Speaker 1: When did You Fall in Love with Hip Hop? Close
Speaker 1: Out hip Hop Recognition Month, def Jam and Double Elvis
Speaker 1: present Here Comes the Breaks Soundtrack and Oh to the
Speaker 1: yester years of hip hop and the music and storytelling
Speaker 1: We're one experienced tracks by artists like Bobby Sessions, Nasty c, Novaa,
Speaker 1: Jo Lee, Being Overdo, and introducing Boston's Own, all in
Speaker 1: a continuous blend of original music, scenes from the podcast,
Speaker 1: story and artist interviews. Listen to the Here Comes the
Speaker 1: Break Soundtrack by Def Jam and Double Elvis on Spotify,
Speaker 1: Apple Music, Title or wherever you stream music. And to
Speaker 1: tell you more about the podcast and the featured artists,
Speaker 1: here's Jake Brennan, host of Disgrace Land, so on your show,
Speaker 1: Here Comes to Break, can't talk about Here Comes to
Speaker 1: Break without first talking about deaf jam. Def Jam, as
Speaker 1: you probably know, has been a massive force in popular
Speaker 1: music for almost forty years now. Ever, since Russell Simmons
Speaker 1: and Rick Ruben decided to create a record label out
Speaker 1: of a dorm room at n y U back in
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties, we've covered some huge def Jam legacy
Speaker 1: artists in dis Raceline episodes, most notably Run DMC and
Speaker 1: Jay z and it's been really incredible for Double Elvis
Speaker 1: to collaborate with def Jam on this hip hop inspired podcast.
Speaker 1: But instead of focusing on legacy artists from def jam
Speaker 1: stack catalog, Here Comes the Break's host Asanty Black, you
Speaker 1: might know from NBC's This Is Us. He uses the
Speaker 1: narrative of the show to talk with emerging artists and
Speaker 1: they debut songs from those artists on the podcast on
Speaker 1: Here Comes to Break, new songs that you can't find
Speaker 1: anywhere else. The show is super unique, and then it
Speaker 1: combines these real interviews with a fictional narrative told from
Speaker 1: the point of view of a young podcaster named Reuben,
Speaker 1: played by a Santy Black, Reuben Rick Ruben def Jam
Speaker 1: Here Comes to Break. But I digress. At the pulse
Speaker 1: of this show are these real, live interviews and if
Speaker 1: you haven't heard yet, here's a little taste. There's so
Speaker 1: much going on in the world. What role does your
Speaker 1: music played during the time of revolution? That's crazy because
Speaker 1: I've been like reflecting on that. It's anitas to own
Speaker 1: interview that she did, and she said that as an artist,
Speaker 1: our job is to reflect the time, and so I've
Speaker 1: been been pushing It's difficult because when you start off
Speaker 1: as a certain type of artist, everyone's just like ARTI
Speaker 1: standing this lame, famous lane. But when you start seeing
Speaker 1: your people, in your black women and black men dealing
Speaker 1: with so many things, you start kind of getting that
Speaker 1: revolutionary strike going on. And so it's just been forcing
Speaker 1: me to more so speak about what I've dealt with
Speaker 1: as an African American artist. You know, sometimes you can't
Speaker 1: just release a record we want to. So I've just
Speaker 1: been kind of hammering people on the head like this
Speaker 1: isn't right. Aggressive. I guess you can say I've been
Speaker 1: a really aggressive artist. This is not only their problem,
Speaker 1: it's my problem. Don't sounds central? Yeah, how's the influence
Speaker 1: she was an artist? I appreciate my experience kind of
Speaker 1: like moded me as a woman and as a human.
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of things. I've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of darkness of you know, just I can go down
Speaker 1: the list, but it helps me. I guess it helps
Speaker 1: you be strong and sensitive at the same time and creativity,
Speaker 1: Like it's so much art. I know. Sometimes I'll just
Speaker 1: drive onto the hood and I like, I'm in the
Speaker 1: hood all the time and I'm shopping. Slawson and everything,
Speaker 1: and that's where all the art comes from. It doesn't
Speaker 1: come from being in Beverly Hills and being in Talking
Speaker 1: Santa Monica and all these things. It's like the arts
Speaker 1: where the people are. I have show remember all the grinding,
Speaker 1: and so sometimes I'm just like, I deserve this. I
Speaker 1: deserve this, I deserve this. I created this, I made this.
Speaker 1: But what I've been noticing now as a young woman,
Speaker 1: is that my over it. And so because I dealt
Speaker 1: with so many traumatic experiences like throughout my career, and
Speaker 1: so the thing that's helping me let it go is alright,
Speaker 1: creating music. Talk your feelings out and then you have
Speaker 1: to let it go or else I'm not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to evolve until the next person if I keep
Speaker 1: holding onto all the trauma. And so I think that's
Speaker 1: how the background is starting to shape me. It's just
Speaker 1: I'm starting to process. Hello, dude, you're not always okay,
Speaker 1: and this ship was sucked up and you gotta release.
Speaker 1: And so that's what it's doing. I don't make music,
Speaker 1: and it might sound crazy, it's like, I don't really
Speaker 1: make music because I want to to help people. But
Speaker 1: I'm doing it because this is my only sense of
Speaker 1: therapy at itself. I can't talk to someone about it
Speaker 1: because no one gets it. If I make the music
Speaker 1: for some reason, that's the only way I can help. Wow. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's powerful. That's powerful. Um Okay, what advice would you
Speaker 1: give to emerging artists just getting started who want to
Speaker 1: signs for labels? I mean, I guess the best advice
Speaker 1: to be you gotta be patient. You know, this is
Speaker 1: a new generation, no only my twenties, and so we
Speaker 1: want ship expeditiously like instant coffee. Be patient, have intuition
Speaker 1: about the situation. There's gonna be times where everyone is
Speaker 1: wrong and you're the right one, and you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to speak up for yourself and just like now, man like,
Speaker 1: that's not the hell I want to do. But you
Speaker 1: also have to continue to be humble because you know,
Speaker 1: don't shoot yourself at the foot because your label, they're
Speaker 1: all working for you, not against you. Sew them in
Speaker 1: to start off too serious. But in learning your bank story,
Speaker 1: I learned that when you were young, your mom was
Speaker 1: in prison and you and your siblings were left to
Speaker 1: survive on your own until thankfully and relatives stepped in
Speaker 1: to support you. How old. You know, I'm twenty four,
Speaker 1: and then happened when you were a teenager? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was about I want to say, maybe about thirteen
Speaker 1: or twelve or fourteen. Maybe I don't want to make assumptions,
Speaker 1: But now that you're an adult and you're pursuing your
Speaker 1: own dreams as a music artist, why would you say
Speaker 1: it contributed from that experience to what type of person
Speaker 1: you are now because of it. I mean, honestly, I
Speaker 1: feel like I feel like the main thing that made
Speaker 1: me is just like it made me really strong, because
Speaker 1: I feel like I tell my story to people and
Speaker 1: they're like not amazed, but they're just like really like wow,
Speaker 1: like you went through that. But to me, it's kind
Speaker 1: of normal. I feel like it's like, yeah, like that's
Speaker 1: is that bad? And I just feel like it made
Speaker 1: me strong because if I look at that like, oh
Speaker 1: that's it's it's nothing. Yeah. I just feel like it
Speaker 1: made me like a really strong person, Like the way
Speaker 1: I look at things, the way I handle certain situations,
Speaker 1: the way I react. I just feel like it definitely
Speaker 1: toughed me up. You know, I'm just a simple person.
Speaker 1: I like the simple things. I'm just like a cool
Speaker 1: chilled person. When I think of Florida, I don't think
Speaker 1: of put as far as like all this is concerned.
Speaker 1: I know that all artists out there, but my mind
Speaker 1: goes first to say Miami, to talk about what the
Speaker 1: music scene is like in Temple. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: a love hate relationship, you know how So it's kind
Speaker 1: of like a love hate relationship. If you ask ten
Speaker 1: different rappers, you're gonna get ten different answers in Tampa
Speaker 1: because you know, certain people on on different levels to
Speaker 1: other people, so they feel like they were teasing and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. When you build your fan base to
Speaker 1: what they like from you, that makes the fans. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't really have a specific sound right now,
Speaker 1: but we got a few artists that signed, and we
Speaker 1: got a few artists doing anything agingly too, so you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: like listening to their music. And and also I went
Speaker 1: back and like Rick Ross has his own sound. Ace
Speaker 1: Hood who's from Florida too, has his own sound trick Daddy.
Speaker 1: So that's interesting that you said that bigger picture. Can
Speaker 1: you talk about being signed to a major label and
Speaker 1: how has that transition? What was that transition like for you?
Speaker 1: I mean it was pretty easy because I always kind
Speaker 1: of like care of myself, like I was important anyway
Speaker 1: before I was signed, So it's like it's just like
Speaker 1: a label. Now I'm actually signed, so you know, I
Speaker 1: have a reason not to go to the club all
Speaker 1: the time and stuff help me save more money and
Speaker 1: a long run. How did you develop your fan base?
Speaker 1: Instagram is the most amazing thing that guy ever crazy.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you're collected to your fans that way?
Speaker 1: Do you recomments? Do you respond back to comments? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I clapped back on the regular. Like if you say
Speaker 1: something to me on the screenshot, go on your page,
Speaker 1: get one of your ugly pictures and post it so
Speaker 1: the world can see that this is a person I
Speaker 1: was talking about me alright. That is a little taste
Speaker 1: of our new show, Here Comes to Break. Please check
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Speaker 1: You definitely want to check the show up. Awesome sound
Speaker 1: to sign, awesome storytelling. You're going to dig it.