In The Field with Nana McKay

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It's In the Field, radio y'all.

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Everything's real in the field.

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Here it goes little yo.

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Welcome back to In the Field Radio.

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I'm Erin Boogie.

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I'm here with Miss Lady D.

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What's going on?

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And we have Nana McKay in the building.

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Hello, hello.

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From Monticello.

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Yeah, we appreciate that.

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You took that super long drive to come visit us.

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Thank you for having me.

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So let's get right into it.

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Who is Nana McKay?

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Well, a bunch of things.

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So I would say that I'm very strong, independent, rebellious, I'm a bunch of things.

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But me as a person, I'm just kind of hearted and I kind of just want to get back to my people, which mainly I mean my family, I don't.

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I just don't want them to struggle.

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So I'm kind of like I'm doing this for myself, but I'm doing this for them too.

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So I'm very, I'm very passionate, especially when it comes to making my music.

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When's your birthday?

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My birthday is May 20th.

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I'm a tourist, I knew it, I knew it.

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What did you describe yourself?

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I'm surrounded by tourists.

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I'm May 13th.

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Yeah, I was like yo.

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I'm very I'm very stubborn too.

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Oh, y'all the worst, it's all about me.

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That's awesome.

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Okay, so let's talk about how long you've been doing music.

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Um.

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So November makes a year, so I've been doing music for nine months.

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That's what I thought, because I mean, we went to look you up and I was like well, everything is 2023.

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So either I mean some people.

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That's good, though, because you made music and put it out.

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Everybody else is like I've been doing music for 10 years and the music they just put it out what last year?

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And stuff like that.

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So not for nothing.

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She's only been making music for nine months and call our attention.

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So yeah, like we're pretty tapped in with the artists in the area, so you're doing something right, because it means people are noticing.

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Yeah, I didn't even know you guys were like here.

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Honestly, I didn't know anything about it.

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Where'd you think we were?

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At a radio station.

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Like oh, just somewhere else.

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Yeah, we are at a radio station.

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Well, yeah, I didn't know like where, so I had to do a little research to look us up to.

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Okay, so how did you feel when you did that?

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Well, I went to your Instagram page at first and then I went to your website and immediately I was looking for a way to get on here, like I was like I need to find the contact information.

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So I'm scrolling, looking through and then I just submitted like name, email, that stuff, and I got an email back and I was confused.

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When she emailed me at first, I'm like wait, I emailed you guys.

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I was like you know, I forgot because it took her a little while to get back and I'm like, oh yeah, like no.

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That's so awesome that you're doing that.

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So I mean, so you just started putting out music, but have you been making music before that?

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Like what started this journey?

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How did this happen?

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Okay.

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So it's kind of a weird, but I'm a very spiritual person.

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You know, I believe in God and all that.

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So I feel like it was meant to happen.

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It happened for a reason.

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So I started working at Amazon a few months ago, back in like November, because that's when I started making music and I met this boy there, like we were training together and like you know he was kind of cute.

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So I went over to Shana Hala and told him or whatever.

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Love it and he was telling me about himself, telling me how he makes music, and randomly out of nowhere, he was just like you should hop on a track with me.

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And I'm looking at him like what, I don't make music, I don't rap, I don't do any of that.

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Like I used to sing in a shower and like little stuff like that.

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But like I didn't really think about it until I got home and I really thought about it and I wrote a song Well, half a song and I sang it to my little brother and he was like no, that sounds so good, like you should keep going.

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Like I really think you have something with this.

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So like, literally after the journey, like the music started kicking in my head that I should really do this.

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I Quit three days later, like I stopped training because I realized I really don't want to do this.

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You quit the job.

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Yes, I'm quick to quit a job Yo it was all the way in New Windsor.

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I live in Monticello, that's yeah, that's so far right.

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And I just realized you know, when you're in training and they're explaining the job description, you didn't realize what you signed up for until you're actually in training.

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So I'm like I really don't want to do this for real.

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So, and then a week later, my friend actually ended up quitting too because he got offered a better job.

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So I feel like we were both put there for me to realize that music is what I want to do is like my Lean, like you know.

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Are you still talking to him?

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Yeah, we talk almost every day.

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Oh, he was actually in my first music video that I dropped back in February.

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He was in it.

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Yo can we talk about the music videos?

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Cuz right out the gate.

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You came with the fire visuals, so um, I work with Derek at good good time film studio.

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He's located here in Poughkeepsie and he's like amazing.

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Like One day I was looking up like videographers just around the area and I came across his website and I just DM'd him and we just started working right away.

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But I still work with him to this day and I actually have a photo shoot coming up with him this Monday and his work is like fire.

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I recommend Everyone to him.

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Whoever looks for a videographer.

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I'm like, yeah, go here, listen, we actually want to work with him.

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But yeah, talk about.

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I mean, did you grow up listening to music in the house?

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Did you come from a musical family?

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or um.

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So my dad was born in the 60s.

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He's pretty ancient, so we, like I, grew up listening to a bunch of old-school R&B, so I guess it mainly came from his side of the family and him.

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But like I have music all around me growing up and me and my little brother used to do like little performances in the house For my mom and my stepdad for like Christmas or like just any random time.

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We were bored and just you know, kids Just come up with a little stupid stuff to do so.

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But like I always had the radio playing in my room because like I was kind of a bad kid so I had my TV taken away, have my phone taken away, so at one point the radio was all I had.

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So I would just listen to K-104 and like 96 one, yeah, 98.3.

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Um, so, yeah, I guess it was just always there.

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Who are you listening to like what artists?

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When it comes to like genres, I listened to almost every genre.

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So like I was mainly listening to like back then, like Katy Perry, demi Lovato and Nicki Minaj, like heavy, heavy Nicki Minaj, fan Drake, rihanna, of course, you know I.

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Could see that like your music is like not conventional Rap.

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Like he was rapping, I was like okay but it then it wasn't like drill I can rap Um.

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I'm versatile.

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Honestly, I could do a little bit of everything, but like, rapping is not my lane.

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I just feel like a lot of females are trying to be like the next Nicki Minaj little kid.

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So I'm, I just don't want to.

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Rap is not my lane, so I'm more.

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I'm just more of like a singer.

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Just sound my vibe.

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Yeah, but let him know, you can do both right, yeah, I can do both.

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I do both.

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When did you realize you could sing?

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Have you realized it?

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I don't know, because, like I just Like I could sing and I would sing to my mom, but it wasn't all the way there, like I couldn't really sing.

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Sing like you know how, when you play a song and you start singing it, like Halo by Beyonce, for example, and when the volume is all the way up, for some reason, I sound exactly the same, like you know them.

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You be hitting them high notes, real good, but like I did like acapella, like nothing, and my mom was like it sounded okay, but like your high notes were like a little pitchy, like maybe you should you know.

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So I always could sing.

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Just I Needed help in the right direction.

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Like right, like now I take on Singing lessons.

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I have a vocal coach, right.

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Your voice is an instrument.

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So, yeah, it was gonna sound like that because you hadn't practiced it, or or anything like that it's an instrument, but also shout out to you for getting with a vocal coach, because you'd be surprised how many singers need to do that.

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And need to do that desperately.

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Like even famous people have vocal coaches, like they all have that and people just don't do it.

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Yeah, I had to take.

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Once I found a passion for music and realize that this is what I really love to do, I had to take it all the way seriously, yeah that's all good.

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So what kind of mistakes have you seen like artists, make that you try to avoid.

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Trying to be like everybody else, trying to ride the same wave, like, honestly, like, if it's not like trap music or like Drill drill or like, or like I'm shaking me, like you know, hype music pretty much, I don't know.

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I just feel like everybody knows those are like the main categories you could instantly blow up from or get like a Attention towards you.

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I just feel like you still you got to try to be yourself.

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It is hard because, like, being an artist now I didn't realize how many artists are in the world, I didn't realize how many people really make music like and it's like we're all competing for the same spot and it's hard, it is.

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But like I feel like when you're yourself and you stay true to yourself, you you can make it without riding everybody's wave, because my music is different.

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Like people will tell me all the time like you don't sound like this I did get compared to certain artists, but like it would tell me like you really had your own Wave, like your look, everything about you is just different and I really don't want to Ride anyone else's wave like you know.

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Who do people compare you to?

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I got compared to juice world, which I took as a compliment because he Is very talented.

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I love juice world music and that's where I get most of my inspiration from, because I Write to juice world tight beats, mm-hmm, so like it will give off a similar type of vibe when you listen to it.

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And I just talk about, like my pain, things that I went through, especially with guys relationships, you know I Think that's what people are looking for.

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It's weird like some people don't get that music and and and you know I like to try to play a little everything on the show, so I I play some of that tight lane music, if you will.

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That, you know, talks about things like that, gets into emotional things and it's good.

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I see why people are drawn to it.

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I'm drawn to it.

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I was drawn to juice world, so yeah, rest in peace juice world.

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He was super talented and able to reach a lot of people.

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Yeah, like when people are able to reach a lot of people, you know they.

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Kendrick Lamar, they gave him a pass, I think he was an affirmative action pass.

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I'm not even gonna hold you, but Because you know, other than that he wouldn't have been able to reach the amount of people there's.

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He's too much for some people.

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You know, I mean Drake's able to reach, like everybody right.

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And not scare people away.

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I think juice world was.

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He filled a void in hip-hop at the time, yeah, or emotional hip-hop, yeah.

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People were like oh, this is something that I can't relate to.

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I'm also having these feelings and you didn't have to be a caller.

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You know I mean it was for everyone.

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So some people just make black super viewer music and it's just hard for everyone to relate to that, because everyone's not freaking black.

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I feel like that, like love specifically is something almost everyone can relate to, because Everyone goes through Stuff with love, like whether it's a friendship, a Parent or an actual relationship, like I just feel like at one point in life Everyone felt like they weren't loved, or like they needed love, you know so.

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But mainly, my audience that I tried to reach for is, like, young females, specifically from like Ages 19 to, like, I would say, 30, because I feel like that's the bracket, like the time of your life where you're like really Going through a heartbreak and like really like searching around or you don't know what to do, whether you you know you want to stay single because it's best for you, but at the same time, everybody gets lonely, everybody's looking for something.

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So I feel like, though like those ages, like fits for my music, I Like that is your music based on real life?

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experiences.

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Yes, everything that I talk about, everything that I write, is based off of everything that I've already been through.

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It comes across as authentic.

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Oh, that I'm going through, yeah.

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I'm low-key intrigued about how you were a bad kid Because you, as she came here and we were still doing stuff, whatever she wasn't there here while it.

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Whatever, she just sit there all quiet.

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Guys, I was like no, I'm very mature.

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Now you know obviously age and life experience is changed.

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You so like I'm not bad anymore.

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I was bad, I think I was bad.

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I was good and bad.

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All kids are bad at some point.

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Yeah, I was good and bad yeah.

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All right, is there anybody that you want to Collab with?

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I mean, I'm sure there is, but who is your dream?

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Collapse Like artists, and they could be okay.

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We could do like a couple from the area and then a couple like ever.

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All right.

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So from the a4 5 area, honestly, I only know a few like.

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I'm still like really seeing who's like artists out here, but, um, I Don't know if I'm pronouncing his name right, but I think his name is like D weather he's.

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He's from Pekipsey, he's out here, he works with them.

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Zach from Panoramic Films a lot I see.

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Yes, I would like to collab with him.

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I actually listened to his music.

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He's pretty dope, um.

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And then there's this one guy from Middletown.

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His name is like Jay easy.

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Like he makes like those running videos and posts on my Instagram and actually like follow him or everything.

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I would like to collab with him.

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So, yeah, out of those two artists from the town, he reminds me of the male version of the fly on a boss.

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Girls Like the way he runs through the video.

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Yeah, I actually think like what he started for himself is like it's different and like it's it like.

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As soon as you click on his page and you see that or you see Somebody imitating that, you just know it's him like the running thing.

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I feel like it was his own trend he started.

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That's cool.

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Okay, what about like ever?

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So, like obvious, nicki Minaj, like I've been a huge Nicki fan, um, I still bump her old stuff, her new stuff.

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I would love to collab with her.

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That's like a Dream collab.

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And, um, I really don't know who else, probably Drake, but I feel like with him I Would want to do like some, some R&B, like some slow, something, you know, like romantic.

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Would you agree?

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Yeah so how do you choose beats?

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Do you work with any producers?

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Um, I do.

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So.

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I have a producer that lives in Atlanta and he like Recreates my beats for me.

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So I would like pick a beat off of YouTube and he would like I don't know what he does, how he does it, he's magic.

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But because I don't know anything about being a producer, but he would just tweak the beat a little bit, change certain things, take out certain instruments, put in certain instruments to make it sound similar, but it wouldn't be like the same, like waves or like you know it would be different.

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So basically it would be my beat since it was altered.

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And yeah, his name is Brev.

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Shout out to Brev.

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He's like the best producer ever.

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His beats are like undefeated.

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You seem really resourceful, really early.

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Yeah, I feel like I was like that, blowing my mind yeah.

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Is that?

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Is it like shocking, but like in a good way?

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Yeah?

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Some people are like 10 years into making and they still haven't like figured out certain things, so like, I do like a lot of research on, like the music industry, like the business behind it and like things that I need, things that I should know.

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Like you know, I don't want to just walk into something blind, you know.

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So yeah, like I said, I want to take this all the way serious.

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Like I want it to be a career where this is like making me all my money at one point, like you know, where I could just sit back and just collect the royalties.

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Like you know, it takes time, but eventually I'm going to get there.

00:18:22.045 --> 00:18:24.690
So yeah, what is your recording process like?

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in the studio.

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I usually, when I go to the studio, I'll usually book like a two to three hour session.

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Um, I just I read off of my phone, because sometimes I won't remember my lyrics, but I just go into the booth and just breathe in, breathe out and just start.

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I don't know, it's not really a process Like.

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It's not like I smoke or like drink or anything before I go into the booth, like I go in completely sober because that's when I'm like having my main focus.

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I did, actually, before I quit smoking.

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I smoked before singing and that's when I realized I had to quit because it made my voice very raspy.

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I didn't sound the same, like I literally had to rerecord the same song that I recorded the first time.

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Oh, yeah, yeah.

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So I just realized like I need complete focus.

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So do you have people in the studio with you or are you in there by yourself Sometimes?

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when I first first started I was by myself and the crazy thing is when I the first ever studio I went to was in Beacon and I cried because I didn't sound good, I felt and I didn't think I was going to get it right Like I wanted to quit making music right then.

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And there I was like I sound terrible, I can't do this.

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Why don't I sound like the people on the radio?

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It's not supposed to sound like this.

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But it turned out that the engineer actually had the auto tune backwards.

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He didn't really know what he was doing, because he works with jazz and instrumental.

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He wasn't aware of hip hop and R&B, so it wasn't his lane, I guess.

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But I ended up getting a free session because I guess he felt bad that I was crying.

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He shouldn't have felt bad.

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Yeah, that deserves to be a free session.

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Good that you brought that up.

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It's really good that you brought that up because I was checking out studios for something, just checking out a bunch of studios in Brooklyn.

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And.

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I was seeing.

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They all have the same equipment, they all have the same Pro Tools, all the same.

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All of that, the difference is who works there?

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What do they do?

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What have they done?

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What genre are they used to working with?

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All that stuff like who's working there Matters and they would have the bios for the engineer on there, whatever.

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So it's cool that you picked up on that.

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That matters.

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People just go to whatever studio.

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Yeah, I usually go into the studio by myself, but I will bring my little brother me and my little brother actually recently just did a song together I will go with him, or I will go with my one friend, but other than them two, I really go to the studio by myself because I just feel like I have my full focus when I'm by myself most of the time.

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And you pay for it, right.

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Is they a breach, your brother.

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Yes, that's my little brother.

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Shout out to Zebreeze my heart.

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Are you guys close in?

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age, he's 17,.

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So, yeah, kinda how old are you?

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I'm 22.

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So, after that first terrible experience that you had in the studio, what made you want to keep going?

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I realized I had already written all these songs and I already had beats for most of them that I paid for.

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So I was like maybe I should try another studio.

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Once the guy told me he didn't really work with my genre.

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I was like maybe I should just try somewhere else.

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And I contacted my friend the one that told you put me on to music and he was like, yeah, I think you should just try somewhere else.

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I honestly think he just didn't know what he was doing and he told me straight up he was like that track sounded terrible.

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He was like throw it in a trash?

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Oh no, but he was being real and honestly it sounded so bad like it really did.

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So I tried another studio which is in Washingtonville and the engineer there is great.

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Like he never disappointed.

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Shout out to the new engineer.

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Yeah, the studio is called Somerset Studio and the guy's name is Dave.

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And yeah, shout out to Dave because he's awesome.

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He captures my real sound.

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I feel like he knows what he's doing.

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Talk about some of the performances that you've had recently.

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That's another thing I was impressed about that.

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You've already been out there performing yeah, outside and down in the city.

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You did SOBs.

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Yes, I performed at SOB almost a month ago and it was really the vibe there was so chill, like everyone was up in my music.

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Usually when you see a female like me go up on stage I guess they were expecting me to rap or say some sexual stuff.

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But they all look kind of shocked when they see me singing and the stuff I was talking about and my one song best to me, my reggae song, which is my most known popular song.

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When I started playing everyone was crazy.

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People were dancing, singing the words.

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It was really cool.

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I felt very welcomed at home, like wow, people really like this.

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Were you nervous the first time you performed?

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I was, so the first time I performed was for Mucci's event.

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I don't know if you know who that is.

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Yeah, I just went down and played planes.

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Yeah, it was her new spot.

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So it was for a contest and it was my first time performing.

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And as soon as I got on stage I was just seeing everybody and I'm like wow.

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But I told everyone I was like this is my first performance, I'm kind of scared.

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And after that the music just started playing and honestly, her manager was like if you didn't tell us that was your first time performing, we wouldn't have known, because you killed it.

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You were just so good.

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It didn't even look like you were nervous.

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So that's how that went and, honestly, after that I kind of fell in love with performing.

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I think this last week was my seventh performance.

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I've been performing everywhere in this city, mainly Manhattan area.

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For some reason I've just been getting a lot of events there.

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I recently just did a yacht performance for DJ Hot Rod.

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That went really really good.

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That was a really good experience to have never performed on a boat.

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Yeah, that's a cool spot.

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And this past Sunday I performed at the Bagel Festival in Monticello.

00:25:41.704 --> 00:25:46.497
Okay, we have to talk about that because I was jealous that you guys have a bagel festival and we do not.

00:25:47.348 --> 00:25:47.630
Yeah.

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Do you guys have that every year?

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Yeah, it is every year, usually in August, bagels.

00:25:55.548 --> 00:25:56.832
I feel like bagels is for winter.

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I feel like bagels are for all year round.

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Did you get any bagels?

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I did not.

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I ate a brownie instead I feel like cheese steak.

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I mean, I live there.

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We got the bagel bakery right in town too.

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I didn't really want to bagel.

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I was there to perform.

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It was kind of boring after that.

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When you're a kid or when you're a late teen, it's a little exciting because it's something to do in that boring town.

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But when you're older, if you don't have an actual stand and you're not selling stuff or you're not there for an actual cause, it's boring.

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After I performed I woke up and down the strip, got some food and honestly left.

00:26:49.144 --> 00:26:51.211
Oh no, did other people perform?

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Yeah, there was a band there and there was an R&B singer.

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I was singing like old school songs.

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I'm not sure who performed After those two because, like I said, I wasn't.

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It's so funny, because I'm kind of like that too, like in in this space, in the podcast space, we're like you know, technically I should be listening to other podcasts.

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You know what other people doing, or whatever.

00:27:21.174 --> 00:27:22.805
I do not listen to podcast.

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I never lose it.

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I get I get bored kind of easily and like, like even performing I had to get used to being in clubs because like an Hour in I'm already yawning ready to go home.

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So, like you know, I have to like realize like, yeah, I'm here, this is the environment man, I'm an artist, like I have to be awake.

00:27:46.977 --> 00:27:53.532
Like I can't have that I'm ready to go to sleep mentality, even though I Was ready to go to sleep.

00:27:55.386 --> 00:27:56.069
No, I feel you.

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Club life is not for me.

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Yeah.

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Do you have any performances coming?

00:28:01.549 --> 00:28:07.929
up, I do, I'm performing for a live fashion show in Times Square.

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Sometimes performances get thrown at me last minute, like that, that yacht performance, literally.

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I found out two days before the actual event and they like made me a flyer quick and I posted it like for promo real quick, but like Um.

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So people don't have to just follow you.

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They don't have to.

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I might, I might have a performance coming up, but before the fashion show.

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Like I don't even know, like you know it, just, it just depends.

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I love that it's all happening so fast for you.

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Does it ever feel overwhelming?

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Um, it doesn't.

00:28:39.637 --> 00:28:49.198
It feels good because, like I said, I just feel like once I found my lane, it was just it was meant to happen, the way everything happened.

00:28:49.198 --> 00:29:17.595
So, like the fact that I am moving this fast like I'm not surprised because, like, I talk To myself, to God, to my family, every day and I tell them like this is what I really want to do, and I manifest Literally all of this and when I'm like, even when I'm having conversations with people, like not to sound, like, like I'm not a humble person or anything, because I am a very humble person, but like I'd be like, yeah, I'm about to be rich soon.

00:29:17.595 --> 00:29:18.479
I was really.

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I was like, yeah, so once this music take off, like I'll be telling people I'd be like, because people be watching my story, they, they, um, dm me and stuff all the time, like, like yo, I can't believe you.

00:29:29.795 --> 00:29:33.469
You just started doing music like, and you're actually like Doing it for real.

00:29:33.469 --> 00:29:38.625
You're like not doing it to be popular, like you're actually doing it and your music is good.

00:29:38.625 --> 00:29:47.868
So it's like I would tell people like, yeah, maybe you should like Especially local artists.

00:29:47.868 --> 00:29:56.684
Maybe you should consider maybe a feature, while you can, cuz, cuz once, once I, once I take off, yeah, I don't think you'll be able to afford these features.

00:29:56.684 --> 00:30:00.448
So you know, I'd be trying to tell people get up with me while you can, cuz.

00:30:00.448 --> 00:30:05.749
Once it takes off for real, it ain't no looking back and I'm definitely not coming back Um to Monticello.

00:30:05.769 --> 00:30:09.137
So she said yesterday's price is not today's price.

00:30:10.105 --> 00:30:13.699
She ain't come back to Monticello unless it's to race a racehorse.

00:30:14.099 --> 00:30:15.464
Bet money not even that.

00:30:15.464 --> 00:30:17.952
No, I'm gonna have to race horses somewhere else.

00:30:17.972 --> 00:30:18.595
No race horses.

00:30:18.595 --> 00:30:21.713
Rick Russ's house right.

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What are some goals that you have for yourself?

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Like with the music or in life both.

00:30:30.184 --> 00:30:38.013
So with the music, my goal is to make this my full-on career, like I want to live off of.

00:30:38.013 --> 00:30:44.881
My music pretty much Goes in life pretty much to keep traveling.

00:30:44.881 --> 00:30:46.184
I already been to a few different places.

00:30:46.184 --> 00:30:58.164
I already left the country once, so you know I just want to keep traveling because I really do enjoy traveling and I like traveling alone, which people think is weird, but I think it's very therapeutic.

00:30:58.164 --> 00:31:15.799
So just keep exploring the world, honestly doing what makes me happy, which is music, traveling and eventually, like Finding love, which seems to be extremely hard in this time of day in my generation.

00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:20.750
So, yeah, whenever that happens, what about?

00:31:20.849 --> 00:31:21.231
music.

00:31:22.375 --> 00:31:22.896
Do you have any?

00:31:22.936 --> 00:31:25.204
like specific goals, like you want to win a Grammy, or like you know what I mean.

00:31:26.411 --> 00:31:45.175
I don't know like I've thought into that, like far into that, but I think the furthest I've actually thought I don't think I've thought about a Grammy, but like a BET award for like best new artist is like what I picture and actually performing for the BET awards.

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I actually Thought about one day performing for summer jam, which I'm gonna actually try to make happen like very soon If I can, because I have, like you know, little connects and I'd be around people who know people who know people.

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