K'Luv aka The Go

Strap in for a symphony of stories as we welcome the extraordinary K' Luv aka THE GO Musician, Producer, Controllerise OG from the heart of Atlanta's music scene, to share his melodic journey from a trumpet-toting teen to a beat-making maestro. This episode is a rich tapestry woven with the sounds of a life dedicated to music, stitched together by family, cinematic scores, and an unshakable community spirit. K'Luv aka THE GO takes us on a tour through the influences that have shaped his unique sound, from the soulful Ohio music scene to the gritty grind of Atlanta, where every beat tells a story.

From early excitement over beat contests that push the envelope to the joy of an E-40 placement, this session pulses with the vibrant heart of an artist's milestones. We talk about how the evolution of technology has enhanced creativity and fostered connections within the beat-making community. K'Luv aka THE GO opens up about the challenges and soul-searching that come with putting your art out into the world, reminding us that it's the passion and individuality behind the music that truly makes it shine.

The episode crescendos as we pay homage to the artists who ignited our creative sparks—Prince's electrifying presence, the boundary-pushing sounds of progressive rock, and the innovative spirit of early electronic music. K'Luv aka THE GO recounts how these legends have influenced his current projects, including 'FreeDem Music' and 'StyTnd Vol. 1,' , 'A Wonky Wonderland(Season 1) and the profound impact they've had on his approach to crafting beats. Tune in for a session that's as much about the love of music as it is a nod to the power it has to inspire, heal, and bring people together.

Intro Music: "Rinse & Repeat" from Rinse & Repeat by Pootie & Nothing_Neue (Available Here)
Featured Music: Music from K'Luv aka THE GO's Discography (Available Here)
Social for K'Luv aka THE GO: @kluvakathego
Website: https://linktr.ee/kluvakathego

Tap into Controllerise: @Controllerise

Transcript

Speaker 2: 0:01

What does that sound, you ass?

Speaker 3: 0:11

Welcome to the Rec Show podcast, a show dedicated to beat makers around the world. Kick back, relax with the host, golden Mind.

Speaker 4: 1:16

Mechanized suits transforming into hot whips. Get brain-duded maneuvering in them. Cockpits Cool if she dumb intelligent. Still an option Brand been established. Working out the cabin, everything scheduled, eating up off my passion, foods of my labor, savored heavy accents Readin' me shit be wow Wavin' back lit. Catch Poo-D out in Dublin, money Dublin inside counting machines. Hear them shufflin' acid mate chandelier. Gleam Off the fungus, stay 700. Stay on the run, shit. Stay where the Wi-Fi good beats comin', fuck it.

Speaker 4: 1:52

I record myself. Need nothin' Merge gettin' made. I'm pickin' out what I fuck with. Put it out the fun shit reinvestin' my duckets. If I'm out in public, probably chasing hundreds. If I'm inside gettin' cheese, gettin' blunted, gettin' in songs right when I'm comfy Kicking up quick. I turn a nigga to lunch me Spit some shit, get paid livin' lovely.

Speaker 4: 2:16

Every year price go up, no cash, yeah, it's wild supply. Last real cash Soon to be diesel pedals gettin' smashed, switches got hit, droves slanted on the ad them boys, try hards, never try ours. Guns all registered train, same bennards, five-star surveillance, state of the art, play some fragrant ride. A couple bars, lights, some sage, open windows and doors. Flights out to proc check bitches' floors, different women in different rooms, mad floors, business, still business. See glow cars. Maximize profits. Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat. Maximize profits. Rinse and repeat Everyday double low, double low e-mail. Maximize profits. Rinse and repeat. Negerance and repeat. See glow cars. Rinse and repeat. Maximize profits. Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat. And we rinse and repeat Business, still business. See glow cars Every other day, double low e-mail. Every day. Double low e-mail. I will blow a nail. I'll be a bitch man. Come on, none of the precious. I ain't like the clothes of scratch man.

Speaker 2: 3:57

Shout out to Dilla Dilla. Dog.

Speaker 1: 3:59

Dilla Dog, the reppin' the wrong. You know what I mean. Yeah. Midwest guy, you know what I'm saying. Like every four plays all that. You know what I mean. Two on three to three, three-oh, so we do yeah you know what I'm saying yeah, that's a shit show.

Speaker 2: 4:14

So let's get it, man. Let's get it to it, man. So listen yo. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the very first interview episode of the Rex show podcast, season four. Man, I'm your host, goldie Mind man. This is season four, man 2024.

Speaker 2: 4:34

So I thank y'all for tapping in with us taking off or, you know, sharing it, liking it, subscribing all that jazz man, thank you for supporting Yo. Man, last year was crazy. So if you haven't listened to season one, season two, season three, tap into the archive, man. They're going to be there forever. You know what I mean, for the aliens can come, they can listen to them too. The galaxies can listen to the interviews and stuff like that today. So, and also check out the last two episodes, episode 114 and 115. Those are my end of the year beat tapes or instrumental albums of 2023. So I did the first one and there was so much dope music I had to come back and do a second, second joint man.

Speaker 2: 5:20

So y'all tapping it at wherever you get podcasts, but yo, let's get into today's guest man. Yo, today we are going to Atlanta by way of Kent, in Ohio, man, this guy has been doing this thing for a while, man, I've been a fan, a personal fan for a couple of years. You know he's on a koala man. He's, you know, on the SPZ he's doing he's all over the all over the map when it comes to production, but he's a musician, first beatmaker, yummy music producer, sound crafter, beat geek, whatever you want to say, man.

Speaker 2: 5:59

He's a fourth of the brothers committee, and if y'all know who that is, we're going to get into that during the interview, man, but we also got he's a member of the controllerized mod. If y'all know what the controllerized is, and if you live in Atlanta, you should smack yourself, man, because yo, they've been doing some crazy stuff with controllerized, and they just got back doing the thing in house and kind of like this arcade open kind of business, flea market type of thing is, though, that the energy I see online is crazy man. So he's a part of that man. I mean you ought to just recognize that, but yo, let's give it up for the one and only K lover, aka the go Welcome to the show.

Speaker 1: 6:50

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo yo. What's up? Y'all what's up? Yeah, we're in the building with the golden one, what's that? Glad to hear from you, bro, glad to hear from the community what's happening.

Speaker 2: 7:03

Absolutely, man. Yo, welcome Yo. Finally, I get to chop it up with you, man. They don't even know that you the first episode of the 2024. So say, it's real.

Speaker 1: 7:13

Hey man, that's real in the field. Man Just grateful to be here. You know what I'm saying. Blessings to everybody. You know what I'm saying. I hope everybody's doing well. Bless yourself, brother. You've been grinding my man. See you out here. You know what I mean. Let's get it.

Speaker 2: 7:31

Man, I appreciate it. Man, listen, it's yummy, it's for us. You need to pull it back some, so when they don't see me online, that's what I'm pulling the best family time. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 7:50

Hey, man, you got to get the grind in whenever you can get it and everything else, and do the best at it that you can. You know what I mean. It's all good.

Speaker 2: 7:58

Exactly, man. So, yo, man, I only gave them, I only gave the Internet a little bit of you know who you are. But for those that don't know, they need to slap themselves right now, but after this they're going to go tap into your discography and the websites and all that jazz man. But for those that don't know who you are, the beatheads that don't know who you are, can you just let them know, like, where did you go? How did you come up with K-Lover, AKA the Go? You know, like, how long you been making beats, and we'll get into some more stuff after that, though.

Speaker 1: 8:36

Hey, man, that's cool. You know what I'm saying. I'm glad you asked that question, fam. I started out man, beyond the situation. I can't know how. You know what I mean. It was a thing of like, traditionally that was like a jazz musician and stuff like that, with the trumpet stuff, and the self-taught drummer grew up in a musical home. That was a multi-talented musician.

Speaker 1: 9:00

Mother was a great singer, and then got family members and stuff that are predominant musical people and stuff like that and so, like you know, brothers, aunts, uncles, you know staying everything else, and so it was kind of like a musical confab of like family thing and that was kind of like what we live by for the most part and you know I'm saying it was just kind of like it was just a way of life for the most, for the most man. You know I'm saying I really got. I really dug deep into production, I think in my early teen years, like my, when I became like 17, 18 years old kind of thing, and that's kind of when I started like really delving into beats, Like there was there was movies out like like Belly, and like when you had the roots like things from a Park album and Nori, the Nori and REE album and all in my deep stuff and all the biggie stuff and everything else. I was really. I was really intrigued on the way of production and how are these guys doing this stuff with like beats and stuff like that? I'm like I'm seeing my brother. I have a brother that was known in the music community and stuff like that. I've done stuff for like a lot of, a lot of notable artists and stuff like that and I was around that. I was around that situation and I was always trying to be like close to that and like try to understand like where they were going with it.

Speaker 1: 10:40

And then I ended up inheriting it and then, like my cousin, shockingly enough, that was in town.

Speaker 1: 10:48

Hey, you know, I'm saying South to show star media, me and him and myself, where we're paying a lot of attention to a lot of light with my brother, and then we're doing and we kind of like develop the thing to where this is kind of like we wanted to start doing beats too, and like my brother kind of put me up on game and stuff, even though me being a Jeff, which is like, hey, look, man, you doing the trumpet stuff and that's cool and everything else.

Speaker 1: 11:15

You need to really get into this production game. And I'm like, oh, production, what is that? You know what I'm saying? Just kind of showing me the ropes on it and it's like started on the in Sonic in March 61 and everything else, man. And then we just started kind of building back home in Ohio and it was like during the time we're like bone thugs and honey and stuff. They were hitting girl heavy. There was a lot of notable people that was around and was doing stuff and then so it became a thing, and then just really kind of gotten booked into it.

Speaker 1: 11:51

And then there was a car scene. If anybody knows about Stalee and stuff like that, there was a car scene back then too. So we just kind of like intricate it the car scene and like that type of music to where it's just like, if you make it beats and stuff like that and everything, you need to make some stuff that like smack in the whip. If it didn't smack in the whip, you weren't doing that, he wasn't doing that.

Speaker 1: 12:17

It's like it's got a smack in the whip man and what is like making the word smack in the whip, but then you put a positive message out there and it was like it was working out. So I mean, that's kind of where it started on. We listened to a lot of stuff Northeast Ohio, mostly rock based, you know I'm saying, and so we listened to a lot of different stuff, man. But yeah, that was kind of like the start. You know, start a few gospel stuff. You know I'm saying my mom was like a, you know I'm saying choir director, gospel singer who pops, was like a multi talented musician, that kind of thing. We kind of just grew up with like a lot of early 60s, 70s, like early 80s stuff, that kind of thing. But I'm sure we'll get into that Wow.

Speaker 2: 13:03

Wow, man, shout out to your mom and dad, your brother, man, putting you on too, man, yeah, I can't go no further without saying, you know me, happy birthday to your moms, you know?

Speaker 1: 13:17

Oh man, I appreciate it. Man, she's gonna love that this is the best birthday she ever had.

Speaker 4: 13:23

Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 13:24

Thank you for that man. I appreciate that.

Speaker 2: 13:29

My mom's man, yo, because yo man, life is fast man. So you guys, you got to love them while we got them. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 13:37

Yeah, for sure, for sure. Hey, man, it's great. It's the most beautiful thing in the world.

Speaker 2: 13:43

Yeah, man, so okay. So you got, man. Trumpet is my. You know what I mean? I love the trumpet. I grew up playing the trumpet. Awesome, you know what I'm saying? I still haven't got, I still got to get one. But, man, what was it about the trumpet that you like that drew you to it?

Speaker 1: 14:07

The soul of, like, the things that you can do with three valves, man, and the ways you can go with it within your, your, your creative ability of it's. It's basically it was basically pushing yourself. And see, I was a huge fan of Miles Davis and like Lee Morgan and a lot of those guys and stuff like that man with a lot of different fusion jazz before Miles Davis became fusion jazz and I was cool with like the straight ahead stuff and it was just a thing that was like I think the movie Mobile Blues inspired me a lot. I see, like that inspired me a lot. And then, like, like I said, the same brother was like hey, man, you need to play the trumpet. And then I have an uncle that's, that's a normal saxophonist and I was never a hit to the saxophone, too tough I could play it.

Speaker 1: 15:16

But the trumpet to me it felt a certain type of way man to where it's just kind of like it spoke to my identity, as much as I want to admit it. Like between that and drumming the trumpet, it was a way of expression. And then once I, once I actually embraced it and everything else, it felt like a part of my being. It felt like a part of my being and then I just took it on from there and it's then took me levels to where awards, medals you know what I'm saying Certain recognition, accolades, everything else I'm grateful and I'm proud to have achieved from hardworking, dedication man, and I wouldn't take like those experiences, man, I wouldn't take them for granted for anything in the world. I really wouldn't.

Speaker 2: 16:18

Wow, wow. Yeah. See, this is why we have these cards, Because nobody else would have known Like you and I are an accomplished trumpeter, Like oh man. Okay, so those three vowels. Here's the thing about the trumpet, Because I grew up in band with the three vowels, but then in church we had a bugle that didn't have any vowels.

Speaker 1: 16:46

Clacks Right. So yeah, yeah, that part.

Speaker 2: 16:50

So I was like, I was so like drawn to. I'm like yo, how am I able to blow what I want to blow? And I don't have any vowels with this. And now, and you know what I mean, like it was just, I was just mind blowing as a kid I think I was, maybe, you know, 12, 13. I'm just like yo, this is amazing. And then I started getting into hip hop and everything like that. So then it was like, wow, because hip hop back in the day and it still is but they were all about jazz, they was about jazz Clacks, you know what I mean, stuff like that. So you hear all of the live instrumentation and stuff like that. So, like, was that? Was that the same for you when you were, you know, just around listening to music and then this here in the trumpet everywhere.

Speaker 1: 17:38

Definitely definitely make this like okay, so you, you was a church cat, like the same as I was, and like when you first started out with music and everything else.

Speaker 1: 17:49

It's like I don't know if it was the same experience for you, but I started out with a kazoo, oh, wow, and, and then I moved up to a harmonica and then I got on the trumpet and then I started learning self-taught drums, so yeah, and then thinking from there, but it was like it was more of a feeling, it was more of a feeling man during those times and stuff like that. And then like, see, without telling my age, and stuff like that, I grew up in the era of I had a best friend that was like stayed around the corner for me, like literally across the street for me one of my best friends, Salisle Eland Johnson. You know what I'm saying? He was, he was a piano player, organist, kid, and so he would, he would be playing and stuff like that at his home. Meanwhile, we had like a whole music store, like right around the corner back home and we would like listen to like a lot of the hard rock guys sitting there riffing and stuff like that and everything else, and we'll just be outside playing.

Speaker 1: 19:03

And here those rock guys playing and stuff with guitars and drums and everything else, hair band type stuff. But they have different melodies and we would never think about it. As kids we were in, mind you, this is like we're like five years old, six years old, something like that, right, and so we're like, hey, man, that sounds really cool and we would try to intricate that into when we go to church and kind of, if it was melodic or if it was, it was, you know, I'm saying drum-wise we would try to intricate that into the church move and at them times. And you, hey, if you're a church cat, you know we weren't allowed to play that type of stuff.

Speaker 2: 19:48

No.

Speaker 1: 19:52

We weren't allowed to play that type of stuff but we split it off. But it was a fun move into where now today is pretty common and so like that's kind of where I got the inspiration from. Like I listened to a lot of, a lot of Phil Collins, genesis the police was always around a lot of like Toto and a lot of the old school stuff back in the days and everything else that were like the pop, the pop music vibe, and that's what kind of drew the inspiration. Then me and my brothers, you know I'm saying we would sit there and be like watching movies and stuff to, and we were getting inspiration from that. And then it transcended towards the site OK, we want to make this musical then and we just made a musical, that's all. And it transitioned to, like you know our cousins that you know we're cool with everything else, man and it became a thing.

Speaker 1: 21:04

That's what we live by.

Speaker 2: 21:06

Wow, Wow, man Like that. Those experiences are priceless and I'm pretty sure you still pull from those experiences when you're creating today. Right?

Speaker 1: 21:19

Oh, for sure, For sure, like it's the greatest thing, because that's why I love our beat making community and I watch everything and I see what everybody's doing and I get, I get inspired from, like all the new creators, man, even though I might not come out and say it, I pay attention to a lot of stuff, man and like everybody is like just heading on it, man, and I love it.

Speaker 1: 21:49

I love it. I was, I was just what DJ Rehanda today and we were talking about, like you know, the way how the beat community has progressed and everything else, to where there was a time where it was stagnant, but now it wasn't stagnant in a bad way, but like how stuff used to be in the mid to late 90s and early 2000s, to where it is now, to where it is. This is kind of like very, very open and it's really freaking cool man. It's really cool Like shadows to D B O C man, like shadows to Merrick man for creating koala. You know saying much love, much love to my man's, uh, much love to my man's man, like koala be cast.

Speaker 2: 22:42

You know I'm saying Remy Z yeah.

Speaker 1: 22:45

Yeah, oh, remy, man, remy is my guy man, Like all of us, all of us together, man, and it's like that's what it's all about these days. You know what I'm saying and I really, I really love this community. I really love it. I really love it. Like everything that we're doing is it's like the best thing in the world. I'm sorry, man, I, you know, I ramble sometimes. It's cool, it's cool. I'm very happy about it. Yeah, man, it's cool.

Speaker 2: 23:12

Yo, we need to be happy about these things, man. It's just progression. You know what I mean. Things. Technology is opening up so many different things, man, and connected us even more. Like you you, if you watch the news, it'd be a yoist. Technology is tearing us apart, it's doomsday situations and stuff like that. But if you know, you pull back and coming back into the beat community, it's connecting us. Yeah, I mean we able to communicate, we able to have, you know, con beat contest. You know what I mean, Like they did with. You know that Remy hosted and Dibi Asti hosted. You know what I mean, when it was Koala versus SP and MPC versus machine.

Speaker 1: 23:58

Hey man Yo yes.

Speaker 2: 23:59

Yes.

Speaker 1: 24:01

Hey yo, the first one was so freaking crazy. The second one was even nuts, it was even more crazy. The first one, though, that was like that trial period, man yo, that that right there was, that was a, that was a maneuver man, you know what I'm saying. A lot of people like I know this, I know this at all, man, Like some people type into it Golden, but like that first one man, that was something special. Yeah. Yeah, that first one was something special.

Speaker 2: 24:37

Man, it was so wrong. Man Like yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, my gosh man, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1: 24:45

Yo, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2: 24:47

Team Machine had to snatch it from you all you know what I'm saying. Like hey, you know what?

Speaker 1: 24:53

It's not even about the victories and everything else. It's all because everybody Linko and everybody and like dude and know each other and link up with each other man. Yeah, that's the ultimate goal, man, but it's always cool to have like that, you know, I'm saying that spirit of competition.

Speaker 2: 25:13

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we tell you it's iron cypress, iron man, exactly. Exactly, yo, if we wasn't inspired you know what I mean Before doing the contest and yo, like I don't know what's going to inspire you, bro, because everybody got the same sample and you had to flip. Like, come on, man, like there's people flip that thing multiple ways and never the same. Yo, for sure.

Speaker 1: 25:45

Oh, by the way too, by the way too, don't tell nobody. There's something, there's something else coming, that's coming soon. Can't talk about it Like for a couple Now, even more. Uh-oh, uh-oh, stay tuned. Y'all stay on your dolls, y'all stay on your dolls and y'all stay on your stuff. That y'all do and be the best that you can be added.

Speaker 2: 26:13

Ew, oh see the premiere. You got a little taste, you got a little teaser. You know something coming, man, y'all better tap in man, yo man, you just never know, you just never, know, there's some things that's a foot that you just never know. Oh man, All right. Yeah, I don't even know what it is and I'm excited. What?

Speaker 1: 26:37

Just hey, just imagine. Whatever it is that you use, that's good for you, master it and be great at it. And then just so long to those that want to learn. And that's just as simple, right? It don't matter about the equipment, it's all in the mind, man.

Speaker 2: 26:58

Exactly the man or the woman behind the machine and that's exactly, yeah, okay, so yo, man, we can get all that. Yo I got to talk to you about, um, because you know we got a lot of young, brand new beat makers, musicians and composers coming into the, coming into the fold. Oh, for sure, For sure.

Speaker 2: 27:23

I wanted to ask you about, um, you know, like when, when did you think you were ready to put out your music so people, can, you know, listen to it? Like, what was that experience? Like what was that, that journey like?

Speaker 1: 27:40

Man, um, I think I got, I pretty much got comfortable, I'm gonna honestly say, because I'm with a lot of pitfalls, man. Um, I had to, I had to sit there and and do a lot of soul searching on things and everything else, man, and, um, it's honestly, it told me a minute. It told me a minute is like I had been sitting there and producing beats since like like 1999, 2000 ish per se, and that's where I was kind of like learning things. Salislam, my cousin, black cloud and you know, saying the homie are dub. We were doing stuff back in those days and everything else, man, like even with like music generator and all that other stuff. And you know, I'm saying Salislam, my cus show store, media again, um, we were, we were figuring out things, but I was super duper hardware about stuff and it took a minute to kind of really kind of like fill out stuff for years, man, until it kind of came to fruition. Um, it didn't really hit. To be honest with you, like I was, I want to say I was like I started at like around 20, but it didn't really hit my mouth until, like I became like 20, but then it really started ramping up once I got the um.

Speaker 1: 29:21

Once I got the placement with like E 40 and Yuck mouth and sleep day and and that happened, that happened like 2013. Wow, so it took. It took a minute, man, it took a minute, but you know what I'm saying. There's other stuff along the way that that was going on, but like once I got that E 40 placement and stuff like that and um, that pretty much kind of filled in a lot of stuff and everything else Granted, like with brothers committee tells uh, my guy, bro, uh, who me? You know what I'm saying. We were doing battle circuit stuff and everything else for a minute and it just seemed like it wasn't quite hitting per se. And then so I started ended up being like on um, I started being a brand rep for for I stand or if, if anybody knows about I stand or you know why do I remember that?

Speaker 1: 30:25

Um, he was came out of that I said oh, that's um everybody, that's that.

Speaker 2: 30:32

Oh, mine was in that too. Oh yeah. Yeah, okay, yeah, uh huh.

Speaker 1: 30:39

All those guys. They hatched the homie says all them and it was like it was the ice standard thing, that kind of. Really it started Well, not so much kickstart, but like it is extremely pushed the maneuver of like all right, let's start doing the stuff and producers that are producers start linking with each other. And then next thing, you know, it's like it made. It made me mess, running up my game on stuff, and then that's how I end up starting getting placements. You know I'm saying. And then you know I'm saying what, what, what? Talk about the ladder part of that that benefited from that. You know I'm saying, or however else, but yeah that's pretty much how it started.

Speaker 1: 31:28

Man like um Was was in New York 2011 with at Sony at 550, madison and everything else, man, and there was a lot of stuff that was going on. Man, we're like production stuff, man, and you know I'm saying it's like sometimes you just living, you learn and then go to school and learn stuff and and do better and that's it. And then For the, for the, for the young generation, everything else, man don't, don't be um, don't be against learning new things and Vietnam, knowledge or stuff there. If you have to learn schooling and stuff like that man guy and take, take the advantage of doing it.

Speaker 1: 32:13

You know it's okay, nobody's gonna fault you for it, but I, I Honestly push Everybody. Lose our everybody knowing like music theory, learning music theory and picking up an instrument and actually being cool instrument and knowing the instrument so it can work to your, your benefit. That's it. You know, I'm saying you don't have to always be on the instrument, but as long as you're nice at it and everything else, it opens up doors for all other like all other Other stuff that you can do. That's all. Yeah, I can go on and on and on about that, but yeah, yeah, yeah man.

Speaker 2: 32:57

So I here's a, here's a just a random question what would you say so far in your career? Because you know you just scratching the surface on your career, but what would you say? You are like a couple or a few of your key milestones when it comes to you know your musical journey.

Speaker 1: 33:21

Man, that e40 placement was pinnacle. That was pinnacle. That was pinnacle at the time that I got it. It was pinnacle. And there was other stuff that I got On top of South. You know saying much, letting that drape. You know saying this in peace Um, you know, say, south suburbia. That was a very pinnacle point in my life Because of the fact of a lot, of, a lot of my hard work and dedication and stuff like that. It seemed like it made sense. After that point, it made a whole lot of sense. I did things in 2010 and everything else.

Speaker 1: 34:13

Some of my work has been copied. I won't mention the name and I'm gonna put people out there like that. I'm not that type of guy, but this it's a known cut that I've created and I just want to know my stuff and so that's why I tell you know I'm saying up and cumbers and stuff like that, be about your business and everything was because you just never know, man, I Took a L on that one and it's all cool it, but it was a learning experience. I Took my, I took my butt to school. I learned what I need to learn South SAE, atlanta Institute. You know I'm saying and and that's pretty much be good people with everybody, man, and, and, and the main thing about it is Without with within all this stuff and everything else and this, this art and craft that we love and Love and endure, and everything else Never with people and just be open to ideas. Be open to ideas, man. You just never know. Everybody don't know it off. You know. I'm saying even, even, even, even being older, and stuff like that and everything else. You know everything. You know.

Speaker 1: 35:33

I'm saying sometimes it'd be some of the young generation mess around and you know, say it be the young teenagers and Upcomers and stuff like that that put you up on game or stuff. But I will say, young teenagers, up a cumbers, start great digging again, great diggin. It's fine, that's. I Can't stress it enough. You'll be surprised of what you research instead of research and social media so much. Go on them crates, start going to these record stores, see what you can find, look, look at certain things or whatever else, and you'll be surprised of some of your favorite artists.

Speaker 1: 36:20

The part of stuff that that they were a part of that you that were popular lies Well before we got popular and that was some of their best work a lot of the time, like I just had a conversation about this earlier today. I'm like Phil Collins, for instance, before using Genesis, oh man, he was in a whole another group that he crushed. That a lot of people have no idea and I won't even say it on the podcast. I won't say it. I won't say who the band is this? That's up. We want to know. No, yeah, I got big for that one I got big for that one.

Speaker 1: 37:11

I got big for that one. But it's a heat, though fire Y'all gonna hear. Y'all gonna hear some of it. I'm gonna soon. But there's some stuff in there anything else for a lot of your artists that you appreciate and everything else that y'all love, that they were in the Primary groups, that were in the forefront, that they were in other bands and stuff like that. There were other bands that they were at actually at their best and that's how they ended up in those bands that you know about. And yeah, man, like, for instance Now this is a gem I'll give, this is a gem I give gold mine. This gem I give, I'll give this one up, I'll give this one.

Speaker 2: 38:01

Drumroll please.

Speaker 1: 38:05

But shout Sadella Dilla month. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go. Yeah, man, stuart Copeland If you guys have ever listened to anything of staying from the police and everything else, we Sir Stuart Copeland. He was the drummer for them. He has a nice history. I'll leave you with that.

Speaker 2: 38:32

The word Copeland everybody. Yes go ahead and search that up.

Speaker 1: 38:37

Yeah, and he had a. He had a. He had a group. There was a trio with him, stanley Clark if those who know Stanley Clark, the guy that did the sound score for a boys in the hood yeah, yeah, he had a whole group with them and a female singer, chick. That was really really good. But yeah, they had a whole group and, as it's official, so that's a gem I will get. But Stanley Clark, man, mind you, stanley Clark also was the sound score for a passenger. 57 with With what she says yeah, Yo, Yo man.

Speaker 2: 39:23

Okay yo, Stuart Copeland. Yo, I was gonna give it to him right now, but yeah, let me just, Let me let you, let me let y'all, let me let y'all dig man. You know K lovers, right man, yeah, y'all got dig for this.

Speaker 2: 39:40

Wow man, nice dude man Wow yeah okay, okay, so you know you doing, you know well, first of all, let's go back to you know the, the placement that you got, which was a game changer for you. But in the middle of you know, before that happened, and you were going through all of those situations, what, what, what would you attribute to you pushing, continuing to push forward and Not give up on? You know, I mean what you believe in, what your dream and your pursuits, what, what would you attribute that to?

Speaker 1: 40:27

I Love the music man, the love the music. My um mom, my mom, always supported me on stuff and my father you know that rest his soul Always stayed on me About stuff. You know, sam, my brothers, my brothers, always did the same thing too. It's kind of like even my whole family, we, we always moved by, we moved our lives by music soundtrack somehow some way. You know I'm saying it's like if I'm walking down the street I have a Sound score in my head.

Speaker 1: 41:15

You know I'm saying even from skateboarding. It's just a thing for my family. You know I'm saying on both sides. You know I'm saying Do have a cousin not sitting a bragging, but I have a cousin that's Grammy award winning artist and she moves the same, she moves the same way and but we're just all pretty much like even killed About stuff. But this like it's a way of life, man, when you love, when you love the art that you've, you've been blessed with and everything else, the art is in the job. It's just, it's a part of you. And so, even even when you want to give it up sometimes and you feel defeated, yeah, you can't give it up cuz it's part of you.

Speaker 2: 42:11

Maybe I cut your arm off.

Speaker 1: 42:13

you understand yeah exactly so you just got to go in, man, he's just. You know what, whenever you feel like, oh man, I'm not enough, you go harder, pause. You know I'm saying you just go harder, man. You know I'm saying Everybody ain't gonna like you. You know I'm saying everybody gonna accept you. But for those that do you know, I'm saying you do it for them and you do it for yourself.

Speaker 1: 42:40

And you love that and you love it and you embrace it and you share it to the world, and that's, that's the ultimate goal, man, you know that's all to make a hole. I.

Speaker 2: 42:55

Think I think a lot of people miss that what you just said, which was you know, if you love it, it's not really a job. But then also, you know, if you not, everybody's gonna like you, make it. You know I'm saying make it for those, hey, you like it. If you like it, alright, share it. Some people are gonna mess with it, some people not, but Don't pay attention to the ones that Don't like it, cuz it's a lot of people that could, that are looking at you but they ain't saying nothing. They take notes.

Speaker 2: 43:31

Yeah so, but they, they like, yo, damn like he, he or she is really doing anything man Like, but they don't want to say they don't want to give that to you. You know, I mean, but it's people that are supporting you, the ones that that do say, yo, this album is fire, or you know, I love what you did with this song, or this song is my, you know, wake-up song, or you know, whatever it may be, whether it's art or whatever, I Know you're the ones that, those are the ones that are important, because those are the ones that understand it.

Speaker 1: 44:03

They're they're not thinking from a mainstream aspect of it, they're thinking from like a connection aspect of it. It's a connection thing, man. You know I'm saying it's like Take, like take the artist, but separate the artist from the art. Hmm, if you, if you dig the art, rock with the art, you know I'm saying it is what it is. You know I'm saying it like hey, look man, spatially it might seem like, oh man, let's do this tough, but at the same time though, it's like it's tough for a reason, because it's got cares, cares about people. You know I'm saying, and the one thing I strive on, and why I've always strived on in all of my productions and any of my projects, if people would actually take the time to pay attention To all the artwork. By the way, hey, love 330, dot bandcamp, dot Cal.

Speaker 2: 45:04

Oh tap in yeah, we go get into that, yeah, you know I'm saying guys, go plug it again. I had to, man, I had to I had to.

Speaker 1: 45:13

I had to, but not the music, the music Cality, part of it, like my, the production that I do and everything else. It tells the story. It speaks to the common man, it speaks to the common person, it speaks to the common woman. You know, I'm saying it speaks to everybody, to where it's just like you fill in some type of way or whatever else. If you don't speak, the fact that you don't talk, that's okay. There's music that speaks for you. You know, I'm not a huge talker, I'm really not. I'm not a huge vocalist type cat, even my, my son. I have a 17 year old son. 17 year old son, uh, south pokie, christian Christian Nicholas Stokes. What's up? Yeah, what's up yeah?

Speaker 1: 46:06

Yeah, you know I'm saying baby boy, a little cake, a little love. You know I'm saying like my son, he, you know, I mean he's, he's one of those guys, he's really into the car stuff and he's a tello player also and he don't really talk too much. So it's like when you make music and stuff like that you take, when you're especially, you're creative, like yourself, golden, it's like you already know why it is, bro, like you don't technically make music just for yourself, you make music technically for months that technically can't speak for themselves, but they Speak for themselves artistically. That makes it easy sense, that makes sense.

Speaker 1: 46:49

You know I'm saying it's like a man, everybody good at voicing certain things. They move by action and and that's fine. And if you're doing that, do that. You know I'm saying cuz there's nothing wrong with it and must got you back, kind of thing. You know I'm saying my fault, my fault, but I ain't know I sometimes I can go off the beaten path, hey.

Speaker 2: 47:13

I stopped. I stopped you Because we need this man. You know me, like yo, we need somebody, need to hear this, obviously. So, yo, I'm gonna just let it rock, man Yo, speaking of Speaking, of Making music, you know me, for you know for sure for everybody I Gotta talk to you about.

Speaker 2: 47:39

Well, I'm gonna ask you about this question and we're gonna get into your own music, the music that inspired you. I know one of the one of the no, you already named a few groups or individuals, miles, davis, and cast like that. What. Who really like If you had to? Is there one Beat or one song, or maybe a couple beats or a couple songs that when you heard it, it really just flipped a switch and just you know, me was like yo, this is so far like I want to do this, or just blew your mind. You know and you, and it still resonates to this day.

Speaker 1: 48:25

I Don't really man that seat. For me that's a tough one, because One one song off the top of my head. But then I have. I have Innovator. That really inspired me. But before that innovator came in, I had one person. Hey, i'ma tell you who that one person is. Are you all ready for it? Ready we? Ready. Prince pop life. Hey, prince, prince has always been like my go to, always Prince that pop life. Everybody get you down.

Speaker 1: 49:17

Prince always been one of my favorites, always, yeah, prince, anything Prince has has done growing up, because my mom was a huge Prince fan. Yeah, my too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like my mom was a heavy Prince fan, like his, my mom and so started media as mom, they, sisters, they. They went to a snowstorm to go see Prince at Kent State University back in the day in the 70s.

Speaker 1: 49:47

So it was like Prince and that's what we know. But like Prince was like my oh, he was my guy, even with take me, with yeah, oh, and all that like his musicality, the musicality of Prince and everything else. I took that on like I remember being a kid going to the music, going to the movie theater and seeing Purple Rain and seeing it first hand, even through the quote, unquote, new parts. Yeah, because I'm only a swine, excuse me.

Speaker 1: 50:23

I believe that yeah, but yeah, but no, the movie is like no the music the musicality part of it, man, like just how that whole situation was and everything else, man, it's like the musicality of it. I was always like a Prince cat. Stevie Wonder was a was a great influence. Obviously I was a huge field college in a city. Obviously I was a huge field college Genesis fan, george Duke, a lot, a lot of jazz stuff, a lot of forward, forward ahead stuff. Staying in the police. I listen to a lot of like like Kaja Google, you know, saying if anybody ever watched Risky Business or any of the old school, six, eighties, teen movies and stuff like that, yeah, jim's, I'm giving Jim's up right now, yeah, Risky Business.

Speaker 2: 51:17

That's Tommy Davidson right.

Speaker 1: 51:20

No, no Risky Business. Tangerine Dream dude.

Speaker 2: 51:23

Oh, ok, a different, different movie, oh.

Speaker 1: 51:26

OK, yeah, and you talk about strictly business. Strictly business OK yeah, yeah, yeah, strictly business, that's a classic to that is. Yeah well, holly Berry. Yeah, South to Northeast Ohio.

Speaker 1: 51:41

Yeah that's right, baby. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, no, man. It's just like we doing the Mayby's joints and stuff like that man, like we doing with Tangerine Dream and those type of those type of situations. Van Jellis and I push on the younger generations start looking into like a lot of the same way of guys from back in those days. They were, they were very forward thinking when stuff like that and that's what seems like Coachella, like even the Coachella crowd is pretty much going into, and even with the Nam crowd, what like the new wage, the new age way of like technology and stuff and be creating and stuff like that. That's where it's going to.

Speaker 1: 52:32

It's kind of like bringing the, the older stuff from back in the day, when they didn't have the technology, to nowadays. We have technology and they're bringing it back and it's love and I'm loving every bit of it. But a homage to Then the initial and then that's all they're asking. That's all they're asking about it because if it wasn't for them, we wouldn't be where we're at now. Beyond which, phil Collins, phil Collins, and I'm sorry to go on on or on about it, but like Phil Collins and like Stuart Colquinn and even Danny Kerry from like the drummer from like the band Tool and Neil Perd from Rush. If it wasn't for those guys, those guys was working off the semis as the five electric drums and stuff like that back in the day, before it was even popular. And now you got cats this like you know, saying like the count shout out to the count, shout out to Katelyn Ellis, they're killing that, kill us. They're killing right now Even Tony Royce, your junior killing it.

Speaker 1: 53:51

They're killing it right now with that and I'm like yep, see, that's what I'm talking about. That part, yeah, you know what I mean. But hey, who? Yeah, man, I'm sorry. Like I said, I can go back in red for days, man, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 54:09

Here's the end of this. No notice, man, but a little inside information, right? So the podcast cover is basically like this futuristic type portal type of thing, right, but it's always has purple in it. That purple is a dedication to my mom who loves Prince.

Speaker 1: 54:36

Love, love all day. Let's go.

Speaker 2: 54:39

Yeah, man. So yo I can't like yo, that's.

Speaker 1: 54:42

all we was listening to was Prince and Mary J and Palliabelle, let's go All of them man so my mother and social media's mom went back in the day they went to Kista University. Fun fact, they went to Kista University in a snowstorm when Prince was like young, super young. They went to the Prince concert in a snowstorm to go to that show, to go see him, wow yeah. And Kista. University back home in Ohio. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 55:18

Ohio ain't got no little snowstorms neither.

Speaker 1: 55:21

No, no, it was, it was mad, it was mad crazy. Yeah, they was in, they was in a VD. My mom told me herself and she was like yo, me, yo, aunt Mina and that's, by the way, my Aunt Mina, yeah, jazz singer, was signed to Sony 550. Shout out to Aunt Mina, man. Shout out to her man. That's my sweetheart. You know what I'm saying? Don't tell her this. I love her dearly. But, yeah, no man, no, they, they. They went in a snowstorm to go see Prince at Kista University.

Speaker 1: 56:01

My mom told me and everything else in, a snowstorm to go see Prince back when he had to. I want to be a lover when he had that out. Yeah, way before I was even born. Yeah, crazy, right, that's what I got. Love for your mom, though with the purple. Yeah, man, yeah. I want you.

Speaker 1: 56:23

Golden, yeah, I want you. Dog, I want you. Hey man, southside podcast, love all you guys. Man, free, all y'all listening, happen to go mine, let's go baby. Spotify, all DSPs, digital streaming platforms, go telling you Brothers, committee control, rise, gang Feed, make community, let's go, let's get it, let's get it.

Speaker 2: 56:49

Yo man, it's love man. Yo man, I got to ask you about your music, man, because you've been putting out music for a little while now and and it's a few albums I'm going to speak to on Bandcamp, right, because I'm a big, you know what I mean. Like besides websites, to buy music from people like Bandcamp is the next best thing.

Speaker 1: 57:14

Sure, sure yeah.

Speaker 2: 57:16

So I've got to ask you about three albums freedom music, I wonky wonderland, season one and stay tuned, volume one.

Speaker 2: 57:31

I got to ask you about because hey, man, because, as I'm like, I'm like, oh my gosh, man, these, just what you're doing with these sonically is like yo, yo, how come? Yo, it should be like thousands of people buying this right now. Like, how is they? How are they not buying this right now? They may be listening to somewhere else or something, but I'm like yo, they need to support these albums. Yo, because these ones is going, you know, maybe it's going to make you like yo, I ain't just digging this. All right, let's go make more on a grander scale. You know what I'm saying. But those three albums right there freedom music, a wonky wonderland, season one, stay tuned, volume one. Like, what was, what was the meaning behind freedom music?

Speaker 1: 58:20

Freedom is, yeah, freedom with freedom, right? Ok, the meaning behind that was during that era of glad you picked them too, yeah man. Yeah man, because I had, yeah, some stories behind all those, all those three projects man With freedom, music that was during that time when we were all in lockdown, and stuff like that.

Speaker 1: 58:49

Man, and especially here in Atlanta I was working with a lot of the homies and a lot of the community here from the control rise game and I wanted to put out something because we were contributing to the Atlanta Solidary Fund and so I figured I figured to put that project out to help out, and we actually did a live stream. We actually did a live stream.

Speaker 2: 59:18

I think I remember.

Speaker 1: 59:20

Yeah, so it was like that was all for that. So like all the proceeds went to Atlanta Solidary Fund for like all all the homies that was at the CNN Center when, when they messed around and got pepper sprayed and everything else, in the end the patent goes to jail and stuff like that. We did. We did that specifically and I put that project out to help acquire funds and stuff like that to get a lot of those guys that ended up unfortunately getting locked up on the stuff, to help gather funds to get them out of there, for them expressing their rights. So that was the meaning behind freedom music.

Speaker 2: 1:00:06

Because that's is that Stokely Carmichael on the front. I think that is right.

Speaker 1: 1:00:10

Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:00:11

Yes, ok, yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:00:14

And then, what was the other project?

Speaker 2: 1:00:16

you said which other and then the other project was a wonky wonderland season, the wonky wonderland.

Speaker 1: 1:00:24

Ok, so the story behind that one.

Speaker 2: 1:00:27

Let's hear this one.

Speaker 1: 1:00:30

The story behind that one. Oh, that's going to blow y'all's mind. So all my equipment messed around and poked out and all I had was my SP 404 and my cell phone and I just I just acquired like at that time at just acquired the, the, the court, the court situation that they had, that they was given out for free with all the court plugins and stuff on the apps.

Speaker 2: 1:01:00

Oh yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 1: 1:01:02

Yeah, I, I acquired all those plugins and I just had that and my SP 404. And I was getting stuff off of the radio station here in Atlanta and so I started taking stuff and I started doing beats off the. I downloaded the court chaos, later plug in for that free joint and I started doing stuff on that and just kind of made a thing of it. And then I was like yo, I need to put out something, but like my computer, stuff is shot, I don't have anything to record to this. And then the third All I got is my SP 404 because my, my computer took a, it took a dive, and I'm like dude, I got my cell phone and my SP 404. And that the phone that I had at the time was Android.

Speaker 1: 1:01:57

I'm like, well, I can sit there and do a radio station thing and I can take stuff and whatever else, and so I just record stuff into the 404. You know it's every sample and blah, blah, and then save it as a thing and then that's how wonky wonderland volume one came about. It's just like start taking the stuff and do, do, do, do, do, do, do and just ping pong and stuff, and came up with that project and and put it out, because I'm like I need to put something out. You know what I'm saying. And yeah, it felt, it just felt good, wow, yeah man Cornbread, erlenum, erlenum.

Speaker 1: 1:02:35

Oh, that's my fun. Hey, that was fun. That was a fun. Yeah, man yes.

Speaker 2: 1:02:50

They don't even know. I'm a play for you all. You don't don't worry Internet, so I'm going to play that for you all, so you all can go back and be like yo I got, I need this album.

Speaker 1: 1:02:59

Oh yeah, it was fun, man, that was fun and that is shockingly enough, man, shockingly enough. Golden, that was mostly the the chaos later freaking app on on the core joint. Wow, like I made that whole beat on the chaos later. I didn't do nothing on that before For at all. That was all chaos later jump off. I just did the edits. I did the edits on the four four and then dropped it down.

Speaker 2: 1:03:34

That's in ingenuity, bro. Wow, oh my gosh Bro.

Speaker 1: 1:03:42

Yo, it was crazy man. It was a fun time. It was tough, but I had fun with it. Yeah, man.

Speaker 2: 1:03:50

And then you know, I don't know what happened in between those, those three, I want to say three years. I'm pretty sure everything was happening. But then you came out with Stay Tune Volume One, which is, you know, four tracks came out last year. I'm man, I'm slapping myself. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't catch this for the end of the year episode, for the beat tapes of the year. But, yo man, what went into Stay Tune Volume One with with the cover, got one cowboy boot in the street he was. I was like what is happening? You?

Speaker 1: 1:04:30

know, kicking it, man, just kicking it, just kicking it, that's it. But you know what, though, that project was? So it was so on the. That project took me a year and a half. Wow, it took me a year and a half almost two years, to finish because of so much stuff I was dealing with during that time and it's like I want this to be right.

Speaker 1: 1:05:07

Then I sat there and talked it's funny. I talked to Ed, talk to DJ Ray Handed, and I'm like a red man and I talked to Lee and Lizzie too. I was like, man, I have to put this out. Man, I was like I don't know where to go with it. This needs to get done. It is like it needs to be finished. Red is like, yeah, man, you could play in the round. Man, I talked to my cousin. My cousin a show started media and he's like, yeah, man, you need to go ahead, because I was doing, I was doing a little stuff and I ended up going to Florida and it was kind of like playing a little segments of the project at that time, but and I was trying to gauge what the what the public was feeling it was kind of different to a degree, but I'm like you know what man I want, this man we're going to take it, we're going to go back over school.

Speaker 1: 1:06:07

I'm just going to play a little stuff and just hanging out and everything else, hanging out at what we're handed and just we were skateboarding and I've seen something. I was like man, you know I'm saying, got it and then build from that idea and then I'm like, stay too involved. You weren't. And then I started thinking about certain stuff. You know what I'm saying. I started thinking about Dave, new York South, the rest in power, dave, new York man family. I started thinking about the homies and stuff. Man, you know what I'm saying. And it was just kind of like a thing or it's just kind of like I wanna do something that's like represents all of us as a community, all of us. You know what I'm saying. Like, whatever it is that we do, we just stay. You know what I'm saying. We keep people staying tuned to what we're doing, obviously with the rocket ship and the stars and everything else. You know that's the monitor, but and it always will be, because we shoot for the stars. Man, you know what I'm saying and that's what we know and that's all I've ever wanted. And so, with the stay tuned value one, and that's gonna be an ongoing segment for all of us. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 1:07:33

I don't do it just for myself, man. I don't. I really don't do it. I do it for my family, I do it for the mugs that I'm tight with, I do it for all of us. It sure, as I sit there and live by airport you know what I'm saying I see planes flying in and out all the time. We go flight. At any means necessary, let's get it.

Speaker 2: 1:08:00

Man, I you know what. I'm tempted to play this first track, man, just so they can hear it. Man, you know what? Oh, man hit him with it oh yeah, Let me hit him with this man.

Speaker 3: 1:08:09

Go ahead man Go ahead, man Go ahead, man Go ahead man, ah, lovely.

Speaker 1: 1:08:28

Wow. So started media for the vision. They'll footage at Lake Yola, orlando, florida. Wow you, how you feel me though. Very good, I'm going to go to the back. Yeah, baby.

Speaker 2: 1:09:16

No, y'all got, y'all got, y'all got to, y'all got to go, y'all got to go to the, to the back man listen to that joint man what that's no. Bruh, blessings, blessings, blessings. So much appreciative Bruh. Okay, yo man, that's. That's the the three albums.

Speaker 1: 1:09:48

I really wanted to touch on that. It's so much more man.

Speaker 2: 1:09:50

It's so much I could I want to ask you about man, but time constraints, but yeah, last, let me ask you these last two questions. So so 20, it's 2024, you know, new years happening. What's I mean? And and and the technology NAMM just happened, everything like that. I don't know if you went or not, but oh no, I paid.

Speaker 1: 1:10:18

I paid some of the stuff, though.

Speaker 2: 1:10:19

Yeah, so what is what is your like? I don't want, I don't want to know all do your whole process, but what is the process for K-lover, aka the go man? What is your process when you sit down and you're getting ready to make a track Like, what is that? What does that look or feel like to you?

Speaker 1: 1:10:46

Just a feel man. It's just a feeling Like I can't. I can't explain, it's just a feeling, man.

Speaker 2: 1:10:55

It's just a feeling, yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:10:57

Yeah, just a feeling, man, man, but you just gotta feel it, and if you don't feel it you can't do it. I'll put in the words of my man and everything. Again, I'm referenced in the movie Risky Business man. Sometimes you just gotta say what the F? What? The F.

Speaker 1: 1:11:19

What the F brings you opportunity, opportunity you know what I'm saying Makes your future. Sometimes, man, sometimes I mean, if you can't say, you can't do it. You know what I'm saying. But what the F brings you Freedom, freedom brings you opportunity, makes your future. What the F, what the F, what the F man, yeah what the F bro. Yeah, you gotta do it, you gotta do it. You can't do it. You can't mess around and be great if you don't try to be great. True.

Speaker 1: 1:12:03

That's fast. Yes, that's fast. Yes, it is man, you gotta try something, man what?

Speaker 2: 1:12:10

is Okay, let's talk about. You're getting a part of Controlerize, for I don't know how long you played so many different beat sets all over the world, man you played for Beat. Cinema. You did a beat cinema set, you did Controlerize. What is that experience like Just performing. What is that experience like just performing your sets in front of those crowds. Man, they are big crowds and they all catch a vibe, especially the one you did last year for Controlerize, when they just opened back up. They was going bananas bro.

Speaker 1: 1:12:55

Man, he's just. He's just do what you do, man, Be honest with you, and you just turn off the outside world and be comfortable within yourself and just pretty much for the most part, man, enjoy what you're doing, Enjoy what you do. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, I know it's a big crowd, I know it's big crowd stuff and everything else, man. But it gets to a point to where it's a big crowd thing and a lot of people will be like oh man, yo, it's so crazy and stuff like that. But then you get to a point to where it's kind of like you start getting numb to it to a degree and you just appreciate the crowd, you appreciate the crowd and everything. But then it gets to a point to where it's like the crowd don't even matter anymore. Now you're just locked in. You know what I'm saying? You're locked in. Sorry, I'm just writing it out here to.

Speaker 1: 1:14:12

Just writing it here in A a little bit. But it just gets to a point to where you really don't consider the crowd or stuff and everything else. Man. You kind of just get to the point to where it's like you do your thing and then you just pretty much lock in to what makes you feel comfortable. And as long as you feel comfortable, the crowd is going to feel comfortable.

Speaker 1: 1:14:47

If you start feeling weird and stuff like that, the crowd is going to feel weird. If you're not confident in yourself, the crowd is not going to be confident in you. And then we're like alright, yeah, man, I'm about to start looking at the vendors and whoever else is here. I'm not going to pay to the sky and everything else. This model is just playing stuff. He ain't feeling this stuff and everything else. And blah, blah. You got the whole thing being mad because you're thinking about hating on you, but really you're just on some trash. And then this is like nah, you really just didn't put your best foot forward. Yeah, it's like you can't be doing that.

Speaker 1: 1:15:28

You know what I'm saying. It's like, if you're going to go out there and do stuff and everything else, put your best foot forward, be the best you you can be for yourself. You know what I'm saying. Consider the crowd and just be awesome. You know what I'm saying. Like the control, rest crowd man In the earlier years it was tough. I'm not going to front. It was tough. Souths of Black cubes, souths of Mealike, the beat ninja, souths of Maurice Daniel, south of the very sick beats.

Speaker 1: 1:16:06

I got to throw the shout outs out there because this is the initial squad Souths of who Me, souths of Tapes, souths of Feng Shui. Now, I sense you know what I'm saying, dj, we're handed Lee and Lizzie. Um, uh, man, uh, ippress Rob was saddening. Um, you know what I'm saying, man? It's totally Judd, the homie Judd. You know what I'm saying? Like, there's a lot of us that mess around and like kind of help, start to maneuver and everything. Oh, mike Stallone, mike Stallone, you know what I'm saying. Um, yeah, man, like it was a situation and stuff like that, to where you kind of really got it. Hey, you had to get outside of yourself. You had to really get outside of yourself. Salasdibi again, um, salasdibi 14kt. You know what I'm saying? Cav wins. What's happening? Um, yeah, no, man, it's like it's you know what I mean. It's just a situation. Oh, day tripper, my fault, day tripper, yeah, yeah, yeah, all day, every day. Um, no, man, you just had to be in the maneuver and everything else, because it was like it was the way how it started. It was just pretty much guys coming together there and, um, we just saw our culminated with each other and it's like we need to come up with something for the culture, and that's pretty much how, on my end of things, I viewed it and how I saw it, because I ended up inheriting it, um, but once I inherited it, we had like confabs and stuff like that on Sundays, man, those Sundays were epic, those Sundays were epic, those Sundays were awesome and, excuse me, um, a whole community got built out of that man and we went through the. We went through the roughest of tough times on everything, man, in terms of venue, venue picking. You know what I'm saying Like, but all the venues that Mung's restaurant and showed up and showed up and be and was a part of near things, fire, fire Every time. Like you're, man, db, this cat shut down deep in downtown Atlanta.

Speaker 1: 1:18:49

Too loud, loud music. You know that's a hidden story. Yeah, like the bass was too loud. I'm in a mart, I'm in a. I was there. That was a dope show, that was dope, that was awesome. It was an awesome show. That was the, but it was like y'all got to turn the music off. That's loud. But yeah, man, like nah, it's just like it was like the control rise gang. I wouldn't replace them for anything by the world. I love y'all, man, like stone drums and purse ride. I love all you guys, y'all hear this Yep Squag gang. That's all we do. Controller eyes is the mob, but yeah, my fault man, that's that's.

Speaker 1: 1:19:44

That's all I got to say about that part.

Speaker 2: 1:19:46

I got you, yo man, shout out to controller eyes, man, because I just appreciate what y'all been doing, and I tried to catch y'all in Japan in 2000 and I think it was 2020, right before 2019. 2019. Yeah, there it is.

Speaker 1: 1:20:06

I remember that. I remember that I was trying to come out there then too.

Speaker 2: 1:20:11

Yeah, man, but. But anyway, man, I have one day, I'm going to come back, don't worry. Okay, I'm going to try and catch y'all, I mean hopefully y'all. I don't know if y'all going to come out to San Antonio or not, but you know we oh, you know, I'm a Texas boy now.

Speaker 1: 1:20:25

Yeah, I'm saying so. I grew up in Dallas. I'm a native of Dallas.

Speaker 2: 1:20:31

Yeah, so, uh, you know we ready, I think, Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Ann, man, I think yo we definitely would support that for real.

Speaker 1: 1:20:45

Yo, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, we need to link up, man, cause I'm telling you, man, like, oh yo, front ruler, before the acres homies shout out to them. You know what I'm saying. Uh, for Obama.

Speaker 2: 1:20:57

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:20:59

He was in 2023, man Crazy. Oh, let's get it. Let's get it, man. We all make up, man, let's do it. I'm glad that I'm down to come back to the crib, yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:21:12

Oh man, I got okay right right before we. You know, we wrap it up, man. Uh, two last two questions. I said that probably about 30 minutes ago no no problem, man.

Speaker 1: 1:21:23

Hey, hey, pick my brain, man.

Speaker 2: 1:21:25

You know what I'm saying? Um, what is, what's one technique that you would tell a beat maker to kind of harness on, harness in on, to make their beats kind of you know, either pop or stand out, or you know what I mean Something like that.

Speaker 1: 1:21:47

Learn music theory. Music theory Yep.

Speaker 2: 1:21:52

And J Phil got the beats, got the books. So you know what I'm saying. That's the broski.

Speaker 1: 1:21:58

That's broski, Set off to northeast Ohio, maybe two, one, six and three, three oh yeah, let's get it. Let's get it. That's the family. I just talked to him the other day.

Speaker 2: 1:22:07

Okay.

Speaker 1: 1:22:08

Yo.

Speaker 2: 1:22:09

K lover man, do you have any music or any events coming up that you want to? You know spotlight and let the people know so they can tap in and check out anything planned for 2024?.

Speaker 1: 1:22:26

I wish I could tell. But I'm working on something. I'm working on something right now and uh, uh, but it's a. All I'm gonna say is the rest of the power of Dilla.

Speaker 2: 1:22:55

That's all I'm gonna say that's your aim is to win. Yeah, it's me, man.

Speaker 1: 1:22:59

Shout out to my bro. Shout out to my bro, john.

Speaker 2: 1:23:05

Yeah, how can people find you? How can the internet tap into you? Know everything, k love aka the go. Where can they find you? How can they support you? How can they tap into what you're doing?

Speaker 1: 1:23:19

K love aka K love aka the go K L U V aka T H E G O. Most platforms on X, k love 3, 3 O, you know what I'm saying. And then on bank camp K love 3, 3 O dot bank M dot com.

Speaker 2: 1:23:40

There it is, man Yo K love man. It was an honor to talk to you, man.

Speaker 1: 1:23:47

Man, this was a great one. This was a good conversation we need to do a part too.

Speaker 2: 1:23:51

I want it. Yo, we got to.

Speaker 1: 1:23:53

I want it, bro. I want it, I want it.

Speaker 2: 1:23:56

Yo. So I will put this out there, man, whenever you are at liberty to talk about it. Hey, yo, I'm yo. Hit me up personally. I will make room in the podcast for you, man, straight up hey man.

Speaker 1: 1:24:13

Hey, that's love man. I appreciate it. Man Like hey, y'all go mine If y'all ain't tapped into gold mine. Matter of fact, gold mines is crazy dope. And yo shout outs to the dopest podcast on the planet earth for beat makers let's get it, run it up, let's go.

Speaker 2: 1:24:35

Man love man Yo. I appreciate you, man Yo. It was an honor man to chop it up with you, man Yo. When, when this comes out and people start hitting you up yo, I don't drink. You know what I'm saying. Like they're gonna be, like yo, like there's so many.

Speaker 1: 1:24:54

I'm here with the red jams, with the squeerons.

Speaker 2: 1:25:01

There's so many, so many jewels you dropped in this joint man Like yo. They y'all gonna have to run this back internet. So yo just be prepared to run it back while y'all driving, y'all flying on a boat, plane, train, whatever it is, skateboard, whatever, anything Tap it, yo tap it and run it back.

Speaker 1: 1:25:19

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Speaker 2: 1:25:26

Let's go Any. Any last or final thoughts for the internet man.

Speaker 1: 1:25:33

Be fricking great man, that's all I'm gonna say. Be great. Love all y'all too, love them.