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Speaker 1: Every day. Click up the Breakfast Club finish for y'all. Dump.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning to show to

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Speaker 2: Breakfast Club Charlamagne and God just hilarious.

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Speaker 3: DJ Nvy Nvy is out the day, but Lauren le.

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Speaker 2: Rossa is here and we got a very special guest,

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Speaker 2: one of my favorite artists man, and I am so

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Speaker 2: glad he got some new music coming out.

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Speaker 3: Miguel is here, ladies.

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Speaker 1: What's up? What's up?

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Speaker 3: Brother?

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Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good. How you guys doing Blessed Black

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Speaker 1: and Holly Face? That's right, Blessed and Black and highly favored,

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Speaker 1: is right.

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Speaker 3: I'm just happy you putting out music man. And it's funny.

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Speaker 2: We were literally having a conversation on the radio recently,

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Speaker 2: like in the last.

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Speaker 3: Week or two about what's up with Miguel.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Miguel, that's crazy.

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Speaker 4: I think we talked about Michel too. Thomas was here

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Speaker 4: probably yea, because.

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Speaker 5: You got timeless records man, Like you know, even though

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Speaker 5: we've been waiting for you, like, it's still things that

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Speaker 5: we can go back and listen to and it's forever

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Speaker 5: a classic.

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Speaker 1: So thank you for saying that. Yeah, I mean, I've

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Speaker 1: been feeling the same way though. It's time. It's been time,

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Speaker 1: so I'm excited to be back out. We got we

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Speaker 1: have a few records alread out and the album's out

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Speaker 1: October twenty third, so you know, I'm just kind of

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Speaker 1: getting it. We're doing the thing.

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Speaker 6: The name of the album is called Chaos. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 6: it's about that. Break that down a little bit, man.

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Speaker 1: I feel it's everywhere, you know, just look out and

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Speaker 1: you know, pull up your phone. I feel like it's

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Speaker 1: probably the best word for the times that we live in.

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Speaker 1: And so you know, I made an album about how

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Speaker 1: that's been a big part of my growth, and I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think it's an inflection point, you know. I think overall,

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Speaker 1: when we go through crazy and trying times, it's an

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Speaker 1: opportunity for us to really take that in, to make it,

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Speaker 1: you know, clarifying. And so that's what this album really is.

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Speaker 1: I think it's my most like relatable.

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Speaker 6: Album obviously Where Were You?

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Speaker 1: Also my most angry and horny album.

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Speaker 6: Oh I love how Angry Horny.

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Speaker 4: Even the production of it gives it's like anger, but

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Speaker 4: then there's like a colectic like come over here vibe,

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Speaker 4: Like yeah, it's a lot of it. I think you're

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Speaker 4: about the is where were you, like.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, where were you mentally and emotionally and creating the album?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Everywhere? I feel it. It's to be Uh, it

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Speaker 1: spans eight years. You know, it's been eight years since

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Speaker 1: I put out my last album, Warren Leisure, And you know,

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Speaker 1: we've been through you know, pandemic. We've been through everything.

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Speaker 1: the rapture. Apparently. I'm like, yeah, we're supposed to see

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Speaker 1: aliens in a couple of weeks. I don't know. It's

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Speaker 1: it's it's everything everywhere, all at once, at all times.

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Speaker 1: And so the head space has been pretty pretty much

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Speaker 1: reflective of that. It's like we're I feel we're doing

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Speaker 1: and that's what really created the album.

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Speaker 2: I think, by the way, eight years isn't a long

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Speaker 2: time because there's certain artists, you know, you Jill Scott, Ericabadundrick.

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Speaker 2: I don't need you all to put out records every year. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean put out records when the spirit moves.

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Speaker 1: Valid yeah yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: And you know, you've always been proud of your Mexican roots,

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Speaker 3: Now, what inspired that shift? Man?

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Speaker 1: That's ah, that's digging and and really get into I

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's an incredible feat that's like up there with

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Speaker 5: You want to do music?

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Speaker 6: Why did you almost walk away from it?

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Speaker 1: Uh? My priority, the way I was prioritizing, how it

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Speaker 1: be fair, and I never stopped making music, but I

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Speaker 1: And and I think learning, relearning, refinding my my love,

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Speaker 3: So was leaning into your heritage part of that, though.

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Speaker 1: It became it became a natural part of it because

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Speaker 1: I was always super And you know this, I've always said,

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Speaker 1: taking that time has really given me a sense of pride.

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Speaker 6: Parent, you know, congratulate thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you become a parent and you really start

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Speaker 4: making it to the big stages and being a different

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Speaker 3: Your name is Miguel, Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 4: But that's a lot of people.

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Speaker 4: I don't think there's a lot of people that would

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Speaker 5: Listen, congratulations, how it's fatherhood is incredible.

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Speaker 2: Man anything that takes away from it, This little being

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Speaker 3: You gotta be worth it.

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Speaker 1: It's gotta be worth it. It better be. And don't

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Speaker 1: understand parents being extremely like you know, I be protective,

434
00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,880
Speaker 1: you know, and so there isn't anything that I can't

435
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,760
Speaker 1: imagine myself. Look, they're gonna pull this shit up if

436
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:29,560
Speaker 1: anything happens in.

437
00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 3: The future Exhibit.

438
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 1: Exhibit A. He did say that, no, but I think

439
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:40,879
Speaker 1: any parent out there can relate to this. It's like

440
00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:43,440
Speaker 1: you would there is I look at him like, man,

441
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 1: I'll go to the end, you know, and and and

442
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,200
Speaker 1: probably without even thinking about it. I think it's also

443
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:59,640
Speaker 1: what has given me a lot of what Angel changed

444
00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 1: was I had lost a lot of hope and faith

445
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 1: and what in everything in humanity and possibility in the

446
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 1: purpose of all of whatever this shit is. I just like,

447
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 1: big time, big time grief, and I've talked about that too.

448
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: That was something I was processing that needed to be

449
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 1: dealt with first, but that was top layer. Then you

450
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,480
Speaker 1: go down you're like, man, I'm caring a lot of

451
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 1: you know, I've got resentment for people in my life

452
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,920
Speaker 1: that I grew up with. And man, I felt I've

453
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,359
Speaker 1: been taken advantage of in these just different kinds of

454
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 1: ways in business, in these kinds of ways. And I

455
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,879
Speaker 1: was lucky. Man, I was so lucky.

456
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 3: I could have.

457
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,399
Speaker 1: Man, they could have got me in terms of like

458
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,880
Speaker 1: taking advantage of like just being a young artist and

459
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,359
Speaker 1: like putting things in front of me. And again, I'm

460
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,360
Speaker 1: so grateful they could have. Really, I could have been

461
00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:01,200
Speaker 1: in a bad situation in terms of like financial and

462
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 1: but I got lucky. I've got people who listen and

463
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 1: and thankfully the music is really grabbed on to people.

464
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: But in in hindsighted looking and I go, wow, I

465
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:18,679
Speaker 1: have so much more faith than I did before. And

466
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 1: it's really it's very much because of my son.

467
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:24,200
Speaker 6: So yeah, go ahead and slow it down.

468
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 5: The song you say, pray I can make peace with

469
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,160
Speaker 5: the past because tomorrow comes way too fast.

470
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 1: You guys, really listen to thank you so much.

471
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 2: That's right, by the way, she's married to a Mexican.

472
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:50,400
Speaker 1: And everything.

473
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 6: You know, so I wanted you to like unpack that,

474
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 6: you know what I mean.

475
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, pray I could make peace with the past because

476
00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,160
Speaker 1: tomorrow comes way too fast. It's I mean, it's hindsight,

477
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 1: everything is so much clear, and I mean the it's

478
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,239
Speaker 1: it's that's exactly what it feels like.

479
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,400
Speaker 5: Even when you were saying like people that you grew

480
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 5: up with taking advantage of you and things like that,

481
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:14,120
Speaker 5: like I don't want to.

482
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: That sounds so crazy because that don't be a SoundBite

483
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 1: after this, but you know, it's like I just thought

484
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 1: about it as like, ah, I can definitely see people

485
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,120
Speaker 1: be like they could have got me and be like see.

486
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 1: But but it's you look at things with so much

487
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:36,880
Speaker 1: more clarity and maybe how how not again not knowing

488
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 1: how I wanted to feel and just going with things

489
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:46,120
Speaker 1: and and again awareness being being just like in it

490
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,919
Speaker 1: and being present and grateful having so much. I've always

491
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: been a grateful person. But again, when you do this

492
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,159
Speaker 1: for and you start to see like people react to it,

493
00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,879
Speaker 1: and then it's like, oh, this is what happens when

494
00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: that happens and you start to look at it, and

495
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: it's not expectation per se, but it's that you're like

496
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,160
Speaker 1: wanting it secretly. You know, you're like it's your core.

497
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: You're like, nah, I really want the success, I really

498
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: want this to happen, and you put this pressure on

499
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: it and it becomes a big cycle of things and

500
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 1: by the time you get to the other side, you

501
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 1: spend so much time wanting and expecting and not looking

502
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,360
Speaker 1: at the greatness in the midst of it and feeling

503
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 1: the greatness and just being you know, in the midst

504
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 1: of it and loving those moments, and in that feeling

505
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 1: you look back and it's already over. You know, you're

506
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 1: so focused on well, what's going to happen and being

507
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 1: anxious about it and hoping. Man, yeah, just be with

508
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 1: the feeling. Many stay in that mode.

509
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 4: Talking a little bit about you know, the past, and

510
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 4: you mentioned like the grieving and different things on always

511
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 4: time you say maybe this time love means letting go.

512
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 4: You talk about private truths and public roles and you

513
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,880
Speaker 4: thought there will always be time to fight for love.

514
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 4: The you know an honest and like first listen, I

515
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 4: was like, is this about his past relationship and wanting

516
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:07,679
Speaker 4: to fight for that?

517
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, the album is it's about my It's about

518
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: my I mean I've had I've been very it's very

519
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,680
Speaker 1: public that I was married and we were.

520
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 4: Very together at the relationship as well too.

521
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a bit. It was a big part

522
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 1: of my experience as a human being this time around.

523
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 1: You know, that was a massive part I was with

524
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 1: when I was nineteen. You know what I'm saying. It

525
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 1: was it was a long time and in the midst

526
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: of that, I was being a musician and becoming a

527
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: musician and finding my audience and all of that. And

528
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 1: there's a lot of learning. There's a lot of learning.

529
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: Who were we all when we were in nineteen year twelve. Look,

530
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,199
Speaker 1: I'm just hitting my I'm feeling like, Okay, I know

531
00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:01,360
Speaker 1: exactly who I am, and look I don't. I'm still learning.

532
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: But I know my values. That's the part. That's what

533
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: I meant to say earlier. Values don't change, you know

534
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: what I mean? Your values, that's your core. But everything

535
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: else in your style and whatever how you your values,

536
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 1: your core values. Those are the things that I think

537
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: I don't need to necessarily discover my values. I think

538
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,360
Speaker 1: where I'm at is that I'm honing them. I'm sure

539
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: I'm only strengthening them. I'm only like doubling down on them.

540
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: But always time that song was written because I was

541
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 1: uncovering a lot of my values in real time. And

542
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: one of those things that I've always been is the

543
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: word loyal is crazy because loyalty I saw my grandparents

544
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: stay together are my entire life. You know, they were

545
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: loyal to the family, But loyalty like were they happy?

546
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 7: You know?

547
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 6: I don't know?

548
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: Uh, And that's a that's that's a crazy one. And

549
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: that song is about kind of like coming to terms

550
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: with you know, I can't even be the right person

551
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: for you. I can't. I can't be it. I And like,

552
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: discovering that in real time is crazy work when you're like, damn,

553
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: I thought the whole thing was like I'm supposed to

554
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: fight it out and we're supposed to do it. And

555
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: even when it's and at some point you when you

556
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: stop and you go, you know what the best thing

557
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: I can do is actually let it go.

558
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 3: That's not what the marriage. But I see that's not

559
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 3: what That's not what.

560
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 2: My grandparents did, right, So all of that psychologically, I'm

561
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 2: sure with you.

562
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 1: It does it It's I think that's that's where generate

563
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: our generations now are looking at the construct of marriage

564
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: with a very through a very different lens and also

565
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 1: looking at the history, the historical e a of what

566
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: that means, what that means and what it was before

567
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: it was about the ring and about the you know

568
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: what I mean, and how that's like it's sort of

569
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: it's taken away. And again I'm not saying anything about

570
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 1: married or I think it's a beautiful thing. I was

571
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: so happy to be married when I was, whether or

572
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: not I was able to, you know, be true to it.

573
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's such a beautiful idea. I

574
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: think the word and the symbolism sometimes take away the

575
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: purpose or what it's supposed to be really representative of.

576
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 1: You know, It's like, man, it's supposed to be that

577
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: there's a relationship that's unshakable and you guys are really

578
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: going to be partners in the whole shit. I don't

579
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: know what happens, but most people I talked to her

580
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: marriage that's it turns into something else. The partnership somehow

581
00:30:56,320 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 1: is like it's the symbolism takes precedence over that actual

582
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: core thing of what it's supposed to be.

583
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 2: I don't know the degree the degree for that, you know,

584
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 2: break up, keep you away from the.

585
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: Music, maybe maybe not not in it's in and of itself,

586
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: but I think the me underneath it and needing to

587
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: understand what what was informing my decisions is what kept

588
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: me from from doing the music. I need to go

589
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 1: do some work. That's really at the end of at

590
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I need to go figure

591
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: my shit out. I needed to go figure it out because, uh,

592
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: because it wasn't working. And and yeah, it's a it's

593
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: a life is a trip, man, it's a trip. But

594
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: always time is one of those ones. It's a like

595
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: it's such a like that's a hard accepting but true,

596
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: very honest song.

597
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, and people always forget yo, you are rock stars, superstar, celebrity,

598
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 5: migul and all that, but you're still a real person,

599
00:31:58,600 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 5: the real ship, you know.

600
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: So I think we're all rockstars superstar Like listen, this

601
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: is every day you guys are with Everyone is a

602
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: rock star. Everybody, everyone at their core can be that, like,

603
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: you know everyone. That's the thing I was talking about

604
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: humility before, because we get this a lot that is like, oh,

605
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: be humble or I always get man, you're so humble,

606
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: you know, as opposed to you know, oh, like rock star.

607
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: But everybody is though everyone is has greatness, everyone has purpose. Everyone.

608
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: That's what I am. I'm not humble. I just don't

609
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: think I'm greater than anyone else. I just think that

610
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: I believe that I have something that's important to do

611
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: and that everyone has something important to do. And I

612
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: treat everyone like, no, you're here and you have something

613
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: here to do and there's a purpose.

614
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I always look at the word humble as

615
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 5: to being le than what you actually really are.

616
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: Exactly.

617
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I like how you just put that.

618
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: You know, I'm trying hopefully you get what I'm saying,

619
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: and like, man, look they use humble sometimes, like yo, yeah,

620
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, No, our place is greatness.

621
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 4: Man, do you feel like all of the work that

622
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,239
Speaker 4: you've done and like the place that you're at now

623
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 4: with yourself? If you had done it before you and

624
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 4: now it could have worked out your marriage.

625
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: If I would have done all of this before, who's

626
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: to say, no, we definitely would have had a much

627
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: better shot, a much better shot. But you know, the

628
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: you know, the past is you look back and it's

629
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: so much clear everything is what is it? Hindsight? Everything

630
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: it's so much clearer. Yeah, it would have been it

631
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: would have been a very different experience, but can't change

632
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: the past.

633
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 2: You know.

634
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: And I'm very happy that we've had adult real like

635
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: man and I've been able to It's different when you're

636
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: able to come to somebody and go, you know, I

637
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: didn't realize I was doing this, and I'm really sorry.

638
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 4: Wow.

639
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 1: And it doesn't take it away that it happened and

640
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 1: that I did that, and I just want to give

641
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: you some context and I'm just so deeply sorry. I

642
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: would never do this, and you know, to be able

643
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: to say that doesn't erase it, but at least lets

644
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,760
Speaker 1: them know, like, no, there's real love here, and that's

645
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: that's where it was at the core. I just wasn't

646
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 1: a big enough person. I wasn't an aware enough person

647
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 1: to protect you from my automatic ways and things that

648
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 1: I learned from generations and generations.

649
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 3: You know.

650
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 4: It's an ad place to be.

651
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 3: It it's crazy.

652
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, it's good to hear that y'all are in

653
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 4: that space. Yeah, definitely good to hear on near sights.

654
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 4: Slow it down, you say, slow it down for me

655
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 4: because I might not get to feel this again. Did

656
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,320
Speaker 4: you feel like coming out of the situation with you

657
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,359
Speaker 4: and now that you weren't going to find love like that.

658
00:34:55,400 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 1: Again, that song is more about all of everything I've

659
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: never and even any I'll say this, and I says before,

660
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: I don't believe that there's like it's like just one love,

661
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: and I don't believe in like there's only one person.

662
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: It's like how many billions of people? Now billion?

663
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:21,879
Speaker 3: What are you saying the Mexicans thought to come women.

664
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that I don't believe in in a

665
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: one there's only one, you know, I'm not saying I'm

666
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: not saying monogamy or anything. I'm not talking about constructs.

667
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that there's only I don't believe that

668
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 1: there's only one person that you can find love with

669
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: and actually build a healthy relationship with, whatever that means

670
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: for them. I just don't believe in that. I do

671
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: believe in love, and I do believe in being in love.

672
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: So so when I when I say that in that song,

673
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 1: that's more about life in general. You know, I want

674
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 1: to be in this moment because everything is fleeting and

675
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: I feel it more and more now I feel all

676
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: of time, you know all, I'm so like I want

677
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 1: to I want to get all the moments I want

678
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,399
Speaker 1: to like just like even like coming back to doing

679
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: these you know, and it's like before I was like, yeah,

680
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 1: you go do the raates whatever, and then you go

681
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 1: on tour and it's just like that's the thing you do,

682
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: not really absorbing that. You know, this is people's time,

683
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 1: you guys all, this is your careers. You guys, you

684
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 1: guys earned to be in this room, and not just

685
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 1: to be in this room, but to stay in this

686
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: room and to be effective and to talk to people

687
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: and to get people to really listen and pay attention

688
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 1: to you and me being in this room is like,

689
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,439
Speaker 1: I'm so grateful. I'm like, damn, I'm with people who

690
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 1: have dedicated themselves to what they love. Man, don't ever

691
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: take that for granted. Anytime I'm in a room with

692
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 1: somebody and they've just they've proven their their their dedication.

693
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: We did the Blue Note for two nights over the

694
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: world we can, and I'm in the room with Robert

695
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: Glasper Jamie Fox pops up, you know we I'm in

696
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: the I mean Joshy's son dance to somebody's I've known

697
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: since I was a teenager. These people have been in

698
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: music and have been effective and incredible and like I'm

699
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 1: looking at pictures on the wall and I'm like, I

700
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: will never take this for granted.

701
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 3: Ever, I don't even know he was at the blue

702
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 3: that had been.

703
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: It was great. It was great, Yeah, it was great.

704
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 6: The real quick. It's a fan mail that just pipped up,

705
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 6: said Miguel.

706
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: Uh in love, I love. I'm man. I would say

707
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: it's gonna I need some healing to be in love

708
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: right now. I'm working on being in love with me

709
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: if I'm being very very honest, and I have to

710
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: do that work for my son. But I love myself

711
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: more and more every day because I'm I'm proud of

712
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,919
Speaker 1: the decisions that I've been making and I just lean

713
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: on those and when I have moments where I'm feeling

714
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: a little because I do still, I still sometimes I'm like, man,

715
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 1: this is this is a lie?

716
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 3: You know, it's a lot.

717
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I can look at the things that the

718
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: decisions make and how I'm making decisions and and the

719
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: why and leaning into again my values and my principles

720
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: make that make it easier and easier. So I'm getting closer,

721
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: and I do hope one day I can be in

722
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: love again. But right now I'm working on.

723
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 5: I said, I'm going response no before you go, I

724
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 5: was gonna just ask because that question how you answered

725
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 5: it made me think of this, right, you're in this

726
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 5: really peaceful space and you're getting back into all of

727
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 5: this because of the album, and you talked about your son.

728
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 4: When you posted your happy Birthday for your son, the

729
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 4: world erupted and it wasn't positive. How do you People

730
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 4: were upset that you had a baby not with no

731
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 4: is that we didn't know about, but it's your choice.

732
00:38:58,320 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 4: How do you deal with that in this new space?

733
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 4: Fans and people wanted to just inject their thoughts into

734
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 4: that because you're in a different space now.

735
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: Well it's not new, definitely not new to me. It's

736
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: been a long time since I've kind of been so

737
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,760
Speaker 1: to kind of come out and to kind of again

738
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: kind of have an experience where people, you know, feel

739
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: the need to express how they feel about your life.

740
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: You know, it's just that it's it was a good

741
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 1: reminder coming in. It's like, oh, yep, were no, you

742
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 1: know what, I'm ready, I'm ready for see I And

743
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: I did it with so much intention. I really am proud.

744
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 1: I'm proud to be a father. I'm proud of my partner.

745
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: She's incredible. She's like I mean, he couldn't have a

746
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 1: better mother. I'm just and life doesn't always happen the

747
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: way that we imagine things to happen. And I also

748
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: realized that we became a symbol when I was with Nas.

749
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: We became a symbol to a lot of people of what,

750
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,800
Speaker 1: you know, relationships could be and could look like and things.

751
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,720
Speaker 1: But we're just human beings just like everybody else.

752
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 3: And we were mad.

753
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 1: Young, like I was young, like I was coming up

754
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: in my twenties, coming you know what I mean. So

755
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 1: I did a lot of things the wrong way, you know,

756
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: and I'm not proud of them, and I'm not making excuses,

757
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 1: but come on, man, we've all done things that we're like,

758
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 1: you know what, I wouldn't do that again like that.

759
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,320
Speaker 1: I would actually do it like this, you know. And

760
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 1: I'm good with being upfront about Hey, I wasn't perfect,

761
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:34,320
Speaker 1: you know, but I'm here now and my life has

762
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: a lot more of a different experience that I get

763
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: to show up in a better way for And if

764
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: people are, you know, upset about what they see, that's it.

765
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 1: You can be upset.

766
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 3: You know. I mean, they don't know all the time.

767
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's only it doesn't really. Yeah, it's hard

768
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: for me to say. I just I'm just like, look,

769
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: I get that, that's what comes with the territory. You know,

770
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 1: there's plenty of other things to focus on.

771
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 5: Just described Like what you just describe is growing up

772
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:08,879
Speaker 5: living your life.

773
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 6: Like you said you were young. You know, you made mistakes.

774
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 5: That's everybody. That's like just growing up, living life and learning.

775
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 6: That's just what it is.

776
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 4: I think for a lot of the fans, though, even

777
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,320
Speaker 4: if you didn't know the timeline, the thing was people

778
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 4: felt like, you know what.

779
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 1: That's what bothered me the most, though, I have to

780
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,359
Speaker 1: say this, the fucked up part is that people start

781
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: doing the wrong math. The one thing I did not

782
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: do is is start a relationship while I was married

783
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: and then had a baby. I got divorced, And I'm

784
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 1: gonna say this straight up. Everybody out there talking shit

785
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: like I was still in a marriage and then I

786
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:47,359
Speaker 1: had a baby or I was having a h what

787
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: is that an affair? All this time I met I

788
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: met my son's mom after we were divorced. I met

789
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: her at an event that we were not even supposed

790
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,720
Speaker 1: to go to. That was well after we were done.

791
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 1: So anybody out there, it's always the one or two

792
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: they just go, yeah, you know, they was together, and

793
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: he had been seeing this girl for years and they've

794
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: been not know I had never even know I we

795
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 1: never crossed paths until after. So that's the one thing

796
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 1: I will say. I do get upset about that. I

797
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: can't control it. But that makes me mad because also

798
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 1: this woman is a good person, she's a great human being,

799
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: and so and I can't protect I can't stop people

800
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: from slandering, you know, because.

801
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 2: If you pop out with it, it might be like, look,

802
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 2: she's a homework and you're like, how did you guys?

803
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 4: Talk through that moment though, because it was such a

804
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 4: happy moment and then it turned into not that.

805
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: That's the hardest part. That's the that's the that's the

806
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,800
Speaker 1: crazy one. And I wish I I I don't. I

807
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: don't wish this. Actually, I think this this path of being,

808
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: you know, public facing with your career or what have you,

809
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,240
Speaker 1: it's just how it does have its ups and it's

810
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 1: got some some things that's you know, you're just gonna

811
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 1: have to deal with it. And one of them is

812
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: that personal things become public conversation in ways that they

813
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: shouldn't or you know, but it's just a part of

814
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: what comes with it. Was it's been hard, you know,

815
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,760
Speaker 1: it was it was. It was. It was a challenge

816
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: because it should have been a very and it still is.

817
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. I listen, you're not about to

818
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 1: take the happiness. You're not gonna rob me of the

819
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 1: joy of being like, man, I'm so proud of this,

820
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: and that's that's why, that's what it was. And and

821
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: for her, I know, she's she's like she's so happy

822
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 1: and like okay, cool, Like we're good. We don't gotta

823
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: lie because also he's getting older. And I think the

824
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: big worry was when you put a child in the public,

825
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: the moment that the faces out there, then people can

826
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: take pictures and this and that. So we were being

827
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 1: very very private first and foremost for his safety, and

828
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: then second of all, also like let us get our

829
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 1: get our shit together, like let's let us you know,

830
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: get our group, you know what I mean, Like let's

831
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: figure it out, let's dial in. But then there's also

832
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,720
Speaker 1: knowing the public is like they want to know, so

833
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: so on that side, I'm you're not gonna find out

834
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 1: when he's five years old, you know. I mean, I'm

835
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 1: not gonna I wasn't gonna wait till you're five. But

836
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: but I was expecting it to be a lot less.

837
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 4: Slander attached to your old relationship, a lot, a whole lot.

838
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,439
Speaker 1: I understand they need to listen to Always Time.

839
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 3: So what is New Martyrs about?

840
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: Then New Martin is a whole other. So this, this

841
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: album is is there's a lot of anger in this album.

842
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 1: But I want to say that because I feel like

843
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: it's relatable. I feel generally we're all angry. Absolutely, I

844
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: feel so much anger in the just the ethos. It

845
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,760
Speaker 1: just feels like because we don't know, today's like okay,

846
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: it's fine tomorrow, I don't know if there's a genocide

847
00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: happening right now. There is a genocide happening right now.

848
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: And I have to say it again, there is a

849
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 1: genocide happening right now, and it's public. It's not like

850
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: we're it's like a century ago where we were getting

851
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: news from the radio. This is real time on your phone,

852
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,879
Speaker 1: and there's so much happening right now that you can

853
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: just scroll past it, like we can ignore it, right

854
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: here in our communities. It's a lot of things that

855
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 1: are being robbed. We're being robbed of, people are being

856
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: taken advantage of. I think that's when we see things

857
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:30,240
Speaker 1: like the Mangioni case, when you see the Charlie Kirk incident,

858
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,959
Speaker 1: you look at it and you start to be like, well.

859
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 6: Right, you'd be you've become desensitized.

860
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 7: Or you understand, you kind of understand why, you understand

861
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 7: why people are like when when the fascinating part about

862
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 7: the whole Mangoni thing was people got behind him, they.

863
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,799
Speaker 5: Were dressing like him, everything documentary on him. They gotta

864
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 5: be hero.

865
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 4: It's like a social media thing, but pop culture thing,

866
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:00,359
Speaker 4: but also like a political like this.

867
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 2: I think the line you say in the song the

868
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 2: love can't be silent when this system is in.

869
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 1: Equal Yeah, that's it. That's and that Moniker is homage

870
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 1: to you know, in the sixties, when we were organizing

871
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 1: and we were really finding a way to carve out

872
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 1: what was what is right in this country for black people,

873
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: for all all ethnicities and this people really in this

874
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: country rather for civil rights. That was a moniker. It

875
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: was like, look, we can't be silent, it's not right.

876
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: So we have to say something, And the song is

877
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: inspired by just the general anger and the angst I

878
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: think we're all feeling. We're looking at them, we're watching

879
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: this shit not work the way that it's supposed to.

880
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 1: I mean, our tax dollars are going to wars that

881
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: we have no say about, and those tax numbers are

882
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 1: going up. I'm not I'm not proud of. Look, I'll

883
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:01,879
Speaker 1: pay my taxes gladly, fine, whatever, But I mean, now

884
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: you're just you're not You're gonna go apply that to

885
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: a war that I don't believe in. You know what

886
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: I'm saying, It's not supposed to work like that. That's

887
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: that's it's not built like that. It wasn't built. It

888
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 1: was built actually for us to have some say. We

889
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 1: have representatives that are supposed to go and say, you

890
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: know what, tax payer money they don't want that we

891
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: have no say, We have had no say thus far.

892
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: So New Martin is inspired by these feelings of like, man,

893
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 1: we're all watching things in front of us that are

894
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:32,839
Speaker 1: that it's not working for us, and modern examples of

895
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: like the man you and I think is like vigilanteism

896
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: extreme action are going to become more and more common Yeah, absolutely,

897
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 1: and triggered yeah, intentional yeah yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, more

898
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 1: of the feeling.

899
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 5: Getting any visuals yeah, okay, yeah, you got to put

900
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 5: the vision to the words. Yeah, yeah, I would love

901
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 5: to see some of guel vision is coming.

902
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've been doing We've been doing like shorter visuals

903
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 1: leading in, but I have like I have more substantial

904
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:08,919
Speaker 1: in the in the next couple In the next couple

905
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: of weeks, I'm actually gonna play the video for New Martyrs.

906
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:12,839
Speaker 3: Man.

907
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:17,320
Speaker 1: I've been honored to be invited to be uh scholar

908
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: and residents at n YU.

909
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, amazing.

910
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:26,280
Speaker 1: So so I built a program. The Courses is actually

911
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 1: speaking chaos to power. It's about taking what we know

912
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: about chaotic times in our history and using those as

913
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: examples in order to affect change in our modern time.

914
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm focusing mostly on the arts and how

915
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: we can take the sort of the disenfranchisement, the systematic

916
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, taking advantage of art and I P in

917
00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:00,720
Speaker 1: the past and using that as as ways now to

918
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 1: take hold and control of industries and art. But it's

919
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: to be applied across the board. So yeah, yeah, yeah,

920
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: And we'll premiere the video for the martyrs at the end.

921
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 2: Do you think artists have a responsibility to raise consciousness

922
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 2: or just to tell the truth?

923
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 1: Say it one more time.

924
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 2: So you think artists have a responsibility to raise the

925
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 2: consciousness of people?

926
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 3: Are just to tell the truth?

927
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: Oh? I believe every individual has a responsibility to raise

928
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: their own consciousness. I do believe that that art is

929
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:43,360
Speaker 1: meant to bring human beings together and the erasing of

930
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 1: one's own separation from the next human being happens with art,

931
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 1: and that in and of itself, I do think it

932
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: gives us the opportunity to raise consciousness. It's like you

933
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: hear a song in Spanish that you don't know what

934
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: it means, but you fuck with it, you love it

935
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 1: how you feel it for whatever reason. That's art. Or

936
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 1: you go see a painting and you sit there and

937
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 1: you stand and you go, I don't know what it

938
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 1: is about this, but I love this, you know. It's

939
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: like great art is us finding ourselves in the details

940
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:14,359
Speaker 1: of the art. We lose, we lose our own and

941
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:17,359
Speaker 1: we become there's a point of reference, there's a point

942
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: of like we relate. I think that's what art does,

943
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,840
Speaker 1: and that's the that's the purpose of artist is. So

944
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say raise consciousness in and of itself, but

945
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: I do think it is. I take it upon myself

946
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: now to say that I feel responsible to make art

947
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 1: that brings people together and hopefully they forget the divisions

948
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:40,400
Speaker 1: that we have through the music. That's why I do

949
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: love having great, you know, big songs. I think great,

950
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:45,320
Speaker 1: big songs that are able to whatever, if they're commercially

951
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:48,839
Speaker 1: successful or whatever. Think of a dorn or sure thing.

952
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: I think of these songs. Even how many drinks? You

953
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: know what I mean? I don't know if.

954
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 3: I'm gonna cancel you for how many drinks? At one point?

955
00:50:56,160 --> 00:51:00,440
Speaker 1: That is a consent record. Let's I want to go

956
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: on to the that is a consent record. There is

957
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: a question.

958
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 3: How many?

959
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: How many? Hey, I know, how many would it? You know?

960
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 2: I wanted to say it was a very bold choice

961
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 2: to start the album off with a song with Spanish.

962
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

963
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, like, you said it soundfly, But

964
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:21,919
Speaker 2: I'm like, I have no idea what he's what he's saying.

965
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 6: He could have been saying your grandmother ugly and you

966
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 6: just over here saying.

967
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 3: But then you want it right back to killing the.

968
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: Valid valid have to do it.

969
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 2: I's got a couple of more questions. What an enlightenment,

970
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:36,399
Speaker 2: Enlightenment look like from a guel right now?

971
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 1: Oh, sureness. I think radical, radical creativity and positivity and

972
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 1: the power of what art can do. I think enlightenment

973
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 1: for me is again leaning into my values in a

974
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 1: very radical and the most like And I also think

975
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 1: like choosing to be happy and choosing to be positive

976
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:14,720
Speaker 1: is what enlightenment looks like for me now, because otherwise

977
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:18,720
Speaker 1: I've become apathetic, and then apathetic means and I don't

978
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:22,760
Speaker 1: care to do anything, and I just refuse to accept

979
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 1: that there's nothing that could be done. So, yeah, that's

980
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: what that looks like for me.

981
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,359
Speaker 4: Oh well, I was going to talk to you about

982
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 4: the martyrs artwork and how you're gonna bring that into

983
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 4: the class, but we kind of already that's that. But

984
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 4: so the artwork for martyrs and what you're doing it

985
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:40,839
Speaker 4: and why you when you're developing your course selection, it's

986
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 4: just you. You're just using all of your art or

987
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:44,879
Speaker 4: with a teacher to.

988
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 1: Know I'm working with professors, Yeah, yeah, to kind of

989
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 1: put it together. Very much inspired by my experience as

990
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: a as a musician in the industry, my observations and

991
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 1: my critique of what could be better and how it

992
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 1: could be better, and really leaning on them for their

993
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: insights on the past and how that intersection of art

994
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,240
Speaker 1: and commerce has always come at the expense of often

995
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: black people, brown people like you know what I mean,

996
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 1: It's like often at our expense. And so what is it?

997
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 1: What is it? What can we learn from the past

998
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: to help us shape what industry looks like in a

999
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:31,880
Speaker 1: way that's equitable for the creators, so that is sustainable.

1000
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 4: Were you at all nervous though in choosing such to

1001
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 4: recreate such a bold moment of because this is the artwork,

1002
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 4: right of ica, So creating that moment from that security

1003
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 4: camera where he's shooting gun, right, And the reason I

1004
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 4: mentioned or ask you, we're you're nervous about that is

1005
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 4: because I watch how bad Bunny talked about not doing

1006
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:51,919
Speaker 4: concerts here because he wants to protect his people from ice.

1007
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 4: Super Bowl happens. Now politically he is the conversation and

1008
00:53:55,760 --> 00:54:00,319
Speaker 4: they're coming for him, right. How do you where do

1009
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 4: you kind of lay in all of that, Like how

1010
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 4: you choose what you're gonna be radical against? Right now?

1011
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:07,440
Speaker 1: I think it's the same thing when you see, you know,

1012
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 1: shows get canceled. I mean, Kimmel got canceled for a moment. Yeah,

1013
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 1: but that was for a moment. And I bet you

1014
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:15,479
Speaker 1: watch what happens at the super Bowl. Watch how many

1015
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 1: people watch the viewership go crazy break it's gonna break records.

1016
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 1: And then I bet you they never question if they're

1017
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 1: gonna bring a Latino on that stage. They'll never question it,

1018
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: you know why, because it's touching their dollars. And we

1019
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 1: saw that with Kimmel. The moment they got backlash and

1020
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: their viewership went down. Oh no, it was like, bring

1021
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: them back. We don't have to figure this one out,

1022
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:36,879
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And so at the core

1023
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:40,040
Speaker 1: of the chorus, it is about building your audience, which

1024
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:43,359
Speaker 1: is another reason, and it's what my album is what

1025
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: it is. But I didn't make another record that primarily

1026
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: focuses on romance and that dynamic of my life from

1027
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: my perspective and love. And there'll be other records that

1028
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 1: I make that. I'm sure I'll make songs like that

1029
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:59,800
Speaker 1: and that sound feel good and whatnot. But right now,

1030
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 1: what it was, what this is about, is me tapping

1031
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:07,240
Speaker 1: into my audience and wanting to identify who's really my audience.

1032
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 1: It's a proof, it's a case in point. You know,

1033
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:13,359
Speaker 1: it's like I'm I'm wanting to double down that it's

1034
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,560
Speaker 1: better to identify who's really there for you to listen

1035
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 1: and then build upon that so then you have leverage.

1036
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:23,879
Speaker 1: And as we know many times, we've heard this story

1037
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:27,240
Speaker 1: a million times said artists walks into the record label

1038
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 1: and they wanted they want the deal, they want the

1039
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 1: whole thing that they're selling, but they don't have any leverage.

1040
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 1: And you look at that versus birdman walking in when

1041
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: he got you know what I'm saying, that's why he's

1042
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:41,399
Speaker 1: got the biggest shit. Shit I forgot that happened here.

1043
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:44,919
Speaker 1: It's the same thing.

1044
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:45,279
Speaker 3: Man.

1045
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 1: You're like, look when you walk in with leverage, it's

1046
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 1: a whole different game. And the more leverage we have,

1047
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:51,920
Speaker 1: that's the That's the other part is like drawing that

1048
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 1: parallel as well to looking at the numbers that we have,

1049
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: we have leverage. The people who are running government are

1050
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:02,240
Speaker 1: the numbers are so much small, you know, the numbers

1051
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: are it just doesn't so so looking at all of

1052
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,919
Speaker 1: these parallels and going like we're at an inflection point

1053
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:11,480
Speaker 1: where we can use these chaotic times and the uncertainty

1054
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:14,440
Speaker 1: to our advantage to really lock in and organize on

1055
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 1: what we believe in, whatever it is, because they are.

1056
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 2: I'm glad you did New Martyrs because the rappers ain't

1057
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:22,359
Speaker 2: doing it. I've been waiting for a rappers tap into

1058
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:24,319
Speaker 2: the moment and just talk about what's going on, and

1059
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:25,839
Speaker 2: it just don't feel like they doing it.

1060
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm glad you did it.

1061
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 1: Love Love, and I'm not I'm not saying I have

1062
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,799
Speaker 1: the answers or anything. It's definitely it's New Martyrs. Isn't

1063
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:35,279
Speaker 1: like we should go do this and it's not like that.

1064
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: It's just saying, I'm I'm feeling like we are all

1065
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 1: at that point where it's like I gotta do I

1066
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:44,279
Speaker 1: gotta do something like and and it's only going to

1067
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 1: get you know, it's only going to feel more and

1068
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:47,799
Speaker 1: more like that as we go.

1069
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 2: If we don't now, Chaos is coming out on October

1070
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 2: twenty third, that's also your born day, October twenty Yeah, yeah, absolutely,

1071
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 2: Why do you want to do it on your beata?

1072
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:01,560
Speaker 1: I think I wanted to give myself the permission to

1073
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:05,399
Speaker 1: move forward, you know, on my birthday. This one's been

1074
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: it's taking a long time to get here, and it's

1075
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:11,320
Speaker 1: like it's symbolic of you know, a new cycles. It's

1076
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:15,879
Speaker 1: it's letting go and it's also beginning new What better

1077
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 1: time to do that on your birthday?

1078
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:17,760
Speaker 7: You know.

1079
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 1: It's like it's very much, it's very much that. So

1080
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: I wanted to go in like, ah, okay, we can,

1081
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 1: we can move forward and like I said, my next

1082
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 1: ten I'm looking at my next ten years. The album

1083
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:35,720
Speaker 1: is again symbolic of like the conversation that I want

1084
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: to have with my audience being deeper and more about

1085
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: the human being, not just about my ability, you know,

1086
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:46,440
Speaker 1: but about who I am and what I believe in

1087
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 1: and lock in with my audience like that, and then

1088
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:51,440
Speaker 1: to build this this company that's about supporting black and

1089
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 1: brown and Latin artists talent across the board, whether it's film,

1090
00:57:55,160 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: TV or music, literature, all of those, all of those

1091
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: left the center ones who deserve development the way that

1092
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 1: we need it now, the way art needs it now

1093
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: that we're not getting and putting capital behind that as

1094
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,480
Speaker 1: well to support that because we need that too.

1095
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1096
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 4: The website is dope to it's like a blog, yeah

1097
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 4: that you upload the different.

1098
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:21,560
Speaker 1: Year kind of kind of reminds us of where we

1099
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:22,040
Speaker 1: came from.

1100
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:23,080
Speaker 4: Definitely does.

1101
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1102
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:25,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, So this is my last question. How do you

1103
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:27,480
Speaker 2: measure the success now? Is it impact?

1104
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 1: Is it artistry or is it peace impact? Impact? For sure,

1105
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 1: I don't think that any endeavor is peaceful, you know,

1106
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 1: any endeavor with real objective, real especially if you're trying

1107
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,320
Speaker 1: to change something, be it for yourself or for others,

1108
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 1: It's not going to be a peaceful journey. It's just

1109
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 1: going to come with unforeseen it's gonna come with challenges,

1110
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 1: and it's going to come with a lot of pushback,

1111
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:58,439
Speaker 1: especially if it's going against the status quo, and that's

1112
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 1: not a peaceful experience. But again the values part, you

1113
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: know that being at the core of things. I think

1114
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 1: it's really about if I can wake up and go, man,

1115
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 1: I actually did something I feel great about, you know,

1116
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 1: and this is something that's going to affect someone in

1117
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 1: a positive way, and I could do that for the

1118
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 1: rest of my life.

1119
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:23,040
Speaker 4: One last question for you, not about no relationships to promise.

1120
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 1: Is it true that I'm happy? Someone was asking I

1121
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 1: was like, who's it gonna be?

1122
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:31,840
Speaker 4: I was reposting all on my space, so I had

1123
00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 4: to ask some questions. But originally was that a demo

1124
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 4: for Usher? Is that a true story?

1125
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, I wrote the song and I didn't write

1126
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 1: it as a demo, say, but we submitted it as

1127
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: a demo for Usher. Usher was looking at the time.

1128
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:50,040
Speaker 1: I'm not sure which album I feel like it was.

1129
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 1: It might have been Confessions, it might have been which

1130
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 1: I can't hear sure thing on Confessions. Confession is such

1131
00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 1: a perfect album as it is very different, very different

1132
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 1: albu But yeah, sure thing was submitted for one of

1133
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 1: those projects, that one another one right after it.

1134
01:00:04,680 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, well listen, Miguel, were glad you back? Brother is

1135
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 2: very very dope, very very dope project. I can't wait

1136
01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 2: for the world to experience it.

1137
01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 3: Make you what you want us play right now? I

1138
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:15,760
Speaker 3: want to play New Martyrs.

1139
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:17,200
Speaker 1: Play New Martyrs. We gotta bang that?

1140
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:20,560
Speaker 3: Why not? Yeah, it's Miguel. It's the Breakfast Club.

1141
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:25,640
Speaker 1: Every day ago click yours up the Breakfast Club. You'll

1142
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 1: finish the y'all done.