WEBVTT - #409 - Teddy Swims 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.120 Hey, it's Teddy Swims. 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:08.719 Check me out on the Bootleg Cab podcast, bootlet Cap Podcast, 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:09.559 bootlet Cap Show. 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:11.000 We got a special guest in here. 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:13.080 I've been a fan of this guy for I don't know, 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:14.920 three or four years now, since I discovered you on 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:15.480 the internet. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:16.680 Daddy Swims. 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:19.760 Hey, thanks for having me. I'm so start to be here, dude. Yeah. Man, 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:22.040 I watched this podcast like always, like, man, I want 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:22.800 to get on this so bad. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.439 So look at us, a manifesting life, you know, come 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:27.560 on a great version. 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:28.160 I met you. 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:31.440 I was very, very fucking hammered at the It was 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.240 that Jelly Roll had a show out here at the Troubadoor. 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.440 Yeah, sure did. Man, What an angel? 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:37.520 I was blasted. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:39.279 What an absolute angel. Yeah. 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:43.520 We was good night. We drink a lot, yeah, amongst others. 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.680 I remember Jelly had gotten like right after we were 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:48.839 upstairs in the little like I don't know, against the 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:51.520 bar area, and he had just he was just sitting back, 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.120 you know, like just sitting back booth and the booth 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.480 and they just kept bringing trays full a while. Thirty 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.840 He's like, what thirty more, Yeah, thirty more, casumigos. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.120 I was like for the fucking night. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:02.360 Man. 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.720 Hey, it's been dope to see just your come up. Dude, 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:06.760 I've been you know. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:11.320 I use your layout because I always talk to aspiring 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.000 singers and songwriters, right, and I always use you as 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.360 an example to like how to use the Internet in 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.120 your favor, because if you're super talented, like you have 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.080 the voice of an angel, right, I found you. 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:24.520 I think it was I think it was the. 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.600 Mario cover all right, yeah, like twenty nineteen. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.520 Yeah, and ever since then, I subscribed to the YouTube 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.600 channel and I always will show people like, Yo, there's 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:35.600 this guy Teddy Swims like he's doing like covers, but 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:40.200 he's doing them like with like care, with like high 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.600 production value, and like, you know, it's dope that you 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.640 know that was kind of like would you say that 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.080 those covers were kind of your way into kind of 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:50.520 becoming discovered on a bit? 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.720 Absolutely? Man, We really really originally didn't intend on doing them. 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.440 It's just like so June twenty fifth of twenty nineteen 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:58.960 was the first one we did, and I wanted to 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.080 just kind of pay off which is Michael Jackson because 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:02.559 it was ten years after he died and. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.200 We just woke up and it was just kind of 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:04.800 going crazy. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.800 So we were like, I mean, I think I think 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.359 the first year, that first day after we posted it, 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.520 we woke up with like ten thousand views, you know. 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:13.880 And and now that's such like seems like such a 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.480 mental school number. If I get like not if I 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.200 don't get a million on something, now I'm like, oh 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:18.960 fucking kill me. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.440 I suck, you know. But about that ten thousand, we 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.079 woke up to bro and we were like, holy jit gud, 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.560 we got ten thousand dudes. Yeah, what the fuck? 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.600 Yeah, you know, and it was it was so cool 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:30.280 man and uh and so since then we was like, 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.600 I guess this is working, and we we just kept 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.240 going and kept doing more covers and and started you know, 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.120 and that's kind of what Teddy Swims just kind of 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.919 became its own thing because we were we were banned forever, 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:42.880 you know, and then it was just that that just 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.639 kind of went off and we're just I guess we're 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.440 just shifting gears and being all my buds and you know, 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:48.680 just just kept doing it. 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.720 At what point in time were you like, because I 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.480 know there had to be a point in time where 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.880 every major label was coming at you like like almost 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.840 like your Lebron James like a free agent. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:00.680 It was quite It was quite neat too, because uh 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.120 so I once once those like covers started really kind 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.160 of going off, and that that Mario cover was really 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.800 one that was first starting to go and uh and 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.359 snid Twain still the one cover really did a lot 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.520 for us. And but after that first one, I was 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.160 talking to my buddies at the time, and because we 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:16.120 were all in bands and stuff. 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:17.399 I was still in a metal band. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.600 And and still playing and uh and uh, and we 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.239 we would have like the same guys that would you know, 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.400 kind of record us. Man, my good friendly Rouse and 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.800 and uh, my buddy Aaron and Joel who like filmed 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:28.560 filmed the videos. 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.000 And so at one point we were just kind of 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.240 great job. Yeah, we had we had we had like 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:32.960 I had this idea. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:34.720 It's like, look, man, I think I think if we 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.200 I think we just all put our heads together, like 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.840 let's just like just do this, do covers like weekly, 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.119 Let's just get together write songs for this project. That way, 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.800 when we get ready to you know, get signed or 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.800 whatever it is that we're gonna do. I just asked 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:49.480 my friends to give me like six months of their 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.240 time and I say just six months and we're being 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.360 So we all moved into this house together in Snellville, Georgia, 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.520 and it was like a five bedroom house and we 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.960 like put plyboard walls up and made two bedrooms out. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.200 I mean we ended up making this thing like a 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.760 nine bedroom it. Yeah, it was like nine bedroom house. Man. 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:06.760 We had like fifteen I think twelve of us will 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:08.640 live in there. Like fifteen of us were there every day. 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.560 It was a fucking and. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:11.800 This is where you guysoul record anything. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.320 Yeah, it was like fucking tafakecadea over there, man, you 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.440 know what I'm saying. And we we so we we 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.520 had like we had built like two studios in it. 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.280 And then you know, we had our like we had 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.520 our our garage was where we like could distribute our 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:25.160 own merch too. 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:26.760 And my brother would come over there and distribute our 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:27.240 merch and. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.320 It was the merch factory in the garage. 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:29.520 Yeah. 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.680 Would more like dude, two studios in there, a bunch 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:33.440 of rooms. And I just figured like I was like, well, 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.240 we can film, we can record, we can write, we 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.279 can sing, we can make all this stuff ourselves. We 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:39.520 can we can do all of it. We can take 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.919 the pictures, we can distribute the merch. So I was like, 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.159 it just six months, it's all put our heads together 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.520 on this and if it, if it works out, then 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.480 like we're all gonna be straight because we we don't 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.760 need anybody, you know. And sure enough we June twenty 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.159 fifth of twenty nineteen was the first cover we did, 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.760 and in December twenty fourth of twenty nineteen, I signed 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:59.560 to one of records and put all my best buds 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:01.680 on salary. It was a day less than six months, 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.920 which is fucking wild out, like just speaking things into existence. 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.040 And you put all the homies who were there with you. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.479 And yeah, yeah, and they're still they're still they're still 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.160 fucking the same van and still same guys and and 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.680 now we're actually making pretty damn good money, man. 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.080 So they're beautiful. Everybody's everybody's doing good. 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:20.880 And uh, you had a lot lots of them about 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:22.880 to move out here too, man, and just keep and 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.120 they've all had like writing cuts on records with me 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.120 and producing cuts and you know, we just we keep, 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:29.320 we keep going together. Man. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:30.600 No, it's been dope to see. 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:30.800 Man. 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.160 So you say you were in a metal band around 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:34.200 the time you did the first cover. 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.240 Yeah, she was, man, I was, I was in my 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:36.719 whole life. 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:38.760 I spent a lot of those. Uh, you can still 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.200 find some of the stuff. It's called this band's called 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.760 aras a E r i S. And you can find it. 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:45.760 What kind of metal it was, it was like it 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.360 was like kind of a more post metal core kind 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.760 of they were singing, some screaming, a little more, some 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.960 some kind of activey rock, situational, little post hardcore, a 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.360 little metal core, kind of a little bit of everything, 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.520 and it, you know, just it. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.000 It was all right, it's pretty good. There's something, there's 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:01.839 some decency in it. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:03.960 Yeah, so all that stuff still out there for everybody. 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:04.840 Yeah, sure is. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.280 Man, it's crazy because like you're like your music now, 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:12.880 I feel like is you know, there's a void and 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.400 I feel like our friend Jelly Rolls fill in that void. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.400 Just good songwriting. Good like I'm talking about even on 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.360 the pop side, because now when I listen to Kiss 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.160 of Fam or even you know, certain rhythmic stations, you'll 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:26.760 hear your single and it's just good music from the soul. 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:28.520 And I feel like that is like a there's a 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.840 void of that in our current music landscape. 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.440 Yeah, I think so too. I think there's a I 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.960 think I think I'm really happy that it was that 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.080 song too, because I think I have this thing where 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.839 I always want to blend to whatever I think something 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.280 needs to sound like or or like you don't want 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.400 to get on a trend of something, because I find 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.279 that the things that get on trends that work out 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.200 are just always like a flash in the pan or 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.279 have like one big song, you know. And and I 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.839 think the ones that are real, the things that really 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:56.640 stick around, are real disruptors, you know. 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:58.960 And I hope that I like. 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.240 I like what's what it's great about Lose Control being 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.120 my big first single, that's that's kind of broken into 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:04.560 the market. 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.720 It's it's uh, it's it leaves me with. 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:09.960 So much room to go, so many wherever you want 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.000 to go, because it's it's it's got the soul, it's 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:16.160 got some country elements, some motown elements, some them rock 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:17.720 and roll elements from RB. 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:19.040 Yeah, it's got everything in it. 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.120 And and I'm glad to know that it's working, and 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.520 it's working on different avenues. You know, it's working on 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.520 rhythmic radio and pop radio. 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:26.880 You've got an R and B remix out there. 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.040 You got the you know, it's it's great to see 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.360 that it's working and uh, and it gives me just 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.200 absolute room to go wherever the hell I want from here, 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.000 I think, and not be too left field, you know. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.920 Talk about influences coming up in bands and ship, Like, 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.160 what were some of your band influences? Like, give me 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.840 your like three or four greatest bands. 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.720 Of all time bands? Okay, let's go bands first. Yeah, 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:50.440 of all time? 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:50.960 I see. 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.160 I say, as far as like influence goes, I'd have 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:57.440 to say, Like, so, there's a band called Acceptance. When 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.240 I was like in like sixth grade, like first man, 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.640 I ever like really got into Acceptance, like changed my life. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.840 I remember playing like you remember like NFL Street to 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:07.760 you when that came out, Like NFL Streets. 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:09.040 That's someone with Ricky Williams on the cover. 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.440 They had they had it. It was like exhibit was in it. 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:11.760 Uh. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:13.200 But everybody was, dude, it was. 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:14.640 The street games are so fire. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.840 They were so sick. They were so sick. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.920 I mean the uh the I recently played tried to 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.160 get off track here, but I recently played the NBA 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.240 Streets and the. 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:25.000 The Old School one. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.640 Yeah, the camera it's like side angle, so you kind 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.840 of don't have really depth reception, so you're just like 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:31.480 kind of going right by the goal. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:32.880 It doesn't hold up as well as. 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.920 You remember the NBA Street, the NFL Street and the 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.840 what was the skate games, the skate the skate that 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:40.480 was all, yeah, we gotta bring all. 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:44.120 This, but the oh Man and Deaf Jam, vendettas bro 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:49.760 come on would Man Redman every time? Redman was my hero. Dude, 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:51.840 how high? It is like one of my favorite movies 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.719 of all time with him and Meth. Yeah. Man, that's 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:55.440 like one of the best movies of all It's. 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.040 So funny like that that game existed. I had that game, 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.960 and then there was this Wu Tang game on PlayStation 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.800 and it was a fighting game where you could pick 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.840 like all nine members of Wu Tang and then you'd 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:06.000 fight like evil. 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.560 Monks and ship. It's so sick, but yeah, Vendetta was 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:09.400 that ship for sure. 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:10.480 Man. 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.240 Well, but anyway, fans, so there was there was a 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:17.520 song on on on NFL Street who and it was 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.040 the song called in Too Far by Acceptance, And I 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.000 was like, I just fell in love with it, and 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.000 I went and found this album Phantoms and it just 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:24.920 like changed my life. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:26.439 It's one of the first ones I ever listened to. 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.240 I was like, god, I want this is like I 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.080 was all they were all over my space. Oh everything, 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.839 like all songs, all their whole that whole album was 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.200 all over my my space. So I like acceptances up 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:41.480 there for me. Circus survived, Man, Anthony Green one of 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.320 the greatest of all times, I think as far as 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.480 the Van Goes, I was so I was so invested 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.319 in Circus vibes still am Man. I mean he's he's 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.880 in Elis Dunes now. Just he's just one of the greatest. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:51.240 I think. 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:56.160 Che Yotos Man also two thousand and seven, like Warped Tour. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.199 You know, just to Chyotos was incredible, man, I. 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.199 Uh Warped it was an era. God, it was. So 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:02.679 that was one of the first shows that I ever 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:03.400 went to. Man. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.960 And uh, I mean, I'll have to obviously have to 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.600 throw Van Halen in there too as bands go, because 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:14.720 come on, uh Lincoln Park Man, come on, yeah, come on. 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.960 Man just came out on stage at some radio show. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.920 I was like, oh, ship came on stage with somebody. 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.360 They've changed my life, man. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:24.800 And I got to go the first two albums. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.040 Man, like My Child, Hybrid Theory is one of the 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.880 first ones I got that. Uh, and I got my 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.280 one of my first like Christmas where I got got 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.240 CDs and you remember when they used to be wrapped. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:36.760 You just knew your parents got you. 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:40.600 Yeah, it was dude, but I had gotten I had 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:45.000 got Hybrid Theory. No pads, no helmets, just balls by 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.160 simple Plan and uh, there was there was like a 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.320 three CD set of switch Foot. It was like let 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.720 ten and I forget the other two records on it, 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:55.400 but it was like three CDs, all of them. 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.920 You knew you were getting CDs for Christmas, nds or games. 0:10:58.000 --> 0:10:59.440 You'd be like, is just a movie or a game? 0:10:59.559 --> 0:10:59.960 Yeah? Yeah? 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.640 That that was That was the catchy far Yeah did 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.280 you get a DVD or video game? 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:04.599 I hope it's a game. I hope it's not a 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:05.160 fucking movie. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:09.360 I don't want to I don't want a copy of Click. Yeah. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.240 I don't need clerks. I'm fine, you know, No, that's dope, man. Yeah. No, 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:14.520 Lincoln Park, I got to see them. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.000 I went as a kid to the Hybrid Theory tour 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.960 and they had this there's this rapper named mc Supernatural. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.680 I don't know if you've ever heard of him, but 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.880 Supernatural is like the free style god. 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:28.680 Yeah. Right. 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.240 So at the time, he would do this ship where 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.160 he would I would see him on these like smaller 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.960 hip hop shows for like Dilated People's Drastic five and Ship, 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.840 and he would do this thing where he would spin 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.680 around and come as like and impersonate another rapper. So 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:45.559 he'd like spin around and be rapping like exhibit and 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.520 then he'd spin around to be wrapping. And he's the 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.320 first person that ever saw like take someone's ID from 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:52.280 the crowd and. 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.319 Wrap their name and their birthplace. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:58.320 And so they had him open the Lincoln Park tour 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.720 and it was so crazy. But because I've never seen 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:05.200 somebody combine like hardcore real hip hop ship and like 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:05.800 rock ship. 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:07.920 Yeah, and without being corny. 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.920 Yeah, they were, dude, because there was some corny the 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.160 rap rock era, you got corny, you know. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:15.360 And I think a lot of that has to do 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.360 with Joe haand Too Man because he was that just 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.080 did Lincoln Park always had that that DJ. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.440 You know, and they have like really like and they 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.000 had the roots. Yeah exactly. 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.679 They they're just real real hip hop fans that think entirely, 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.840 you know, And I think like I got a chance 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.320 to work with them a couple of times and just 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.880 kind of go over to mics and and experiment with 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.439 them and play. And it was so cool because I've 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.480 never seen I've never seen it actually, like Joe still 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.840 he like still has like so when they're sampling stuff, 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:44.319 it's not like they're going to splice like. 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:45.200 Everyone else everyone. 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.560 He's really he's really pulling out records and and finding 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.240 moments in there and sampling the real time still as 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.439 they're like writing, And I'm like, dude, it was so 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.719 neat to see because I've never seen that. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.679 Does somebody sample and. 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.600 To record that's how they actually do it, Yeah, as 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:00.040 opposed to. 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:05.240 Yeah, it's so easy for us now, which thank god, 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:06.800 I would I like that about it. 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:09.720 I would be fucking lost if it was up to me. 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.240 You're like, man, if I gotta go sit in this, go. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:19.640 Like high hat one thirty bpm and just that one. 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.080 You know, that's so sick to do that now, I'm like, 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:23.360 I wouldn't change it for the world. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.960 But it was cool to see that, like he's still 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.400 he's still dedicated to you know, like and doing DJs. 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:31.800 It's like really doing like when people are really using 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:33.000 records still, it's so fun. 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.320 That's gotta be cool, like for you, like, have you 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.319 realized that you because you know, I always say we 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.880 grew up having a dream, and then when we accomplished 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:44.360 accomplish the dream. Like if somebody were to tell probably 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.240 you ten years ago that you'd have. 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.560 A million views on YouTube, you'd be like, oh, yeah, 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:49.320 fucking right. 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.400 Well, you know, like I feel like when we hit 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.720 those dreams, like we don't even like take time to 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:55.599 like really appreciate it. 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.240 You know, I try, it's always by what's next. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:58.280 Yeah, I try. I try to. 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.560 I try to now, like I'm trying to get to 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.280 that point, but you know, you're so in it that 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:03.520 you're like I'm sting. 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.920 In a room with Mike Shanoa and like the link apart, guys, 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:07.600 I'm like freaking out. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:08.199 Oh man. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:10.439 Yeah, that was definitely one of those times where we 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.320 were talking about things and I was just like, look, guys, 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.520 like I've stoked that we're friends, but just don't ever 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.160 forget that I'm gonna be more of a fan and 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:18.599 I'll ever be your friend. 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:19.720 Like I love you so much. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.280 You know, like I'm I'm just here to like soak 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.440 in sponge in all the little stories, like tell me 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.880 fucking everything. Yeah, I know everything, you know, because they're dude, 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.800 and they're just like man crosso. Recording vocals with Mike 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.920 Chanoda was like, such a he's such a he's such 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.120 a fucking genius when it comes to that, because he'll 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.520 he'll do this thing to which I'm like such a 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.400 chameleon because I grew up on such a different type 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.440 of music. So if we're doing something rock, I just 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.320 instantly kind of find myself gearing my voice towards this 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:52.080 particular sound, or like if we're doing like some motown, 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.360 I kind of gear my voice towards like and I 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:55.840 kind of play a character a lot, you know. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:56.760 And he kind of. 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.840 Broke me down and was like, okay, okay, okay, we'll 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.320 just try this take again and we could be the 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.000 most fucking heaviest part of the song. 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:04.400 And he's like, but don't give me such rock and 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:05.320 roll teddy. 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.040 Give me, like, give me but try that one out 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:09.560 and see what that character. So I was like, okay, 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:11.560 is there in between of those two that you can 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:11.960 kind of do? 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:12.440 Okay? 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.640 So why don't you give me? Like you're like, why 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.760 don't you give you a more like indie rock voice? 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:18.960 So why don't you give me more of this kind 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.480 of voice? Try some fucking weird give me musical theater, 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.720