WEBVTT - NEYO - Cinnamon Toast Crunch 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:28.320 My brother. Welcome to Eating Broke. Welcome to Eating wall Broke. 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.240 I can't write songs, but with someone that can write 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:36.120 some songs. Who, yes, who I am with? I flew 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.839 all the way to Atlanta, got out of the podcast 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:43.279 studio to be with what's going on everyone? My name 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:45.879 is Barry No, but I write the songs and make 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:50.280 the whole world sing. Can you just sing like one classic, 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.479 just one line so the whole world can know who 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.520 I'm sitting with. Alright, alright, alright, you're ready at the 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:01.959 cobra Coka bana. Let's know what you know. I'm very 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.080 mentally you asked me to no, I want, I want 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:10.919 the real Okay, alright, the real and I'm so sick 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:16.240 of love song so side up tease, so done, we 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:23.119 wish And you still said I'm so sick love, so 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:27.160 so sad and slow? So why can't I tune off 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:34.320 through radio? Yeah? I smile and so oh my gosh, 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:36.360 this was like probably the best moment of my life 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:43.119 right now. That was amazing. I am with Neo, y'all. 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:48.200 I am in your space. Yes, yes, this is Compound 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.960 Studios here in Atlantuck. Yes, yeah, man, this is where 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.080 the magic happens. This is where the magic happens, and 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.000 this is where we get to watch and listen to 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:00.680 what Neo used to eat when he was bro on 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.120 the come up, on the come up, what are you 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.560 gonna have us eating? First of all, well, so we 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.919 did not come up with a lot of money. Um, 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.880 dad checked out relatively early. So it was my my 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.480 mom and my sister, uh moved to Las Vegas and 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.799 we're living in the house, my mother, my sister, my grandmother, 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.040 five aunts, and meat right until I was like sixteen, 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.240 a lot of estrogen in the crib um. So me 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:26.800 and my sister we were alone a lot because my 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.959 mom had like five six jobs at all times, easily. 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.680 So uh it was a lot of you know, syrup 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:38.040 sandwiches and catch up sandwiches and basically any condiment that 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.120 we could find in the refrigerator, put it between two 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:41.839 pieces of bread and that was the sandwich. We see. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:43.320 There a lot of that is that because you guys 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.480 couldn't cook, or well I couldn't cook, and then there 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:51.160 was nothing to cook, you know, which makes it harder 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:55.359 to uh. So, so it was a lot of that. Uh, 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.560 it was a lot of noodles and cereal. Cereal was 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.919 kind of the saving grace, you know, didn't always have milk, 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:02.720 but we have some cereals. Throw that thing in the 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:04.760 cup and take it outside with you, like, we used 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.280 to do a lot of that. Yeah, and we didn't 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:11.080 have the name brand cereals, and name brand cereals were luxury, 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.280 like like the cinnamon toast crunch, for example, is my 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:17.640 all time favorite cereal, and we didn't we didn't have 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.239 cinnamon toast crunch. We had the cereal came into bags 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:25.840 that was kind of like not fruit loops, is fruit rings, 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:31.280 Centamon toast crunches is toast squares or something something, but 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.320 you knew what it was, yeah, exactly. So, yeah, we 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:34.560 did a lot of that. We did a lot of that. 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.040 But every now and then moms were splurs and we 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:41.320 can get the real. Every blue moon we get the real. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:46.680 So today we're eating the real day, we are eating 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:52.720 our luxury struggle meal, actual cinnamon toast crunch, not the 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.560 imitation that comes in the bag. That's honestly not even bad. 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.560 It's hobnoutly just as good. It just don't say cinnam 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.920 toast crum. Really you think it's just as good. Sometimes 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:03.560 I used to feel like it used to leave like 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.720 a little residue in my mouth on the like the fruit, 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.680 the fake fruit fruit, the fruit rings. The fruit rings 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.880 had a little funny Yeah, you had to be careful 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:18.160 with those. The not Captain Crunch, but sergeant or whatever. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.040 It had a little bit of joints, his cutting roofi mouth. 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.360 This is what it is. Regardless of get the name 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.240 brand or the other one. They both chopping you up. Yeah. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.680 So when you were eating cereal, were you and we well, 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.560 I guess we'll pour a glass a bowl. So when 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.040 you were eating seah when I was growing up, we 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.760 would pile up the bowls high, and then of course 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.080 your parents would come in and be like, don't eat 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.719 the ball to cereal? Where you like that or where 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.080 you you know, just five or ten pieces in the 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.880 trying to make a last it's activating math. Nope, I 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.920 was definitely trying to make last. That was me. So 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:03.000 I was I was the one kid my sister's hues. Yeah, 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.279 that's right. But then I was very I was very 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.520 much I understood, especially if we had the real, the 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.400 real deal that week, It's like, all right, now, let 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.200 me chill out because I need this to last a 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.279 little while. Yeah, I mean my point for you. Oh yeah, 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:20.680 go for it. I was gonna try and disrespect disrespect 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.320 reasonable amount. Okay, this is a struggle meal, meaning we 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:28.360 are not splurging. Okay, we can't splurt. I'm glad you're 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.240 pouring it because because Okay, so now this is a 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.240 real deal. Now how much milk are we talking? Are 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:37.000 we going in the cup with the backyard or um? Well, 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.680 today today we have milk. The cup in the backyard 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.440 is but it ain't no milk. But what kind of 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.320 milk were you? You You was drinking the We was drinking 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.800 cow milk back then, at least we thought it was 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.560 cow mill I don't know we were drinking Yeah. Yeah, 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.320 this the whole almond milk thing didn't happen UNI until 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.760 much later in life when I realized that I'm not 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:03.280 a baby cow actually a baby cow. That's not even 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.680 necessary to get it in. Look, how much milky? Poor, 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.040 that's not a lot? What are you talking? Oh my gosh, 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.159 I wish cameras becazoom in on. You eat cereal like 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.240 white people. You have milk just in the bottom of 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:17.400 the that's yes, you know what's so funny you say that, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.320 But I get made fun of in my house for 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:25.080 not being black enough. So like, literally today, this is 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.880 why you're so white. You eat cereal. Look you're eating 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.719 it like it's soup. What are you talking about? What this? 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:34.960 This is what it's supposed to be. That was way 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:39.880 too much. I'm so glad. Wow, we should have a 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.039 pole on whether it's black or white if you have 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.080 too much milk, because that's black people use a lot 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.600 of milk all of my Okay, well, so when I 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.480 was coming up, all of my white friends got to 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.599 stay at the house, and you know, see what money 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.680 look like and stuff, but they would always eat be 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.280 a full bowl of cereal and be a glass bowl. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:06:59.920 You don't both Like in the commercial, that's what I 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.440 last bowl. You can see all the cereal and it's 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.680 milk just in the bottom of the boat, and I'm like, 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.479 how the hell do you eat it like that? That's 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.480 so by the time you get to the stuff at 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.840 the bottom, it's all salt, gross, Like yeah, but you 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:14.120 know how at the end of the bowl you get 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.080 to like drink the milk. Look how much milk you 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.120 gotta drink? What are you talking about? This is this 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:23.280 is full. I'm full all day from this because again 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.600 we're talking about struggle meals, right, so this might have 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.080 been breakfast, sand lunch. This might have been brunched right here. 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.200 You were really struggling trying to tell you can we 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.880 try and we know what this is. This is O 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:40.320 G classic. I still eat this cereal every every crack, 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:53.080 crack on the drugs, but cracks. When you pulled up today, 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.360 you were driving a white I don't know if that 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:02.440 was a Bentley. You know you're with these luxury style cars. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.480 I just knew it looked like a couple hundred grand 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:11.960 on wheels, maybe more than get a specific just embarrassing. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:17.080 So what do you think eating cereal trying to make 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.920 it last for a couple of meals to driving that car? 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:25.040 Do you ever think back, like I can't believe all 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:29.280 the time all the time. Yeah, man, I Um, I 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:33.520 can vividly remember the things that we I mean, we didn't. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.440 After a while, me and my sister, we were kind 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:37.440 of stopped being hung up on the things that we 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.280 wanted because we knew we didn't. Just the money is 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:45.480 just not there, right, So I recall vividly. Um just 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.360 focusing on the things that we needed in those things, 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.840 even not even being there sometimes because again so many 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.880 people in this house. Everybody's doing what they can and 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:57.400 make ends meet or whatever. But yeah, man, we just 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.120 did not come from luxury at all. So to be 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:04.679 where I am now, it's like it's it's almost surreal, 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:06.720 you know what I mean. And now as now as 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:10.800 a parent myself, I'm trying to I'm battling with my 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:12.400 kids are not growing up the way I grew up. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.640 You know, I grew up appreciating money. Because when you 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.960 have nine, my kids are coming up the rich already. 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:19.880 They came out to womb rich. So I gotta make 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:21.920 sure that I don't raise little heathens, you know, little 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.240 helliens that's run around spoiled as hell, expecting the world 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.000 to just, you know, catch how to them. How are 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:32.280 you able to kind of see through all of the 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.679 riff raff and eventually become neo? Like was there something 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.760 going on that inspired you at that point? Um? Well, 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:47.720 at this point, so from age seven, seven nine, somewhere 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.320 in there, at this point, I'm I'm completely engulfed in 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.520 music now, not not from a professional standpoint, I'm not 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.520 doing it trying to get a deal or anything like that. 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.560 It's it's my therapy at this point, like my mom 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.439 gave me the read notebook. Um, at a point where 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.840 I started becoming a knucklehead a little bit, just primarily 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.840 because I'm becoming a young man and I got nobody 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:12.400 to bounce these emotions and families off, right, So I 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.560 started doing silly ship, just just kind of lashing out 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.000 for no reason. Not for a reason, of course, but 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:19.960 so my mom gave me this red notebook and she 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.720 said write it down, and that was the beginnings of 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.559 my My songwriting journey started with with journal entries initially, 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.600 and I used to call it rant writing because whenever 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:30.040 I was getting into that place where I was like, 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.360 just grab my little my pin in my pad and write, 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.760 and first it would be words and then scribbles and whatever. 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.000 But what I realized that once I was done doing that, 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.240 whatever I was feeling, I didn't feel it no more, 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.480 because it wasn't in me anymore. It's on the page now. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:48.320 So the music is is there, but it's not so 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.320 much something that I'm doing to try to make money 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.280 or be famous or anything like that. That didn't happen 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:58.959 until like maybe eleventh grade of high school. Yeah, so 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:03.160 this whole time you're writing, so every day all day 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:07.520 and now we're these Was it like in a poetry 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.760 format yet or no? Or was it just like almost 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.120 like journaling? First it was journaling, then it became poetry 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.040 once I learned how much I like girls but was 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:21.040 not brave enough to talk to them. Wow, okay, all 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.439 what Nope? Nope, nope, nope. Was not that dude. Um 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:29.400 funny side story, So growing up in Las Vegas, there's 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.720 not a lot for kids to do, At least initially 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.480 there wasn't. All we really had with Circus Circus. Circus 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.240 Cercus one of the first casinos that you hit on 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:40.280 the strip. It's still there. It's like circus acts and 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.480 all of that type of ship. So every weekend, me 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.400 and my friends we would go to Circus Circus, walking 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.040 round upstairs. And mind you, they were the ones that 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.640 was brave enough to talk to girls. But I was like, 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.480 they're they're like acing the whole because like they were 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:54.720 going to try to talk to the girls, and if 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.560 the girls wasn't interested, they'd be like, you know what, 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:01.240 my boy can sing A boy that you want to 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:05.600 see you a song quick, I'm like, and then I 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:09.199 sing and then the night will go well, but that 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:14.160 was smart. Yeah. My first manager was my best friend 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:18.760 Kevin was up there. Yeah wow, so they was using 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:20.920 Now No part of you was like, well I could 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.400 do this, maybe just hum up to a girl, you know. No, 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.280 not not on my own. I just I didn't have 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:30.120 that confidence because, mind you, I'm broke. I looked broke, right, 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.480 It's very obvious that I'm broke. So I was that 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.480 broke dude who could sing a little bit, but definitely 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.800 that broke through Did you get made fun up in school? Yeah? 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:44.160 All that stuff that I was so so aside from 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:48.000 me being broke, um uh. God chose to to make 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:51.160 my hair situation a running joke in my life. Right. 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:58.200 My hair started finding here when I was maybe ten, right, 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.480 and it just kind of continued on through high school 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.600 to the point where I was allowed to wear my 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:04.160 hat because I used to get in fights all the 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:09.360 time and hid people talking about wow, didn't you wasn't 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.000 shaving it then? Or no no, no, no, no, no no, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.439 because that that felt I'm ten years old, like, I 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.320 don't want to be bald. I didn't want that in 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.400 mind you, I wasn't a I wasn't like really a 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.760 sports kid, so I wasn't like looking up to Jordan 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.520 and all of that. Like the high school I went 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.800 to didn't even have a team. It was a performing 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:28.680 arts high school. So I've been I've been an artie 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.920 farci kid like my whole life. Okay, okay, now you're 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.600 you're saying that you were shy with women. You start 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.400 to your discovering writing, So is it like you would 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.440 see a girl then, because I have to know where 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.480 like the love songs come from, like the most amazing 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.280 love songs, So it's like you see her and you're 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:51.480 like pretty much yep. I had poems about girls, hair, 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:56.160 poems about girls, eyes, poems about uh, it's just the 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.480 things that I liked about these girls. But I would 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:00.680 never be brave enough to give the poem to the 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.480 girl or recite the poem to the girl. So it 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.920 was just sit in the book. So one day and 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:09.720 mind you, my mother, everybody in my family does something musical, 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:14.120 bid writing, singing, rapping and producing instrument whatever something, so 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.800 music has like kind of always been there. So before 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.360 I started writing songs again, it was it was journal entries, 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.400 then poetry, and then one day I realized that if 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.640 I took these poems and put these melodies to him, 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.640 that's that's flowing through my head all day anyway, that's 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.600 a song, oh ship. And then from there just it 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.800 was songs. It was every time I sat down to write, 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.280 I was writing a song. I write a song, singing 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:41.560 back to myself, a cool put the notebook back into 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.520 my bed, and going by, Now, did you share these 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.080 songs with your family? Oh? So you was keeping your 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.520 stuff a secret. It was for me. It was for 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.800 me because mind you, it was. It was again, it 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.920 was my therapy. It was whenever I, you know, came 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.520 home from school and and you know, people have been 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.240 talking ship or whatever the case may be, or or 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:02.960 you know, me and my sister got in an argument 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.280 about something. Me and my sister really really close. So 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.560 whenever we would fight a big deal, because like that's 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.520 like like we're not twins for two years apart, but 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.200 we might as well be twins. That's that's my twin, right. 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:17.440 So it was it was. It was therapy. It wasn't 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.640 it wasn't about being fly, It wasn't about making money. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.440 I didn't even realize I could make money doing it, 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.240 yet at this point I'm just doing it because it 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.400 feels good. So what happens in the eleventh grade where 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.040 you're like, uh, pop concert? So I told you, I 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:34.600 went to performing out of high school every year and 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.480 thought this big talent show that they were called pop 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.200 Concert and it was a major, major, major, major deal 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.640 to everybody in the school except for me and the 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.120 people that I was with. I was an art major, right, 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.480 so we would they would they would have us like 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:49.840 make banners and flyers and stuff. But that's the only 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.320 thing that we would be that we would be obligated 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.400 to do for the pop concert because we were artists. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.280 They don't the singers and the dancers and the tech 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:02.040 guys like that it is for them. So every year 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.080 the art majors just kind of like the grassy no kids, 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:06.720 you know what I'm saying. So we're kind of sitting 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.520 back laughing at how serious everybody is taking this pop concert. 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:16.320 I think people in the cafteria crying can't get the stuff, like, relax, 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:18.840 you're not getting signed by this, Okay, that's not happening. 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:23.360 To calm down. So um, me and my me and 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.200 my art friends. We decided this year that we was 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.680 gonna just do something to kind of ease the tension 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.840 for everybody, or at least that's what we thought, right, 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.400 So we pulled straws. I pulled the short straw. The 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:39.080 plan was, find a way to get on the concert. 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:43.320 Right when you get on stage, stand up moon the 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:50.240 crowd running Ohan. So I pulled the short straw. That 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.520 was how you were going to ease the tension? Yeah, 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:54.240 I mean because it was. It was It was just 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.800 us making fun of how how serious everybody was taking 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:58.960 It was like, y'all think, y'all let the Grammys right now. 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:04.680 We're in high school. Seriously relaxed. But but anyway, So 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:09.560 so I went to the choir room and I sang 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.800 Boysmen into the Road, and the choir teacher was like, 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:14.879 why are you not in my class? Because I'm not 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.719 a singer? Sure I guess you are? Now? Am I am? 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.679 I end? She said, yeah, all right back, because I again, 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:23.880 I didn't have the confidence in myself to like take 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.199 it seriously. But even though your friends kept making you 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.680 sing in front of girls, yeah, but you didn't say 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:33.600 I'm a singer. Wow, It didn't dawn on me. At 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.920 that point. So night at the concert, I get up there. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.119 You know, everybody's like, you know what you gotta do? 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:43.400 You got to playing? All right? Great? Cool, So get 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:48.240 on the stage. The song starts, boys, well, no, no, no no, 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.280 that's that's I make love to you into the road 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:56.160 do yeah. Um. So funny thing happened because I knew 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:57.960 what I was supposed to do. I knew what the 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.080 plan was. As soon as the song starts, act like 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:04.080 I'm gonna sing, I stopped turn around moon run right 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:08.520 the plan. As soon as the song started, I kid 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.439 you not. I kid you not. As soon as the 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.280 song started, I looked up and the room was empty. 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:17.240 The crowd was not there anymore, and I'm uh, and 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.680 I just started singing, and I just sang the song. 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.359 I sang the whole song that once I realized the 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:24.440 crowd wasn't there anymore, I just closed my eyes and 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.560 sang the whole damn song. And then by the time 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.280 was up, mind you, the song ended to no applause 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.560 because everybody was like, that's a little thing to be 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:40.760 drawing the pictures. It was one of those ones, right. 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:43.600 So the following day, and this is this is when 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:45.600 I started really thinking, all right, maybe I could, maybe 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:47.800 I could do this as a professional. Following day, all 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:49.560 of a sudden, I'm getting all kind of attention that 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.280 I never got before. Girls shape for shaper' is my 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:59.360 real name then, and that doesn't want shaper So so 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.199 roughly after that, a friend of mine that went to 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.680 another school. Because mind you, at this point, people are talking. 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:10.000 It's Vegas is a little people are talking like sing. 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:13.159 So he comes to me it's like, um, me and 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.240 my friends were putting together a singing group. I won't 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:19.200 know if you want to be a part of group. Like, okay, 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.080 in mind you. Even at this point, I'm not like, yeah, 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:23.560 I'm gonna become a part of this group and we're 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:25.119 gonna get a record deal and we're gonna make a 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.760 million sell a million records. It wasn't that yet. It 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.320 was just this is another opportunity for me to write 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:36.520 and sing because this is what I love to do. Wow, now, 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:42.399 your sister, everyone around you is not saying, oh, baby, bro, like, 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:49.720 well you're you're younger, right, I'm older, big bro. I'll 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:55.080 tell you why. Because so in my family, my sister, 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:59.480 my sister sings as well. But my sister was born ready, 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:01.439 like she didn't have to. I had to. I had 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:06.200 to train and and and practice and become a good singer. 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.400 She was born with it, right. I heard her ship 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:11.800 is effortless, like she'll come in here and blow the 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:14.320 roof off this place. I think she don't have She 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:16.280 don't have the drive that I have, which is why 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:21.000 I'm here and she's not. But the skill. And I 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:24.160 didn't know you could practice to get as good as you, yeah, 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:26.840 because I thought it was amongst the way you. You 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:31.200 just did a little, and I was like, remind you, 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:34.560 I've been doing this since I was ninety two. Anything 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:36.680 you do for that long, I should hope you get 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:38.880 a little good at it. So you're saying like, if 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:42.400 I practice really hard, if you are not horrible singing 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:45.080 in the shower, if you are not toned there, I'm 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.280 definitely you are. If I sang a tone to you 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:51.240 couldn't repeat that tone, I guarantee you I will think 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.600 I repeated it and you will be like, let's just 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:57.520 the literal definition of tone death, right, got it? Got it? 0:20:57.600 --> 0:20:59.600 I've been like, oh I hit that, I killed him 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:05.240 Marai and then not. Ye, that's what tone death is. 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:09.040 When if I go h and you go uh and 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:12.320 you think they were doing the same note, that's Tom Death. Okay, 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:19.160 I loke. You want to practice this off quickly? Okay, 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:23.119 no no, no, no no, no, no, no nice nice in 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:26.119 middle of the road. Okay, ready, here we go. Uh 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:36.760 do it again? Uh you're laughing? Okay one time when 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:45.600 I promise you, okay, just repeat what I do. Uh damn. 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:51.480 I'm tone death can never be a singer, well not necessarily, 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.960 so there there's there have been cases where tone deaf 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:59.240 people learned how to sing, but it is exceptionally harder 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:04.199 because you're you literally can't hear the tones. Oh so, 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:08.720 I'm like, you're good at so many other things accepted, 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:15.920 You'll never I can't cook. Is that why weingrunch right now? 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:18.520 Because I can't cook yet? But put me in the 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:23.880 kitchen and you don't want your house clearly because it's 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:34.680 going up. So I'm sorry, I got us all off 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:39.040 off track. So you joined this boy group. Trying to 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:42.600 get you back on. So you joined the boy group. Okay, 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:45.840 my name was in the because you're from Nevada in 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.359 the boats lage in the y. I don't thought that 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:53.159 she was so cool and he about don't back. So 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:56.760 you joined the guy group. And then you're like, at 0:22:56.800 --> 0:22:59.760 what point does it start to you start to realize 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:04.520