Speaker 1: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
Speaker 1: and everybody.
Speaker 2: You know, if you don't lie about that, right Lauren.
Speaker 1: Hey, you guys, it's Lauren Rosa and this is the
Speaker 1: latest with Lauren de Rosa. Now today's episode is going
Speaker 1: to be a bit different, but I do think I
Speaker 1: know my low riders.
Speaker 3: You guys are going to enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Because y'all have been asking me, when are we bringing
Speaker 1: celebrity interviews to the podcast, Lauren, Well, here we are.
Speaker 1: So I sat down in an exclusive conversation with Da
Speaker 1: Vinci from BMF in Big Tank, who is a music
Speaker 1: supervisor for BMF on Stars and a ton of other
Speaker 1: fifty cent shows. A music supervisor is a person who
Speaker 1: make sure that the music is placed right. So when
Speaker 1: y'all watching the series, it feels like the time that
Speaker 1: we in, it feels good, the music is good and
Speaker 1: all those things. And y'all know, Da Vinci plays Southwest
Speaker 1: Terry Southwest t who is Metch's brother in the series. Now,
Speaker 1: the new series, or the new season of BMF comes
Speaker 1: on Stars on June sixth, So I sat down and
Speaker 1: we talked a bit about what it was like making
Speaker 1: this season and all of the twists and the turns
Speaker 1: and the music.
Speaker 3: Enjoy. Here's my conversation from the Breakfast Club Give it
Speaker 3: Up for Lauren, but roll up lem Hello everybody, how
Speaker 3: are y'all? Y'all? Enjoined the conversation so far, well, we
Speaker 3: have a treat for you guys. But before we get.
Speaker 1: Into the conversation, as he mentioned, I'm longa Rosa here
Speaker 1: all the way from New York on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3: We have some special people in the building to talk about, you.
Speaker 1: Know, BMS and how the music industry and what BMF
Speaker 1: means to the music industry continues to impact the culture.
Speaker 3: So joining me today, we have Derek gig.
Speaker 1: Tank Thornton, who is a music supervisor for the show
Speaker 1: Give it Up for Him and the eventually played Carrie Flinnery.
Speaker 3: Y'all gonna say, either side, whatever is this sty out?
Speaker 3: Ah did get mess? You gotta go back?
Speaker 1: They did not yell at back rounds to the chalk
Speaker 1: and I walked in and I was like, oh that goes
Speaker 1: to t And I was like, oh no, he's not
Speaker 1: Tea right now technically. But people connect to your character
Speaker 1: and they connect to the music. So we're gonna get
Speaker 1: in to the conversation tank. For those who don't know,
Speaker 1: can you explain, please, what is the role of a
Speaker 1: music supervisor, Like what does that mean? What does it
Speaker 1: inteil in the television series? What's your day to day job?
Speaker 1: And how did you decide?
Speaker 3: Well, answer that person and I'll ask you the second mark.
Speaker 4: So basically, from hiring the composer, find the composers, all
Speaker 4: the songs, every song in the background, a lot of
Speaker 4: times theme songs. You know, if I'm not creating that,
Speaker 4: I'm having they create it. So just every piece of
Speaker 4: music in a show, I'm a little pick okay.
Speaker 1: So once you get that together, you find a composer,
Speaker 1: you're picking the theme songs.
Speaker 3: How do you decide which tracks go and which like place?
Speaker 3: Because especially with be in mephids such like a time
Speaker 3: period p meaning like when you watch it, it's not
Speaker 3: present days.
Speaker 1: Music has to feel like that, the queue of the
Speaker 1: music the time and it comes in.
Speaker 3: How do you figure that out?
Speaker 4: So first you need to study that year. You know,
Speaker 4: the slangs gotta be right, you know, if we're talking
Speaker 4: about you know, Suzuki samuraiz and we're talking about you know,
Speaker 4: somebody's fresh to death or whatever it is, it's got
Speaker 4: to be time period appropriate. And then you know, I
Speaker 4: really believe like when I'm watching the scene, the scene
Speaker 4: kind of tells me which way to go. Like if
Speaker 4: you pay attention to what the scene is doing, it
Speaker 4: will kind of lend you towards you know, these songs
Speaker 4: should be a major, these songs should be a minor.
Speaker 4: What's this person listening to this? This is their attitude
Speaker 4: every single day, so they're probably listening to this kind
Speaker 4: of easy. So it's just really studying who that person
Speaker 4: is and making sure that the music fits their character.
Speaker 4: So you know, I love doing it. I love this
Speaker 4: basically A and R and a TV.
Speaker 1: Show when y'all are on set, as long as the
Speaker 1: music playing, Like how people when we watch it or
Speaker 1: is it just like silent.
Speaker 3: And you're just trying to figure out a lot?
Speaker 4: No, it's not, oh, because you gotta understand there's a
Speaker 4: big mic going, right, Okay, if this dialogue is going
Speaker 4: and there's music playing, then the MIC's gonna pick everything.
Speaker 4: Use sure, So when they hear I send in, I
Speaker 4: send there what's called a thump track, So you're here
Speaker 4: like and people will be dancing to that and then
Speaker 4: they can talk over it, and then I get it
Speaker 4: and we put the music and that's why he's looking
Speaker 4: at it now for the first time.
Speaker 5: You used to be like, yeah, yeah, Sometimes they'll just
Speaker 5: do playback, like he said, they will play the real
Speaker 5: song before the scene start, just so everyone could be
Speaker 5: in that zone, and then they'll be like, quiet the music,
Speaker 5: but keep dancing. So it's just silent as hell, and
Speaker 5: everyone's like and they were all there and they were
Speaker 5: acting like we're talking over the music. We're talking a lout, like, yo,
Speaker 5: I can't hear you with it.
Speaker 3: It's dead signent all right.
Speaker 1: So this question is both of you guys, what was
Speaker 1: it life working with Jordan Alexander. She plays a party
Speaker 1: in the series. So for those of you guys who
Speaker 1: were just watching that music video, she's the artist in
Speaker 1: that video.
Speaker 3: What was it like working with her? I'm hearing that
Speaker 3: that was Those were original songs that were created for
Speaker 3: her to just feel like the time that she was in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jordan is actually dope.
Speaker 3: She's so dope.
Speaker 5: She's from Canada. Oh, she had an interesting way to
Speaker 5: see in life.
Speaker 4: But it's still like the States.
Speaker 5: Canada is like basically like us, but they just say
Speaker 5: things different. And I was inviting her over to the
Speaker 5: house and everyone and that we just started talking and
Speaker 5: I started picking her brand.
Speaker 4: I was like, Yo, this is fire like it was.
Speaker 4: She was a real artist, you know, and an actress.
Speaker 1: Was she casted that you guys were specifically looking for
Speaker 1: an actress who was also an artist or did it
Speaker 1: just so happen? And she's great for the part and
Speaker 1: she could actually she has she's a real artist who
Speaker 1: sounds good.
Speaker 6: You know what?
Speaker 4: It helps because I feel like, you know, just as
Speaker 4: a a viewer of shows, you could tell when somebody
Speaker 4: actually has real music ability and while we're faking it.
Speaker 4: So I always think, in my opinion, I always liked
Speaker 4: the cast someone will have music ability if they're playing
Speaker 4: the part of a music artist, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So it was definitely helpful in the studio being able
Speaker 4: to just tell her to like, Yo, let's let's let's
Speaker 4: cut down over, let's do this, let's do that, and
Speaker 4: to speak to her, ask somebody who makes music. She
Speaker 4: understood all the laboring. She understood what she was doing.
Speaker 4: She understood what she sounded two up to date and
Speaker 4: how to sound more. Tlc Ish you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So that's what we've all for.
Speaker 3: I had a question for y'all, but I can't ask it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you backstage when you just said it's okay,
Speaker 1: and I can't because I don't.
Speaker 3: Want to do away anything.
Speaker 1: But so you guys askally producing the music for her
Speaker 1: the song that we just heard, so that's her song
Speaker 1: originally just was for the show, right, and so who
Speaker 1: does she write it? And you produce?
Speaker 4: So we have people come in write the song, like
Speaker 4: the people who wrote like TLC's records, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean, and and made those beats, and we'll have
Speaker 4: them cut in and create something specifically for her, and
Speaker 4: then we'll go in and we'll record the record, make
Speaker 4: sure again gets mixed and make sure feels of that time.
Speaker 4: So same drum machine, same keyboards saying everything so it
Speaker 4: sounds like that. So that's what we're doing.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: So music is one part of you know, this season
Speaker 1: of BMS, but ask every season and all of you
Speaker 1: know the fifty cent world of stars.
Speaker 3: With BMN, for sure, you.
Speaker 1: Have a set design, you have your costumes, your hair,
Speaker 1: your makeup, and in this season in particular, you guys
Speaker 1: are in two different worlds a lot, so the costuming
Speaker 1: and the look and you know, everything looks really really different.
Speaker 3: The bitch.
Speaker 1: He talked to me a bit about first of all,
Speaker 1: going into those two different worlds and shooting that and
Speaker 1: just how everything changes, like your hair, your everything.
Speaker 4: By security too.
Speaker 5: It will be watching me.
Speaker 4: But the waygo a week dying laughing.
Speaker 5: I'm literally talking to him fixing it and like trying
Speaker 5: to cover the lace.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, now I know what girls go through.
Speaker 3: Did you have the little thing around your edges the
Speaker 3: dawn the lace edges? It's yeah, you did, bohol.
Speaker 5: I know what it's like to swear and shit living
Speaker 5: in I know why I gotten a little fans.
Speaker 4: It's like, boy, it was it was work. I know
Speaker 4: what I was like, I know why I got.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, I go, yeah, I know
Speaker 3: the whole filming.
Speaker 4: Bro, I gonna lie.
Speaker 5: I gain a lot of respect for women in what
Speaker 5: I go through because I was annoyed as hell body way. Boy,
Speaker 5: I was like, oh my god then and my brain
Speaker 5: is like a week old under it. I'm like, bro,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna take each out between takes me and me
Speaker 5: got rattail.
Speaker 3: Col and we like like it's.
Speaker 4: Now we was going through it.
Speaker 1: And on the music side of it this season, what
Speaker 1: else new or different or just anything you want to
Speaker 1: talk about that you incorporated this season soundtrack wise to
Speaker 1: reflect how action packed it was, you know, the friction
Speaker 1: between the brothers, uh, the you know characters out for revenge.
Speaker 1: There were certain times when I realized certain songs and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I see.
Speaker 4: They did that trying to talk to you without talking
Speaker 4: to you, you know what I mean? But this season, man,
Speaker 4: I think the biggest differences, Uh, this year, we're starting
Speaker 4: to hit some coast, the West coast here, Mop's going
Speaker 4: to hear some early you know, and some early Bounty
Speaker 4: musa from the South. So there's just things now that
Speaker 4: their trade that now that they're moving around, the music's
Speaker 4: gotta move around too.
Speaker 6: So we're hitting all those things. Ain't nobody you know
Speaker 6: on the music. We ain't doing no backflips or that.
Speaker 6: I said, yeah for sure, I was on my own stunts,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's the licensing like though, like do you have like
Speaker 1: a certain amount of time you can use songs for or.
Speaker 4: You know what, and you know this is that's a
Speaker 4: really good question. So that's a licensing question. So usually
Speaker 4: what happens is, if I'm watching the scene, I'll figure
Speaker 4: out how long the song should be in there for,
Speaker 4: and then we go out to get the song.
Speaker 3: So, if you're on an independent.
Speaker 4: Artist or whatever, they're gonna send their music, I understand
Speaker 4: that's how it works.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Basically, I'm gonna give you a fee, and that's going
Speaker 4: to clear the song because I may want to change
Speaker 4: the length of the use as I watch it, or
Speaker 4: you know, if the editor's cut it a little bit differently.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna give you a feed. You still own it.
Speaker 4: I'm just licensed to use it on the show. But
Speaker 4: it could be anywhere from third or seconds to two minutes.
Speaker 4: You know, we use it get in and get out
Speaker 4: pretty quick because nobody really sitting on the scene unless
Speaker 4: it's a montage. But that's the whole other story.
Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate the conversation, y'all. I'm out of question.
Speaker 1: They ain't give you no more. If I just keep going,
Speaker 1: somebody need to let me know because I got them,
Speaker 1: but I just don't know if I.
Speaker 3: Can keep going or not.
Speaker 1: Oh, you gotta Hi god thing.
Speaker 2: It's actually my name on Instagram is exactly. I'm a
Speaker 2: content creator Terry. If you see a small clicks, I
Speaker 2: just wanted to say, shape.
Speaker 3: Up on a lace front. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: That's number one, Uh real road spicing. But I wanted
Speaker 2: to know two questions, one for you and one for
Speaker 2: big Tanks. So the question is for the fashion, did
Speaker 2: you hit any input because it's getting up there this season?
Speaker 2: That's number one? And number two is the second question
Speaker 2: for you? Was big your real music during the scene?
Speaker 3: What's the budget like behind it?
Speaker 1: That was a great question, Like are you working like
Speaker 1: a label when you're going out to these artists that
Speaker 1: you like? You know you're bringing these arts and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, Like.
Speaker 4: I like, I mean I will license big label records,
Speaker 4: like you know what I'm saying. We definitely do that
Speaker 4: a couple of times on an episode. But be like, mom,
Speaker 4: I got the song on b amth you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. Because if you get back to them, I
Speaker 4: feel like they're gonna it's gonna continue to get back
Speaker 4: to us. So, like, I have a whole podcast coming
Speaker 4: out soon called The Man behind the Music and launching
Speaker 4: about a month and we literally are going to be
Speaker 4: taking submissions from all y'all and breaking down the songs
Speaker 4: and showing up next to scenes and yeah that's what
Speaker 4: we know it. So I see we're about to wrap up.
Speaker 3: I was like, yo, moving joy making, I don't for
Speaker 3: a minute.
Speaker 4: Question Yeah, yeah, I got a question, be teen. Wait,
Speaker 4: so Jordan who played the character?
Speaker 5: She get bred for that song?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 4: So like people can people download that song?
Speaker 3: Because if he.
Speaker 4: Released like so, stars usually will put out like I
Speaker 4: do all the all of the fifty cent shows, so
Speaker 4: raising Kine and ghosts, bemt force. If there's a song
Speaker 4: on the show that we have an artist performed, Stars
Speaker 4: will put that song out there.
Speaker 3: Into the marketplace make music too, bro. Yeah, I got
Speaker 3: a question, so tag me. How did y'all shooted last season?
Speaker 3: For you? Six seven minute? And y'all never talked about this?
Speaker 5: No, I didn't know like the independent arts any Wait,
Speaker 5: so you could sign Jordan too?
Speaker 3: I'm really good. That's not a conflict adventure, it's killed. Nah.
Speaker 5: What I came from the music, Well, I just didn't
Speaker 5: like the labels and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: No, No, this is opportunities out there.
Speaker 3: Bro. We got to talk. Did you know you made Okay,
Speaker 3: we're about because y'all ain't up here researching and I'm
Speaker 3: I'm gonna sign that kid, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: We just figured or something. So when y'all signed that deal,
Speaker 3: can I please announce exclusively on the purpose up all right?
Speaker 3: Thank you, y'all, Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 1: All righty y'all, Well, that was the conversation that I
Speaker 1: sat down with BMFS, Da Vinci and Big Tank to
Speaker 1: have during the Roots Picnic. And y'all, I know there's
Speaker 1: been a lot out there about the Roots Picnic and
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, but nature happened. They handled
Speaker 1: it the best that they could. But this conversation came
Speaker 1: out of that picnic. So I am forever grateful for
Speaker 1: Stars inviting me out to have this conversation and for
Speaker 1: the Roots Picnic for even happening, because we wouldn't have
Speaker 1: had it. Let me know if you guys have enjoyed
Speaker 1: the conversation, if you'll be tuned in and what was
Speaker 1: your favorite part of the conversation, make sure you tweet me,
Speaker 1: Instagram repost this all the things.
Speaker 3: I'm Laura La Rosa.
Speaker 1: I tell you guys, every episode you guys could be
Speaker 1: anywhere because at the end of the day, there's always
Speaker 1: a lot to talk about, and you could talk about
Speaker 1: it with anybody. I thank you guys for choosing me
Speaker 1: each and every time. I'll see you in my next episode.