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Multi-Platinum Producer On New Book ‘The Story of Amadeus: And the Beat Goes On’ | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Jan 11, 2022
Amadeus has been one of the hottest producers in the business for some time now. So it is only right that he and his team release a book detailing his incredible journey. Amadeus called in to talk to the Sway In The Morning team about all that went into putting it together.
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[Music]
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what up it's victoria amadeus
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multi-platinum bad boy hitman producer
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trey songz music director toy drummer
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motivational speaker dre's resident all
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that good stuff and now adding to the
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titles author um i just wanted to say
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thank you thank you thank you for all
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the love and all of the support the
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story of amadeus is out right now and
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the beat goes on the first shipment of
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125 books have sold out i want to say
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thank you for all the love and support
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the new order is on the way so don't
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miss out christmas is here don't miss
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out get your book you hurt it's the king
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the king it's important
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citizens it's important that sometimes
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you sit down and you tell your own story
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you know what an amazing story it is on
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the day is to somebody that we met
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through music you know working with many
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artists from 50 cent to justin bieber
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fabulous t.i just
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jeezy tiger
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busta rise
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french montana i said jennifer lopez
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trey songz music director and toy
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drummer
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uh multi-platinum bad boy hitman record
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producer
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ceo platinum boy music inc
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oh man the list goes on and on and on
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and on as guy is
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multi-talented really special individual
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you know hey rich you know you know how
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his uncle jimmy uncle jimmy used to work
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at the building over there on 112th you
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know that was yeah that's his family
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member so he comes from a great
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bloodline and i'm proud of him now that
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he's become an author as well welcome
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him back to the show amadeus amadeus
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yes sir
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my family my family my family
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wade
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tracy g heather b
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kelly
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man i miss you guys wonder
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man oh y'all man oh y'all man
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rich nice on the line amadeus
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what's going on man
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man great to go with you my brother
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i'm good man great spirits man thank you
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guys thank you guys thank you guys i
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miss you all so much man hey uh
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yes yes and you you text me time to time
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and let me know that you tuned in
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um yes sir
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how you been like what have you how have
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you been busy
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um you know i'm i'm i'm feeling good i'm
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in great spirits thank god um you know
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like i said i'm i'm a citizen man i'm
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always listening as much as i can um and
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like you guys have talked about it's
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been a long two years you know what i'm
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saying has been a long two years for
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everybody a lot of ups and downs a lot
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of challenges a lot of changes
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you know what i mean we're all used to
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moving around and running around and
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touring and flying around and flying
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here and performing there so you know
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for all of that to come to a complete
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hulk um was very difficult for myself
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and everybody else you know that's in
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entertainment as well you know so but
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you know that was then right now i'm
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moving around again um i'm back in dre's
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back to performing you know in las vegas
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which is a great feeling um you know
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shout out to dj friends
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yeah shout out to dj francis shout out
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to geno the whole the whole team over
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there at dre's nightclub um and you know
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now i have the book you know and the
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book is it's perfect timing you know
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christmas is here the story of amadeus
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and the beat goes on um and and it's
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funny that you asked that because we
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wrote the book during the pandemic so
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um it's it's something that i always
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wanted to do shout out to my publicist
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uh lynn hopson who i've discussed it
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with and just didn't have the time to
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sit down and do it you know what i mean
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so when the pandemic hit and i was in
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the house no touring no shows no studio
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no nothing it's like
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right now it's the perfect time to make
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that happen so shout out to lynn hopson
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shout out to trina stackhouse uh who sat
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down with my co-authors and sat down and
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we wrote this book
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um let's talk about it we got people
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lined up listen i'm telling you any
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information you need about music
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business you want to learn about
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licensing
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you know um you know amadeus as
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producers scored music for burger king
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sprite espn
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ea sports how to get placement
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publishing if you want to know about
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royalties um you know how as a producer
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to really get in studios uh let's talk
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about that because i want to take talk
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about a little bit about your story and
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then let people call up
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888-742-3345 this is what you'll find in
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the book the story of amadeus um
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let's talk about your name amadeus yeah
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since we've known amadeus i realized i
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didn't even know the story
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i've been thinking i'ma dance with your
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first day for dumb years but a lot of
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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he saw
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real quick right so i'm you know i'm
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getting orders for the books and i'm
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shipping out the books right and i'm
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like yo i think i should just put
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amadeus you know uh as a person that's
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sending it out because i don't i don't
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want them to know my government name
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right and then uh
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my queen was like yeah but your name is
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on the book
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the book and
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um by the way when you credit when your
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producer credit says antoine i'm a i was
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like oh yeah that's right that's right
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that's cool oh yeah all right cool
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yeah tracy hit me with the government
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real quick yeah you snitched on yourself
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bro but go ahead
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hydration snitching right there tracy
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just hit you with the powder snitch
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[Laughter]
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wow
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the powder snitch now there was a movie
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in 1994
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called
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amadeus um
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you must have been a young man around
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that time did that movie influence your
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name
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it's funny because it didn't
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it didn't at first because i i didn't
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want to watch the movie i was like you
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know come on man i want to watch this
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dude who is this dude i'm not even into
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this but then i think my favorite part
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was you know when you go into school and
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then the teacher rolls in the big tv
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with the vcr connected to it and you
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know in that moment you're like you know
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you're not going to get any work done
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today you're just going to watch your
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movie so i think i was more excited
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about that and then seeing what young
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lady i was going to sit next to as i
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watched you know that okay that wasn't
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fun for me not very important you know
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but as the movie played i'm like who is
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this dude who's a real young dude
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that was a class clown that was just all
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over the place a lot of energy
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uh but a lot of talent and everyone
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loved him all the young ladies in his
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class loved him and he was just super
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talented i'm looking at this dude like
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we got a lot in common you know what i
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mean and i watched it um not not even
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knowing that years later
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that i would actually carry that name so
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i didn't even remember like that movie i
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remember watching that movie but when i
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decided to use the name amadeus it kind
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of came around full circle and i'm like
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hold on that was the same
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little dude i was watching in class that
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was a musical composer you know that was
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a genius that was out of control
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that i'm like we have something in
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common so it happened years down the
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line and i kind of said to myself yo i
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want to be the hip hop r b
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pop gospel amadeus of modern time and
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that's why you know i i chose that name
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and in choosing that name as i you know
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matured spiritually and grew as a young
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man i've learned that amadeus means he
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loves god you know so it just kind of
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came around full circle for me and yeah
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that's me
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that's amadeus here you got a man who's
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been on tour what is it 13 14 years been
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on tour with 14 years trey songz has
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played at you know carnegie hall he's
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done all of these different amazing
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things in and around music but you never
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took a music class and you never learned
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in a conventional way how to write or
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read music right so right who was your
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best teacher
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oh man you know what sure so i i started
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him was it fourth grade i picked up the
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drumsticks for the first time i think my
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teacher name was dr donato he was so
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impressed by what i was doing by ear
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like i said i didn't i didn't learn in a
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conventional way so then when i went to
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high school they were so excited that i
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could play the way i was able to play
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and that i could actually lead the band
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which wasn't a good the drum section
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wasn't really a good sounding drum
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section so once i came on board they're
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like okay can you fix this can you make
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this work can you make this sound great
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and that was like a job that i had you
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know even though i'm in school like i'm
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supposed to come in there and learn
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theory and
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reading and the fundamentals of my
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instrument and and all of those
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different things but they wanted to
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sound good so well that that's what
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mattered to them so i kind of took you
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know i kind of took the hit when it
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comes to that because there's a lot that
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you can do musically when you know how
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to read music i can i can go play you
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know uh the lion king play on broadway
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right now like if i gotta i can get a
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phone call today say hey the drummer is
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out you know sick you know can you fill
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in and for that there's no rehearsals uh
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they'll call you up and say hey here's
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the sheet music this is what you're
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playing uh have a great show and the
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fact that i'm not able to read music i
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can't pick up those type of gigs so
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that's the only downfall
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to it but you know it is what it is i've
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had a great journey i had a great life
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and it just goes to show you that
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there's no rules there's no right or
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wrong there's no rules on how to become
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successful in music when you love it
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when you're passionate about it you eat
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sleep drink live it you know then you
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can do what it would do without fully
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being taught the right way and he's
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approved he's proven it you know this
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guy is a case study he's worked with
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everybody as as we named and he
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continues to do so he also teaches we
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got jabari on the line from toronto who
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wanted to ask you a question jabari
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grand rises how you feeling man
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jabari
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turn your radio down man turn your radio
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down for me how you doing grand risings
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hey
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good good
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all right hey y'all all right peace
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way in the morning i've been listening
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to you for a long time man
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and um thank you you are
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you're lit bro you have a crazy catalog
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of work
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and uh much respect
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and i'm hoping to get
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get like you one day
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now you know what it is king i i i want
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you to be better than me i want you i
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want you to make it even past me and
10:21
what i've done what i've accomplished
10:23
you know what i'm saying i appreciate
10:24
the love and support but this is why i
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do what i do this is why i educate this
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is why i teach this is why i give you
10:29
the ropes and show you the rights and
10:31
the wrongs and what to do and what not
10:32
to do so that you know you could make it
10:34
further to me you know what i'm saying
10:35
like uh our destinies are old destinies
10:38
you know i'm saying your career is
10:39
different from mine you know you just
10:40
got to believe in yourself you know work
10:42
hard hustle do the right thing do right
10:44
by people and give it everything you got
10:46
and i know everything all of that sounds
10:48
cliche um but that's that's that's it's
10:50
real there's truth in this and it's
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reality you know what i mean so i
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appreciate the love and the flowers my
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brother
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always always yeah and i i feel that
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because i'm the type of person who
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always
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been that that dude plays that role
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there's a lot a lot of people
11:05
because i i'm calling from toronto right
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now recently moved to toronto like right
11:08
before the pandemic but i'm a i'm a born
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and raised at alien you feel me so
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that's where a lot of my inspiration
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comes from
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and i always play that role and stay
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down and you know working in the studio
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making beats for people and engineering
11:23
and helping them with the writing
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process
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and you know is this type of takes
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time so i
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to be able to to stay down is just like
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that's the patience is a virtue type
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thing you know what i'm saying
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absolutely and that's and that's it
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that's it that's key you know patience
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is key is one of the things i say all
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the time patience is key and when you
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love something you know it you you keep
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that patience it's the love that you
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have for whatever it is you do it's the
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love and the passion that you have or
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whatever it is that you do that keeps
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you going you know what i'm saying so
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even when you want to throw in the towel
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even when you want to quit even when
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you're saying man this is really taking
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too long am i going to make it am i not
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going to make it that love and passion
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you know will keep you at it you know so
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take it one day at a time my brother
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stay present at what you do you know um
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don't compare yourself to no one nothing
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you know what i mean
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your journey is your journey and and
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just each step is to step you know
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forward you know what i mean and
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appreciate all the steps that you're
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able to take there's a lot that every
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creator has right now that i didn't have
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coming up i'm 20 plus years in the game
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there wasn't no internet there wasn't no
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social media there wasn't you know mp3s
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it wasn't iphones it was none of that
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like i had to i had to be outside i had
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to stand in front of studios and offices
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and hoping to see somebody come out and
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hand them a beat tape you know what i'm
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saying so that's the process that i came
12:39
that i came up in and it's a lot
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different where for everybody now
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you know you can wake up one day and say
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hey i want to be a producer i want to be
12:45
a singer i'm going to be a songwriter
12:47
get that piece of equipment go online
12:49
make a song release it friday and now
12:52
you lit you know when that was the
12:53
complete opposite process for myself so
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you know no no excuses of why we can't
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be great there's so many outlets and so
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many opportunities and tools for you to
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use you know to do what you do
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independently man so just go after it
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all okay
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hey man jabari hey make sure you get the
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book jabari make sure you get the book
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he gonna answer your question in the
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book the story of amadeus and the beat
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goes on okay get that book your citizen
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jabari
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talk about persistent it's you know in
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the book you you you hear i'm i'm gonna
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let tracy and rich jump in i'm just
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proud of you about the book i read the
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whole uh pretty much all all the all the
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book from your childhood when your
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parents gave you a drum set and you know
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what she was doing but in the picture
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you have some nice jordans on i noticed
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that i didn't know if he was collecting
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uh when he was four years old i don't
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know how you got jordan's at that age i
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guess the parents gave it to you but i
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thought what i found interesting uh
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in the book too uh is the saying doors
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opens and doors closed
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and
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and
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you talk about when marshawn foxy's
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brother
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invited you to the studio and then you
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got placement on foxy brown's project
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was that your first placement
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yeah my first placement ever my first
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official placement ever yep so that that
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song it was cradled to the great which
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is the actual theme song and the song
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two the movie cradle to the grave you
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know that featured dmx uh rest in peace
14:23
and gabrielle union and anthony anderson
14:25
and dragon so it was featured in the in
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the movie and on the soundtrack and that
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was my first
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beat sold ever first placement first
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release
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i remember um going to fye
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and actually buying the cd and then
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seeing my name in the credits and then
14:42
going to the actual movie theaters
14:44
hearing the song play in the movie
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waiting to the end of the movie to roll
14:49
the credits to see my name in the
14:50
credits so that was
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you know my first placement and first
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experience ever and and man what a
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blessing for life to start out that way
14:59
as a producer you know what i mean
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what what what would you say is your
15:03
biggest placement you got what song did
15:05
the best for you
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um
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i would say between
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the espn first take theme song um it's
15:13
this i would say one of my biggest
15:15
moments i'm a big sports fan um you know
15:18
shout out to stephen a smith and bayless
15:21
and carrie champion which because that
15:23
was the original uh first take theme
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song that i produced and then it changed
15:27
when you know the host changed i think
15:29
max kellerman you know became on board
15:31
molly kirim came on board so i had i
15:33
have the theme song
15:35
for the last five five six years for
15:38
first take so comes on every day
15:40
multiple times a day everybody knows the
15:42
show a lot of the you know most of the
15:44
athletes watch the show and the fans so
15:46
that's a big moment
15:47
um
15:48
i gotta say
15:50
justin bieber christmas eve oh wow
15:53
that's a big that's a big yeah that's a
15:55
big moment because i you know christmas
15:57
eve comes around every year so it's like
15:59
mariah you know the mariah right
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you know so you're getting a check you
16:04
can check you can check what year was
16:06
that song uh recorded
16:09
uh christmas eve um i want to say that's
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a great
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question
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wrong yeah i'm gonna look it up i'm
16:16
gonna come back about how many years ago
16:20
definitely about six or seven maybe
16:22
longer come on this dude's getting
16:23
checked every year for the rest of his
16:25
life yeah come on man yeah man
16:28
well you know stuff like that and chris
16:29
brown actually wrote that song as well
16:31
so chris brown wrote it uh for justin
16:33
bieber so you got two of the biggest you
16:35
know r b and pop artists in the game on
16:38
that record together so that's you know
16:40
that's a that's another record and me
16:42
being from the bronx um you know i'm i'm
16:45
a pro
16:55
you know since we talk about the bronze
16:56
because you know you know bx represent
16:58
all day all day every time oh my god
17:04
you know you know it's always town
17:06
business so we talk about the home of
17:07
hip-hop business right now wow
17:10
damn isolated oakland please make it
17:12
clear come on
17:14
what's that so
17:15
so so aberdeen talk to us about how the
17:18
bronx played a part in in your musical
17:21
journey
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oh man big part you know like like you
17:24
said rich nice like it's the bronx is
17:26
the birthplace of hip-hop you know um my
17:29
parents music lovers you know so growing
17:31
up i heard michael jackson i heard the
17:32
bee gees i heard stevie wonder you know
17:35
what i'm saying uh uh furious five
17:38
mellie mel grandmaster cass i heard all
17:40
of those different artists and different
17:42
genres growing up in the house but for
17:45
me you know i gravitated towards hip hop
17:47
and it was very difficult because my
17:49
parents were both
17:51
very church you know church goers heavy
17:53
in the church they didn't really approve
17:55
of the profanity that was happening in
17:57
the music you know i was on wu-tang and
17:59
and and brand new being and krs-1 you
18:03
know what i'm saying and and though and
18:04
artists of that nature and it was like
18:06
no no no no so i had to sneak
18:09
to listen to
18:10
hip-hop so when it was time for me to go
18:12
to bed and i actually mentioned that in
18:13
the book time for me to go to bed i
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would take my walk man from beneath my
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pillow
18:18
and listen to my walkman until i fell
18:20
asleep at night and that's how i went to
18:22
sleep every night so when you talk about
18:24
hip hop and how influential it was it
18:26
was absolutely super influential like i
18:29
would pack bags at a supermarket and and
18:32
pull up to webster avenue just to go buy
18:34
the new cassette tape that came out or
18:36
that dropped that weekend you know so i
18:38
lived it breathe it never thought that i
18:41
would be a part of it never i never knew
18:43
i would be a producer and a musician and
18:46
it was just the school that my parents
18:48
was blessed to put me in which was a
18:50
catholic school and this catholic school
18:51
was saint augustine school of the arts
18:53
which i also mentioned in the book um
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and it was a part of the program for you
18:57
to learn an instrument so whether you
18:59
wanted to or not that was a part of the
19:01
program and you had a choice to choose
19:04
what instrument you wanted to learn now
19:05
i wanted to learn
19:07
either the saxophone or the trumpet but
19:09
i was absent on the day that selections
19:12
were made and then when i returned the
19:13
following day
19:15
those those slots were only all taken
19:17
and the only two slots available was for
19:19
violin and for percussion
19:22
now again in front of brooks from the
19:24
hood from the projects are from the nine
19:26
west city knife washington avenue now
19:28
one thing i was smart enough to do and
19:30
decide on i was not going to choose the
19:33
violet yeah no disrespect
19:36
no violence
19:45
i was already dressed up because it was
19:46
a catholic school so i was already in
19:47
school slacks a shirt and tie
19:50
and you're gonna add a violin case i was
19:52
already a target because of the what i
19:53
wore so imagine
19:56
so i was like stop it
19:57
yes so i'm like
19:59
whatever percussion is we're going to go
20:01
with that
20:03
so i chose percussion
20:04
showed him into the class and learned
20:06
that percussion had everything to do
20:07
with rhythm
20:08
and that was the start um so me falling
20:11
in love with hip-hop and then me
20:12
learning the drums and learning that the
20:14
beats in the groove and the rhythm had
20:16
everything to do with what i was
20:18
listening to it just kind of made sense
20:20
and that's how i fell in love with
20:21
production and even hip-hop even more
20:23
and decided that okay i'm going to go
20:25
full-fledged in regards to production
20:27
and musicianship and you know here we
20:29
are today so bx man bronx is everything
20:32
okay
20:34
the book is called the story of amadeus
20:36
and the beat goes on we got dynamite
20:38
willie on the line from indiana he has a
20:40
quick question for you dynamite willie
20:43
hey hey
20:44
come on man hey
20:46
hey hello yeah what up what's up what's
20:49
your question
20:50
hey what's up this is dynamite willie
20:52
and uh i just wanted to say uh first of
20:54
all thank you and uh i love y'all thank
20:56
you sweetheart because you actually
20:58
played an instrumental of mine when i
21:01
had called in and i told you that i was
21:03
pursuing what uh heather b had uh
21:05
advised me on and i just want to give an
21:07
update and tell y'all thank you because
21:09
i've been able to make money i've been
21:11
keeping going i've been doing
21:13
collaborations
21:14
and uh
21:15
and and i'ma dance and his words just
21:17
inspired me even more because i didn't
21:20
see it i didn't i didn't see this either
21:22
you know so i just want to say thank
21:24
y'all man and uh i just look forward to
21:26
you know keeping you you updated because
21:28
i just feel that you y'all so much a
21:30
part of me because i had called them to
21:33
tell heather b about a musical out of
21:36
body experience that i had and she said
21:38
hold on so you're not playing you're not
21:40
doing music she said hello that's what
21:42
you need to do
21:43
and figure out a way to do it and two
21:45
years two years in and i i'm just i just
21:48
feel so blessed to be able to to make
21:50
music that that people like you know so
21:53
yeah
21:54
man and i'll be listening to you amadeus
21:57
and uh thank y'all and i'm gonna go
21:58
don't get off of here peace and love
22:00
hey dynamite willie congratulations man
22:03
yeah
22:04
congratulations brother
22:06
and they get that book the story of
22:07
amadeus and the beat goes on brother all
22:09
right that's dude
22:11
yes sir thank you i will you're a
22:13
citizen man
22:15
let's go to jersey maine event is on the
22:17
line main event it's time for the main
22:19
event
22:21
what up man event grand rises
22:23
yo good morning swag god bless you man
22:25
morning to the uh good morning to the
22:27
show man my man amadeus is on there huh
22:29
yeah man yes sir
22:34
yeah man i just want to tell them i'ma
22:35
dance keep motivating man keep
22:37
motivating and elevating love what you
22:38
do it was an honor to give you one of
22:40
our magazine awards a couple of years
22:42
ago
22:44
my brothers
22:45
i'm a fan as well brother god bless you
22:47
man man i'm a fan listen mate maine is
22:49
being real humble man this is one of the
22:51
illest and one players
22:54
oh this man event
22:56
that's maybe good man oh man why are you
22:59
doing that man oh man
23:03
come on man i like it though he playing
23:05
low-key amadeus come on man he can't get
23:07
away with that he can't get away with
23:09
this no no no no no no no
23:14
talk about a mama day let's talk about
23:16
them man don't let them just you know
23:17
stay under the light
23:19
basketball legend basketball legend
23:22
y'all know who it is man main event and
23:24
one
23:25
amazing man
23:27
it's all about i'm a dance man it's
23:29
crazy uh we shared a lot of things on my
23:31
telly's new the youth that's coming up
23:33
now we didn't have all those things you
23:34
know um right god gave us everything
23:36
that we need to get what we want but we
23:38
was the one that was out there 10 toes
23:40
down when you hit 10 toes down we was 10
23:43
tons down because there was no social
23:44
media you know we had to go out there
23:46
and display our talents and amadeus did
23:48
his talents uh did my talents but like i
23:50
say man it's just a blessing to still be
23:52
relevant in 2021 looking forward to
23:55
2022. but with platforms like the
23:57
morning show sway yes um this is
23:59
important to have to let people know our
24:02
stories hands on from the horse's mouth
24:05
so when i heard that i'm because i'm
24:06
always listening to the show and i heard
24:08
i'm a dance i'm coming from a funeral
24:09
and i'm like oh well it's my first time
24:12
ever calling into a radio station ever
24:13
in my life
24:15
i wanted to pay homage oh man wow that's
24:18
what's up man
24:20
hey man we you know we i'm on that you
24:22
know that first n1 um
24:24
video mixtape
24:26
i actually got a chance to kick it off
24:28
so mainly vin and i you know we
24:29
collaborated in case y'all didn't know
24:32
man we're collaborators
24:34
yes
24:37
yeah yeah hey man
24:39
i appreciate the work you do too man you
24:41
you really transcended basketball it's
24:43
more than just a game you know people
24:45
work the work he's done in the community
24:48
uh
24:49
around kids even traveling you you know
24:51
you're you're a definite inspiration and
24:53
you're a great example main event and i
24:56
appreciate you calling in those words
24:58
from you man hey listen man i still got
25:00
some handles too man if you if you need
25:02
me for anything
25:03
let me know man oh hey hey hey sway hey
25:06
listen you know we are now the world
25:08
hearing your ways you know you gotta go
25:10
the next days of streetball blacktop
25:12
street ball association uh starting the
25:14
first ever professional uh streetball um
25:17
league so uh we better talk about that
25:19
but yo i'm gonna put you on i got a
25:21
jersey waiting for you okay man
25:23
come on man what's up you know it man
25:26
you know you know stephen curry plays in
25:28
the bay and when he developed that shot
25:30
you know i was already shooting it man
25:31
event what we talking about
25:33
my name spell my name right on the
25:35
jersey just spell my name right on the
25:37
jersey man wow
25:39
all right love you brother
25:46
man that's crazy main event y'all man
25:49
wow that's fire that dude is amazing
25:54
you look at this
25:55
right his highlight reel is amazing
25:58
um amadeus
26:01
tracy did you want to say anything else
26:02
yeah before amadeus goes you know we
26:04
have so many
26:06
i mean you've heard them when you've
26:07
been on the show before so many people
26:08
who are producers who are trying to
26:10
figure it out and one thing i notice is
26:12
um all of our citizens who are producers
26:15
they're super focused on working with
26:17
other with other artists which is more
26:20
than fine
26:21
but
26:22
because you were able to work with
26:24
brands you know and to create music for
26:27
television for movies that's a whole
26:29
other world that a lot of folks forget
26:31
about right you know that their art can
26:34
live yeah can can you speak about like
26:36
the different approaches you take when
26:39
it's something for a brand um versus a
26:43
personal brand a person you know an
26:45
artist and also maybe how someone can
26:47
start um
26:49
networking navigating that arena
26:54
right great question um so first uh it's
26:57
definitely two different approaches and
26:59
i like that you brought up that question
27:00
in regards to working with an actual
27:02
artist and working with a brand or a tv
27:05
network
27:06
most times the tv networks because they
27:08
have music directors as well um and it's
27:11
the music director's job to be creative
27:13
and to figure out ways or to decide the
27:16
type of music that they want to play
27:18
that they want played on the network um
27:21
for instance you know espn will call me
27:23
and say hey you know we need 15 beats
27:26
that you would send to like a little
27:27
wayne or two change right so that would
27:30
obviously be you know a lot of 808 trap
27:32
sound
27:33
you know that type of bounce right then
27:35
you know espn i know called me one time
27:37
and said hey we need you know tracks
27:39
that you would send to like this is a
27:41
while ago but tracks that you would send
27:42
to like a lupe fiasco you know what i'm
27:44
saying also then i would create waves or
27:47
vibes that you know pertain to those
27:49
artists so
27:50
tv they're pretty much they know what
27:52
they want they know the sound that
27:54
they're looking for and it's kind of
27:55
like either you have it or you don't um
27:58
you know me being in the game for so
28:00
long i've always i've always created and
28:02
created created so i would have beats
28:04
kind of like sitting around in my
28:05
computer
28:06
that fit all type of sounds and vibes so
28:08
i always had it ready to go um so that's
28:11
definitely a different way to approach
28:13
it in regards to connecting
28:15
with
28:16
you know tv companies and and film
28:18
companies that that handles like
28:20
licensing and sync
28:22
this i'm not going front it's very
28:23
difficult it's very hard um it's a who
28:26
you know type of situation um and it's
28:29
not easy getting in the door but again
28:32
you know the the the advantage that
28:35
everyone has today in maine talk about
28:37
it soon is
28:38
that you can reach out to people like
28:40
back then when i started that didn't
28:42
exist so i got introduced to the music
28:45
director at espn i got introduced you
28:47
know to a person that was handling the
28:49
music at 2k or madden and that's how i
28:53
got it you know what i'm saying so
28:55
nowadays this is about doing your
28:56
homework and doing research
28:58
and and following these companies and
29:00
following these companies that do sync
29:03
licensing and knowing who they are and
29:05
knowing who the anr guys and girls are
29:08
and connecting and sending them a dm and
29:10
sending them emails introducing yourself
29:12
as a musician and as a creator and that
29:14
you're interested in you know scoring
29:16
for music or radio or sprite or bt you
29:19
know that's that's that's definitely all
29:21
of those avenues are open but you got to
29:22
go look for it exactly just fall in your
29:24
lap
29:24
word all right man amadeus man thank you
29:28
brother this is a great conversation as
29:29
many years as we've known each other
29:31
in as many conversations as we've had
29:33
but this is um excellent
29:35
and it's a great way to you know great
29:37
gift citizens especially for your kids
29:40
absolutely this book the story the book
29:42
of the story of amadeus
29:45
and the beat goes on it's out now you
29:47
can get it at all streaming platforms uh
29:50
congratulations to you and your
29:52
co-authors of the book um well done
29:56
a lot of great pictures a lot of great
29:58
pictures you can say their names too
30:00
please say their names
30:01
yeah shout out to again to uh lynn
30:03
hopson and trina stackhouse man i
30:05
couldn't have done it without them and
30:07
and hops and publishing house for
30:09
publishing the book um and yes i
30:11
appreciate all support i'm off the truck
30:13
with the with the books you know i kind
30:14
of i'm not on amazon and and oh general
30:17
as of yet no
30:19
i wanted i want the people to come to me
30:21
i want i want them to feel the love like
30:23
i'm signing all of the books i'm writing
30:25
notes and all of the books i'm shipping
30:26
them out
30:27
directly from me to them i wanted to
30:29
feel that hustle i wanted to feel like
30:31
you know baby and slim from cash money
30:34
you know
30:36
i wanted that feeling so if you're
30:38
looking for a book you know message me
30:40
dm me on instagram uh my my igs amadeus
30:43
pbm ama d eus pbm i also have a facebook
30:48
answer on facebook message me i'm on
30:50
twitter producer amadeus message me you
30:53
know i'm i'm pretty quick and on point
30:55
with the messages you know so reach out
30:57
we'll get you a book it'll be signed
30:59
it'll come directly from me um and
31:00
that's how it's going down also before i
31:02
go us way um i'm going to be in jersey
31:05
tomorrow i want to give a big big shout
31:07
out um to the beacon of wellness john
31:10
day
31:11
speaks youth summit so we're doing a
31:13
book signing tomorrow
31:15
with over 100 kids um at the amc theater
31:19
in east brunswick so they're bringing me
31:21
out i'm gonna be signing 100 books to
31:23
give out to the kids and we're going to
31:25
do a q a um you know about the book and
31:29
the kids will also be gifted to see um
31:31
the spider-man movie which drops today
31:33
so i'm very excited about you know that
31:35
opportunity to give back to the kids
31:38
oh man keep being congratulations and
31:40
that's excellent gama day is always
31:42
working with the kids
31:43
uh once again get the book all you got
31:46
to do is order it go to amadeus p
31:49
b
31:49
m p as in paul
31:52
b as in brother him as in making money
31:55
amadeus pbm
31:57
follow that man my brother is making
31:59
money um
32:02
i love it hey happy holidays man we'll
32:04
talk soon okay you guys absolutely and
32:07
big shout out to kelly kincaid love you
32:08
kelly thank you for this opportunity man
32:10
i miss y'all so much and uh sure i love
32:12
i love what you're doing you know with
32:14
the artists and the cyphers and all of
32:16
that man and you know you know i'm going
32:17
to go digging in the crate
32:20
i'm going to dig up the heaters i was
32:22
out i was going to call you music
32:24
director yes you are i always go call
32:26
you you talk about overtime we need them
32:28
beats kid you know there's so many mc's
32:31
lining up to do it now so
32:33
um we gonna need those beats because we
32:34
want to we want to feature producers in
32:36
mc's you know so we got it all right my
32:40
man amadeus love you brother
32:54
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