10 | Poppi : Betting on Yourself & Building a Timeless Catalog

From growing up in a first-generation Caribbean household in Miami to building a fresh sound in the Philadelphia creative scene, Poppy joins The Kenlo Show to break down his musical journey. In this episode, we dive into how a childhood surrounded by nightlife and classical band practice evolved into a passion for production, overcoming a sudden end to an athletic career, and the long-term discipline needed to drop a self-promised project.

01:00:05 — The People's Platform: Introducing Miami’s own Poppy 
01:00:33 — Roots & Rhythm: First-generation immigrant identity and Caribbean musical foundations 
01:01:34 — Behind the Scenes: From a family-owned Miami strip club to early SoundCloud mixes 
01:02:00 — Instrumental Swag: Learning four saxophones and making classical band cool 
01:03:59 — Changing Direction: High school football at Upper Darby and overcoming a season-ending injury 
01:05:16 — The Destiny Complex: Living out a namesake legacy and starting out in a closet studio
 01:07:00 — Betting on Yourself: Launching "Poppy Party Volume One" and making commitments for 2025
 01:09:42 — Visual Storytelling: Drake's influence and breaking down the tracks "Daddy" and "Tik Tik Tik"
 01:12:15 — The Top Five Legends: Gaining inspiration from Bob Marley, Vybz Kartel, and Afrobeats heavyweights
 01:13:19 — The Aura Debate: Choosing between Wizkid and Davido
 01:14:05 — Aesthetic Icons: Fashioning a stage identity from Pitbull and Michael Jackson 
01:15:31 — The Philly Horizon: Expanding beyond the Miami sound and connecting with the African diaspora 
01:16:58 — This or That: Why finding the right beat dictates the entire song 01:18:02 — Live Energy: Rejecting standard backtracks and chasing the thrill of a real performance 
01:19:34 — Playing the Long Game: Avoiding "microwave" TikTok music for a timeless catalog 
01:21:32 — Climbing the Ladder: Why strategic local collaborations matter before looking global
 01:22:55 — The Formula for Success: Controlling your content, leaving your bed, and executing faith with works 
01:24:43 — Outro: Where to stream "Poppy Party Volume One" right now



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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:05

Hey everybody, it's your girl Ken Low Back at It Again, and welcome back to the People's Platform for the creative community. And tonight we have Poppy. Introduce yourself, Poppy.

SPEAKER_03 0:15

What's going on, y'all? It's your boy Bobby. Uh I'm excited to be here. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 0:20

I'm excited to hear that. I like that sweater. Thank you so much. I like your aesthetic as well. Love the loafers, love the white own black.

SPEAKER_03 0:26

I appreciate it. Just make sure my posture is good.

SPEAKER_01 0:28

Yes, I love your posture. And your dreams, by the way.

SPEAKER_03 0:30

Thank you. I'm excited to be here.

SPEAKER_01 0:32

I'm glad to hear you. Thank you. So let's talk about your introduction to music. How did you get into music?

SPEAKER_03 0:37

Um, honestly, to me through music, like I would say it's really been being born like where I where I was born. So I'm I'm originally from Miami, Florida. I'm a first generation American, I'm Haitian Dominican. Both my parents are immigrants. So I think like growing up in a Caribbean household, music is a staple. Like everybody has something that they grew up on. So I would say it was that. And then through that journey, it just expanded to other things. And I would say um my first, like you could say creation of music would be like when I started DJing on like virtual DJ. I don't even know if that exists anymore, but virtual DJ.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

It's been a while since I've heard DJ.

SPEAKER_03 1:14

Yeah, the free drone too. We ain't pay for that drone. We was we was we was using the lime wire. It got me. You know what lime wire is?

SPEAKER_00 1:20

Yeah, I'm getting old, y'all.

SPEAKER_03 1:21

Yeah, I don't know what the demographic this show is, but I ain't that old. I'm only 26.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

It's okay. You still baby, so they say I'm I'm 30. I ain't that old. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 1:33

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 1:34

Yes. Well, tell us more, Bobby. Tell us about your DJing career.

SPEAKER_03 1:37

Oh, yeah, so no, it wasn't really a career. I was like six, seven, no, five. I was I was like putting mixes on SoundCloud. It was like house music, EDM, you know, stuff that we call like white people. Can you cross on here? Yeah, just not too much. Okay, I got you though. So, you know, white people, white, white stuff that really wasn't like what I grew up on. It was more stuff that I was exposed to. So my my grandma used to own a strip club in Miami. Oh, your grandma? Yeah, my grandma. Okay, tell us about that. Yeah, so she I think she's like one of the first women, she's like one of the first women millionaires that are immigrants in Miami. This was like early 2000s, late 90s. Okay. Um, so she had a she she had a very successful club, and my dad was a DJ in that genre. That's how my dad and my mom met. Yeah, so my dad was a DJ. Okay. Exactly. So my dad was a DJ, and then as I got older, I started DJing and playing around with stuff. And then what really, I guess you can say, really like got me into music really was like when I moved up here. So I moved up here in 2009, I think it was, or eight. I was nine. I get mixed up on the dates, but so when I moved there in fourth grade, it was the fourth grade. Um, that's when I first joined the band. So I joined like band, like classical band, jazz band, um, even marching band. Even though I played football, I was still part of the marching band, I just never marched. But um, I was involved heavily into like the saxophone. I played the saxophone. I played three, there's there's four different saxophones, the berry, the tenor, the alto, and the um soprano.

SPEAKER_01 3:02

How was that experience for you playing the saxophone?

SPEAKER_03 3:04

It was really cool, especially because like I went to a school, so the school that I went to was really like it was a predominantly black, so we were all like a bunch of black kids playing instruments that usually you don't think our demographic do. So when we were playing music, like we were adding our own swag to it, our own you mean like we made it cool. Of course. Like we usually do. You know what I'm saying? We made it cool. So I think that um playing saxophone from fourth grade to ninth grade, like I really enjoyed it. It was like it was it was playing saxophone and football. Like I would go to school before before school. I used to go to school in middle school like at 6 a.m. Because we had brand patterns before school. So it was like I was really heavily invested into that. But then when I changed schools um in ninth grade, uh the band wasn't as soulful enough for me. It wasn't uh vibrating my vibrations. So I had to get up out of there and I said, now I'm just gonna focus on football. Focus on football, and then do you want me to get into like how we started rapping?

SPEAKER_01 4:00

Yeah, let's get into so how did you so you stopped music, football. So how was your football career and then you getting back into music? How did you transmit?

SPEAKER_03 4:08

So football, so football, like I always said, the two most consistent things in my whole life was always football and music. So I played, I've been started playing football when I was six years old. Um, so I like a lot of people who played football, I had dreams of like going to the league. Like that's how focused I was on it. So like I said, when I stopped playing band, it was year-round. Well, it was football and track at Upper Derby, but uh that was my high school. Football and track, but it was all athletics, and that was gonna be like my main goal. So my senior year, a week before the first game, which was also my birthday, that game too. So a week before my birthday and the first game of the season, I tore my MCL. It's like it's the inside ligament in your knee. So my season was over, and um, I always knew that if I wasn't playing football in college, I wasn't gonna go to college. So graduated high school, then end going to college, and I started just, you know, got into the workfield, got into the workforce and doing all that. But I always had a creative itch.

unknown 5:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 5:01

So one of my one of my best man's at the time, my man Gala, he's a rapper himself, he would he would come over my crib and like I like making beats like on the table, like with my knuckles and shit. Like I was one of those kids in school. So um I would we would just be there on freestyling, playing around.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

So would you say that you never really got a chance? Now, well, not got a chance, but you didn't let yourself feel defeated. You got right into the creative.

SPEAKER_03 5:24

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Because I always knew since I was a kid I'm gonna be great at something.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

Period.

SPEAKER_03 5:28

Yeah. And I and I it was I didn't know.

SPEAKER_01 5:30

You get the confidence too.

SPEAKER_03 5:31

For sure. You feel what I'm saying? And I really feel like it's for me, it's like we're kind of like a destiny thing. So, like, real quick, so I'm uh my name is I have no problem saying my full government, I have no warrants, no felonies, nobody isn't looking for me. Um, so I'm the third, but I'm not the first son. So I'm the second son, but I got gifted the same name as my dad and my grandfather. So that usually doesn't go like that. And I was told stories about the way my grandfather used to revere me when I was a child, so I always felt like I was destined for something. And it didn't matter what it was, I always knew like whatever I decided to do in my life that I would try the best of my abilities and take it as far as God wants me to. So I knew it was always gonna be something. You understand what I'm saying? And then um it wasn't like when I first started making music, I was rapping. Um, I was rapping, um, I had like some melodic stuff. You feel what I'm saying? I I I was a little bit like A-Boogie. Um but so that was like 2017. So I was doing that. I wouldn't say I really took it seriously because I feel like taking it seriously is like you're putting actual plans into actions and actually like creating like a game plan for like, all right, where are we gonna take this? I was just I just created a studio in my closet. It's like it's a walk-in closet. I created a studio in that drone, and it was me and my friends we should be in that drone making music. And I used to feel like you mean I was just making music and like just seeing what happens, but it wasn't until 2020, when the turn of 2025 was when I made a promise to myself. And that promise says, let me hear. In front of these beautiful cameras and lights and all that. It's great.

SPEAKER_01 7:00

That's dope though. That's a beautiful story. Recently, you dropped a new project called Poppy Party Volume One. Yes. How does it feel?

SPEAKER_03 7:08

It feels great.

SPEAKER_01 7:09

Tell us about the album. I wish I had the picture.

SPEAKER_03 7:10

That joint be sitting right here. We could probably pop that drone up in the video. It's gonna be a good one.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

I like the album cover too. I'm glad you, you know, text me about it because it's dope. It reminded me of Vice City, Grand Theft Auto with the colors, you know, the pinks, the blues, and you know what's crazy?

SPEAKER_03 7:21

I wasn't even going for that. But see, the alignment, like being from Miami, and then the colors that ended up happening. So what happened was so I just had a thing, like, and my songs, it wasn't always gonna be called Poppy Party. I didn't know what it was gonna be called, but I was just and these set of songs that I put on the tape, I was talking about partying. And I was talking about like the the ups and downs of a party, what happens before the party, what happens after the party, the consequences of a party, the benefits of a party. It was a whole lot of party talk. So I was like, all right, like poppy party. And I used to throw parties back in the day when I was playing football and stuff, so like parties are something that I'm you're saying, I'm not I'm not foreign to. So I was like, all right, poppy party, and it comes out comes out the tongue real nice and all that. So yeah, I'm it's it's been going great. Honestly, better than I thought. Like, uh, shout out to my man Larry Channels. He's a like he's like a he's a up-and-coming streamer from Nigeria. Okay, he has like over 12,000 followers on Twitch and all that. That's my man, so we've been building a relationship. He he actually just I should have sent you the clips. I wasn't in your clips, he just reacted to my album last night on his stream.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

Oh, he was the one in his room dancing to it with his.

SPEAKER_03 8:23

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was that was the same stream too. Yeah, that's my man. So yeah, he just reacted to my stream. I mean, my uh my my my album, he loved it, the whole stream loved it. You feel what I'm saying? Like, like when I was talking about that promise that I made to myself before, like it was really like putting myself out there, like really like doing something. You feel what I'm saying? I have a quote that it's like to get results you've never had, you must do things you've never done. So when I made that promise myself, start of 2025, it was like, yo, if you really want to do this music stuff, you have to do things you've never done. Like you gotta get out of your closet, you gotta get out of your comfort of your own crib, you gotta everything that you know you probably should be doing, do that. Don't do what you feel like you should be doing, do what you think you should be doing. And um, yeah, and that's just what I've been on.

SPEAKER_00 9:04

That's what's up though.

SPEAKER_03 9:06

And and the not to get you off, but that dropping that tape on January 1st, it was really a celebration, the commencement of the whole year. Oh that's why I dropped it on January 1st. Was because, like, for me, like dropping that album, it makes it means a lot to me because it's a promise to myself. Like that, no matter if nobody listened to that, John. The fact that I put those 11 tracks together and a lot of them songs have been made over the past seven, eight months. A lot of them, some of them songs were made in May and April and are just not coming out, and it's still hit and it's still hot. Like that right there really like showed me like, yo, when you commit to something and you put your mind to something, you can really achieve anything that you want to achieve.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 9:42

That's a fact.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

What would you say is your favorite song from the album?

SPEAKER_03 9:47

It's crazy. I was I was just I was just talking to my girl this. I I I I it's probably D.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

Tell us why.

SPEAKER_03 9:54

Because for one, I was literally talking about this all my way over here, so it's crazy that you asked me this. So one of my favorite rappers is Drake. Not one of my, he is my favorite rapper. I think he's the greatest. The thing about that I love about Drake so much.

unknown 10:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 10:09

I'm gonna let you cook. I'm gonna let you cook.

SPEAKER_03 10:12

The reason why I love Drake so much is because he's so detailed. One thing we learned in school, I don't know if anybody remembers this, but they say when you're reading, if you're reading a good piece of wording, you will be able to imagine what's happening. Like you're reading it and you can literally picture this like it's a movie playing your head, but you're just reading. I feel like Drake does the same thing. So when I made that song, of course he's one of my biggest inspirations. When I made that song, like I was literally in a top floor of the hotel on my lonely. I mean there were nobody, I have no one with me. And I was saying, Getting Buckets Ball Player What She Call Me. Like, I was just that's like I'm a very confident person.

SPEAKER_01 10:49

So would you say that's your favorite bar?

SPEAKER_03 10:50

Getting Buckets Ball Player What She Call Me? I don't know. I don't know. What would you say is your favorite bar from Yahweh? Oh man. I don't know. I I really don't know. That joint hard. I don't know. They all they all my babies, and like, man, we just we just get in the pocket and it's just it just be flowing. Like, I don't know what my favorite bar from that drawing is. But I do I do also love tick, tick, tick. Yeah. I love that song. That's that's that's that's my song. Like that's probably I would say that's the best song in my opinion on that drawn, but my favorite would be D D because I really like wrote that pen. Like that was like, I really described, so I spent the weekend in DC for for this for the fill uh Afro Fest. So like a lot of the only my brother was with me, so he would be the ones to actually like be able to corroborate these stories. But like I was literally writing like things that I experienced while down there. So like when I when I play that song back, it takes me right back to that time, and that goes back to what I was saying about being able to visualize what you're hearing or reading. Is I want to make music when people listen to it, like they're not just listening to a bunch of words smashed together, like it's a story being told, or there's a story that you see, or it gives you it gives you a feeling. Like I want my music to do something to you. You feel what I'm saying? And like if it don't do something to me, I don't like I'm I'm a I'm my hardest critic. You feel what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 12:11

I like that you said Dave, because if it don't do nothing for you, then what is it gonna who's it gonna do it for?

SPEAKER_03 12:15

Yeah, yeah. And I love music so much that one, I wouldn't disrespect or cheat the game, and two, I know good music. If I wasn't nice, we would not be sitting here.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

But you mentioned Drake, I'm not that it's music not good, y'all, like no shade, but it's just like can we get a little deeper? Like, who would you say it's another besides that?

SPEAKER_03 12:32

I guess I get I guess some real artists. All right, so like if we want to talk about like Afro-beach, Caribbean music especially, specifically. So for one, I think that Bob Marley is one of the greatest artists of all time. Okay, he's in my top five, any genre, anyway. Yeah, yeah, I grew up on Bob Marley. Like I was saying, like being Caribbean. So the thing is I'm not even Jamaican, I'm Haitian Dominican, but like Caribbean music, we all all the islands ain't too far apart. You feel what I'm saying? So, like Bob Marley is a legend to me. You feel what I'm saying? So, for one, like just loving Caribbean music and all that, it would definitely be Bob Marley. Guys like Bob Marley, Beanie Men, um, Vibes Cartel, PopCon. Um yeah, for sure. And and and even and even if we're talking about like African specifically, of course, it would be top three Wiz Kid, DeVito, and Berna.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

While we're here, yeah, yeah, let's get into it.

SPEAKER_03 13:19

Everybody asked me that Yeah, oh everybody, okay. Make somebody mad.

SPEAKER_01 13:23

So Wiz Kid or De Vito.

SPEAKER_03 13:25

Wiz Kid. Okay. It's a star, Star Boy. Why, yeah, why, yeah. I believe in aura. If you have aura, like you, it's something that some people just have about them that you just can't, you mean. And I feel like I'm one of those people who get mean. So if you if you see that you mean, you can get mean.

SPEAKER_01 13:41

You can, yeah, I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03 13:42

I don't know if you're from Philly, but if you from Philly, you know exactly what I just said.

SPEAKER_01 13:45

Okay, so we got wiz kid out of that. Yeah. So burnable or Tim's. I'ma go with Tim's. Yeah, I'ma go with Tim's.

SPEAKER_03 13:57

If we're gonna talk recently, Thames. Is one of the greatest of all time. Okay. She is, she's ridiculous. She's a star. You feel what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 14:06

I fell in love. Yeah. She still loves my girlfriend, y'all. But like, I fell in love with Tim's after I seen her on stage. I'm like, she's a great performer. Yeah, she is. And she's very captivating, she can definitely get the crowd going.

SPEAKER_03 14:16

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And and she does in her own way. You feel what I'm saying? Like, she's the type to I I love performers who can just stand up there with a with a mic and a stand. You don't have to do all the moving and all that. Like, you just stand there. That like that's that's the people who I idolize growing up. So, real quick, so part of the reason why I dress the way I dress, so for one, I have two, I have two like um fashion like inspirations. So for one is Pitbull. I'm from Miami. If everybody knows who Pitbull is, Pitbull always got a collar shirt. Yes, yes, suits all the time, always got a collar shirt on. And when I was a kid, I always told myself, like, whatever I do, I always want to wear a suit for some reason. I just always like that. And then Michael Jackson. That's why my pants are so high. Oh, my ankles are strong. He was tailored. Shout out to Joan from what's it? I forgot her name.

SPEAKER_01 14:57

Wait, so you said Michael Jackson and people. So did your parents listen to a lot of Michael Jackson when you were growing up?

SPEAKER_03 15:04

My parents are Haitian.

SPEAKER_01 15:06

Okay, so you listen to Kumpa.

SPEAKER_03 15:08

Like everything, basically. No, listen to Kumpa.

SPEAKER_01 15:10

Just okay.

SPEAKER_03 15:11

Yeah, I would say I was outside of my big sister. So my big sister, she's six years older than me.

SPEAKER_01 15:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 15:15

So I feel like like Bob Marley, not Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson, that's just at being a kid, and you just see the man spinning around white socks, boom walk. I was like, oh my god, what is going on? I was captivated. Um, but like, yeah, like my sister put me onto a lot of like people who, of course, like she was exposed to than I before I was. You feel what I'm saying? So like really like Omarion, she was an Omarion stan.

SPEAKER_02 15:35

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:36

She thought she was in a relationship with Omarion. So I grew up listening to Omarion. I remember that. Marcus Houston.

SPEAKER_02 15:40

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 15:41

You feel what I'm saying? So I love RB too. I think honestly, I think if I was still in Miami, so in Miami, there's a lot more Haitians. So I think that I would have probably been more of like the Compa sound and speak more Creole, like try to cater to to that like demographic. Exactly. Then I'm not, I'm not, I I know a lot of Haitians, of course, but I'm not surrounded by a lot of Haitians like from Philadelphia and stuff. A lot of Africans. So even that in itself is like a smaller demographic of people who can connect to that music. But I know that that's more, there's a more, but I think being in Philly, uh, I'm not surrounded by as many Haitians. So I think that um I did grow up around a lot of Africans. There's a lot of Africans in Philadelphia from all different nationalities. And and the thing about that, I resonate with them so much because like I feel like we were all, especially foreigners, we I think we're all raised the same. Because I think especially being born in like Jamaica or Haiti or any part of the Caribbean, I think you're you're very close to like African roots that a lot of us are raised very, very similarly. So I actually like resonate with them a lot more than like the average like American. You feel what I'm saying? So yeah, I think that but then like I also like like I say in my music, you can tell I'm Haitian, I speak Creole. Uh I talk about Haiti, I talk about like being Haitian and stuff, but I definitely think that if I was living in Miami, I'd probably be more like Kumpa, which is the genre of like Haitian music. But um, I think being out here maybe like broaden my horizon and touch different sounds and not just be boxing on like one thing.

SPEAKER_01 17:12

I like that. So you would definitely say when you made this project, you paid attention to a lot of how you made the sound and came to your audience.

SPEAKER_03 17:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:21

So let's do it. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 17:22

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

Now let's play this or that. Okay, but let's get into it. Ready? Or that? I am writing the lyrics or finding the beat.

SPEAKER_03 17:34

Finding the beat.

unknown 17:35

Tell me.

SPEAKER_03 17:36

I think the beat is the most important part of a song.

SPEAKER_01 17:38

Okay, well.

SPEAKER_03 17:39

Especially with afrobeats, I I when I was getting in the when I was getting in the game of like trying to make it my make his music, I started like diving into like what makes effort music good and great. They're like, you can really say anything on the song. If the beat is hitting, you it's that's that's the song. So for me, it's the beat. Because if honestly, I don't I'm not the type of person, like I'll write, I don't really write music without a beat. Like I can write like a bar or like something that inspired me, but I can't write music without a beat. Because first of all, I think the beat makes the song for me. Like the beat dictates what I do on the song. Like, you feel what I'm saying? Sometimes it's the other way around, of course, but I think my best songs have come from like I hear the beat, and I just naturally, like, whatever naturally comes from come comes out of me because of the beat is like what? Hit. You feel what I'm saying? So yeah, I would say that the beat. Okay. For sure.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

Next one, studio, excuse me, studio session or live performance.

SPEAKER_03 18:35

Live performance. That's actually one of my goals this year. Like, I went to a couple music festivals last year, and like this year, when weather started warming up, like I really want to like perform because I be seeing people, and when I listen to the songs back, and sometimes even in the studio, like thinking about performing, it gets me that same feeling, like I'm about to play a game. You feel what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 18:56

Like, like the feel when you play a game, like do you get prepared, ready, you excited?

SPEAKER_03 19:00

Well, see me, like I'm I'm I'm the type of guy like like like especially like when it came to like being competitive or like doing something great, like I take it like very seriously. So it gets me excited to like the challenge of like doing something and then doing it great. Because I be seeing people how they perform and stuff, and I ain't like people suck. They're terrible. You feel what I'm saying? We got we got backtracks, they're not holding the mic, they not looking at the crowd, they not dancing, they just standing. Like, I really am excited to want to get that opportunity to really show what the performances. I want to bring performance. And I think a lot a lot of AfroPs, I think that's the difference between like Afrobee artists and hip-hop artists, but some of them, but it's only a couple of hip-hop artists that actually care about their performance. Like every Afrobee artist, they all have to perform because you can't just stand there in the stage. Like, they all at the minimum you gotta dance. Right. Because that's that's what the music is, you feel what I'm saying? So it would kind of be weird if you made a dancing song and you just standing there. Right. Like, do you even like the song? Right. It's the is the song working for you? You feel what I'm saying? So yeah, I can't wait to perform. I really can't. Okay. Yeah, I can't.

SPEAKER_01 20:00

Third one, viral TikTok hit or classic timeless album.

SPEAKER_03 20:04

Classic timeless album. I'm even just gonna say that. Yeah, I'm not a microwave person. You feel what I'm saying? Yeah, I'm not for the moment. Yeah, and and that's that's something like honestly, as an upcoming artist, you struggle with because you see like people popping off of a viral TikTok or a viral song, and it's like, oh, you I want that, but like I also look at it from a bigger outlook and being like, one, not even like how long are they gonna last, but like how much substance is this really? You feel what I'm saying? Like, for example, I seen Lei Banks talk about it not too long ago, and she said she was done with music or whatever the case may be. And I feel like a lot of reason was is because the music that she was making there wasn't it wasn't substantial. It was it's like kitty TikTok microwave music. But when that like when you take food out of a microwave, it don't take long for it to cool back down. You feel what I'm saying? So I actually she's a great, she's she's a there's these Lady Bane's actually is a talent. She's great at what she does, she can sing, she could dance. She has a future in this for sure. I think she just has to make that adjustment. But I think that I'm the type of person like I I'm honor honestly in it for a long game. You feel what I'm saying? I don't really care about what happens tomorrow or right now. Right. Um more focused on the journey than the result. You feel what I'm saying? So as far as long as I can control, I focus on controlling what I can control and showing up and doing what I can do. I think everything else is gonna take care of itself. And that's not me saying that. That's not chasing clout, that's not doing things. Because a lot of things I be thinking, I'd be thinking, I'll be talking to my girl about like making TikToks and stuff, and it's like honestly, the reason why me, like I feel like that's just not me. That's just not me. And I think I can make it just as much or even greater without doing that.

SPEAKER_02 21:38

Right.

SPEAKER_03 21:38

Not making TikToks with my girl. We could do that and keep them in the draft. You feel what I'm saying? But like, just like just like attention seeking. I want the music to cheat the I want the music and my personality and aura when people watch interviews or come across me or hear the music, I want that to speak for itself. Not not my antics. You feel what I'm saying? So that's really what it is.

SPEAKER_01 21:57

Okay, and global collaboration. Or staying local?

SPEAKER_03 22:03

Global.

SPEAKER_01 22:05

So who would you want to work with?

SPEAKER_03 22:07

Matter of fact, no, no, no, no. Timeout. So we focus on the journey, not the result. Local. Shout out my man Lami Wonder. You feel what I'm saying? I'm actually sending you a joint. He should get on here. So he's the artist signed at DeVito. And um I met him over the summer. And he's from Philly. And he's uh he's an up-and-coming Afro B artist. And he's actually in Nigeria right now. And I would love to work with him and people like on that level. You feel what I'm saying? Like I see this as a as a ladder. Like I'm not trying to like fill my couple too fast. You feel what I'm saying? I think there's there's steps to this. And I feel like, especially me being like a coming up coming from like an athletic mindset, I understand like putting in the work. So I ain't gonna say right now I want a Drake feature. That sounds great.

SPEAKER_01 22:48

You can still see the crazy. Of course, that sounds great.

SPEAKER_03 22:50

That sounds great. But for me, I wanna, I wanna like when I do get to that Drake feature, like I want there to be a roadmap and a body of work before that. You feel what I'm saying? Like when I when I get on, I want a person to see a hundred songs. Like I always tell myself, I ain't I ain't I ain't thinking of quitting until I'm a hundred songs in. I've only dropped 18 songs this year.

unknown 23:12

Right.

SPEAKER_03 23:13

So we got another 70.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

You got more to go.

SPEAKER_03 23:16

We got another six.

SPEAKER_01 23:17

Let me not but that's okay. We got more to go and you're gonna do it. And you're gonna do it. And now that leads me to ask you, what is your greatest advice for those that are up and coming? And those that, like you said, is making a promise to themselves that they can do it and want to do it.

SPEAKER_03 23:31

Yeah. I would say for for one, keep God close. Or whatever higher power you believe in. I believe that when you have a higher power with you, life is not as lonely. You don't feel as um like as heavy on your shoulders, like everything is onto you, and if you don't, if you don't have the answers, ain't nothing gonna happen. I believe in like putting that uh putting the things that you can't control out into the universe. But what you can control is being a good person, praying, controlling what you can control, showing up, like I said, whenever I said 2025, my promise to myself was to do things I've never done to get results I've never had before. So I think that whatever artist, wherever, whatever, if you're at a point right now where you feel like you you're not happy or you feel like you should be doing more, do something that you never did before. And I think the unfortunate thing, a lot of the things that come with this, like building an artist, a lot of it is monetarily and it's with money. But now we have social media and stuff, and you can control your content, you can control your quality. These are things that you can control. You feel what I'm saying? You can't really control how many people like it, how many people view it, and all that stuff. But you can control what you put out there, you feel what I'm saying? And I believe in God, the universe, that if you show up every day, be a good person, and you put in that work, good things will come. I ain't never heard I ain't never seen somebody, I ain't never seen nobody put in real work not reap the benefits of that. You feel what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 24:46

Like because they say faith without works is dead.

SPEAKER_03 24:48

So I want to say that they're they said God never answered the blessings from the comfort of your bed.

SPEAKER_00 24:52

Hello.

SPEAKER_03 24:53

You gotta go outside.

SPEAKER_01 24:55

He said get up in that field, y'all. That's a fact. Okay, that's a fact. I want to say that was beautiful advice, Poppy.

SPEAKER_03 25:00

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 25:00

Congratulations on your album.

SPEAKER_03 25:02

Appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

I love hearing about everything. That was very detailed. I love everything about this interview.

SPEAKER_03 25:06

I love this too. This is a great vibe. This is a great vibe.

SPEAKER_01 25:09

With that being said, where can they follow you with? Where can they follow the album? Where can they listen to it? Everything.

SPEAKER_03 25:14

Casumigo Poppy on all platforms, P-O-P-P-I. Um, Poppy Party Volume 1 is on all platforms YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, um, TikTok, Snap, anything, anywhere you listen to music. You mean we want everything but the radio, radio coming, you feel what I'm saying? And uh, yeah, Casamigo Popy on everything. You know what I'm saying? We we we we follow on the journey, you feel what I'm saying? This is very early, and I don't think it's gonna take too long. And I ain't putting a set uh a set duration on it, but I believe in myself and I believe in the work.

SPEAKER_02 25:47

As you should.

SPEAKER_03 25:47

And uh follow if you want to follow along the work and see and see what we're doing, Casamigo Papi on all platforms.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

Well, you already know we should girl Ken Low back at it again. The people's platform for the creative community. Yeah. And I'll be back at it again, y'all. I'll see y'all soon.

SPEAKER_03 26:04

Come on.