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#26 | Keanu Domini · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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  SPEAKER_02: What's going on y'all?
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  SPEAKER_02: It's Ucilari Hernandez here.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is the Corpus Christi Originals podcast.
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  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to the show, Piano.
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  SPEAKER_02: So glad you're here, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we were awesome, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: We were introduced through uh my sister-in-law, Yvonne.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_02: Uh my sister-in-law Yvonne.
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  SPEAKER_02: Do you know her by any chats?
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_02: I think it's your maybe business manager or something.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, by Yvonne, who Yvonne, man.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_02: I can't.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know my own sister-in-law's last name.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, shoot.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_02: Um I want to say Rodriguez, not Rodriguez.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_02: Let me see.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_02: Be able to find it here real quick.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so she she she's like, hey, uh, we got this guy, then he wants to be uh uh Keanu wants to be on the podcast.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, all right, cool.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_02: That sounds cool with me.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so I think I messaged Ivan Ramirez.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's my wife's last name.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hello.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I think I know who you're talking about.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm talking about?
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: I think so, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Cool, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so what so so who are you, man?
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  SPEAKER_02: Like how how would you describe how would you describe what you do?
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_01: Bro, I'm cool, bro.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_01: I'm flying no, I'm just kidding.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: No, so I make I make music, I'm a rapper, and I've been writing poetry since I was 14.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_01: And like on the bus on the way to school, and eventually it just turned into rap.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: And then like whenever I was in middle school, like when I was in eighth grade, the last day of eighth grade, like I dropped my first song on SoundCloud, and like it wasn't like the best, but bro, I had to start somewhere.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_01: I had to start somewhere, yeah.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, and um, yeah, and then I just kept like practicing more and more, and then by the time I was a sophomore, I started working on my first album.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: I finished it by the time I was a senior, so I released during my senior year of high school, and then after that released, I started working on my second album, and then I finished it before I finished my senior year of high school, but then I released it like four months after I graduated, so like this past December, and then we've just been on a roll, like doing shows, getting out there more, um, focusing on like just put it putting myself in front of like as many people as we can, and just yeah, that's what I do.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_02: That's cool, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: So what's the what's the I mean, do you have like a definite goal as to where you want to be, or does it change, or how's that work for you?
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_01: I think the ultimate goal, like, is you know, I want to be on top, like I want to rule the world, like, and I think every artist wants to do that in some way, shape, or form, whether they admit it or not.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, I want to be like I want to be everywhere, like I want to be like all over the place.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: Like that's just what I want.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so I mean, why is that?
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  SPEAKER_02: Why is there a reason behind that?
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, do you look at it financial-wise?
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_02: Like, how why is that?
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  SPEAKER_01: I I just like like okay, so last night, a good example.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_01: I was uh I was out with some some of my uh closest people and we went to some clubs, and you know, there there were certain songs that came on and like everybody just started going crazy, like they knew all the lyrics and it was such a vibe and everyone was having a good time, and I want to have that same effect on people.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I just like I just want like like the way that people get inspired and the way they like how they feel, like whenever they're in the club and like it's pumping and like they're like messing with this song and like everyone like knows this song, like it's a favorite, like that's what I want.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like I just want I just want people to like you know just just like love the music and I mean hell yeah, dude.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, I mean shit, money too, but that's not like the main like you know yeah inspiration.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's just you know wanting to have that effect on people.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so so you want to be an influence on people, like you want to be influential, right?
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: So so what's one of the ways that you obviously you write uh rap re rap.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_02: I to be honest, I really don't know.
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  SPEAKER_02: I really don't know too much about rap, dude.
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  SPEAKER_02: I I'm into like heavy music and stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_02: I listen to some like mainstream rap stuff, you know, but I'm not really into it, into it.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I figure maybe what you're writing about is influential, or is it more so the music?
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  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, it just depends.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like I think it just depends on the mood and how I'm feeling.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um like so whenever I get a beat, I feel like the beats like talking to me, and like it's like this mutual connection, and it's like I gotta meet it halfway, and uh, I don't know, it just it just depends on the time and place and day.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean, I guess it kind of goes like both ways with like metal because like there's bands out there who like you know they'll they'll like rock out, like they'll go super hard, and then like some songs they're just like ballads, like just like you know what I mean?
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_02: There's a mixture of both in there, like like the heavy stuff could be like just aggressive lyrics, you know, kind of have meaning, but not not as much as like the ballads may have.
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  SPEAKER_02: Would you say that that's the same type with uh your style of music?
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, definitely, definitely.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like all music kind of has that.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's cool, man.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_02: So man, so you mentioned poetry.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, yeah, that's so poetry, like, isn't that isn't that like rapping?
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, isn't it the same thing?
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  SPEAKER_02: Or I mean how what's the difference there?
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you if you want to get, I mean, yeah, it technically is, because like if you take like if you take like lyrics from like Tupac or something, and you you know, you take away the beat and you just look at the lyrics, it could really be considered poetry because the universal term, I mean, to the universal eye, like peep poetry is just, you know, like I step outside and I see the sun, I look down on my hands, what have I done?
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_01: I look to the wind, where do I begin?
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's like I lose, I don't know how to win.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_01: Let's just like I don't know, just like something like it's you know, it's just deep like that.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I guess, yeah, you could say, I think not even just rap, like you know, people who write rock songs too, people who write music in general, that that's poetry.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_01: Poetry is just art.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, for sure.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_02: It's all it's almost like when you add music, it when you add music to it, then you then you call it like rapping, you know what I mean?
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_02: But then there are like Go ahead.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I was gonna say, but then there are like stuff that they call a cappella, which is still considered rap, but it's a cappella, you know, it's kind of weird.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_01: So, okay, so yeah, like okay, so yeah, because there okay, there's poetry, and then there's like spoken word poetry, and the spoken word poetry could like also fall into the category of like a cappella because it's like a cappella, but it's still you know, rap, but I don't know, but yeah, it's like the same thing basically.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: So so in in like rap and stuff, it seems like it seems like because people listen to the lyrics mostly as opposed to more so the music.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so it seems like you have to really have something to say, you know what I mean.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_02: So where where do you like pull what what do you talk about or what do you rhyme about?
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_02: What what type of journey has that been for you as far as topics and stuff go?
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_01: When I first started out, it was a whole uh when I first started out, it was just like it was just like nursery rhymes because I was just trying to figure out how to write.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: And then I started like tapping into my feelings, and at first it was like really dark, and then you know, like that's good because people can relate to it, and you know, it can be like an outlet, especially for some people who may be like going through stuff and they need that, you know, like that that reminder, like, oh, like that person's going through the same thing too, not just me.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_01: And then I don't know, I just started I just started like going out more and I started seeing how like people groove and you know move when when they're in the clubs, and I just more recently I've been I've been like I've had like a more pop influence kind of sound, and like it's kind of just like club music, party music, but I still write, you know, like some deep stuff.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_01: Like I'm working on this new project, and there's this one song called Boom and and the Hook.
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  SPEAKER_01: It goes, fighting these demons, I keep my head strong.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fighting these battles, don't know what side of my fighting these battles don't know what's right or wrong.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nowadays, it's like I don't know what's going on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, holding my shovel, digging my grave.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's getting deeper and deeper, it's like a cave, trying to find my way out this mess of maze, but I'm haunted by ghosts right from the grave.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, man.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_02: That's going deep.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and you know, it's just like I mean it just goes back to earlier, like it I guess it just depends, but like more recently, like I've just been so into like like early 2000s.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know Missy Elliott?
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, like I don't know, it's just like when you hear her music, it's just so groovy and it's like snappy and it makes you want to like stuff.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_01: And I've been so like influenced by that kind of like sound, and it's been like translating into some of my new music, but you know, I still keep it I keep it balanced.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_02: Cool, that's pretty cool, man.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_02: So you have uh you have your producer or the guy that makes beats for you.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_02: Is he still in Germany, out of Germany?
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um he's done two songs off of this newest project that I'm working on.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, he's a busy guy.
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  SPEAKER_01: He he he does a lot.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: And um he he did all of my he did 13 songs out of my last project.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_01: There were 15.
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  SPEAKER_01: He did 13 of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh he's a really good producer.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_01: He's um he's a hard worker, good work ethic, really open to ideas.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um but yeah, we still keep in touch, but he's just a little bit more busier nowadays.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it's so it's difficult to get a beat out of him.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh no, no, I mean I could.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: I think he's just like you know, he's backed up because he works with other artists too.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: And we we finished that other project not too long ago, but um no, we're still we're still tapped in for sure.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_02: Dude, that's awesome.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and so you do you so did you ever pick up the guitar again?
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_02: Or I mean what's what's going on there?
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_02: Do you make music yourself?
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_02: How do you know?
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_02: I've someone told you I played the guitar.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_02: I was listening, yeah.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_02: I tried to research people that I was listening to a podcast.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I haven't picked up the guitar yet, but I'm gonna do that again.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: Do you have one?
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I haven't.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: I have the same, no, listen, I have the same, it's around here somewhere, but I've I think it's like right there.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_01: I've had the same acoustic guitar since I was like, I don't know, maybe eight, and it's signed by this um this other artist.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_01: His name is Casey Abrams.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: And when I was younger, my mom won this uh this radio thing, and he like came to the house and he like signed the guitar and I took lessons and stuff, but no, I haven't I haven't picked it up again, but I want to, I want to pick it up again.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_02: Why do you want to pick it up?
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: Just to help your song writing, or I just wanna I don't know, I think chicks dig it.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_02: Right on, bro.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I play that's cool, man.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I play guitar.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_02: I play guitar, I've been playing for a while.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_02: Uh shoot, man.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_02: This one guy, he was he was trying to use me this one time to help him get chicks and stuff.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, nah, dude, I ain't trying to do all that.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_02: It was funny, man.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so that's cool, bro.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_02: So you uh so you're not originally from Corpus, you're from Orange Grove?
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, we moved here 2008, but yeah, I'm from Orange Grove.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, 2008, that's like the no, yeah, 2008, 2008, 2008.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I was gonna say that's like the when the market crash, like everybody's losing their houses and stuff.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_02: Is that is that what happened to you guys, or is that why y'all moved to Corpus?
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_01: No, I think we just wanted to like truthfully, dude.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, maybe, maybe that is, maybe it wasn't.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: I never really asked.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: I just know that we moved and I don't know.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_01: I think maybe it's because we just wanted to get out of Orange Grove.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: Not that it's like not a cool place, like I still like going back there.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: I think I think my parents just wanted to move me to a more like populated area, I guess, just to know more people because Orange Grove is like really small, it's like super small.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they got the what do they got?
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_02: The stripes there and like what five other stores or something.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_01: Literally, it's just like this the stripes is like the Walmart, the H E V.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: No, I mean it okay.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_01: There's a okay, there's this other store, like literally like down the street from Stripes, like literally you could walk across, and it's called it's called Lowe's Market now, but it used to be called Super S.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: And uh that's like the main grocery store, but Stripes is like I swear it's like a freaking club or something.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_01: Like everyone's like swear to god, bro.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like everyone's always there.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's like I don't know.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's kind of weird because I I I'm a truck driver and sometimes I go through there and uh it's kind of weird.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_02: Like, like it seems I don't know if it's true.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_02: Tell me if it isn't, but like it seems like one line is for like the white folk and the other line is for like the Hispanic folk.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know, it's just it just could be my mind.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe I haven't been there.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: No, I've been there recently.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: I know I've been there recently.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: My grandma still lives there.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: My grandpa's buried, so yeah.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_01: So I go and I go frequently, but uh no, I never I don't know.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think I've ever noticed that.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe I don't know.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I don't know.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_02: I'm kind of weird like that.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_02: Uh anyway, man.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_02: So um what was I gonna say?
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_02: Do you want to you want to mention anything else?
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_02: I know we got a few minutes here left.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, no, shout out you for having me on here and giving me this platform.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_02: Um so what uh so I know you have two albums out.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_02: Are you working on uh you have two, right?
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have or three?
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: No, I've I have two out right now.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_02: So you have one coming out soon, you're working on that?
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_02: What's going on there?
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we're we're doing that, and um it's like in I wouldn't it's like we're half we're halfway there.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: You know, there's still work to be done, but uh we're we're focused, and by we, I mean like me, but like, you know, my team, you know, once it's done, we're ready to like, you know, do what we have to do to push it out.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, we're um we're doing everything.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, it's it it's almost to the finish line, and I can't wait to put it out.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_01: They're really cool ideas that I have that I can't wait to show everyone, and it's gonna be really cool.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: I I just can't wait.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_02: That's cool, man.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's like something that you're proud of.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_02: You're proud of something that you make.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I could definitely relate to that, man.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so you so you produce do you produce it yourself and then like put it on like how do you how do you get it out there?
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_02: Like how do you drop it, you know what I mean?
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: So, okay, so I go to this recording studio in Corpus, and it's called Metropolis Recording Studio.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_01: And for the engineer there, his name is Michael Fuentes, and he he mixes and masters all my music.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: And uh so I don't I don't like I don't like mix all my stuff, like I don't like do all the tweaking and stuff.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um but on the producing side I do like I guess you could call it co-producing because it's like I have my ideas and I work through like the producers to kind of like help them like translate my ideas and then they have their own ideas and we just like fuse it together.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: But um so yeah, to answer that question, so there's this distribution company called Tooncore, and you send your music out to them, and they review it, then they send it out to all the digital streaming platforms like Apple, Spotify, you know, the whole shebang, then they review it, and then they finally put it out.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_02: Nice, cool man, and uh when will that be dropping?
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_02: Do you know?
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um whatever we're in July.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to get too far ahead of myself because I don't like to do that, but my goal hopefully is to have it out by October.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_02: Cool, man.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_02: Awesome, bro.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_02: And so we find you at Keanu Jumini on all platforms.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_02: Cool, alright, man.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'll leave links in the description.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_02: I know you gotta head out, man.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_02: Appreciate you being on the show.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_02: No, thank you.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_02: Have a good day, man.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: Me too.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: Goodbye.