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#128 - Kershawn Tha Don
“Be a homie & let us know what you think”
What happens when spiritual philosophy meets beatmaking? Kershawn Tha Don answers this question through her soulful productions and community-building efforts, guided by her core belief that "love is the highest vibration."
The Long Beach-based producer takes us through her musical evolution, from singing in a Baptist church choir to performing with Beat Cinema on Coachella's prestigious Gobi Stage in 2023. "Music is so important in those spaces because it sets up the atmosphere... to open up your spirit to receive," she reflects, revealing how her spiritual foundation influences her creative approach.
Kershawn's journey into beatmaking began in 2008, experimenting with Fruity Loops during night shifts as a CNA after being inspired by 9th Wonder's production on Little Brother's "The Listening." Her artistic progression unfolds through albums like "Union Electric" (2020), which she describes with charming candor as her "cringe album" made without overthinking, and "Butter" (2023), crafted primarily using the Koala app and SP-555.
Beyond her own productions, Kershawn has created vital space for women in music through "Ladies Love Loops," a live music series showcasing female producers, singers, MCs, and DJs. "I did it to expose everybody to each other for collaboration," she explains, highlighting how building community remains central to her mission.
The conversation takes an exciting turn when Naj Ahead joins to discuss their forthcoming collaborative album "He's My Muse," dropping in October 2025. This project promises a modern take on neo-soul with Erykah Badu-inspired vibes, complete with limited edition physical copies featuring a lyric booklet. "It's a love story and it goes from the beginning to the end," Kershawn shares, noting it's designed for "nostalgic old souls."
Whether you're a beatmaker, a fan of underground hip-hop, or someone who believes in music's power to build community, this episode offers rare insight into creating authentically while lifting others up. Follow Kershawn's journey here: @ThaDonKershawn and Naj Ahead's journey here: @Najahead discover why love truly is the highest vibration.
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Speaker 3:peace, this is nothing new and you're tuned into the rec show podcast. Keep it locked, all right, check, check one two. Peace and love everybody. Go to mine here back again. We back outside for another interview with some dope dope mutants man. Um, I don't know if y'all heard, but the last episode I did was an amazing conversation that we had with um dom cruz and t-down ian salt yeah, man.
Speaker 3:So you know, I mean, like that conversation was man that was, that was earth-shattering conversations we had, man. So y'all want to check it, check out the previous episode after y'all listen to this one. Do that please, um, and then you know, give me your feedback and all that type of stuff. But yo, let's get to today, man, we're going to meet a beatmaker hailing from Long Beach, california, who lives by the mantra love is the highest vibration. I hope I got that mantra right.
Speaker 3:She's the creative force behind Ladies Love Loops, a live music series that uplifts women in music. Loops, a live music series that uplifts women in music. And then, on her band camp, she dropped like nine beat tapes from Union Electric to her latest, from LB to Africa, in June of 2025. Her sound spans lo-fi, hip hop, underground textures, soulful rhythmic journeys, all anchored in community and creativity. We're going to dive into her roots, her process and her vision forward. And we also have a special guest, the one and only Najah Head, as well. Man, if y'all know about Najah Head, y'all better smack yourself. Yo, y'all already know he's a champion man. I want to say it was a ski beats. Already know he's a champion man. I want to say it was uh, ski beats. I want y'all to give it up for the one and only lb's finest kershawn adon. What's going on, kershawn?
Speaker 4:hey, what's up?
Speaker 3:peace, peace peace, peace, peace. Yo did I get that mantra right. Yo, love is the highest, yeah yeah hey, let's go, all right, let me. Let me ask this question first. Um what does love, is the highest vibration, mean to you both, both personally and musically?
Speaker 4:because look, when I say love is the highest vibration, that just means that's like love, god is love and uh, just love is the highest vibration. I don't know what else to say about that it's simple, man, when you live in love.
Speaker 4:Everything is just better true you know when you act in love, when you face with a. You know when you face with a, you know when you face with something. If you respond in love, then that's the most beautiful thing you can do and the most good thing you can do. I'm nervous, see, because now I'm nervous, I'm really nervous.
Speaker 3:Don't be nervous, yo, we just kicking it. I'm trying to tell you like real, we just we just talking about, we're talking about you. So I don't know if we you know, I'm not gonna ask you you know, like some quantum physics stuff, you know, it's just. Yeah, we're just talking about you. But I get that. I just thought I asked that question just because you know that you're the first person that says you know, love is the, the highest vibration I've never had anybody really is we.
Speaker 3:It's a creation energy, like he created us, and he loves us, you know true, true, yeah, yeah, man, okay, all right, let me, let me go back to um. Let me go, I'm gonna take you back in the day real quick all right, so what first pulled you into music like? Do you remember that moment you decided to even start creating beats?
Speaker 4:well, music and beats is two different. You know stories. I always been around music. I sang in the church choir. Um, I always been around music. But as far as making beats, I knew I wanted to explore making beats when I heard little brothers the listening I was like who is this?
Speaker 4:mike wonder he uses fruity loops. What is this? So I think I was um a cna at the time and I brought my laptop to work working graveyard. I brought my laptop to work and make these. It was like a touch and go thing. I wasn't really serious about it, you know, or about putting. I wasn't even thinking about putting anything out at that moment. At that time I think it was around 2008, you know. But when I, like a couple years later, in 2010, I bought my first piece of equipment, which was the MPD 26, I believe, and it was like a midi controller and I would use it with fruity lubes, and then, later on, for my creation of late bloomer, I used it in Ableton.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so that's like the beginning, right there okay, is as so the one that you're seeing right now that you use for union electric. Was that the?
Speaker 4:yeah, first piece of equipment, yeah, yeah yeah I made that one, I made union electric in uh reasons. It was just me having fun experimenting, you know, with different sounds that's what.
Speaker 3:You know what I'll be forgetting that part about not taking it so serious and just having fun, and I need to do that.
Speaker 4:I need to get back to doing that, like I felt like like each time like I set a bar for myself and if it falls below the bar, I'm like really I get discouraged. You know what I'm saying? So no, it's just that.
Speaker 3:Is it because you know you like you reached a new level, yeah, and you're trying to like top the last level that you reached? Or yeah. Okay, yeah, I can. What do they call that man in um psychology man? They told it uh, uh man, I can't remember it'll come to me later. What imposter syndrome uh, I don't know about imposter syndrome, because you know like every time we do something, we always try and we always try and outdo ourselves yeah, I don't know what that, what that term is it comes to me, but um, but okay, so that's how you got, that's how you started making music in church.
Speaker 3:You know, I started in church. Did y'all have instruments?
Speaker 4:no, I grew up in a baptist church oh, yeah, y'all yeah y'all going. All the choir was always pumping on you doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, you know. Music is. You know music is so important in those spaces because it kind of sets up the atmosphere. You know, emotionally strike a chord within you to feel something. You know what I'm saying Like to open up your spirit to receive.
Speaker 3:That's a, that's a bar right there. Man Music used to open up your spirit to receive.
Speaker 2:Oh, I got.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I got to remember that one. Let me ask you something from what you're currently doing right now. Ok, so what? What inspired you to start ladies love loops um and put women at the forefront?
Speaker 4:yeah, ladies, love loops came out of when, when I did my first album, I would always try to like get booked for shows when nobody was booking me, like, and I'm like it's because I'm a woman, woman, but I'm like why don't we start something, all of them, you know, just for the ladies? You know it's really male-dominated, you know scene. So that's when I got together and made Lady Love Loops.
Speaker 4:Man I did it, you know, to you know, initially it was like for producers the first show was producers, all like producers and but it grew to be more like letting ladies singers, mcs, djs, as well as producers, come do their thing and express themselves. And what I really encourage with Ladies Love Loops is to expose everybody to each other for collaboration.
Speaker 3:Collaboration is important.
Speaker 4:And our next one is October 11th at the Record Box.
Speaker 3:October 11th at the Record Box All right Internet. Y'all heard that October 11th At the record box Alright internet. Y'all heard that Ladies love loops October 11th At the record box.
Speaker 4:Yes sir.
Speaker 3:Alright. So All y'all, all y'all fellas out there, I know y'all know females that, that women that make music. Go ahead and get the word out to them, let them know. Yo contact Ladies, love Loops they all over. I think y'all have an ex account and an Instagram account, right?
Speaker 4:So yes, ladiesloveloops LA on Instagram and LadiesLoveLoops on Twitter.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, y'all heard Yo, so stop playing. Put them on. Let them know to contact them if they in the LA area, long Beach area, wherever they are.
Speaker 4:It's in Long Beach, don't get it twisted. I read Long Beach hard. Everybody think I'm from LA, but no, it's a totally different thing.
Speaker 3:It's a totally different thing. Long Beach yo.
Speaker 4:All right.
Speaker 3:So let's talk about your debut album, Union Electric, which dropped in 2020, right, yeah, so I mean, what did that project represent for you at that time? I know you said you already. You made it in Reason. You got the NPD know you were just experimenting what did?
Speaker 4:that, what did? That project represent for you well, it was just me experimenting, having fun with different sounds and reason and like a little backstory, like uh, they're not around anymore, but union electric was actually a weed brand and um, so they hit me up. It's like yo, I like your beat, can you make something, or whatever. And by the time I was done with it or whatever, it was like they went out of business or something. So, yeah, Dang yeah.
Speaker 4:So I made that beat on In Reason and like because I love the sounds, like where it takes you in reason. Yeah, I feel like I know you know this is bad to say but I feel like Union Electric is like my major cringe album because it was just like I didn't care, I was just doing me and it's a little different. It's a little. You can tell that I just got started making beats, you know far as the drumming and everything like that.
Speaker 3:But yeah, that's, that's union electric yo, you know, what's crazy is like our first albums, like we all, we all say it's like man you could tell, like it was our first one and stuff like that. But that will always hold such a um a good space in our memories, like when we put that out to the world, not kept it on the hard drive, not kept it in some folders or something on yeah, I have cds, yeah yeah, like you put it out to the world, man, like what did that feel like to?
Speaker 4:to put that out to the world and I don't know, at that point I didn't nobody was paying attention, real attention, like at that point nobody was paying real attention. At that point I was just kind of in my own world in my apartment doing my own thing. I was still 20. I had just graduated and I said when I graduate I'm going to spend more time with music. And really do it, go for it.
Speaker 3:Nice, I'm glad you did that, know, I'm glad you did that, I'm glad you did that. Did you have support from, like, your family members or you know anybody like that that was pushing you to say, yes, go, please go, do that?
Speaker 4:uh, no, not really. Well, there is one person, um, his name is kwamele. He's a poet, mc. I think he made beats too at one point, but he will always even when the time I wasn't making beats, he will always like yo, we need you producing, we need women producers. You know, he would encourage me to make beats. And so my boy, impact. He's a MC poet and a new beat maker right now, so like they were the only two, that was kind of pushing me to make beats.
Speaker 3:Nice.
Speaker 4:My poetry family. I come from poetry. That was like my like after, after music. That was like kind of like my second vehicle.
Speaker 3:You know I'm saying so nice have I have we heard, I don't think we've heard you spit any, any poetry over your production. Have you done that?
Speaker 4:no, no, well yes, I have, I have and it's one of my. It's not. It's not a poem that I'm really proud of, but it is on my SoundCloud and it's called these Niggas.
Speaker 3:Listen, we know where that's going.
Speaker 4:But I'm not really. You know that poem everybody. When I do it at the open mics I get, you know, a good response. But I mean, I wouldn't do it now anymore, cause you know the energy is different in my life.
Speaker 3:I got you, I got you. So let's, let's fast forward. We're going to. We're going to talk about late bloomer, which is when I came into your, when I tapped into your stream I think I was in japan at that time and I was like just just going through and researching and I got my I think I got my x account and I was just tapping into the beat scene from there and, boom, boom, you popped up on with something, with Late Bloomer.
Speaker 4:Yeah, how did you find me? I have a question how did you?
Speaker 3:find me. You know what? I have no clue how I found you, I just know I found you and I was like yo, I like this, okay, let me tap into this and I just bought it. Yeah, I just bought it, you know. Like, yeah, I just remember it, like that, you know, it wasn't anything crazy, like I don't remember any recommendations or anything like that, maybe, maybe T-Dot, because T-Dot was always posting, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:I didn't know T-Dot back then either. I didn't know y'all. I didn't meet any of the community.
Speaker 3:I didn't know.
Speaker 4:T-dot back then, either I didn't know y'all, I didn't meet any of the Beat community. I didn't get into the Beat community until I got my SP-404, which was another story within itself. It was Ross G's SP-404, and I bought it for him a week before he passed After. That is when I met the beat community. Everyone Love Supreme, all that, wow, yeah, so it was like 2022 is when I got out there and started performing for real.
Speaker 3:Hey, it was meant to be then, cause I don't know how I found you, but I just did it universe brought us together once I heard Late Bloomer, then I just followed your band camp. So anytime I pay attention to my feed on band camp on the band camp app. Every time you put out an album it's in the news feed. So then I check it out and I'm like all right, I like this. Oh, hold on, my baby's coming back from from school. Y'all might hear some car noises and stuff, but uh but yeah so hold on, she's back.
Speaker 3:But yeah, so Hold on, she's back, she's back. Hi, baby, what it do? How was your day? Did you crease your sneak? Yeah, they creased. I knew it. I knew it was going to be creased, that's so pretty Kisses.
Speaker 4:I knew it. I knew it was going to be increased. That's so pretty.
Speaker 3:This is my baby, hi I'm doing an interview. Hi, they got their camera off, wow. But yeah, I'm just doing an interview right now. You're going to be on the podcast, though. They're going to hear your voice, okay, hey, what up internets. What up, what, what up internets.
Speaker 2:What up internets Bye.
Speaker 3:All right, I'll see you later, yo Okay, love you too, baby. Let's talk about this album. Butter right, because I had to get the physical CDd for butter, yo that that album butter. You know I'm saying yo, I like what you did, but it was that game changing.
Speaker 4:like 2023 was the craziest year of my life. I had shows every month and, like, during that whole year, I was creating butter. Like I mostly created it on koala, because, I don't know, if you know, taki, he taught me how to use koala and then that's what I used mostly for butter in the SP555. Wow.
Speaker 2:Wow, wow, I did.
Speaker 4:Coachella. I did Coachella that year.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you get the Coachella with um beat cinema, beat cinema, yeah, I remember that. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, cause it was all over social y'all, socials and stuff too. I was like damn man, yeah, that's such a big moment, especially for Beat Cinema too. It's like Beat Cinema been doing this for years, like years. I always wanted to go catch a Beat Cinema show if I could. So one day I'm going to catch one. But man, what was that experience like for you? You know, doing Coachella with Beat Cinema.
Speaker 4:That was like I had a whole bunch of anxiety behind it, but everything went my my way, plus more, because I was able to perform the opening performance at the big stage called the Gobi Stage and I did my set in opening of the day and they chose me. I don't know who Wes just tell me the other people chose me, but I wasn't expecting that at all. So not only did I do the turndown tent, I did the go beat stage.
Speaker 4:Wow, and it was just so magical, like how I was repping Long Beach hard with my set. I was DJing like along with playing my beats as well. So I did a lot of G-funk, you know, a lot of classic west coast music, you know. So I was like, well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna rep boom beach at coach, you know why not?
Speaker 3:yeah, yo, all right, that's. That's amazing, man. That's a definitely another memory you got. I want to go backwards real quick because you said something and I got to say rest in peace to Raj G man. He's another reason why I even started making music, because I can't remember what album he put out. I can't remember what album he put out, but you got your SP404 from him prior to him transitioning. You know like yeah.
Speaker 3:Holy smokes, like what. So what I mean, what was? Let me ask this because I don't know, like I only hear stories from you. Know, like DBIC and other people that have met him personally.
Speaker 4:What was he like in life? The story well, his beat sets are phenomenal, first of all. But when I met him one on one to buy the purchase, the 404, he has a really like gentle spirit. But I remember I told him I rapped and he was like, let me hear your bars? And I fumbled and I was messing up because I was like, you know, nervous or whatever, and I was like I blew it, you know. And then he showed me a couple things on the SP-404 before I head out. He showed me the infamous stutter thing that everyone likes to do, the stutter feature, how to do that. And he also taught me the truncating with the mark mark, how to truncate, you know, samples, chops. So that's my story for Raj G have you did you?
Speaker 3:how many shows have you been to with seeing Raj G in live action?
Speaker 4:honestly, it was only one show and I wasn't even in to be set that time, so, but it was memorable.
Speaker 3:It was memorable, it made an impression on you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, rest in peace to Raj G. What was the?
Speaker 4:name of it. I'm sure Naj knows what was it called Low End Theory.
Speaker 3:Low.
Speaker 3:End, Theory, yeah, because they all were at Low End Theory, yeah, um, and then they, they did. I think he did Beat Cinema too with, uh, eloquent, um, I think. I think Dibiase might have been there too. It was a crazy card that was there. That's the last time I remember him doing a live performance with Beat Cinema. He killed it then too, man, because he was in the back of the stage while Eloquent was doing his set and he was just looking at Eloquent like yo, you got it, man. I only know how he talks like real, real deep, real calm.
Speaker 4:Real deep, real calm.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, man. So rest in peace. To Raj G man. You know I have his cassettes in one of my, one of my boxes in the garage right here. But yeah, man, you will be missed, but his music will live on. So we're going to take a break. We're gonna go to these lightning questions these lightning round questions, all right, okay, all right so they they real quick.
Speaker 3:They real quick yes or no and stuff okay right, okay, so here's the first one vinyl, cassette or digital. Which one is your go-to vinyl dream venue to perform or host Ladies Love Loops?
Speaker 4:Man, I don't know Skip.
Speaker 3:We'll come back to it. One beat maker you think deserves way more shine. Nod your head Morning studio session or late night cook-up. Late night cook-up uh, late night cook-up. If you had to describe your sound in one word, what would it be?
Speaker 4:not lo-fi. I don't know how to describe my music. I don't know.
Speaker 2:It's all right if you know what like?
Speaker 4:I don't know how to describe my music. I don't know.
Speaker 3:It's all right.
Speaker 4:You know what I don't know? People never really tell me what they get from when they hear my beats. You know Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:I mean.
Speaker 4:They just say that they know it's a Kershawn beat when they hear it yeah. So I don't know what it is about my beats that make it my signature. I just be creating it.
Speaker 3:Hey, not everything requires a description, man. That's the way I see it.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You know, like everything don't need to be have a description and put it in a box and all that type of stuff. So it's cool, you know. I mean, I don't know what mine is, so I'll just keep it moving. Like I just make it in and keep it moving, but what's? The dream what's your? Now we're going to come back to this one question. I dream venue to perform or to host Ladies love loops.
Speaker 4:I would want to do it in the theater.
Speaker 3:That's different, I don't know.
Speaker 4:I don't know where a theater is at, maybe at the Poetry Jazz, the Poetry Club, the Poetry Club up on Fairfax, and Melrose the Poetry Cafe. Yeah, that's a nice venue. I'm like really homeyy. I don't like big ass Shit.
Speaker 3:Stadiums and stuff. I'm very intimate Very.
Speaker 4:You know, vibing, like you know.
Speaker 3:Right, like you would rather just have people, like a small amount of people, just paying attention To what you're doing.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like most, like a hundred. A hundred is cool.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:So nothing like um, what's the clear? What's the closest stadium to y'all? You know, uh?
Speaker 4:the South. So five what?
Speaker 3:is, so five yeah.
Speaker 4:That's like the full form and the crypto arena. Oh man, yeah, that's too much the only way I do those venues if I can like get somebody, get the people that I listen to the perform you know, like arty linux and live and domain them let me ask you this question which release felt like your biggest experiment, and why?
Speaker 4:for me in between time was like when I was starting to get my training wheels on the npc live. Like last summer I was in beat boot camp and I was just making beats all summer and I was like you know what I need to get my own. I finally got the hang of this, you know, and, uh, I feel like that's one of my favorite releases because you know just the process of how each beat got put together.
Speaker 3:That's Beat Bootcamp, and you were in Beat Bootcamp with the one and only Naja Head, am I?
Speaker 4:correct yes.
Speaker 3:All right. So you know, naja Head been smacking NPCs crazy for years, Me on my side for years.
Speaker 3:Yes, so like he'd been smacking NPCs for years, man, I remember I asked him if he wanted to be a part of the podcast years ago, like when I first started. He didn't know me, I just barely knew him, but I was like yo, he, he's somebody I gotta have on the show, just because, like his music spoke to me, man, I was like it spoke to me too, and that's like that's why I'm really happy about this album that we got coming out been working on over a little over a year.
Speaker 4:Now that's gonna be dope yo.
Speaker 3:So let's, let's, let's bring in. We're gonna bring in nausea head real quick. Let's say internet's nausea head. If y'all don't know who nausea head is, let me just give you a little bit of background of who nausea head is. Man, he's operating under the name nausea head. I think it's formally no alias, am I correct? Najah Head?
Speaker 1:Yes, sir.
Speaker 3:Hey, all right, I got my history right. All right. So you know, known for digging deep into vinyl crates and flipping samples into some soulful stuff he's also entered into beat battle competitions. Actually came out as the champion, Smack Pack. There it is. That's the one where you were a champion. I think it was 2021 or 2022. Smack Pack champion, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Daughter number two is back. What's up, princess? Princess, welcome home. How was your day? It's cool, yeah, welcome home. You on you, on camera, me, yeah, right there there. Yeah, like I was saying man, uh, champion of the smack pack challenge, and like 2022, 2023, um, you got like a, you got like a stadium, you got like a stadium sound man. Yeah, man, it's not like uh, it's not you, it's definitely not on some lo-fi stuff. It's smacking you in your face, it's melodic, it's man, like I can't even describe it, dog, like it's so good man. That's what drew me to your, to your music man. It was like man, he, he, just different. Yeah, so, um, you swing back and forth between like laid-back grooves and then you got more aggressive constructs. So when you came out with your last album, um, that you put out, I was like I had to put that, I had to put that video on um or x. I was like yo, what the?
Speaker 2:was you smoking.
Speaker 3:I was like yeah, like what was you smoking then?
Speaker 1:man bro, nah, um, well, first of all, thank you, bro. I really appreciate the shout for that uh album. Um, man, you know real brief. So I for a while I was on this kick where I was doing like the Uncle Glenn stuff right, like the remixes, and so like I felt like I was kind of neglecting the the Nadja head side for a while. I was, you know, I can. It's weird because you know, when I drop something and people show love of, like, it's always welcome, but at the same time sometimes it's hard for me to know if people are like okay is, are they tired of this yet? Should I try something different? Like so it was kind of more for me, like okay, let me just get this together, put this out there, show people, look, nod your head. I'm still, nod your head, I still do this. I'm just, you know, um, just on the different side of my musical journey, I suppose you know, like just trying to explore, you know, areas that I may not commonly visit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think I came into your. I came into your discography. Man, which one was it? I think it was. It might've been hip hypnotic, the hypnotic beat tape.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:And then I was just like you know what Um and no. And then I was just like you know what um, no. And then you, and then you came out with on the flip side and not at ease, and I was like yo this guy and then luna loops, and I was like, hey, yo, so I had to buy the discography, man.
Speaker 3:So I was like, yeah, let me just get this discography while I'm here, I still gotta, I gotta update it too. Man, I gotta get yours too, um, kershawn, I seen it on there, I'm gonna get yours too. But, yeah, man, like that's long man. Yeah man, like when you did, uh, shadow man, I was like um, shadow man. It's like no skips, like the whole album is just the way you sequenced it and they blend in Like come on man, come on man. Like I was playing it for my kids, um, on drives, and they was like yo, who is this? It's my, it's my man. I said, man, y'all know that's dope. So, um, yeah, I'll be putting my kids on to like the beat scene. They don't, they don't pay attention right now, but later on they'll be like man. Remember that one song you was playing in like in japan or in, you know, arizona, or wherever it was. They'll now be.
Speaker 3:Let me go back and see when I what I was listening to back then. But it's still like y'all's music, both you, kershawn, and maja head man. Y'all music is timeless, man. You can Kershawn and Najah Head. Man, y'all music is timeless man. You can't put a time on it. You know what I'm saying. So, like, even if you're your first album, I'm still going to go back because I always like randomize my Bandcamp tracks. So it just randomizes and picks random music from my whole what do you call it? My whole like catalog basically of like everything I supported. So, yeah, man, just keep doing y'all thing. Man, like I appreciate y'all man For real.
Speaker 4:We appreciate you. We appreciate you always supporting us.
Speaker 1:Always putting on, for you know, the stuff that you enjoy, like I think that's's. You know you ain't have to do that. It just shows that, it shows your passion for you know doing that for the community, man, and thank you.
Speaker 3:Yes, sir man, I love this man, I love, I love this. Yo, I'm, I'm trying to make this into a job man, come try and be like uh, what's his, what's his name?
Speaker 3:uh, sway man, I'm trying to be like the beat community sway calloway yo yeah but, um, yeah, man, so let me, um, let me ask you about this album that y'all got coming out. Um, I know y'all don't have the artwork yet for it, um, but can y'all just tell the internets, like what, what's the premise behind this album? You know, like, even if do y'all have how many tracks, is it going to be just digital, physical, what's it going to be?
Speaker 4:you want the whole rundown. So I mean, uh, we will have physicals available. As a matter of fact, we're going old school to how we have the booklet in. So it's going to be a limited edition booklet with the lyric book and everything like that. It's a throwback, like it's a modern take on, I would say, the neo soul era. I believe it's a love story. It's 12 tracks and all tracks are produced by and um, I feel like it feels it kind of like it's like a more updated, feel like a baduism, kind of feel like dirty, and that's what I really love about now who came up with the idea for this album the album.
Speaker 4:You know the album was already set like in, like the stars, before we like even knew it was going to be an album. It was. It happened really randomly, like Just being around and him allowing me to go through His beats and pick any beat that I want. It first started out With one song and then Over time it kind of started, you know, progressed, you know.
Speaker 3:Nice, nice. Do we know like how many tracks or any special guests?
Speaker 4:No, it's just. It's a full length album with me singing and raps. I actually co-produced one of the tracks on there as well, and, fun fact, majestic Legend is mixing and mastering the album.
Speaker 3:Okay, hey, let's go, it's my baby.
Speaker 4:It's like, like this is something I always wanted to do Since I heard. You know who was Jill Scott, first album, you know, and it's I'm kind of like I'm ready to let it's. I'm kind of like I'm ready to let it go, but I'm scared, you know. But you know it's my heart, you know it's out there, but I'm not responsible for how people take it. Yeah right, they may take it different ways. So I just got to be ready for you know that.
Speaker 3:Same. It's your job, job. You already did your job. You already put your emotions and everything into it. You know I mean and, and teaming together to create something super amazing. Yeah, you already know I gotta put one aside for for me, because I gotta you already know I gotta get one man. I gotta, if y'all can sign it for me you know what I mean, because I gotta you already know I gotta get one man. I gotta if y'all can sign it for me, you know what I'm saying I'll pay extra don't worry about it.
Speaker 3:I'll pay extra for the signature for free no, don't do it for free, man, because y'all put blood, sweat and tears, emotions into this man, so I gotta support man. So I'm happy to support, you know. I mean because I know, like, like I keep telling the internets, man like yo, if y'all support your favorite artists, it's, it's gonna allow them to keep doing what they, what they do. Man like just support, man like don't just listen to it and then just uh, that's it.
Speaker 4:Nah, man, come on, you know, we we so much better than that, like streaming the support for me is for people to tell me how they feel listening to my music, because it's like with this album, I wanted to take them on a journey. You know, like I said, it's a love story and it goes from the beginning to the end.
Speaker 3:I'm excited for this joint. What's the name of this joint?
Speaker 4:It's called. Should we drop the song? The title?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's coming soon.
Speaker 4:It's called he's my Muse.
Speaker 3:Hey, he's my muse Coming out. What did you say the 2nd of September?
Speaker 4:Late October.
Speaker 3:Early October okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know wrinkles here and there.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so, but it's pretty much Ready to go.
Speaker 3:Nice yo, I'm excited, he's my muse. Yeah, so, but it's pretty much ready to go. Nice Yo, I'm excited, he's my muse. An album from, from Kershawn Adon and Naja Head. Kershawn singing, spitting some raps, you know what I'm saying? Naja Head with the yo. Come on, man, how can you not be excited for that? Like anyway, man. Yeah, you not be excited for that, like anyway, man. Yeah, they're gonna be excited, man. But yo, when y'all start promoing, I'm gonna pay. I'm paying attention to the socials and stuff. Just send me a message, man, I'm gonna just keep reposting it, you know so thank you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, man, that's the way that, that's the way to get the word out these days besides words and word of mouth. So, um, but yo so, and you know, I know we have a little bit of, only a little bit of time left, but I wanted to ask where do you see your music? And ladies, love loops going in the next year, the next the next five years next five, next couple or five years.
Speaker 4:Then I always plan to have different chapters for ladies' love groups, like I want an Oakland chapter, I want an ATL chapter, I want a New York chapter and I want a Texas chapter. I want it to be like a network so everybody can know about each other. I want it to be like a network so everybody can know about each other. You know a lot of ladies out there doing music independently really has the support that they need to make music. Like you said, support. And for this album I want to do tours, I want to go overseas, I want to do tours, I want to go overseas. I want people to hear, I want the nostalgic old souls to hear this music. It's not going to resonate with the young folks, it's going to resonate with the old, vintage souls' heads. So that's how I feel.
Speaker 3:That's how Got you Last couple questions, but Is there? This is this is a question for you, kershawn, and you, najah Head, like Is there anything you want the internets To you know, to pay Pay attention to Right now? Is you know Previous works Getting ready for the new album that's coming out? What's your social Handles? You know previous works getting ready for the new album that's coming out?
Speaker 4:What's your social handles? How can they follow you? How can they support you? You can follow me on Instagram, at Kershawn. Support me on my band camp, kershawnbandcampcom. Follow up, keep in the loop. Stay in the loop with my movement Ladies Love Loops. The loop with my movement Ladies Love Loops at ladieslovesloopsla on Twitter. And just hit me up, man website oh yeah, hit up ladieslovesloopsnet. Ladieslovesloopsnet, visit the site alright and look out for the album he's my Muse coming out October, late October.
Speaker 3:That's very, that's real soon. You got like Internet. You got like Maybe five or six weeks you know oh my god, it's so real.
Speaker 4:It's so real, it's actually happening, oh my god.
Speaker 3:Yeah, get your, get your minds ready, internet, yo, because they not playing. You know what I'm saying? Nah, same questions For you, man.
Speaker 1:Yes, so I. I have an Instagram that I Am notoriously bad at checking, but I am at N-A-J underscore H-E-A-D, and I'm also on x, formerly known as twitter same handle n-a-j underscore a-h-e-a-d. I'm on bandcamp nod your head. No, underscore dot bandcampcom. And uh, yeah, check out some of the latest drops. I've been doing this like Uncle Blend series, where I'm like doing flips of joints that you know. You just got to check it out, see what's happening with that. But, and yeah, be on the lookout, for he's my Muse coming very soon.
Speaker 3:Yeah, man, uncle Blend what's it called Blen's.
Speaker 2:Lounge. Yeah, blen's Lounge.
Speaker 4:Yeah, blen's Lounge jazz function all his Uncle Blen. Shit is the shit man like you can't you gotta it's like my workout music that jazz function. Get into that jazz function, man. Yeah and I don't know when he gonna drop that Common and Go remix.
Speaker 1:That needs to be dropped oh, they don't know about that one yet hold on what you mean well it's actually on my twitter right now if you look in the timeline, but I haven't dropped it on Bandcamp or anything yet. Next project.
Speaker 4:Next remix project perhaps.
Speaker 1:We'll see.
Speaker 3:Yeah, see.
Speaker 4:Thank you so much, GoldenLine, for interviewing us.
Speaker 3:Yes, hey, yo, no problem, man, like, let me. Man, like this was a pleasure. Man, like you know what, I'm gonna leave this invitation with y'all man, before the album comes out. Let's chop it up again so we can go. You know, I do this thing where I talk to, um, like the same thing I did with TI and Dom Cruz about their album. We just talked about each track, played a little snippet of it and just talked about it. Like, if y'all want to do that, man, I'll dedicate one, I'll dedicate an episode just to y'all man okay, it's called.
Speaker 3:It's called beach, it's called beach strumentals. Man, that's, that's my like, my album series or my beat tape series, where I just talk to the artists um, strictly about that album. I did it with um, b4 Lasers, t-dot, dom Cruise, afro Blue who else have I?
Speaker 2:done that with man.
Speaker 3:Um, I did it with uh, oh, man, what's my guy in Australia, man? No, I can't um. Tatsumaki, Tatsumaki yeah, I can't forget my guy man. Yeah, so Tatsumaki man. So, yeah, man, I'm going to leave that invitation with y'all man, All right.
Speaker 1:All right, For sure man. Pleasure speaking with you Gold and Vine, thank you for having us once again. You know what I'm saying Wishing you much success and prosperity. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:Y'all ever need anything, let me know, man. I'm on X, I'm on Instagram, man, so just let me know. I'm always there, man. I'm always going to support y'all man. So all right, peace and love y'all.
Speaker 4:Peace peace, peace. This is the homie economy from jersey and you're now rocking with the rec show podcast with the homie golden mind. You're living life like it's golden over here, baby you feel me, you dig.
Speaker 1:Thank you so yo this, your boy, tiki, and you're checking out the right show. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
