Latest / The Baller Alert Show / Episode 167 "JNR CHOI"
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- 0:24Speaker 1: my besties, Hey, your world. I missed y'all so much.
- 0:28Speaker 1: Taco Tuesday, Taco Thursday. Now, I was outside. I was
- 0:36Speaker 1: in Vegas, New York. Vegas was lit first. While you
- 0:40Speaker 1: were in Vegas and you were I went to the
- 0:43Speaker 1: Canelo boxing match. I actually went to the way in
- 0:47Speaker 1: which was really cool. We had the fan fest outside
- 0:49Speaker 1: giving out prizes, all these Hennessy autographed Carnello boxing gloves.
- 0:54Speaker 1: It was dope. And then we actually went to the fight.
- 0:56Speaker 1: That was my first time. Did you make out with
- 0:57Speaker 1: anybody's son? And I didn't make out this once? On
- 1:00Speaker 1: in Vegas? No, not in Vegas. In Atlanta. Never mind,
- 1:02Speaker 1: we're talking about Vegas right now. Why are we talking
- 1:05Speaker 1: about Atlanta? You don't count if it's in a different city,
- 1:09Speaker 1: let alone state. Anyways, A special edition Um Junior Choi
- 1:14Speaker 1: J and R Choi and to me and to are
- 1:17Speaker 1: actually trying to figure out how to pronounce his name.
- 1:19Speaker 1: We won't talk to him, and uh, we're gonna see
- 1:21Speaker 1: how to pronounce his name correct. No, I won that battle,
- 1:23Speaker 1: and that bet that we made you actually owe me
- 1:26Speaker 1: half of my money back. Y'all just know that first
- 1:28Speaker 1: of all, we didn't even bet in my spirit, we
- 1:31Speaker 1: didn't even bet. Well, I want the money anyway. Let's
- 1:34Speaker 1: get into it right now. You're listening to a special
- 1:36Speaker 1: edition of the Baller Alert show. Ship my shop talking
- 1:42Speaker 1: to them. Now we have someone from Europe in the building.
- 1:50Speaker 1: I don't want to say the wrong city or you
- 1:53Speaker 1: know what town London. Born in Gambia, moved to London.
- 1:58Speaker 1: You please pronounce your name because we were having we're
- 2:01Speaker 1: going back and forth. Junior CHOI perfect. Okay, I already
- 2:07Speaker 1: told that's the one. When I realized that I lost,
- 2:10Speaker 1: very early on, it's playing myself. Very early on, I
- 2:14Speaker 1: was like, no, front, I think it's J and R boy,
- 2:18Speaker 1: it can't be that. Same can be? Why can't it
- 2:21Speaker 1: be that? Because it could be whatever you wanted to be.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Can spell out with J or together as Junior, I appreciate. Okay, Now, joy,
- 2:29Speaker 1: where is joy part of your real name. You only
- 2:31Speaker 1: fifty back from that bed. We thank you, don't get
- 2:36Speaker 1: my money back? Joy is Yeah, that's your first name name,
- 2:41Speaker 1: last name. Okay, you know I don't know proper property.
- 2:45Speaker 1: I speak a lot of bootleg English Lord have mercy. Okay.
- 2:48Speaker 1: So coming from London, England, that's that's current. That's where
- 2:51Speaker 1: you're currently residing in correct, I guess. But you're back
- 2:55Speaker 1: and forth to America a lot. We're just around with luxuriousity.
- 2:59Speaker 1: I like that. I'm still in that now, getting in
- 3:02Speaker 1: Atlanta quite a few times. I've been dying and I've
- 3:05Speaker 1: been seeing you out. You got one of the biggest
- 3:07Speaker 1: songs in the world right now, yahns in the country
- 3:16Speaker 1: in the world. Um yeah, someone said it's big in
- 3:19Speaker 1: Packing Sponsor yesterday. Let's talk about it, like does the
- 3:22Speaker 1: record to the moon? Like how did you start? Where
- 3:24Speaker 1: did it come from? This is just from making music.
- 3:26Speaker 1: I make musically every day. You know that the process
- 3:29Speaker 1: is always different. But in this case it was back
- 3:31Speaker 1: I was getting ready to release a winner project. So
- 3:34Speaker 1: when when it gets the Winner's time, I started to
- 3:35Speaker 1: listen to that. You know, different kind of beats, put
- 3:38Speaker 1: away the R and B, put away the after beats
- 3:41Speaker 1: a bit and I started getting into like trap girl, etcetera, etcetera,
- 3:45Speaker 1: and this beat happened to be one of the packs
- 3:47Speaker 1: I received jumps frail on it done in fifteen minutes,
- 3:50Speaker 1: but with the person already on his boot. That's how
- 3:53Speaker 1: that was part of the beat. Just the beat, yeah,
- 3:55Speaker 1: yeah coming. It done about fifteen minutes of the side.
- 3:59Speaker 1: And then when I was shortlist thing stuff for the
- 4:02Speaker 1: for the tape was than that, so right. I didn't
- 4:04Speaker 1: think too much too highly of it. I put it
- 4:06Speaker 1: like number six outs and then um, I got it
- 4:09Speaker 1: makes the master every the master. Now I'm like DJ
- 4:12Speaker 1: he Um from London. He DJs at every like popping
- 4:15Speaker 1: clubs and he DJ like the Magency and I don't know,
- 4:18Speaker 1: he DJ all the major Mayfair clubs and London and
- 4:21Speaker 1: he Um teased to the Moon for like a couple
- 4:25Speaker 1: a quick thing in the club. One that he was like,
- 4:27Speaker 1: he messaged me bird, you could come and see. It's
- 4:29Speaker 1: like the reactions crazy reaction to the songs. Mad. I
- 4:33Speaker 1: was all right, he never says that, how's that my coming?
- 4:37Speaker 1: I came in the next day and then I swear
- 4:39Speaker 1: for myself like the son played everybody stopped singing along
- 4:42Speaker 1: and then TikTok too. This was before that. This was
- 4:45Speaker 1: before Yeah, but he's there. Everyone that went crazy. I
- 4:51Speaker 1: had people coming up to the booth and iamed the
- 4:53Speaker 1: song on the phone, and that's when I was at,
- 4:55Speaker 1: we just needs to drop. I was like, if I'm
- 4:58Speaker 1: just stupid not to go. Yeah, you had knew you
- 5:00Speaker 1: had something there. So let's back it up a little bit.
- 5:02Speaker 1: What came first? Music? Um, songwriting, maybe modeling. Modeling came first.
- 5:07Speaker 1: So how did you transition into being an artist? I
- 5:11Speaker 1: was won't go and FaceTime one day and god speaking,
- 5:13Speaker 1: it wasn't really from my see Chase time like a rapper.
- 5:18Speaker 1: You should bear rapper just like that, it's good. And
- 5:22Speaker 1: then you went to do so you went to the
- 5:23Speaker 1: studio and beat on and beat on YouTube talk to
- 5:27Speaker 1: something just like that on the beat, got my phone out,
- 5:31Speaker 1: recorded it to the just like that beat, and then
- 5:37Speaker 1: we went in studio next day. Um, we showed the
- 5:39Speaker 1: video by the end of the week and I hid
- 5:40Speaker 1: it out like the next week. So this is a
- 5:43Speaker 1: friend that you were on FaceTime with that literally said
- 5:45Speaker 1: you looked like a rapper even though you okay model.
- 5:48Speaker 1: But I guess you know, all right, cool, and you
- 5:51Speaker 1: were like okay, Bet hung up and went to work.
- 5:55Speaker 1: This doesn't happen like this. This is actually never like
- 5:59Speaker 1: it's unheard. When people tell me that story is like yeah,
- 6:02Speaker 1: making music for that twenty years and I'm like, wow,
- 6:07Speaker 1: how long have you been doing music? Like four or five? Okay,
- 6:10Speaker 1: four or five years? Yeah. I want to ask you
- 6:12Speaker 1: about TikTok because usually it's just one thing, Like sometimes
- 6:16Speaker 1: things blow on TikTok and it just stays on TikTok.
- 6:18Speaker 1: It doesn't travel outside of it. Yours went outside of it,
- 6:21Speaker 1: and not only did it go outside of it went globally.
- 6:23Speaker 1: But I want to stay in TikTok because your song
- 6:27Speaker 1: is actually like a soundtrack to people changing their outfits,
- 6:30Speaker 1: people showing their shoe collections, showing their car collection, because
- 6:33Speaker 1: it's it starts one thing and then the beat breaks down.
- 6:36Speaker 1: They're at another location. So when they're traveling, how does
- 6:39Speaker 1: things like when you see that, how does that make
- 6:41Speaker 1: you feel as an artist? I mean, I love the
- 6:43Speaker 1: way that it's sign you can use in your day
- 6:44Speaker 1: and they stay life. That's why I'm when I whenever
- 6:47Speaker 1: I see people using I don't know, there's even like
- 6:49Speaker 1: a baby I sway today three years old, that's her
- 6:52Speaker 1: favorite song. I want to hear that song. Seeing siding
- 6:55Speaker 1: like that change people, Nathan, they and make it feel
- 6:59Speaker 1: kids happy with them. Something that can you use to
- 7:02Speaker 1: pleas that social media or to show off a showcase
- 7:06Speaker 1: that cookie it's the soundtrack from my five jone was
- 7:11Speaker 1: able to like you're able to stack your lives. We
- 7:13Speaker 1: need you almost seem like really comfortable for the amount
- 7:17Speaker 1: of stardom and you know, attention, because this is actually
- 7:20Speaker 1: like a really really really big global record, Like it's
- 7:23Speaker 1: it's really huge. You're saying it like oh yeah, three
- 7:26Speaker 1: year old liked it, and you know this girl on
- 7:28Speaker 1: FaceTime said whatever, but it really just almost seems like
- 7:32Speaker 1: it might have been destined. So were you already like
- 7:35Speaker 1: a really big time model. Are you kind of you know,
- 7:38Speaker 1: used to fame a little bit? Do you think this
- 7:39Speaker 1: is helping you adjust and very comfortable? I mean, I
- 7:43Speaker 1: mean it's huge, you know what I mean? I guess yeah,
- 7:49Speaker 1: were you already getting into the bag getting the attention
- 7:53Speaker 1: as a model? Yeah? So okay, so this kind of smooth,
- 7:56Speaker 1: It's like okay, you know, we're taking it up a
- 7:59Speaker 1: not what brands have you modeled with or worked for?
- 8:03Speaker 1: Name one that I'm who you work with? Pauseworth, it's
- 8:16Speaker 1: about jan You can't you can't still you said, you said, listen,
- 8:24Speaker 1: I still need my fifty dollars, like you still haven't
- 8:27Speaker 1: give it? We'll give it to you in the second time.
- 8:30Speaker 1: It's the fakeness. Now you get your first big check?
- 8:34Speaker 1: Did you get your first big check from music? Yet?
- 8:37Speaker 1: I'm talking about the big the biggest that you've had.
- 8:40Speaker 1: What did you do with it? When you when you
- 8:42Speaker 1: look at you, was like, damn, I'm about to you know,
- 8:47Speaker 1: such a such. But I just like investing back into
- 8:49Speaker 1: the wing. You know. That's how I feel like you
- 8:52Speaker 1: spread whatever you do and whatever how much you might
- 8:55Speaker 1: make from it a bigger if you put straight back
- 8:57Speaker 1: into That's kind of what happened. What is the pot?
- 9:00Speaker 1: Is it? Is it you know, local community things? Is
- 9:03Speaker 1: it fashion driven? Is it? Is it working with students? Mentoring?
- 9:07Speaker 1: Is it projects in Gambia? Like? What what is the pot? Currently?
- 9:11Speaker 1: It's like straight back into what we're doing. We're running
- 9:14Speaker 1: around the States spending a little money on How do
- 9:16Speaker 1: you like that? I love it? Okay? Do you prefer London.
- 9:22Speaker 1: That actually I missed London every time. I yeah, everything
- 9:25Speaker 1: I leave London if I have in London, but I do.
- 9:28Speaker 1: I do love being on The States are different and
- 9:30Speaker 1: that's pretty interesting for sure. When's the last time you
- 9:33Speaker 1: actually have been in Gambia? And in a minute, and
- 9:36Speaker 1: I just want to hear it because of the pandemic,
- 9:40Speaker 1: I usually go every December? Do they I feel like
- 9:43Speaker 1: I'm East African? So I feel like the connection or
- 9:47Speaker 1: like them understanding what it is that you're doing as
- 9:49Speaker 1: a creative or someone who's not a doctor, a lawyer
- 9:52Speaker 1: or whatever. You know. The usual is sometimes it seems
- 9:54Speaker 1: like they don't catch on. Is this a record? Is
- 9:57Speaker 1: this a hit back home? Are they receiving you? My
- 10:00Speaker 1: AUNTI fumy defications like Yo, you'll find the waiting right now?
- 10:04Speaker 1: Do you choying the building? Let's go ahead to uh
- 10:06Speaker 1: take a quick commercial. Baby, We'll be right back. We'll
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- 10:11Speaker 1: Alert Show. You're listening to a special edition of the
- 10:16Speaker 1: Pallor Alert Show. This is a a special cloth alert. Jr.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Choy in the building, your choices in the building now.
- 10:25Speaker 1: People were laughing at me on our radio show because
- 10:27Speaker 1: I was saying different parts to your lyrics. I was like,
- 10:30Speaker 1: pull up the ting montandel. You thought you were saying
- 10:32Speaker 1: different things, different things. I had to google your lyrics
- 10:36Speaker 1: and it's a pull up the thing. Let's turn up, una,
- 10:41Speaker 1: turn up up. Why you got to have the hands?
- 10:44Speaker 1: But that's what I was saying on a show and
- 10:51Speaker 1: people was like pull Like Sue kept saying, is that's
- 10:56Speaker 1: what he's saying. I was like, I don't know. Just
- 10:58Speaker 1: google lyrics. Someone say I don't know who all right? Um, now,
- 11:08Speaker 1: with all this fame and everything that you have going on,
- 11:11Speaker 1: how do you stay as calm, cool collective as you are?
- 11:14Speaker 1: Is this like a family thing? Do you get this
- 11:16Speaker 1: from your parents? Your grandparents? Like? Where does this come from?
- 11:20Speaker 1: Your level headed? This right now? Or think I'm just
- 11:23Speaker 1: pretty grounded. Okay, but who's this super tall guy? I
- 11:26Speaker 1: feel like he needs to play basketball or something. Probably
- 11:29Speaker 1: does helay basketball used to play for England. Okay, okay,
- 11:33Speaker 1: you're too tall. I gotta do anything else. And you're
- 11:36Speaker 1: tall too. They are both tall as hell. Do you'll
- 11:41Speaker 1: ever get tired of? Because seriously, like I went to
- 11:43Speaker 1: open the door and I was like, oh you are everything?
- 11:47Speaker 1: Is it annoying? It's used like p J looks like
- 11:51Speaker 1: he has to bend down to walk into the air.
- 11:52Speaker 1: He does. I try to give him a hug. I
- 11:58Speaker 1: was at his hip. I was like, okay, this listen
- 12:01Speaker 1: not okay, so please tell us, Okay, what artists do
- 12:05Speaker 1: you want to collapse with? Who's on your hit list?
- 12:09Speaker 1: Do you have to? Of course I sent me yeah,
- 12:12Speaker 1: right right now. It's not definitely like for real for
- 12:14Speaker 1: production the production point the weekend st John happy, good,
- 12:20Speaker 1: that's what's up. Yeah, I definitely get like Kanye for
- 12:24Speaker 1: real vibes, Like I definitely think that's like the way
- 12:26Speaker 1: the Weekend of course, like pretty much everyone your name
- 12:29Speaker 1: to me kind of gives me like the same energy.
- 12:31Speaker 1: Is there's someone that's like far left that you can
- 12:34Speaker 1: think of, you know, rock country, maybe Little Baby or
- 12:39Speaker 1: you know Jeezy or Gucci maind Okay, okay, look a
- 12:45Speaker 1: little up. Used to let us I'm digging the swag
- 12:49Speaker 1: man and in the drift, like do you style yourself? Yeah? Okay,
- 12:57Speaker 1: proud of you, so proud of you. Please let us know,
- 13:01Speaker 1: let our listeners know where they can follow you, what
- 13:04Speaker 1: to keep up with? Why they should follow you outside
- 13:07Speaker 1: of the music because I don't. I didn't know that
- 13:09Speaker 1: you were so most as I didn't know you were
- 13:10Speaker 1: a model. And then for you to be like, okay,
- 13:13Speaker 1: I worked with everybody's name him like on every social
- 13:17Speaker 1: media J n R, H, I'm not going to be
- 13:20Speaker 1: a beautiful When where did the J and R come from? Like,
- 13:23Speaker 1: my name is jor are you a junior? So this
- 13:26Speaker 1: is like your name? No, no, no, I'm just saying,
- 13:29Speaker 1: you know, I got the surname part of what. We
- 13:31Speaker 1: didn't address this first, but yeah, I kind of figure
- 13:34Speaker 1: junior at that point. Do we have another single coming
- 13:38Speaker 1: out soon? What do can we get a name or
- 13:42Speaker 1: is it going to be a feature? Because you did
- 13:45Speaker 1: the remix to UM to the Moon, We're gonna um
- 13:50Speaker 1: And how did that happen? Did you guys talk or
- 13:53Speaker 1: was it like a surprise thing? He like, the song
- 13:55Speaker 1: is just hopped on it. It was a vibe a prise.
- 13:58Speaker 1: I was like he kind of teased it before. H Okay,
- 14:03Speaker 1: he did a great job too, amazing. You know, sometimes
- 14:05Speaker 1: the remix evere. Sometimes remixes aren't as good as that's
- 14:09Speaker 1: your favorite one, but likes re remixes. But that's okay,
- 14:11Speaker 1: hold on, wait, so it's two others, it's one more.
- 14:14Speaker 1: What's because there's the original and it's remix, the remix
- 14:18Speaker 1: with Fabio bo oh, yeah, I didn't hear that. Definitely
- 14:23Speaker 1: you've heard. I'm tripping. I've definitely heard it. Ok sure, okay,
- 14:27Speaker 1: not cool? So we got a single? Do we have
- 14:28Speaker 1: a date on the same a date? But very okay.
- 14:31Speaker 1: I wish I wish you're right. I wish the labor
- 14:33Speaker 1: people were in here. I'd probably make you say you
- 14:35Speaker 1: gotta let to the phone ride. It is a wave,
- 14:38Speaker 1: it's still going strong, give it some time. So the
- 14:43Speaker 1: new one's vibe you're super confidently told the boys of Saigain. Okay,
- 14:47Speaker 1: do they have a feature on it? No? Okay? Is
- 14:51Speaker 1: it similar? It's it's yeah, I know, yes, I know. Okay,
- 14:56Speaker 1: that's a whole news time worse Okay, Okay, I'm not sad.
- 15:02Speaker 1: I can't wait because listen, we're impressed off this first record,
- 15:05Speaker 1: so you know, unfortunately you gotta come boom boom boom.
- 15:10Speaker 1: You feel me so weird expecting and I can't wait.
- 15:14Speaker 1: I'm sold. So it's all goods. I just expected to
- 15:16Speaker 1: be genuine no matter what it is, and you definitely
- 15:19Speaker 1: give that the energy that you're gonna do what you
- 15:21Speaker 1: want to do, what feels good. And I think you're
- 15:23Speaker 1: going to see that return in your in your success.
- 15:25Speaker 1: So congratulations to you. This is so exciting. I don't
- 15:28Speaker 1: think I've ever met an artist like this. Big from
- 15:30Speaker 1: brownbe like, this is yeah, big thing on the map. Yes,
- 15:34Speaker 1: I love it. Are you a chick talker? My ticktok? Yeah?
- 15:40Speaker 1: You called us with our pasts out. We were in
- 15:42Speaker 1: here doing TikTok and real I was, yeah, we're doing it.
- 15:48Speaker 1: You know. We gotta keep the contents. We gotta keep
- 15:50Speaker 1: the content going. Just like why don't you young artists
- 15:53Speaker 1: all have two watches? Bro? Like why all artists have
- 15:56Speaker 1: two watches? One start you tell the time and what's
- 16:00Speaker 1: the other The other one is you know, this is
- 16:03Speaker 1: Apple so you can he Le's checking my home. Okay, okay, No,
- 16:09Speaker 1: it looks good with the fist like a smart No. No,
- 16:13Speaker 1: I'm going to school today. I'm just talking to Smack.
- 16:16Speaker 1: Always a pleasure, bro. Listen, You're always welcome here. Um
- 16:19Speaker 1: when the record comes, hopefully when you're in the states,
- 16:21Speaker 1: pull back up on this, Hunter ser let's premier. I
- 16:24Speaker 1: love appreciate you, Junior Choy, J and R. Choy. We'll
- 16:29Speaker 1: be right back with more of the ball Alert Show.
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- 16:50Speaker 1: you know, down at the southern tip of Florida, all
- 16:53Speaker 1: the way yup to Canada, everybody all over the world.
- 16:56Speaker 1: It's making me feel good and loves special And honestly,
- 16:59Speaker 1: you don't want to spend shout special somebody, you know what? No,
- 17:02Speaker 1: of course I don't want to do that. You know
- 17:03Speaker 1: better than that. Why would I do that? Not today?
- 17:05Speaker 1: I'm not selling Oh okay, I want to see you done. Yeah, yep,
- 17:13Speaker 1: I am, because you just keep trying it. I just
- 17:15Speaker 1: wanted I want to shout out to my guy Future dropped.
- 17:20Speaker 1: The album went number one, dropped some records. One of
- 17:25Speaker 1: the records went number one. He's got a couple of
- 17:28Speaker 1: songs on the album that I love Missogymy for not
- 17:31Speaker 1: uh uh chickens seven twelve pm. Now when seven twelve pm,
- 17:40Speaker 1: come on and just do something to my self esteem?
- 17:43Speaker 1: And then I follow that up with chickens. I don't
- 17:45Speaker 1: know what my favorite song is on Future's album. I'm
- 17:48Speaker 1: gonna just say, oh, it's so find piece of work.
- 17:52Speaker 1: Five out of five from Big Rock, and I don't
- 17:56Speaker 1: give a damn what y'all think. If y'all thought it
- 17:59Speaker 1: was the one out of two, one out of five,
- 18:00Speaker 1: one out of whatever, it was five out of five
- 18:03Speaker 1: from me Ferrari Simmons, Future High. See you next week
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