Speaker 1: The blood swear great, but you hit them high.
Speaker 2: Notes like you would tell them.
Speaker 3: It's a yeah, that's by just to take you.
Speaker 1: Won't it won't it won't it. Let me hold.
Speaker 2: You bad bad, Yeah, you're really driving me crazy crazy day.
Speaker 2: Let the baby bade it.
Speaker 1: Be caref you're basic right around the spirt must say this.
Speaker 4: If you're in the.
Speaker 1: Most section, you would say, it's just one time that the.
Speaker 3: Lady kay Bark is back on the cruise.
Speaker 1: Hold on.
Speaker 4: Intro DJ fuse for that's crazy, right, DJ fuse Hell yeah,
Speaker 4: nah man, you.
Speaker 3: Know that that shows the research that goes into fat.
Speaker 1: That was a good variety of the catalog.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, where's abandoned?
Speaker 5: Broad So when you look back, right, can you watch
Speaker 5: the video?
Speaker 3: Can you listen back to.
Speaker 1: Abandon I mean I don't enjoy it, you know, because
Speaker 1: that was when I first started my sole artist entry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was my entry and those are like the first
Speaker 1: songs I ever wrote, so you know, obviously I hadn't
Speaker 1: honed my craft yet yet. So like when I look
Speaker 1: back at it now, like fourteen years later, I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm at a much better space. So when I
Speaker 1: listened back, I'm like that's a little cringe, but you know,
Speaker 1: obviously it's part of the journey, right, part of the.
Speaker 5: Journey, the beginning of the journey, somewhere somewhat right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: and you were trying to find your voice, your look,
Speaker 5: your haircut, all of it was trying to be found,
Speaker 5: and you were seeking for it and you found him. Yeah,
Speaker 5: facts fast, yes, sir, man, congratulations, So when you want
Speaker 5: it is officially out.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: Let's go been out man, It's fire.
Speaker 1: Many appreciate it, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: We got ty dollar sign on that on that may day.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, Yes, sir, that's going off. No, for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of great features. Uh. It took
Speaker 1: around seven years to release it, just because I was
Speaker 1: doing so many other things, you know, and then so
Speaker 1: much yeah yeah, you know, you know, because I founded
Speaker 1: more companies and then you know, was releasing other projects,
Speaker 1: and so the R and B album I had to
Speaker 1: kind of put to the sideline. So I'm glad it's
Speaker 1: finally after like seven years.
Speaker 3: Yeah for sure. You got yg on there as well, yes, sir, Yeah,
Speaker 3: plows on.
Speaker 1: There, yeah, yes, sir, yeah man as well. Put together man,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Any songs twenty songs, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: and songs why twenty. It's just all the R and
Speaker 1: B singles that I've been putting out, and then even
Speaker 1: even the song with the Pilo and Ygs produced by
Speaker 1: Scott Storch today and we did that session like in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: Wow, yeah, yoh, so you had it.
Speaker 1: I just been yeah, holding on to stuff and then
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, and so I just you know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of like I just worked on a lot of songs
Speaker 1: and then whatever kind of made sense for an RB album,
Speaker 1: I just kind of, you know, put it on there.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 5: I was listening back to BRO, and I realized how
Speaker 5: much I missed it is the Road Less Traveled.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah fuck not a lot of not a
Speaker 1: lot of people know that album.
Speaker 3: That was crazy.
Speaker 5: Oh thank you man, appreciate Like hell, that must have
Speaker 5: been a crazier process, I'm assuming.
Speaker 3: Or for you. I feel like, I mean there was
Speaker 3: some bars in there, no for sure, for.
Speaker 1: Sure, and I like, you know, doing that and it's
Speaker 1: that was more like a passion project just because you know,
Speaker 1: since I started my my music career in Korea, but
Speaker 1: I'm from Seattle, so I always wanted to tap back
Speaker 1: into the locals like Seattle scenes, and so I had
Speaker 1: a bunch of Seattle artists on there, work with a
Speaker 1: bunch of Seattle you know, producers. So it was cool
Speaker 1: to kind of, you know, make that happen and so
Speaker 1: and that that's when I was, I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: it's different, like you know, even this project in that
Speaker 1: project is very different, like sonically, Yeah, yeah, so I
Speaker 1: have to have to go what range you have, man? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I have to kind of put myself into like
Speaker 1: a different mode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those are those those are different zones.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 3: Man. I like, I like, give me a minute as.
Speaker 1: Well, bro, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: The new project, talk to me about that?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So I was working on a Is that
Speaker 1: a song you already had as well?
Speaker 3: No? No, no.
Speaker 1: So I went to Japan to work with so I
Speaker 1: wanted to put out a Japanese project like that where
Speaker 1: I'm speaking of only Japanese singing and Japanese just because
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people in Korea they cross
Speaker 1: over to Japan and I've never done it before, so
Speaker 1: since it's so close. And then also like I performed
Speaker 1: there and I saw that a lot of people they
Speaker 1: you know, do you can you cuss on this?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Also, they focus my music. So I'm like, okay, you know,
Speaker 1: I should do something in Japan. And so I went
Speaker 1: to Japan and just work with a bunch of songwriters
Speaker 1: and producers in Japan and just did a song camp
Speaker 1: out there and then they give me a minute track
Speaker 1: is a Japanese producers named Zen. But you know, I
Speaker 1: was like, how we did the process was I would
Speaker 1: write the song and have the songs in English, and
Speaker 1: then they would write the lyrics in Japanese and do
Speaker 1: the guide in Japanese and then they would direct vocal
Speaker 1: direct my pronunciation and stuff like that. And so I
Speaker 1: made the song for the Japanese project. But then I
Speaker 1: was like yo, like and and you know, all did lyrics,
Speaker 1: I wrote. Everything was just kind of demo. But I
Speaker 1: was like, this is kind of fire.
Speaker 3: I was like, yo, I'm just.
Speaker 1: Gonna take this for the project. And so that's that's
Speaker 1: kind of how that happened.
Speaker 3: Hapened.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, you're just kind of having fun, you know,
Speaker 5: it's kind of a shell of what it could be
Speaker 5: or what it should be, and then out of nowhere,
Speaker 5: it's like, no, this is it?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's that's kind of how it happened.
Speaker 4: That's so good is that process, like I did, it
Speaker 4: add an excitement back into the creative process because it's
Speaker 4: like an extra step. It's it's it's you know, because
Speaker 4: sometimes I think things can get repetitive. But definitely that
Speaker 4: seems like it's something that like, oh shit.
Speaker 1: No, for sure, one hundred percent. For me. You know,
Speaker 1: it's since I'm not only an artist, since I am
Speaker 1: like the CEO of the labels war, I have to
Speaker 1: look like look at the numbers. So for me, it's
Speaker 1: like this started as a passion and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: something very pure and then but you know when you
Speaker 1: when you get business involved, it always kind of defined
Speaker 1: that balance is always hard, right, So and I've been
Speaker 1: doing it. I've put out such a lot. I've put
Speaker 1: out so much music in the past ten for like
Speaker 1: ten to fifteen years, and I've just been kind of
Speaker 1: like kind of like sick of it, right, And so
Speaker 1: I always appreciate when I get that that fire, that passion,
Speaker 1: like that period of the spark. And that's why I
Speaker 1: love working with Chacha I, like, you know, my homie
Speaker 1: from Seattle is because we still have that like it
Speaker 1: gives me that that feeling right, and instead of like
Speaker 1: trying to work with all these producers that are trying
Speaker 1: to you know that have have billboard number ones and work,
Speaker 1: it's the the who's who. Like, instead of chasing that,
Speaker 1: I'm like, like, let me just do what feels good.
Speaker 6: And it almost inspires you again too.
Speaker 1: It does? It does? It keeps me motivated for sure,
Speaker 1: reignites that flame. Yeah, yes, sir.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: So if I can ask Jay Park, like, why come
Speaker 5: back to the cruise show? Why real ninety two three
Speaker 5: Los Angeles?
Speaker 1: I don't know. You just said good, good vibe, familiar.
Speaker 4: Quote, the one you wanted in the book, the magazine,
Speaker 4: the album yea three cruise shows. I mean.
Speaker 3: Were saying that small touch, of course tells you what
Speaker 3: to say and how to spell it in Spanish.
Speaker 1: Remember one of my best friends in Mexican junior Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah last time. Yeah, he was with me last time.
Speaker 1: He was about to pull up this time, but he
Speaker 1: couldn't because of some fans. Good for sure.
Speaker 3: Were you guys breaking together? Were you guys break dancing together?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, so even the the Cha Cha who made
Speaker 1: may Day, So we were all on the same break
Speaker 1: dancing crew called the Movement.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so when you hear that the Olympics are not
Speaker 5: returning not returning to Olympics, Yeah, how do you feel
Speaker 5: about that?
Speaker 3: As a boy?
Speaker 1: It's unfortunate just because you know, breaking and hip hop
Speaker 1: started in the United States, so it's like, how you're
Speaker 1: not going to have breaking in the Olympics when it's
Speaker 1: in l A, right. Yeah, yeah, so it's unfortunate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate. Gun Yeah, yeah, I knew people are gonna
Speaker 1: blame it. I don't I don't think it's because I mean, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: she actually brought a lot of eyes to break all
Speaker 1: because they're like, yo, if this is not a good example,
Speaker 1: what's a good example.
Speaker 6: So some ofose random place that you and your crew
Speaker 6: have danced that in Seattle.
Speaker 1: We used to just take like linoleum around and then
Speaker 1: you know by the doc or like by the the
Speaker 1: restaurant that they used to work at. Now now they
Speaker 1: own their own family restaurant, but they used to work
Speaker 1: at a restaurant I forgot what I think it's called,
Speaker 1: like green Waters, like Luna or something like that. But
Speaker 1: we used to break downs on the side of there too,
Speaker 1: and just anywhere, like by the bus stop, because you
Speaker 1: know when you carry on lineoleum basically breaking anywhere.
Speaker 3: There's a battle anywhere, you know what I mean. Have
Speaker 3: you found any good Korean barbecue out in LA of course?
Speaker 1: I mean the Korean food in Ktown is fire. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. We were just in Ktown yesterday.
Speaker 3: What spot do you recommend?
Speaker 1: I like, I like Parks Barbecue. Yeah, that place is legendary.
Speaker 3: Yeah. They even had it for a while.
Speaker 6: I think they were in a Dodger stadium for a
Speaker 6: whole season.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Wow, that's major right now, new tattoos since you see.
Speaker 1: I don't think so no, no, no, no, when.
Speaker 3: You go on TV and Korea, you got to cover it.
Speaker 1: I do, I do.
Speaker 3: It's just what is it like again the longer.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, so, I mean back in the eighties and
Speaker 1: just you know, earlier times the only people that had
Speaker 1: tattoos were like my fear or gangster related. But now
Speaker 1: it's more of a you know, expression type thing and
Speaker 1: so but still like on TV, there's still a lot
Speaker 1: of I guess, like you know, just yeah, older people
Speaker 1: that are part of the censorship, so they don't like it.
Speaker 1: So but for me, I'm like, it's a hassle just
Speaker 1: because I'm very blessed to still be able to go
Speaker 1: on TV and host TV shows and do that. But
Speaker 1: every time I do have to stick your here stick
Speaker 1: you here, stick your here sticker here. But yeah, for me,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, I'm just glad like they still use me.
Speaker 1: I'm like, how long is that process?
Speaker 3: Cover up?
Speaker 1: It's not too I mean it's just a long yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's just it just hurts when you take it off,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I mean, your skin gets irritated.
Speaker 1: But for me, I'm just like, I'm probably like the
Speaker 1: most tatted dude that's like on mainstream TV all the time.
Speaker 1: So I when I look back at it now that
Speaker 1: I'm a little older, I'm like, I'm very appreciative that
Speaker 1: I can still do the ship say yeah, yeah, fact facts.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, thank you for letting me endorse your
Speaker 1: brand or you know, your clothing. Shoutouts to who you
Speaker 1: are as well.
Speaker 3: No, for sure the merch man.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so we had uh we should have brought
Speaker 1: you guys some merch there's fire off the Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we should have. No for sure, no, no, for sure,
Speaker 1: we got to do that. We'll cover international ship to No. No,
Speaker 1: we we got to send you guys for sure.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we just give the merch, will give you
Speaker 3: the address one.
Speaker 1: Hundred percent of good exchange. No, but we work with
Speaker 1: this this brand, and the director is and the guy
Speaker 1: who started the brand, his name is Vandy. He's a
Speaker 1: creative American guy from Virginia. So Vandy the pink is
Speaker 1: the brand, and we collapsed on the merch. So he's
Speaker 1: one of the hoodie over there. I'm one of the
Speaker 1: hat Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, sir, yes, sir, Yeah, man, dope, yo, may
Speaker 5: day we tied dollar sign. Let's get back to it, sir.
Speaker 5: Is that a is that a studio session? Working out here?
Speaker 1: So I made the song with during COVID time and
Speaker 1: then yeah, we were looking for you know, a feature
Speaker 1: and then Pro from Forest Movement he knew someone from
Speaker 1: their their camp. Yeah yeah, and so he linked us,
Speaker 1: he linked us up and then yeah, like you know,
Speaker 1: tied out a sign with a song and then uh,
Speaker 1: we're like, yo, let's let's get it, you know. And
Speaker 1: so so it wasn't a session, but we're shooting the
Speaker 1: music video tomorrow. So yeah, yeah out here out here.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right. Yeah, so, I mean that's that's one
Speaker 1: of the main purposes I'm out here because the Cruse
Speaker 1: Show and then shoo always working bro, Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 3: You're always working something we got, we got.
Speaker 1: I mean our company isn't the biggest, but we have
Speaker 1: around forty employees, a lot of mouths to feed.
Speaker 4: That was nobody well yeah, I mean they're selling the
Speaker 4: company at one point, you know. But you know, I
Speaker 4: think he wanted to do this to be able to
Speaker 4: exist outside of the artist that you know as Jay
Speaker 4: parkrect hundred percent.
Speaker 1: And you know we're working on so AMG high music
Speaker 1: was mostly R and B hip hop based, all just
Speaker 1: artists that bring their own music and we help them
Speaker 1: package it and you know, develop their careers like that.
Speaker 1: And now with more vision, we're working on we have
Speaker 1: Changa the female solo K pop artists, great artist to
Speaker 1: dope performer. And then we're we're working on producing K
Speaker 1: pop group. So we have a guide group and a
Speaker 1: girl group wow in development right now.
Speaker 3: So how about an L pop group, like a Latino
Speaker 3: pop group.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, shit, I think you've been uh trying
Speaker 5: to manifest or at least work towards doing a Spanish record.
Speaker 1: I know, I definitely need to do that because I've
Speaker 1: never so throughout my sixteen seventeen year career, I've never
Speaker 1: performed in Latin Americerica.
Speaker 3: Never. Yeah, so they go crazy because you understand, you
Speaker 3: have Latino fans.
Speaker 1: Hundred percent, hundred percent, and you know, uh, there's something
Speaker 1: about the spanishanguage. It just sounds fucking just fire everything.
Speaker 1: And then it just it sounds poetic, That's what it is.
Speaker 1: And then the the groove and the rhythms and the
Speaker 1: you know, the bounce that they have out there. For sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we tapped into like Chino Podkas and and man yo,
Speaker 5: I know you want to you know, have you contacted
Speaker 5: Anita Anita?
Speaker 3: I know she's on the bucket list.
Speaker 1: Oh, for sure, Funk record. You know what I'm saying
Speaker 1: that Brazilian funk would be crazy.
Speaker 3: The rhythm.
Speaker 4: I love Brazilian funk, A lot of atracts that's in. Say,
Speaker 4: though you haven't performed Latin America.
Speaker 1: No, So next year I'm going on tour first time
Speaker 1: in six years, and so I plan on hitting up
Speaker 1: Latin America for the first time ever.
Speaker 4: You know, Let like, what's up, bro, come on, what
Speaker 4: we're doing is recommendations facts Mexico City, you can do.
Speaker 4: You can get the little little palooza run that they're
Speaker 4: doing South America, which is always in Os they do
Speaker 4: it and I think Santiago, Chile.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it might be a great festival for you
Speaker 3: to perform.
Speaker 1: Esmianel just very small. So I learned Spanish as like
Speaker 1: the second language in high school. So my pronunciation is
Speaker 1: so I could get it down right if I just
Speaker 1: practice it. But I definitely want to, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I definitely should learn. So I want to learn Chinese,
Speaker 1: Japanese and Spanish.
Speaker 5: Would be a six song, you know, faith, why why
Speaker 5: would that be?
Speaker 3: Both of you guys?
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I know we want to connect with J Balvin.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's crazy right there. That could happen.
Speaker 3: There's numbers there, no for.
Speaker 1: Sure, and and you know, for me it's I never
Speaker 1: want anything to be forced. So for me, you know,
Speaker 1: it's obviously impact in numbers and all that is definitely important,
Speaker 1: But for me, I'm just like you know, I was
Speaker 1: any culture I dive into or any artists I work with,
Speaker 1: I try to make sure that it's you know, ye
Speaker 1: most respectful of all and then that it's synergy on
Speaker 1: both sides, you.
Speaker 4: Know, So who does the approaching in that scenario, like,
Speaker 4: I mean you would be them? Like how how would
Speaker 4: something be as organic as possible, like you guys run
Speaker 4: into each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah for one hundred percent or for me, uh,
Speaker 1: you know. And I'm always very hesitant on when I
Speaker 1: see people like yo, let's work on something, you know,
Speaker 1: because I don't know, like I don't know like where
Speaker 1: they are in life, I don't know, you know, if
Speaker 1: it's disrespectful or not. So I always just if there's
Speaker 1: somebody that is of you know, we know mutually that
Speaker 1: they can kind of set it up to kind of
Speaker 1: do it a little bit more natural organically. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: down for that. Or if I have like a song
Speaker 1: that I want to do, like yo, I want to
Speaker 1: do a song in Spanish and I have a record,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Yo, let's try to get somebody on there
Speaker 1: and then we can pitch it to people. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it just depends, yo.
Speaker 5: What's like when it comes to like an R and
Speaker 5: B song, what's the ship? What's that song for you?
Speaker 1: Oh? Ship? I mean? So I was, I was, I
Speaker 1: was a huge fan of Usher, so he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously there's no artist to live that wasn't
Speaker 1: you know, influencer inspired by Michael Jackson. But for me,
Speaker 1: Usher was like the biggest influence for me. Like I
Speaker 1: bought his concert tapes. I ordered a fake you chain
Speaker 1: on e Bay, like the eight dollars like Fay I
Speaker 1: was spending that ship. You got it, you got it.
Speaker 1: I was like yeah, yeah, yeah, facts, so Usher for sure,
Speaker 1: Usher like that the you chain.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie dog. I bought the spinning g
Speaker 3: u in the chain in the middle of the mall.
Speaker 1: I had to have facts, fact facts.
Speaker 3: Have you made your way to his residency in Vegas? No?
Speaker 1: I have not, So I had a don't take your girl? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: facts facts, He's about it, just Serenader and just I'm
Speaker 1: gonna just hate my itels this guy. No, but yeah.
Speaker 1: I actually met him at the Rock Nation brunch a
Speaker 1: few years back and I was like, YO, like how
Speaker 1: do I Because I was like, how do I approach
Speaker 1: this guy? I'm like, YO, like what do I say?
Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, right, I got all my moves
Speaker 1: from you, and he was just like and I was
Speaker 1: like Damn, I have a tellow stupid. I was like,
Speaker 1: I didn't even ask for a picture.
Speaker 5: After that, I was like, nah, right, it's like, what
Speaker 5: do you do you want?
Speaker 3: Hey, hey man, I'm like tolerance facts.
Speaker 1: I was like, what am I doing?
Speaker 3: Was that the same brunch you met Beyonce?
Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah? So so I went to two. I went
Speaker 1: to two and then so it was the second one.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean Beyonce, jay Z, everybody was there,
Speaker 1: but Usher wasn't that the one that I went to
Speaker 1: the first time. For the second time, he was there,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh ship, it's Ushers, Like that's
Speaker 1: you know, there's all these guys celebrities, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's that's all cool. But it's like, this is my idle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's Usher. It's like that's how I got I got
Speaker 1: a lot of swag from this guy.
Speaker 3: Right, so crazy.
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, what I say? But yeah it was.
Speaker 3: And true or false? Beyonce he says I know who
Speaker 3: you are?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she was like you're talented. I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you think I'm telling you right now?
Speaker 3: Have you.
Speaker 1: Do you know who you are? Yeah?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: That that that was a surreal moment for sure, that's
Speaker 1: great man.
Speaker 6: You know you said in this rollout and I was
Speaker 6: growing through your Instagram there was a video where you
Speaker 6: said that this is a different version of you, a
Speaker 6: more mature version. What sparked that change in you for this?
Speaker 1: I think for me, it's just an experience, you know.
Speaker 1: I think my whether it be technically or sonically or
Speaker 1: just songwriting wise or whatever it may be, it's like
Speaker 1: I'm I'm progressing and I'm growing as a person. So
Speaker 1: you can definitely feel that in my my music as well.
Speaker 1: I mean, so it's weird because I'm definitely more polished
Speaker 1: than I was, but I don't have that like raw
Speaker 1: fire like anymore, like oh I'm gonna go and kill
Speaker 1: this shiit Like I'm just like all right, let's get
Speaker 1: it done right, like you know. So it's it's like
Speaker 1: a I don't know, it's I'm at like a weird
Speaker 1: point in my career in life, but I like a
Speaker 1: job now. Yeah. So that's why for me, I'm like yo,
Speaker 1: Like the I get very passionate about the K pop
Speaker 1: group and I'm like, yo, like, let's you know, let's
Speaker 1: bring something new to the table. Let's yeah, let's you know, uh,
Speaker 1: and for that they will take on the responsibility of
Speaker 1: the numbers and the financial financial ship, and then then
Speaker 1: I can just fuck around and be like yo, I'll
Speaker 1: make make music just for fun. It doesn't need to
Speaker 1: get numbers, it doesn't, you know, And I'll just do
Speaker 1: things with cool people for fun, not to try to
Speaker 1: get numbers or you know, to cloud or whatever it may.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: When it comes to K pop and the artists that
Speaker 5: come out of that world, right, there's there's a lot
Speaker 5: of hard work that comes out. It's NonStop and some
Speaker 5: of the hardest work that I think a lot of
Speaker 5: musicians don't necessarily do. Skip Yeah, right, what what's behind
Speaker 5: that that work?
Speaker 1: Ethic, hunger to make it, under to make it. I think.
Speaker 1: I think where it comes from also is that Korea
Speaker 1: is very militant in a way that everything they do
Speaker 1: just because you know, the country is at war. We're
Speaker 1: still at war, and so it's mandatory for everybody to
Speaker 1: go to the army, etcetera, et cetera. So I think
Speaker 1: that translates to when they do stuff as a group,
Speaker 1: like you know, they're willing to sacrifice a lot of
Speaker 1: their individuality, whether it be time or you know, creativity
Speaker 1: to creativity wise or whatever may be for the group.
Speaker 1: And that's why everyone's so synchronized and so put together,
Speaker 1: well put together. And yeah, no for sure. And now
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's such a big global industry. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, they got that stuff down to a t.
Speaker 1: They have the blueprint, they have the system. But also
Speaker 1: you know, with a lot of money comes a lot
Speaker 1: of just oversaturation as well. Right, and so that's why
Speaker 1: it's like everything is great and it's well polished. But
Speaker 1: also like that's why I feel like we can bring
Speaker 1: a different flavor where it's a little bit more kind
Speaker 1: of a like Mom and Pops style, like that special flavor, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: whom we make some type of dish. It's it's something
Speaker 1: where you can't find like, yeah, everything tastes good, but
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different flavor maybe yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, sir.
Speaker 3: So then so the k.
Speaker 1: Who's in the group, so we have are you still recruiting?
Speaker 1: So we just ask yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Korean America.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, that's right. No, for sure, for sure, No,
Speaker 1: we're definitely we're definitely auditioning. We're definitely still auditioning. But
Speaker 1: I have I have a group of kids that we've
Speaker 1: been working with for the past couple of years. And yeah,
Speaker 1: they're anywhere from fourteen to eighteen. And yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: they're dope. They're dope. Yeah, they're dope.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's like before I was like, since it's my first
Speaker 1: time actually producing like a group, I didn't know what
Speaker 1: I was doing. So I didn't know what I was
Speaker 1: looking for. I didn't know what I knew like I
Speaker 1: could do it, but I didn't know exactly what I
Speaker 1: was looking for. And now it's like We're a couple
Speaker 1: of years in and now now I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: this is my group. Now I feel like the sense
Speaker 1: of like okay, like I'm their mentor, like yeah, facts, facts, facts.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it feels good, feels good. I'm excited.
Speaker 5: The one you wanted is out and it's the album cover.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about that. I mean, I think off the
Speaker 5: air you were like, yeah, I think that's the one.
Speaker 3: Like it was easy, it was easy to pick that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, so I relied heavily on my my
Speaker 1: A and R team and my my creative team for
Speaker 1: this one. That's that's my head an R right there. Uh, tajun.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, you know, how did you you well together?
Speaker 1: You doing comfortable?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Man? I ah okay yeah. So I mean it's one
Speaker 1: of those things where it's like, uh, the one you wanted,
Speaker 1: so like you had to wait a long time for this,
Speaker 1: right so and and it kind of represents just it's
Speaker 1: it's time to shine, right so yeah, and that's why
Speaker 1: it's like, so, is.
Speaker 3: That a note to the fans, like this is the
Speaker 3: one you want? No?
Speaker 1: For sure? Because my last R and B album and
Speaker 1: which is My which was was my most most successful
Speaker 1: album in terms of like accolades and numbers wise. Everything
Speaker 1: you wanted I came out in twenty sixteen, So I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: this kind of reiscent reminiscent of that same energy. So
Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, the one you wanted?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Cool?
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, And that's kind of just like like you
Speaker 5: looking up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you know it's it came out like
Speaker 1: super like there's some type of like deep ast meaning
Speaker 1: to it. But I just took the photo. They're like
Speaker 1: Yore shining his light on your face.
Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, look up, im like.
Speaker 1: We monitored it came out beauty of art.
Speaker 6: Right, for sure, I'm looky getting blinded right now.
Speaker 1: No, for sure, but you know, and then it's it's subjective,
Speaker 1: so you could take your own you know. When I
Speaker 1: signed it to my friends, I draw a little iron
Speaker 1: Man face on it.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yo, true or false? You don't want multiple
Speaker 5: baby mamas?
Speaker 1: Hell no?
Speaker 3: No family?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah no, hell no. Uh you know, I
Speaker 1: mean there's there's too much drama in the world, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: Multiple baby mamas is so American, you know.
Speaker 1: And you know, I want to live as peaceful and
Speaker 1: drama free as possible. So so so it.
Speaker 4: Used to be that I want, but then I realized, like, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's not the healthiest.
Speaker 3: For to want different baby mamas.
Speaker 4: And I was just fascin For me, it was like
Speaker 4: cultures I grew uping.
Speaker 3: Just parts of the world haven't mixed babies.
Speaker 1: It's crazy that nick that's a fat dog, be real.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean some people can pull it off,
Speaker 1: you know, but yeah, yeah, for me, it's not for me.
Speaker 1: It's not for me. Yeah, it's not for me.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: I can barely keep up with the one I have.
Speaker 5: I barely make her smile.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. You know, how often do
Speaker 3: people walk up to you or see you.
Speaker 5: And they want to rap or they want to sing
Speaker 5: right in the restroom and someone tries to audition.
Speaker 3: For you to.
Speaker 1: So so these days I feel like that it's more
Speaker 1: of a six seven years ago type thing. Yeah, as
Speaker 1: where these days now they they come back by with
Speaker 1: like a USB or like you know, you'll hit you
Speaker 1: on like the DM, or like they'll send you an
Speaker 1: email or like ooh, this is like I just came
Speaker 1: over and just send you a link. So now, like before,
Speaker 1: like I think in twenty like seventeen sixteen around there, eighteen,
Speaker 1: like yeah, you know, we'd be chilling out of some
Speaker 1: like bar or whatever, like Korean bar, and like these
Speaker 1: four kids will come up and just be like c
Speaker 1: rap for you and they'll take turns wrapping for me.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh shit, okay, you're like say go for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like all right, cool, Like I don't know what
Speaker 1: it's gonna.
Speaker 3: Do for you, but yeah, but get me some more
Speaker 3: sold you.
Speaker 1: But now I think now, no, maybe maybe it's like
Speaker 1: a COVID thing where like you know, everyone's just kind
Speaker 1: of used to just kind of keeping to themselves.
Speaker 3: And they do it from far away.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, they're just send you and now it's
Speaker 1: so easy to you know, just send a link, right, So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they have access to you, I guess
Speaker 3: in a way because of social media.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so yeah these days, no, not so much.
Speaker 3: That's that's probably a good thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. I had I had a guy
Speaker 1: try to wrap for me when I was in the
Speaker 1: bathroom and I was like, bro.
Speaker 3: Like taking a ship. Bro.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like, bro, like chill out.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: It was in front of it was like at a club,
Speaker 1: and I was like, bro, like what do you what
Speaker 1: are we doing? That's what I said. I was like, Bro,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to hear you rap right now, Bro.
Speaker 3: Trying to do that. Fact. So we're filming the video
Speaker 3: for may Day.
Speaker 5: We're trying to tell him, uh that we said, oh god,
Speaker 5: hell yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: When we came over here, we were just talking about
Speaker 5: this yesterday, right. He was like our first guest, Like
Speaker 5: I came an hour before we went on. He showed
Speaker 5: up with a bottle of Teila, Like what up?
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, what's the what's the concept of the video?
Speaker 3: Can you share anything?
Speaker 1: The concept of the video I think we're we're constantly
Speaker 1: just riding in a car. Could come to me meeting me, Stephanie.
Speaker 1: So we're working with direct named Stephen Gray, stephan Gray,
Speaker 1: and then the ladies in the video. I don't know
Speaker 1: other okay, okay, preferably it would be good if it
Speaker 1: was a lady. But so we have a driver, are
Speaker 1: making production. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Jackie needs.
Speaker 3: To be in the video. Yeah, the video.
Speaker 1: I think we're going to be in a car.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Writer, I think I know, like a classic maybe like
Speaker 1: a classic car. I don't I don't exactly know, but
Speaker 1: uh yeah, we'll.
Speaker 3: Get Jackie little a little. My driving is not that great.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that right now. Let's get it right.
Speaker 3: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Ship?
Speaker 1: What am I doing?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 1: I'm going to Rolling Loud Thailand next week, next week
Speaker 1: after I get back, and then I'm doing some stuff
Speaker 1: in Japan in December, and then I'm just doing like
Speaker 1: a I'm a guest for some people's concerts. I'm surprised guests.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say, but we're.
Speaker 3: Talking about Japan. Yes, was it just yesterday?
Speaker 1: How like lowrider culture, like solo culture is so big.
Speaker 4: I've been saying some of the homies like, dude, make
Speaker 4: a song, put subtitles in Japanese and blow the funk up.
Speaker 1: In Japan and do it tour facts facts because.
Speaker 4: It's like you break from the stereotypical or the normal California, Texas,
Speaker 4: New Mexico saying yeah.
Speaker 1: I think bigger fact facts even in Vietnam.
Speaker 3: Right, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 5: Did you give yourself some time to enjoy what what
Speaker 5: was going on with Kendrick and Drake.
Speaker 1: I did you know? Uh excited?
Speaker 3: Like yeah, yeah, it's a hip hop kid right here.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: You know, so like when you see something like that
Speaker 5: go down, you're like, yo, you know you hear what
Speaker 5: jay Z and Nas.
Speaker 1: Did and you know, fifty cent and all that. So
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, it's like it's like these motherfuckers
Speaker 1: really hate yea Like now it's like some you know, competitiveness. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very personal.
Speaker 3: I want to kill you.
Speaker 1: Yeah bad facts, very very personal. So they got into
Speaker 1: some deep deep uh dark ship and uh yeah, but
Speaker 1: fucking that that not like this video. Fucking ye that
Speaker 1: video is like yeah facts, And I was like, I
Speaker 1: was like, man, this this this guy's a psychle. Like,
Speaker 1: just just the way he he maneuvered through that battle.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Yo, this guy's a calculated bro.
Speaker 3: Oh bro.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that's Halloween facts.
Speaker 3: Facts.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, so, yeah, it was very fun to
Speaker 1: you know, break down all the lyrics and then see
Speaker 1: all the the you know, stuff that people are saying
Speaker 1: and posting, and break how they analyzed it and all that.
Speaker 1: And then even the thing that Ja Cole just recently posted.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed his bars on that too. He just
Speaker 1: posted something on his YouTube a couple of weeks. So
Speaker 1: we're talking about like all the situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he would have lost the brother, he would yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And he's like, just because you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: pull the trigger doesn't mean the gun ain't deadly. I'm
Speaker 1: like that makes sense, yeah, yeah, facts.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, he might have bowed out, but like, don't
Speaker 3: play with him.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, it doesn't mean he doesn't have it, right yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm just like, I appreciate, you know, what everyone
Speaker 1: brought to the to the table, right for sure, A
Speaker 1: moment for hip.
Speaker 5: It just keeps giving. Now, Kendrick, you know we said
Speaker 5: this yesterday. Kendrick is nominated for every Grammy.
Speaker 3: In the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just but that even that, it's the battle is
Speaker 1: still continuing.
Speaker 4: YEA perform at the super Bowl, bro.
Speaker 1: So like it's like the pop out, like the concert
Speaker 1: and the you know, the yeah to that to get
Speaker 1: nominated for Grammys, to perform at super Bowls, like that's
Speaker 1: like the ultimate just nails in the in the ocean.
Speaker 5: You worried, I would be Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: I would. I mean I would just be like like
Speaker 1: you know, like yeah, yeah, I wouldn't be worried for
Speaker 1: my out, but I just like got bro.
Speaker 3: I would be day drinking every day, real ship, keep
Speaker 3: it coming.
Speaker 1: And just have like my biggest supporters around me all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all the time. I want to hear.
Speaker 7: Hey when it comes like hip hop, it seems like
Speaker 7: lately and not just hip hop. But man, you look
Speaker 7: at like even like the Tailor's rest of the world whatever,
Speaker 7: the rollout is such an important part of everything. You
Speaker 7: look at the products that you were able to give
Speaker 7: your fans, that book that let's just got right there,
Speaker 7: like how much do you think about that? And who
Speaker 7: do you admire too? And the rollout that you know
Speaker 7: when you see an artist doesn't matter the genre that go.
Speaker 3: Man, they fucking nailed that.
Speaker 1: I think right now Budo Mars is fucking killing, fucking
Speaker 1: murdering ship. I'm like, bro, it's kind of.
Speaker 3: Brazil joint he just popped out with.
Speaker 6: He popped out with the Brazil joint. He popped out.
Speaker 1: With the join.
Speaker 3: Whatever you want.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's doing in it, Like the way the
Speaker 1: way he utilizes the social media when he posts in
Speaker 1: the captions like who he collaborate, collaborates with, what type
Speaker 1: of song they come out with. I'm like, yo, he's
Speaker 1: this guy's a psycho in another space.
Speaker 6: And the fact that like too, like from what you
Speaker 6: were speaking earlier, like he's speaking every language and that
Speaker 6: like in whatever video he's putting.
Speaker 1: Out, he's showing he's showing love to the culture, and
Speaker 1: that's very important.
Speaker 4: I always say it's it's when you learn the language
Speaker 4: or you take the time to learn something different language.
Speaker 4: I think the country is more receptive to you because
Speaker 4: it's a sid of respects, Like you're taking the.
Speaker 3: Time and understand us, and you've give them the country
Speaker 3: your time, and.
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's I think that's how you
Speaker 1: communicate and that's how you form a bond. It's it's
Speaker 1: through you know, you got to learn each other, You
Speaker 1: got to understand each other right somewhere.
Speaker 3: So yeah, do you study Tyler Creator at all?
Speaker 1: And he's I mean, so I'm going to I'm checking
Speaker 1: out camp flogging now this this week and then I
Speaker 1: haven't been able to check out his his album yet,
Speaker 1: but I mean I've definitely been a fan of him
Speaker 1: and appreciated what what he brings the table for a
Speaker 1: long time. Yeah, because it's always different. I mean, he
Speaker 1: used to say some crazy shit in the interviews, but
Speaker 1: I think he's much more like just the way he
Speaker 1: progressed and he's like an entrepreneur. Yeah, you know. And
Speaker 1: even camp Floggna, like you know, I heard it. It has
Speaker 1: fifty five thousand people and it sold out in your anniversary.
Speaker 1: I mean that we only announced the lineup what a
Speaker 1: month ago.
Speaker 3: It was already sold out. So yeah, Psycho past, Yeah sickle,
Speaker 3: and that's why we la fact.
Speaker 7: You're gonna go and you're gonna see the grasp that
Speaker 7: he has on people from twelve to thirty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: And you're just gonna go through that crowding like it's
Speaker 7: so diverse. Yeah, it's young, but they know every group
Speaker 7: there and every piece that he does. It's just amazing,
Speaker 7: like he figured out a way to hack the system.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, he's I mean, he's a great artist. But
Speaker 1: also like I think people love his curation. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: this fashion everything.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's what it's about. Passion man, the one
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