All Artist Studio ft. Dende

In this episode, we interview an upcoming and viral artist from Texas named Dende. Dende explains that his name is a reference to the Dragon Ball character and that he identifies with him as he is seen as an important, but overlooked character. He talks about how his upbringing in Houston has influenced his music career, in that it has made him more self-sufficient when it comes to throwing shows and creating music. He then discusses his influences, which range from John Legend, Smino, and Sava, and explains his favorite songs from each. Dende then talks about how he has been able to grow his fan base by using TikTok, and how it has allowed him to reach a more female-centric fan base. He reflects on his success and how it feels to become one of the faces of R&B. In conclusion, Dende gives credit to his team for helping him with his success and growth.

Dende is an R&B singer whose second album, 95 Civic, which is about the aftermath of his breakup with his fiancee will be released on March 8th. He explains that the album chronicles the different emotions he experienced before and after the break-up, from the lead-up to the crash in the relationship to the heartbreak and depression, and eventually to a realization point. He also talks about his inspirations and favorite artists, as well as his go-to pizza topping and his zodiac sign. Lastly, he talks about what he watches in his free time, which includes anime such as One Piece and My Hero Academia, as well as the video game Last of Us. He encourages people to check out High Card and Try Guns Stampede, as well as Bungo Straight Oaks and Buddy Daddy's. He invites everyone to follow him on Instagram and Twitter and to purchase tickets to his next show in Atlanta on March 8th.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0xq4TZno4XwBzkbLnBAhlF?si=Vm7OhfrmT2uK9fXNbckKLw
https://www.instagram.com/iamdende/?hl=en
https://unitedmasters.com/a/iamdende

Articles:
https://www.tracklib.com/blog/digging-samples-ai?curator=MusicREDEF&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Transcript

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Welcome back. Welcome back to let me get my headphones is Jace in a place. We just got out the ox and I'm about to pass it in the all artist studio, but this is a special all artist studio.

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We are interviewing a very viral sensation that's going into like, you know, the rebirth of a big and R&B.

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Um, if you haven't seen him on TikTok, I would like to say paying an homage to comments come close because that's what I really felt what I was watching.

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He has one of the richest voices that I've heard this side of the Mississippi.

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Um, and I'm really happy to have him on because he has an album coming out March 8th. Um, and we're super excited to talk about it. Um, Mr. Dinday.

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I'm tired. I'm moving around, but I'm great. I'm happy and I'm alive. That's all I can ask for.

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That's awesome, bro. That's awesome. Well, first and foremost, like we're so happy for you to be here. First artist is on the all artist studio. Let me get my headphones as an upcoming album.

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We're going to talk about it today. We're going to talk about your upbringing. We come from, but the first thing we always got to ask is, you know, how you doing today, man? Like, you know, how's, how's everything? Like, how you feeling? Yeah.

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Today, I feel really good. We did a, I'm on tour right now and we did Chicago last night. Um, I've never informed in Chicago ever. And we did a sold out show at Shubas.

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So, oh, that's a crazy feeling coming to today. Thank you to come into today and be like, yo, I really, we really just did that last night. It's a crazy feeling. I'm pretty, pretty happy right now.

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And they after it is crazy. Oh, well, congratulations. Thank you.

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And so where we want to start is let's start with the name, right? So the first thing I saw when I, like, first thing I thought when I saw Dende, I was like, the dragon ball, like dragon balls, e reference, like.

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And so I wanted to ask you first is that your real name. And okay. So it is. So I want to ask, what was the inspiration around the name? What drew you to Dende?

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So first of all, you're right. It is a dragon ball reference.

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I've been there. I've been there. Tatted on you right here.

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And y'all told me, okay, so for our listeners and then they doesn't know this, but I'm a big anime. So, and I'm the anime watcher of the show. Yeah, Jay is as well.

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Javan is the novice out of our out of us three, but he knows who, you know, some dragon ball, these references. But as soon as I saw it, I was like, our minds almost became alike. So I'm very dope tattoo.

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Yeah, most of my, I have a lot of tattoos and most of my anime tattoos. I have like, shying on from Naruto. I got, I have a lot of stuff. But the name, the name Dende, I got drawn to that, to that character basically, because as you know, dragon ball is about the dragon balls basically and how you can, your wishes can't come true without these balls.

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And later on when, when a, when a, Dende gets introduced, like he's not only a healer, which I feel like my music does to people with some of the most, some of the more introspective songs.

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He's not only a healer, but he's like really overlooked character that's really, really important to the plot.

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If he didn't exist, nobody's wishes become true because the dragon ball stone exists in that whole show. So I kind of feel like sometimes I do begin to overlook. So that's kind of why I chose that character. I just identified him. He's not very strong, but he's really important.

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I'm fucking with that. Yeah, that's the, that is, that it. Yeah, that got some meat to it. It did.

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Right, right. So you're from Katie, Texas, right there in the Houston area. Obviously, there are a lot of massive talents that have come out of Houston.

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Tell us like, how does has Texas influenced your music creation process at all?

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Um, I don't really know about the creation process. I feel like it kind of influenced how I move around.

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I'm performing and stuff like that. I don't know about actually making the music because I'm the type of person that I don't really go to the studio that much.

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I mostly record everything in my room, like everything on that EP out of his drop and everything on the album was recorded in a bedroom.

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So I kind of like, I wouldn't say it affects how I like make music, but it definitely affects how I like approach the music industry. I'm a, I'm a very do it.

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Like get at how you live type of person and that came from just throwing random shows at like barber shops and clothing stores in Houston.

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Like, everybody in Houston is kind of like self sufficient and let's just do it ourselves type of people.

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Yeah, so can I ask a follow a question real quick, Jake's that with you having the vibe of having music come from your come from the bedroom rather than the studio.

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What does that feel like? What does that look like for for you to have?

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Because most people are working from home right now and like still like you are actually making this like a part of the DNA or the artists that you are.

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So what does that process look like for you to have creating music in your bedroom?

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Honestly, it just feels more comfortable for me. I can go to the studio record.

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Yeah, we know that we definitely just feel it just feels it just feels more comfortable. Like I like being in my space. I like I made my space.

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A place where I feel safe and so to be able to make my best stuff inside of my room.

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Not only first of all saves a lot of money, but it's a good travel to this is yeah, it's just I don't know it's just it's more personal to me to be able to just do it at my space and feel comfortable because sometimes when you record like a scratch track, for example, like just a demo or something that demo, you're not going to capture that emotion again if you try to re record it.

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So like sometimes I stick with the original track just because it was in my room and I felt comfortable there. Wow, that's nice. And you can really tell that from your music how vulnerable you are and like that it comes from a place that it's comfortable being able to tell that tell that story. So that's cool.

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Yeah, that's really though makes me think about like certain songs that I've heard like what space you were in when you wrote them.

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In your room like better than him sounds like she just walked out the dough and you went straight to the bed.

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I got a talk. I got a talk.

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It's really what it is though like it's like it's it's it's it's more easy to just like like you said something can happen. I can play man. I can do some crazy.

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Oh, I can write it all right now record it right now. So it's just like it's also a lot easier to just be in my house.

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All right, so your your music influences range from John Legend, Smino, Sava, purity ring passion, pit and James Blake.

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Now I'm a big John Legend fan like I'm I'm cheating John Legend era John Legend, like that first album when he really wasn't shit.

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But also like I'm a big fan of like like other people like Smino to me is like one of the most talented artists out right now just everything he does from his voice to like the production with Monty Booker is insane and then Sava of course like that Chicago sound that pivot gang is creating like

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care for me like literally save my life like in 2018 is it's still really important album. So my question was like out of those three artists J. L Smino and Sava, what's your favorite song from from each of the three man.

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Okay, John Legend, there's one that I don't even know the name of it. I think it's called dreams, but it is I know exactly.

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There's not a there's not a record. There's not an actual full recording of it. He only live. Yeah, yeah, I saw him. So the first time I ever saw anybody perform. It was my mom took me to the rodeo in Houston, like when I was really young.

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And I saw him perform that and I was a child and that came like a part of that song came out on a project like.

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Yeah, I did. I was looking for it. And I want to say it's loving the future that it came out on and it was like only like a rose on it or something.

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Yeah, loving the future that that's actually it. The first time I heard that song. I heard it live, but it was a recording of it. I don't know how I was searching for it and found it.

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And this is like not Napster, but a line wired like line.

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I remember like I was like, why has he never released this? And I remember saying song is beautiful. I was I remember the audio version. I heard of it. He was like I wrote this song for somebody else, but I liked it. So I kept.

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I feel them. It's a banker. When I tell you when I heard that was a I have been to the rodeo one time my life and I was a child. And that's what I heard that song.

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We got to value the rodeos in our community. So what about Smino and Savo because that's as well.

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That's hard. Smino and Savo are going to be a little bit harder. I got to look.

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I'm going to go all time all favorite for Smino is probably going to be either wild Irish roses or glass flows or Raven the name.

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Wow.

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Wild Irish roses. Great. Such a smooth song.

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Yeah. And then for Sabah, it's probably going to be.

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It's going to be busy sirens that the intro to care for me is an amazing.

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Yeah. Like I got to see that that tour when he came to Houston for the care for me tour.

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Yeah. Amazing. It was amazing. He had like the stage set look like his mom and his grandma's kitchen.

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Wow. It was great. I love this. So much.

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I really, I really appreciate the minds vocals on that at the end of it when you hear sirens like the switch up of the song is like one of the coldest transitions to start off album.

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And it's like you don't even know that somebody's about to come in seeking. I thought it was sabah first.

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And I was like, wait, this is saying too.

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Yo, like the crazy thing about that is the mom was at our show last night.

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And all right, what he dapped me up after it was like, yo, you fire.

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And then I kept walking and I was like, was that the mind?

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Are you the butt? He was like, yeah, I was like, yo, I love your.

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Let me run that back real quick.

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That was crazy.

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Look at shot.

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Shout out to him.

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Yeah.

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Shout out.

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But,

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I think that's what I was talking about.

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So we found your music surprisingly, unsurprisingly on TikTok, which we talk about TikTok a lot on the podcast and how it has helped independent artists.

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But your single better than him, which is hot topic right now has spread like a wildfire.

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Um, I feel like all it did was.

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So I always had a pretty balanced fan base, which was women and men like and women that really love on V.

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But that this past EP just opened me up completely for like a more woman centric fan base.

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So it's just honestly.

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It hasn't been that hard.

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It's just my team being like, hey, don't tweet that.

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I love that.

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Say that again.

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Say that again.

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We're definitely going to clip that.

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Hey,

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don't be back in the draft.

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Don't treat that one.

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I'll be like, hey, hey, hey, hey.

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Don't send that.

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Don't send that.

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I'm just going to say, but like on.

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For like tour wise, uh, it's just I can't really look at anybody in the eyes when I'm singing.

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Because I want to try me after the show.

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I'm trying to.

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I'm trying to.

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I'm trying to.

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I'm trying to.

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I'm trying to.

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I'm trying to.

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I'm trying to.

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I'm trying to.

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I'm trying to.

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I'm trying to.

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I'm trying to.

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I'm trying to.

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I'm trying to.

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I'm trying to.

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I'm trying to.

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I'm.

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We love that.

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Actually.

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I can't imagine.

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But I can't imagine.

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Like, I'm living vicariously through you, my boy.

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Right.

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Right.

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Right.

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Right.

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Right.

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Uh,

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But follow up to that.

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I'm still on the vein of like TikTok as a tool.

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music or think about releasing songs

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and where do you think that that that tool is for artists?

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TikTok-wise, I've always really been a fan of TikTok

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just because my algorithm is really messed up

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and I just see weird stuff all day.

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Well, from musicians, I think it's a really,

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really, really big opportunity for straight to consumer

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to just like blow your stuff up.

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I don't think it really has affected

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how I put music out.

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But it has affected what I push more

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when I see what gets traction.

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I don't make things with this is gonna go crazy

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on TikTok in mine.

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But when we get the content around it,

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we're making sure we're trying to make it seem like

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it's gonna go crazy on TikTok.

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Yeah, like somebody noticed even about

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like the better than him video.

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The song is like two minutes,

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but the video's only really to bridge and the chorus,

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which I like because now you can actually

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consume that because how I consume that video

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was through scrolling on TikTok.

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And I was like, yo, I need to hear the rest of this.

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Like where's the rest of it?

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So well played, very well played.

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Like I agree.

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Thank you.

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Shout out to the team, because it's not all me.

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Shout out to the team.

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Oh, my God.

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What the heck?

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Actually, we're gonna shout out Noah.

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Shout out to Noah.

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Shout out to Noah.

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No, I'm not gonna appreciate that.

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Shout out Noah.

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Shout out to Colin.

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He does, he does our social media and just everything digital.

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It's amazing.

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He makes those videos up.

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He basically runs my TikTok.

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I ain't gonna lie to you.

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I responded to comments and stuff,

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but he posts because I don't know how to use that.

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Oh, I feel honored because that means you responded to me

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when I was like,

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it's not that bad.

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Oh, I'm so suspicious.

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He bringing that feeling back.

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And shout out to Miz.

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It's shout out to Miz because he's doing that push stuff.

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He's the A&R.

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He makes sure that the music is packaged correctly.

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Right.

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Shout out to the A&R.

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Shout out to the A&R.

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So we talk a lot about Big and R&B.

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Jace can talk forever about Big and R&B.

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And you also talked about having

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pretty much a female centric fan base.

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How does that feel?

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First of all, being one of the faces of Big and R&B

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and then now having this fan base

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that has expanded to primarily women.

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It kind of feels crazy because I feel like I'm just speaking

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my mind.

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I like.

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I just want my girl back.

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I just be speaking my mind really better than her.

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I don't I truly believe.

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I'm better than her.

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So like I was just like the whole EP is just like

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stuff that I really felt like centrally is a wedding song.

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Like it's like I feel like I could marry this person.

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That flowers is just me to like chronically just like

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everyday things that I want to do.

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Like I want to buy somebody flowers.

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I want to take them on a date.

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Like I want to do these things.

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So seeing that translate to people that like actually want to hear it

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or experience it is really cool.

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But the drawback is that sometimes they think I'm talking about them.

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So you know,

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show it back to I can't look at nobody in the eyes

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and pair social relationships made it.

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And bro, you be in them.

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You be like you're from a city primarily where like every woman looks good.

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So like what I heard round trip specifically, I was like,

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was he in Georgia the whole time?

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Because I've been in said club and I definitely feel like the

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master.

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You can actually we can help you.

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We can get you alone.

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We can get you alone.

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They send a big.

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Jam for PPP.

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I got some left.

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Oh man.

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Now, but you know like just to add on to to Jay.

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You know, typically when we think about like I know we laugh when we talk about

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big and R&B, but you know so much of R&B for like the last five years has been like.

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And I we when we talk on the show about music,

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I always say that music generations is every five years.

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That's why I have a lot of respect for musicians that make it 10 years in the game.

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If you can spit out, you know, like for Rihanna, for example, like 10 years.

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Nearly 10 albums.

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Like that is crazy.

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That's a crazy stat.

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Right.

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And so like thinking about the begging R&B like goats that we remember Joe.

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Maybe the dirty Mac Hall of Fame.

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You got one 12 you got silk you have all these you got all these people from the 90s, you know,

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Joe to see.

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Crying on the Mike, you know what I'm saying usher.

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Crying on the mic and so many people have long for that.

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And we've gone and this is no this to the toxic R&B because we love the toxic R&B too.

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But it is really refreshing to hear somebody especially from male R&B singers.

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Because we hear from the girls out of time.

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girls all the time.

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We always big up the girls in R&B in the hip hop space

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because they're really doing the thing

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from all facets of like the entertainment part

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from acting to commercials and all the brands

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and all these things.

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But for male R&B in particular,

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it's good seeing new faces that are singing

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to women passionately about, yo, I want you back.

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I know I was toxic, but I went to therapy

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and you know, I processed it.

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Right.

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That's what I'm doing.

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Right. That's what I'm doing.

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It's like that.

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You're asking me that.

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That's what I'm saying.

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That's what I'm saying.

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That's what I'm just speaking my true.

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Just speaking my true.

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So let's talk about the next project, right?

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95, 95 Civic.

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I've been listening to your first album, your EP,

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listen to Nightmares, now we listen to Swurve.

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Yeah, happy man was very interesting

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because you told a really lot of dope stories like from it.

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The track about being broke.

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So wait, wait, phone number.

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I was like, no, you did.

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I was like, the Matthew sign off on this.

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You can't leave dark scenes.

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Nope.

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Nope.

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But it's like all of this for you.

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Not like, there's such beautiful songs.

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So like, talk to us about the evolution from, you know,

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happy man now to 95, 6.

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This is going to be your second album.

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And especially coming off the success of like the EP,

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like, you know, people obviously have a better understanding

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of who you are, that they've had a chance to like pull

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from your previous album.

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But like, what can they expect from 95 Civic with Nightmares

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and now Swurve?

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Because it sounds like we get into a breakup.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So starting from the happy man, that was like a,

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that was a very introspective project.

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It was basically just productively like the sadness inside

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of my own happiness.

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Like, I'm a very animated person.

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I'm a very happy person.

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I make jokes all the time.

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But it's also just showing like, yo, I'm this person outwardly

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and I also really am that person.

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But like, inside of that is a whole lot of stuff

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that you all see.

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So I kind of wanted to express that.

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And then before we crash, it's basically just chronically

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like this love story with this person.

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A lot of people don't know that I actually was engaged.

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Wow.

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In 2021, I wasn't engaged.

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I am not engaged anymore.

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And I'm not married.

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Is this the first time that you like breaking this

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in any interview?

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No, no, no, no, no, no.

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I'm about to say, I'm like, are we getting,

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are we getting the fresh off the,

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off fresh off the bridge?

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I'm like, are you squeezing the juice?

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I didn't broke up with her.

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I just broke up with her right now on this podcast.

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This is where I'm going.

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I'm not.

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Done.

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No, so like I was engaged in basically 95 Civic

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is about the aftermath of that.

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So Swerve is actually the second song on the album.

00:21:40
And Swerve basically, like you listen to it,

00:21:43
like the car crash set to end, this whole car thing

00:21:45
is basically supposed to represent the relationship.

00:21:48
And we're traveling in it.

00:21:50
But the second song on the album, it crashes.

00:21:53
So basically it's just, it's done with.

00:21:55
And the rest of the album is just my separate emotions

00:21:59
following this breakup and the different phases

00:22:01
that I went through.

00:22:02
Nightmarish is me like not being able to sleep.

00:22:04
Like, because I literally couldn't sleep.

00:22:06
I got to the point where like we were still living together

00:22:08
and I was sleeping on the couch.

00:22:09
And even when she left, I was still sleeping on the couch.

00:22:11
Like I was still sleeping on the couch

00:22:13
even when she was gone.

00:22:14
Right.

00:22:15
You didn't close the home because I too have been a man

00:22:19
living in a house with someone.

00:22:22
Maybe that we've already broken up.

00:22:24
We still in there.

00:22:27
It's not a good feeling.

00:22:28
It's not a good feeling.

00:22:30
So we go from there to where she leaves.

00:22:33
And it's just like, I'm just heartbroken, like basically depressed.

00:22:39
Do we get to, we get to the song, Black Me,

00:22:40
where it's basically just saying,

00:22:42
which that song's already out actually.

00:22:44
But basically me just saying, I don't even, when I wish you,

00:22:47
like happiness, but I don't even want to see you post nothing.

00:22:50
Like just Black Me, because I'm not disciplined enough,

00:22:53
not to look.

00:22:54
So if you love me, if you Black Me,

00:22:56
then that'll save me a lot of trouble.

00:22:59
Then we get to the part where I'm just like,

00:23:03
basically the L which you like,

00:23:05
just like you, you, you, you, you, you dipped on me.

00:23:08
So I don't really care if you're happy or not.

00:23:12
We get to a point where I'm just like,

00:23:15
you're still not answering my calls, you're still not talking to me.

00:23:19
You're being very selfish.

00:23:20
I'm going to be selfish as well.

00:23:24
Then we get to the whole phase, which, you know,

00:23:26
sometimes we always have those,

00:23:28
where I was just like, well, if she not really trying to get back with me,

00:23:31
I'ma just fuck everybody.

00:23:33
I don't know if I can say that word on here,

00:23:34
but I just did.

00:23:35
It's okay.

00:23:36
It's okay.

00:23:37
It's okay.

00:23:38
It's okay.

00:23:39
I'm just, I'ma just go be a hoe, honestly.

00:23:41
And then we just get to like a realization point.

00:23:44
So really this whole album is,

00:23:46
it's basically just the emotions like right before

00:23:50
and the months after this breakup that I went through.

00:23:54
And before we crash is just leading up to it.

00:24:00
I'm liking this.

00:24:01
Yeah.

00:24:02
You know, we love a good breakup.

00:24:02
We love a good breakup album.

00:24:03
We love a good breakup album.

00:24:05
We love a good breakup album.

00:24:06
No context.

00:24:07
No context.

00:24:08
We don't even, we don't need context for how we do this.

00:24:11
We don't need context.

00:24:12
That's why we have the interview,

00:24:13
just to get a little bit of context.

00:24:15
So let's go.

00:24:16
Just to get a little bit of context.

00:24:17
Yeah.

00:24:18
That's really great.

00:24:19
I'm, I'm, I'm messy.

00:24:20
Yeah, we excited to hit that.

00:24:21
I'm glad that you're able to share it with us.

00:24:24
Not for sure.

00:24:25
Yeah, we really can't wait to listen to the album.

00:24:27
And like we've said, this is,

00:24:29
it's been really a pleasure to listen to your growth like from,

00:24:33
like we said, from happy man to now.

00:24:36
Like the introspection, like I was telling him right before

00:24:39
you got on, it reminds me a lot of,

00:24:42
IDK, IDK's last album,

00:24:46
just with the sound.

00:24:49
And I was also saying,

00:24:50
Saba, and then when you said,

00:24:52
when you said that was one of your influences,

00:24:54
when we were doing research,

00:24:55
we like definitely can hear that.

00:24:57
And I made a happy man after I heard,

00:25:01
cared for me.

00:25:02
Listen, and that's probably,

00:25:05
and that's probably why I like it so much.

00:25:07
It's easy to listen to too.

00:25:09
I love me to listen.

00:25:10
It's very easy to listen to.

00:25:13
But yeah, like this is, you know,

00:25:16
it's really cool seeing,

00:25:17
I think the cool thing about watching people going for making LPs

00:25:21
to, LP to LP is like seeing the growth of the concept,

00:25:26
the creation concept for artists,

00:25:28
like really diving into telling a story.

00:25:30
Like I'm excited to hear that story.

00:25:32
I identified with that story,

00:25:33
like how do you process a breakup?

00:25:35
I'm one of those five stages of grief.

00:25:37
So this is super exciting.

00:25:38
But we're going to shift gears.

00:25:41
We're going to do something a little bit more lighthearted.

00:25:42
We're not going to talk about breakups, no more.

00:25:44
Yeah.

00:25:46
We're not going to talk about all these thirsty women

00:25:48
who, you know, say in some wild ways.

00:25:51
You can't use any eyes.

00:25:52
Paint looking at you.

00:25:54
We got a rapid fire game.

00:25:56
We play with every guest.

00:25:58
This is a competition we're trying to see

00:26:00
you can answer the most questions within the 45 second period.

00:26:03
So do what you got to do to prepare.

00:26:05
I do.

00:26:07
Yeah.

00:26:10
Oh, we have the clock ready.

00:26:11
Yeah, we got the clock ready.

00:26:13
So we are telling the instructions again.

00:26:16
See how many questions you can answer within 45 seconds.

00:26:19
So we bumped up the time to 45 seconds

00:26:22
because production was like, we're getting complaints

00:26:25
that artists are getting.

00:26:28
It's too much pressure.

00:26:29
It's too much pressure.

00:26:30
So we're trying to leave that a leave that.

00:26:32
So 45 seconds is on the clock starting now.

00:26:41
OK.

00:26:41
What is your favorite color?

00:26:43
Blue.

00:26:44
Finish this sentence.

00:26:45
I can't leave home without my laptop.

00:26:49
Most interesting tattoo.

00:26:52
I have a SpongeBob flower right here.

00:26:55
Apple maps or Google maps?

00:26:57
Ways.

00:26:58
Most exciting part of touring.

00:27:03
Eating the food from the different cities I love in.

00:27:05
What is your zodiac sign?

00:27:07
Taurus.

00:27:09
Pick a number one through 10.

00:27:11
Nine.

00:27:12
What is your go-to pizza water?

00:27:15
Cheese or buffalo chicken?

00:27:17
Who is your inspiration?

00:27:19
My mom.

00:27:20
Name your favorite artist of any genre.

00:27:23
Fragg ocean.

00:27:24
OK.

00:27:25
OK.

00:27:26
That was 10.

00:27:27
That was the bus we had.

00:27:29
That was the bus we had.

00:27:31
Mommy.

00:27:31
No, he blew it out the water.

00:27:32
He did.

00:27:33
He blew it out the water.

00:27:34
He did blew it out the water the last one.

00:27:38
Seven or so.

00:27:39
No, not even.

00:27:39
It was less than that.

00:27:40
It was like five.

00:27:41
Put me on family.

00:27:42
If you put me on family.

00:27:43
That's what we've made you for.

00:27:45
That's what we've made you for.

00:27:48
But this has been such a privilege to have you in and really

00:27:53
get the talk to you, man.

00:27:54
Like we are very excited about your future.

00:27:56
We love your music.

00:27:58
And from a listener, a consumer, keep going.

00:28:01
But before we get out of here, we

00:28:04
got to know what you're looking at, what you're watching.

00:28:08
I know you're on tour.

00:28:09
So what is in those five minutes of downtime, 20 minutes

00:28:13
of downtime, what you watching?

00:28:15
I got a lot more than 20 minutes of downtime.

00:28:17
OK.

00:28:18
I'm watching.

00:28:21
I watched mainly.

00:28:21
I watched anime.

00:28:22
So I'm watching.

00:28:23
I caught up to one piece.

00:28:24
I'm watching that on Sunday.

00:28:25
I'm watching my hero.

00:28:27
I could end me on Sunday.

00:28:28
And I'm also watching last of us on Sundays.

00:28:31
That's the best.

00:28:32
Right.

00:28:32
Yeah, that's amazing.

00:28:33
I love that game too.

00:28:35
And then I'm watching.

00:28:37
I'm watching.

00:28:38
Yeah, it is.

00:28:39
It really is.

00:28:39
Like I've never owned a PlayStation in my life.

00:28:42
And I beat last of us one and two.

00:28:44
I think I've never owned a PlayStation.

00:28:46
I love that game.

00:28:47
So what I was going to say, if you for this season, bro, make

00:28:51
a lot of AOTs, tag on Titans back in a couple of days.

00:28:56
I can find it.

00:28:57
I can find it.

00:28:57
And when you do, if you got Crunchy Road, check out High Card.

00:29:01
And make sure that you watch Try Guns Stampede this year.

00:29:04
Like those two really, really, really good.

00:29:08
Hit me in the DMs on IG.

00:29:10
Let me know what you think.

00:29:11
Hi, guys.

00:29:12
I'm going to write them down.

00:29:14
You say, High Card?

00:29:15
Yeah, High Card.

00:29:16
And Try Gun.

00:29:18
Try Try Guns Stampede.

00:29:21
I'm trying to think of any others that I'm watching.

00:29:26
You got, I mean, my hero right now is just, that arc is absolutely

00:29:30
amazing.

00:29:31
Yo, they're going crazy.

00:29:32
Going absolutely ridiculous.

00:29:35
Like everything is, oh, Bungo Straight Oaks.

00:29:38
Please watch Bungo Straight Oaks.

00:29:39
That's older, isn't it?

00:29:40
That's older.

00:29:41
Older, but they have a, they're on season four right now.

00:29:44
Yeah, season four is out.

00:29:45
And Buddy Daddy's.

00:29:47
If you really liked Spy Family, Buddy Daddy's is just as fine.

00:29:52
Just imagine Spy Family, but two dudes.

00:29:56
And it's hilarious, like to say the least.

00:30:00
I really enjoy it.

00:30:01
But man, we really enjoyed you, dog.

00:30:02
Like before we get out of here, you got to obviously shameless plug

00:30:05
yourself.

00:30:07
Tell the people what they can find you.

00:30:09
Tell people the name of the new album.

00:30:12
And tell us, obviously, where are you going to be at next?

00:30:17
I want to work.

00:30:18
For sure.

00:30:19
Well, like I said before, I'm Dende.

00:30:23
I'm dropping an album, March 8th.

00:30:24
It's called 95 Civic.

00:30:26
And I never mentioned him this whole podcast.

00:30:29
And I feel crazy.

00:30:30
But my producer, the best producer in the whole world, Billy Blunt,

00:30:34
executive produced both these projects.

00:30:36
So make sure you go show love to Billy Blunt too.

00:30:39
You can follow me on Instagram at IAMDende,

00:30:43
follow me on Twitter at Dende is me.

00:30:45
And next city we're in is Atlanta.

00:30:48
And we're there on March 8th.

00:30:51
So on March 8th, when the album drops, we get this one.

00:30:55
Is it sold out?

00:30:56
Tell no I need to ticket.

00:30:57
Tell no I need to.

00:30:58
Because I'm, you know, that's my city.

00:30:59
That's his city.

00:31:01
Oh, we're.

00:31:01
Yeah, I don't know.

00:31:02
I don't know if it's sold out yet because they don't tell me nothing.

00:31:04
But I get how I ask him.

00:31:06
Tell no tell no let me get a press.

00:31:08
Let me get a press pass.

00:31:10
I just get in the car.

00:31:13
Right.

00:31:14
As you should.

00:31:15
I just get a car.

00:31:16
That's a good one.

00:31:18
That's the most honest thing.

00:31:22
Hey, bro, I just get a car.

00:31:23
I'm going to get a new car.

00:31:26
Well, but letting you go wrapping up, again, everybody

00:31:32
has given their sincere appreciation for your music.

00:31:37
And once again, you know, keep going, keep doing it.

00:31:40
Come back to let me get my headphones and tell us what

00:31:44
we get in our headphones for next.

00:31:46
For sure.

00:31:47
And really, congratulations.

00:31:50
Good luck on the rest of the tour.

00:31:53
And we'll keep up with you.

00:31:55
So on that note, y'all say bye.

00:31:59
Bye, y'all.

00:32:00
Bye, y'all.