 Hey guys, you on a new segment of Talk of the Town today, we have special guest, Buck. Buck! How y'all doing y'all? So tell people where you from? From Bronx, New York. Okay, so how was it growing up in the Bronx? Growing up, I grew up in a lot of parts of the Bronx to be honest, so I'm really like a Bronx head. I got to see like different perspectives in different areas, you feel me? Sometimes they are closer to my heart than others, but it's a lot not to fall into temptation. You know, doing all the things, you know, doing all the, you feel me? But it was cool, you feel what I'm saying, I found good friends, you feel what I'm saying, I like being from the Bronx, I'm so sure. So who's some artist you was listening to growing up? I listened to a lot of 50 Cent, my pops used to bump Jada Kiss a lot, but personally I like Drake, you feel me? J. Cole, Kendrick's, you know, those people. Okay, so what's like your earliest memory of music? Earliest memory? To be honest, it's when my pops had bought Get Rich or Die Trying, and he used to bump the CD, but he had gotten the wrong one, he got the soundtrack instead of the real album, so I was really bumping the soundtrack, but that's like the earliest memory I have that you feel what I'm saying? It was a good feeling I got from that album. So how did you get into music now? I was about like 16, and me and my cousins used to just freestyle, and I used to get mad because I couldn't really freestyle that good, so like I ended up going, we used to freestyle in the fire escape, I went back in and wrote a little something, and then you know, I did, I could write, but you feel what I'm saying, like freestyling wasn't my thing, so that's what really drove me to do more. Okay, so get in the battlefield freestyle, so when did you record your first song? Oh, I would say like 17, I'm 25 now, so it was like eight years ago, I would say first verse song. It was cool, you feel what I'm saying, it was just getting started. Wow. So how do you feel like you improved musically from then to now? I've grown a lot, to be honest, I just put out like my first project, like the first real project, back then I used to just drop a little song, they weren't really mastered all the way, you feel what I'm saying, I didn't really have a plan with my music, so now it's like that's more clear to me. Okay, so in the project, where could people find it, was it called? The project is called Book of Morphoses, you could find it on all streaming platforms, Apple, Spotify, Tidal, you name it, you feel me, I just dropped a video for one of the songs on there called Money is Calling, it's on YouTube, you feel what I'm saying, you could bump in anywhere. So Book of Morphoses? Mm, Book of Morphoses. What inspired that title? I got it from Metamorphosis, you know, the stages of the butterfly, what not, and Book of Morphoses is a, you feel me, a play on my name or what not, and so like the, basically the theme is, Bug is who I started with, you feel what I'm saying, that my name at first was D Buggy, so like Bug, I got that from short, because my friends just started calling me Buggy, and that's like my signature ad lib before I started song, so Book of Morphoses is just me growing as a person, you feel what I'm saying, I'm Muslim now, so like I add the Muslim into my music, so like the Book of Morphoses is half and half. Okay, do you feel like that would be a conflict later on? The Islam into the, I think it could, because you know, you feel me, a lot of people judge or what not, so but I'm, I feel like I'm saying something, and you feel what I'm saying, it can change people's lives, you feel what I'm saying, the way music has changed my life in ways. Okay, so what would you say would be the plus of being an artist from New York? I mean like New York is New York, you feel what I'm saying, like so it's always so much exposure and everything going on here, you never know who you can meet, you feel what I'm saying, being that you knew from New York, people expect more from you, you feel what I'm saying, so it's like you always put on a pedestal when you were rapping from New York. Okay, so what's something that you learned being a New York artist? About New York specifically or just in general? About artistry in general. It's a lot of art in New York, you feel what I'm saying, and the hip hop aspect to it always hit me, you know, like graffiti and the break dancing, like the real old school feel always sat with me, you feel what I'm saying, because that's what my pops listen to, so that's where I grow up lives. Okay, so what would you say is your proudest moment in music so far? Dropping the first project to be honest, it's just like I was just so like you feel me second guessing myself, you feel me first starting off and just growing my sound or what not. I know this is just like the beginning. Okay, and what's something like on your bucket list, what's something you want to accomplish? I just want to use my platform for the greater good, that's something I want to change people's lives for me directly. Okay, so when you're in the studio, what's your process like? So I already have my verse written to a song or what not. I go in the booth, I haven't learned to engineer my own thing so I got the engineer. Yeah, I definitely need to because like nobody knows my voice the way I do, you know. But in the studio, you feel me, I get in the booth. If you say working with different engineers, you don't learn different things. Yeah, and this one I haven't like, I've stuck to this one, I met him when I first started recording, so we created a type of chemistry, so I always go to him and he makes me sound, you feel me close to 100% the way I want to sound, you feel what I'm saying? So for right now, that's what I go to. Okay, so what's the arm thumb in your dream collab? Like what's some artist that you want to collab with? It's a lab, bro. There was two. Two? J. Cole? Drake J. Cole? Yeah. Okay. Sure. And then, so tell us what's next for you? The project is out, one of the songs is out. Definitely, I'm planning on dropping another video to one of the songs on there and then as far as musically, I'm putting out another project it's called The Bronx Bombers. It's going to be like a straight feature tape, so it's me and everybody I know from The Bronx, if I don't say my friends that rap, all that. So we're going to have like a collab thing type of thing. Okay, okay, so you definitely have some collabs? Yeah, for sure. For sure. Any names you want to shout out? Shout out Sosa, shout out Nicodroid, shout out Tebow, shout out Todd Breezy, Rady, shout out who else we got on there. We got C's. We got a lot. I want to do a lot. We still working, you know what I'm saying? But it's going to be a lot. It's going to be a good project. Definitely a lot more to come. For sure. 2021 or next year? This year. This year. This year. We're going full throttle, you know what I'm saying? I just put out my first project, so I'm just trying to keep the momentum. Okay. You feel me? Okay, cool. So tell the people where to find you, where to find your music. Y'all can follow me on Instagram at dboogie with four O's. You can find my music on all streaming platforms. Everything is on my Instagram, so you go to hit the link in my bar on my Instagram. You find everything musically I got out. You feel what I'm saying? And we're going to keep building. We're going to keep going. I got more coming soon. For me, stay tuned.