. So now I got to replicate that,
you know. And it's that criticism is always accepted, but
you know, when it's someone's opinion, you know, everybody has one. Yeah,
and we can you know know where that goes from.
But yeah, you know, it's I always try to give
the benefit of the doubt when it comes to experience
and stuff like that. But I've been in this a
long time too. I've only recently started taking serious, taking
it serious over the course of the past four or
five years. Really, yeah, me, who knows where I'd be
had I been taking it a lot serious a lot earlier,
you know. But that's not here nor there. We're here today,
and I'm very appreciative and humble to be sitting in
his chair and meeting you as well, you know, and
going forward from there on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, No, we're glad you're here. Do you work
with other artists in terms of producing, since you obviously
you have that skill set?
Speaker 2: Yes and no, so I have, you know, Like like
I said, Hope and I have worked h a long time.
I've done a couple of songs for his for him
titles I can't tell you off the off the back
because he has so much music and I listened to
a lot of it, so like you know, I can't
tell you the title of the song. But you know,
there were a few of those that were recorded in
my studio. They could have been they could have started
as reference tracks in my studio and then been brought
to another studio and been like, all right, this is
how I wanted to sound, and you know he reached that.
And then who else My nephew, Jordi dt A. He's
also a local artist out of Nashville, and he's been
in my studio multiple times. I hope to work with
mister Goodbard soon working in his studio artists. Yeah, hell
An artist, great educator. He has so much information and
he's one of those artists that I respect because he
doesn't keep any of that information. Yeah, excuse me, he
puts it out, Yeah, something similar to what I do.
You know. If I know something, you know, I'm gonna
share it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I have no secrets. I don't gate keep. All you
need to do is ask me, and if I have
the answer, I'm going to give it to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Good Bars is amazing too because he's so diverse, like
he produces so many different kinds of music. It's remarkable.
Speaker 2: I originally started following good Bars when he was with
the band Sepsis.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, as their keyboardist. And I think I.
Speaker 1: Think that's when I first met him too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how long I've been following him. Yeah, And
then I think over this past year we met face
to face. We've always had social interactions online and stuff,
and this year we were at the same show and
we met and and you know, one of the things
that I remember him saying was like, see, ye I
know about you. He goes, You're one of those artists
that got all the ducks in a row, and I
was like, yeah, you know, like I just I do
a lot of behind the scenes things. I don't frag.
I don't share many things they can all share the
day of and you know, I don't have too much
of an online presence because I'm so busy trying to
do things in the real world. Yeah, yeah, you know,
so I got to figure out a way to get
both of them, you know, but with time that will come.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Where are you from? Did you grow
up here?
Speaker 2: I'm originally from Lawrence, Massachusetts, and I've been living in
Nashville for over the past thirteen years. You know, so
I represent Nashville. It's I'm not one of those where
I'm like, oh, I'm from Lawrence. No, I represent where
I'm at. Yeah, you know, and I'm in Nashua. It's
been a beautiful community to me. A lot of good
things happening there has brought me a lot of success.
I've shot multiple videos in that city. The video I
don't know that's coming out next week is shot right
in the middle of Main Street. Yeah, We're going right
down Main Street, you know, have people interacting and stuff
like that, and just really had a good time doing it,
showing some of the businesses and the beauty of Nashville.
You know, how many people get to show that or
they don't want to you know. Me on the other hand,
I do know some artists get upset there, you know,
They're like, oh, my community don't support me. Well, what
have you done for your community?
Speaker 1: Right exactly.
Speaker 2: So I'm doing things backwards and I'm trying to give
back to my community, doing small events and stuff, back
to school give backs, you know, hopefully partner up with
somebody like mister good Bars and be able to help
the kids learn how to engineer, learn how to you know,
deal with music production and things like that. Yeah, you know,
those are the hopes, you know. Yeah, yeah, just if
we speak it into existence and put the work into it,
it is possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope was talking about in the first hour too.
And I didn't know this. At the Boys and Girls
Club in Nashville, they've got like they have a studio there,
which is I had no idea. That's really cool.
Speaker 2: I only know that because both my nephews went to
the Boys and Girls Club when I first moved in
moved to Nashville thirteen fourteen years ago. Yeah, and that's
something that they lived in the studio, my nephew learned
how to create beats and you know, live sound audio
and it all stemmed from the Boys and Girls Club
in New Hampshire. You got me. Imagine if someone you know,
my age thirty four had that opportunity to be able
to go to the Boys and Girls Club and the
inside of a studio, you know, who knows. Again, where
I would have been memory for me a Boys and
Girls club was at the ping pong table. You know,
we're over here and doing this that on the ping
pong table exactly. And no slight on the Lawrence Boys
and Girls Club, but you know, hopefully they have stepped
it up. I don't know, but yeah, with such a
large music scene and then you know, it seems like
if it's just growing and growing, so you know, hopefully
it's something that they do have. Yea, I know they
have multiple studios out there, but what are we doing
for the community right right?
Speaker 1: Exactly? Yeah, yeah, because when I think of the Boys
and Girls Club, I think of athletic type things. So
I was surprised when he was talking about the studio,
but I said, that's that's really cool.
Speaker 2: It's an opportunity for those young kids that do love music,
all that are lost and don't know something what to do?
You know you're good with video editing, you're good with
this that you know you have a great opportunity to
become something you know, self made. Right, you get me
where you don't have to depend on the corporate America
right and actually live the American dream as they say.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, exactly, exactly. Well we should play another track, definitely,
so which I'll let you pick if I.
Speaker 2: Would have to pick. All I Know, All I Know. Yeah,
that's one of my most popular singles. Oh okay, it's
a crowd pleaser. It's a song that I wrote and
dedicated to my wife.
Speaker 1: Oh very nice, very nice?
Speaker 5: Is she?
Speaker 1: Is she listening?
Speaker 2: She should be, I hope.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, cool, All right, here we go. I
got it. All right, we'll give this a listen. If
you're just joining us. We have fate one here with
us live in studio, and this is called All I Know.
Speaker 6: Let me you out to space, yet, let me take
you out your place yet, let me.
Speaker 7: Take you out to space, yet you have to spare.
Let me take you at your place yet to pay?
Speaker 3: All I know is all I know?
Speaker 6: When I know, I can control what can be for.
Speaker 7: Let me take you out to space, yet you have
to space. Let me take you out to your place yet.
Speaker 3: All I know is all I know.
Speaker 8: When I know I can't control what can be for.
Speaker 6: Let me take you out your comfort zone.
Speaker 9: You promise you won't be alone, just norm always coming.
Speaker 10: Clocking out after close, no matter if I'm under rower,
you know moments undergo making sure we never making sure,
we never brons. All I know underpression, never phone from
the concrete, weed on rose from the jungle, came to grow.
Speaker 1: I know I can control work.
Speaker 7: Let me take you out to space, yet you have
to spell. Let me take you at your place yet
what you pay.
Speaker 6: All I know is all I know, and I know
I can control.
Speaker 7: What can be for. Let me take you out of space,
yet you have to spell. Let me take you out
your place yet. All I know is all I know,
and I know I can't control work can be for.
Let me hear your heart, don't hunt, discuss amazing just the.
Speaker 9: Way you are.
Speaker 6: Trust the loyalty goles fun. Let me take you to Mark.
Speaker 9: We can see the stars walk down.
Speaker 7: Hollywood, but firehouses and parts set some goals to stop.
Speaker 2: So we gotta things month.
Speaker 6: Did some get it easy?
Speaker 9: I rather work hard? Yes, some get it easy.
Speaker 3: I rather work hard.
Speaker 9: Then toss all I know underpression.
Speaker 8: Never phone from the concrete, whedn't rose from the jungle,
came to grow.
Speaker 3: All I know is all I know.
Speaker 7: I can't control work. Came Let me take you out
of space.
Speaker 3: You want to spell?
Speaker 6: Let me take you out your place.
Speaker 3: Yet to play. All I know is all I know
when I.
Speaker 9: Know what can control work?
Speaker 7: Cayful, let me take you on to spaceic you want
to space, Let.
Speaker 6: Me take you out to your place.
Speaker 3: Yet. All I know is all I know.
Speaker 8: When I know I can control work, came beful.
Speaker 4: Mmm, that's nice, beautiful.
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't eve that. I didn't even want
to talk over the end. It's just nice. I just
wanted to let it fade out. You know that's cool,
that's really nice. If you're just joining us, we have
a fate one here with us alive in studio, and
that is called all I know. Great track, And yeah
you were. You were kind of staying off air like
you have to. You have to play it at every
show where people will get people get upset if they
don't hear it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's one of my most popular songs.
You know, if they don't hear it, they're like, you know,
it's whether I start with it or I end with it. Yeah,
there's you know, the one time I think I didn't
do it, they were like, where's that cong I know, like,
you know, I was like, I didn't have enough time,
Like yeah, But every time I perform, I try and
make sure that I get it all there, and you know,
I've gotten up to the point where I sing it
almost completely live, with the exception of the chorus.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you uh? Do you play out a lot?
Do you do a lot of shows?
Speaker 2: This past year? No, last year I was on a
Crazy Show run, and then the year before I was
on a Crazy Show run as well, working with multiple promoters,
one our Visuals being one of them. Talk of the
town being another one with Jesse Hendrix. He is, you know,
out of the Boston area and stuff like that, so
I was able to network with him and expand my
outlet over there towards that area, you know. And then
when I Visuals, we did a lot of things mainly
in Lowell. Was able to learn a lot of things
from both these great promoters to the point where, you know,
I last year I exercised my first show and my
hat to them because I I ran my own show.
And let me tell you, one of the hardest things
to do is to manage other artists with them, you know,
managing their music sets, the DJ and this that. And
I did that show with another artist as well, my
buddy Karan, and we collabed and we did that show,
and we did it as a competition for one I Visuals.
He was like, oh, you know, like a lot of
your artists talk about this that you know that you're
gonna do your own show this stuff, but you don't
know what it takes to do it. I challenged you
to do this. The only one that accepted the challenge
was Karan and I. You know, so we did it
and we had a successful show. We won his challenge.
You know, we were able to continue to work with
him and then you know, we've done a couple shows
since then. But I've been really focusing on the back
ends of the things with the music and you know,
focusing on promotion. I released my EP last year and
we got some good numbers and good results on there.
But I am very adamant of not dropping any new
music until I surpassed a certain amount of streams on
my EP, you know, which is one hundred thousand streams,
and I'm a little over halfway throughout the whole project.
You get me. You know, once I reach that goal,
I'll start releasing because I am ready to release. But
it's just some people just focus on releasing new music,
new music, trying boost the algorithm, failing to realize that
you're actually sitting and killing on your own music. You
get me. You can drop every week, every month and
stuff like that, but you're not letting the rest of
your music settle and let that be heard. You can
oversaturate that one, yeah, exactly, And I understand that there's
over one hundred thousand songs being uploaded on streaming platforms
on a daily basis. But if you focus on the
stuff that you already have out and you promote that stuff,
when you continue to release those listeners that you have
now grown and you have now connected with with that
original sound, are going to continue to listen to your
new stuff and potentially show it to somebody new. You know,
So I do a lot of the back end studying.
You know, I try to always inform myself with a
lot of things that are going on, you know. Like
I said, I've been in this many years, you know,
and I did things the wrong way many times up
until this last rebrand you get me. I rebranded myself
over the course of the five years, you know, trademark
my logo, trademark my company, and then been able to
just learn and you know, apply some of the things
that I learned from hard lessons into this now and
it's working at me. So now I can apply those
things with some of my artists and try and help
them out, you know, because I'm all about giving back
giving forward. If somebody didn't teach me, you know, or
excuse me, it's somebody taught me, you know, And I
kept that to myself. How right would I be by
keeping that, you know, instead of passing it forward, right
right exactly? That almost be hypocritical, yeah, I and I
try out to be that. So try to educate as
best as I can, you know, what I've learned.
Speaker 1: What do you think or do you have any examples
of like mistakes that you made that you had to
learn from that you then try to pass on to
other people.
Speaker 2: So one thing, you know, Ah, in my early early
start of music career, you know, I was putting out
music and I was wondering, why wasn't it catching attention
or are these other artists catching attention this that, you know?
And I got envious and jealous thinking that, you know, oh,
I don't get support you know from my community, this
that my family and this that. No, it was actually
that I wasn't doing the work. I was just going
into the studio and recording things, you know, and then
posting it online and expecting it to blow up. You know.
I didn't know the business things behind it. I didn't
know the promotion ends behind it, you know, getting the
licensing this that. So those were some of the mistakes
you know where you know, I got copyright stricken where
I had to take something down, used it without permission,
and I was like, okay, what's copyright? You know, learned
about it all right, didn't make this mistake again. I
used to complain about support and then I was like wondering,
you know this that, and then as you see, it's
completely opposite now where it's like, all right, you know,
I know why people aren't supporting me. I'm not doing much,
you know. But over the the past four years, I've
been doing shows, I've been working with other artists, going
to go support their shows, whether I'm on it, whether
I'm not, and just focusing on doing the groundwork so
that way I can actually have something to fall back
on and be like, yeah, no, I did last year,
I did forty shows. The year before that, I did
eighty the year before that. We you know, were at
one hundred shows and stuff like that almost every two week,
you know, and it can be overwhelming, but it's something
that comes with this business. You have to do a
lot of work before you actually even see any of
the benefits, you know. So understanding that as well, you
know it, stardom doesn't come overnight. A lot of these
stars that you think broke out overnight you go to
you go to see their documentary and feel to realize like, oh,
they've been doing this since twenty ten, they doing this
since two thousand and five. Yeah, exactly, it's just now
that you're getting to know them. That's the difference, you know.
So starting with the roots of the community, you know,
working with the ICE, I keep on saying the community,
you know, because that's who's I'm looking to support me first.
If something happens, I know that it happened because of
my community, yeah me. Not because I sold my soul
or not because you know, I got lucky and stuff. No,
I've been putting in the groundwork. I've been working with
my community so that way they can have something to
be proud of, yeah me, and just move forward from
there on. You know, the definition of fate is the definite,
the development of events beyond the person's control, right, So
I try to always foresee the events that could potentially happen.
That's kind of how I got my name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was curious about that. Where the name comes from.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, it's like where when I was younger,
you know, I would tell my friends like, hey, like,
you know, something's gonna happen. I got a bad feeling.
You know. They were like okay, like you know, like
we're gonna call you destiny. And I was like, I
didn't like that too much, you know, So I went
into the dictionary and I looked up the you know
a similar word to destiny. Yeah, fate it was. And
then I liked it and I stuck with it. Then
I added the one at the end for various reasons,
you know, in the tag in you know, graffiti industry,
A lot of times when you add one, you're paying
homage to somebody that passed away, paying some paying homage
to somebody that has been in jail. So like one love,
you know, okay, so yeah, And then the other way
is like, you know, I am one of a kind.
I am the only one. You know, there might be
other fates out there, but I am yeah, want and
you know that's trademarked license, then don't mess with it.
I consume you you know, and that that's where that
name came from, you know. And I'm not an artist
where I have a persona. This is me. I live
the same way. I try to always be positive. I
try to always foresee what's coming for me, always plan
ahead and try and fix something if I can't. And
if I can't, you know, I gotta let go, yeah,
and let whatever else is, you know fix it. Yeah,
it's not in my control. Why am I going to
stress myself over it? And that's where that name stems from.
And I've always stuck with it, and it's the nice
you know. Yeah, And I try to try to make
sure that anything I sing about, anything that I write about,
it's whether it's something that I lived, you know, I
went through. I don't want to end up, you know,
having to go back on myself or you know, get
called out for something that I don't really do and
then it, you know, then all things fall apart or
my persona gets killed because of that like that. No,
I just live the way I live. I am who
I am.
Speaker 1: Yeh, that's interesting way you say there, because yeah, a
lot of artists will try to you know, create a persona. Yeah,
you know, and and something either either bigger than you know,
sort of bigger than life, or or maybe even something
kind of kind of negative like yeah, like they want
to come across as like they're some sort of violence.
Speaker 2: Going to be myself man, Yeah, yeah, you know, whether
my past obviously had something to do with it, but
it's irrelevant today. Yeah. I mean, I'm not that same
person that I was fifteen years ago, but I have
learned from my mistakes of the past, whether I did
certain things, I'll always try to make sure that, you know,
one thing, I don't incriminate myself in music. I also
don't tell a lie, you know, And on top of
making sure I don't tell a lie. I try to
always keep it positive for the most part, even though
it's not the most popular thing out there. You know,
my song I Don't Know is pretty much stating that
I really don't care what most people think about me.
You know, your opinion is your opinion, and you're entitle
to it, and of the day, it doesn't make you right,
doesn't make you wrong, and that's how you feel about me, then,
you know, so be it. You know, if I treated
somebody disrespectful, you know, or if I treated somebody with love,
and I always think, I always say believe both of them.
I treat people accordingly, you know. So if I was
rude to you, you deserved it. That was nice to you.
You know, you also deserved it as well. And that's
always what I try to do, because I just try
to treat people the way i'd like to be treated.
We're all human beings, if you know, we're cut at
the end of the day, we bleed the same way,
were brief, we eat the same way. You know, they
all need the same things. We're all humans. Yeah, and
that's the way I look at it.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Plus, you know, by just kind of being honest about everything.
You know, it's what's the expression, it's uh, tell the truth,
it's less to remember or something.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Lives are hard to keep up with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Then you got to remember who you
told what.
Speaker 2: Yeh good with that? I'd rather not, yeah, exactly exactly.
Keeping up with those lives is crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, to be so positive and everything, if if
you had mentors in the music industry, are there are
there people who've helped you along the way? I mean,
obviously you know you're you're willing to dig in and
learn everything yourself, But are there are there people who've
been an influence on you in the industry.
Speaker 2: Or just you know, in the industry, I have many,
you know, influences. I would and say that they're all
positive because of the way that their music is brought out,
you know, someone like Big Pun, you know. But then
I go, I can go in my rolodex and literally
go to somebody like John Legend, you know, you know,
which is complete opposite. Yeah, you know, you know, so
being influenced too. To just stay positive is just something
that I learned to live. How I learned to live
because negativity, it just doesn't phaze me, and then it's
just very toxic. I don't like that, you know, I'd
rather not be in a toxic environment or not be
in a negative environment, you know, whether positivity is the
most popular thing or not. I'm being myself, yeah, I mean,
that's that's my main thing, is that I'm being myself
and that you know, it's potentially you know, help somebody else. Yeah,
and you know that that would be great if I
help somebody else at least one. If I reached one person,
you know, and I reached one every day the goal man.
Speaker 1: And I assume you probably have heard from people who
approached you and said, yeah, you know you're I.
Speaker 2: Love your music. That you know, it has happened, you know,
and it's a great feeling, you know, when you can
get somebody to identify with your trials and relations, you know, yeah,
you know, and just just it's a beautiful thing again yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And in terms of of your singing, is there
anyone who's kind of like who who inspires your your
style or there are there singers who have been an
influence on you in terms of how you sing.
Speaker 2: One there's a couple, so you know, again it's it's
like usher for me, Yeah, I grew up listening to Usher,
you know, ladies man always singing to the ladies and
stuff like that. I love that, I mean, you know.
And then uh Tony Sunshine, which is very similar to
my style where he's he's dealing with a lot of
hip hop, but he's singing in it, you know, and
he's bringing out those emotions out of those songs with
you know, the Terror Squad and stuff like that. Yeah,
you know. And then there's Marc Anthony Y's you know,
Salo ninety. I mean, a lot of a lot of
AA at the end of the day, is you know
about again about stories? You know, Mark Anthony played a
role in a movie for Ector Lavos, and he pretty
much captured that guy's persona and that guy's voice and
everything to the point where they were like whoa, whoa
is that Mark Anthony or Ector Lavos. Yeah, but these things,
you know, they bring out the trials and relations a.
Lovos used to sing about his drug use impression, you know,
the life that he lived and stuff like that. So
just combining all those things, all those artists and just
you know, creating my sound off of that. You know,
I can sing any Usher song, you know, word for word,
you know, to a point where I could almost duplicate
some of his tones, stuff like that, most of Tony
Sunshine's almost every Mark Anthony and then you know, you
go further back, that's actor Lovoe as well, which is
all SALTSA. I listened to a lot of music, not
just hip hop, R and B. You get me being
Puerto Rican, growing up in a Puerto Rican household and
in an urban area. You'd be surprised the things that you hear.
You know, dance all afrobeats, I can imagine, you know,
and again, the beauty of music is just being able
to move and hear that and feel that rhythm. And
that's what I love about it. Yeah. I feel the
most comfortable when I'm in front of a mic.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, me.
Speaker 2: I get nervous at first, but the moment that I'm
on stage and stuff like that, and you know, or
in front of a podcast, that I just feel like
I'm at home right right, and it's just it feels great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can, I can relate to that. I'm I'm
actually I'm naturally an introvert, but I uh, but I'm
most I'm so because of that. It's just how my
brain is wired. I'm actually most comfortable in front of
a microphone, whether it's doing the show or or I'm
a musician. I don't I'm not active with that, but
I used to play a lot of bands, or being
on stage or public speaking, like like, I'm actually more
comfortable doing that than I am at say a party
where you know, I'm trying to have a conversation with
a stranger or something.
Speaker 2: Same, you know, yeah, I you know, I usually go
out to these venues if i'm performing. You know, I
am a homebody. The reason why I have a home studio. Yeah, yeah,
you know, you know, And not trying to be cheap
or anything, but that you know, you can go outside nowadays,
and you spend one hundred dollars a moment that you
go outside. You know, that's just gassing food, you know,
and you know, so it's just trying to stay out
of the way. You know. I try to go out
when it's necessary. I'm a very family first guy. Excuse me,
So I'd rather spend time with my family. You know,
if I'm not in the studio, I'm with family. I'm
not an event. I'm with family. If I'm not working
I'm with family, yeah, you know, and just try and
do that, you know, whether it's laying down in bed
watching a movie or just sitting down in the couch
playing some video games, right, you know, it's it's it's okay.
You know, I'd rather be doing that than out and about,
you know, getting into trouble or you know, who knows
what can happen nowadays in the world that we live
in a servy place, right, yeah, you know, or having
to be prepared for those kind of situations and stuff
like that. Not a person that really has anxiety, but
those things kind of give me.
Speaker 1: Anxiety, sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, if you've always
been like that or were you were you different when
you were younger, because like I can tell you, like
in my case, people assume that when I.
Speaker 3: Was yeah, as.
Speaker 2: A bad kid. Yeah, so I had. I had a
very early upbringing, you know, where I was just running
around early on.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mentioned that I was doing music for many of years.
I was in a club at fourteen fifteen years old,
singing this one Spanish song that didn't even belong to me.
Because my brother was a club promoter and he would
bring a lot of the Spanish artists down to Lawrence. Yeah,
you know, and you know I would always be an
opening act, you know. So I shared stages with some
of these major artists like Nikki, jam Ecto, Ridito, The Call,
and some of these names. You may know, some of
these you may not. But in the Latin culture and
the Latin community, they know those names are very big.
You know. I have the pleasure of saying that I
shared this stage with them at fourteen years old.
Speaker 1: That's not a bad way to start me.
Speaker 2: That was twenty years ago. You got me. But I
was young, dumb, you know, and I was focused on
all the wrong things. Yeah, you know, not focusing on
my schooling, not focusing and just focusing on all the
wrong things.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of a double edged sword, right because
you may have focused on the wrong things in one sense,
but at the same time you had that amazing opportunity.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, you got that. And then I learned, you know,
and I learned, and you know, I just supply a
lot of the things that I learned growing up, and
I just actually applied it. You know. It's like, how
can you fix something if you don't know about it,
you know, But if you know about it and you
did nothing about it to fix it, and you want
to change. Well, that's insanity right there, my friend. Yeah,
you know, I mean so it's just all about knowing
and you know, trying.
Speaker 1: What what changed for you? Was there a moment that
that kind of changed things, that kind of changed your mindset?
Or was it a gradual thing?
Speaker 2: My mother passing away?
Speaker 1: Really yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, she passed away six years ago. It was
one of the toughest things that I deal with on
a daily basis. And I was on the verge of
giving up music because of that, the lack of support
and you know, just not knowing, not being educated about it.
And one of the promises I made, you know, while
she was you know, on her last day, well that
I'm going to continue with my music, you know, And
that's exactly what I did. In twenty eighteen, I dropped
the project that was nowhere near released ready to be released,
but I did it anyways, just so I can, you know,
claim it and start it, you know. You know, I
pride myself in knowing. You know, it may be a
fact or not, but you know, I want to say
I was one of these artists that was on streaming
platforms before a lot of other people because of the
research and the information that I gained. Like, you know,
in twenty eighteen, I dropped my first project with CD Baby.
I didn't see any of my artists friends, or any
of them dropping on streaming platforms where they were on Spotify, Apple,
And next thing, you know, twenty nineteen, everybody's doing it.
You know, I'm not saying that I started it or
anything like that, but I know I was one of
the first artists that started doing it and even learned
from that, you know, not having quality music. You know,
it's like, oh yeah, like I could play this, but
it's not mixing masters correctly. It's not gonna sound the best,
and think, oh okay, all right this, you know, but
then your ego gets the best of you, you know,
and so I had to struggle with that. Yeah, and
I was like, all right, well, let's learn how to
mix and master. Learn that, you know, and then I
think in twenty nineteen, I partnered with a audio engineer
out of Las Vegas, and it was no, it was
twenty twenty actually, because it was around COVID where everybody
was online. Everybody was thaying, you know, I sent them
my vocals. He mixed and edited, threw a little bit
of auto tune in there, you know, which I kind
of wanted because you know, I was like, this is
a little rough, you know, I recorded in my studio.
Is that, you know, sent them some nice clean vocals
and you know my song. I didn't send it to you,
but I will eventually. The song I'm Blessed, you know,
it is what I kind of started back off with.
You know, that was where I rebranded myself, had my
new logo, had a song that was mixed and mastered,
ready for distribution, ready for radio, you know, and I
took pride in that, so I went recorded a video
to it. Then I released everything just like a you know,
a mainstream artist would do everything on the same day,
the video, the vocals, all that released, you know, and
that was one of my you know, greatest moments. It's
one of my least sought out after songs because again,
the positivity. Not many people go towards positive you know,
they're there. You're bound to have something negative posted on
social media that's going to become viral, versus something that
you know is very positive and could also be viral
and have the same effect, but they won't do it
because it's positive, you know. So I try to always
shed light on those positive things, you know. I try
not to post negative things, you know, I can always
I go find myself on social media wanting to say
something negative like delete, and then I find myself, well,
I almost wrote something negative on this post, but I didn't.
You know. I get congratulates story things from friends and
stuff like that, like Okay, you're trying to stay all right, yeah,
you know, but everybody's human, you know. And that song
started it off for me. And then I did a
song with local artists as well, GMT Mark B. That
was like my first feature. You know. He was more
established out in Nashville and I was. He had more
of a following than I was. I happened to be
in the same studio and I played him a beat
and I showed him the chorus, you know, because that's
how I start all my songs. I always have a
chorus for all my songs. And you know, he was like, oh,
I like that, Let's do that boom and then that
that came on and then did the same thing again.
That was my first video with one I Visuals. You know,
partnered with him said a release date. Had to change
the release date because you know, it was a little
too soon. The editing stuff wasn't done, you know, and
I got a little lashing from one of visuals. It
was like, don't do that again, like, you know, he
was like, you guys, shouldn't do that until it's ready.
I was like, you're right, you know, And then I
learned from that, you know, so to make sure that
I'm not releasing nothing unless or setting a date on
something before it's actually complete.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: Setting a date on an EP before it's actually complete,
you know, and then you know, you set false expectations.
That can also screw you over as an artist too,
because you're over here selling dreams, selling dreams, and you know,
realistically there's nothing to sell right right, you know, So
just making sure that I have everything ready before I
even announce it.
Speaker 1: Ummm no, that makes sense. Yeah, you know, like I.
Speaker 2: Tried, I avoid from making any announcements as best as
I can, just in case if things fall through. You
know that way I don't look a certain type of way.
Speaker 1: I totally get that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, like today I think I made
them and I was like, you know, I'll be on
ninety five point three. You know. I copied the link
and I shared it to a few of my family members,
a few of my friends, you know, and I told
them I'll be on at this time. Like you know,
I knew I was coming. I made it happen. And
once I knew that that was happening, all right, boom
may time to be here, you know, And it's been
good so far. You know, it's not a far drive
thirty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're not far. Yeah, well we are, however,
almost out of time. The time goes so quick, so
we'll n plus when you're having fun, we'll close out
the show with this track app business. But but just quickly,
what should people know about how to follow you online?
Where should they go to keep up with everything that
you're doing?
Speaker 2: Yes, so I am pretty nice and simple as f
A T E, O N E, underscore, HSM across all platforms. Okay,
that's TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, even. You can also go
to my website I am fightwe dot com, where you'll
find all my music, you'll find any ways to reach
me all of my socials as well, you know, and
then if you have me as a friend on Facebook,
you know that I am. Yes, well fight one Marquez,
you know, because again this is not persona, this is
who I am. So I try to always keep it,
you know. Yes, I keep my work world separate versus
the music world, but eventually they will not collide, but
you know, almost blend. Yeah, yeah, stuff like you know,
the work that I do allows me to pay for
the stuff that I need. Yeah, you know, and just
be able to you know, open doors for me and
stuff like that, and just continue to you know, move forward.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely, Well, we really appreciate your coming in today.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you. I appreciate being here and meeting
you guys, you know, and I look forward to what
the future holds for us.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. And Jenny, you want to plug your website
before we go, Absolutely.
Speaker 2: You got to.
Speaker 1: You got a lot going on lately.
Speaker 5: I have, actually, yes, and I still have some stuff
to update on the website. But you can check it
out at Gencoffee dot com. J E N N C
O F F euy dot com. And if you happen
to go down to Terminus tonight for the show, you
can check out twelve of my darkest paintings.
Speaker 1: Yes, hanging on display.
Speaker 5: For the month of August at the Nashua Creative Collective.
I said it wrong, Midnight Collective.
Speaker 1: Sorry for the time. And if you are listening live
on Saturday, I will be at the event at the
Sister Witch Company and Hook and Hooks it that actually
starts at noon. I'll be arriving at about two pm.
And so come on down and say hello and thank
you to everyone who joined us today. A lot of
Corvette of course, Hope the Rapper and Fate one, thank
you again. Wonderful to have you on. Absolutely and if
you missed any part of today's show, it'll be up
in just a little bit at wmnhradio dot org and
my website Matt Connorton dot com. And we leave you
at this. This is Fate one and the track is
called Business.
Speaker 9: My Business Build the Moment.
Speaker 11: I've been may my business man amount business, build a
mountain bridges. I been by my business man a mount business,
build them mount rigeous. Yeah, I'm trying to job like
I'm talk.
Speaker 6: I know he's listening.
Speaker 9: Loh, forgive me for my tends.
Speaker 12: All I'm trying to do is when they can keep
up with my friend, trying to keep up with my
pen Welcome to my dentis sometime, but it depends. Some
keep reaching and over spend, Some keep leaning towards the end.
They regrett and I are saying, I'll stay January. It's
not something you can lend. Some don't seem to comprehend
I stay January.
Speaker 2: Gotta keep one out.
Speaker 8: For those who pretend I don't even know fake lin,
no need, no no friends. Gotta keep one on man
for those who pretend I don't need no fake live,
no need, no no friends.
Speaker 11: I've been by my business, mine and mon business.
Speaker 6: Build them out riches hit.
Speaker 11: I've been by my business mine and mount business.
Speaker 6: Build them ount bridges hit.
Speaker 11: I've been for my business mine and mon business.
Speaker 6: Build them out riches.
Speaker 11: Yet, I've been for my business none of mown business,
build them abridges.
Speaker 8: If you're talking money, better be ready to invest.
Speaker 9: Normal hand out.
Speaker 6: I can't focus on the rest, work at texts and.
Speaker 9: My best I'm too busy being blessed for nothing all
my lessons. I don't need any more stress, been conquering
all my teams.
Speaker 6: Burned up on my le just kept my head below it.
Speaker 9: Feelings started with nothing but the seasons.
Speaker 3: The seasons keep repeating. No, my girls have been defeated.
Speaker 6: Keep down at me, keep sleeping.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna keep feeding those.
Speaker 3: Don't need it.
Speaker 8: Keep one out pad for those who pretend I don't
even know fake love. Don't need you know, no friends,
Gotta keep one out pad for those who pretend.
Speaker 6: I don't even know fake love.
Speaker 3: No, no, no friends.
Speaker 6: I've been by my business mine and Mount Business. Spill
the Mountain riches.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I've been by my business mine and mount Business
spill the mount ridges.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I've been from my business mine and Mount beustiness, build
them mount riches.
Speaker 6: Yet I've been by.
Speaker 11: My business on the mount business fill the mount riches.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my bulliess young. The guy just want a chance.
Speaker 13: I'm want a chance to need a million advances like
Toka Rum shifting my hands. I'll be counting my cards
and devising him playing County.
Speaker 3: He didn't have done me. Come man.
Speaker 13: What he don't understand is his mama still got some meals.
Speaker 2: He keep on talking, no call.
Speaker 6: And like he just belonging on something like doctor Phil.
Speaker 3: I don't really know about y'all, but I know about me.
Speaker 13: That's how I sleep well at night, how a he
gonna say he the man, but he's specially different a
thing that he had mistake boss moves only y'all think
it deans. I'm to get to own that time he
gonna make my CAMARONI next time, mos you.
Speaker 3: Down for the holy Lena?
Speaker 13: When they keep on cooking all them shots and they
keep on missing, keep spitting like my jall with loosen,
I need to see the doctor, but I can't afford
to that news.
Speaker 6: Still ain't got a deal with my no meal, So
we're staying on go this time. We here to let
him know next time we breaking on.
Speaker 14: A dough if you want to burst him senate checking
our call the plays like I'm fellow checking.
Speaker 3: I don't understand those negligence.
Speaker 14: Type with my squall like a fellowship right.
Speaker 2: On my John sym fellowship.
Speaker 14: So I don't got any preferences if you touch on
my references, my etiquette going with the delicates pemiship of
point like a ballpin all in flicking risks like I'm
mixing a culture initiated a Paul and someone call a
bomb threat, feeling like Lebron did, feeling.
Speaker 6: Like I did last night.
Speaker 3: That's right, for you.
Speaker 14: For rapsite turned into a crash site hut like a
craft for me, but right for you. Get slapped like
Chris rock A pissed off. Let me event now Chris
paul A criss cross, keep it in bound, Blitz y'all
and kickoff.
Speaker 3: It's the first down. Kill y'all, don't feel y'all. Here's
your hearse now, kill y'all. Don't feel y'all.
Speaker 4: Here's your hearse now.
Speaker 3: Blow yea.
Speaker 2: You are listening to double umin h
Speaker 8: Get command, don't get supremelya Maxio