Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome the inside the studio on iHeart Radio.
Speaker 1: My name is Jordan Runtag, But enough about me. My
Speaker 1: guest today is one of hip hop's most incredible success stories.
Speaker 1: A few years ago, he quit his job at Red
Speaker 1: Lobster to chase his dreams in l A. For a while,
Speaker 1: he slept on a friend's couch. Within a year, he
Speaker 1: was on the mic with Kanye West recording the track
Speaker 1: all Mine for the Rap Legends two thousand and eighteen
Speaker 1: album Yeah. He immortalized the moment in his song June one,
Speaker 1: which commemorates the date that his breakthrough track was released
Speaker 1: and his whole life changed. Since then, his career skyrocketed.
Speaker 1: He's worked with ty Dolla, sign Timberland, and Pharrell Williams,
Speaker 1: and written hits for Camilla Cabello and Tana Taylor. His
Speaker 1: first solo EP is called Happy to Be Here, which
Speaker 1: gives some indication for the gratitude he exudes for all
Speaker 1: of his hard won success. In December, he released a
Speaker 1: collaboration with Justin Timberlake called Better Days. It's an uplifting
Speaker 1: anthem that they performed at President Biden's virtual inauguration bash.
Speaker 1: On his latest song, story of my life, he tells
Speaker 1: his own epic tale. It's a song that definitely needs
Speaker 1: a big screen adaptation asap. I'm so happy to welcome
Speaker 1: Aunt Clemens. I was going to join. It's a pleasure
Speaker 1: to be here. I hate to be cliche, but I'm
Speaker 1: really am happy to be here for a bit. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe me. I know that is if that is
Speaker 1: a theme with you. I mean, dude, you've had just
Speaker 1: such an incredible year and so this is just the
Speaker 1: beginning of it. And you have just the most epic
Speaker 1: backstory and you lay it all out in your new
Speaker 1: songs Story in my Life. It's such a personal song.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me how that track came together? Oh?
Speaker 1: It actually came together from a challenge from one of
Speaker 1: my friends and the people I just care about their
Speaker 1: musical opinion. Justice from l v r N. I was
Speaker 1: having a conversation with him and he said, Yo, bro,
Speaker 1: we love you. And anytime anybody says they love you,
Speaker 1: here comes to bring it on. I'm like telling me,
Speaker 1: He's like, bro, we love you, we just don't know
Speaker 1: who you are. Like, what do you mean? He's like,
Speaker 1: happy to be here? Was cool? I loved all those songs,
Speaker 1: but I don't feel like I learned Aunt Clemmens was
Speaker 1: and I feel like if I didn't know you, like
Speaker 1: just being a fan of you out of nowhere and
Speaker 1: was like, hey, who is this guy? I don't think
Speaker 1: there was any song on that project that properly described
Speaker 1: you the same way that I know you to be.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, And I literally was on my
Speaker 1: way to a session with my brother Blake and Nick
Speaker 1: Mirror from Internet Money Amazing session. We were just chilling
Speaker 1: and I was telling them I was actually heated. I
Speaker 1: was like, just as just said, you don't know who
Speaker 1: I am. I don't blame you. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: disagree with that too, by the way, but I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm a son, I'm a king, and I'm a
Speaker 1: best friend. And literally it started like from a place
Speaker 1: of just in my head, a fake competition, but it
Speaker 1: turned into the thing that I kind of wish every
Speaker 1: artist had. What's your your Calling Cards song? What if
Speaker 1: no one knew who you were? What's the record that
Speaker 1: describes you that you feel like, oh, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: me and this will will be the thing that will
Speaker 1: introduce you to my world that I want to draw
Speaker 1: you into. And I was just super excited to tell
Speaker 1: my story just from where I was at two, where
Speaker 1: I was at presently, like in the third verse where
Speaker 1: I'm talking about working with Kanye and doing the song
Speaker 1: with Farrell on the last project, and like talking about
Speaker 1: the app based off the song Pharrell. It was so
Speaker 1: cool to really snapshot in real time like where my
Speaker 1: life loved. And the next day I played it for
Speaker 1: Justice like this is me. Oh man. He was like
Speaker 1: you listen, Like man, you listen on but he was like, now,
Speaker 1: I really love this song, and I appreciate you being
Speaker 1: open to the perspective, but yeah, you wouldn't be a
Speaker 1: person I care about. I didn't do that, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love the video for the song because
Speaker 1: it's it's something that I feel like must go down
Speaker 1: a lot in real life. I mean, people struggling, Your
Speaker 1: character struggles to balance his relationship with with dreams of
Speaker 1: of of making it in music. How much of that
Speaker 1: was was autobiographical for you? It was all autobiographical. It
Speaker 1: was so weird that it was in the timing of
Speaker 1: it was odd because it was like I was going
Speaker 1: through what I was acting in the video in real life.
Speaker 1: It was such a cool process because I had the
Speaker 1: amazing scenario who was a phenomenal singer and just missed
Speaker 1: December last Playboy, Like she's the ship and she was
Speaker 1: like so beautiful, and I'm like, I gotta be mad
Speaker 1: at you. How I can't do this like stretch. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm not trying to imagine I'm upset with you.
Speaker 1: But it was it was so cool. She had me
Speaker 1: feeling super comfortable, super professional, and it was the coolest
Speaker 1: experience ever. And like City James and Darren, like the
Speaker 1: producers and the directors of the of the video, like
Speaker 1: just their willingness to be open to transfer what the
Speaker 1: song was to them and their interpretation of the song
Speaker 1: to film. I loved their interpretation of the of the record.
Speaker 1: Like when we got the treatment back, it was eerie
Speaker 1: because I was going through a relationship situation in real time,
Speaker 1: so I was like, get out of my life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a part of my biopic. I talked
Speaker 1: about that a lot, like I can't wait to actually
Speaker 1: have like a of biopics later in life, and this
Speaker 1: is like kind of me acting in my biopic. It
Speaker 1: was it was, it was fun. It was really fun.
Speaker 1: I love the whole experience. I mean, speaking of autobiographical
Speaker 1: there's a new song on the on the one year
Speaker 1: anniversary edition of Your Your First TP Happy to Be Here,
Speaker 1: called June one, very big day for you. Tell me
Speaker 1: about the significance about that date. It was the culmination
Speaker 1: of hard work, impreseverance, like June one was the day
Speaker 1: that God said, you know, it's your time. Like for
Speaker 1: me it was I was in a bad deal and
Speaker 1: I had got released from that deal on May thirty
Speaker 1: one and found out that I was a part of
Speaker 1: Kanye West on mine song like that. My vocals were
Speaker 1: still on the record on June one at twelve o'clock
Speaker 1: and my life was changed forever. And it's I'm eternally
Speaker 1: grateful one to God for allowing this to ever happen,
Speaker 1: but just that Kanye West is the person that changed
Speaker 1: my life. Like I've been a Kanye family entire life,
Speaker 1: and to think that one he knows who I am
Speaker 1: and we have a song together with Tyd dolisign out
Speaker 1: like it's it's it was like, oh, wow, dreams do
Speaker 1: come true. So that's kind of what the significance of
Speaker 1: June first was for me. It was my reminder of yeah,
Speaker 1: all those nicely stuck on the floor, all the nose
Speaker 1: that I got, I finally got to my yes. Like
Speaker 1: I tell everybody, look for you to look for the
Speaker 1: nose like gold searching for nose because like the closer
Speaker 1: you get to your nose, you're the closer you'll get
Speaker 1: to your yes. That's for you. It sounds almost like
Speaker 1: a second birthday in a way. Yeah, it was the best.
Speaker 1: What was life like on June second? How did that
Speaker 1: experience just completely Like when that song hit with with
Speaker 1: with Kanye, how did that change your life? So on
Speaker 1: June sewod, I actually had I was scheduled to go
Speaker 1: home because I just needed a break from l A.
Speaker 1: So before the song ever came out, I had no
Speaker 1: clue that it was coming out. I had just planned
Speaker 1: on going back to Jersey. So I flew home on
Speaker 1: June sewod, and I always tell my friends I feel
Speaker 1: like I never went home because on June one and
Speaker 1: Clemens came home and it was like, oh wow, people
Speaker 1: perceived me as like the guy with the song with
Speaker 1: Kanye as opposed to Anthony Clemmens. Junr that you've known
Speaker 1: your whole life. It has been an interesting space, but
Speaker 1: it's it's so cool. It's been such a cool journey
Speaker 1: so far. One of my my favorite tracks on Happy
Speaker 1: to Be Here. I think it's the opening track. Mama
Speaker 1: I made it total tear jerker for me. Tell me,
Speaker 1: tell me about that piggybacking off of off of June first.
Speaker 1: What does that song mean to you in a perfect world?
Speaker 1: And I'm happy that we was able to put June first,
Speaker 1: like at the beginning of the project, those would be
Speaker 1: the same song and in my perfect world because Mama
Speaker 1: made it was continuation of the the blessing that God
Speaker 1: gave me on June first, and I was that was
Speaker 1: me calling my mom and just saying, hey, like all
Speaker 1: those nights I was on the floor paid off, Like
Speaker 1: all those things that you prayed for, It's happening right now.
Speaker 1: So Mama made it is one of my favorite songs.
Speaker 1: And I felt crazy selfish dropping it on my Mother's Day. Well,
Speaker 1: it's sweet, it's a gift to her, it's but it's
Speaker 1: to her, but it's about me. It's like really noxious
Speaker 1: list because like I'm telling my story, but I'm telling
Speaker 1: her that it's cool. But it's also like because I'm cool, like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's such a cool way to look at Like, tell me,
Speaker 1: how did this journey begin for you? I mean it
Speaker 1: sounds like music was always a part of your life.
Speaker 1: I mean back to your your households, growing up with
Speaker 1: with your parents. Tell me a little bit. It sounds
Speaker 1: like you you were basically a young young Jackson five
Speaker 1: in your household, like we aspired to be like the Jackson's.
Speaker 1: I just literally was heartbroken every time I think about
Speaker 1: the Jackson story because Michael was number five, and if
Speaker 1: we based it off of the Jackson's, I would be
Speaker 1: the Jackie like I'm the oldest, and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: want to be Jackie. I want to be Michael, like
Speaker 1: I want to be a little one, but I'm just
Speaker 1: the oldest the two little sisters. Music was always in
Speaker 1: our house. My dad was always singing and my mom
Speaker 1: was trying to sing, but she wasn't like the best,
Speaker 1: but we loved her because she's my mom, So we
Speaker 1: were always singing in the house, dancing. My mom could
Speaker 1: dance stuff, so my dad not being able to dance
Speaker 1: made it up for my mom being like the dancer,
Speaker 1: which is and we all got the best of both
Speaker 1: worlds like I'm able to dance the same U. Amber
Speaker 1: was like the dancer and actually was the little singer
Speaker 1: than it switched, but it was it was a Cosby
Speaker 1: Show like environment. It was literally we dressed up the
Speaker 1: same when we went out. We were that family that
Speaker 1: my parents drived for us to get compliments when we
Speaker 1: were out at restaurants for being well behaved. Like that
Speaker 1: was the thing. You know, we can get ice cream
Speaker 1: if somebody comes up to us and said, you're all
Speaker 1: so well behaved. That's a powerful motivator ice cream. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're just smiling at everybody, Please tell us. I mean
Speaker 1: you were also doing like I know as a kid,
Speaker 1: you were like basically Michael Jackson impersonator. Did you do
Speaker 1: talent shows and stuff? I did talent shows and I
Speaker 1: would do birthday parties. Anybody that needed like a Michael
Speaker 1: Jackson the personator, I would show up. And I actually
Speaker 1: remember vividly dancing in second grade. My my teacher set
Speaker 1: it up to the kids actually like Michael was in
Speaker 1: the school and they cut the lights down and I
Speaker 1: was in second grade. They moved all the tables into
Speaker 1: like a circle and they played Billy Jean and I
Speaker 1: did dance Billy Jane in the middle classroom. I remember
Speaker 1: being a little scared, but I never really get afraid
Speaker 1: when I'm dancing or thinking about Michael Jackson songs. And
Speaker 1: it's been like that since I was a kid. May
Speaker 1: did you do like Motown era stuff? So I did
Speaker 1: Motown era stuff, but it was really like Motown twenty five,
Speaker 1: like the the Moon, the Moonwalk, the Billy Gene like
Speaker 1: it was. That was my favorite era of Mike, especially
Speaker 1: growing up. That is so coold. Who else were your
Speaker 1: your musical influences growing up? They were, It's very so.
Speaker 1: It's some days with Stevie Wonder, some days it was
Speaker 1: our Green from the Red Hat. It was obviously Marvin Gay,
Speaker 1: Kanye West, jay Z, Biggie Smallest fifty cent and Gene
Speaker 1: Unit my diverse. We grew up listening in the radio
Speaker 1: Disney and Power ninety nine sm so it's I would
Speaker 1: get the full spectrum of every Disney movie, every Disney
Speaker 1: song growing up. I love musicals, but then I also
Speaker 1: give you every rap record that was going on and
Speaker 1: every R and B song that was on the radio.
Speaker 1: I grew up in a really cultured, really hip hop
Speaker 1: culture household that was cool. It wasn't a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of custom in the hip hop were listening to and
Speaker 1: so we got a little older, but definitely a hip
Speaker 1: hop culture. My parents were like the fun parents. When
Speaker 1: did you go from being a fan of music to
Speaker 1: to making it yourself? When did you start? Did you
Speaker 1: learn that yet you could you could write it? Trying
Speaker 1: to remember because realistically, I probably have always been making music.
Speaker 1: We were always singing and making up songs as kids.
Speaker 1: I can remember like one of my first songs when
Speaker 1: I was like the third grade, but I can't remember
Speaker 1: taking it seriously. In high school and my parents were
Speaker 1: going through a divorce, it was just an outlet I
Speaker 1: could use to, you know, tell my story and tell
Speaker 1: talk about what was going on at the post, like
Speaker 1: just holding it in or crying. And once I kind
Speaker 1: of got through that, it was like, Oh, I like
Speaker 1: writing songs because I'm able to tell stories and put
Speaker 1: myself in the shoes of others. There's a really cool
Speaker 1: quote you gave Reese where he said songwriting is literally
Speaker 1: looking in the mirror every day, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you more about that's somebody who can't write songs.
Speaker 1: I that was really intriguing to me. I want to
Speaker 1: ask you more about that. So I believe that you're
Speaker 1: you're looking in the mirror every day like when you're songwriting, honestly,
Speaker 1: because you're you're kind of just looking at the things
Speaker 1: that are you, that make you you and trying to
Speaker 1: identify them with what people go through every single day.
Speaker 1: Like songwriting, I feel like it's selfless, but it's super
Speaker 1: selfish the way you have to go internally to pull
Speaker 1: what someone else needs to get through what they're going
Speaker 1: through in that period of time. Sometimes songs are escapes,
Speaker 1: sometimes songs are guys to get you from one place
Speaker 1: to the next. And with looking in the mirror at
Speaker 1: yourself and having that that level of vulnerability, you're able
Speaker 1: to have a perspective of open heartedness. You're able to
Speaker 1: look at the world and not really see the world
Speaker 1: as people taking, but you know what you can contribute
Speaker 1: and what you can give to I least, I I
Speaker 1: like thinking about it that one. This is sort of
Speaker 1: a famous part of your backstory of how when you
Speaker 1: moved to to l A, you stayed with friends, rent
Speaker 1: free in exchange for writing a song every day, and
Speaker 1: that just as somebody who can't write music. That just
Speaker 1: seems like absolutely craziness to me writing a song every day.
Speaker 1: What is your process like for that when you just
Speaker 1: sit down and write a song? So it evolved. So
Speaker 1: I started writing. I think my first few songs, I
Speaker 1: would write them down in a notepad, and then I
Speaker 1: grew up looking at little Wayne and day Zy not
Speaker 1: write anything down. I wouldn't be cool too, So I'll
Speaker 1: try to go on the studio and memorize my bars
Speaker 1: and my rapt before I would spend on practice freestyle
Speaker 1: and just so that I couldn't do it. I wasn't
Speaker 1: really good at it when I first started, but you know,
Speaker 1: with practice everything kind of evolves. And honestly, I'm cracking
Speaker 1: up as I'm figuring about it because it's like my
Speaker 1: process now is very much this freestyle, the thing I
Speaker 1: had like a really really hard time with before. I
Speaker 1: kind of have an idea of a concept. I trying
Speaker 1: to get the concept before going to the book. But
Speaker 1: a lot of it is just removing myself and allowing
Speaker 1: just what the song is to be the song, so
Speaker 1: not allowing my ego to prevent me from getting that
Speaker 1: message that someone actually needs across So I'm The process
Speaker 1: is it's kind of just freestyling until I get the
Speaker 1: thing that I that I like and piecing it together
Speaker 1: over time. It's it's sped up. So my process is
Speaker 1: a lot faster than it's been in the past. But
Speaker 1: you know, you do anything every day, it gets a
Speaker 1: lot better. First, a few songs every single day. At
Speaker 1: that point in my career, I had already been doing
Speaker 1: about five and six song to day anyway, So someone
Speaker 1: telling me all you need is one song to day,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I have a million one song today. I'm
Speaker 1: so ready for this and I can't do anything but
Speaker 1: thanks at least Scott and Grey for opening their house
Speaker 1: to me, because they never had to do that. And
Speaker 1: I can't imagine where I would be without that, that
Speaker 1: one blessing, that one door open and allowed me to
Speaker 1: open up doors for them and for others. And I'm
Speaker 1: just super appreciative. Your hustle is unparalleled. I mean you
Speaker 1: you were working at Red Lobster, flying back and forth
Speaker 1: from New Jersey to l A for for a while.
Speaker 1: Do you have any advice for people who are struggling
Speaker 1: to balance the day job with with making their dreams happen?
Speaker 1: My advice would be to keep going. And I hate
Speaker 1: how appreciate that sounds. I've been given the same advice.
Speaker 1: I really hate how cli siate that sound. The hardest
Speaker 1: game is to start something and stop something. So for me,
Speaker 1: with persistence, you'll get exactly where you want to get to.
Speaker 1: So just keep going. You're not where you want to
Speaker 1: be what you're exactly where A guy has you for
Speaker 1: a reason. Great advice is it's cliche for a reason.
Speaker 1: I mean that's it's true, it's truth. I love your
Speaker 1: ear optimism, I mean just talking to you now, and
Speaker 1: it comes through in so much your music. And I
Speaker 1: love your track with Justin timber like better Days. How
Speaker 1: did how did that one come about? How did you
Speaker 1: two wink up? That was a page out of my
Speaker 1: Wildest dreams, But that's how it happened. It was just
Speaker 1: like you know what I wrote down in my Wildest
Speaker 1: Dreams book, A song with Justice timber La that's actually
Speaker 1: been on my vision board every year since about two
Speaker 1: Guys A nine. I wanted a song with Justin timber
Speaker 1: Lay and I told my team. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to work with Justin, and during quarantine he
Speaker 1: was just open to songwriters and I can't. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure it was Jody from UNPG and I love her
Speaker 1: to death. She put the word in and told Justin
Speaker 1: you know, hey, you know if you should work with
Speaker 1: Aunt Clements and we got connected via zoom and our
Speaker 1: very first conversation it was during the shift in the
Speaker 1: world where it was just the George Floyd incident had
Speaker 1: just happened. So although I was excited to meet Justin,
Speaker 1: it was a weird time in the world. So we
Speaker 1: our conversation was what can we do to bring our
Speaker 1: talents together to be a part of the change that
Speaker 1: we want to be a part of that that we
Speaker 1: want to see. And from the first conversation, I went
Speaker 1: and I called my brother Bongo and was like, yo,
Speaker 1: I just got the phone just timperlation. He is like,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm like, he's from Memphis. You
Speaker 1: know you love Sam Cook. Let's do our best to
Speaker 1: give him something that feels like where he's from but
Speaker 1: can speak to today. Is gonna come? Vibe, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: we we we We tapped into the change is Gonna
Speaker 1: come and like what's going on? Marvin Gay. It was
Speaker 1: like we were trying to get the essence of what
Speaker 1: made those songs powerful is that they weren't afraid to
Speaker 1: speak about the time. They were actively pursuing and speaking
Speaker 1: to the life that they wanted to live as opposed
Speaker 1: to the oppression and what was going on around them
Speaker 1: that was keeping them glow. So I sent the first
Speaker 1: little idea, like a probably a course idea to Justin,
Speaker 1: like the first verse to the court, and he lost
Speaker 1: his mind. And from then every time we communicated, like
Speaker 1: when the world started open up a little bit, we
Speaker 1: started getting the physical session. We do one song too
Speaker 1: solid and then turn around and you know, we got
Speaker 1: finished better days. And as the election started coming up
Speaker 1: and the how and saying the everything was in the world,
Speaker 1: it just showed us everything how how important it was
Speaker 1: that we had to, you know, stop what we were
Speaker 1: doing to finish this thing for the world, as opposed
Speaker 1: to like, you know, just staying in this place of entertainment.
Speaker 1: We can get right back to that, but like, let's
Speaker 1: just address was happening and be the change that somebody
Speaker 1: might need right now. So Justin tells me, he's like,
Speaker 1: hey man, how what if we did better days for
Speaker 1: your product? And one thing leads to the next and
Speaker 1: I'm in a room looking at Justine to record his
Speaker 1: Verse to Better Days, and I'm losing my mind. And
Speaker 1: one day we're adding beatboxes and then he's a shakers
Speaker 1: and I literally watched the song grow and evolve over time.
Speaker 1: Now I feel like I'm still dreaming as I'm talking
Speaker 1: to you right now, that this is actually a reality
Speaker 1: that I have a song with Justine Temberlake. Like I
Speaker 1: grew up a huge Instinct band, And if I was
Speaker 1: home right now, I would be showing you my Insinct
Speaker 1: dolls that I have in my house. Does he like
Speaker 1: in the studio? I mean, it's just the creativity coming off.
Speaker 1: It must be just off the charts. He's one of
Speaker 1: the coolest people I've ever worked with, And it's really
Speaker 1: kind of scary because it's like an older version of
Speaker 1: myself when it comes to the energy, Like he's so
Speaker 1: open to anything, but this is me, this isn't me.
Speaker 1: But let's still let's still go, Let's still try and
Speaker 1: and and try to figure it out. We push each
Speaker 1: other and he's phenomenal to work with. I love. I
Speaker 1: gotta ask you about the inauguration. How was that a
Speaker 1: dream come true? In the middle of us recording. I
Speaker 1: told Justin. I was like, I think we could. Um,
Speaker 1: I feel like we're going to perform this like at
Speaker 1: the inauguration, like like the first dance or something like that.
Speaker 1: I think that would be like really cool. And he
Speaker 1: tells me, you know, like from your mouth to God
Speaker 1: years like, I've seen you manifest a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of things around here, so I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: doubting it. And literally two to three weeks after that,
Speaker 1: I get a call from Justin. He's like, your Jedi
Speaker 1: mind level is at mastery And I said, excuse me,
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, I just gotta offer with the PR
Speaker 1: two from the PR team telling us that they want
Speaker 1: us to perform better Days for the Biden Paris inauguration.
Speaker 1: That was already going to be historic because it's the
Speaker 1: very first time we have the first female black Pogle.
Speaker 1: Prinsis the vice president and she's get inaugurated and I'm
Speaker 1: a part of this love of history. It's virtual, so
Speaker 1: that's the first ever virtual inauguration. This is going to
Speaker 1: be in history forever and I'll be their performing with
Speaker 1: one of the people that is the reason that I'm
Speaker 1: making music. Yeah, I think I can be spree for that.
Speaker 1: I think I'm available pencil and Pencilien and man, I
Speaker 1: just remember going out to Memphis with my first time
Speaker 1: I was able to bring my mom. It was beautiful
Speaker 1: and we went to the Sax Academy and it was
Speaker 1: it was really cool, but it was it was such
Speaker 1: an honor to be there. And being from Willingburn, New Jersey,
Speaker 1: Adam black Phone is like a hometown hero. So they
Speaker 1: have Adam do a version of the song that felt
Speaker 1: like William Burrow, it felt like church, it felt like
Speaker 1: Sharon Baptist, like where I grew up, and it felt Memphis.
Speaker 1: And it's so surreal how music and kind of transcend
Speaker 1: places so connected with Justin and connected with me, and
Speaker 1: by the grace of God, we were ever to get hurt.
Speaker 1: Franklent on a version that was the audio version of
Speaker 1: the song. So this whole thing was just amazing. Amazing
Speaker 1: to say the least. You've had so many dreams come true,
Speaker 1: and I can't think of a nicer guy for it
Speaker 1: to happen to What what is next? What's the dream
Speaker 1: that you have right now that you're working towards. I
Speaker 1: work with Drake, I would love to work with Drake
Speaker 1: I love to work with and I would love to
Speaker 1: be in the studio with Jason. Those are some of
Speaker 1: the things that I'm striving to it. But I feel
Speaker 1: like when they happen, they'll happen, like when God God
Speaker 1: says it's time, and I'm not trying to rush Russia
Speaker 1: until then. But I'm definitely excited and looking forward to
Speaker 1: working with those guys. Get that Jedi my mastery going.
Speaker 1: You got this? Yes, You're already off to just such
Speaker 1: a huge start in one What do you a plan
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. We're gonna be driving
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of more music. I'm very excited. I'm
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