All Jokes Asideļ¼ The Voice of the Vibe & The Architect Behind the Scenes
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In this episode, I bring on two of my dear friends and business partners, Ian Espinay and Kevion Keith, to talk about what it takes to be a good DJ and host, and how they make it all happen.
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What's up, y'all? You're tuned in to yours truly, Mr. J. Martin, the Renaissance Man,
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True Patriot Love. I'm your boy, Mr. J. Martin.
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What's up, y'all? It's yours truly, Mr. J. Martin, the Renaissance Man.
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And this episode, ladies and gentlemen, I'm ready to bring on two of my dear friends.
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I will be bringing you All Jokes Aside on The True Patriot Love.
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So my guest today, two of my favorite friends and entertainment in the building,
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First, I'd like to introduce to you none other than Mr. Ian Andre Espinay,
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Like, you are a renowned, a renowned entrepreneur.
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I'm just here, man. I'm just trying to keep up with you, my brother.
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We're going to talk about some of the things that he does
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and how he got here and when he decided to do this.
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And we're going to make it all funny, all jokes aside.
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jokes aside none other than my brother from another mother mr kid cut the voice of the vibe
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kevin keith is an entrepreneur as well uh many know that he started his career with one of the
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most famous groups known as baby blue sound crew that was tearing up the waves they went into music
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production uh he's done some entrepreneurship in the hair and design salon fashions uh i'm
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respectable because this man bought his first house at 19 years old i don't give you all the
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deuce but tell them hi and let them a little bit about yourself oh tell them about myself you just
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told them everything they need to know i told them a bit i gave them a little overview but
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go ahead um kick cut the voice of the vibe yeah um my whole thing is um entertainment arts that's
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And that's where I actually flourish, I always say that.
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And my whole thing is nothing tried is nothing done.
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but Ian is more known as the event coordinator,
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and KidCut is the one that brings that energy to the event.
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What separates a good host from a great host, a great DJ, a good DJ from a great DJ, your perspective?
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My perspective on that would be, hmm, I would think being knowledgeable of your surroundings.
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So basically, if you understand where you're at, you can cater to the people to make them have a good time, whether you're a DJ or a host.
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Like, you can't run into, like, say, you know, you're at a wedding and you're trying to treat it like a house party.
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What makes them a great DJ and a great host, when I know you hire them, Ian, what makes the difference in your event?
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Like, what's the difference between they're good, but greatness?
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So those who practice versus those who don't, those who study music and do their crates versus those who don't, those who like study the crowd and they're not Mijes, they look down and see what the crowd is saying versus those who don't.
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It's like, do you have love for your craft or are you just doing this for the money?
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Is it the talent, the promoter, or the audience?
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I'm going to ask you first, kid, because you get hired by them.
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So is it the talent, the promoter, or the audience, which holds the power to make the event successful?
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Ultimately, I believe it would be the audience, because if the audience is not there to support the promoter,
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Your opinion, Ian, and whether that's in the same topic, same question?
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The promoter comes up with the concepts, picks the DJs and MCs and talent that like fit the concept and then like crafts it to the audience that they're trying to to attract.
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And so, you know, people, birds of a feather kind of flock together.
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So people who, you know, like there are lifestyle promoters, there are music promoters, there are, you know what I mean?
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So like I would say that all three of those elements have to be in place as well as the venue and like where we're presenting the things to make a successful event.
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We have a lineup that we believe is going to make forth the event to be something special.
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Now I'm going to ask you again, is it the consistency of doing it again that's more important
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or the relationships that you develop between the people while you're building that consistency?
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So keeping it at the same level or the relationships with your patrons?
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Because going through this, your patrons get older, they get younger, they don't like this, they like that.
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So when do you want to stick to the point of consistency or the importance of the relationships of your fan base that brought you to where you are?
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No, I mean, every promoter has to make a decision.
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Ultimately, when they decide like their audience is getting older, I think is what you're getting
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at, whether they're going to stay up with the audience or try to attract younger audiences.
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And I mean, that is a personal decision. Many of us in our generation have decided to go up with
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our audiences. But in terms of relationships and consistency, it's both. It's not an and or.
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So it's like and we didn't talk about branding, but like you create brands that attract a certain
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type of people. And those people know that when they go with the name that they can trust,
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that they'll be safe and that the the you know like i don't even need to put kid on a flyer
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because they know that that's the level of talent i do put him on the flyer but but you know what
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i mean like that's the level of talent that they're coming with so there's a trust that's
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built like with your with yourself with your audience and with that being said kev you get
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booked in so many different places so you get to see the different levels right so you can predict
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a little bit better from what's coming he's going to see an average of different all ages and do you
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believe the relationships with the promoters are more important or is it the consistency of that
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that party or that vibe staying the same way for myself as an mc being in correct in those
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environments uh i would say for myself uh i would say i only work with a few promoters a handful of
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them because i know what they're doing how they're going to do it and where i fit into those
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situations i'm not like you know out there trying to find random people who are just
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starting and stuff like that you know once in a while i come across certain you know corporate
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stuff and i'm always working in the corporate stuff and weddings and all that other stuff so
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those things are more like new additions um man it's a hard question i know i i don't really have
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a defined answer to give you in regards to that and i understand because i could you know do a
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little bit of this a little bit of that yeah it was more related to ian in regards to having all
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the events that you do uh speaking of which some of our viewers don't know all the events that you
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put together collaborated over the years give us a little hint of some of the stuff you've worked
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on which will lead to my next question i mean countless brands over 25 years um probably the
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The most notable in Toronto would be Amnesia, probably it's Sister Party, Soul Kitchen.
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Big People Fet that I did with Dr. J was one of the brands that most people know.
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But like Icon, the one, White Sands, B-Boy Document, it goes on and on.
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So we've produced events, you know, six events, Caravan a weekend.
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of the brands that you've associated with help develop that you can put under your belt uh
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personally i've been working on a concept with my good friend natalie it's called lyric yes we also
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have exhale and lyric is a karaoke like it's a it's a karaoke party yes which is taking swing
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nowadays yeah we're traveling with that one and um on top of that we have exhale which is a boat
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cruise that we do every summer yeah um sometimes we might do it twice sometimes we might do it once
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depending on availability of the boat um and then i work with other phenomenal promoters brands to
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bring that's the nice oh yes when dance the nice you probably know them better than i know them
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because i watch what you guys are doing i i we're entrepreneurs and we watch which led to my question
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that is here you know you named about 10 different brands and i'm just being like you named a couple
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to put them all together, they're like 15 brands.
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Now we live in a country where it's seasonal, very seasonal.
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And so most of those brands work within that summer season.
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So when you've done all of the things as entrepreneurs that we have to do to keep afloat and make our families happy,
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I don't know that there's any preventing burnout.
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You can't, you can't outwork grief and you can't like run from burnout.
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Um, myself and kid, like, I mean, we met in like as teenagers, literally.
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Um, when black star was born, like black star, when I started doing graphics and towels and these kinds of things for baby blue and for kid.
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And, um, we went nonstop until we were forced to stop in the, in the pandemonium.
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You're grown men now. Families and houses, and we've moved on.
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Like, how do you stay relevant in these times when it's changing?
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No, to stay relevant, pretty much just stay on top of what's happening,
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what's happening in the media culture lifestyle and if you gravitate to those kind of things
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you're going to be relevant like if you refuse to stay on top of fashion and current events and
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music you're gonna so when you when did you stop thinking as a performer and then evolve into an
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owner wow um i didn't stop i'm always thinking hey i'm a performer right people actually
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go to these events to forget the stresses of what's been happening all week or all month
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they're like hey i'm out at an event let me just forget for you know about two or three hours just
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just that little glimpse of fantasy you know what i mean so my job is to help them forget that like
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just let them enjoy themselves bring it back to like a happy place okay right you know that's my
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thing i like that but who is kid cut when the mic is off oh well um i guess i'm a father and i am
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still a creator like you know when the microphone's off that's just one aspect but i'm always a
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creator always working on art projects whether it may be video or audio or production always still
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i guess i am who i am you know i mean it's not like i just lie down in a room and play chess
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all day no i'm always doing it right and he's a creator oh my gosh okay uh what's the difference
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in between being busy because we're all busy we say we're all busy i got to go here i got to go
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here my house they're always asking me where are you going i gotta go here what's the difference
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in being busy and and and where does that come into profit profitability so i mean for me um
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you know if you watch jordan's career i'm not jordan by the way wow
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No, but like if you watch Jordan as he like evolved throughout his career, he wasn't dunking
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His kid knows like when we were coming up, you know, some of those years I was doing
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like 102 parties in a year, like I pick and choose my shots, I get to the spot, right?
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And it's probably a three pointer these days as opposed to dunking on somebody's head all
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Like, so I pick in shoes where, you know what I mean?
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And I, and I drop in and I drop out, you know what I mean?
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And, and it's possible for like to your profitability question
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to do 10 parties that are more profitable than 102.
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What's something about the entertainment industry
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They see the entertainment industry, the cars roll up.
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has been responsible for bringing some of the best actors to come through parties and girls are like
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oh my god he's here i don't know some of them offhand but you'll tell us uh you know what is
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the truth the shocking truth behind the industry that people would be shocked to know you know what
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i mean i mean the game must be sold not told but i mean and i'm not trying to get you to air out
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your your secrets no but i mean he has a patreon page you know only feet one day when he's trying
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only feet you know but yeah i know like i mean it's not it's not as glamorous as it looks it's
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not you know like what you'd see on the internet you know people like you know like i fly every
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day like i'm in the air force like i'm like right there's a lot of lonely nights and like hard work
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and and hours that people don't see that are off the clock um there aren't as many there are groupies
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and toronto has more male groupies than anywhere in the world but there are not as many like it's
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not as glamorous as you'd think it is we're not we're not partying for a living we actually are
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there's a price that you pay when you're like when you're born to entertain like you know kid
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pays that price like all the time like he comes off stage and he turns into kevin right i've
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watched him like literally all right i'm going on stage huh right and then he comes off and he
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deflates right like there's a price that you pay when you're like born to entertain right so
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So it's not all fun and games and we're just drinking and like partying all day.
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It's months and months and months of preparation for one event sometimes.
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There's a lot of promoters that put on events and I think the biggest myth that a lot of
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people forget is that they look in there and they see 500 to a thousand people and they're
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I think the most misconception is when people look into an audience
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and believe that they can count the money that a certain individual is making.
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I'm going to have a couple of these guys come out to the show
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and actually give me their piece on what they do with entertainment.
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But all jokes aside, give me a case and scenario
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where you guys both thought you were going to make some money and lost your shirts millennium
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uh what was yours millennium like at the millennium remember this oh wow going back
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we were like all right here's one nba all-star weekend everybody thought they were going to
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to to kick off and i was like i don't know emperor's new clothes
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um i was part of that all-star weekend where every promoter was throwing a party
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and it was going to be super big i was on like three or four nights and then the weather kicked
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in and it did and it was like brick brick brick and nobody went anywhere right and a lot of parties
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were canceled i guess i didn't lose any money that i invested but i lost out on money could
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have been made uh i was in the same all-star weekend and we we were no but we we won we're
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the ones that won. Remember, we're the only ones that won in the comedy sector because we had a
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comedy show and it was sold out. And then everyone was like, oh, Shaquille O'Neal's going to be here
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for the after party. You can't come in. And I'm like, listen, everyone's already here from the
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comedy show. So you're thinking shots fired. I care zero. I was told that Shaquille O'Neal,
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I can't party with him, but my show did well. But if I could give my claim to fame, Ian,
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So people that are watching that think promoters don't take it.
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You know, this is before the late great Whitney Houston passed away, and he was still bad
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And he wanted a certain amount of money, and we were told that the person would have,
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someone would invest all the money for Bobby Brown.
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We just had to promote it, and we would get our money back.
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And the person lost his shirt, because Bobby Brown said Whitney Houston stole his passport
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May she rest in peace, one of the greatest voices of all time.
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And then the guy that wanted his money back wasn't joking, and Ian, myself, and our third
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partner had to find like $7,000 out of nowhere to pay this guy repeatedly, and it was horrible.
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And at the end of the whole thing, the bank account was good to go solo.
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oh my god people are watching and going bonnie brown came to toronto he did not so here's a fun
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fact that was my first ever loss really yes that was 2008 well that's what started in 1999 yes
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we've been friends ever since we've been friends ever since i wasn't even involved i came in to
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save the party i was told that it was paid for i just have to promote and do what i do best well
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The last installment, I'm like, who is this man?
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The other day, I saw that Ian's son kept a party.
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And Ian, I was like, wow, what a changing of the guard.
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Before you were even born, your father was doing parties.
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Do you think our children kind of look at what we do
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I know what mine are like, tell us a little bit about that.
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I think like he, he learned some life lessons that I wanted him to learn.
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My mother's like, you know what, I'll follow you into this thing.
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And I was like, you gotta let him learn some lessons.
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So you saw, you know, the people that you were closest to may not be the ones to support
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They might even be the first ones to be like, yo, I think he is putting himself on a flyer.
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lessons and he saw how hard it is because i believe that he thinks money grows on literally
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on trees you know what i mean he's like you know dad like you know the union air force ones i'm
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like not air force ones whatever jordan ones yes i'm like i'm like they're only 465 i'm like yeah
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no problem you know what i mean like so i think after throwing that event he realizes that what
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we do is not just just pick up look good and go and you know i've known you kid you've been a
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entrepreneur your whole life and you've got your kids now have any of them looked at how you work
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hard for your stuff has it been a different thing or does anyone want to emulate being the new kid
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cut or what do you think from your kids how they you know what i with my kids i think they dabble
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in it right um i'm not sure if they're that um devoted right to the cause but um they're very
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talented kids um at my twins for sure they play like at least three instruments each right they
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sing they rap right um they they they actually record music and record music for people like
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they're really talented kids i just think that because they're so talented the drive is probably
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not right there a lot of times when you know there's you have talented people but they don't
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really have the drive and then you have people with drive and the talents there but not as much
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you know what i mean i get it so or mine who has both but yes not for this not for this like he'll
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dance down the place kayla will kazumba down the place or whatever but not for this yeah it's true
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the same with mine i got my three girls they're all established and do their thing but then i get
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a son and i'm like what does he want to do and he's different he's not he's not as as extroverted
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as I am, but he doesn't like a lot of the same things they do. And what we all want is the best
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for our kids. You know what I mean? We want them to be able to have what we didn't. Like our parents
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wanted us to have what we didn't. And it turns around and you're like, hey, what's going on here?
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Before you know it, they're off doing their own thing. Speaking of which, I want to be able to
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transition. Let's create, if we were, because we've been all over the world. Kid, I've seen you in
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Dubai. I've seen you on the islands. I've seen us all over the world. Create to me the best experience
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that if we had the opportunity to do no expense budget holding us back what would you do what
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would you create uh what would i create together in toronto yeah we're here summer day summer day
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i would love to create uh the ultimate food and entertainment kind of vibe like it would probably
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like a multi-space like back in the days you know when uh government had yes different rooms
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different rooms going at the same time and some people are on the patio some people were in the
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big room i would love to do one big branded event and have different sectors and just be like have
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a lot of people just come out be like yo there's 20 000 people out and then you know something like
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that i mean for me it's ultimately what i was attempting unfortunately failure to launch
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but you know like the toronto soul music festival which would have brought together the best in r&b
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but like also like the diaspora um marketplace where black business would have been it was food
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comedy art everything all in one place so we were basically trying to create an essence music
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festival here but i don't know that that emotion was imparted but like that was the goal food
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trucks and environment because you know like if you go to the states or if you listen to blk the
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the old people know them, the young people music,
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And with that being said, we do the before I let go.
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ever really truthfully think of quitting like you reach that brink where you're like
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am i too old do i do this anymore do we quit like why do we do this you ever you ever get to that
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point um you know what like you asked kid a question about relevance i don't believe in
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relevance i believe in like evolution right so i mean like you know sometimes people go places
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and they're like oh the crowd's too young and i was like they're exactly where they're supposed
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to be you are not so there have to be spaces and places for you know like so it's like i've done
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1500 events you know what i mean like but it's like but what am i supposed to be doing at my
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level apart from helping the joshua lucas and those kind of people like the young people who
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are coming up your legacy is what you leave behind you right so it's like you know like how do you
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look at those baby vays and what and like these individuals who are coming up even when you're
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not working with them directly and like you know like that's the bdrb stuff that i'm doing how do
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i get these people grants how do i get them spaces right so that they don't have to go through the
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stuff that we went through so i mean i've so in that regard you feel you have enough to give to
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stop quitting right now yeah like i mean i mean like i don't have to you know like i don't have
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anything to prove in terms of doing another 300 person party right right but there's legislation
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needs it to be changed so that kid cut can get like if there's a pandemonium that there's like
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there's grant funding for everybody with an electric guitar exactly for us right yeah so
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you know like yeah do you feel like ever quitting my brother uh i can't stop won't stop can't stop
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won't stop yeah definitely no i never really thought of quitting but i just knew that you
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you know as you get older people's you know you stop seeing them around right like they're not
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around anymore so i was like oh i guess that's what you're supposed to do but somehow i've been
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blessed right that as i get older i lock in with more gigs and more events and there's more
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opportunities coming my way so um no i i think i'm just gonna go to the wheel go to the wheels
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we create the culture man it's the same for me as a comedian they're like hey were you ever
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going to retire. Well, funny never has an age on it. I'm lucky to know that the oldest in the industry
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can still be funny. And I question myself, but all right, am I doing it? But we unlearn and we
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relearn to be able to, you know, be relevant with what's going on. And so being that being said,
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we, and I say this, this is Toronto represented. This is known to true patriot love throughout
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the whole country but we live here in toronto which i believe is the screw face which they call
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the capital capital of the world why is that why do we eat our own why do we not give our flowers
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to our own talent that comes out of here i'm on a show here called true patriot love and why do
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we not show love to our own talented people within our industries i don't know i think it's probably
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the the the mentality of the crabs in a bucket you know i mean you don't really want to see that
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next person do better than you kind of vibe that they leave and then when they leave they're like
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oh they were better okay yeah man i supported them as soon as they leave and they're doing
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what they're supposed to be doing everybody's like yo i helped them along yeah i knew we'd
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always make it but i guess people they don't want to see your neighbor have a better lawn than you
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period it is the neighbor but i think it's the the american neighborhood
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we're like the little brothers right right and so we've always had this like mentality that
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whether we believe it or not it's like you know most of the time when we touch a microphone we
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put on an american accent or whatever the case is right like that that is better like when you make
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it over there you've made it right um and in terms of the crabs in a bucket thing like yeah like you
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know sadly crabs don't belong in buckets but you know what i mean like but like it is true like
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you know people don't want to see you do well until you don't as long as you're not doing better
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than they are right yeah exactly you know okay with that being said all jokes aside what advice
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would you give to anybody that's coming up on the come up this industry i've said it we are the
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screw face capital of the world we got through it barely how what advice would you give to an
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up-and-coming person that does what you do in your career um in a career like yours yeah well
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Well, I would look at it from a point of view, like just put one foot in front of the other one and stay consistent.
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You'll look back at some point and be like, hey, I've traveled a long distance.
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I don't even, and then, you know, failure to start.
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You, Ian, I advise you to give to someone who wants to do a career similar to your career
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You know, and try to make the place a better place than it was before you came.
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Hey, those are the words there from my man Ian Andre Espinay.
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Both of us, all of us, we spend a short time on this earth.
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We always want to leave the earth better than we came in.
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But if we were going to say, what legacy would you like KidCut to leave on people when you leave this earth?
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I don't want to be morbid, but I want you to say,
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I'd love to be able to watch it from heaven or wherever we are.
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But all to be told, what would you like them to say about you?
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but maybe he was a trailblazer, and he worked really hard,
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hard, and he stayed consistent at what he was doing, and he made a lot of people smile.
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Nice. What do you want him to say about you, Ian? And you're like, I hope these guys get it
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right. I'll be watching. What would you have him say about you? I don't know. I mean, I kind of
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feel like other people's opinion is none of my business, but I mean, I would hope that I
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am going to say it, and the kid's going to say pause. I hope that I touch some people along the
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way um that's you know like i hoped along the way that like i inspired some people like you know
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good or bad like you know um you know you had asked about like legacy and you know um like when
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i talk to when i teach at tmu or at humber or wherever like i tell them like don't let anybody
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write your narrative like you can be the first don't be the second kid cut be the first whoever
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you are yeah you know what i mean and so it's just like like you don't have to be like restrained by
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the constraints of the society you know we're west indian my dad was like what kind of foolishness
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go ahead and get a job garbage and like right and don't stay in the job for 10 years and don't move
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because it'll it shows inconsistency yeah this is not a this is a hobby this is not a right you know
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so like you can you can build your own narrative and like create something where something's never
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been created like you know before like amnesia had an album deal is because baby blue had an
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album deal correct because i never thought that we could like a party could have an album deal
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until i saw a dj i was like i never thought a dj could get an album deal right so like
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that was my inspiration for going to universal to look for that album deal right you know what i
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mean be the first i love that i love that be the first you be the first you yeah uh if i would do
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it and i'm i'm gonna say it i would love my legacy to be left that i worked hard like you both said
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uh made people smile like you said i was like those are check marks on my list
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just being able to be happy to know that that guy was different and it's funny people you know jay
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martin where this renaissance man came i didn't give myself the name it was given by eddie williams
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but i really personified i won't do any uh you can't peer pressure me on camera you cannot rule
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it i'm not sure um that being said no he renaissance man allows me to do a lot of be a lot
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of things and wear a lot of hats my dad always used to say you're a jack of a trans master of
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none i proved him wrong i'm a master in a lot of areas that's what a renaissance man does
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if i'm throwing a party or keeping them laughing and doing comedy that would be my legacy uh i
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want to leave a legacy that's why we're doing this and for our families that know that we don't have
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the regular nine to five, we're out here trying to leave a legacy.
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So before I actually get wrapped up and going, I know you all have very productive days.
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First of all, I'd like to thank you all for coming on to True Patriot Love.
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Make sure you keep it locked here when you are on tplmedia.com.
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But before we go, let us know some upcoming events that you guys are attached to and where
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This year, Lyric, we're going to be actually touring throughout the States.
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I'll let you talk about it in the days to come.
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I will be out for Carabana or Toronto Carnival,
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We can call it what you have to do until the forces come in,
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I'm going to be out like, you know, every weekend, I'm going to be out doing my thing,
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just living in the moment, inspiring other people to live in the moment and have some
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Yourself, Ian, what can you look forward to and how can they?
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Right now I'm busy with that breaking down racial barriers stuff.
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um soul kitchen returns um new new resident home at penthouse a kid is on the may two four long
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weekend edition with skits yes um we will be the new volume is called interpretations 10 djs
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unique uh perspectives infinite possibilities so every dj will play it their own way for the next
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uh little while for the next 10. perfect um b-boy document returns this year carpe diem returns
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We are in Series A for Toronto Soul Music Festival
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See people, we don't sit home and not do anything.
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And I mean, we hired our kid to be our music coordinator director to curate DJ selections of DJs each and every Sunday we will be there. Members will be a membership in there. But the membership is very inexpensive. It comes with a drink and the restaurant will be there with my little brother, the smokehouse. It's going to be amazing. We will have soul food each and every Sunday. Music, drones, just a vibe when the winters are so long.
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in this country it's so nice to know that we're going to have something to look forward to
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so each and every sunday we will be having soul food sundays over at rama gaming house it's going
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to be nothing short of amazing so keep it locked we thank you for listening to my podcast this this
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week oh man it's going to be nice i'm thanking my two guests ian andre espine i'm an amazing kid
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cutting the voice of the vibe i'm yours truly mr jay martin the renaissance band and we'll see you
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patriot it's gratitude to your country of course i'm a patriot i'm canadian it's my home well