Speaker 1: What's up his way up at the ANGELA.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm here with DJ Nick Sill and we got
Speaker 2: finally Maley down in the building.
Speaker 1: What's up on? I love seeing you in New York.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, had a place to be.
Speaker 2: Listen, you got a big week coming up too for you.
Speaker 2: The Golden Child definitely all right. So I love the artwork,
Speaker 2: but I want to talk about that a little bit
Speaker 2: because it's you know, you are the Golden Child, So
Speaker 2: talk about what made you even do that, and then
Speaker 2: we'll talk about the title track.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that my career has been such a
Speaker 3: rough journey. A lot of obstacles that came before me
Speaker 3: coming up. I just think that a lot of fight
Speaker 3: that I get is got just build me up.
Speaker 1: You don't back down either.
Speaker 3: I don't know some of us feel like, say, he's
Speaker 3: a true in person. So it just give me Daddy
Speaker 3: for coming up with a child. Let's see it.
Speaker 1: I feel that you feel blessed.
Speaker 3: I feel blessed. So that's that's that's what our Golden
Speaker 3: Child comes from. It's just the journey.
Speaker 2: As what would you say when you talk about obsticles,
Speaker 2: do you mean just coming where you're from, or like
Speaker 2: just to give us some insights as to what those
Speaker 2: obstacles are.
Speaker 3: Like, Like where we're coming from. It wasn't really easy
Speaker 3: to get out there and for people to know and
Speaker 3: be able to show your talent that you have resources.
Speaker 3: A lot of politics in I gem A lot of
Speaker 3: people try Black Valley and them type. I think sophysics
Speaker 3: we overcome certain things and reach to a point where
Speaker 3: voice can be heard and people know who is most
Speaker 3: definitely it is a It is a it is a
Speaker 3: chosen feeling, our golden feeling. So right now the journey
Speaker 3: not done yet, but we're right area.
Speaker 2: And when did you feel was that time when you
Speaker 2: were like, Okay, I can see I'm getting over this
Speaker 2: mountain because you know, yeah, I'll tell you what I
Speaker 2: think it was the first you tell me when you
Speaker 2: think was the time that you were finally like, okay,
Speaker 2: we're breaking through.
Speaker 3: I think it's around like v sic. Yeah, because when
Speaker 3: when I got my first hot sound, which was crooked
Speaker 3: in Jamaica, I did get ahead of myself because I say,
Speaker 3: we get that tip out of iceberg, it wasn't all
Speaker 3: sweet after that. It got even before getting the first
Speaker 3: at song, some men I said, all right, you know,
Speaker 3: I said, this is now gonna be an easy journey,
Speaker 3: so I just pressure.
Speaker 1: What do you mean? It got rougher though? Like how
Speaker 1: did it?
Speaker 3: Like? Like when people seeing your potential, No, and you
Speaker 3: have competitors and not everybody gonna like you, it just
Speaker 3: got rough because now they see that you're forced to
Speaker 3: be reckoned with them. The I tried and based film
Speaker 3: the force, I get an leashed as me. So that's
Speaker 3: what I mean.
Speaker 2: Even V six was a bit of a challenge because
Speaker 2: I know you didn't own that song right or there
Speaker 2: was an issue with.
Speaker 3: Like I just didn't get any any shares in the song.
Speaker 3: I write the song, I sing the song. I always
Speaker 3: though one engineered the song I recorded and that sung
Speaker 3: myself everything. It was only me there so but I
Speaker 3: don't know, I mean ilopon that. That's not something to
Speaker 3: delop and no one more. It's more and more it's an.
Speaker 1: And I guess it did what it did for you too.
Speaker 3: I put that behind me, I know, yeah, because right
Speaker 3: now I'm more popular. A lot of people know me more. Right, No,
Speaker 3: so obviously they didn't stop at music, so I can't
Speaker 3: do it on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, of course not. And I do think sometimes
Speaker 2: things happen for a reason, Like you said, as the
Speaker 2: Golden Child, there's always gonna be things and you learn
Speaker 2: from those things too. Yeah, right, because like you said,
Speaker 2: you did all of that, but it also teaches you
Speaker 2: some business aspects that.
Speaker 1: You had to hear.
Speaker 3: And most definitely it opened my eye. And no, I'm
Speaker 3: more educated about the business. So for something like that
Speaker 3: to happen again, it least it really, you know, it
Speaker 3: least likely for it helped to me again. So I like
Speaker 3: what I journey and is a learning process and it
Speaker 3: just a be left for the big idea. You know,
Speaker 3: at that moment.
Speaker 1: That you were about to say something.
Speaker 4: No, I was intrigued. I know you engineered the record too, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I engineered the record.
Speaker 2: Did you have to teach yourself how to do all that?
Speaker 2: Because you were like nobody's.
Speaker 3: It's It's like I'm always in the studio watching my manager,
Speaker 3: watching the producer as an engineer doing everything, so and
Speaker 3: I wasn't afraid to ask questions like what's that? What
Speaker 3: does that do? What does that plugging do? So I
Speaker 3: just end up learning the pro tools just by observing
Speaker 3: and asking questions, till one day I just get up
Speaker 3: started the record myself, and I keep getting better at it.
Speaker 3: Until I can mix the beat. I can't do anything
Speaker 3: I want with it. But I don't focus much and
Speaker 3: that I just want to know that I could lay
Speaker 3: my own record down, so inky somebody now I can
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 1: You just feel like recording something?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, majority my biggest songs, I'm the one who
Speaker 3: engineered them. They hit songs.
Speaker 1: That's dope.
Speaker 3: That's the majority of them.
Speaker 2: That's a great skill. That's a great way to say
Speaker 2: some money.
Speaker 3: I have a good team though they don't mind doing it.
Speaker 3: But sometimes sometimes you just want to go in there.
Speaker 3: Just in my element. I'm just so I'm going there
Speaker 3: and just the more things.
Speaker 2: As far as artists, who was the first person that
Speaker 2: was like, let me take you under my wing or
Speaker 2: even support you publicly?
Speaker 3: It was at all like automatic records. He produced a
Speaker 3: lot of squash, a lot of He produced a lot
Speaker 3: of chronic He produce Vibe Cartle. You know at all
Speaker 3: is a really well known producer. He was actually the
Speaker 3: first one who because at the time there was a
Speaker 3: lot of war in the place where I came from,
Speaker 3: a lot of crime and violence, a lot of terf
Speaker 3: for so he was there getting caught up in it.
Speaker 3: And one day he just he just he just showed
Speaker 3: up or don't nowhere and was like yo yo. Because
Speaker 3: a friend of mine named by the name attached him
Speaker 3: and Dandan made the canic because they were friends with
Speaker 3: Squash dance artists Squash and Squash was doing work with Ato.
Speaker 3: So they had told Squash that this new artist see
Speaker 3: him and he ripping the thing and he don't even
Speaker 3: know the thing. So he now told Squash that and
Speaker 3: Squashed Ato say, yo him, take him up. He'sier artist now.
Speaker 3: And from that day I'm still with Ato. He's still
Speaker 3: my manager.
Speaker 1: And squashes on yeah.
Speaker 3: And Dan Sky and the team keeps getting stronger. You know,
Speaker 3: we add on new people to the team. Sulky plays
Speaker 3: a big part on the team to say, you don't know,
Speaker 3: the management team is strong. We just got to, you know,
Speaker 3: put our brains together to be the greatest.
Speaker 2: Now, what is some things that your management is like, Maladan,
Speaker 2: you gotta do they ever be like?
Speaker 3: And as an artist, you gotta take take telling one
Speaker 3: time back then, like a couple of years back, I
Speaker 3: used to wear some big rings on my finger like
Speaker 3: culs and and They were like, Yo, we don't want
Speaker 3: that for the brand. Those you're a brand. We don't
Speaker 3: want people to have that image that you. I want
Speaker 3: you to be market. I will get rid of those rings.
Speaker 3: And one time I was stubborn towards it till they
Speaker 3: had to throw them ring throw the rings rings away.
Speaker 3: When I wasn't there, I still went and bought. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I bought back some more and they were like.
Speaker 1: You're just being a stubborn too.
Speaker 3: You just gotta it was like, yo, what do you
Speaker 3: want for yourself? What what is the image you want
Speaker 3: to portray the people? And looking to myself, I wasn't
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny me and Nick Nick Sale we're talking
Speaker 2: about because I was like, he do have songs that
Speaker 2: the ladies like, but it's still rough, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like, I'm like, this.
Speaker 1: Is a song for the ladies. Aggressive, but women like
Speaker 1: that too.
Speaker 3: Believe, And that's and that's what set me aside from
Speaker 3: the artist them too, because you said the board and
Speaker 3: so I'm gonna bring it to the table. I'll say
Speaker 3: what's on your mind that you're afraid? They say, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's just you know.
Speaker 2: I'm like, because when I listen to it, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm visualizing, like Maladan dating someone, Yeah, what is that like? Like,
Speaker 2: what's like what makes what are some of the things
Speaker 2: that you do to court a woman or to kind
Speaker 2: of like on a date.
Speaker 1: What is mally done take a woman on a date, Like,
Speaker 1: what are some things that well? Because I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out listening to music, it is.
Speaker 3: The music, you know most definitely, I can't. I can't pretrot,
Speaker 3: I don't practice. You know, it doesn't feel right and
Speaker 3: it feels less connected to the audience if I do
Speaker 3: music that that don't really to me. My lifestyle are
Speaker 3: my surrounding, all the people around me. So when it
Speaker 3: comme ons to that when I hear me, so just know,
Speaker 3: say some of the pre for true. So I saw
Speaker 3: something do it for true? So when they come on
Speaker 3: to like romance and them think girl like the bad romance.
Speaker 1: Where would you take her?
Speaker 2: I need you to be specific, Like let's just say
Speaker 2: you meet a young lady, you want to take her out?
Speaker 1: No, what's it looking like?
Speaker 3: I'm not real. I'm not really the type to be
Speaker 3: outside like tying in no place because like I don't
Speaker 3: wanna I don't wanna I don't want to steal out myself.
Speaker 3: Like when people save it for free, they won't pay
Speaker 3: for See, they don't like.
Speaker 1: A page he got the eat.
Speaker 3: No, it depends if it's something low key and like
Speaker 3: that's not gonna drive that much attention. Fine, we could
Speaker 3: do something sweet like that. I could set up an airbnb,
Speaker 3: get a chef, personal chef, all of us and we
Speaker 3: have a good time and we vibe. We know. It
Speaker 3: don't necessarily got to be something out in the public,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that is actually impressive.
Speaker 1: You get an airbnb, get a.
Speaker 3: Chef, private chef, get flowers, candles, whatever. You know.
Speaker 4: You're not going towhere. Yeah, you're not going awhere.
Speaker 3: No, I don't want to try to lose salt.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't want to end up on the blogs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah no, Because I'm saying we just really He
Speaker 2: was like he really do songs that's more hard coordinate,
Speaker 2: And I'm like, nah, but I can see why you no.
Speaker 3: Softness though before all, before I started to express myself
Speaker 3: in like female songs, like songs for the ladies, I
Speaker 3: was always a hardcore artist. But when I I took
Speaker 3: a look at my career and what did I And
Speaker 3: I asked my question, asked myself what did I want
Speaker 3: for myself? What is the image I wanted my career?
Speaker 3: And it just feels more better towards the leadies, more
Speaker 3: than violence and more than you know. Yeah, so transfer
Speaker 3: that aggression into the music for the ladies.
Speaker 1: Like an aggressive lover.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in life, so speak of brand. This past week
Speaker 5: has been crazy, crazy to say the least. Is there
Speaker 5: a chance of peace coming from this?
Speaker 3: Oh that's what you're talking.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm talking about my alb.
Speaker 3: Peace. Peace, peace when the commands. So, yeah, it's all
Speaker 3: it's always peace. I'm at peace right now.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's me.
Speaker 3: So there's no no, no, no real obstacle, real a
Speaker 3: reel trait towards me in within myself, within myself. We
Speaker 3: we the one who is out there and putting our foot.
Speaker 3: No one never share your outside you see out there.
Speaker 2: I want to say this when it comes to like
Speaker 2: because we've had like our fair share hip hop battles.
Speaker 1: This is a whole other level because you know, we
Speaker 1: always are.
Speaker 2: Like, Okay, you can't say this, you can't say that
Speaker 2: the creativity say sucking anything.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Like in a hip hop battle, you know, they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: you know that's crossing a line, crossing a boundary. Are
Speaker 2: there lines or boundaries that don't get crossed?
Speaker 3: It's always fearing. If you're gonna say something about somebody
Speaker 3: sentimental to me, our figure sentimental to me, I'm going
Speaker 3: to do to see them. And when you do it,
Speaker 3: what am I going to say? I did it too?
Speaker 3: So I won't let people. I don't believe even oppression
Speaker 3: and no boy can drive heear and me, I say
Speaker 3: what put my mind? So I won't. I won't be
Speaker 3: a puppet to the industry or a puppet to nobody
Speaker 3: at all. So maybe the consequence for that is nobody
Speaker 3: will like and nobody will ray, but nobody don't get
Speaker 3: to like it for you to be successful, and people
Speaker 3: who turn out to be the biggest nobody normally like them.
Speaker 3: They end up jump on a train. So so ultimately,
Speaker 3: mm hmm, I'm just a force to be reckoned with.
Speaker 3: And people know that, and they know that I don't care,
Speaker 3: so they're not gonna like me. Like, for instance, I
Speaker 3: don't really play in parties. Selectors don't play myselngs even
Speaker 3: when I'm that it's if it's an instance where I'm
Speaker 3: the artist artist in the in in in in Jamaica,
Speaker 3: I still don't play the parties. I could be number
Speaker 3: one and all charts in the Caribbean, and there are
Speaker 3: multiple instances where I'm number one all carib be on
Speaker 3: islands with different songs, not just one songs, you still
Speaker 3: won't hear me playing the party. I don't kill up
Speaker 3: myself about that. I don't be tough myself about that
Speaker 3: because manure and we know agree this way, Well, what
Speaker 3: would be who type.
Speaker 4: You in New York definitely appreciate you in the club?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah. You see, we did a show by
Speaker 3: myself the other day and we got over six thousand
Speaker 3: people just me alone. I just brought out some of
Speaker 3: my friends, you know, as guests. They could sing a
Speaker 3: one two song. But really and truly I was the
Speaker 3: only one on that on that show, it was our show.
Speaker 1: Seven thousand.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I want to ask you this that what does management say,
Speaker 2: because you know, like you said, people weigh in on
Speaker 2: things and that is something that is part of growth
Speaker 2: as an artist. But I understand also not wanting to
Speaker 2: compromise who you are. But when it comes to that.
Speaker 2: I'm just curious. On the other side of things is
Speaker 2: what does management say to you about like different you
Speaker 2: being extremely vocal, uncensored and it does go very viral.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because our lives and us so you know,
Speaker 3: the least thing that we say is go viral. So management,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, I really do much interviews like
Speaker 3: that right now. Me doing a lot of interviews lately
Speaker 3: is just because I have an album coming up. I
Speaker 3: don't say that.
Speaker 1: I said, you know, his alms coming up.
Speaker 3: I don't really. I don't really be on the press,
Speaker 3: so what's there to say. You're not gonna hear nothing
Speaker 3: from Malid and I don't be going live, chatting off,
Speaker 3: chat chatting up my fierce like some man. But when
Speaker 3: I do have an interview, I'm still vocal. But you know,
Speaker 3: time and place and as we say, is a product.
Speaker 3: So we have more for control ourselves, control our emotions,
Speaker 3: and supportate business from feelings. And that's that's exactly what
Speaker 3: I do. You won't be seeing me on a podcast
Speaker 3: dissen a artists, crossing up artists. Obviously, that's not the
Speaker 3: that's not the picture image that I want to be
Speaker 3: paint off Maladan. I want to. I want to can
Speaker 3: do endorsements. I want to can get sponsors from big companies.
Speaker 3: I want to be carporate. Yeah, but without corporate Madan,
Speaker 3: without without Yes, we know we're from the streets, we
Speaker 3: grew up in the streets and all of that, but
Speaker 3: we don't got to let that define the carrier.
Speaker 2: And you know, and I think that's great for people
Speaker 2: to see that who have come from where you come from,
Speaker 2: to see what's passable, because there are people that are
Speaker 2: young that are watching you, that are like Maidans from
Speaker 2: where I'm from.
Speaker 3: And a lot of people get defined by the place
Speaker 3: they come from. And I want to I want to
Speaker 3: dismiss off that tart in any head when it commands
Speaker 3: to me. Not because we came from from poverty, not
Speaker 3: because we came from the garys so the ghetto, that
Speaker 3: doesn't determine your future. We got to be young black entrepreneurs.
Speaker 3: We got to be you know. I like seeing young
Speaker 3: people own businesses and stuff like that and that. Right now,
Speaker 3: that's my main focus. I want to venture in some
Speaker 3: business like right now, and we mainly focus on the
Speaker 3: music because right now it's the time for me, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: But at the same time, we still have a business
Speaker 3: start in my head with like you know, make happen
Speaker 3: and like venturing. So right now I'm just it's all
Speaker 3: in there.
Speaker 1: What businesses do you think?
Speaker 3: As I say, I'm not. I haven't ventured in it
Speaker 3: as yet, but I'm trying to think of different ideas
Speaker 3: and different things to venture in as an artist because
Speaker 3: I don't just want to be an artist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your business, your brand.
Speaker 3: I want to be a CEO. I'm already a CEO
Speaker 3: to the malad and brand, but I want to have
Speaker 3: other things do for you to know me for not
Speaker 3: just you know.
Speaker 1: You have two sons as well, right, three sons.
Speaker 2: So how when you think about your career and you
Speaker 2: think about because you are always your children and everything,
Speaker 2: what is that like for you?
Speaker 1: You know, raising boys? You don't have any girls yet,
Speaker 1: Wait till you have a girl.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gonna be so different for you. But maybe
Speaker 3: you know, God, just all up and the girl. Because
Speaker 3: I know, I say, if we get the girl, it
Speaker 3: probably changed my mindset and change or go about things
Speaker 3: and the ruthless next summer put towards the music and
Speaker 3: dance because that somebody said to me, Yo, you have
Speaker 3: so many energy enemy enemies in music. You don't You're
Speaker 3: no freid yo, You're no freed for dead man. I
Speaker 3: said freed for dead. Everybody going dead, but my freid
Speaker 3: for dead without setting it for my kids them that
Speaker 3: my death is not the fear because everybody have for die.
Speaker 3: So when you see the rut listening and the anger
Speaker 3: and the drive woman putting, all this is because they
Speaker 3: want hurry up and make sure my kids them good,
Speaker 3: because them, after all, right, we bring them the earth.
Speaker 3: Them never asks for coming. So I just that, man,
Speaker 3: I've said it. So I'm not believe that I can
Speaker 3: approach things with fear when it commands to this, because
Speaker 3: the anger or the anger will outfit. We'll just have a.
Speaker 1: You feel like your sons might want to do music?
Speaker 1: Do they?
Speaker 3: Yea becau they watch on the TV is my music
Speaker 3: and my music is slack. I try I try and
Speaker 3: not try not to.
Speaker 1: You know, they're not gonna watch you.
Speaker 3: They still find ways so they want to see their father.
Speaker 3: So I try to get the clean versions and the
Speaker 3: TV and stuff. They be singing some crazy stuff. Sometimes
Speaker 3: I gotta just like yeah, chill, like how to do
Speaker 3: some kids well that's that's that's that's the direction that
Speaker 3: I think about the venture and something. Yeah, but for
Speaker 3: no right, no, just hardcore and you know, you just
Speaker 3: got to grow the kids how they should be grown
Speaker 3: and teach them around from right as parents. You know that.
Speaker 2: You know you mentioned that somebody said to you the
Speaker 2: other day that you have a lot of enemies. Do
Speaker 2: you think these enemies are just in the music business
Speaker 2: where they may try to prevent things, or do you
Speaker 2: feel like even outside of that, because you know there's
Speaker 2: a difference between we don't like each other in this
Speaker 2: music industry and outside of it is different.
Speaker 3: Well, well, I'm a musician, so obviously I'm I'm thinking musically,
Speaker 3: but I won't put nothing past a person or had
Speaker 3: an individual apart from myself, I can swear for nobody.
Speaker 3: So with that being said, I can't take no check,
Speaker 3: I can't be loose, I can't be underestimating people that
Speaker 3: I don't know. So whether or not it's music are
Speaker 3: it's that enemies are enemies and you get treated like enemies.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't have to be going in a
Speaker 3: space sorry, you know, because men, I know we'll got
Speaker 3: your niggas head. I don't know what be going through people,
Speaker 3: So we're not trusting nobody to be on point. Just
Speaker 3: be on portant and just do music.
Speaker 2: Has anybody behind the scenes try to like to bring
Speaker 2: you together or have a conversation behind the.
Speaker 3: Scenes, who together like with with with Apps?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Apps, it could be anybody because you were like
Speaker 2: you said you are.
Speaker 5: Maybe I could do a sting and just let it
Speaker 5: be the music and the music be done well.
Speaker 2: No, But I mean sometimes people are cool with each
Speaker 2: other behind and they're like, you need to talk.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't support violence,
Speaker 3: you know, support music. I'm a musician, so that's I'm
Speaker 3: mainly for focused on music. But I don't I don't
Speaker 3: be putting myself accessible to people like that to be
Speaker 3: just calling and trying to do all that. Maybe my
Speaker 3: management Instagram, Yeah man, maybe my management.
Speaker 1: That wouldn't be big for Jamaica. I want to say that.
Speaker 3: You think about its peace over water all the time.
Speaker 3: But maybe my managers. I don't know. But like when
Speaker 3: it come ons to d m s and them stuff,
Speaker 3: I don't be really going because it's a lot. It's
Speaker 3: a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot. So what
Speaker 3: what I see, I see. If I don't see something,
Speaker 3: I just miss it because there's so many notifications coming in.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been catfished?
Speaker 2: We're like a girl was in your DMS and then
Speaker 2: you saw her in real life and that's not the person.
Speaker 3: Crazy, crazy, crazy.
Speaker 1: So several times.
Speaker 3: It happened, it happened, It happened before, like some of
Speaker 3: them be editing there there there, you know, it's.
Speaker 1: Crazy filters, the photoshop crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So what would you do in a situation where somebody
Speaker 2: shows up and it's not what you expected?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just smoothed it off just you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't if I had it is my intention to
Speaker 3: apply pressure. I just smoothed it off. Yeah, just be
Speaker 3: straight up disrespectfully. You edit your picture, you ugly. I
Speaker 3: ain't going to do that. I don't want to hurt
Speaker 3: no girls. You're so bold. Yeah, women, So.
Speaker 2: You just be like, well, it was nice to meet you.
Speaker 2: Believe no one, but now you know what people got
Speaker 2: to like FaceTime and stuff like that, because you can't
Speaker 2: just pop out.
Speaker 3: Yeah off of believe We're not going to just meet
Speaker 3: up like that. I got to see who I'm talking now.
Speaker 2: You did same time. It's kind of we were talking
Speaker 2: about that. How is that for you?
Speaker 3: Yo? That that show was so so great. It was
Speaker 3: so great when I ran out on the stage in
Speaker 3: front of thousands of people. It just gave me a
Speaker 3: related feeling to see how accepted we are in the
Speaker 3: world and all people admire us. Because majority majority of
Speaker 3: the songs that we sang, we didn't have to sing it.
Speaker 3: I had to just.
Speaker 6: Put the that's nice, Ago, crazy love, the love over
Speaker 6: at the Virgin Islands, both the B v I and
Speaker 6: U s v I.
Speaker 3: It's crazy sent tamas startoller, same cry. All of those places,
Speaker 3: it's all love. It's just crazy over there and they
Speaker 3: just give you a warm feeling. You know, you feel
Speaker 3: like you live there when you're over there, and then.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 4: Do you have a favorite show that you've done, Yo?
Speaker 3: That was crazy that show the other day, crazier show.
Speaker 2: Perfect timing for something like that. You know, this is
Speaker 2: your your quote debut album, which feels a little weird
Speaker 2: because you've had projects.
Speaker 3: Projects, but when I say debut, this one means more
Speaker 3: to me as an album. Those were just I call
Speaker 3: them EPs. You know, those was like the warm up
Speaker 3: for this, so what does mean to you? It means
Speaker 3: everything to me. It's it's the journey. As I said,
Speaker 3: like all the work that I've been putting in over
Speaker 3: these years as a juvenile, as a as a as
Speaker 3: a as a young artist, all of them work, they've
Speaker 3: all been put in. It's our time. It always the
Speaker 3: time to show different sides of me, our language of Maladan.
Speaker 3: So it most definitely me in the world to me
Speaker 3: showing like expressing myself through music to my audience. So
Speaker 3: this album just be a standsho different sides of Maladan
Speaker 3: different fever. You have some people who like my female
Speaker 3: song the more. You have some people who would want
Speaker 3: to hear Maladan single reality song. You have people who
Speaker 3: would like to hear Maladan single rap song. You have
Speaker 3: people who like the likes the street music that side
Speaker 3: of Maladan and they don't. You have people who do
Speaker 3: not like the girls songs.
Speaker 2: So even the girl songs that will still be yeah
Speaker 2: they yeah, it's fine, I like it, but it's nine.
Speaker 3: But not everybody loves a specific side of Maladan. Right,
Speaker 3: So with the album, now, this is my my means,
Speaker 3: this is my tool in order to kita for everybody.
Speaker 2: How did you figure out what to put on this album,
Speaker 2: because there's twenty songs on here, and I have to
Speaker 2: feel like you ain't want to leave nothing off. And
Speaker 2: I'm sure it was hard to even come up with
Speaker 2: that twenty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, even the week, even last week, couple songs got
Speaker 3: switched out because they're not wanting to fail. Maybe you
Speaker 3: overthink sometime. Yes me, so a lot of songs that
Speaker 3: were scheduled to be on the album got swapped out
Speaker 3: because I think I could could have done better. So
Speaker 3: I just hit the studio and did better. And yes, me,
Speaker 3: we just gotta just you know, put that a sole
Speaker 3: and anything or they say more connected to the audience.
Speaker 4: So in terms of says, what do you hope in
Speaker 4: this album accomplishes?
Speaker 3: You know, I I honestly do not do not do
Speaker 3: not set any limits on this. So that's why I
Speaker 3: can't just give you a figure expectation for it. ME
Speaker 3: just want it to do what I wanted it to do.
Speaker 3: And my main goal for this album is showing versatility,
Speaker 3: different style, different sides a malidan. I you see, as
Speaker 3: long as I get that point across to the audience
Speaker 3: and it's and it gets connected to my fans, I
Speaker 3: feel I'll be satisfied regardless of the numbers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it wasn't talking about numbers. You want to be corporate.
Speaker 3: I just go in America, Tom, You know, I just
Speaker 3: wanted to touch the art some of my support as
Speaker 3: them and gear and new support as to it in
Speaker 3: our red life.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I want to say that what are you
Speaker 2: going to do with those songs that didn't make it?
Speaker 2: That you were like, I'm gonna go back in And
Speaker 2: because sometimes we gotta think overthinking and go on with
Speaker 2: our first instinct kind of clash with each other.
Speaker 3: Clash with each other because most time I felicity your
Speaker 3: first instinct sometimes and a lot of times we overthink stuff.
Speaker 3: And the one that we turned our back and it
Speaker 3: ended up being a hit because enough of them sang
Speaker 3: and come on for the album we could drop them
Speaker 3: as single. And when we drop them as single, it
Speaker 3: does more than a lot of songs that was under
Speaker 3: out right. So it's just you know, you can to
Speaker 3: beat yourself off for just the one with the music
Speaker 3: and just do it as a listen.
Speaker 2: You put out that song sweets Man and and a
Speaker 2: video and even the beginning that was AI in the
Speaker 2: beginning a little introduction.
Speaker 3: I just I just told it what I wanted it
Speaker 3: to say that.
Speaker 2: I mean, how long did it take you to do that?
Speaker 2: Because it feels like you responded.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I know what, I know what exactly is
Speaker 3: on my mind, So it really doesn't it really doesn't
Speaker 3: take long for me to lial what's on my mind
Speaker 3: and a record because yeah, I don't know. I was like,
Speaker 3: I just I then I need to take weeks for
Speaker 3: your tea kind of make up things because when I said,
Speaker 3: I already depart my mind, I saw review with you.
Speaker 3: So if I got tell us your review, your review,
Speaker 3: your for true. Whenever, FA, what.
Speaker 1: Do you think about the response so far?
Speaker 2: People like just people who have been watching it and
Speaker 2: how they've been responding.
Speaker 3: Listen to me when they commented clash and name things
Speaker 3: are ran name thing. You can't feed into the comments
Speaker 3: and thing because you know, everybody have their own fans,
Speaker 3: diarted fans. People are gonna be biased to their to
Speaker 3: whichever side they're ripping. So you just gotta just I
Speaker 3: forget whatever. I just know because and I sung me,
Speaker 3: I look, if you want to eat sung can't go
Speaker 3: a nice to the record, I sang menamic because because
Speaker 3: the war the clashing thing. I said, all right, may
Speaker 3: I capitalized span this sun, try squeeze, and I sung,
Speaker 3: I try. You know, when I made the thing that
Speaker 3: we're there for, if I eat, I just eat. Pressure
Speaker 3: of them when I made them were a fear. Really
Speaker 3: take it into a people said it isn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's gonna quite a response and and a
Speaker 2: lot of views already.
Speaker 3: Yeah crazy. Just for sure, if we drop a regular song,
Speaker 3: you won't see it gets seven hundred to in two days.
Speaker 3: But just because every war and things, so that for sure,
Speaker 3: like either the world, the whole world, they the world
Speaker 3: like they love war more than peace.
Speaker 1: They do. That's a fact to me. That's why beef
Speaker 1: is going for labels because they like to.
Speaker 3: See It's like it's like they love war more than peace,
Speaker 3: isn't me. So it's dance. Sometimes you got to just
Speaker 3: give the people what they want, you know.
Speaker 2: Because that is within the history of dancers, a lot
Speaker 2: of clashes.
Speaker 3: It's a business and Dan Sall is known for clash
Speaker 3: and everything. You know, and if you have a business
Speaker 3: and you have a product that everybody wants, your business
Speaker 3: is gonna work more because your product is selling. So Therefore,
Speaker 3: if you don't have what it takes to make the product,
Speaker 3: you know people wanting to buy the product, you can't
Speaker 3: go up on the level where you want a fee.
Speaker 3: This is something important, Afeel defend yourself and the answer.
Speaker 2: What about picking a side when it comes to because
Speaker 2: it feels like some of it is also it was
Speaker 2: cool you can't work with this person and work with me,
Speaker 2: but some people may not have anything to do with anything.
Speaker 1: How does that work for you?
Speaker 3: Picking aside is inevitable because you know, as we say
Speaker 3: at the starting of the podcast, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: politics in this and many people that you use a link,
Speaker 3: but we don't link anymore because they go around new people.
Speaker 3: That's not cool with we and every it all comes
Speaker 3: down to picking a side. You know, it's one music,
Speaker 3: it's one dancer and all that you know about. At
Speaker 3: the end of the day, it's comes down to picking
Speaker 3: aside because there is their side. If their side's to
Speaker 3: be picked, it has to be picked. So I'm in
Speaker 3: afraid to pick my inside.
Speaker 2: Twenty years from now, I can't wait for us to
Speaker 2: have another conversation and flashbacks and when we talked, because
Speaker 2: I just think about when people you know, we've seen
Speaker 2: a lot of instances where people later on in life
Speaker 2: they're like, Okay, we're you know, so I think that'll
Speaker 2: be interesting because I know you're still going to be
Speaker 2: doing this twenty years and now I want to say
Speaker 2: that too.
Speaker 1: You got a long we have a long career career
Speaker 1: ahead of you.
Speaker 3: I'm one God spear h we now we we're now
Speaker 3: doing the fin God's spear life. We just em top
Speaker 3: top of the world. I just got at them because
Speaker 3: the possibilities them, analysts no limits. Is on the music
Speaker 3: every day, new songs, new.
Speaker 4: Corporate dawn coming.
Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah, what did it mean for you to
Speaker 2: have squash on Golden Child too? Because I know he's
Speaker 2: very important.
Speaker 3: It means a lot because I know he played a
Speaker 3: big part in this world thing. To remember, I was
Speaker 3: telling you. Automatic arm came for me when I was
Speaker 3: living in Waterford and Port More, a little juvenile freshot
Speaker 3: fresh showt at school and I went on the road
Speaker 3: right from there when I when I moved, when I
Speaker 3: left my house at seventeen, I moved out at seventeen
Speaker 3: autumn of people in place, and never I just carry
Speaker 3: one bag, like one bag and I never go back
Speaker 3: one from that one bag pack up. I left all
Speaker 3: my clothes, all my shoes, everything. I just carry one bag.
Speaker 3: And he said to me that you don't need more
Speaker 3: than one bag because you're gonna make the money where
Speaker 3: you're gonna make you you go buy a back. All
Speaker 3: them think it's an hoorryboat. That me walletpaning floor in
Speaker 3: floor with some sponge to sponge wallypaning floor for six
Speaker 3: months and after six month after leaving water afford, MU
Speaker 3: start my own money, so someone could I rent a
Speaker 3: place for myself?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 3: Someone just stay up on the floor for six months
Speaker 3: and just put in the work and then sorry, I'm
Speaker 3: a big up at the When is he coming home?
Speaker 3: When six coming home? You know? Yeah, you know seud
Speaker 3: of me that it's a boxing there.
Speaker 6: I know that.
Speaker 3: You also have by on here and big up Byron too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, talk to me.
Speaker 2: About that because I feel like there was He was
Speaker 2: having some issues with getting black Ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah because you know he under a label. He under
Speaker 3: he signed to a label, so we did a lot
Speaker 3: of songs, but a lot of songs never get to
Speaker 3: be released because you know he'd be under a label.
Speaker 3: So having him on this album, it means a lot
Speaker 3: because this this song that we did was in his
Speaker 3: place in sent Kits. We recorded it with the whole
Speaker 3: sent Kits energy and everything. He's pole planting. My people
Speaker 3: flew there, so it was a great chemistry. And you
Speaker 3: know that song is name free. It's called free six
Speaker 3: bars to say, I don't know. It's tribute to Squash,
Speaker 3: you know, and Squash is coming home soon, so it's
Speaker 3: just the right time. Everything is just well, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so big.
Speaker 2: It's not crazy when he comes home. Believe, do you
Speaker 2: feel the that you're this international star? Do you feel
Speaker 2: that because you are definitely believe.
Speaker 3: That's before before I'm even known internationally. That was my
Speaker 3: image and view of myself as and that was the
Speaker 3: look that I wanted. And most definitely people are showing
Speaker 3: us love internationally world wide. All over last year we
Speaker 3: got booked for Greece and Curveful. We were surprised how
Speaker 3: many people know. They were like you, oh, Molly, and
Speaker 3: we're like yo, so many, so many people in Greece
Speaker 3: nor it was. It's just crazy and it's a elated
Speaker 3: feeling whenever it happens.
Speaker 4: How do you think those kind of environments change you,
Speaker 4: like the more places you go.
Speaker 3: I always tell my friends, like my dogs from the ghetto,
Speaker 3: that you see, whenever you start going to some places
Speaker 3: and traveling, you're gonna you're gonna look and life different.
Speaker 3: And when I started to bring all my dogs with
Speaker 3: me to shows, each show I bring a different set
Speaker 3: for they can have a have a feel outside in
Speaker 3: the world field. You see each time I bring them
Speaker 3: to bring them overseas, when they come back, they all
Speaker 3: behavior is different, their all maids and life. Their attitude
Speaker 3: is different because now they see that the world is
Speaker 3: big and the possibilities are endless and there there there
Speaker 3: are so many things that you haven't experienced in just
Speaker 3: in the box that we were in. So the minute
Speaker 3: to step over to the box and see see the
Speaker 3: things that are they're waiting for us and the greatness
Speaker 3: for the world behold it just start move different. Certain
Speaker 3: things that used to do you don't do it anymore.
Speaker 2: What about how good are you are trying foods? Because
Speaker 2: you know, different food in different places. Some of it
Speaker 2: it would be like what is this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, open mind into that because we travel all
Speaker 3: over everybody of different cultures.
Speaker 1: What's something you ate?
Speaker 3: This? You like?
Speaker 1: I can't believe I tried this, but.
Speaker 3: What's some lenium? Maybe it's man? If I want a
Speaker 3: calam Maria? Was quid calamybody, you don't know what it was,
Speaker 3: if New York was the first place, or calamaries big
Speaker 3: in New York. Man, but I heard it, they say
Speaker 3: klam Maria. I was like, what's that? I'm a TSA
Speaker 3: and they say, you know this is quid. I mean
Speaker 3: I say, if on a regular deal I'm in drumming
Speaker 3: and somebody come, hey, here's some squid, only I would try. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So traveling really does that? There's a man.
Speaker 5: On last question, I'm sorry you talk about traveling and
Speaker 5: bringing your people them with you. So like, how important
Speaker 5: is it for you to be a blessing to your people?
Speaker 3: That that that that being a blessing to my people
Speaker 3: is the is the is the is the best part
Speaker 3: of the word thing sophy because everybody coming from humble beginnings,
Speaker 3: I'm not being able to get whatever we want when
Speaker 3: if I want it, Seeing that time the person who
Speaker 3: really kick off a door for my people and it
Speaker 3: just feel good. It just the same golden feeling teller.
Speaker 3: And so why the album is called Golding Child because
Speaker 3: that's the feeling. Give me a kick. I may I
Speaker 3: bring my dogs them with me, may ensure my family
Speaker 3: I'm good because yeah, I know I re man until yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: until you cannot be a real man if you're not
Speaker 3: do it for your family got you, no matter how
Speaker 3: much money I am making a life. Niggas like to
Speaker 3: hype over money and how much money they got. Yet
Speaker 3: still their family ain't their kid an't go me will
Speaker 3: use up everything to make sure I'm kids them good,
Speaker 3: even familyleft with nothing. So when it come on to
Speaker 3: being a man, are being the man, that's where it
Speaker 3: lies almost definitely being there for people. It's just the
Speaker 3: beast feeling. It gives me a feeling like you know,
Speaker 3: completion whenever that that that in our real life.
Speaker 1: And that's about you to go.
Speaker 2: The child believe all right, well Mala Dan always appreciate
Speaker 2: you so much. You'll be showing up and I appreciate you, yes,
Speaker 2: So make sure you get the problem child.
Speaker 1: It is out Friday.
Speaker 3: It's a problem child. That good though, maybe, but listen,
Speaker 3: but listen scept them before rest, Yeah, they easy to
Speaker 3: accept them afore the golden child scept them before. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it preordis Lincoln.
Speaker 1: It's way up