＂A Journey Told Through Songs＂ - with Toronto Artist Falc1
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In this episode of TikTok, I chat with Toronto-born, Toronto-based rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, and all-around talented artist Falaqone about his journey as an independent artist, his influences, and the importance of social media in the music industry.
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hey everyone welcome back to tpl don't forget you can follow us on every major platform streaming
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platform on youtube instagram tiktok all of that at tpl media now i am i'm a music head definitely
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and i think we often forget how poppin the canadian music scene is so i have brought to you
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a lovely canadian local artist falc one welcome to the show thank you so much for having me it
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is so great to have you here okay let's do a little bit of an intro because i mean i was telling you
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this before you are you i don't think you realize how famous you are and how many people actually
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listen to your music but tell us a little bit about yourself yeah like you said my name is
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falc one i'm an artist right here in toronto um and i've been making music for my whole life but
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started recording in like 2017 2018 uh with it like a duo we were called the 108 and then kind
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of did my own thing starting 2020 and i've been releasing music ever since so interesting that
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you say 2020 that was when the coveted pandemic hit so what was it like trying to sustain a music
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career through that yeah it was um it was a bit different because it was you know growing up you
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hear about like people getting discovered through shows and you know they're going out and through
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covet it was just like strictly social media and just promoting yourself on social media and that's
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when i was like okay tiktok is this giant it's this big thing that everyone's obsessed with
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i need to get on there i need to start promoting myself on tiktok so that's kind of what i did
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and then it wasn't until i started going on tiktok live which um was probably around 2021 where i
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actually started developing like a following and people who just across the world were enjoying my
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my music so uh yeah i would say it was definitely like a switch of real life to you gotta just go
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full-on social media at that point yeah and i mean but social media can be a scary place too
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right there's there's a lot that comes with it so how was it like comparing 2021 to now
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navigating tiktok yeah it's it's funny because like different algorithms change and you have to
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try to like you know at 2021 2020 it was like thirst trappy content it was this like yeah the
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dance is very basic uh stuff where now it's a little bit more of like personal it's a little
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bit it's a little bit more creative if that makes sense like there's there's more of like a creative
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side to i think tiktok now but the difference i think of the algorithm is that so many people
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pick up on it right so your views could be sky high one day and they could drop the next day so
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it's it's a bit of a balance uh and just kind of you really have to the the downside is you really
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have to be on your phone you really have to be like analyzing these things and and seeing where
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trends are going and how and for somebody who's you know makes music and he's not like a not trying
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to be like an input you almost have to be like an influencer type of person uh nowadays so it's it's
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it has its moments right where you you go kind of up and down with that but um yeah i've seen the
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shift of of creativity for sure so we'll get into more of the social media stuff in a minute because
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it's a lot it's a lot to unpack especially as an independent artist but tell me about your genre
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your style and you kind of evolved a little bit I feel over the last few years yeah it's um it's
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I always say like I'm I like to be genre-less because for me it's like whatever inspires me
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that's that's kind of where I'm going I don't want to be kind of put in a box or like trapped
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in a box creatively um but like a lot of people know me from rapping and freestyling but you know
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I love to sing singing is probably like my number one passion so uh I'll do you know soft ballads
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I'll do you know again rap songs dance music upbeat songs so whatever's kind of in that
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the inspiration for that day that's kind of where I'll make my music and recently um just with
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things in my life you know I suffered like some loss in my family some mental health issues and
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so I think my music where I always I want to be inspired by like true events because I feel like
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that's where you get your most expressive content um so I think just with how my life kind of went
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it gradually shifted my perspective from like oh I'm gonna do love songs because you know I'm
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feeling like all lovey-dovey and this and to now it's um kind of hitting some darker and maybe like
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some some harder points right um so i feel like my my music's grown just with life like how our
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life grows and our life adapts i think my music's kind of uh reflected that i think life is
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definitely like a main factor in the inspiration for music and especially in your 20s you know it
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is such it's it's a decade of evolving you're not the same that you were at 21 22 23 like it all
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changes so much and i'm sure you've gone through a lot of that change in your life and you're kind
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of looking back on now you're probably reflecting on it a lot yeah like i'm thinking about like my
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early 20s where like i'm writing music about partying and you know just going out and having
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a good time with your friends and trying to live in the moment and then now it's kind of like
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this whole different perspective of you're almost thinking about your future and you know
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the struggles of trying to make a name for yourself in your 20s um that's kind of where
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my mind is gone and where my lyrics have kind of changed so drastically where it's like
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yeah my early 20s was you know it was about having fun it was it was you know that's just
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what you do when you're when you're that age and then I think now um like like we've been talking
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about just your perspective changes on life and you also face different things in your life like
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I remember I've been so I've been in a relationship since I was 16 so I was writing breakup songs in
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early 20s but i was like i know this is something that is like impacts people but it's not directly
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impacting me so i would look at like friends who have gone through breakups and look at them and
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get inspiration there and it was almost like i was pulling for inspiration at that point where now
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it's like life is this crazy thing it's like you don't have to pull from anybody else you got it
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right from within right so i i think it's safe to say the last year has been wild for everyone in
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some way shape or form and okay we'll we'll come back to that as well because i think the mental
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health thing ties in with that a lot but tell me about being an independent canadian artist and
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what it's like to try and make a name for yourself like you mentioned yeah it's it's definitely fun
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because you know you're doing what you love it's your passion it's something that um i've always
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wanted to do but it's it's very difficult because nobody tells you like you got to do everything
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right uh like for somebody like myself who's totally independent i'm my videographer i'm
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my social media manager i'm my you know uh marketer i'm i'm doing all these different
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like hats where it's not something that i specialize in right i specialize in like
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writing music and performing and all that fun stuff but it's if you want to make your name
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in that regard you have to kind of master these other skills or you know get enough money where
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you could hire people to do all those things but for me right now it's it's you know i have to wear
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those hats so it's just kind of like a day in and day out of like okay you know studying cameras
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studying how to edit you know uh like the amount of cap cut tutorials that i've watched of how to
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edit like videos to try to make them pop and color grading and all this stuff that's lighting lighting
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yes i've got i've got the portable light in my purse if you ever need it i'll tell you that
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you're a real one no but it's true like i've had to buy like portable lighting and all this stuff
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that you know four years ago i i didn't know one thing about and i didn't think i would ever need
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to know anything about so i think that's the the tough part but i will say that it's very important
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to like put things into perspective and like count your wins because when you're an independent
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artist you're gonna get so many notes like i have very thick skin like somebody could be like just
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look at me like hey i hate your music yeah you suck right and like it doesn't phase me because
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i've developed such like thick skin over the years and i it's taken a while but i've gone
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to like accept my small wins where it's like okay i'm not where i kind of want to be let's say
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quote unquote yet but think about yourself five years ago if you had you know people listening
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to your music in europe and different continents and you have to if you don't do that and you don't
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say like wow no i'm actually doing something great you'll go crazy you'll go crazy because
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if you're just waiting on like that big yes to come and you're just like you're almost
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you're kind of just waiting for approval almost like constantly so you you really have to like
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take a step back and just be proud of yourself and be proud of the journey that you've taken
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that's amazing advice because and i think that also comes back to the social media thing because
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sometimes the numbers you see can be disheartening the amount of viewers or like sometimes a video
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that you didn't think would pop off pops off and sometimes you maybe don't get as many like views
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on your lives or people joining your lives but speaking of which your lives have reached people
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all over the world like you're international now yeah so how does that feel oh it's amazing it's
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it's it's really the coolest thing like when you get people who like are coming in like hey watching
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you from london tonight watching you from sydney australia and like just all these different places
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in the world it's like wow this is what i used to like dream of this is this is everything that
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those steps those those editing tutorials like this is this is why i did that just to get my
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music heard by all these people and uh yeah it's it's something that you can't really explain and
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i think just the next step would be like to actually not have a screen in front and it's
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like a face-to-face interaction like at a show or something like that that's kind of where my next
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step and yeah i want to go but uh yeah it's like it's the coolest thing like you can't you can't
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really put it into words how how awesome it is to to hear and people like know like hey i just
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listened to this song that you just dropped and it's like and i'm like oh where are you from and
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it'll be like oh i'm from uh uh nairobi kenya and you're like wow like that's amazing yeah it's just
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wild and i have to ask backtrack a little bit how how do you think you developed that thicker skin
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because it's hard as much as we want to say like i have a thick skin nothing bothers me
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you know there are things that bother us yeah i think
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i think if you don't develop it you fail so i feel like you almost have no choice as an
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independent artist like or just an artist in general or anybody doing something creative or
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you know in a space and in life that uh if you don't have tough skin i feel like you'll fail
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because it's so it's got to be like zero zero zero point zero zero percent of somebody giving
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you a yes on your first attempt you're going to deal with no's you're going to deal with people
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who just simply aren't a fan of what you do and that's fine because there are so many people who
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will be a fan of what you do and you kind of have to realize that that with every no it's closer to
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a yes as cliche as that sounds it really it really is it i was on my live stream for six months
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straight and i didn't get nobody joining the lives didn't get anybody but i just kept going and like
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people being like why are you doing this uh for four people like yeah you're really gonna make it
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with four people and you're like you know like the trolls in the comments yeah literally like
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like what a loser he's rapping to four people like get a job yeah you're sitting at home behind your
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phone just saying staring at your screen anyway so like you you you get all those and it was probably
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like the seventh month where it was like oh now i have 30 people now i have 100 people and then
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like from 100 it went to like a thousand and then 2 000 and then i had like one of the top live
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streams in canada and then see this is the the the fun part about being in the music industry is
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it's not just going to go to 3 000 4 000 then it goes back to 100 and you know you have your ups
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and downs but it just shows like if you stay with something and you have to be proud of yourself so
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every time I drop a song, every time I go on TikTok live and I present myself, like even in
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this podcast, I want to look back at it and be proud of myself and be proud of what I'm creating.
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And I think as long as you're doing that, you develop thick skin because you develop a lot
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of confidence in what you're able to do. So when people tell you, no, it's like, okay, it wasn't
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for them. It'll be for somebody else. Cause I know it's good. I'm proud of what I'm kind of
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creating um so that's really how it developed and well i love that i love that for you i think that's
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and that's amazing advice and and like i said social media can be really disheartening looking
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at those numbers and have you ever considered like bringing a team on to help you with that stuff i
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mean you've got your dad now your dad who's watching and he's your camera person sometimes
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he's your social media person sometimes but do you think a team might help you or do you like
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enjoy doing it on your own i would absolutely love a team i just finding the the right people
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right now and finding something that works like financially and you know those other costs when
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you are paying for like you know all the stuff yourself right like even like marketing wise
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that's on your own budget because again you're you're you're by yourself so i mean if something
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were to work i'm so open to that so if anybody is looking there's a little ad yeah just plug
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yourself man go ahead go ahead uh but yeah no i think it would it would help tremendously because
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you know when you're wearing all those different hats it's tough to kind of like laser focus on
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one thing you kind of have to do a bunch of things at once and i think just as like humans where if
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we laser in on one thing it's usually better than trying to do a million things like you can still
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do it well but you know what i'm saying like if you really put your time and effort into one thing
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and excelling at one thing i think it's just gonna be better so yeah i would love to be i i definitely
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am proud of you know learning those tools i think that it's helped me grow for sure but i think now
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i'm at the stage where it's kind of like i do want to spit that off yeah i just want to make music
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now that's the thing that's the thing that comes with being an artist there are so many components
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that come with it it's not just about sitting down and writing a song anymore there's so much
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more that goes into it you have to market yourself and you mentioned financials you know that's always
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something that's quite difficult for independent artists you know you might look like glitz and
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glam and all of that but it doesn't always it's not always that way yeah no it's it's it's tough
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because you know uh i can't remember what the breakdown is but like for every spotify stream
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it's like a quarter of a penny right like it's it's very very low so you really have to do numbers
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on your streams to be able to support yourself financially and that's why uh the tiktok lives
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have been great for me because that's where i've kind of um done well for myself and been able to
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pursue music full-time is because of uh tick tock so i do a lot to tick tock and the social media
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element beside it because i think now and this is a good point but if you're an artist you have to
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look at different avenues uh in order to generate income like even you know if you're good at
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songwriting try to see if you can uh pitch out your your your writing so you can get some money
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or just anything that kind of keeps the the dream it keeps you afloat uh so i i think that if i would
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would give any advice to like any artists out there is just like look at different avenues and
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whether it's social media or just promoting yourself in different ways where it's not just
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streams where you're trying to make an income because it is so difficult you really do have to
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get great numbers to provide for yourself and i also think it's very different in canada versus
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like the u.s because there's no tiktok creator fund for example here in canada so how do you
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navigate that how do you monetize that in a way yeah it's it's tough like it's uh
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i always say like in these in the states they just even with content because they get so much
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more outreach than than we do here so uh it's just easier to go from like point a to point b
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when you're in the states because it's just such a bigger volume like when i was uh i was in l.a
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for a couple months and i was streaming down there on live and like my numbers were just so inflated
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and i was like i was like wow like i can't believe this right but it's they just have a bigger
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outreach and for us who don't have the creator fund i would recommend like obviously if you grow
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your contents where you could get brand deals and stuff that's that's incredible but if you're not
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there yet i would suggest going live because you can make uh money in canada going going live um
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um it's not easy you do have to stay really consistent and you can't expect to you know be
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making a ton as soon as you you start off but it is it is an avenue that people can take and if you
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do make creative content and things that you know stick with people and really move people then
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I think you can do well in Canada on that but it would be nice if you got both yeah and what about
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getting your music out onto streaming platforms and stuff how does that work so for me um you use
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like distributors so there's there's a couple that i know like i use uh it's called united masters
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and um a couple of my friends use uh distro kit like my producer chino uses uh distro kit
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um and yeah you basically just uh submit your song the cover art um who wrote the song make
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sure like everything's your own original work and they'll put it on to spotify apple music youtube
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they do all that stuff for you so it's pretty simple um but yeah you need one of those to uh
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to get your music out there but i will say if you're using those make sure you pay a little
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bit more and you become like a premium artist on their platform and you keep all your rights
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because you do not want to give any especially when you're in your beginning stages you don't
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want to give away any of your rights so what what happens if that happens who takes those rights
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they so basically like they'll do like a split so if you're not like a premium artist i don't
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the exact splits but they will take um any earnings from that song so let's say the song were to go
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viral they get some of that whether um where you could just pay a little bit more and it's 100
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yours so it it makes sense just cough up a little bit at the beginning and if you like believe in
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your music and you believe it has that um virality potential then you know you don't have to give
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anybody nothing it's your music you know you you want you want everything okay yeah so that's good
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to know that's really good advice okay so now okay let's dive into the mental health side of things
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so you for those who aren't familiar with your music i've been listening to you for quite some
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time but you went from you know upbeat dance stuff and now you're making a little more i don't want
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to say dark but it's another side of you that i feel like your listeners haven't heard before yeah
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i i just really wanted to and i debated this for a long time like writing about mental health it
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was something that was foreign to me because i'd never experienced it like everything in my life
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was you know just trying to be as positive as i can you know always smile on my face type of guy
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but um 2025 it was just that roller coaster of social media where it's like okay this view this
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didn't get the views that i wanted and this song's not here to get in the streams that i wanted but
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oh no this one did and it was like up and down up and down it's like you just start to get like so
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in your head and i was getting so in my head and i wasn't acting like myself and um it just like
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flooded into my work where i was like this is what's going on in my life i need to write about
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this and i had written the two songs that i had released um and i was like i don't know if i'm
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gonna release it right it was in my head again right it's like i don't know if i want the world
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to kind of see that side of me but then i was like what kind of like artist am i if i'm not showing
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what i'm dealing with in my true self and it also goes back to the point of i had previewed the song
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on my live um it was like super late and it kind of like died down so sometimes if it like dies down
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i'll show unreleased music because it's a small bunch and it's like kind of intimate so i show
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this song and this person's like wow like i've been dealing with a lot of struggles and this
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like was amazing i really needed this and hearing that it's like how do i not release this now
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right hearing that it could help somebody else because when you're writing and it's like this
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is for me this is for me to just get it off my chest but then you realize how many people actually
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deal with mental health struggle with it uh so i was like if i could just help one person
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in this regard i need to drop this so i decided to drop those two songs and
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And like some of the, like, I get emotional just thinking about it because some of the
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And like, as an artist, I think you want your music to, to make people feel something.
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And the fact that it got people through something, um, yeah, it was just really special to me.
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And I thank you as a fan too, for putting that out, for showing that side of yourself.
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And especially I feel as a male, it's not easy.
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So I think it's really opening that up to people to say, listen, everybody's dealing
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Doesn't matter if you're male or female, it's okay to talk about your feelings.
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It's okay to put it all out there if you're struggling.
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I think, like you said, the male thing, it's, it's, it's that stigma, but it's still like,
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you know, you want to be this, this macho guy, this, this, you just don't want to be
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to show that side of you so i think yeah it was important for me to to highlight that and how was
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it received by like your close friends and your peers yeah like for some of them it it caught
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some by surprise but to some like of my closer friends who you know i've opened up with uh this
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past year um it was nice it was nice for us to kind of be open and have those talks like man to
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man um about these tough subjects you know and as a guy you want like you know in your 20s
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You want the car, the house, the this, the that, the girls, all this stuff, right?
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You want that kind of, you have kind of like a bucket list of what you want to check off.
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And when things don't go in that linear line that we were talking about before, I think
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a lot of like men have kind of that self-doubt.
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So I know a bunch of my friends have dealt with mental health and it's, like we said,
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And it was nice to just talk to them openly, no BS about it.
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it was just free talking and um we got to express ourselves and just get it off our chest and do you
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feel like that's the type of conversation that you would have had with your guy friends like let's say
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three four years ago i don't think so i don't think we were mature enough at that point uh
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to kind of have those conversations about mental health uh i think it's something that when you
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really get put into the real world and like real life scenarios really hit you you mature and you
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you kind of adapt with that um so yeah three years ago no but i think i think there's a time and a
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place for everything in life and i think you've got to go through things to kind of mature and
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realize you know this is the road i want to take and this is the person i want to be and these are
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kind of the conversations i want to uh have absolutely we're growing up we're growing up
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we're getting more mature we're realizing how important mental health is and expressing yourself
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and talking to your peers and realizing that you have people there for you so tell us about these
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two songs then and what they're about and then maybe compare them to a song like saturday night
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fever for example yeah sure so um there's two songs so the ep is called stained soul uh and
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there's two songs on it the first one's called losing my way um and the second one's called
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beautiful life and losing my way is just about, um, me feeling like I lost the joy that I used
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to have and a happy go lucky mentality that I, that I, that I want in life. I feel like, you
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know, we should never take ourselves too seriously and we should always try to, you know, wake up
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with a smile on our face and just give, give the day our best. I know it's tough, but you know,
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and I felt like I lost that side of me and I lost that confidence, uh, where I would say I'm
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a pretty confident person like we were talking about before thick skin like always tried to be
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as confident as possible and I was starting to have self-doubt in my music which I never
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had before or performing I never had that before so it was just like losing my way in the sense of
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kind of losing this confidence and losing this this aspect that I really enjoyed about myself
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and then beautiful life again is kind of about missing this beautiful life this uh when things
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were easy when things were smooth when you're in your 20s and your early 20s and you know it's just
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let's go out this weekend and let's have fun and let's you know there there's not those those
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later life pressures pressures um and that's kind of what beautiful life is about and i wrote that
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one when I was in LA and I was kind of just alone by myself and in my own thoughts and you know you
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start to almost spiral in a sense when you're just by yourself different country different place
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um and yeah so then I kind of the pre-chorus goes like LA nights I'm crying all alone and I've got
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no guidance and that I started with the pre-chorus which I never really do but um I kind of built the
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song from there and yeah so they're both just about kind of missing that that older piece of
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you yeah and then so compare it to your earlier stuff then and even other things that you put out
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earlier last year that were a lot more upbeat yeah so like a song like Saturday Fever like I
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love if I'm I love that song it's just like an upbeat like dance song I love if I'm at a party
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I'm the guy dancing like I'm I'm always moving like I'm I just I always have fun with that so
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um that's a side of me that I really wanted to show that uh that upbeat fun side of me which
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at that point in my life when I was writing that song it was so prevalent like I was you know I was
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going out I was having fun and it's it's funny because those songs are released like a couple
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months before and after but when writing them I was just at two different parts in my life
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uh and that's why I say with my music uh I'm almost genre-less in a sense because my the next
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release I don't even know what is really going to inspire me so I think I just take what life
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gives me and kind of just release it as it goes and I think that it's kind of authentic to like
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a real life experience because you're not always sad and you're not always happy and you don't
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always want an upbeat song you don't always want a slow song so I like to do whatever I'm feeling
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in that moment and I think that's why a lot of my fans and people who support me they like that
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because I kind of get they don't have to switch artists to get both of those sides um but yeah
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it just it just relates to kind of what I'm going through in that time like I was feeling
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fun and happy at that moment and I just wanted to dance and I think Saturday Night Fever gives
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that type of vibe and then yeah with the mental health stuff again just what you're dealing in
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that yeah that moment and I love that you're I do actually really like the fact that you call
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yourself a genre list because like I can find a song of yours for any mood to fit any mood so I
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love that and you've always worked very closely with your one producer chino do you look at like
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branching out and you know you talked about being in la and maybe does that a shift you want to make
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obviously you will always rep toronto i love the jacket i should have said that but do you feel
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like you could branch out and kind of move past and beyond the canadian music scene um yes and no
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i feel like you know you never want to limit yourself with like opportunity if something
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arises there's like this incredible beat and there's like something that grows naturally
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but i think part of what makes music so special is when it's authentic and it's real and you have
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a good time doing it and me and chino just really hit it off and he's so talented and i i always say
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this i'm not the best speaker i might be a great like you know singer and performer but speaking
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wise sometimes to get my point across it takes me so long and i can't you did great and i i but
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he always i'll be like i need that and he'll be like i know what you're saying and he'll do it
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like we have that relationship where he knows what i'm trying to say and so we just kind of feed off
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each other and even with those mental health songs it was kind of like hey like i'm looking to kind
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of write this type of song and he actually sent back some beats um that kind of related and then
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i wrote the songs to the beat so he really knows what i think we've worked with each other for
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around five and a half years now so um he knows the point that i'm trying to get across so i think
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we'll always have a great relationship and continue to make music and i think we're very
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proud to be from canada to be from toronto and i think as much as other opportunities that they
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arise that's great but i think you always kind of come back home and you have that that special
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special bond because it it really is we started from nothing to no streams and just working our
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butts off day and night trying to give people the best that we thought was the best and uh so yeah
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i think i think part of it is also making the music right you want to enjoy making the music
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and i think that comes through in our music yeah and i think maybe once you get like too big or
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whatever the case is sometimes you kind of lose your passion for it like right now it's very very
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passion driven for you yeah yeah 100 like i always say like if you lock me in a room with gino and
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we're just making music for 24 hours like we'll put out as many songs it's like we're not gonna
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get sick of it because we're just so passionate about it and it's just something that it's like
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it stimulates you right like it gives you this this this rush um so i think some people like
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you said lose that maybe if they get to that point i hope i never do i think music is like
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such a big part of my life that i think i never will but i also think that part of what makes my
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music great is chino like i i'm not a producer uh so i need that other side of like you know the
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beat is such a a big part of it like i obviously i write the lyrics and i'm performing them but
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uh the beat is so special so i think we have something really nice where and he you know
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he's a bit shyer he likes to be in the in the background scenes and i like to be you know
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present i'm good with being on stage so we our personalities mesh our likes mesh what we and he's
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also like he likes dance music but he loves all type of music i like rap music but i like all
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type of music so we we've been able to be that genre list because we both enjoy so many different
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forms of music so yeah i just think there's such this like compatibility there that were even if i
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was this big big big artist he would be this big big big producer because he's part of it right
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he's yeah i love that yeah i love that relationship i love that and you mentioned a little bit of
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advice but what other advice would you have for any up-and-coming canadian artists and maybe some
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tips and tricks to navigate this industry because it's difficult i would just say start i see so
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many people in my lives who like they come in and they're like hey i want to be an artist too like
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what do I do? And I'm like, just start, just start writing music, start performing as best
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as you can get comfortable and try to just keep perfecting your craft. Cause you know, me at 16
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thought I was the best thing ever. Right. Like I was thought my songs were, yeah, you know,
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and it now looking back, it's like, yeah, those are good for a 16 year old, but it's,
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you develop so much. So never think that you're too cool for school and you've got it all figured
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out keep writing start and realize that there's room to grow and there's always room to get better
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you're never going to be the best of the best the best you're going to keep improving each day so
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i would say start and if you can start producing that means that you can do everything by yourself
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if not you got to get in touch with you know a producer or studios or stuff like that but get in
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there um it's it's good to be in a studio because you learn a lot about creating music and just
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the little nitty-gritty that comes comes with making music uh that i'm still learning to this
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day uh so i would say start there and also you gotta post you can't you can't be scared to post
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you can't be scared of negative comments you gotta post and now it's like we were talking about it's
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so social media driven that tick tock instagram even snapchat where wherever you can post show
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your music off or show you know if you want to start off by doing covers start off by doing
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covers whatever whatever works because you never know especially with tick tock you never know
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who is listening who's watching like i'll give you an example i'm performing on my live um earlier
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this year and this one guy goes i've been a fan of you for so long i actually um am a news anchor
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now in uh he's from kosovo which is a small country in europe and he goes i'm a news anchor there i'd
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So just by this guy seeing me, I was like last month, I was on the news in a small country
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in Europe that, you know, you never think that these opportunities will arise.
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But if you don't post and you don't put yourself out there, who knows, right?
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So it just showed like, I just wanted to give that example because you don't know who's
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That's why you got to post and that's why you got to put yourself out there.
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What's on your vision board for 2026 and beyond?
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2026 is just all about continually to grow my name.
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I think that's something that I thrive in is just feeding off crowd energy.
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And I would love to get to the point where I could kind of tour, maybe do like a small
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little Canadian tour and just visit different cities who, you know, have some good fan bases
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and then now i've got some songs coming out soon um a little bit more upbeat just for you know how
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life has kind of taken me uh so excited about that um and i'll actually give you a little
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exclusive stuff right uh i'm working with um so again for opportunity people see your stuff
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i was on the news in kosovo and this artist from there reached out to me and was like i'd love to
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do a song with you so i'm actually working on a song with him which i think is going to be super
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cool he's going to be singing in albanian and i'll be singing in english and yeah it's just
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another cool experience and kind of you know um him kind of getting the north american audience
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and me getting the european audience and working with each other um so that's something that i'm
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kind of working on right now uh so that should be pretty exciting that is that is so exciting
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i'm so excited for you that's that's awesome and all because you went live on tiktok yeah you just
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you really got to put yourself out there and whatever you're doing like in it could be any
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field in life you can't be scared of the rejection the nose the because at the end of the day the
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people who are criticizing you if they have time to criticize you they're not where they want to
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be in life that's just what i've always thought what i've always thought of like
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but it's like if you really have time to take out of your busy schedule to make fun of somebody
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and just keep going and keep pursuing your dream
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Falk One, and also tell us where we can find you online,
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