RnB Vibes w/ Kai Baez

Kai baez is a versatile artist who takes you away with his amazing vocals and lyricism. At Just 23 years old Kai is taking the RnB and Folk Genre by Storm. Be sure to follow Kai Baez on allll platforms. Listen today and you'll be guaranteed to thank me by tomorrow!!!!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_06 0:00

See you no scars. So I don't have them. Nothing can change who are nine. Oh my gosh, who are you?

SPEAKER_04 0:16

I'm Carl Bayas. That's the each moment.

SPEAKER_01 0:19

Oh my gosh, Kyle Bayez, I love your voice. What are you doing here?

SPEAKER_04 0:23

I'm with Joey Baby right now. I'm out here doing the podcast.

SPEAKER_01 0:28

I'm actually Zoe Baby. You ready to vibe the fuck out? Let's go.

SPEAKER_05 0:55

That was such a people in my life actually nurging me. That was such a hard.

SPEAKER_01 1:01

What's going on, y'all? You already know this is your girl, Zoe Baby, tapping back in to another episode of It's a Vibe Podcast, baby. If you missed our episode last week, we had the lovely Miss Kiki Kamal live in the vibe corner. And the podcast is actually on all platforms: Apple Music, uh, Amazon, iHeart, Spotify, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, you name it, is there, okay? So you know this is the platform where all the dopest artists and the hottest entrepreneurs come to vibe. And tonight is no different, y'all. Now we've been super excited. I got so many questions for this artist. We got K Bias live in the vibe corner. What's going on?

SPEAKER_06 1:55

How are you doing, mama?

SPEAKER_01 1:56

How are you doing? Okay, so I'm gonna ask the question that's already on your Instagram and it's your Instagram handle. Who is Kai Bias?

SPEAKER_04 2:09

Um, just a kid from Brooklyn, New York. Uh just grew up in Fort Green, Brooklyn, to be exact. Uh, just a kid that first his original government name is Shandell. So we grew up at Shandell first before we knew Kai. Okay. And Shandell just had to just grow up in life, and do it, and understand what he wanted to do, how he wanted to be. And um when I got uh around 2020, I wanted to do the whole name change and try to see what that felt like. And I always studied people like Bryson Tiller and Bruno Mars and Chris Brown and such, and I always liked having a double name, like a first and last name. So I was like, okay, I gotta figure out what I want to call myself. And Kyle Baez was something that I just enjoyed. And um Kai means the ocean, and Baez was um my one of my favorite baseball players, his last name. Okay. So I just took it from just to honor him as well, and uh yeah, it's been fun living this. So that's Cal Baez is an RB artist who touches the soul. That's all.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

And you definitely touch the soul, okay? I don't think I've had too many artists that have come up and I literally listened to their music all week long, like songs on repeat, songs on replay. And I'm act I actually wrote three of the songs down, but we're gonna get there, you guys. So you actually I read in one of your interviews that you actually started doing music at eight years old.

SPEAKER_04 3:47

Okay, six, but eight.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

And then you said this was a way for you to actually deal with your mental health. Okay, so what was the name of your first song? Do you remember?

SPEAKER_04 4:02

I don't remember, but I just remember it was like on like on a notepad. Okay. And I just was like, all right, let me just um I think I was heard like 10 or 11 when I wrote my first song.

SPEAKER_03 4:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 4:12

I know I was eight years old. I was just like singing like Bruno Mars and Chris Brown, because in my household, we I grew up in the Dominican household, so majority of the time it was more like bachata music and merengue and sasa, and that's more like emotional at beat. Oh, yeah. Especially bachata is like more emotional music, especially if you listen to the lyrics. So it's all about heartbreak and everything. So I always grew up about that. And I would think my first song was like something about like a girl that I had a question on. And I try to like write it for her, but I just don't remember exactly what I wrote.

SPEAKER_01 4:46

Now, Kai, because you are super young, you're 24 years old. Um, you out here on the music scene, almost 24, and you out here on the music scene. Um, and it's so many different genres that you could have tapped into. Like, what led you to RB?

SPEAKER_04 5:02

So I did a um shout out to my mentors back in New York, uh, Shelton and Jeff. Um, they helped me a lot when it came to music, especially afterwards. Once I got into high school and everything, uh, I was in a conscious music group um with them and they showed me the ropes, I guess you could say, when it came to music. I tried to figure out what I wanted to do afterwards. They had me really singing and rapping most of the time because I grew up, especially in Brooklyn, the Boom Bap era, and just listening to a lot of different rappers around my time. Um all we knew was just freestyling on the lunch table and doing all that stuff, and uh I got accustomed to it. I always wanted I I was a fan of rap, even from people that I was listening to back in the day, like little Wayne and such, and um I always wanted to figure out how to do it. And once I got into being by myself and independent, after a while, once we left I left the group, um I w I didn't know what I wanted to do. And but then I realized I didn't want to be just a statistical Brooklyn rapper.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 6:11

And I wanted to be something different. I knew God gave me a voice for a reason, and I I wanted to see for what was the purpose and trying to figure out how can I instill that into other people and or what is the purpose of me even having this voice. So um I always wanted to I loved RB, especially growing up, like the people I mentioned before, so it was no-brainer, especially trying to tap into that industry in that pocket. So I know it's been the best thing ever.

SPEAKER_01 6:37

See what I'm saying? And now you've um just imagine being that eight-year-old boy. Would you ever expect, because now you're over 500,000 screams, you've written for some of the biggest artists. You've performed at the Strath Center.

SPEAKER_04 6:53

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 6:54

You've done so much. Would you have imagined you get what I'm saying? Would you have imagined that at eight you work with Yism, you worked with Toon the Poet, and these ain't like light names. You in the loop with Caleb Music, Push Supreme, like these are not light names. Like, would you ever have imagined that this is where you would have been?

SPEAKER_04 7:14

Nah, just even just working with and just listening, working with some of these people, and then even like tapping into like some of my favorite artists of all time, like that's even a blessing of itself. Like having the ability and just having the comfort of being who you are and having the I guess you could say the the confidence of understanding who you are, because I didn't really have confidence growing up.

SPEAKER_03 7:42

Really?

SPEAKER_04 7:42

Nah, I was bullied. So I didn't really necessarily have like a lot of confidence. People always like shun me from being the outcast, I guess you could say. Especially growing up, for the guys, it was intimidating because I could sing. You know, the pretty women used to always come at me and shit, but but nah, it's um it's been fun. It's out to eat, but it's been fun. Um it's been fun just um enduring the moment and living on living in the moment of like, okay. I kind of solidify myself a little bit. Not too much, but I'm in a comfortable position where it's like I've done a lot. And the span that I've done and how young I've done it. Um I always tell myself I'm an old soul. Uh I don't really be thinking of my age at times, so because I just never really grew up with the people around my age. Okay. So I just uh I always endured that from the hard workers, from people that I seen in my life, and just applying that shit to myself. So it was easy.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

See what I'm saying? Now I played um two songs for the people. One of them, you know this is already my favorite song, Mood Swings. That's my favorite song, you guys. And can I play them a little snippet of that before we before I tap y'all out? I'm gonna let I'm gonna actually play a little snippet for y'all at home, but that's all y'all get.

SPEAKER_05 9:06

I don't wanna stop William Bull Strange, you don't think that up, your bullflame, your bull strange, baby out. Maybe I don't change. I don't wanna stop William Bull Strange, you don't think that up, your bullflame, your ball strange, baby out. I be moving badge in the looking good to the average, and you average to the badge to the traffic and do this no more.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

So, um, with that song, that is my vibe. But when I put that on my story last night, right? Um, my homegirl was like, oh, he sounds like Brent Fayez. Um, another person compared you to um who was it? Um Bryson Tiller. And these are two people that you said were among your top artists that you that you kind of listened to.

SPEAKER_04 9:58

I love Brent for sure. And I grew up and uh I got to talk to Bryson actually personally, so that was a great moment as well. Like having that conversation with him and just even speaking to him was a great moment itself. He still owes me Golden Corral, so if you ever see him, you still owe me good.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

So out of those two, who um who would you who would be your top feature?

SPEAKER_04 10:23

I'm always gonna go Bryson.

SPEAKER_01 10:24

Really?

SPEAKER_04 10:25

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:26

Not Britt?

SPEAKER_04 10:27

Nah. Like, and no disrespect to Brett, but nah, I always wanted that. I still need that Bryson feature. Like I said, he owes me Golden Corral, then like a lunch dinner. So, but nah, I always wanted that. Because I guess you could say I told him personally that he owes me my career, because it's true. Because I at that time when I was trying to figure out RB, I didn't understand like what avenue I wanted to go with. And at that time, the weekend and um other people was out. Uh, but Vice Until this trap soul album really kind of like implemented my my sound. Cause I I wanted to continue the rapping, but I also wanted to add the soul flavor, so I didn't understand like what can I do. And when I heard Exchange, and then when I heard Don't, and then the rest of the whole album itself, I was just like, okay, like this is something that I can probably like get into it. And then I tapped into like the weekend and party next door, and then I was like, okay, these guys are also doing the trap soul type of vibe. And I said, okay, I want to get into this space at first, and that's how I like got into RB, just doing trap soul.

SPEAKER_01 11:34

Now, if people don't know, um, you don't only do just RB. No. You do a little rock, you do do a little rap. Yeah, I've I've been seeing them. Yeah, when you tap into that emotional side, I be seeing it, I be seeing it.

SPEAKER_04 11:47

I say more folk music than rock, but yes.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

It sounds like rock to me, but it's folk. It's no music, so it's folk music.

SPEAKER_04 11:54

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

Gotcha. Yes. Okay, okay, okay. Yes. Okay. So how do you, how do you kind of like, like, travel in between those two spaces, between folk music and RB, and still keep that same audience engaged with your music?

SPEAKER_04 12:12

I guess you could say for my and shout out to my mentor again, Shelton, but he always told me that music is the only thing that can enter a subconscious mind without asking for permission. And I want to treat that same value with everything I do. So it's like with any genre that I tap into, I want to be able to have that experience with you. I want you to experience my music in the best way possible. Because like I said outside, like my music ain't my my songs aren't songs, they're stories. So 95% of the time you're gonna think about yourself before you think about me. Because it's gonna hit you more than it hits me. Because I wrote it for you. I didn't write it for me. Now I may have sprinkled a little bit of my personal life, but I watch everything from everybody. I go on social media and I look at all the bullshit that's happening outside. Or I tap in with my people's and I listen to their stories and how their relationship dramas or how their single life is going. And or I listen to podcasts and uh and I watch their stuff, and or I listen to I go on YouTube and I find some people that I watch on their shit and uh listen to their life story. Or even Pastor T D J's. Like I listen to his testimonies and sometimes understand his worship and see his sermons and understand, okay, I get the message. And it's like, how can I relay that to my music? How can I tap into people and tap into the voiceless? Like I tell people sometimes I I'm I speak for the voiceless.

SPEAKER_06 13:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:42

Because I I I don't like when and I'm a mental health advocate as well. So I I know what it feels like to not have a voice at times and not understanding how to speak.

SPEAKER_03 13:51

Right.

SPEAKER_04 13:51

Or how to get an actual understanding of what you want to say. So it's more easier for me in that aspect of just trying to help those who need to understand that is actually how they felt, and they just didn't know.

SPEAKER_01 14:03

I know that's right. Now you talked about being bullied because you say you are big on mental health, and I feel like once we get past a certain age, a lot of the adults kind of lose sight of what not only adolescents go through, but even you as like a Gen Z or this is a whole new world for you guys. Stuff that we've seen, you aren't seeing, but um just going through mental health at an age, at such a young age, and using music, like what were the soul, what were the songs that kind of resonated with you at eight years old? You say Bruno Mars, but what was like one song that you sung that really just touched your soul?

SPEAKER_04 14:41

I said grenade.

SPEAKER_01 14:42

Grenade?

SPEAKER_04 14:43

Yeah, I grenaded when I was your man for some reason. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_01 14:47

How grenade go again?

SPEAKER_04 14:48

Um catch your grenade.

SPEAKER_01 14:50

Yeah, I ain't want you to sing it, babyface. I'll just I'm just jumping with you. That's my boy right now. DJ Babyface is the goddamn bartender, y'all. Shout out to DJ Babyface pouring up the Drake's back there for all of us because Liz is out. And y'all make sure y'all keep my bartender in your prayers. Um, she does have some personal stuff going on. Um, we definitely miss you, Liz. Life ain't the same without you, girl. So hurry your tail back onto the vibe corner, honey. Okay. But yeah, um, being that eight-year-old and why grenade?

SPEAKER_04 15:29

Cause I saw the music video and um I saw someone that looked just like me. Um Bruno is also of Hispanic descent as well. And just seeing somebody like almost look identically like me, dressing like me, because at that time I didn't really grow up with street wear. You know, my my parents they they taught me um suit and tie is really all you need. And dress fancy and dress classy, because that's how you get business done. So I used to be eight years old, always going to school with a suit on, and I didn't care if it was 90 degrees outside or 75, I'm still gonna wear my suit outside. And I wanted to be classy looking, and I wanted to actually look professional and look the part. And um seeing that video and then seeing him carry the piano up the hill with the with the suit on, and it was just like I want to be just like that, and I want to have like something of a of a resonance to that and actually try to feel like I can be just like that. Okay, and it gave me motivation to actually come on my show and understand, okay, I think I can do something with this.

SPEAKER_01 16:39

Gotcha. Okay, so you grew up in New York City and you came down here when?

SPEAKER_04 16:44

Uh 2019.

SPEAKER_01 16:46

2019. Okay, what was the biggest transition? Because you spent a lot of time in New York, so it's kind of like half and half. Yes. Right now. So you spent a lot of time in New York and you've been here for almost seven years, right? So um, what's the biggest, what's the biggest difference between the two?

SPEAKER_04 17:02

Culture.

SPEAKER_01 17:03

Culture?

SPEAKER_04 17:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:04

Okay, give me like three examples.

SPEAKER_04 17:06

Um I got you. New York, I feel like, and no disrespect to Tampa, but I feel like we got more culture because I feel like we have a lot more heritage surrounding every single borough and area.

SPEAKER_03 17:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 17:24

And you just get the vibe of everywhere. Like you can go down to Little Italy, or you can go to Spanish Harlem, or obviously there's gonna be areas that's more predominantly black. So you're gonna be spending time out there as well. You can go to the A-Rabs area and spend time in there, or you can go to even the the Jewish towns as well. There's areas in, like it's just more, or you can go to Chinatown. Okay. There's more culturally there, I feel like, when it comes to New York. Um sound wise, I feel like it's a difference for sure.

SPEAKER_06 18:01

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 18:01

Because um y'all love the Dick and Job. Just like how we love to dance out there, but y'all love the jerk and job, I hear for sure. So it's uh it's a whole different atmosphere, and then some of y'all rappers is different. Like um Tom and and uh and especially my guys that I know like Toon and the rest of them, it's the rest of Indianism is it's all different. So um and then I would say uh I'll say the weather. Oh yeah, obviously, but then also the distance of things that I got. Like 30 minutes ain't 30 minutes from over there. It's really not 30 minutes out here, like it could be 30 minutes or it could be an hour, depending on traffic.

SPEAKER_01 18:48

Yeah, but New York is the same way.

SPEAKER_04 18:50

Yes, but we got trains and buses, we got other public transportations that we can take. Y'all out here is more like if y'all need to have a car out here.

SPEAKER_01 19:00

I think that was my least favorite part. I went to New York one time, and as far as culture goes, New York was the only place that I know wore ski masks in the winter. Okay, we are in Florida. Do you understand what I'm telling you? Can you imagine the Florida girl first time in New York walking down this damn 20 fucking mile radius that they call a block?

SPEAKER_04 19:22

I had to go to school in negative five degree weather.

SPEAKER_01 19:25

Yeah, but I'm just that it would that's a culture shock for me, though. It's cold because see down here, somebody in the ski mask, you're getting robbed.

SPEAKER_04 19:32

Of course. We out there, we need that ski mask to protect ourselves in the cold.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

My friend thought it was funny to just start running when she saw this man, you know what I'm saying? So I'm like, what the fuck is she running for? So I started running too. And the man looking at us like, what the hell going on? I'm just cold. And I'm like, no nigga, you trying to rob us. You know, I was scared as hell. So yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:53

Subways and school with hot with the um the hot warmers on my hands in my pockets. I used to put that in my in my coat pocket. Uh-huh. Goes to the train stations. The train stations used to be cold. They don't know about that. They don't know about having the little hot warmers in there. I used to have long jaws.

SPEAKER_01 20:10

Well, no, what do you think?

SPEAKER_04 20:13

Oh I used to have long jaws underneath the sweats. Underneath the sometimes I used to have jeans underneath the long jaws, three. But guess what? I just have the sweater with the jacket, with the shirt, with the long sleeve shirt. I do that in Florida. Between the shirt, or sometimes even just like in the pockets. Yeah. I do that in Florida. Nah, baby, we do that every day. Yeah, I do that in Florida. That's every six to eight months. I go back. Every six to eight months, we have. Nah, it wasn't a good winter. Oh, no, that was not good. And that there'll be winters where it don't snow. But it'd just be super cold. Like I'd look at my phone, it would say one put it'll be like one degree, but then I'll be like, okay, let me see what it says. It feels like it'll say feel like negative two, negative five.

SPEAKER_01 21:07

Uh-uh. I can't take it. I can't take it.

SPEAKER_04 21:14

Can't even smoke outside. Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

I could not take that. Oh my god. I can't take the winter. No, winter in New York, but I heard that in the summer is really nice.

SPEAKER_04 21:27

I love summer New York. Summer New York is my favorite thing of all time.

SPEAKER_01 21:30

Really?

SPEAKER_04 21:31

Favoritest thing in the world. I cannot experience a summer, like a New York summer. That's all I gotta say. There's black parties everywhere. Uh huh. There's um there's cookouts. You got yeah, concerts, you got even street performances sometimes, you even got people that's just throwing house parties for no reason. Like it don't matter what boat parties sometimes, like it don't matter where you are. You can go to the uh clubs out there during the daytime and brunch spots. Like the brush spots we lit out there during the summertime.

SPEAKER_01 22:02

See what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_04 22:03

Yeah, like even in the parks, the parks be throwing some shit sometimes, like like adult shit sometimes. The motherfuckers be out there, be wilding. Don't be caring. We illegal out there, so we smoking like a motherfucker out there too. I throw a little cookout. So it don't matter what we do out there. Funny that someone can never forget that shit.

SPEAKER_01 22:22

Okay, so um, who would you say has the better music? Up north or down south? Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04 22:32

I grew up on both, so it's like ah. Oh, that's tough.

SPEAKER_01 22:40

You want me to give you an opinion?

SPEAKER_04 22:42

I listen to more now down south music than up north music.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

How long did it take for you to get accustomed to um down south? Because I have a homegirl from Jersey and she cannot stand Florida music.

SPEAKER_04 22:58

I used to come out here for summer vacations and shit like that. The temple growing up in New York because my godmother, my cousins out here for real. So I used to like always grow up with down south and like the down south culture, understanding that shit. So that's why I'm like, I got I still got that southern culture in me in a way too, because I grew up with it a little bit. So listening to down south music, I used to listen to even Atlanta music like TR and like G Z, even at times. I used to listen to so like I used to grow up around that culture for real, just like understanding that. And like even the newer generation, like YB and all that stuff. Like, I grew up listening to Frey O'Bang. It was a call, uh I love Freyda. Uh Kevin Gates. Okay. And I out here, like, just uh shit, there's a lot of motherfuckers out here in Florida. I used to I listen to Rest in Peace at 350 Heme, but I used to listen to his ass a lot too. But there was a lot of people I used to grow up listen to for real. I just grew up listening to down south music. I love down south music though, but uh it's nothing like home, but I I like but you know down south is the real deal.

SPEAKER_01 24:08

Okay, so I want to play a game. You ready? So now we are going to I'm gonna give it, I'm gonna throw a name out there, two names, and you're gonna tell me of these two which one is the king of RB. Oh no. Oh yeah, okay, okay, oh yeah. Oh no. Oh yeah. Okay, all right. Here we go. Okay, here we go.

SPEAKER_04 24:28

So the first before I did it, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 24:30

The first one is gonna be Chris Brown versus Usher. And before you answer that, if y'all are watching at home, y'all are actually gonna have to tune in to this on YouTube for the full-length interview, baby. We're finna get into our game night. We're finna get into some more dope ass music, some more dope ass topics. So y'all make sure y'all stay tapped in. And I'm telling you, Apple Music is where it's at, okay? All music. I searched on YouTube, some of his music is on YouTube. Y'all can tap in right now on YouTube. But if you want to get the full, full, full experience, make sure y'all tap into Apple Music. Apple Music, Apple Music, Apple Music. Y'all run that up. Um and if y'all want to support the motherfucking college, y'all can definitely send a cash out, Lloyd Baby Podcast, okay? Z-O-E-Y-B-A-B-I podcast. Support a sister, support a sister, support the sister. I love y'all. I love y'all. Stay tuned. Don't go nowhere. What's going on, y'all? You already know this. We are tapped back in with Kai Bayes. Yes, y'all. And if y'all heard that last single that I just stopped, that is his single, pull up on Apple Music, y'all. I told y'all his albums on Apple Music are absolutely fire, and we're finna actually play these, a few of them, tonight. But back to the task at hand. Um, Kings of RB. Chris Brown or Usher.

SPEAKER_04 26:22

I feel like Usher had to walk before Chris Brown had to crawl, so I'ma say Usher.

SPEAKER_01 26:27

What? As a king of RB?

SPEAKER_04 26:30

I mean, but I feel like personally, like, yes, Chris Brown probably has more hits than Usher in a way. But I feel like Usher had to lay the foundation first.

SPEAKER_01 26:40

Oh no, I go off the hits. I I'm going with Chris Breezy.

SPEAKER_04 26:44

Hits wise, yes.

SPEAKER_01 26:45

Yeah, I love Chris. Okay. Um Giveon versus Brent Fayez.

SPEAKER_04 26:58

I'm gonna say Brent.

SPEAKER_01 27:00

You're gonna say you you love Brent.

SPEAKER_04 27:02

Even though shout out to my dog my my D voice brother, Giveon, but I I feel like Brent is more than Sonda. Like when he first was in that music group, Sonda, and he did his own projects with him, and then his own individual stuff, like I loved it.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

But um, what song do Brent Fire? I mean uh Give you on saying a mainstream song. Oh that's what the hell I'm talking about. Now you said when you was in school you used to woo all the ladies with your voice. Do you still do that today? You be serenading with me. You the ladies, man.

SPEAKER_04 27:57

I'll plead the fifth. But um the voice does its job.

SPEAKER_01 28:06

The voice it definitely does.

SPEAKER_04 28:08

Whichever one, but it both does its job.

SPEAKER_01 28:12

I just don't understand how when you sing, your voice is like so kind of like low, but when you talk, it's like bare white.

SPEAKER_02 28:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

I call you Pop Smoke.

SPEAKER_04 28:25

Call me whatever.

SPEAKER_01 28:27

So what is one of the biggest challenges? Because okay, you say you big. I love mental health, right? Yes. What was one of the biggest challenges that you had to overcome um in order to become your greater self today?

SPEAKER_04 28:42

I guess having to go through trials and numbers, I feel like as a hum as humans, we go we have to go through psychological events that yes can be traumatic. That's how we have PTSD, but sometimes we can't let those traumatic experiences make us. And I had to understand that whatever I was going through isn't gonna be the deciding factor of who I am and who I'm trying to strive to be.

SPEAKER_01 29:12

So you suffer from PTSD as well?

SPEAKER_04 29:15

There's a lot of things, honestly. But yeah, I've had I got PTSD, anxiety, social anxiety, um, suffered from depression. I've uh I was a uh suicide attempt person as well. I'm a suicide survivor as well. Yes, ma'am.

SPEAKER_03 29:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 29:32

I have my butterfly with my son I calling behind my ear. Um I don't really notice that tattoo as often, but it's always there as a reminder. And uh my my birds on my average gauge are the 11 birds of the times I wanted to quit life. And um my biggest bird is uh towards by like my armpit area, because that's where I wanted to do it as well. And just talking about moments like these, they're they're also just like you know, moments of learning. You know, moments of like of bouncing back and learning. Other times it's like, wow, like I I was in a real deep, deep thought process in life, and as humans we go through a lot. You know, we can go through I remember I heard this one lady in a TED talk, she said that we go through 60% of the time. We think about negative energy and negative uh thoughts as well. And uh that 40% is where you find positivity. And I always look for the 40% more than the 60. Okay, so I always try to be nice and try to be like, you know, this amazing and fun and bubbly person, because that's just who I naturally am.

SPEAKER_01 30:48

Okay, so I know um with depression, especially suicide, um a few days back I posted I have a um death anniversary of one of my closest friends, Curry. Um rest in peace to Curry. That was my baby, but um back then, because I was maybe 19 or 20 when we experienced the death of my friend. You know what I mean? And I didn't really know a lot about depression and things of that nature, but what are some of the triggering, like right now I work with veterans, and that's a lot of the things they go through. PTSD, um, depression, anxiety, as you stated, panic attacks. Like, what are some of the things in life that kind of brought about those feelings? Was it like a specific moment that led to that, or was it just a bunch of different things happening at once that you had to process that led to like your depression and anxiety?

SPEAKER_04 31:41

I think it was just like different moments within my life that caused it.

SPEAKER_01 31:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 31:46

And it was um from ages from like, you know, from uh six to times I can't even remember at four or even at, you know, eight, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen. I just I feel like every year was always a bit of a pivotal moment that I've always had. And um even just being in a like I said, in in a predominantly Dominican household, but also being in a in a first generation of of a immigrant family. Um their culture and aspect of things and the way how they live life is different from what we go through here. And also just knowing that how they grew up in their culture and their country is different from how I grew up here. Because at the end of the day, yes, I'm Dominican American, but I'm American born here. So I never really understood I I grew up also within the country with the excuse me, within the cultures of the country as well, of the Dominican Republic, but 90% of my time was here. And um how we treat mental health and everything over here is different from how they grew up over there. And it was a hard conversation, but then after a while, uh both parties understood and both parties started to, you know, learn from each other and wanted to learn how to actually coexist within that. And listening to other people's testimonies and listening to other people's stories when they go through mental health journeys and understanding how can I use that within my own music. Like I said before, I always wanted to be the voiceless of voiceless. So, how can I do that within my own music? And I can use that within the mental health space. Because we all go through the same things, whether it's different times, different days, different years, different seconds. But it's always gonna be the same emotions. Right. So your heartbreak and my heartbreak are gonna be two different stories, but it's gonna be under one umbrella, which is heartbreak. Mm-hmm. So that's gonna be our resonating thing that we're gonna be like, oh my god, that's how I know how that feels.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

Gotcha. So when you started your music, so did you start your music with your first EP, The Untitled?

SPEAKER_04 34:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:04

So that was the first one that you actually did.

SPEAKER_04 34:05

No, send a message was the first EP.

SPEAKER_01 34:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 34:08

Yeah, send a message.

SPEAKER_01 34:09

Send a message, and then it was Untitled?

SPEAKER_04 34:11

Yeah, that was like my first, I guess you could say, like, album length project I did.

SPEAKER_01 34:15

Now, when I listened to Untitled, first off, why did you name it Untitled?

SPEAKER_04 34:21

Um, I didn't want to put a title on the on the uh on the album because I just didn't want people to classify it to whatever it is. Because I have so many different types of genres in there. I'm singing in Spanish, um, uh doing more like uh upbeat RB, and then there's times where it's more heartbreak, and there's stories of you know, of low lifetimes, and I just didn't want to box it into one type of genre or even one title. So I called it untitled because I wanted to just let whatever the audience feel like is being the title.

SPEAKER_01 34:59

Got you. Now you did do a little Spanish one too in there, and I was like, okay, that's when I was like, okay, because I thought you were just African American, but you are actually African American, Dominican, and you're also West Indian. I'm from the same. Correct me because I was I was wrong. I thought Indian and West Indian was the same thing, but we learn something new every day. So you African American, Dominican, West Indian. Yes. Um, like how how how is that? Okay, so your mom is your mom Dominican?

SPEAKER_04 35:27

Yeah, so my dad, uh my mom is Dominican, and I guess you could say on the wider side of the scale of Dominicans. Okay. Um, my dad is more Afrocentric uh Dominican and also uh from the West Indies. Uh my grandfather is from St. Martin.

SPEAKER_01 35:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 35:44

And my mom and my grandmother is from the Dominican Republic.

SPEAKER_01 35:47

So what is it like growing up with all these different cultures? Yeah. Like, what is it like growing up with that? And then how do you feel like um all your different cultures kind of tied into your to your sound and into your music?

SPEAKER_04 36:01

So I didn't speak English until I was in school.

SPEAKER_03 36:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 36:08

Um majority of the time with Spanish in my household. Um, my parents didn't really understand. They understood English obviously from being here for so many times. But speaking, it was a little bit broken.

SPEAKER_03 36:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 36:21

Um, until I grew up in the school rankings, that's when I uh I was able to help them speak a little bit more better English and stuff. But um predominantly my first language is Spanish. So I grew up with Spanish culture, Spanish music, um, Spanish dancing, just living the lifestyle of just being a Hispanic person, I guess you could say, I guess you could say, excuse me. And um I grew up listening to Bachata Merengue and Salsa, and uh most of my favorite artists is like Frank Reyes, Anthony Santos, uh Romeo Santos, and Prince Royce, and a couple more people. Um and uh even now within the newer generation like Bad Bunny and uh uh Roshan and a couple more people like Osuna and Jay Balwing, a whole bunch of other people, but I just grew up listening to Hispanic culture. And when it came to RB, that was more when I started to like tap into more of like the African Afro side of me and just African American side, and growing up in the hood and just growing up, I guess, in New York, listening to RB most of the time within my friends and in the radio, you know, you never can never escape that shit. So just listening to it on YouTube and then just discovering it, it was more like okay, like I I like this genre. Let me see what it taps into and how can I implement them myself as just being this person who I am.

SPEAKER_01 37:48

Now I actually wrote down my favorite three songs. Okay, my first song is uh well, I have four, but your songs is Move Swings, number one, number two is pull up, number three is Teenage Fever. Um then number four was the collab with um Love You with Tuna Point, of course, because you know I've been vibing that thing all week. Literally, shout out to y'all, and then the other one is unreleased. Yes. Um, Can We Be in Love?

SPEAKER_06 38:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 38:27

That's my favorite, but y'all gotta wait for that one, unfortunately. It is super fire, you guys. So when you're putting these albums together, and when you're putting these songs together, because you have a lot of unreleased music as well. Yes, right? How do you determine what songs are gonna go on an EP or which ones are going on an album?

SPEAKER_04 38:50

Um I guess you could say, like, it just depends on the moment where I'm at right now. Like, sonically, like if I just want to give like a little teaser or like a little like uh sneak peek to what I'm working on, I'll create an EP basis of what the album is gonna be on.

SPEAKER_00 39:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 39:12

Um, so for uh I guess Untitled, for example, send a message was needed because I needed everybody to understand who I was. So that was the whole purpose of sending a message to everybody to understand who I was. That's where Untitled came in because that's where I wanted people to be more translucent with my music and just feel more free.

SPEAKER_06 39:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 39:35

And not have a title behind it. Since I already sent you a message, I want you to have a new experience. And my other albums and such, uh like When My Love Died, and um even uh, you know, Until the Doves Cry and everything else, like those projects, those mean a lot to me. And for the Friday collection and everything, those mean a lot because I I j I want to show different parts of myself and different aspects of music. And I love music. I'm a student of it. I I grew up with it and I just cherish it. Like if it was like how basketball players treat basketball and athletes treat their sport, or a painter treats us painting canvas, or like a poet treates, you know, poetry. I want that same feeling for myself.

SPEAKER_01 40:25

I got you. Now, when I asked you your three favorite songs that explains you best, I'm gonna go through all three of these and you're gonna tell me how and why they explain you the best. You ready? Yes. Okay, so number one, you said nights like this ain't meant to be.

SPEAKER_04 40:43

That was when I had my first ever um panic attack. Okay. And I wrote that song right after because um I didn't really have, like I guess you could say, the best relationship with my father.

SPEAKER_06 40:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 40:59

So I uh I wrote that song for Mayor Merrill to be like, okay. Nice like this is hard. And sometimes I be feeling like this really ain't meant to be because the way how my life is, and I see other people's life journeys, I'm like, wow, I wish I could be just like them. From the family aspect to um life and just how they are living out. I was like, I always want to be just like them. And I always think like damn subquincy subsequently, like I'm like, damn, I'm not like that. So it's like it's ain't really meant to be.

SPEAKER_01 41:35

Now you actually have a son as well. Yes. So when you speak of like the dynamic uh between you and your father being kind of you know, jaded, you know what I mean? Um, how do you kind of apply what you experienced with your father, what you felt um with your father, and how do you use that to create a better relationship between you and your child?

SPEAKER_04 41:59

It just feels like I don't know, like you I guess nowadays, like especially now when it comes to generational, I guess, trauma. You don't want to continue the same baton. You know, you don't want to carry the baton and pass it on to your to your other new generation that's gonna be coming upon. So within your kids, you don't want to just continue the same the same weight that you had, burning onto you. Um I always try to even now, even because my son is so young, like you have to instill it so early. You have to instill love and support and care and nurture. Because even though I had it in the beginning stages, and then later on my teenage stages, I didn't really have it. Um I don't want to add that to my son as well. You know, I I want to be the best version of a dad that I can be. I want to be the best father that I can be if however I can be. Whether if it's gonna take sacrifices, hard decisions, and times where I'm questioning myself and whether or not if I'm even doing a good job, that's what it's gonna be. That's my job as a father to do within him and make sure that he has the best childhood that I never had. Because that's what we were taught, you know, to give the best and give more than we ever had to our kids. Cause we want their lifestyles to be better than we did.

SPEAKER_01 43:22

I got no, that's right. Now, what was it that made like the dynamic? Because I have a messed up relationship with my biological father as well. But I spoke a little bit about that last week, but I have a relationship with my stepdad that's amazing. But what was something like what was the thing that made like the dynamic between you and your dad kind of like, you know, not as close?

SPEAKER_04 43:47

I guess uh growing up in Dominica culture, like you know, their dad will always be technically speaking your best friend.

SPEAKER_03 43:54

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 43:55

Um, I was always a mama's boy. Okay. Uh my me and my mama, we I feel like that's like, you know, my my my everything with call at times because me and my mama, we've been through it all through thick and thin. And I know mama, uh realistically speaking, I never really told the story, but my mama, I never really almost had the chance to grow up with my mama. Cause even after I was born, my mom got uh had a guy into a heart attack and almost lost her life after she was born with me. So realistically speaking, I was about I was almost being raised as a single father and with a single dad and understanding that lifestyle. So the connection between me and my mama is more deeper than anything, and she just knows everything about me. Like from when I could just be crying a thousand miles away, and all of a sudden she can feel that, and she'll call me and be like, Are you crying? Are you okay? Are you sad? Like something's wrong. I feel it in my heart. And just being close with my mom just helped me a lot. My mama was then there, my daddy at times, because she was always like the other semi-enforcer. So she always made sure that I didn't do wrong and always made sure that I was always okay. And I was a police kid too. So she was always she was in the police force as well. So she never made sure that I was on no bullshit and tried to make sure that I wasn't being on no fucking nigga to help me. So um my daddy, me and my daddy got close after a while, after the adult years. Um after once I was able to drink and share a beer with him, we got more closer and we got more fond within each other, and it was like, okay, you know, um, it made up for the times that I I lost with them, I guess you could say. And uh now he's uh, I guess you could say heavy within my son's life. Nice being there for him and being a granddaddy, so it's just more fun looking at that. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 45:56

Okay. Now the next song that you said, you said misunderstood. And tell us why you chose that song.

SPEAKER_04 46:05

Um, I don't know. I feel like misunderstood was like a pivotal song for me because I I don't know. I feel like people just be so misunderstood within my own self. Um you may see like this lovable character, this teddy bear almost energy vibe within me, and then at times I can be an asshole, and then there's times where I can be uh just quiet and mellow. And uh a lot of people can just misunderstand me at times.

SPEAKER_03 46:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 46:42

Where they feel like, you know, I'm not this individual that I can almost portray to be, because one minute you can see me out to love a boy, and then the next minute I could curse you out in six different ways, and that's just because my aggression is there too. And uh, but I just feel like I'm always misunderstood anyways in life. But I try to just keep walking in the straight path as much as I can.

SPEAKER_01 47:08

So, what's one thing that um often gets misconstrued about you that you will want people to understand about you today?

SPEAKER_04 47:18

Um just because I'm from New York does not mean I'm aggressive to this politics that um Yeah, because us Floridians definitely think like that. Yeah, no, I'm not. I'm uh as you can tell. As you can tell, no, no, it's true. As you could tell, I'm I'm loving, I'm I'm caring, I'm nice, I'm um I'm more warm-filling, if anything. Um I've I think in this season of my life, I've had to learn what love needs to be. And um I just love giving love to people, regardless of who you are, man. Like I'm I'm a loving person. I s I I don't I don't need you to scratch my back and find me to like make sure you're okay. Like I was the saying is you scratch my back, I scratch yours. I don't need you to do that. Like sometimes I just do things of the cariness of my heart. Like, um, just last year for Thanksgiving, uh I went out to Igor and gave out plates for the homeless.

SPEAKER_01 48:18

Oh, that's nice.

SPEAKER_04 48:19

Um, me and my family, we do that tradition. We call it the uh the Alfredo trend uh tradition. That's our last thing. So we um we tend to do it every Christmas and every Thanksgiving. We we uh pack up all the food that we usually have left over from all the parties that we go, and uh, we give it back to the homeless. And it's something that I I enjoy. And you don't see me posting about it on social media at times, you don't see me uh having it on my profile or anything because it's not something that I want televised. I feel like giving love isn't something that you should be showing to the world, it should be something that should be an act of kindness, and that's how I want my music and how I am as a person to be.

SPEAKER_01 49:06

Okay, nice. And then last you gave me Please Don't Let Go. And that's an unreleased song. Yes. Okay, and tell us about that one.

SPEAKER_04 49:19

Um it tells a story of itself, and I feel like the even one of the lines I wrote in the song that says, like, what do you call someone that's uh what do you call someone that's that's far from that's that's wandering afar? And it's like uh it's a wandering soul that's far from astray. And it's like, you know, someone who's lost and is far away from themselves. I always say that they're a wandering soul because you just don't know where you're going.

SPEAKER_06 49:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 49:55

And at times when it comes with love, it's like you just don't know where you can set your heart to be.

SPEAKER_06 50:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 50:01

Whether or not you can be in 30 relationships or you could find yourselves in six different marriages like J Lo, but it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_01 50:11

It doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_04 50:13

Nah, it does. It doesn't matter. Like, you know, you can you can find yourself in so many different predicaments or within yourself, and I always felt like you just can't let go of what you want. Like, just so you have to keep telling yourself, just don't let go. Yeah, don't let go of whatever you're searching, whether if it's love, whether if it's money, happiness, whatever you want, man. Just don't let go. Don't let go of that site.

SPEAKER_01 50:37

Period. I love that. Now, um, if you were a fan listening to your music, right? What song would you, and you can only do one, what song of yours would you nominate for a Grammy?

SPEAKER_04 50:54

Uh for a Grammy? Um, yeah, please don't let go.

unknown 51:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 51:07

I would say, yeah. Um, that's tough. Actually, damn, no, that's tough.

SPEAKER_01 51:12

That's a tough one, huh?

SPEAKER_04 51:13

Yeah, because um there's so many of mine that I would choose. Like, even Lift Me Up and Love Me Now, like those are songs that I feel like those are movie and songworth, movie and and TV show songworthy, and radio hit songs that are so impactful to me. Like just I fell in love with the genre of folk music so early within myself because in 2020, I remember one time in Brooklyn, I was so I was high, and I was coming from playing basketball, and I was like, yo, I want to listen to something. So, but I don't know what I want to listen to. And I was walking back home and I was like, okay, this person Taylor Swift. For some reason, I don't know why, but her album Folklore was out, and um, I was a fan of Ed Sheron and everything like that in the past, and Sam Smith, and I wanted to know who were they, and Taylor Swift was on my mind for some reason. And that whole body of project from the songs like August and um even other songs that she had like Betsy, and there's other songs in there that I enjoy. And I was like, oh my god, I think I can do this genre too. And I wanted to dig dive more, and I found out this is like the genre of storytelling, and that's what I do the most, and that's why like I even said like those three songs personally, like Lift Me Up, Love Me Now, and even the newer one that's gonna be coming out soon, uh, Please Don't Let Go. Those are just more like soulful songs that just hit, and I feel like that, yeah, I feel like a lot of people can resonate too.

SPEAKER_01 52:53

I'm still just trying to figure out how a 24-year-old sings these songs and sounds as if you have so much experience.

SPEAKER_04 52:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 53:00

That's what I'm I mean. I can see. I can see that. I can see that.

SPEAKER_04 53:04

I've been through a lot when it comes to love.

SPEAKER_01 53:07

Let me see. Yeah, because your music says it like your first album, it sounds like um, and I told you outside, it sounds like you're searching for um, you you're just searching, like you're you're you're not searching ain't the right word. You're you're kind of like learning your person.

SPEAKER_03 53:25

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 53:25

That's what I would say.

SPEAKER_03 53:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 53:26

Your first album, well, your first EP sounds like you're learning your person. You're trying to figure out what it is that you like. And then when you go to the next one, it's kind of like you got it all figured out, everything's going good. And then when you get to the last one, it's like, what the fuck? What the fuck, Kai? Who did it? And who the hell is Maria? Because you were singing about Maria, baby. Maria had your heart hurting.

SPEAKER_04 53:50

Maria, Alicia, a whole bunch of them. Yeah, who are those? Your ex-girlfriends? No. Okay. Like I said before, I make songs, not stories. I mean, excuse me, I make stories, not songs, just the alcohol.

SPEAKER_01 54:04

You said it right the first time.

SPEAKER_04 54:07

But I make stories, not songs. So it's like most of my songs are from me. Like, those are songs where I want you to feel as if I'm talking about somebody, or as if like I'm mentioning about somebody, or it resonates you too deeply because you like damn. I was in the predicament where a nigga done fucked me up with a Maria before. Like, they done left me for Maria.

SPEAKER_01 54:33

It had me feeling like, who the fuck broke Kai Heart? Because I'm about to go find them. Yes, that's how I felt. I'm glad Maria ain't a real person. Because I was, it was about to, it was about to go down, Maria.

SPEAKER_04 54:47

No, no, no, no. Even like uh Soraya's song and uh Soraya's actual person, and and shout out to Soraya. Thank you for letting me use your your your name. And even um like the chapter series where there's different women on the on the cover arts, uh, and shout out to those women in particular. I wanted to make those chapter series so where every chapter is based upon that particular woman that's on the cover art, but not necessarily. Because I want those to be like, you know, stories that quote unquote they would they're going through in their personal relationships. So songs like Moose Wings that you saw on that album or that EP, or like um the song with me uh and uh Rosary Hills, my brother, um, and there's other songs that they're on the different chapter series that I love. Uh uh like uh Lost Me Found You, like those songs, those make up those EPs because they they tell their own story within those projects.

SPEAKER_01 55:48

I love those songs. I'm telling y'all, and y'all are gonna love Kai even more once y'all check his music out on Apple. I'm telling you. Okay, now this is the fun part. Okay, y'all. So before I get into this final song, which is my favorite song, I'm giving y'all a snippet. Just as I promised, we are about to play a game because Kai happens to be a Gen Zier. Yes, this is so exciting, okay? And I'm super, super, super excited. So, Kai, for this last you're Gen Z. You're definitely Gen Z.

SPEAKER_04 56:21

Unfortunately. I'll be trying to talk about people who let my daddy done hold me.

SPEAKER_01 56:27

I'm gonna okay, so what do a VCR, Blockbuster, and a VHS have in common?

SPEAKER_04 56:38

You can go get rent the movie and pop that zone right in there.

SPEAKER_01 56:41

Oh, you smart. You smart. You done seen this stuff online. I grew up in those. You done seen it.

SPEAKER_04 56:46

I grew up in those towns. I used to, me and my daddy, we used to go to Blockbuster and go rent out the movies and go and even before there was a Red Box, before all that Netflix and all that bullshit, you have to go to Blockbuster, go rent out a movie, then bring it back during a certain time, and then if you want to, you can go change out the movies and go switch it out. Me and my daddy used to go all that. I used to uh even see uh what you call it, all them Chuck Norris movies, all them shits my daddy used to put me on to back in the days, like them old school movies that my daddy used to put me on to.

SPEAKER_01 57:15

Okay, okay, okay, okay. He got that one right. He got that one right. Let me see, let me see. What is a cassette?

SPEAKER_04 57:22

A cassette? Ooh. Something that you can play music out of. But not necessarily out of, but you can like put music into it and then listen to it on the little c uh whatcha call it? Not the uh the little cassette machines that you can put into.

SPEAKER_01 57:40

You keep saying the same thing.

SPEAKER_04 57:42

I say, what is a cassette? What is a cassette? It's like a little isn't like it's like a little white box that like has like the little holes and stuff on it. I know what it is, but I think it's because of the alcohol that's making it mess up.

SPEAKER_01 57:55

It's okay. Yeah, a cassette is like a tape.

SPEAKER_04 57:58

It's like a little cassette tape player, as you can say, if anything, you can use like a cassette tape player. And then you got a cassette. Yes, you can use a cassette tape and you can use the player for it.

SPEAKER_01 58:07

What do we use dial up for?

SPEAKER_04 58:19

You lost me on that one.

SPEAKER_01 58:21

Dial up was the internet.

SPEAKER_04 58:23

Yes, them. Yes, yes, yes. I'll please defend for that one because I did forget. Again, this is the alcohol that's kicking it.

SPEAKER_01 58:40

What was the name of Pocahontas' grandma?

SPEAKER_04 58:53

This one my joke ass but a grandma.

SPEAKER_01 58:55

Come on, West India.

SPEAKER_04 58:57

Shut a grandma. I forgot the grandma's name.

SPEAKER_01 59:01

It's the tree.

SPEAKER_04 59:03

I plead the fifth.

SPEAKER_01 59:04

Mother Willow.

SPEAKER_04 59:05

I plead the fifth.

SPEAKER_01 59:06

That's okay. See what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_04 59:08

I plead the fifth.

SPEAKER_01 59:08

Oh my gosh, what else can I say? What else can I say? I plead the fifth. I got you like three times. You lucky I ain't making you take shots.

SPEAKER_04 59:16

I would do them now, because honestly, I deserve it for that shit. I deserve it.

SPEAKER_01 59:23

Um, what did you use to watch? I mean, what did you use in a DVD player?

SPEAKER_04 59:29

What did I use? What you mean?

SPEAKER_01 59:31

No, like what do you use a DVD player for?

SPEAKER_04 59:35

You could watch movies, you could put up, um, there was people back in the times where they would record uh videos on their little camp corridors and stuff like that. They would burn it on their CDs and watch it on their TVs.

SPEAKER_01 59:45

Oh yeah, you smart, you smart, you smart, you smart. How much did a burnt CD cost back in the day?

SPEAKER_04 59:53

I know it was less than a buck for sure.

SPEAKER_01 59:55

No, it was about five dollars.

SPEAKER_04 59:57

For some people, I knew they was doing it for less than a buck.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:00

I love that. You still good, you got that right. Um, I'm trying to think about it.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:04

Because I used to burn CDs too, and I used to um, especially me and my cousin, we used to burn CDs and burn like specific albums and shit. My cousin would burn uh Jay-Z or Nas albums back in the day and stuff like that, so you can have that shit.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:16

Now, in Tom and Jerry, who was the dog, I mean, who was the cat and who was the mouse?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:24

Uh, what's it called? Jerry. Jerry was the mouse and Tom was the cat.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:29

Who's Garfield?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:31

Garfield was an orange little cat. I used to eat them all to us.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:34

And what was the dog's name? I'm just saying, I don't even know the oldest. I used to the oldest, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:41

That's what the oldest, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:43

Um, what was the daddy's name on Family Matters? I'm not telling you.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:57

I'm asking you set me up for pure failure. And I used to watch Full House too. Damn.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:10

Family Matters.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:10

Uh family matters, Lord have mercy. I'm drunk as fuck.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:13

Carl.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:14

Carl Winslow. Yeah, because you guys motherfuckers used to call me Steve Urkel back in the day. Because I used to wear glasses. I still wear glasses.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:21

You kinda look like Stephon.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:22

Please. Stephon is with yeah, Stephon's without the glasses.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:25

Yeah, kinda like Stephon. Yeah. I get you Stephanie.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:27

Stephon's without the glasses. I definitely go into.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:31

Give me two characters off the limb before time.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:34

You lost me. I'll plead the fifth. I'll plead the fifth.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:39

That was my favorite movie. I plead the fifth. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:41

Who is it with?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:43

No, it's a movie.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:44

Exactly. Who's it with?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:45

It's just dinosaurs.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:46

See, I played the fifth. I grew up with Jurassic Park my life. Fucking curious joys and shit.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:57

Right. Uh, what was the name of the bear that used to fight crime?

SPEAKER_04 1:02:03

There was a bear that fought crime.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:05

From Chicago, Illinois, 60652.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:12

The only bear that I knew that fought crime was a motherfucker that said only you can say four is five.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:19

His name was Scruff McGruff.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:22

Oh, I heard that name before.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:24

Oh baby. I love y'all. I love millennials, y'all. I love millennials. I love millennials.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:31

I heard that name before.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:33

Um well, y'all, if y'all are watching at home, I want to thank you guys so much for tuning in. This is It's Survive Podcast. We is with my boy Kay Baez. I feel like we gotta do a part two because I'm gonna watch this and I'm gonna be like, oh, why didn't I ask that? Watch what I tell you. I do that every time.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:51

We're gonna do another one, don't worry.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:53

I'm ready. I see, I had I had to make sure I got you before you turn famous. You already at the Strath Center and crap. You writing for celebrities and stuff. I'm okay. You over 500k views and shit.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:06

500k strays and everything. Everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:09

You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:09

I'm okay. You know what I'm saying? I do not do all right.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:13

You're right. I'm wild. Yeah, but we definitely had to get him before he hit the big stage, y'all. I'm telling you, he's gonna be huge, huge, huge. And when he turns huge, I'm gonna make this a private interview and you're gonna have to pay a hundred dollars to see it.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:26

Shouldn't mean it's gonna be all about the time and money.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:29

That's it. That's it. But before I let you go, before we get into my favorite song, and I'm only giving y'all like 10, 15 seconds, because my boy told me it was okay. That's the only reason I'm letting y'all hear it. Um, but before we go, one more time, let them know who you are and where they can find you and what you got coming up.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:48

Is Cobias and this who is Cobias on majority of all uh social media platforms? Um it's K-A-I-B-A-E-Z. Um and uh yeah, we got a lot of stuff in the works and just stay tuned, honestly.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:06

And make sure y'all check my boy out again. You really all you really got to type in is K-A-I-B-A-E Z, and it'll pull up everything that you need. And then if you don't have Apple, go ahead and pay that subscription, especially if you're a student. I think they have a student discount for like five bucks, five or six bucks. So download Apple, y'all. It's not that expensive.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:27

Do whatever you gotta do as a family.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:28

Yeah, download whatever, whatever. But when you get it, K-A-I-B-A-E-Z. And directly after that, it's a vibe podcast with Zoe Baby. Okay, directly after. Don't y'all miss it. Now, y'all make sure y'all stay tuned. We have another exclusive interview coming up. I'm not gonna tell y'all who it is until later. Y'all know how I do. But as always, I love you. I love you, I love you. Thank you for another successful episode, and I will see y'all next time. Later.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:13

I just wanna go and get uh but I think when it got a fetch uh but it wet cut I'm gonna be on top of fake years of a test cut first.