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DNA Showcase featuring Curtis Young coming to Windsor · Kvetch & Release

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  Good morning. We're back John Lydkey here on AM eight hundred CKLW. It's
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  eleven thirty two. Thank you so much for tuning in throughout the day at
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  morning, if you have already been, and if you're just tuning in right
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  now, thank you so much. Really appreciate all of your time. Well,
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  there's a big event that's coming up next month here in Windsor that I
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  wanted to talk about, DNA Showcase. It's happening at the Turbo Entertainment Complex.
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  There's a talent search showcase. There's appearances, but one of the biggest
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  is a live performance by Curtis Young, who you could also know as the
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  son of Doctor Dre. He is a rapper. Number of albums that are
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  out this show is going to be a big deal. Joining me right now
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  on the line is Curtis Young. Good morning. How you doing today.
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  I'm doing amazing. How about your so doing really well? Thank you so
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  much for joining me here. Obviously we've got a we've got really really big
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  show. As I was just talking about, I want to ask you a
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  little bit to start things off about your career. You've been doing this for
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  quite some time. I guess I can ask you the silly question, how
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  did you get into the industry that you're in? Yeah, I mean this
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  has been a long time coming. I definitely, you know, I was
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  writing at a young age and and I just definitely I grew up in the
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  arts of it, you know, just growing up from the from all the
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  West coast, you know, the big rappers and and also the East Coast.
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  And when I seen the art of it, I just knew that this
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  is something that I wanted to pursue. And you know, I started to
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  put two and two together and build basically my own name because at first,
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  you know, I didn't really know who I was. And then once I
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  really grew to understand my purpose and my calling, that's where I felt like
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  I wanted to be a vocal vessel and put out the arts. So yeah,
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  so since you know, since I was a youngster, you know,
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  and and that's when I really knew that this is something that I wanted to
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  put out there and speak and testify to the people. What was it like,
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  you know, as you were saying, developing your own art, your
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  own voice, your own style, who you are, while and of course
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  you know, following in the footsteps of wrap gold legacy, your father doctor
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  dre you know. You know, it's never no silver spoon, no handout,
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  you know, no marble floors, you know. So I have my
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  own story, you know, to tell. And it definitely was one of
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  those things like when I was, you know, age eleven, I actually
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  found out who my real father was. So from that standpoint, I was
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  like, wow, you know, this is something that it's something that I
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  have to pursue. You know, I wanted to look look deeper into it
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  and see, you know, if this is something that that I could I
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  could actually show and take it to the next level and show what I was
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  capable of doing as well. You know, he's a pioneer in this game
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  of course legend. And at the same time, you know this, you
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  know the apple I've said, like this is in the DNA. Well it
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  sure seems like that for sure. You've as we've been talking about, doing
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  a heck of a lot. What new is coming out from you right now?
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  Do you have anything that you're working on. Well, that's one of
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  the things with the showcase, we're actually working on product of my DNA.
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  I have that working on an actual movie, a wine company as well,
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  got that going and then a clothing line. You got your toes HYMP apparel
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  one, I should say, you got your toes dipped in a lot of
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  different things. I mean, you're not just an artist, you are a
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  full scale entrepreneur. It sounds like you're a really busy guy. Yeah,
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  you know, it's definitely you know, I definitely look at it from it's
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  It's called the music business for a reason. So mostly it's business first and
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  then music is secondary. You use the music to enhance what you're what you're
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  doing, you know. So that's one of the things that I learned learned
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  very quickly in this business. And you started your own independent label as well.
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  Right, yes, so Mark, the company is the Young Monarchy Entertainment.
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  Why why am me so? Our Our goal is is to you know,
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  to show people too. It's like to ligen the human race, to
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  embrace the royalty. You know, we all, we all, we're all
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  royal. It's just tapping into it. I like that message. What do
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  you what are people going to expect? Then at this showcase? It seems
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  like it's going to be a lot of fun. It's gonna be a lot
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  of fun. So you know what, what what what they can expect is
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  definitely a love performance. We're gonna have a lot of fun when it comes
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  to that. And then also you know what we're looking for is uh is
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  we're looking for artists, producers and musicians to display their talent here because we're
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  I'm working on, like I said, the album in a movie project,
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  so this opportunity for them as well. So yeah, that's that's mainly what
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  it's about right now. It's been a long time coming, so we're going
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  to be getting it getting ready so we can launch the album. Like I
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  said, So this displaying arts and having a lot of fun. It's a
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  full weekend actually when uh we're starting starting it off with a live doing that
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  a turbo, and then we got a couple other dates. We're going to
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  be doing some studio visits from that standpoint, and then artists to be able
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  to sign up and producers to showcase their talent. So are you coming down
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  sort of like a scout then yeah, yeah, that's going to get some
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  people excited. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Yeah, it's definitely
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  yeah, I got we're doing it. It's it's definitely. I got my
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  binoculars out, you know, and I'm ready to see what we can where
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  we could uh put put together and if if it, if it matches,
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  it fits, you know, bring it, let's go. You know,
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  I like that a lot. What does the future of you know, the
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  rap industry look like for you? The music industry from your vantage point,
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  you know, it has it's it's it's a it's a wave, it has
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  different waves of what's whatever is going on. So you know, I like
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  to like to see see it from a from a point, from a from
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  a far view. In a way I don't really uh, you know,
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  as you know, from our family, the young young lineage is like we
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  were so trendsetters in a way, so I don't really like stay in the
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  in the lane of what everyone else is doing. But the way I see
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  it is, it's it's right now. It looks like everyone is a lot
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  of people are like kind of going off of what everybody else is doing,
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  you know, so it's you know, looking leaning for those people that's like,
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  you know, where's where's those breakout artists? You know, there's a
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  lot of people that's doing their thing amazingly, but there's a lot of people
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  that it's a lot of to me, I just see it as one following
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  the next, you know, so as being a being trendsetters in a space.
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  It's it's, uh, it's right now. I just I feel like
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  the arts is it's starting to be uplifted, which is amazing. At first
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  it was just like a season, you know, so which I'm really I'm
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  really liking it right now everything is like it's really cool. So yeah,
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  it's you know, it's it's one of those things we have to see.
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  You have to wait and see and sit back and watch the show. You
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  know. Well, I like how you put that there, you know,
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  sort of setting the trend and looking for what people are doing that's different and
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  if anyone's doing that here in Windsor. They got an opportunity to come out
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  to the DNA Showcase at Turbo Entertainment Complex. There's the talent search. Curtis
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  Young is coming out being a talent scout. Quite frankly, that's gonna be
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  really great in that live performance. Curtis, I want to thank you so
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  much for your time today and sharing it and I can't wait to see you
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  at the show. No, thank you, and I appreciate you having me.
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  Thank you so much. Have a great day, You too, cheers.
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  That is Curtis Young. You can check out that show at Turbo Entertainment
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  Complex July twenty six. If you are an up and coming performer. He
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  is looking for well, he's scouting it out. He's looking for talent.
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  He wants to find the best. And he said, hey, there's an
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  album coming up, there's a movie coming up, and maybe something will fit.
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  We'd love to see local talent shine. You can find out all about
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  that search DNA Showcase Turbo. That's July twenty six. We're gonna take a break.