Speaker 1: What a great track to kick off, and we have
a 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 1: Good?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 1: Uh? Did we meet you through Hope the Rapper?
Speaker 3: Was?
Speaker 4: I believe that a post that Hope the Rapp will
put up is oh what led us to be here today?
Speaker 1: Right right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, 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 with us during the first hour today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, correct me if I'm wrong. I think you guys
did Problems right, Yes, yes, I was on Problem.
Speaker 1: You were on that one? Oh okay, cool? Cool? Yeah
you've done Have you done a couple of tracks with him?
Speaker 4: I have a few that I have done, some unreleased
and oh some release.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, okay, And that track I don't know, is
that brand new.
Speaker 2: Uh that's fairly new.
Speaker 4: Okay, 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 2: Can you pull that mic in a little Yeah?
Speaker 1: That that? Yeah? That makes up?
Speaker 2: How are we doing? Oh?
Speaker 1: That's better? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, absolutely right. So you said
you were talking off air about you've got a video
coming up for that or.
Speaker 4: Yes, So I shot a video about two weeks ago
and I'll be releasing it next week next Saturday, 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.
Speaker 1: Oh okadd yeah yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 4: 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 is a person and a company.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 4: So Crispy Pick we originally connected about two years ago.
I booked him for a showcase as a photographer. Yeah,
We've been working ever since.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, okay, this will be Did you say
this will be the first one with.
Speaker 2: Uh with Crispy?
Speaker 1: Okay, how did you do the previous ones? Did you
work with somebody else.
Speaker 4: Or was it all they So all the previous ones,
I have dealt with probably three or four videographers. Yea,
So out of my nine videos, four of those videos
are from One Eye Visuals.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, hope, hope work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: 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.
Speaker 2: To work with us.
Speaker 4: And then you know a few other videographers Dynamic TV
and Gil Videos, 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 it's.
Speaker 4: Kind of so it's a mix. So I'm a singer songwriter. However,
the way that I write, I write like a rapper.
Speaker 1: Right, That's interesting to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
Speaker 4: My writing process is like, you know, rapper brain almost,
so I throw in you know, punchlines, the ball entendres,
and then I'm singing it. 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. So say I sound like a rapper, Yeah,
but I don't classify myself as a rapper.
Speaker 2: I'm a singer, songwriter, vocal engineer.
Speaker 1: Right right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, that's interesting to me because when I first when
you sent 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.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: 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. Yeah,
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 editsa which was nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, I pride myself in 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,
you know, right, you know, when you have a portfolio
like myself, you know, it's a lot to remember, you
got me. 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?
Speaker 4: I have, you know, anywhere from twenty to thirty songs? Oh, okay, yeah, 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 4: 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. Yeah, 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.
Speaker 2: Rather it at home.
Speaker 4: 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.
Speaker 2: Add autotune to it. Yeah, and it's cool.
Speaker 4: I understand what that that plugin does and what 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, watched 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, uh, mix and mastered by myself.
Speaker 1: No kidding, Yeah, yeah, outstanding.
Speaker 4: 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. Yeah, me,
And that's the beauty of music. Yeaalistically, 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 4: Yeah, 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 4: It could be more of the we just think it
sounds better this way. Yeah, 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. You know,
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 1: Right.
Speaker 4: 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.
That'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.
Speaker 2: You know. Then you know, if.
Speaker 4: I and being in this studio, you know, I've had
people where they 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.
Speaker 2: Time when it comes to writing.
Speaker 4: 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.
Speaker 2: 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.
Speaker 4: 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 4: Yes, and no, so I have, you know, like like
I said, Hope and I have worked 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 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
want it to sound. And you know he reached that.
Speaker 2: And then who else? My nephew, Jordi dt A.
Speaker 4: He's also a local artist out of Nashville and he's
been in my studio multiple times.
Speaker 2: I hope to.
Speaker 4: Work with mister Goodbard soon working in his studio. Hell
of an artists amazing, yeah, hell of 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.
Speaker 2: Excuse me. He puts it out something similar to what
I do. You know?
Speaker 4: If I know something, you know, I'm gonna share it.
I have no secrets, I don't keep. All you need
to do is ask me, and if I have the answer,
I'm gonna give it.
Speaker 2: To you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good Bars is amazing too, because he's
so diverse, like he produces so many different kinds of music.
It's remarkable.
Speaker 4: I originally started following good Bars when he was with
the band Sepsis yea yea yeah, as their keyboardist, and
I think.
Speaker 1: I think that's when I first met him too.
Speaker 4: 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 you know, one of the things that
I remember him saying was like, see, 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 brag. 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.
Speaker 2: The real world.
Speaker 4: 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 4: I'm originally from Lawrence, Massachusetts, and I've been living in
Nashville for over the past thirteen years, you know, so
to 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. Yeah, a lot of
good things happening there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It 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. Oh yeah, We're going right down
Main Street, you know, have people interacting and stuff like that. Yeah,
and just really had a good time doing it, showing
some of the businesses and the beauty of Nashville.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know how many people get to show that or
they don't want to, you know. Me, on the other hand,
I do.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: 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 4: 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.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, those are the hopes, you know.
Speaker 4: 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 it in the first
hour or two, and I didn't know this. At the
Boys and Girls Club in Nashville, they've got like they
have a studio, which I had no idea. That's really cool.
Speaker 4: 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, 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.
Speaker 2: You got me.
Speaker 4: Imagine if someone you know, my age thirty four had
that opportunity to be able to go to the Boys
and Girls Club and be inside of a studio, you know,
who knows.
Speaker 2: Again, where I would have been memory for me.
Speaker 4: Boys and Girls Club was at the ping pong table.
We were 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 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. Yeah, 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. Yeah,
so I was surprised when he was talking about the studio,
but I said, that's that's really cool.
Speaker 4: 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 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 yeah, definitely,
So which I'll let you pick if I would have
to pick.
Speaker 4: 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? Is she is she listening?
Speaker 3: Uh?
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 5: Let me take you out to space. Let me take
you out your place yet, let me take you out
to space.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you out to space. Let me take you out
your place? Yeah play. All I know is all I
know when I know I can control what canby for.
Let me take you out of space yet you have
to spell. Let me take you out to place yet.
All I know is all I know when I.
Speaker 7: Know I can't control what can be for.
Speaker 8: Let me take you out your comfort zone. Promise you
won't be alone. Just nor Molas coming clocking out after
the close, No matter.
Speaker 6: If I'm on the row, you know, moments.
Speaker 7: Under go, making sure we never making sure we never broke.
Speaker 6: And this is all I know under question.
Speaker 7: Never vote from the concrete, wen rose from the jungle,
king to grow.
Speaker 6: I know all I know I can't control. Let me
take you out of space. It you have to spell.
Let me take you at your place, Yet you play.
All I know is all I know.
Speaker 7: When I know I can control what can evil? Let
me take you out of space, yack, you have to spell.
Let me take you out of place.
Speaker 6: Yet all I know is all I know.
Speaker 7: When I know I can't control, work came for Let
me hear your heart.
Speaker 8: Don't hunt, discuss amazing just the way you are.
Speaker 6: Trust some loyal tingles fun. Let me take you to mark.
Speaker 7: We can see the stars walk down Hollywood. But firehouses
and carts set some goals to start.
Speaker 6: So we gotta things.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 6: Did some get it easy? I rather work hard? Yes,
some get it easy. I rather work hard.
Speaker 7: And so this all I know on depression, never fall
from the concrete.
Speaker 6: We don't rose from the jungle, came to grow. I
know I can't control work. Let me take you out
to space. Sick you are to spell. Let me take
you out your place, Yet you play. All I know
is all I know when I know I can control work.
Speaker 7: Cabful, let me take you out of space.
Speaker 6: Ck you are to let me take you out to place.
Speaker 3: Beatful m.
Speaker 2: That's nice. It's a beautiful song.
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 every show
where people will get people get upset if they don't
hear it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: 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.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is. You know. The one time I think
I didn't do it, they were like, where's that song?
Speaker 1: I know?
Speaker 4: 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 4: 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 ran my own show. And
let me tell you, one of the hardest things to
do is to manage other artists, yes 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 Koran, 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 of
shows since then. But I've been really focusing on the
back ends of the things with the music, 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 reached 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.
Speaker 1: You can oversaturate that way, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: 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.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: 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, if 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 exactly?
That almost be hypocritical, and I try not to be that,
So try to educate as best as I can.
Speaker 2: You know, what I've learned, What.
Speaker 1: 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 4: So one thing, you know, 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 a studio and recording things, you know, and
then posting it online and expecting it to blow up, right,
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 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 see their
documentary and feel to realize like, oh, they've been doing
this since twenty ten. They're doing this since two thousand
and five 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.
Speaker 2: No, I've been putting in the groundwork.
Speaker 4: I've been working with my community so that way they
can have something to be proud of, yeah me, and
then just move forward from there on.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: The definition of fate is.
Speaker 4: The definite, the the development of events beyond the person's control, right,
So I try to always foresee the events that could
potentially happen. Yeah, 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.
Speaker 4: 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, and 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 and 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, yeah, And then the
other way is like, you know, I am one of
a kind.
Speaker 2: I am the only one.
Speaker 4: You know, there might be other fates out there, but
I am 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.
Speaker 2: This is me.
Speaker 4: 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 you know fix it. Yeah, it's
not in my control. Why am I gonna 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.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: 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.
Speaker 2: Know, get called out for something that I don't.
Speaker 4: Really do and then it, you know, then all things
fall apart or my persona gets killed because of that.
Like this, I know, I just live the way I live.
I am who I am.
Speaker 1: Yeah, 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 going.
Speaker 4: 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 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. I sure, you know,
my song I Don't Know is pretty much stating that
I don't care what most people think about me. You know,
your opinion is your opinion, and you're entitle to it,
and end 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 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, we breathe, 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 tell the truth.
It's less to remember or something.
Speaker 2: You know, lives are hard to keep up with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. That you got to remember who you
told what.
Speaker 4: Good with that I'd rather not, yeah exactly exactly. Keeping
up with those lives is crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, to 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 to dig in
and learn everything yourself. But are there are there people
who've been an influence on you in the industry or.
Speaker 4: Just you know, in the industry, I have many, you know, influences.
I wouldn't say that they're all positive because of the
way that the music is brought out, you know, Yeah,
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 a
complete opposite. Yeah, you know, you know, so being influenced
too to just stay positive. It's just something that I
learned to live how I learned to live because negativity,
it just doesn't phaze me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then it's just very toxic. I don't like that,
you know.
Speaker 4: 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.
Speaker 2: I'm being myself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, 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, And you know that that
would be great if I help somebody else, at least one,
If I reach one person, you know, and I reach
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.
Speaker 2: I love your music.
Speaker 4: Is 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.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: 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 4: 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.
Speaker 2: To the ladies and stuff like that. I love that,
you know me, you know.
Speaker 4: And then uh Tony Sunshine, which it's 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 Mark Anthony. Yes, there's you know, Salo.
Speaker 2: Ninety.
Speaker 4: I mean a lot of a lot of the salsa
at the end of the day, is you know 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. But these things, you know,
they bring out the trials and relations. Actor 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 act the love voice as well, which is all SALTSA.
I listen to a lot of music, not just hip hop.
Speaker 2: R and B.
Speaker 4: You got me being Puerto Rican, growing up in a
Puerto Rican household and an urban area, you'd be surprised
the things that you hear, you know, dance all afrobeats,
so 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 4: 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 uh 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 4: Same, you know, yeah, yeah, I you know, I usually
go out to these venues if I'm performing, you know,
I am a homebody.
Speaker 2: The reason why I have a home studio.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, you know, you know, and not trying to
be cheap or anything, but that you know, you can
go out side 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.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I try to go out when it's necessary. I'm a
very family first guy.
Speaker 2: Excuse me. So I'd rather spend time with my family.
You know.
Speaker 4: If I'm not in the studio, I'm with family. If
I'm not an event, I'm with family. If I'm not working,
I'm with family, 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. 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 and the world that we live in a
heavy place, right, 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 anxiety.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, have you always been like.
Speaker 3: That or were you?
Speaker 1: Were you different when you were younger, because like I
can tell you, like in my case, people assumed that
when I was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was a bad kid. Yeah, so I had.
Speaker 4: I had a very early upbringing, you know, where I
was just running around early on.
Speaker 2: I mentioned that I was doing music for many of years.
Speaker 4: 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
open and act you know. So I shared stages with
some of these major artists, some like Nikki jam Ecto,
Ritito they well call it on and some of these
names you may know, some of the you may not.
But in the Latin culture and the Latin community, they
know those names are very big.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I have the pleasure of saying that I shared this
stage with them at fourteen years old. That's not a
bad way to start me. That was twenty years ago,
you get 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 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.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, and I learned, and you know, I
just apply a lot of the things that I learned
growing up, and I just actually applied it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: 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, Yeah,
and you want to change, well, that's insanity right there,
my friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know me.
Speaker 2: 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 4: My mother passing away really 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, was 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 didn't anyways,
just so I can you know, claim it and start it,
you know, Yeah, you know, I I pride myself in
knowing you know, maybe 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.
Speaker 2: I didn't see any.
Speaker 4: 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.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: 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 I 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 going to 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. Learned that, you know, and then.
Speaker 2: I think in twenty nineteen, I.
Speaker 4: 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.
Speaker 2: Everybody was saying, you know, I sent them my vocals.
Speaker 4: 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 it in my studio, this 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. Yeah,
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 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.
Speaker 2: Not many people go towards positive, you know.
Speaker 4: They're they're 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.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I try not to post negative things. You know, I
can always I go find myself on social media wanted
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.
Speaker 2: And that song started it off for me.
Speaker 4: And then I did a song with local artists as well,
GMT Mark B.
Speaker 2: And that was like my first feature. You know.
Speaker 4: He was more established out in Nashville than 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 like, oh, I like that, Let's do that a
like boom and then that that came on and then
did the same thing again.
Speaker 2: That was my first video with one I Visuals.
Speaker 4: Oh, you know, partnered with him, set 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, 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 2: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, 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 announced it.
Speaker 1: Um No, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, like I.
Speaker 4: Right, I avoid from making any announcements. Yeah, 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 4: Yeah, And you know, like today, I think I made them.
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, yea, 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
made time to be here, you know. And yeah, it's
been good so far. You know, it's not a far
drive thirty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah we're not far Yeah, well
we are, however, almost out of time. The time goes
so quick, so we'll un plus when you're having fun,
we'll close out the show with this track app business.
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 4: Yes, so I am pretty nice and simple as f
A T E O N E underscore HSM across all platforms.
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 a 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 stuff. Like you know, the work that I do
allows me to pay for the stuff that I need,
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.
Speaker 4: 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, you got you got a lot
going on lately.
Speaker 9: 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.
Speaker 3: J E.
Speaker 1: N N C O F f EI dot com.
Speaker 6: And if you.
Speaker 9: Happen to go down to Terminus tonight for the show,
you can check out twelve of my darkest paintings, yes,
hanging on display for the month of August at the
Nashua Creative Collective. I said it wrong midnight, Sorry for the.
Speaker 1: Time, Fate one, Thank you again, thank you. Wonderful to
have you on. Absolutely