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Check The Star Talks About The Late Aaron Carter, New Music and Growth | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Dec 20, 2022
Check The Star was a close collaborator with Aaron Carter. He stopped by to talk about his relationship with Aaron and how he contributed to his life.
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[Applause]
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there you go right there
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come on man
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it's a celebration yes
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this is a celebration
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that voice you heard on that clip
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was that of the late great Aaron Carter
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speaking with our guests today
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who was this collaborator
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his brother his artists
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a friend of mine for at least six years
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I say friend because I've met many
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people in this music business this young
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man probably doesn't even understand the
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full gravity of what I've done in
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entertainment
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he knows what he knows right and
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respectfully but I've been in it a long
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time and I've met everyone for years
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even prior to my stent at MTV where I
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met Aaron Carter
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okay so when he put out that uh that
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first album Aaron Carter and then Aaron
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Aaron party
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um these were MTV Staples right so I got
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a chance to meet him on the old airing
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days and how I beat Shaq days and I want
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candy days you know I was right there
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with that young man and watching him
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develop um as an artist and as a and as
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a free spirit you know and so I recall
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him in watching his growth and his
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Evolution and being able to spectate at
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the same time be a part of the business
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and seeing his successes and seeing the
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diversity that he had to face as all
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humans do right and so and today we're
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going to celebrate him
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with you I like that I want to bring
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this man I met him back in 2016 behind
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backstage at a rolling loud isn't that
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crazy ain't that something and my feet
1:45
were hurting that day yeah chicken wings
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right you remember that yeah come on now
1:49
chicken wings right I was doing a
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rolling loud interview I get out he's
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just sitting on the couch trying to mind
1:54
his business I was like man I gotta go
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talk to him yeah you walked up and
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introduced yourself and let me tell you
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it was that
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um that man took I took note you know
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you touch my spirit and we exchanged
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information and over the years he and I
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have been keeping in touch you know and
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um fishing the music right from fishing
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the music
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the music and
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um we said we're gonna we're gonna make
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this happen and I think
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um Aaron's transition
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um expedited that we felt it was time uh
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for us to talk and I actually we
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actually facetimed each other and had
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some great great conversation
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you was having a bad day and um
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I knew that this is um this is a chapter
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in your life and everybody surrounding
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you even Melanie who's here today she's
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not going to speak rightfully so
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um but I I want to encourage you and
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inspire you to continue the Legacy that
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this man set forward and you guys made a
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lot of great plans he made a huge impact
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on my life really amen I want to welcome
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you to the show The One and Only check
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the star is here check the star you're
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not alone welcome welcome you know my
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boy be nice in the building right now
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he's my manager my producer my DJ my
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right hand I got 5G right now I'm alive
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man but yeah we're out here right now
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all the way from Tampa I just came in
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from California but man I swear I can't
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say enough my chest hurts right now like
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I mean you just really touched my soul
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with everything you just do well man
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yeah absolutely man and we got more Soul
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touching to do
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um how did you meet Aaron like when did
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y'all first meet what was that day so
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really I was on the live in California
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just chilling like just doing a regular
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live like the IG Community started
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building upon developers and influencers
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and one day one of my friends was like
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hey just uh get on my life I'm like okay
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I'm looking I'm like is that Aaron
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that's crazy I looked up there when I
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was like nine next thing you know I'm
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getting at and he's like you know what
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come through to the house right now I'm
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like ain't no way he's really gonna do
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this he says drop your email right now I
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dropped my email he dropped me the
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address I got it you ordered 300 later I
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was there and sounds
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it was a 300 Uber yeah it was like it
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was like three hours away I was like in
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Temecula he was in Lancaster at the time
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wow yeah and that's when I um I met
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Prince and Melanie and we just the
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friend it was it was such a great
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experience like he took me straight into
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the studio it was awesome he treated me
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like you like I was his brother
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originally like he knew me in his whole
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life and that was your first time
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meeting how you know he wasn't going to
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set you up man you could have caught him
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over there Aaron Carter could have went
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in your pockets
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I don't know I have more faith in God
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than that you know and it was just like
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something cool it was a good opportunity
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to take and he was just like come on I'm
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like nah this can't be real and I just
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it could have been a foop it could have
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been a BS it could have been a BS you
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know address but he really did it uh-huh
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and uh it just led to you know a lot of
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things like he asked me to move in and
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like it was a lot it was a lot it's kind
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of so touching to be honest when you
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reflect on that what do you think that
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was why you I have no idea
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um he did tell me a lot of the times
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that he believed in me and um that he
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wanted to be a mogul and he also wanted
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to be a rap artist and um I I don't know
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I just we just pushed each other there
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was not a lot of enablers in his life
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and I was able to you know be there with
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Melanie at the right time to handle as
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much as we could
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um but unfortunately life took its toll
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you know what I'm saying but it was a
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really cool experience like um we got to
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share a lot of time and music I
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inclusively got to move in and share a
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lot of time with him personally like we
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would stay up all night till 7 A.M
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hanging out we went on tour
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um his first show in three years I got
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to do with him like there's just a lot
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he really I don't know why it happened
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I'm just thankful and blessed that it
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happened wow well outside of the obvious
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music connection that you guys had what
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can you share about the human connection
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like some of the lessons that you both
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were able to give each other on this
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lifelong journey we have
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um he just told me to be careful keep a
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Mystique
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not to trust everybody there was a lot
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of things that obviously I can't share
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but he definitely taught me a lot on how
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to be a man and how to be a better
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artist for sure
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beautiful thank you who were you prior
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to meeting him what were you doing I
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feel like I was a little bit more wild
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and just trying to
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um you know I guess uh be noticed in all
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the wrong ways okay give me an example
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what years are we talking like this
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prior to me even when you met me like I
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was still a while just being crazy I had
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colored hair I was acting a fool I had
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you know I eventually started getting
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all these tattoos which eventually I
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want to get removed I want to clean my
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image as well but I was just wild like I
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would stand on top of tables and I would
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just like for example I went on Judge
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Mathis and do all this crazy stuff like
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I was just doing anything and this just
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kind of grounded me to really focus on
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what I want to do with my life branding
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the Judge Mathis was over what was that
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over a baby what was that yeah um my
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baby mama took me to Judge Mathis
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oh so those are real yeah okay
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would you say that how evolved are you
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from that person that was on Judge
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Mathis it's not even the same person I
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don't feel like I look back at it and
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I'm just like wow who was that it
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happened like it seriously happened
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overnight hmm I had a really life
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Awakening it's just different it's just
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different like and I'm still evolving
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I'm not saying I'm anything now I'm
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still amazing I'm blessed that you're
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having here in here sway but it's like
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then my chest hurts from that intro I'm
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not gonna lie but um but for us just a
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life-changing experience and I just
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learn to develop and take every day as
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it goes
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that was a thing though back then you
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know the getting the tattoos getting the
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colored hair you know rolling loud a lot
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of that Vibe SoundCloud air I guess the
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SoundCloud era uh did you feel like in
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order to compete or in order to be
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recognized there's certain steps you got
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to take correct is that is that how most
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people thought yeah I believe so yeah
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that's the kind of rolling groups if you
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think about it uh-huh yeah and and so
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social media became the Allure like this
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is how we gotta make it we can't get to
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the music until until we that's what's
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crazy right we Overlook the talent but
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we look into Instagram and numbers and
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all this other stuff which could be
8:02
manipulated by anything yeah right yeah
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it is what it is now we're here and now
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we make the talent Shake that's what
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matters okay man check the Stars here
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man check the Stars here
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um
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when I go through your music you've done
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a lot of work since 2020
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um a lot more a lot more ghost stories
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casting calls what though those are
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projects all right casting calls ghosts
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ghost stories all the thorium series all
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of those things are those does that
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music Still representative of who you
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are today no all that stuff has to be
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taken down um but I left it up there for
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the fans the old fans just to remember
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who I am but this 2023 season I'm gonna
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be balling like George I'm deleting all
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that whoever has access to it get it now
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but really I'm focused on my new like I
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had so many good features so many good
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so so many different sounds all the way
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to Rocky piece like I'm all over the
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genre I'm an EDM so I have a whole lot
8:53
of other things like I could have came
8:54
here with rock music and just blew your
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mind but like who is this kid what's
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going on it doesn't even sound the same
8:59
you you had a song I want to say
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um fading away I think it's called is
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that it fading away probably I don't
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know you don't remember your songs no I
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have so many
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uh in it I thought it was interesting
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because uh what you talk about uh that's
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the title of your song by the way
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um yeah well you know uh what you
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talking about
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um you talk you start breaking down the
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music industry your experience it with
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people in the music business and
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entertainment
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um what can you speak to that what does
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that mean a lot of my music yeah
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um it's been a lot of being overlooked
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it's uh it's a lot of having to slip
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through the cracks and get in where
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you're supposed to and just line up
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yourself to be noticed in the right
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frame a lot of back doors what does that
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mean like assume that we're not walking
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in your your crowd like assume that I'm
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not your audience how would you break
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that down there's a lot of people in
9:54
competition anywhere that you go even if
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you come with a group of people there's
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like a lot of people that want to take
9:58
that competition they're not moment in
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life that we feel glorified for that
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moment so there's a lot of things that
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you have to do in order to be notified
10:03
or noticed as that head celebrity or
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that Head Start or that head moment so
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it's a lot like coming up and trying to
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get that focus in which is difficult
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it's just really car crazy like is it
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the same way y'all feel now
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you feel like you gotta you know uh you
10:20
got to become a social star in order to
10:22
for your music to be heard to be seen oh
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absolutely in this day and nutrition
10:27
definitely the way things are going now
10:29
you have to be big on Instagram you have
10:30
to be out there talking to people so how
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do you do it differently Now versus when
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you first started well I'm more social
10:37
media active I'm more on Tick Tock like
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I'm on every platform now let's check
10:40
the Stars solidified every platform you
10:42
can look me up on anything and I'm more
10:43
solidified that way right that way I
10:45
engage more with people I can do cameos
10:46
I can do tick tocks I can do anything
10:48
and it just keeps me active with more
10:49
people it does take a lot out of my day
10:51
but it keeps me away from doing other
10:52
things like it's kind of like a like a
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mediating Source if that's right
10:56
something else to do it's like a hobby
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but actually a monetizing hobby
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mm-hmm but in terms of how you choose
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what content versus this like which um
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platforms are you on how does your
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content look different from when you
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initially were on I wasn't even making
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it that's the point oh I wasn't even
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focused on that okay I was more focused
11:14
on I guess trying to get features I
11:17
wanted to feature with as many artists I
11:19
had this very big DJ Khaled uh mindset
11:22
where I wanted to focus in and do
11:23
features as many artists and bring this
11:25
Unity to the scene I didn't care if you
11:27
were 13 year old boy trying to make it
11:29
or if you're a 30 year old man trying to
11:31
make it we were finding a way to combine
11:32
the sounds and make something out of it
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that's what casting call was right yeah
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casting calls correct
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um but I focused that around a lot of
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artists that have either no disrespect
11:41
have been there or are there or working
11:43
to get there and I just made this big
11:45
collaboration of sounds and it's pretty
11:47
cool because it's all features but
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that's really what I was focused on and
11:51
also it helped me build my sound because
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working with other artists and obviously
11:54
I get to adapt to working with different
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type of styles different type of people
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obviously different type of egos like I
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mean you have do all that you have to
12:01
train yourself so I basically put myself
12:03
through some kind of a boot camp if you
12:05
may say and now I'm ready to drop my
12:07
singles now I'm ready to do what I have
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to do but that's what I went through
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that's what you know you have in your in
12:12
your iCloud I mean iTunes and all that
12:13
but all that stuff like I said is coming
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down I'm just giving the people a chance
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to listen to who I was I'm not scared of
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who I was I want them to get a chance
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through Instagram we've been able to
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reach a lot more people and get a lot
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more connections with different artists
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and different
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um you know fans and things that we can
12:27
actually do the promotion and do the
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um you know all the publicity and things
12:31
that need to happen directly rather than
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having to go through a third party or
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anything right
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I'd like to check the star man I've
12:39
never even asked this dude this Tracy
12:41
you brought this up the other day yeah
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but how did you form how did you find
12:46
your name what does it mean bro I was
12:48
just talking about it isn't that funny
12:49
it's funny we were just talking about
12:50
this I just had dinner talking about
12:52
this okay so I had a friend of mine and
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uh he was gonna get a deal and uh we
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went into uh set up his Away by the way
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we went into the uh I went into his uh
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off into his manager's office at the
13:04
time that was sponsoring everything he
13:05
asked me he was like do you want to
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manage and I was like man I'm like I'm a
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star you know you can't just put me in a
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mandatorial way so I let him know I'm a
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star and and at the time they called me
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check
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um and he was like you gotta understand
13:18
you got to fall back sometimes and focus
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on other people you're you know I'm
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saying I just didn't like that answer so
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I was like you know what um I'm gonna
13:25
have to humbly decline I get on the
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elevators I'm going down
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um I told myself man I'm checked hold on
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check the star I need to start
13:31
undervaluing myself and uh that day I
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went to Instagram changed my handle and
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uh that's when the trans position began
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check the star okay
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who's your parents
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shout out to my beautiful mother Vivian
13:46
Santiago may she rest in peace she was
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the nightclub owner and my dad Miguel
13:51
Garcia the DJ
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really so you kind of grew up in a
13:55
that's my thing music my first birthday
13:57
was inside a nightclub in what town
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San Juan Puerto Rico laser tech so
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you're Puerto Rican yes oh check the
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Stars Puerto boricua yeah man um how
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much um do you interject your culture in
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your music well um I got some unreleased
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songs with certain reggaeton artists
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that I will not disclose because the
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ndas but I do have them in the clutch
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and I'm really excited to release those
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but yeah I try to bring it in any way
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that I can of course it's really diverse
14:24
with hip-hop Rock and everything like
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that but I do embrace my culture for
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sure really what you cooking cooking
14:30
Puerto Rican food of course what you
14:31
cooking
14:33
you know what I'm saying right
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you know what I'm saying you killing
14:45
that yes sir all right uh man I didn't
14:48
even know that part you know you'll cook
14:50
check the Stars here Xena's on the line
14:52
from Florida Xena rise and shine how you
14:55
doing no no wait hold on Xena hold on
14:56
one second hold on okay uh we're gonna
14:59
take calls I'm gonna play this song
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uh let me see what I'm gonna play
15:05
I'm gonna play no motion
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oh man no motion big hits what's no
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motion about
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the truth that's my hit about uh
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overcoming and being overlooked and just
15:15
keeping yourself and going and going for
15:17
so long that you eventually like
15:19
you start feeling sick to your stomach
15:21
because you've been overlooked so much
15:22
this is no motion check the star 888
15:26
742-3345 no motion check the star that's
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his name check the Stars what an ill ass
15:33
name you got check the star yeah
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right yeah can't really place it
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anywhere
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um no motion so you you've obviously
15:45
um had a lot of naysayers in your life
15:47
and and folks who kind of gone against
15:49
uh what you were trying to go to right
15:52
what's that been like for you like you
15:55
know motivational motivational always
15:58
been like that yeah
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I find I find a spark plug in that
16:03
I don't know why but I like to turn that
16:05
negative into positive for sure
16:07
I I I often wonder like when folks make
16:09
songs about nobody in particular but
16:13
just about waves of hate or people
16:15
that's naysayers
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um I always feel like damn you giving
16:18
light to the naysayers why not make a
16:20
song to those who love you I love that
16:23
you know what I mean embrace the hate
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yeah yeah they hate but love the lovers
16:27
love to love us put the spotlight on the
16:29
love yes right we just had this um
16:32
played this clip um about um Tyler Perry
16:35
who talked about making sure you're
16:38
encouraging yourself yeah absolutely I I
16:40
think I may have sent this to you Tracy
16:43
where uh Bruce Lee um once talked about
16:45
words and how powerful they are um
16:47
always uplift yourself when you're using
16:50
words and describing yourself because
16:52
even when you're joking your mind
16:54
doesn't know the difference right
16:55
absolutely right and so whatever words
16:57
and information we're putting out there
16:58
through our creation you know we're
17:00
perpetuating we're promoting some kind
17:02
of energy yes sir you know so have you
17:04
found that the songs that are more
17:06
positive it has brought you more better
17:09
results I definitely agree yeah sure yes
17:11
yeah give me an example is it a song
17:12
that you realize that people tune into
17:14
that go okay man let's get a good it's
17:16
getting a good reaction well I mean if
17:18
you think about it um I have a lot of
17:19
music a lot of my depressing song it
17:21
adapts to a lot of people that need to
17:22
get out but I want to give you a really
17:24
good example of a song that was fun and
17:26
positive
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um was outside today outside today
17:29
features my friend Joker game my boy uh
17:31
whiskey free whiskey but it was a good
17:33
vibe because we were talking about being
17:34
outside and enjoying life and not being
17:36
worried about anything no and I did
17:38
really good numbers I mean lately was
17:40
actually a really good vibe too it was
17:42
about overcoming toxic relationships
17:44
like we're just talking about what we
17:45
want and how we want to strive to be
17:47
better you know instead of man my life
17:50
sucks yeah it just seemed like a time
17:52
that
17:53
people swim in would sucked yeah I
17:56
thought that you felt that right but I
17:59
also feel like a lot of music that came
18:01
out when how you affectionately called
18:03
the SoundCloud era yeah that was a very
18:05
depressing season to me I think okay it
18:07
was either really hyper right in uh very
18:09
underground and Bassy or it was really
18:11
depressing and it led to a lot of like I
18:14
mean I hate to say it but it led to a
18:15
lot of abuse in uh the substance World
18:18
in my eyes yeah you saw it though uh
18:22
yeah I lived it you lived it right
18:24
um oh yeah I had to overcome it for sure
18:26
did you overcome it yeah yeah I put a
18:29
lot of things down the only thing I do
18:30
is cannabis here and there
18:31
self-medicated but how did you put it
18:34
down because I would imagine it was hard
18:36
yeah there was prescription medications
18:37
and stuff but I put it down um and it
18:39
was actually recently thanks to
18:40
everything that's been happening and
18:42
acknowledging what has happened around
18:43
my life including losing my brother
18:45
Aaron Carter how do you feel about the
18:48
music business that the the industry
18:51
didn't stop man any that any music that
18:53
you right now music that you're saying
18:55
was depressing and you feel like led to
18:56
a lot of substance abuse the machine
18:58
kept pushing it out there you know you
19:01
know and you might not it might have
19:02
been oblivious to you the bigger picture
19:05
now when you reflect and you see these
19:07
young artists coming up knowing what you
19:09
know
19:10
how do you how do you what are your
19:11
thoughts about that it's depressing yeah
19:14
it let a lot of people astray and I just
19:16
talked about that on my platform it's
19:18
embarrassing to me yeah it definitely is
19:20
uh it hurt a lot of people a lot of
19:22
families
19:23
yeah but you hear you survived it yes
19:26
right and so now the purpose the purpose
19:28
is different so we'll change the
19:30
trajectory what is that purpose for
19:31
check to start today to change the
19:33
trajectory yeah yeah to speak on mental
19:35
illness awareness to know that you can
19:37
overcome and keep pushing do anything
19:39
you set your mind to facts I've read
19:42
somewhere that you were shot
19:45
this way
19:48
is that a yes yeah
19:50
really yeah it's not you know a lot of
19:52
people don't know that necessarily
19:54
uh I read you was shot in the head yeah
19:58
yeah how did that what when
20:01
I wouldn't have ever been able to tell
20:02
her
20:03
uh I was shot in the head in 2002
20:10
um no 2006 January 28 2006.
20:14
um I was leaving my friend's apartment
20:16
and these guys uh stopped my car with
20:20
two other people and they blocked me off
20:22
and they they yeah they shot at me
20:25
they tried to take your life yes and you
20:28
survived it yeah
20:29
that bounced off man yeah any uh
20:33
residual effect from that
20:36
I mean I'm not immediate I don't believe
20:38
but it gave me a lot of anxiety and
20:40
paranoia for sure did that lead to more
20:43
substance
20:44
at that time for sure at that time PTSD
20:48
that was that's what that's where it
20:49
began
20:50
yeah a big trauma
20:53
okay and then that's uh about a month
20:55
later my mom had a brain aneurysm so it
20:58
didn't help anymore and then uh she was
21:01
in uh in hospice for like seven years
21:04
and that seven years I was lost I was
21:06
you know selling trying to be cool quote
21:10
unquote
21:11
um doing the wrong things I mean
21:13
carrying guns and all that doesn't make
21:15
a gangster making you gangsters taking
21:16
care of your family and financially
21:18
stabilizing yourself for the future but
21:20
at the time I was lost and um there's no
21:23
excuse for it I'm just sharing it for a
21:24
story for anyone listening but um I was
21:27
lost for for those years and numbing
21:29
myself and um
21:30
I went to jail and I got out after doing
21:34
prison time for as little as marijuana
21:36
possession
21:38
um a little bit too much what I say and
21:41
um
21:42
they let me out on a furlough which uh
21:45
shout out to shout out to the prison for
21:47
that really because they weren't
21:48
supposed to let me out unless she was
21:49
dead but they let me out to see her get
21:52
the plug pulled and I was there in my
21:55
whole family he was able to be there in
21:56
the last moments yeah but your mom
21:59
yeah yeah and I don't know if she was
22:02
conscious as we know it uh when you were
22:05
there but she definitely felt your
22:07
presence yes you should understand that
22:09
because I know you said some words to it
22:11
right of course yeah um a lot of us been
22:14
in that situation I've been in a
22:15
situation where you at the moment where
22:17
they have to take a pull a plug you know
22:20
and I know for a fact the person I was
22:22
there for responded to my voice you know
22:25
what I mean I could see it in the on a
22:28
um what do you call the monitor yeah the
22:30
monitor
22:31
um yeah I don't know the name of a
22:34
technical name
22:35
um but I'm so happy that you got a
22:38
chance to be there in that moment so
22:40
your purpose
22:41
is bigger than just being a rap star now
22:44
right yeah you know your voice it'll be
22:47
a voice and I'm sure that I could get
22:49
misconstrued over the years
22:51
misinterpreted and even you as an artist
22:54
listening to some of your music
22:56
um it's easy to fall off track and feed
22:58
into some of the the distractions that
23:00
are around but here we arrived right
23:02
here we are
23:04
um check the star I'm telling you this
23:06
is a celebration okay it's a celebration
23:09
when I say celebration you know what to
23:11
do with that it's a celebration I'm
23:12
clapping by myself over here yeah man
23:15
um risky blunt is on the line can I take
23:18
this one yeah okay
23:20
risky blunt what up how you doing hey
23:23
man it's risky for the top floor man
23:25
checks my [ __ ] brother I am so
23:28
proud of you my brother man
23:30
everything of accomplished man you got
23:33
the you got your foot on their neck bro
23:34
and to anybody who's ever thrown you any
23:37
negativity but it's always positive on
23:39
this side my brother you already know we
23:41
got music on the way all that I'm just
23:43
proud of you dog low cop bro thank you
23:45
brother that's what's up man what do you
23:47
know about check man what is your what
23:49
is your own personal what's your what's
23:50
your impression on him man check
23:53
literally
23:54
the day he met me he brought me in like
23:57
I was like we've known each other
23:58
forever bro like a real dude bro like
24:01
one of the most humble artists I've met
24:03
out of South Florida for sure bro like
24:06
for real for real and I got music with
24:08
Twista and all types of people you know
24:10
what I'm saying and and Ted is just a
24:13
real dude bro like telling someone who I
24:15
I definitely could call whenever I need
24:17
anything you know what I'm saying is
24:18
there you feel me that's love that's
24:20
what's up man
24:21
um thank you risky boys and vice versa
24:24
always
24:25
okay what was the song you mentioned
24:27
that you you said you made that was
24:29
risky Blunt You're a citizen about you
24:32
outside it was caught outside today yeah
24:34
outside today and I was with who Joker
24:36
gang and uh whiskey so you got a lot of
24:39
affiliations yes with some crazy ass
24:43
names bro a lot of people with a lot of
24:45
personalities I told you about the
24:46
Eagles and the personalities yo man
24:48
shout out how many games do you have
24:52
alter alter Eagles no I try to stay
24:54
consistent I mean come on now yeah and
24:56
so I would say I know how to go back and
24:58
forth but it is what it is like as in
24:59
Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana but yeah
25:01
that's about it yeah you stand
25:03
consistent now yeah how did y'all meet
25:05
haha we were just talking about that too
25:07
uh I used to throw Mansion parties in
25:10
Tampa and stuff like that do a lot of
25:12
events
25:13
um and uh check came to one of them and
25:17
first I saw him jumping in the pool with
25:19
every bit of his clothes on
25:21
uh with on a floaty making a music video
25:24
and I came outside and he was standing
25:26
on top of one of our BMWs so I politely
25:29
told them to you know get the hell down
25:31
and we've been
25:33
damn they're best friends ever since so
25:35
you checked them
25:38
down no he looked at me he's like nah
25:41
bro you're good trying to come up here
25:43
crazy but yeah he let me rock out on the
25:46
BMW I was chilling you like to rock out
25:48
he was gonna whip his ass he thought
25:50
about it I thought about it but you know
25:51
he was a cool dude he was you know real
25:53
humble you know it wasn't like I'm half
25:55
your car I was just like bro I'm trying
25:56
to shoot if that's okay I don't even
25:57
know it was his car
25:58
damn man yo you was off the chain
26:02
you would have stood on my BMW
26:05
bent up in a full nelson
26:08
yeah it wasn't an old one either check
26:11
definitely has a problem with standing
26:12
on things tables couches you're a
26:15
producer manager uh yes correct okay and
26:18
DJ so you do it all right yeah the less
26:23
is better okay the less is better we're
26:25
gonna talk about that ghost is on the
26:27
line from Boston ghost what up hey ghost
26:29
yo what up what up check man check is
26:32
one of the most positive artists out
26:34
here influencers out here always doing
26:36
the right thing and staying out of the
26:38
drama man I just wanted to send my love
26:40
for my flowers you know what I'm saying
26:41
there you go man
26:45
it's a cool guy man we spend uh we spent
26:48
some time together out in Vegas man his
26:50
boy whiskey free whiskey who's out there
26:52
tattooing me in the casino like yeah in
26:55
the cosmo remember that wow yeah right
26:57
right inside the casino on the floor man
27:00
like these guys are really out here
27:01
doing it bro KK the introvert oh my
27:05
goodness free whiskey y z um
27:14
everybody got these colors yeah awesome
27:17
man is that a Florida thing yeah if you
27:20
was to give somebody advice about how to
27:23
surround yourself with the proper team
27:24
what would you say close the blinds and
27:27
make sure you watch out for them Rays
27:28
basically like just watch out for who's
27:30
around you and what their intentions are
27:32
because a lot of these intentions get
27:33
mixed up and switched around real fast
27:35
you got to be careful who you have
27:36
around us but it comes with trial and
27:37
error like it's gonna take a little time
27:39
you're gonna you got you gotta seed it
27:40
out if you don't watch out for the
27:42
people around you that's how you get
27:43
that rug pulled out from underneath you
27:44
I hear a lot about your travel and
27:47
different people you meet and then when
27:48
I look at the way you dress in your
27:50
style I could tell you put some money in
27:52
your bank in your bank accounts over the
27:53
years what's your relationship with
27:55
money being like
27:57
um it's a hard question but I just got
27:59
to take care of myself got to take care
28:00
of my family
28:01
um but I'm financially stable that's
28:03
what matters yeah based on streaming and
28:05
based on your music I'm doing really
28:07
good you're doing well yeah it's okay
28:09
relationship that's a long-term
28:11
relationship yeah me and music are
28:12
bonded like this we're married are you
28:14
seeing people from the SoundCloud era
28:16
that are are not sustaining
28:20
um I don't like to speak down on anybody
28:22
and I really don't listen to a lot of
28:23
people's music fine that's fair yeah say
28:25
less
28:27
um Melanie is here can we mention
28:29
Melanie I know Melody wasn't in the mood
28:31
to talk but can I think your relation I
28:33
think a lot of times
28:35
you know I've had friends that I've lost
28:37
and they left behind family and friends
28:39
right and I've always made it a point
28:42
especially my friends who've had kids to
28:45
stay in tune with their children
28:47
um why what can you describe your
28:49
relationship and and then what have you
28:51
discussed about just keeping Aaron's
28:53
Legacy whole and for it to keep going
28:57
she's managing a lot of my branding but
28:59
being nice and uh helping me get in the
29:01
right places um she's got me some good
29:03
decent PR but really we just been trying
29:05
to shed the light on the moment she's
29:06
grieving a lot I'm appreciative for her
29:08
support being here tonight or today
29:10
really but it's just been like it's been
29:11
a lot man like it's not just an
29:13
overnight thing where you're just like
29:14
okay we can do this but we're just
29:16
trying to mold it the best way we can
29:17
from where it started really it didn't
29:19
start there but really that's where the
29:21
Catapult began so I feel like it's only
29:22
right to get back where it started which
29:24
is honestly Prince Melanie and what what
29:27
Aaron did for me yeah did you ever cast
29:29
a check Aaron gave you no
29:31
so he signed you and gave you in advance
29:35
never even tried five figure events and
29:38
you never even cashed a check no
29:40
it was more of a trophy to me I wanted
29:42
to hold it like um I used to look up to
29:44
him when I was like nine so I was like
29:45
if he could do it I could do it and
29:47
through life and believing in God and
29:49
just knowing that I was just moving in
29:50
the right direction when he gave that to
29:52
me
29:53
it was worth more than me in my pocket
29:55
than it was on in the bank I was like I
29:58
can make twenty thousand dollars but
29:59
this paper I can't probably get again
30:00
and I just kept it with me and um
30:04
I don't know it's just a trophy I keep
30:05
at home you know like it's just crazy
30:06
how it played out and uh I don't know we
30:09
just kept moving and working from a
30:10
distance and building our catalog and
30:13
it's just sad we didn't get to drop more
30:15
but we we did get to drop one good song
30:17
before he left yeah man yeah you got to
30:21
do that bro I saw the Legacy continues
30:23
man yeah yeah man yo man listen I
30:27
appreciate you coming up
30:29
um our show is about to end you know
30:31
it's not you know no podcast you could
30:33
talk for 14 hours
30:36
um anything you want to say man I just
30:39
want to say thank you to everybody
30:40
that's been supporting and even those
30:41
that have been hitting maybe I can
30:43
change your perspective along the lines
30:45
um shout out 5gs be nice
30:47
um you know Melanie Prince everybody
30:48
thank you sway for having me you've been
30:50
amazing there's been a lot of people in
30:52
my life that influenced me but I just
30:53
want to thank God primarily and foremost
30:55
okay my man check the star be nice
30:59
I just want to say shout out to my son
31:01
Ethan shout out to my boy King Kami
31:03
check the star 5g's
31:05
um Bel Air
31:06
in the building we in the building man
31:08
we're here hey gentlemen
31:11
um I know it's a hard crazy if it wasn't
31:12
for Aaron believing in me that's what I
31:14
gotta think too yeah you know like I
31:16
want to say that before anything
31:19
thank you so much for randomly picking
31:21
me out of a bunch and just saying you
31:23
got this because I'm not gonna stop
31:27
just wanted to say that yes rest and
31:29
power Aaron Carter who's here with us in
31:32
this space
31:33
we gonna keep saying his name I know my
31:36
guy check the Stars gonna keep doing
31:37
that man matter of fact let's hear his
31:39
voice again let's play that lately one
31:41
more time and I want to thank you for
31:43
coming up brother we made it happen huh
31:45
come on man absolutely absolutely this
31:47
is lately Sway in the morning shade 405.
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