Speaker 1: Come Again, a podcast by Honey German.
Speaker 2: In this episode, we're sitting down with Mofa, an artist
Speaker 2: who's already making some serious waves in the music scene.
Speaker 2: Although he's a newcomer, he's already locked down some major
Speaker 2: collaborations with artists such as Carol Gi and Manuel durisso
Speaker 2: tapping to hear all about his journey, the collapse, and
Speaker 2: what's next for the rising star being Benito my guy, Mofa. Man,
Speaker 2: I'm so excited to be sitting here with you. You
Speaker 2: know when I heard about you and I was just like,
Speaker 2: I love what he's doing. I love your vibe, I
Speaker 2: love the swag. We're gonna have to get a picture
Speaker 2: that watch when we get off. I'm not trying to
Speaker 2: put you on a spot or anything, but wow, this
Speaker 2: watch is something different.
Speaker 3: Freshen the muff. I was listening to that song.
Speaker 1: The name Mofa say that.
Speaker 3: So I was playing the song and they walked in.
Speaker 3: They're like, why are you playing that song?
Speaker 2: I said, I know why I'm playing that social Chris Brown?
Speaker 3: Were you Chris Brown fan?
Speaker 1: Growing up? I'm a super Chris Brown fan.
Speaker 3: Still He's like top okay, you know, It's like, look
Speaker 3: the personal to the personal persona not withing Lok the
Speaker 3: artists versus the regular person.
Speaker 2: But Chris Brown is one of the best artists to
Speaker 2: have exceeded existed in our generation.
Speaker 3: I can take you that much.
Speaker 1: Was at R and B hip hop.
Speaker 2: Don't listen, it's Michael Jackson Chris Brown. Come on with
Speaker 2: the dancing, don't see. Chris Brown is not close to
Speaker 2: MG when it comes to dancing, So.
Speaker 1: I think that like they're the same when it comes
Speaker 1: to dancing.
Speaker 3: From do like there's I feel like that's definitely Chris
Speaker 3: Brown's father is Michael Jackson when it not realistically, but
Speaker 3: I mean like when it comes to like artistry and
Speaker 3: performance and stage presence, I feel like he takes a
Speaker 3: lot from him, and he's you know, he's not shy
Speaker 3: to say that he takes a lot from him. Now
Speaker 3: talk to me. Where were you born?
Speaker 1: I was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: since I can't remember. My my mom is from Agua,
Speaker 1: my dad is from Isabela, but my biological family is
Speaker 1: from Brazil and.
Speaker 3: Better bean down inside and oh my god, you got
Speaker 3: all my favorite roots, so you have all the bases
Speaker 3: covered from me Okay, I was looking at your Instagram
Speaker 3: to document. Yeah those are your daughter parents, your grandparents, and.
Speaker 1: It's a song. Mean you said double my father okay
Speaker 1: tells second building and miss powers so up adopted.
Speaker 3: S my period.
Speaker 1: Yeah period.
Speaker 3: Let's say you're going to look at your instagram. Yeah
Speaker 3: those were the ones. I'm like you. I was like,
Speaker 3: you know, okay, seeing playing necessary con my.
Speaker 1: Okay, would you still yeah, look, you're a baby, baby,
Speaker 1: your baby.
Speaker 3: But sometimes you know, people become famous.
Speaker 2: Yeah sure, and they're like, oh I'm moving now, I'm
Speaker 2: getting my own apartment. I don't want nobody telling.
Speaker 3: Me what to do. So that's of you that you
Speaker 3: still live with them.
Speaker 1: You want to that? I mean like a central part
Speaker 1: of Puerto Rico, So if I move, it doesn't make
Speaker 1: no sense not.
Speaker 3: To be ready making you the Porto Joe.
Speaker 1: I love the Cholic sal okay, you love the Cholic
Speaker 1: like in the central level, like it's not gonna make
Speaker 1: no sense, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a good spot,
Speaker 1: even in the young theo. So may.
Speaker 3: You're loyal.
Speaker 1: Yeah you're not to be a loyal person, you know,
Speaker 1: one of.
Speaker 3: These spoiled kids. That's like, I'm out of here Bro
Speaker 3: has been bothering me too long.
Speaker 1: My mama's boy, your mama, Yeah, what name? My mom's
Speaker 1: name is Lulu Temple. She she loves no no am
Speaker 1: so your handle Peru conta Rica.
Speaker 2: He never see that, said lod Musica full time was
Speaker 2: the first time that you said in school and you
Speaker 2: said this not for me?
Speaker 3: What was it? What was it about sitting in.
Speaker 2: That in that class that made you realize you had
Speaker 2: to take music to the next.
Speaker 1: Album just then you will see that. Yeah, Core and
Speaker 1: Andoco Perro don't play with.
Speaker 3: Anyway pro P.
Speaker 1: Quadri. I was like, I I sat down on my
Speaker 1: chair and I was like, what am I doing here?
Speaker 1: This not for me? Like I'm done, I'm done. And
Speaker 1: then like three weeks later, the pandemic started, so everything
Speaker 1: shut down. Yeah, and then my parents told me like, okay, Jose, uh,
Speaker 1: the world has stopped, has stopped, So what do you
Speaker 1: want to do? I know you love music. Was look
Speaker 1: at musica so amazing set up, Yes you can record,
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, well not let's go.
Speaker 3: You're mama's boy. All that good?
Speaker 4: And you loyal?
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: I love my parents. I love my parents.
Speaker 3: Your parents? Had you doing music since you were early
Speaker 3: like studying music.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ten.
Speaker 3: What did they say, like you're going to go to
Speaker 3: this special school? Did they see something in you like
Speaker 3: a gift, like a musical inclination?
Speaker 1: A teacher saw some thinking me, She said to my
Speaker 1: parents like, Okay, that kid has has talent, he has
Speaker 1: a voice.
Speaker 5: You need to take him to that because there was
Speaker 5: a class in my in my school like that wasn't
Speaker 5: like my I got that from you. You know you're
Speaker 5: a happy person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, don't miss him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy that you say that because so many
Speaker 2: people have sat here and said it was an educator
Speaker 2: or a teacher that either took them to an audition
Speaker 2: or told them to do this. It shows how important,
Speaker 2: you know, teachers are, and you know we don't celebrate
Speaker 2: them enough. And look how this teacher changed the course.
Speaker 3: Of your life.
Speaker 1: Shout out to.
Speaker 3: Must be so proud of you. Yeah, she's probably looking
Speaker 3: at you like that's my guy, that's my boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, you've been filtable my wise pro. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: child was a tro child, classic was a t child
Speaker 1: pro in previous on me, dam even though pro she
Speaker 1: wasn't a hater.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, the little boys a pen in the ass,
Speaker 3: but he can think, so take him there. That's what's up.
Speaker 3: So your parents took you how long were you in school?
Speaker 2: Like studying music and being trained because I saw that
Speaker 2: you're a pianist, like you learned how to play the piano.
Speaker 2: That this all happened before you even graduated high school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, quinto musica then finalist the high school musica bought
Speaker 1: like in a funny way like yeah, but don't, I don't. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's do it. It's over. But solid forma.
Speaker 3: That's what's up.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: I'm already like, I already love your parents because you know,
Speaker 2: a lot of times parents want us to take the
Speaker 2: safe rout and be a lawyer.
Speaker 3: Be a teacher.
Speaker 1: There was a fim there was with wheah with my
Speaker 1: mom because she wanted me to like study, worry about us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll go to well, like how to navigate
Speaker 1: in the music industry for you to be safe.
Speaker 2: In the music industry financially and be able to provide
Speaker 2: for yourself till you're fifty sixty seventy.
Speaker 3: So she had you know, what did she want.
Speaker 5: You to be?
Speaker 1: She wanted me nothing pacific, God, nothing is specific, but
Speaker 1: she she she wanted me to study and then have
Speaker 1: a bachelor's degree.
Speaker 3: Okay, so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're looking for said They're looking for said Pero
Speaker 1: thinking I sat down in your like it. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll go like, this is not my place.
Speaker 2: It was in your environment and if you weren't feeling it,
Speaker 2: you weren't feeling it. And you know what, sometimes God
Speaker 2: puts that in your heart because you have a gift
Speaker 2: that if you ignore it, you're gonna rob us of it.
Speaker 2: Because you know what, your gift belongs to the world,
Speaker 2: and the world is a better place because you're in it.
Speaker 3: And music is very powerful. Music heels, music motivates, music inspires,
Speaker 3: And I say it all the time. I'm like, it's
Speaker 3: so crazy how a million people can love one person
Speaker 3: because they sing and somethings that wonder. I'm like, it's
Speaker 3: so fucking crazy.
Speaker 2: People people do everything all over the world and you
Speaker 2: see footage of let's say, Michael Jackson, people fainting, people crying.
Speaker 3: It's crazy what music can do.
Speaker 1: Come on, Koral, I said, So, they don't play this
Speaker 1: for for when you're sad, for you're happy, for when
Speaker 1: you just want to have fun. So La Mosica can
Speaker 1: drive you places you feel me?
Speaker 3: No, it definitely does. I have I have my one album.
Speaker 3: I have a J Cole album.
Speaker 2: Then it's like when I'm gonna lose it for your
Speaker 2: eyes only, I know that that album top to bottom.
Speaker 2: I'm talking like every single word, and when I'm gonna
Speaker 2: lose it, bro, I put that album on and I'm like, album,
Speaker 2: I swear to you, I swear to you that.
Speaker 3: Is my album. Do you have an album or an
Speaker 3: artist that when you just need that?
Speaker 1: I have an album that be a handle like in
Speaker 1: a fly or when I'm road tripping or when I'm
Speaker 1: with my family, and it's fantas. I know that album
Speaker 1: from top to bottom, and it's an album that not
Speaker 1: say and I cry like it's the only song that
Speaker 1: makes me cry.
Speaker 3: It just touches you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yes, wow, Wow, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: It's big shoutout. He was with us Atta super dope.
Speaker 1: Tell me that my guy. That's my guy, you know,
Speaker 1: Samono Sup?
Speaker 2: When I'm in this young and how did you end
Speaker 2: up working with and first of all, how did you
Speaker 2: end up working.
Speaker 1: With man and and Puerto Rico Hando per like a
Speaker 1: group of friends that started like having fun and then.
Speaker 3: Tempo the same crew with the five people, so.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Log I
Speaker 1: was like a runner and on a restaurant and the
Speaker 1: guys told me like okay by Plato and I was
Speaker 1: like okayo to who's yo.
Speaker 3: You gotta do what you gotta do.
Speaker 1: I gotta gotta do what you go Alida and you
Speaker 1: and I was like broo, the the moment come on
Speaker 1: instinct like going to them him like something's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: With this see and I break the like I see
Speaker 3: something big for the song.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah gon Ca.
Speaker 6: But Coscholl shout out to faith making that happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like he loves Columbian artists.
Speaker 1: I love to columb the music coming Maluma like ma Colombia,
Speaker 1: it's my heart.
Speaker 3: You know what's crazy? Every time we talk about Colombia,
Speaker 3: I think about Nikki jam and what Colombia did for
Speaker 3: his career. It is insane. Now let's talk about what
Speaker 3: you got going on right now?
Speaker 1: Okay, right now, right now? I play like in my
Speaker 1: rebranding era, what does that mean? Talk to me like
Speaker 1: I want to like sit down for a second and
Speaker 1: study my music, like like finite direction from for my music,
Speaker 1: but like I want to do something bigger, something wild,
Speaker 1: like cam not proud of it. Wow, I did this,
Speaker 1: so I played like against the stage in the middle.
Speaker 3: You made the playground, playground play. You know what's crazy?
Speaker 2: Playground says a lot about you because it was your
Speaker 2: debut album, correct, and you didn't put yourself on the cover.
Speaker 3: You choose a child that looked like you when you
Speaker 3: were younger. And I said, this says so much about
Speaker 3: him as an artist because people are so egotistical, people
Speaker 3: are so self centered, people want all the shine that
Speaker 3: and I was like, I was like, wow, I said
Speaker 3: I like him. I haven't met yet and I like him.
Speaker 1: Yes, your album album? Since I then throw the album
Speaker 1: tom album Toco up the best com okay album?
Speaker 3: Why who was calling those shots or me?
Speaker 4: No? No, no, me.
Speaker 1: A c Jose when I was young, like a vision
Speaker 1: an album. But Lisa, this some to me. So I'm
Speaker 1: a child, I'm new at this, so I'm a funny person, Basil.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I gotta focus on my career.
Speaker 1: So your mimo, okay, mofa, let's stop for a minute
Speaker 1: and see what we have.
Speaker 2: They wanted to make it very cohesive. I guess the
Speaker 2: way it goes. It's even the songs, the way they
Speaker 2: were positioned, it just sounds perfect. I can see what
Speaker 2: they did there and why it took time. Now, talk
Speaker 2: to me sports. Right now, you're wearing a Yankee hat.
Speaker 2: You're a baseball fan.
Speaker 1: I'm not a super baseball fan, but I watch NBA
Speaker 1: NBA basketball guy. Yeah, I'm a basketball guy. Boy.
Speaker 3: Grandpa loves baseball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my grandpa loved baseball and he was a Yankees fan.
Speaker 1: So we're supporting RP grandpa.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know what, but they did you know, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we didn't win the World Series, but we were the
Speaker 2: last one up there, right, that's yeah.
Speaker 1: No, so he said, Mocho, I give ya maintain Mundo
Speaker 1: the New York he's a Yankees fan. When we lost Aleta,
Speaker 1: like super sad, sad, like I've never seen that guy
Speaker 1: so sad in my life.
Speaker 2: Mahina, because you know what, to make it all the
Speaker 2: way to the worst series and not when yeah, we
Speaker 2: made it, but yeah we lost, especially if we lost
Speaker 2: l A.
Speaker 3: That is a big problem.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's tough. It's tough.
Speaker 2: Now talk to me a little bit more about you know,
Speaker 2: the future. I know that you know you're working on rebranding. Yeah, millennial, talk.
Speaker 3: To me about twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five is gonna be big. Twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: is gonna be some R and B stuff. The MANFA RMB,
Speaker 1: solid R and B. Okay, I like that, Like that's
Speaker 1: a makina. That's what I love. That's what I like.
Speaker 1: R and B A bro.
Speaker 3: So, who are your army artists that you love? I
Speaker 3: think we already mentioned Brown.
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Bresent Taylor is a fan. I'm not a
Speaker 1: Caason fan yet because I haven't like studied her her. Yeah, women,
Speaker 1: we just love when it. Know, like she has a
Speaker 1: lot of popularity right now, so I want to study her.
Speaker 1: I want to see what she she.
Speaker 3: Has the store, get deep into it.
Speaker 2: So Bryson Taylor, Chris Brown, give me one more Tory
Speaker 2: Lanez big shout out toy Man. You know, it's sad
Speaker 2: what happened to him. You know, he got caught up
Speaker 2: in the wrong things. But he is an artist and
Speaker 2: he knows how to make hits. Okay the man again,
Speaker 2: separating the man from the personal his music. But I
Speaker 2: loved him as an artist.
Speaker 1: He's like a big person and it's joy also life sessions,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, bro.
Speaker 2: He's kind of like a genius when it comes to
Speaker 2: the music stuff and the way he puts together you know,
Speaker 2: his music and the way he crafs you know, it's
Speaker 2: toughce tailor tailor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a dope one. You know what's crazy?
Speaker 2: I saw bryceon Taylor at Radio City Music Hall and
Speaker 2: I couldn't see him. They had the lights down. He
Speaker 2: want to show his face really yeah. It was like
Speaker 2: when he first started. And I know he doesn't care
Speaker 2: if I say the story, but he had like acne problems,
Speaker 2: and I was like, why can't I see him?
Speaker 3: Why can I see him?
Speaker 2: Why can And I asked somebody because they had invited
Speaker 2: me to see him, and they're like, oh, he doesn't
Speaker 2: really want to show his first dangn and.
Speaker 3: So much talent. And he's at Radio City Music Hall.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It's a huge msg Radio City. Those are the biggest
Speaker 2: venues here. And he was so in his head about
Speaker 2: his look and his appearance that.
Speaker 3: He he just had the lights down.
Speaker 1: The temple yeah yeah, so Billino and and it's tough.
Speaker 1: Maybe not.
Speaker 3: Because it was Radio City. We loved him.
Speaker 2: We were there, it was thousands of us, and he
Speaker 2: was all in his head. But he's an amazing artist.
Speaker 2: But speaking of artists, two influenzias old school.
Speaker 1: Why okay, Influencia Influencia Influencia.
Speaker 2: Okay, because you're young, did your parents listen to No? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: because they're a little older, like Liver the Military.
Speaker 1: Class, No c Yeah, Perro at the same time, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna young and don't music confronts.
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, music like she had read on and she was
Speaker 1: like a music and I was like, apply up on
Speaker 1: bron and it's apply yeah, and local like told Temple toil,
Speaker 1: tim don't don't I want to get out?
Speaker 3: Okay to my mind, no.
Speaker 1: Temple, And I'm being clean. I'm so and I see
Speaker 1: I look at.
Speaker 3: He was like the hell No Soombert, oh yeah, big shot.
Speaker 2: He was at Latina too, all your homies Latino only
Speaker 2: you were missing, Okay, But we gotta manifested Hi Radio.
Speaker 3: We gotta get MafA on stage that.
Speaker 1: Morning. Though you've been so tom.
Speaker 3: No, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: You know twenty twenty five is going to be you
Speaker 2: know that year that you know you just go to
Speaker 2: like that superstar level.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, I have a lot of
Speaker 2: hope for your career and I feel like a lot
Speaker 2: you're super super talented and you're humble, which is most
Speaker 2: important in this industry.
Speaker 5: No, no, the.
Speaker 3: Have a piano here right now.
Speaker 1: But why do you make that pile me? But how
Speaker 1: I say this? Yeah, yeah, yeah, pianos a lot of
Speaker 1: head class the piano. But at that time album so
Speaker 1: I was like class list top so come on wild ride.
Speaker 3: You know another I mentioned the piano. We do have
Speaker 3: a little piano right there at the dressing room, the
Speaker 3: green room. It's little though, it's like piano not all
Speaker 3: if you're not gonna play the piano.
Speaker 2: But I do want, I do want you to give
Speaker 2: me one of your hooks. Okay, when you how's your voice?
Speaker 2: You wantt W No, no, you know what crazy you're
Speaker 2: being interbed the Mariah carry.
Speaker 3: Your common potato chips pangras her throat. Yeah, you know
Speaker 3: potato chips are like a little oily and I saw
Speaker 3: she's like potato chips. That pause.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so.
Speaker 3: Your favorite hook, porcelana? What are you thinking do blue blue?
Speaker 3: You were't blue anyway, so it makes sense, it makes sense.
Speaker 4: Give it to me, Louisa, my Cara Cono, Philip Booting,
Speaker 4: oh so lichor me blue sile seeing yeah, yeah, y'all
Speaker 4: looking at you, Norman Media, I see oh my side
Speaker 4: please no.
Speaker 1: Beautiful. I love that.
Speaker 3: I mean, thank you so much, thank you for joining
Speaker 3: us today.
Speaker 1: Can I see this? Relman? Doesn't hell.
Speaker 3: Super cut, super important? Especially all your.
Speaker 1: All right?
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