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Speaker 2: I love it. That is brand new from six Minds Combined.
And he is here with us in studio. We're gonna
talk with him in just a moment. Welcome everybody, Here
we go. It is that time again, Matt Connorton Unleashed
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et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday, November twenty second,
two thousand and twenty five. Let me get that mic on.
Rick Everhard is here and he is a six Minds
combined Welcome sir, Hello, Hello, Hello, It's good to have
you back on the show. It's been a little while. Yeah,
it has been been a little while. You've been busy.
That track, of course, the sixth sonata great.
Speaker 7: I love that, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I got a question about that right off the top. So,
and I've noticed this was some of your other songs too,
like is it is it difficult to cause your your
flow your style is so like how do you have
time to breathe while you're you know, especially like like
the song starts and that first verse comes in and
it's like, oh my god, like how does he even
do that?
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 1: So, so first I have to write the songs, obviously,
and I try to I try to write it as
like a single a single burse at like the first
set of time or course at a time, and I
try to try to make that as complicated as I
can a.
Speaker 7: Lyrically.
Speaker 1: And then I'll practice it over and over and over again,
find where to put the breaths. So I take a
lot of really fast, sharp breaths. Yeah, if you listen
really closely, sometimes you can hear them.
Speaker 2: Ok. Yeah, yeah, No, it's impressive when you're writing these,
because I mean that song is just one example I've noticed.
I mean, that's your style and a lot of these,
like I said, when you're writing them, do you ever
do you ever think this might be too much? I
don't know, or do you just write it and then
it's like, Okay, now now I have to live up
to the challenge that I've created for myself and I
wrote it. Now I got to do it.
Speaker 7: That's that's exactly it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love to challenge myself. I love to to push
myself past my boundaries. And I mean that's that's the
reason that I've gotten this far in my musical career
is because of that pushing and pushing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Another thing too, I've noticed about a lot
of your songs is you know, there seems to be
a theme. You know, there's a lot of empowerment positivity,
but but without being preachy, which is cool because you can,
you know, you can beat somebody over the head with
it and then and actually push them away with that
stuff too, but but you present it in a way
that is fun, for lack of a better word, I mean,
it's just kind of fun to The songs are fun,
they're fun to listen to, but also but they're not preachy.
They're just more like kind of encouraging and and and
unity too. That seems to be a theme too. There's
a lot of you know, like in that track, in
the lyrics, there's a lot of you know, we're in
this together, you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean so there's there's just so much negativity and
and like segregation and division, and there's just there's so
much of that apparent in every industry, and I just
want to, you know, I want to bring a different message,
you know, that's that we don't have to versus each other.
You know, we can we can work together and work
off of each other. And and I mean obviously I
feel really strongly about those ideals. So it it's it
comes through I wouldn't say easily, but but it flows
into the musical creation.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, like I'll get I'll get a basic idea
and then like I try to, I try to give
myself a subject and then along with that that subject
I like to keep that, you know, the togetherness and
the community and the positivity and try to wrap it
all up into to one, you know, nice little package.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So since the last time we talked, it sounds like,
you know, we talked a little bit off air. It
sounds like you've been pretty busy.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, super super busy.
Speaker 1: I've done I've done at least two shows a month
since since the since the last radio show. Yeah, and uh,
I still host an open mic once a month. Excellent
through Positive street Art. Okay, we talked about them before. Yeah, Yeah,
they're they're still going super strong too. Yeah, we got
we got big moves we're making this year excellent.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a lot there. Can you actually, can you
tell us a little bit more about Positive Street Art?
And I know we've talked about it before, but for
newer listeners who right now know because this is a
this is a great thing that a lot of people
probably aren't aware, so.
Speaker 1: That it's a it's a nonprofit based out of nash,
New Hampshire. We've we've kind of spread our wings a
bit and we do a bunch of stuff in Manchester. Yeah,
and Excellent and and a few other places too. But
it's our mission is to inspire passion for the the
urban arts in a productive way through community workshops, artistic
services and and community events. And we had we had
this the Summer Stroll that we Nashville in Newmpshire that
we teamed up over over the summer.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and and it's was the second year we did it,
and it was it was a big hit.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: I think eventually it might but it'll keep expanding, you know,
kind of like the Winter Stroll in in in Nashua.
It you know, it started out as as whatever and
now it's grown too. You know, ten thousand or more
people show up every year for it. So I'm we're
we're hoping that the Summer Stroll, you know, kind of
it builds momentum and we can grow every year. But
it's you know, it's a it's a great it's a
great organization to get into not only for just you know,
to get a mural painted on your wall or whatever,
but we have tons of programs for for different communities,
you know, for for painting and for for uplifting and
you know, the whole community thing. I also run the
I host open mics through Positive Street art, and and
that's you know that that part of it is it's
it was you know, part of it was was a
way for me to to expand my my ability to
get on the mic or get on the stage. I was,
I was at the beginning of the of the of
the the whole music thing that I've been doing. Yeah,
and uh, and I you know, I kind of decided,
you know, if I don't just have random places, you know,
a lot of times I went to a few open
mics over the years and stuff, and and I I
like the I like the feel of it and everything,
and and I was like, you know, I could I
could probably do something myself like this through positive street art,
you know, because it's you know, it's a music is
is intertwined and and and and everything, right, you know,
it's just as much part of the the urban culture.
Speaker 7: As anything else.
Speaker 1: Absolutely so, so yeah, you know, I felt I wanted
a place where I could you know, improve my craft, yeah,
and build up my stage presence.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and smart smart way to go about it, yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly yea.
Speaker 1: And then and then at the same time, it's giving
a place for other people with the same mindset as me,
where where they don't. They're not ready for a big
crowd or something like that, and they want to start,
you know, honing their craft. So you know, you get
on the mic in front of a very very limited crowd.
You know, not a lot of people show up to it.
So so a lot of times it's just, uh, it's
just a six Minds Combined jam session.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, where does this happen? Where do you do?
Speaker 1: It's at a Positive shoot Out headquarters Okay in nash, Newmpshire.
Speaker 7: It's at forty eight Bridge Street, third floor.
Speaker 2: Okay, Oh, very cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you look us a Positive Shootout dot org, we're
always posting different things that we're doing, and we we curate.
Speaker 7: A bunch of.
Speaker 1: Like artists and uh, not just at our headquarters, but
at different places. I know there's a couple of places
in Manchester that wee things that I don't I don't
know all the names of the program. There's so much
which is that's good.
Speaker 2: There's a lot going on there that's excellent.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: So So was that was positive street art before? Like,
in other words, were you doing that before Six Minds
Combined became?
Speaker 7: Yeah? So I've been I've been doing.
Speaker 1: I've been making music and I had the whole six
minds combined Moniker for years and years and years. Okay,
but I wasn't doing anything. I just made music for
fun for myself, yeah, and uh and friends or whatever.
And you know, I I I always had the hope that,
you know, someday it would become something, but but it wasn't.
It wasn't the drive, okay, you know. And then I
had I had gotten into some trouble and I had
to do community service. Yeah, my friend Gillian Anderson pointed
me towards positive street art and and at the time
my very good friend to this day, Tom Lopez, he
was the vice president and he kind of took me
under his wing, and and uh, and I screamed through
all the community service hours, and they were like, hey,
you know you you're you've been doing this. You want
to continue to do this. And then shortly after that
I was like, of course I do. And then shortly
after that They're like, hey, well you want to join
our board, and so I've been. I've been on their
board of directors for for a bunch of years now.
I think it's fantastic. I think it's you know, coming
on ten years part of that organization.
Speaker 7: Yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 7: You know, we've we've had dance.
Speaker 1: Programs, we've had we've had all sorts of stuff, and
I was, you know, just hit me at one point,
I was like, you know what, why don't I Why
don't I, you know, introduced the musical side of this
to to the to you know what, because there was
dancing and you know, things like that, and I was
I was like, you know, but like like at Core,
I'm a musician and and I felt like that needed
to be a part of the whole positive street art thing.
So yeah, So that I came up with the idea
for the the open mic and and the rest of
the board loved it. Yeah, and they they jumped on it,
and and we've been doing it ever since.
Speaker 2: So when you started doing the open mics, was that
what kind of like did you already have the idea
that if if these open mics go well and I
feel confident in front of an audience, maybe I'll kind
of start to do more with six Minds.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, it was basically hand in hand, you know.
I I I had the idea for for the open mic. Yeah,
and then it was, you know, facilitating the equipment to
do that. Originally they were thinking about buying the stuff,
and I was then I I I had a conversation
with the person I was making music with at the time.
They wanted to go off and do a different project
and sat down with me and was like, hey, you know,
we've been making all this stuff together. He's like, I don't.
I don't expect anything out of it, you know, I don't.
I don't need to get paid. I don't need royalties
or anything like that. He's like, he's like, you take
this and do whatever you want with it.
Speaker 7: Do something with it.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, that's a great idea. I
should do something with it. And so I made that
decision that I was going to start working on music.
Then I met Eleanor and it just it just cascaded
from there, and but it kind of happened at the
same time, you know, I made that decision.
Speaker 7: After deciding.
Speaker 1: So it was so the open mic decision came first,
and then I decided to do the six Minds thing
well to start pushing it. Yeah, and then I was like, well,
I'm going to need equipment for this to do my performances.
So why don't I just get the equipment for the
open mic and then that'll start me right on my path,
right' I'll have no excuse not to move forward.
Speaker 2: There you go, There you go, exactly. Yeah, which is
a great way to motivate yourself, right, I put yourself
in a position where you got to do it.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I mean I spent I spent a few thousand
dollars on the on the performance equipment.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so once to spend that kind of money, yeah,
you gotta do it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: It's like, look looking at a big hole in my waile, like, well,
did I just shoot a hole in my pocket? Or
am I going to do something with this? And and uh,
it's been it's been so worth it. Yeah, you know, I've,
like I said, I've I've I've performed at least two
shows a month since I've started, so it's been over
a year now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and just pushing and pushing.
Speaker 1: I got the released the first album with the seven
songs last year September ish I think it was, and
then I have uh three three songs released singles since then.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: One I just released last last week or the week before.
It was very very recently. It just it just jumped
on the platforms a couple of days ago. Okay, okay, yeah,
so yeah the sixth Sonata. Yeah, have tongueswire.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were talking off air. I can't say I've
never been able to say anything with an x th
at the end sixth. I guess I can kind of
do it, but I have to slow it down, like
I can't say it fast. But I think a lot
of people are like that, Like if I say it fast,
I'm just gonna say the sixth Sonata. So I'm literally
just saying six. If I slaw it down, I can
do it the sixth Sonata. But even that, that sounds
very awkward. I sound like I'm listening. Yeah, that sounds
very awkward. But yeah, I've always had trouble with that.
But no, that's that's that's great. I'm curious too when
you started performing live, because you write, you write these songs.
You know, as we talked about a few minutes ago,
the lyrics are complex. And you know, something I've always
said to something that rappers never get enough credit for
is the memory skills needed for that. Because any rock song,
you know, unless it's something extremely wordy like I don't
know one week by Bare Naked Ladies, right, But but
almost any rock song, you know, it's pretty easy to
learn the words, right, you know, but but something like
especially like what you're doing, there's some pretty serious memory
skills involved there, right to remember all of that. Oh yeah,
Like when you started performing live, was that a challenge
at all?
Speaker 1: It was definitely and it still is now. You know,
I'm every every show if you pay close attention. I
don't want to say every show, but ye, but very
often you'll find that I'll pause for a couple of seconds. Yeah,
and that'll be me completely forgetting Oh no, yeah, yeah.
It happens more often than anybody notices, right, right, because
when you're right, when you're writing during the performance and
you just keep going, you know, uh, nobody Noticebody knows
unless they really really know the songs. My close friends
that come to every single show, they're like, they give
me the look like, oh you messed up. Yeah, but yes,
it's it's it's very very difficult to remember the lyrics.
I've always had memory issues ever since I was a
little kid. It's really hard for me to memorize things.
Speaker 10: So so.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I found that the easiest
way for me to remember something is have a jingle
to it. Okay, you know so, so no matter what
it was, you know, like if if I had.
Speaker 7: To remember.
Speaker 1: Two plus two is four, you know, things like that,
it just it made it so much easier for me
to retain interesting knowledge. Yeah, it's it's almost like like
a sound pattern, and I practice in order in order
to to can to remember them. I practice, I won't
say every single day, but pretty close to every day.
I listen to my music every day. Yeah, and I
try to perform them even whether I'm in my car
or at work. I try to perform them every time
I listen to them, and so so that helps.
Speaker 7: But I have to I do.
Speaker 1: I have to practice every every single day. Every couple
of days, if I have a show coming up, I'll
practice two or three times a day, just just to
to create the habit. And you know what's funny is
I actually find I'll be driving in my car, I'll
be I'll be playing the performance track so it doesn't
have all the words on it. Yeah, I'll be singing
along with it, and then I'll start daydreaming and I'll
start thinking about something else, and then I'll remember that
I was singing and I sang every single word. Because
it's it's become a habit net, right, So, so muscle memory,
vocal memory, and breathing memory. It's so it's so embedded
in my habits now that I can do it without
even thinking about it sometimes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and your memory has probably improved over time because
of what you're doing. I just saw it too, a study,
a little bit of a side street, but it does
relate to what we're talking about somewhat. Is about how
if you make creating music, whether even if you're just
practicing scales on a guitar or whatever you're doing, as
you get older, it actually helps to stave off things
like dementia and such.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yep that there's been studies that that prove that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's amazing. Another thing I do to to help myself
with my my alertness and quick thinking, and it really
helps for me waking up fully in the morning too.
I have the alarms on my phone. I have to
solve a math problem to turn off the alarm. Interesting,
So the first couple of weeks I did it, I
would wake up super groggy and I would get I
would get heated because I couldn't think straight enough to
do four plus sixteen.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 7: Wow, it wasn't computing.
Speaker 1: But after those first couple of weeks, it started getting
easier and easier and easier. And now years into it,
my alarm goes off. I'm instantly wide awake. Oh wow,
And I can solve complicated math problems.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 7: I can.
Speaker 1: I can make the decision to get up and do
my thing or go back to sleep and get a
little bit more sleep.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But but there's no like groggy wake up period now,
so I'm either asleep or I'm awake.
Speaker 2: Oh that's interesting.
Speaker 7: Wow, Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: It is, And I recommend it to people all the time. Yeah,
if you if you can, if you can deal with
it for that first part of it, because like I said,
like I was waking up and I was getting so mad, right,
But yeah, that that and and and the the the
trying to remember the songs practicing them all the time.
It's also that that is, uh, given me motivation to
do everythings. Like I'm really I'm really bad at remembering
people's names, So I do another vocal practice when I
meet somebody and they say their name, repeat it right away,
and then I try to repeat it one more time
so that I'm hearing it once and then saying it twice. Yeah,
and it's it's been helping, Yeah, but mostly with people
that I already know, Like Matt is an easy one
to remember because I know thirty thousand maths.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very common.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but yeah, it's uh, it is a memory.
It is a memory task, and I gotta constantly be
on top of it or or or off all behind.
I notice, like if I go three or four days
without practicing my songs, yeah, and I go to practice,
I'm stumbling over the like the first couple of words,
or I'm getting to the complicated part of the song, yeah,
and then like getting all tongue twisted.
Speaker 7: Yeah. So it's it's it's.
Speaker 1: Really and not only remembering the words, but being able
to say them in in in a speedy fashion, you know,
because and like the breathing and everything, I have to
I have to remember where all my breaths are. I
have to take them at exactly the same time, exactly
the same speed.
Speaker 2: Oh that's interesting, Okay, so you commit that to memory
as well, exactly where you're taking. Oh interesting, Okay.
Speaker 1: I do a lot of cadence change with with my
lyrics as well, so I have to memorize all that
as well.
Speaker 2: How long does it take you to like, after you've
written it and you're and then you have to learn it,
you have to to be able to perform it, Like,
how long does that take? I mean I must take
some time, right.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yep.
Speaker 1: So I'm I have a song completely written and I've
practiced it, you know, one hundred two hundred times before
I even perform it in front of somebody at an
open mic. Okay, yeah, so I'm And one thing I
like to do as well is I'll make the song. I'll,
I'll record it and then I'll listen to it and
I'll read the lyrics and and that that seems to
help train me to remember them. But then once I
get to the point where it's memorized, if I pull
out those lyrics, I just it messes me up stumbling
over it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So there's like there's like a period of time where
I have to stop with the note. So so I'll i'll,
I'll practice for a couple of weeks, I'll write the song,
practice for a couple of weeks, I'll record it and
then and then, like I said, I'll sing along with
it and then and then I just have to put
the notebook aside and try to remember the lyrics as
I'm going, and then, like if I get stuck at
a point, you pull it out real quick, look at it.
Speaker 7: And then I tend to my my mind tends to
create like patterns.
Speaker 1: So if you if you asked me to sing any
part of my song right now, like like even the
start of a verse, if I didn't start at the beginning, okay,
I'll have a hard time remembering. I have to start
from the beginning of the song and then sing through
it like ABC's you know.
Speaker 2: If you don't start from the beginning, it's hard to
just pick up in the middle of the alphabet and
got right, yes.
Speaker 7: Exactly, yep, yep, yep. So it's like that with my lyrics. Yeah, oh,
what did you say?
Speaker 1: You're on your third verse in in halfway through you
talked about this, this, this, I I have to think
about it and I have to go, what did I
talk about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then and then reread it and then remember what
the what the metaphor meant? To me at the time,
or or or what I was trying to portray with
the with the the selection of words that I use.
Speaker 7: Yeap, yeah, yeah, so it is.
Speaker 2: That makes sense. That makes sense if you're just joining us,
we're talking with six Minds Combined. Give you your real name?
Of course is Rike Everheart. Where does the name six
Minds Combined come from?
Speaker 7: So that was that was the story.
Speaker 1: You know, so way back in the day when I
first started making music, I started when I was eighteen.
I listened to eminem second album and and lost my mind.
I was like this, this, this thirty year old white
dude from Detroit can do this. I was like, I'll
give it a try. So I tried it, and you know,
and now we're here today. But repeat the question real quick.
Speaker 2: Well the name where where does the name?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: So, so I started out, I was like, oh, well,
what kind of name can I use? And I was
super into ICP at the time. Okay, and the whole
Psychopathic Records thing, so so, and I really liked the
I'm gonna give you one of the names.
Speaker 8: It was.
Speaker 1: So the first name I picked was Psycho Dragon. I
really like the the aspect of the dragon, the powerful,
you know, like the mythological power behind it. Yeah, and
then and now I'm a little psycho, you know, And
I was listening to that that, you know, like crazy
killing Spree, all sorts of awesome, great, great music. But
it's all for fun, you know, of course. And so
that was a way for me to get all my
aggressions out without doing things actually aggressive.
Speaker 7: I can.
Speaker 1: I can put my thoughts and my feelings and way
over exaggerate them and then put them into a song
and have fun with it. So I realized in while
I was making that music that that's not all I
wanted to do. I wanted to make other kinds of music.
And I was like, the name psycho dragon doesn't really
work with all the stuff that I'm doing. So so
I've had a couple of nicknames given to me people
from people over the years. So so I pulled one
of those nicknames in and I was like, oh, this
can be this can be like the the younger, happier,
funnier version of me.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 1: And then it just it just went from there, you know,
And and eventually it became six different characters that I've
created based on certain aspects of my personality and and
and what I want to put out there. And the
the really fun thing with this is I'm pushing this
style and the type of music that I'm making. Now
this is it's not all I make. I'm all over
the board. And eventually, you know, those other characters are
going to start popping up and the fans will get
to see other sides of of the whole Six Minds combined.
A universe really will put it there. So so I
don't wanna. I don't want to say like I'm biting
off of I c. P. And there's six Jokers cards
or anything like that, but but that that sparked the
idea it's not Six Minds combined because of the Six
Jokers cards, that it's not related. It just I just
happened to come up with the six different names and
actually went with Schizo for a little while, you know,
like schizophrenic schitzo. I was like, that's easier than trying
to tell everybody all my names. And oh, because my
friend that I was working at the time, Lunchbox, He's like,
I'm sick of trying to remember all these names, dude,
I'm just going to call you schizo. But at the
time there was somebody else that was going by that
same name.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's the exact thought I had when he
said that. It's like somebody else is already probably usn't
it anyway? I mean, it's too obviously exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: So I had Actually I wrote a song and I
was I was singing through the lyrics, and in the
lyrics it said with these six minds combined, and it
clicked right there. So I wrote the name before I
ever even decided that that was going to be my
new name. Interesting, and then and then it all just
it all just fell together, you know, like the whole
six MC thing, six minds combined. But then I'm an
m C and oh yeah, yeah, So it's so it's
all you know, it's I love multiple meanings, yes, multiple
layer meanings of things, and I do that a lot
with my lyrics to they they call them like double
entendres or whatever. You take in the same word and
you're using two different meanings, but you're putting it together
and it sounds it sounds good together, it sounds smooth.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The great thing about it my name like six minds combined,
as as opposed to something like schizo is. You know,
the the chances are are probably infinitesimally small that you're
gonna come across somebody else who says, hey, I've already
got that name six minds combined, you.
Speaker 1: Know exactly nobody, nobody has that name. Yeah, and I
actually I get complimented on it all the time. They're like, wow,
that is that's a really interesting name. How'd you come
up with it? Yeah, you know, and and it's it's
it's so great to say that, like it just came
up with itself, you know, like I didn't choose that name.
Speaker 7: It chose me, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's it's really like one of those serendipitous things
that you know, it was it was if you believe
in fate or whatever, it was meant to be. Everything
just just kind of happened the way it did, you know.
And uh, the same thing with the music doing something
with it.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 1: I met Eleanor at the perfect time when I was
ready to do this, and and she was like I
need to do this with you, you know, and it's
we've we've we've got a great partnership. She often asks me,
are you getting your money's worth?
Speaker 7: Because I pay.
Speaker 1: I pay a subscription to to New Hampshire Underground for
the services, and I definitely at this moment I pay
in more then I get financially out of it. Like
I don't book enough shows to to get paid enough
to cover that. But but that's the immediate go. You're building, right,
You're building a career. And and you know, once I,
once I get past that that thing where I'm where
I'm getting paid for every show as opposed to doing
free shows often because I tend to do a lot
of free shows, Yeah, then that'll pay for itself.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 1: I spend one hundred and sixty bucks a month for
the the VIP membership, and I get I get a
weekly meetings. We meet for an hour or two hour,
three hours. Sometimes we go over our plans, our goals.
We we decide, you know, what's the next step we
want to take. And and then while we're doing all
that stuff, she's she's reaching out and she's booking me shows.
And like I said, I've done two shows a month
if not more since I started working with her. And
and I've gotten so much exposure. I've met so many,
so many other artists and and uh, it's just it's
it's like a steady wave, dude. It keeps growing and
growing and that's excellent. So I'm I'm leaps and bounds
farther than I expected to be a year into into
this career. And if it keeps going the way it's going,
I'm gonna be You're gonna be fighting with with with
like uh like Fox News on who's on Who's going
to interview six? But h But it's like I said,
it's all about the community. It's all about you know,
bringing the people that we we have in our circle
up with us. You know, if if I make it,
I'm not the only one making it. It's it's everybody
who's had a part in in this in my life.
And you know, it's it's and you notice I do
that all the time. I'm always plugging my friends. Yeah,
So it's it's, uh, it's an experience and going places excellent.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, let's play another track. We're gonna play let's see
intense intense. Yeah, this is good, This is good.
Speaker 7: I actually I got something to say about this.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: My sister who lives in Wisconsin, she wanted to do
a song with me. Yeah, she's she's my younger, younger sister.
I was twelve years old when she was born, and
I was really into music throughout most of my adolescents
and everything. So she kind of picked that up from me,
and she really really got into like chorus and singing
and everything like that. And she I think she's a
in a professional chorus right now, Oh okay, and she's
I forgot how. It's like twenty four to twenty five.
Speaker 7: Something like that.
Speaker 2: Okay, but she.
Speaker 1: Actually she might be older than that now I don't know. Anyways,
she is featured on this now song.
Speaker 2: Oh nice, all right, check this out. This is six
minds combined and the track is intense.
Speaker 1: What I'm well aware, I'm barely there. I'm scared, but
I can't be the bearer fairly wearing you about what
I'm sharing, which there went back into the past to
the facts that I've been trying to change elected truth
is this on this but you won't see me, but
I won't see the danger change yourself, which if appears
and sees this stuff before religious here. I need to
be the fearless, be the leader that the experience they
bring us into the future, futures fading into memory. My
enemies are me believing I'm just sleeping. Dreams are within reach,
but reaching that will mean no, that will be the reason.
But the seam that's bringing these unseemly demons to the
fraik and change it faith. This made the state of
state the stakes a verson, no decision made, but it's
a given.
Speaker 5: T consensus. Answering my questions, You just claiming the same thing, perfection,
breaking waves in great lakes and break into.
Speaker 1: Change nothing guys and racing sailing new seas to please
the senses.
Speaker 5: Soon we too may be doomed to trenches. So we
do what we do to wend this head This violence,
it's senseless.
Speaker 4: Why can't wait? Just read those to change it?
Speaker 1: Intensify the estify the lens to find defense against the
sensitive that sentence, the sentences insensitive to what they need
their supper bring that suffocate those best to ring and downing,
crownding up the rabbl grappling with how to get a
gripping This existence in this instant it's assistanced by your
sisters and our brothers, holding us up by the courts,
connected enough, select enough to maybe start erecting collective bove
E collected clubs invested in the next above.
Speaker 5: We're gonna make the world a better place. We're not
a waste of time.
Speaker 4: We're gonna make gold the better place. We'll not a
waste of time.
Speaker 10: Take insenses, answering my questions, and you just streaming the
same thing.
Speaker 8: Perfection makes waves and great lakes and breaking you chains,
offing gas and racing, sailing new seas too.
Speaker 5: Please. The sense is soon we too. It may be
June to trenches.
Speaker 4: So we do we do to wend this and this violence?
Speaker 3: It sends this.
Speaker 4: Why can't we just be the ones June change?
Speaker 2: I love it. That is intense six minds combined with
his sister very cool. That is so cool. Yeah, I
love that track.
Speaker 4: Hey by the Way too.
Speaker 2: Something I wanted to ask you and almost frolling about
this and then but I was singing about it the
other night when I was listening to these Are you
a fan of Nate Dog? Yes, yea, because sometimes when
you're singing, when you're not rapping but you're doing more singing,
remind me of him his case, because he had a
unique way of singing. So for people who don't remember
Nate Dog, because I think he's passed away, I think
a while ago. Maybe I don't know, but they're like
like in the nineties and early two thousands, he would
he would sing the hook on a lot of hip
hop songs, a lot of big hip hop songs. So
even if you don't know who Nate Dog is, if
you're a fan of hip hop at all, trust me
you've heard him. He's on a lot of those tracks.
And uh, but your your cadence when you sing reminds
me of him.
Speaker 7: That's cool. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, your voice isn't as deep as his, because
nobody's voice was as deep as as But yeah, I
was thinking about that the other night. Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely.
So you know, the time does go quickly, and we
do have one more track to play in a couple
of minutes. But I want to make sure too that
everybody knows, well, first of all, when's your next show?
Speaker 1: So my next show is going to be in downtown
Nashua during the Winter Stroll. Okay, I am taking over
Poties Restaurant. Okay, and I think that time slot is
five forty five to nine.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I was gonna be performing with a couple other acts,
but uh, they they backed out for some reason or
they couldn't make it or whatever. So so I was
asked by the director h executive, the director of the
the Winter Stroll, yeah if I could fill the time,
and I was like, yeah, I'll figure it out. So
so I'm gonna, I'm gonna get a couple other artists
and I'm gonna we're gonna, we're gonna be there at
uh at the Winter Stroll excellent at photies from five
forty five till nine.
Speaker 2: Okay, and w when when is that again?
Speaker 7: That is November twenty ninth.
Speaker 2: November twenty ninth, okay, yeah, excellent, excellent, And uh oh
you should remind people too about the open mic because
that happens every week, right.
Speaker 1: Uh no, it's once a month, once a month, yes, sorry,
one once a month a positive street art Okay. I
usually try to post something about it, but yeah, usually
the the middle of the month on a Friday. Yeah,
from six to nine pm. I'm really looking for for
audience for for and for uh So, if if you
do perform things, yes, I would love to have you,
but I also want your friends, yes, and your family
and everything, and you know, bring everybody. It's it's it's
really laid back experience. You know, there's no pressure. You know,
I make mistakes all the time, and that's that's the
best place to do it because because you're there with
your friends exactly, you know, and and and and everybody
is going to make mistakes, and and that's how we learn,
that's how we grow exactly.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I I would really love for for anybody, uh
any age. You know, it's an all ages thing. So
and we we try to be uh age appropriate with
with our content as well. So yeah, so if you
if you are a gangster rapper and you're talking about
killing people and all that kind of stuff, let's let's
leave those those songs at home and we'll bring the
family friendly songs. But yeah, yeah, so Positive Street Art
forty eight Bridge Street, third floor. Once a month we
do we do the open mic there. It's called vicas Fox.
Speaker 2: Okay, very good, very good. And where should people go
to find out more about about you? About six minds combined?
Where's the best place to go?
Speaker 1: You can hit up Facebook, you can hit up Instagram.
I have an Instagram, I have my music is on
all the platforms. I go through the distributor CD Baby
and so there's over two hundred platforms that they uploaded to.
Speaker 7: You can use my music on reels, on tiktoks, on
Facebook reels.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so excellent, excellent, what else? What else?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I have a six Minds combined Facebook, but I also
have a Rick everheard Facebook?
Speaker 2: Okay, and.
Speaker 1: You can follow both of them. You can follow them.
Reach out to me, you know, talk to me. I
love I love collaborating with people. If if somebody would
like to do some work with me or book me,
they can contact eleanor Luna at New Hampshire Underground.
Speaker 2: Yep, New Hampshire Underground dot org. This is the website. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
and also too, you know, if you're a musician, obviously
a lot of people, a lot of musicians, a lot
of people in the industry listen to the show. Yeah,
check out New Hampshire Underground yep.
Speaker 1: Oh definitely, yeah, absolutely, they're yeah, they're they're pushing great
bands all the time. They have they have a venue
called Terminus.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Terminus.
Speaker 1: It's it's so great and they're expanding their their space
this coming year. So so yeah, yeah, Jack, definitely check
out New Hampshire Underground. Check out Terminous. Yeah, and uh,
and you can find me everywhere.
Speaker 2: So yeah, absolutely, your name is very googleable. Six mind
is combined, which is like we talked about earlier, it's
important to have a name like that.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 2: Very good, very good. Well, thank you so much in
a moment. So we're gonna play this track flow with
who I Am?
Speaker 7: Who I Am?
Speaker 2: Friend lazy, Yeah, what can you tell us about this collaboration?
Speaker 1: So I actually I made the song. I wrote the
song and there was some open spots in it, and
I was thinking. I was like, I was like, who
would sound the best in these places?
Speaker 7: It just it just hit me.
Speaker 1: I was like I was at a show or something
listening to to Lacey perform ye, and I was like,
just the sound in the groove, it would just sound
so good in the song flow.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so I I hit her up and she she
jumped on it. She's like, yeah, I'll have some I
have some keys for you and all some lyrics. Within
days she came back with with with that, and then
we hooked up. She she came over. I recorded her
stuff on my my home studio and then and then
brought it to mister Goodbars at Toy Box Studios and
and he worked as magic and excellent and uh and
we created we created Flow.
Speaker 7: Yeah, who I Am?
Speaker 2: Love it, love it. So we will end the segment
with this. But if you are listening live on Saturday,
stick around. We've got plenty more show to come. Jamie
Higgs is going to be joining us at the top
of the hour. Uh, and we're gonna be talking with
with him, and uh. We we've got a We've got
a lot of a lot a lot to the show today,
so stick around. But we're gonna end this hour with
this again. This is Flow. This says six Minds combined
featuring Who I Am. I love this a lot and Reck.
Thank you again so much, Thanks so much for having me.
Man absolutely.
Speaker 5: Breaking down my mood, faith to crowd round, my food
in place found in my home. I'm getting stones so
I can.
Speaker 1: Breathe, so I can see you around the smoke. I
focus on the best and let the world flow. Sometimes
I feel like I'm waiting for life, kneeling, freaking patience
poll inside my mind is breaking, my it's waning, fading greatness.
Speaker 10: Mistakes were made, chances a wasted.
Speaker 5: Has sticks were.
Speaker 10: Wasted, chances clay Man, Oh, the game was staged I
had to play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hope's worth the pain. You might have to waigh yet, Yeah, we.
Speaker 11: Flow through life through strife, through pain, We go through
thinking we can fight the rain in spite. The rain
washes all away, the water streams down the street and
into the drain. But where does it go from there?
And where do we go from here?
Speaker 5: And who is it that will care if we become
something unclear?
Speaker 1: Who is really on the sad when the tram comes,
when our arm comes to.
Speaker 5: The end, who will send it with us?
Speaker 12: Sinner, she's flowing, They're showing us there, and Dean is
growing with no lights to fight back the darkness and
golfing us whole as the bricks stack these.
Speaker 5: Walls that we built with no seals for the knickknacks.
Speaker 13: Sit back, listen to the sick track with the metal
kid knap the sinners out, you give back, don't let
them without you beIN met them with that bird trap,
that power flowing in attack, the metal bit of cake
back a kid that.
Speaker 1: Look inside and try to see the lab with Pinner's
like a seed that Biden's up and the right's the
tough enough to take the lead. I agree to believe
that we can be the greatest team. The way the
seams all tighter, dreams of feats.
Speaker 5: Compete with master Jeep, that we fall.
Speaker 1: The deeper creeping sneaks inside your mind, depleting yourself worth,
increasing fortunes for the fearless.
Speaker 5: Be fearless, steer us towards a more conclusive future. Suit
you up like melan haa haa than the.
Speaker 1: Double no Hell's kitchen, dismissing paths, the fact that violence
the active side, thats won't stall the tyrants, won't halt
the virus behind the eyelids. Try this for the side,
the difference assistance between the sides. For instance, your instinct
sorts always in synct's distinct, thinking like and they this link,
don't sink to depths that.
Speaker 5: Tests the break, don't drink they're COOLID.
Speaker 1: But with the deep dist think but whether the deep
distinct don't drink they're cool aid, But with the dentist think, well,
whether the distink you are.
Speaker 4: Let's take a lot with success.
Speaker 1: Coming up with nothing, I aim to become something, telling
myself I'm not enough, just take what c Z coming.
Speaker 5: But nothing was easy coming.
Speaker 1: I had to work to just be someone getting vibe
by dealing pies and dreaming out the dungeons. Bleeding of
my thumbs when I should be pumping and elbows draining up.
My funds went up nothing but a swelled nose from
walking into walls that stole in.
Speaker 5: So my dead grows, my bank rolls non existent. I
almost just let go. My chest throws.
Speaker 1: I couldn't breathe. I needed to run, I needed to flee.
I needed to see my family. I needed to be
disseminately immediately, I ceased to be, and we became what
you all see, six minds alike but not just right,
combined eternal lead. We won the fight by changing the rules.
The duels become a draw. We own the night by
being the light, the brightest of them all.
Speaker 5: If we scream.
Speaker 1: Aloud the strawbell failed, we can be that piece of straw.
The camel begs us for a break. Who are reached
and either call.
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 2: You came to fire?
Speaker 4: Do you hear you? Get me? Go ahead, said yourself
free