1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: Life Audio. 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 2: Hey Jay, thanks for joining me. Yes, sir, thanks for 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 2: having me. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 3: New Artists Jay King newest artist's alter Centricity Music's label. 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 2: He has any single? Hard Place. I really enjoyed listening 6 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 2: to your music. 7 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: Jay. 8 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 3: I didn't know who you were until maybe a few 9 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:19,440 Speaker 3: months ago, and now I wish i'd have known who 10 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 3: you were all along. So let's go tell me about 11 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 3: Hard Place. Is this a personal testimony song? Yeah, it's 12 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 3: kind of. It's my story. 13 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: Just I think it's like a hindsight if you look 14 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: back at your faith and your journey to salvation. 15 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 2: I mean, I was raised around church. 16 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Mike, but being around church 17 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: versus living a life that's given to the Lord is different. 18 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: And so I feel like I look back and I think, Man, 19 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: if I'm listening to this song from start to finish 20 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,520 Speaker 1: and I think about it in hindsight, it makes more sense. 21 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: You know, forgive me if I look a little rough 22 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: around the edges. When you're coming into faith, community and salvation, 23 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: we're rocky. Some people are still cursing some people. It's 24 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: that lifestyle of trying to do it the right way, 25 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: but you don't know what right is. You're just like, Okay, 26 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: here I am, and I know he saved me. He 27 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: met me in a hard place, and he is a 28 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: rock in the hard place, so I trust him. He's 29 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: redeemed me. That's a hard place. 30 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 3: How would you describe your style of music? It sounds 31 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 3: like there's a lot of different sounds in that song. 32 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 2: For what I could hear influence I was a drummer, 33 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 2: that would explain some of it. 34 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: I had to play a lot of different styles, so 35 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: when I started playing other instruments, I began to learn 36 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: all of those styles on every instrument. So it's kind 37 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: of like I would describe it as like a fusion 38 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 1: of things. It's like gospel but pop. A lot of 39 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: pop instincts in my lyrics because I'm a huge Michael 40 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: Jackson fan. I love his work, and so he would 41 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: do stuff you would go from like man in the 42 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: Mirror to beat It or Billy Gen It's like those 43 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: are two different worlds, or rock with you, and then 44 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: you've got pyt and it's like, man, I want to 45 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: be that like he had it all. So I like 46 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: the rock, I like the pop, I like the jazz, 47 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:08,959 Speaker 1: I like all of it. 48 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:10,959 Speaker 2: Tell me about Tell me about your your desire to 49 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:11,519 Speaker 2: be a musician. 50 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 3: Did you grow up with a desire to be a singer, 51 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 3: Because I noticed that you play your drummer, bass, guitarist, 52 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 3: you play the keys. That's three more than I can play. 53 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 3: So Jack, Yeah, tell me about tell me about your background. Well, 54 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 3: I was raised the church, the Church of God in Christ. 55 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 3: I was a Kojak kid. 56 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: My dad, though he wasn't in my life, he directed 57 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 1: a lot of the choirs, so I seen him every 58 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: week I was in rehearsals. I watched the way he 59 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: directed the choirs to learn parts. They would poke the 60 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 1: parts out through organ So you always had an organist 61 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: and a drummer, and I was his drummer, and so 62 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: that was kind of my introduction. And in the Koji church, 63 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: I mean, if you got a drummer and a great organist, 64 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: you pretty much are covering the whole thing. You start 65 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: adding a bass player or a guitarist that can play 66 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: in that environment, it's a crazy experience. 67 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,519 Speaker 2: So I kind of grew. 68 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: Up learning just listening to music. It would be anything 69 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: from gospel music to soul like the steviee Wonders of 70 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: the World. I started, I got introduced to aerosmith at 71 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 1: a very early age, so that's where the heavy guitar 72 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 1: stuff comes from. I love that sound, but I think 73 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: for me, I didn't think I would be an artist. 74 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: I didn't think i'd be singing because I didn't get 75 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: to sing until I was in like middle school or 76 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,920 Speaker 1: high school. So I had played drums, and then I 77 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: played sports during the week, and drums were just Sunday 78 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: morning things. But I was good at it. And then 79 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: I realized I wasn't growing and my youth pasts are 80 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: just giving me an opportunity to sing. So I wasn't 81 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: getting taller. I was like five foot one up through 82 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: high school and Florida sports is a whole nother world. 83 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: So there's guys coming in impressman year almost six foot 84 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: point eighty. They're big, and I'm five foot one, maybe 85 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: one hundred pounds soaking wet at that time, and so 86 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: I mean today six two and a half. But I 87 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: didn't have that height or that size then. So I 88 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: just leaned into music man and I still didn't think 89 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: it would be singing. I thought it would be as 90 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: a percussionist, but I was learning how to play guitar. 91 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: I was learning how to play bass and orchestra bass 92 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: and jazz band. I was just interested in music, and then, 93 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 1: I don't know, through leading worship at church, writing songs, 94 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 1: I started to discover my voice, excuse me. And as 95 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: I discovered my voice, songs just started to come out. 96 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. 97 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, Well it's interesting that you, you know, you a 98 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 3: lot of artists grow up singing in the church, but 99 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,159 Speaker 3: not all artists continue singing about the Lord. 100 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 2: And so I'm curious about why why have you chosen 101 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:44,599 Speaker 2: this path? 102 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 3: Because you're a talented guy, you can go, you can 103 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 3: go the path of a different genre. 104 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,599 Speaker 2: Why have you chosen Christian music the style of music. 105 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 3: That's a great question. Maybe it's the great questions. Maybe 106 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 3: it's just your testimony. Maybe your testimony is the reason, 107 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 3: and your testimony you're just marrying the testimony with your talent. 108 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: Well, I wrestle with the idea of what we call 109 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: Christian music as a whole. I get what we're trying 110 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: to say. We're saying songs that are faith based, but 111 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: it kind of takes on its like a separate agenda. 112 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 1: It's like got its own world that it lives in. 113 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 1: It doesn't live in the grand scheme of music. I 114 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 1: would say that I'm a Christian making music, so that's 115 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 1: going to lend itself to my values. Bleeding and what 116 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: I talk about, how I say things that automatically separates 117 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 1: what I can and can't say based on scripture. But 118 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 1: I think as an artist, I want to be able 119 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: to showcase that music goes beyond my faith. Like if 120 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 1: you weren't listening to words and the music was being played, 121 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 1: I would want you to be able to recognize that's pop, 122 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 1: or that's blues, or that's funk, or that's whatever. When 123 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: the words come in, that's where you encounter my story. 124 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: I'm making the music I'm making because God change my life, 125 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: and I believe that people are out there longing for 126 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 1: something more than these empty words and like the echo 127 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: chamber of their feelings and emotions. I think they want 128 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: substance without it feeling crammed down their throat all the time. 129 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 2: So I just want to deliver what. 130 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: Happened to me in my life, and I want to 131 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: meet people where they are. That's kind of the music 132 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: that we're making. 133 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting that you say that, because I agree 134 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 3: with what you said. It frustrates me that we tend 135 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 3: to call things Christian movies and Christian songs when other 136 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 3: genres don't categorize their stuff like that. You know, country 137 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:43,039 Speaker 3: country and rock and hip hop and other genres are 138 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 3: categorized by style, not the words. And you can't shove 139 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 3: lecree in with, you know, a worship band, right, it's 140 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 3: because it's completely different styles. So I know what you're saying. 141 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 3: I agree with you. And the same thing with Christian movies, 142 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 3: by the way, because sometimes I almost feel bad telling 143 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 3: somebody this is a really great Christian movie, because I'm 144 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 3: it's almost like for some people that's that's a good thing, 145 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 3: and for some people that's not. 146 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 2: It's like minimizing it, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And 147 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 2: so I yeah. 148 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 3: With art, you know, it's just it's a weird it's 149 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 3: a weird area that we're in right now where we 150 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 3: do call stuff Christian music and I have a Christian 151 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,559 Speaker 3: Music Awards show and then there's ten different styles of music. 152 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 2: I get it, man, I get it. 153 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 3: So so yeah, so how do you how have you 154 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 3: navigated that the last few years, because it does seem 155 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 3: like most things that you're putting out though, are about 156 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 3: your faith. 157 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's important to make it known. Believe, 158 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: I'm unashamed of talking about Jesus and what He's done 159 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: in my life. I have enough history in my my 160 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: family life and my background to write non Christian music 161 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: and be right on par like what we would call 162 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: keeping it a hundred, like just being very honest, being 163 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: very on the nose. But for me to talk about 164 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: where I've come from without saying and what God has 165 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: done in it, it's just as hypocritical as doing the opposite. 166 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: So I'm like, man, first of all, let me make 167 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: it clear that Jesus is the head of my life. 168 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:25,679 Speaker 1: One two. I love and respect every genre of music 169 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: so much. I wouldn't even mike. I wouldn't even say 170 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: I'm a keyboard player. I would say I'm truly a 171 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 1: drummer because I respect the art form so much. When 172 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: you say keys, in certain environments, they think of a 173 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: whole different virtuos virtuoso I can play, and I'm not 174 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: going to discredit that. But at the end of the day, 175 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: I'm making music that is coming from my heart, and 176 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: right now it's coming out as faith based as it 177 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: is because that's who I am. Ten years from now, 178 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 1: I'm still making music. You're still gonna hear me talk 179 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: about Jesus, but at some point it's gonna dip more 180 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: into the depth of what makes me who I am 181 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: and what may us who we are as people. 182 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 2: That's just reality. 183 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, Tory Kelly is it, Tory Kelly is Yeah, the 184 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 3: artists aament try to She's She's a good example of 185 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 3: what we're kind of talking about here as somebody who 186 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 3: is not a Christian artist but is a Christian and 187 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 3: her her music is phenomenal, but she's a bold believer. 188 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 3: And so there are quite a few out there like 189 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 3: that that you know, and I think, I think a 190 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 3: lot of artists don't want that label because of what 191 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 3: they don't want it to be viewed in other minds, 192 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 3: and that is less than good. When Christian music right now, 193 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 3: Christian Christian music right now, I would argue Christian music 194 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 3: right now like I listened to I listened to a 195 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 3: lot of CHH I listened to Lucrae and Aniemineo and 196 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 3: guys like that, and that's that's. 197 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: As good as Yeah, I always random this project just 198 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: came out. 199 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I always mispronounce his name. But that stuff 200 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 3: is just as good as any hip hop on the 201 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:58,559 Speaker 3: mainstream radio. And so you know, I don't know, it's 202 00:09:58,600 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 3: just it's just the way. 203 00:09:59,280 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 2: It's just the way we. 204 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: Let so saying man like I being called a Christian 205 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 1: artist doesn't phaze me. I am Christian and I am 206 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: making music, but it may offend some that it doesn't 207 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: always lean as hard as we think Christian music is 208 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,719 Speaker 1: as a genre. To me, it has to. If it 209 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 1: can't hold a bucket to what's happening in music, it's 210 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 1: just not good music at the end of the day. 211 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 3: And I think also I've heard some artists say that 212 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 3: they don't want it labeled that because they're afraid they 213 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 3: won't even be sampled by other people, like some some 214 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 3: some teenager out there might not even give their music 215 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 3: a shot if they know all that's Christian when they 216 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 3: were like when then when they might like it, and 217 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 3: then it's an end road to the gospel. Anyway, I'm 218 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 3: preaching here, Sorry about that, brother, No, I'm good, bro, Jay, 219 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 3: give me your testimony before we close here. How did 220 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 3: you you grew up in the church, But at what 221 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 3: point did you realize, Hey, I've got to make this 222 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 3: my own personal decision. 223 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, middle school, I was at the Ramp in Hamilton, Alabama. 224 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: I had an encounter with the Holy Spirit at that camp, 225 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 1: and life wasn't perfect after that, But my life wasn't 226 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: the same like I was forever changed. I had an 227 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 1: experience that transcended my reality. I started having visions. I 228 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: started having dreams things that didn't match the lifestyle I 229 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 1: was in. My mom is a single parent raising four kids. 230 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: Money is very tight. I can barely participate in extracurriculus. 231 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: I don't know how I'm going to make it to college. 232 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 1: I got good grades, but how do I do it? 233 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 1: Usually you got the money and supportive family. Like none 234 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: of it made sense, and I'm just out here, Like, Lord, 235 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 1: you have to show up. And he did. He met 236 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 1: me when I was thirteen. I leaned into it. Like 237 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: I said, I wasn't perfect. I like to party. I 238 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: like to have a great time. So the God was 239 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: really working things out in me throughout high school into college. 240 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 1: And yeah, I just started leading worship and just started 241 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: trusting the Lord every day I show up at church. 242 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: After I graduated, I've worked for my church and I 243 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 1: would go to college. I said, I'm going to try 244 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 1: to just chase the Lord. Every day I would mess up. 245 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:58,319 Speaker 1: I get up, mess up, get up, and here I am. 246 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: You know, fourteen years later, still messing up and trusting God. 247 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 1: Messing up and trusting God. Yeah, it's like cleaning out 248 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 1: a house. It doesn't happen overnight. You know, you got 249 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: to work at it a little bit forward. Just keep going, 250 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,679 Speaker 1: Just keep me going. Jay has anything else you want 251 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:14,959 Speaker 1: us to know about your career? What's going on maybe 252 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,680 Speaker 1: with you or maybe what's the future with you? Yeah, 253 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 1: I would say to anybody that gets to hear this, 254 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 1: my whole message is spreading faith, hope, and love, one 255 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 1: song at a time. And all that simply means is 256 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: if you're breathing right now, your story's not over. If 257 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 1: it seems helpless, if it seems hopeless, if you feel 258 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 1: like you're at a crossroads, listen, I've been there. If 259 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 1: you just call on the name of Jesus, if you 260 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 1: just share with somebody, Man, I don't know what to 261 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 1: do next. I'm at the end. 262 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 2: Call o Jesus. 263 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, he comes in, He meets you in 264 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: a real way, and you can expect from me in 265 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six and beyond, I'm gonna be releasing songs, 266 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: songs of folk, songs of joy, songs of love, and 267 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: I hope to be a blessing to you as an 268 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: artist that just understands where you are and it's just 269 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: trying to write and give you a lifeline. 270 00:12:59,480 --> 00:12:59,959 Speaker 2: Then we talk. 271 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 3: Jking is a website jking dot com. It's jay E 272 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 3: by the way, king dot com as a new song 273 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 3: out as a new song out as well, hard Placed. 274 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:08,719 Speaker 3: I really enjoyed that. 275 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 2: Hey, Jay, good talking to you. Thanks so much, Thanks Mike. 276 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 2: If you like today's. 277 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 3: Episode, please subscribe and leave a five star review. That's 278 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 3: how we help more people just like you find the show. 279 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 3: A big thanks to the team at life Audio for 280 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 3: their partnership with us on the podcast. 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