 What they gonna do with me now? I'm still a twerk of the town. I'm getting the sisters, I'm hooking them down. Hey, everyone, I'm your host, Enrique. Thanks for tuning into the Talk of the Town. Today, we got a very special guest on the show. Jean-Claude, what's up, baby? All right, awesome. So we're going to get started with a little icebreaker we have here called Rapid Fire Questions. So ask you some questions, and you answer them really quickly. All right. All right. So the first one is three things you'll take with you on an abandoned island. My three kids. So what is your favorite food? Tacos. OK, respectable. I like that. I can agree there. What's your favorite album? Take care. OK. Favorite song right now? Count these bands rushing slow. OK. So OK, staying on the song tip, what's one song you know all the lyrics to that isn't your own? Girl, you know I see naked. Don't be a pretender getting high as a condom. That's when they all come together. That's the name of that song again? It's Come Through. It's Drake's Come Through, finally. There we go. You got me there for a second. I was like, damn, you know the lyrics went off the song name. I used to get it. So what's your dream feature? Drake. Yeah. Nah, I figured it out. What's one song of yours you wish got more love? I can't remember the name of it. I have a terrible memory, but it's me on a drill beat, but it's not like a drill song. It's more like a pain song. I thought we'll figure it out and we'll put the name right there. What is your favorite thing to do in New York City? Be home. OK. And what show are you currently watching? Jiu Jitsu Kaisen. Oh, Word. Season two, or the first one? Season two. Yo, I got to get Crunchy Roll around the spot. Do you watch other anime, too? A word? Do you watch Attack on Titan? Yeah, that's my show. I didn't finish the third or fourth season, though. Because it's like you have to read the manga at some point, because it kind of skips a lot of stuff. Yeah, no. I definitely recommend it whenever you get the chance. Some top tier show. And then last one is one lesson you've learned in the industry so far. It's a ladder. It shoots in ladders. Get some ladders. That's a good one. Really good analogy. All right, but and with that, well, Randon, thank you so much for playing rapid fire questions. All right, it's a shame. How did your musical journey start? So my musical journey started. So my uncle died, I think, when I was like 10. And he used to rap. So I used to go to South Carolina to spend it with my aunt. And he used to be at my aunt's crib. He used to live with my aunt and my uncle. And we used to see him inside the room. Like he used to practice. I think he used to play clarinet. I think it was. And he used to be in there with his little tape recorder, his Jay-Z, his Jay-Z posters on the wall and be rapping. So I used to see that. And then when he died, it's like I kind of just slowly kind of pick up the mantle. Kind of picked up the mantle. I wrote my first rap when I was like 12. But then when I was in my senior year at high school, I wasn't really rapping. Sometimes I was just right. Like me and my friends would do something like Wildin' Out. When we was outside of my grandmother's crib, my grandmother had a porch. And we always just sit in front of it. We used to play like a game where we rap, but we talk in trash or you tell them. You're making jokes in a rapping form. This is before we even knew about Wildin' Out. So this is something we used to do. But from there, my senior year, my man, his name's Giz the Wiz. He just like, yo, bro, then we should start rapping. He was already like kind of into it. And then Rest in Peace, My Son Cash. He was like at the lunch table one time and then, you know, just do the beat on the lunch table. He was like, yo, let's get it, you rap it. Yeah. Holy shit. Yeah. Nah, that's really a story right there. First, I'm sorry for the loss of your uncle and your friend. Yeah, thank you. And secondly, now I feel like it's a really honorable way to keep it going, you know, like picking up the mantle and look at what you've done with it so far. Right, I know you're proud. I know you're proud. I know you're looking at you're proud. So what were some of your influences growing up? Like outside of familial influences like on music, more like the people you would look to listening to music and be like, Dan, that's the kind of stuff I want to make. So you talking about like outside of hip hop? Music in general. It could be outside of hip hop. Music in general. Yeah, I know a lot of people, like it's crazy, you know, like we have a lot of draw rappers come on the show. Yeah. And then I'll ask them that question and they'll be like, honestly, Michael Jackson. I listen to Michael Jackson, but real, bro, I used to live in Colorado's village when I was younger with my grandmother. I used to live on the 24th floor in the bathroom. We used to have this thing to play music on or whatever. This is back where you still had to buy CDs. Wow. So I had the Backstreet Boys CD that my cousin had, the Usher CD. The one we're here on the cover is like Brown and beige. And he's like this on the cover. I forgot the name. Is that Confessions? I think that is Confessions. Yeah, my parents had the Confessions I think the Part 2 CD. Yeah, I think that was Confessions. So I used to get out the shower to switch the CDs from, I used to listen to, I like, want it that way. And then I would switch and go to, oh, no, what's that song? What's the name of the song? You got it, you got it bad. That was my song. But besides that though, in high school, I used to listen to Classical Baroque. Oh, wow. Oh, shit, now that's crazy. So did you play instruments in high school as well? Man, I tried. I don't have an affinity to sit there and learn. I get distracted quick. So I was like, I tried to learn how to play the flute. I tried to learn how to play the guitar. In those moments, I'll be pretty decent at it. But once, I don't have the bass no more. I don't have the focus enough to go back. You know, let me just go buy a guitar. I try to learn piano in college. But I've learned sitting there and reading the notes. That's not my thing. I guess that's not my thing. So did you have a favorite composer, or even a favorite symphony? Man, it is so low-key. I forgot. It wasn't a Beethoven one, though. It might have been by Cicero. I'm not sure. I really can't. I think it might have been by Cicero, though. It might have been by Cicero. I can't really remember. Wow. Yeah, no, that's a deep cut, bro. I mean, I don't know if people are going to get that. I'm going to go with Classical Baroque. Yeah, bro. Honestly, that's the first. I've never had that as an answer before. But you know why that is, though? I had bread when I was younger. I was like, yo, people who listen to Classical Baroque usually has better memory retention. So when I used to go to sleep, I used to play it to sleep. Because I always had bad memory. So I used to play it to try to get my own, hopefully at helping it to help with my memory. So it didn't work. But I had some good tunes. Yeah, now, people are really sleeping on that nowadays. Crazy, when you take the words away and it's just like instruments of all different kinds. Yeah, it's satisfying, though. I used to listen to the besides that, though. I listened to my grandfather used to listen to it. My grandfather used to listen to a lot of jazz. And like, ain't no sunshine when she's gone. OK, but whether it's like Motown type shit. Yeah, my mother used to listen to a lot of Patty LaBelle. And like, I forgot the other thing's name. But it was always like a little song where they sing. And it sounded like they're in a concert and they're talking. Like, hey, listen, child, you know what I'm saying? Those type of songs that he's listening to those type of. So I had a bunch of musical influences, especially outside of hip hop. Because real from my dad wasn't a big hip hop thing. He only listened to R&B. He listened to two rappers. And that was BMX and two poppers. And that was it. Wow. Wow, look at that. That's crazy. Of all rappers, too. Two of the best. But yeah, you got kind of look at them, they're similar. And they kind of functionality, like very bodacious characters. So my dad used to listen to only them, too. Wow. Damn, a whole host of influences. OK. So what made you realize that music was taking off for you, you know? So when I realized that music was my thing, that's something I really should, like, I should focus on. I realized that when I had these friends, I used to go to a school kids' studio. The thing was, Anthony, we had did a cypher. And then I seen, like, we had the, like, you know, BT cypher came out, the BT cypher was about to come out. So we marketed, like, it was, so Anthony put it out, like, it was the BT cypher, but it was just a bunch of kids from New York rapping, you know what I'm saying? Nah, it's tough. When I, because it was nice, like, the people I was rapping, it was nice. And then when I was reading through the comments, y'all, she ain't killed that, she ain't killed that. I was like, y'all, maybe I got something here. Maybe I got something here. And then another time that really sparked it for me was when I had a song called Cap and Gown. Drake was about to release, I think, he did that song with Whiskey. Oh, One Dance? One Dance. I need a One Dance, I think. If I'm not bugging, I put, I pulled the Soulja Boy, I put, I put Drake, I knew it was coming out 12 too. So that's 12 him when it's done. Drake, One Dance. Everybody listen to it, oh, this ain't Drake, but it's hard. Yeah. This ain't Drake, but it's hard. And then from now on, yeah, this might be my thing. It should, okay, I'm cold. Nah, that's good though, that's a great way to catch like a viral look, honestly. Especially back then, you know, before the algorithm was like really settled in themselves. The algorithm. Crazy. Yeah, now a day, it should have been awesome. It should have ruined itself. But, okay, so now with Count These Bands, it's, I feel like it definitely appeals to that virality, to like, to the social TikTok culture that we have now. You know, it's got a really great hook. It's also pretty short. What was the creative process behind that song like, and how did you approach it? Good man. So the way, the way that song came about, is literally My Boy Facts. I happened to walk in the studio, shout out Nigel. Nigel's studio, he's A&R for like Lil Durkin. So I'd go to his studio, I went to his studio and happened to walk in there. Vex making, he's working on a beat. I go in at all of his, that on my head I, you know, that beat that like Eric Kim. I'm like, oh, because I didn't even know, I didn't even remember about the Lil Wayne and Lois song. I heard that beat and all of the first thing I was thinking in my head was, picking up a master plan. What else is this? What is my hand? I couldn't tell if I could earn my money. That's the first thing I thought when I heard that beat. And I'm like, oh, we doing this? This will be doing it? I ain't got it. You read it? I ain't cool. So I hopped in a booth. And so with a lot, most of my songs, I don't, I don't pin them. I just give them a booth and I try to, I'll freestyle two, three lines. I like two, three lines at a time. Keep punching in that with two, three, four lines. And that's how that song came about. But then the chorus came about, because Vex is like, you know, you know if you dope, if you kind of like use like, like the, like their kind of version, but kind of mix it a little bit, like you make it your own. And I was like, oh, you got to show me. Cause I, you know, I was, he played, I'm like, oh, I know this song. I know this song. All right, let me see. We're back in like 30 seconds. That time I had wrote it down like 20, 30 seconds. Boo got in there and recorded it. I'm sure. Okay. Nice. Yeah, no, I really like it too. I feel like it's, it's one of those songs that utilizes a sample well. Thank you. Thank you. No, of course, man. I feel like sampling is becoming so prevalent. So prevalent nowadays. So I take, for example, have you heard that glow roller track with Fabio? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's got the Uchiwale sample and the, but it's also got like some cha-cha slide sample interpolation on a drill bee. What do you think of it? As long as it's not, it's not my favorite song from her. Okay. I think I like that song with her and Cardi did, especially I like when I'm in the club and I watch all the women just tomorrow too. I'm like, what about Twitter? I'm like, okay, Rob, it's your Twitter, man. That's what's up, man. That's what's up, man. Rob, it's your Twitter, though. That's what's up. So yeah, that's my favorite, that's probably my favorite song about her. And Fabio, I like what Fabio's been talking to me. Like when he get on the beat, he start, like he start, he get on them like, let's say once on 13th, turn in 30, that's like probably one of my favorite Fabio songs. Wow. Yeah, I think my favorite Fabio verse is honestly his verse on off the grid. Really? Yeah, bro, I feel like, I feel like definitely because I'm also a Kanye fan. So that is like, you know, I'm definitely biased there, but I feel like that was such a big moment for Fabio and he killed it, bro. Now he did his thing. He outwrapped Kanye on his own beat. And I mean, Cardi was kind of just there, you know, like, I feel like he didn't really add too much substance. He definitely added atmosphere to it. Are you doing that song? Yeah. I'm not, I don't, I don't listen to much for that. Nah, you're good, don't worry. Donde was a minute ago anyway. But yeah, I feel like that was definitely, and even then, that was like the verse of that year too. That Donde album was fired. That album was fired. Like from production, I listen to that thing whole, like back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. I was like, yo, this, because of production, I'm like, hey, is this production screen? Yeah, that should be absolutely a moment. I feel like Kanye's just got like a crisp and clean ear. And Kanye is one of the ones. Absolutely, bro. Kanye is one of those probably most influential artists of like our generation, most likely. Like that's real for real. I would say top three for me, like when it comes to most most influential. For me, it would be probably like Kanye. I'd probably say Keith Keith. Yeah, absolutely Keith Keith. And lo and behold, I have to put, this is going to be the weirdest answer. I don't have to put like Lil V or Soulja Boy in there. Wow. They changed the whole ending that culture. Bro, I was talking about that shit the other day too with some of my boys because like Lil V. Lil V changed the whole culture. He does not get the fucking respect he deserves, bro. Not at all. And you know what's crazy? When I listen to like, when I hear sexy red, listen, like young, sexy red, like that's the bass god flow. Like that young bass god, that's the bass god flow. So I've been listening to him like oh, she's just like a female bass god. She's setting the trends right now. Yeah, nah, he really set the whole, yeah, I mean, he set the trend for this entire thing going on, dropping all that music, all those mixed tapes online, direct to fans. And like in such saturation too, I feel like pretty much like laid the blueprint for a lot of these artists are doing now. He made an opening for like, for people just to be able to make whatever music they want to make. But if you want to make this kind of music, go make this a lot. He showed people that there's an audience very much. There's literally an audience for anybody. Yeah. And shit, he's still popping to this day too, which is- Yo, that's great. He's talking about a lot of things. So, with, so you've kind of like, for a while been in the melodic trap genre, trap hip-hop adjacent genre, do you see yourself like stemming out of that or like dabbling with other genres? Lo and behold, about my original genre was hip-hop. It was 90th hip-hop. My original genre was like me rapping like that, that is anything you need to get in the song. Okay. And just do back to back words like that. That's an easy- Yeah, boom, bad rap is easy for me. It's harder for me to do melodic trap. I don't know why it is, but it's just harder for me. I feel like maybe because when I do like melodic trap, I know it's more flexi, but when you do like boom, bad rap, there's more just skill, like how nice are you? How much, what can you put together? But I got a country song. I got like a song. Yeah, I listen to country music too, man. Really? Yeah, I'm not, I can't say I'm too deep into it, but I feel like ever since especially Lil Nas X did his whole thing with Old Town Road, like I feel like I've definitely seen a little more of the country genre and like the crossover into hip-hop. You know what's crazy? I've been listening to country before that. Word? And you listen to country since what? Since the, what was that song that Nelly had with those country guys? Oh, Nelly was one of my favorite artists, okay. A word? I know what song you're talking about though. I know exactly what song, I was just, it's crazy, I was just listening to that album. It was actually that song that's only just a dream, right? Or am I bugging? Ah, I can't remember. It wasn't a movie, right? I can't remember it, but I was. This is like a last one, but I was just listening to Nelly's album to see what haven't been touched, like to see what hasn't been touched, like what sample people haven't touched yet. You know what I'm saying? Like Nelly got some joints and nobody, and it's crazy, it's crazy when I was doing that, I think like a month later in the lead drop, it's hot, yeah, yeah, yeah, I was like, yo. That's simple, it's crazy, yeah. I was like, yo, great months, think of life, cause I was really thinking like, yo, I was really thinking of my head, yo, I should do that, where they at, where they at, if you wanna come and take a ride with me, but they didn't, they didn't ride wave, you saw him like that too? If I'm not bugging? He just did the apartment, he didn't do it. Hey, okay, so I knew it. I knew I wasn't bugging. I'm like, yo, Nelly had some hits, but before we switch the question, I just wanna lay this out, let me not forget Young Thug is also one of the biggest influences on rap, cause right, I gotta make sure I pay homage to that, cause he helped him in the future is the reason that I started doing a lot of tracks. Oh well, yeah, that's crazy, I was thinking about that the other day too, and not necessarily about bug, but more so about future, and really Drake and future, because I was thinking about like, Drake's been around at this point for what, like 15 years, right? So far gone, dropped to 2008. Man, yo, he's got the long road to- He's the guy who got the game like this, he got the game doing nuggies, y'all here, come here, you want a verse? So, nah, I'm over here thinking like, damn, back when What A Time To Be Alive came out, like that really, after that, I feel like melodic trap just like blew up, I'm completely- Yeah, crazy. Yeah, bro. Crazy, but my all time favorite Drake album will always be Take Care. Yeah, that was, yeah, I remember being 13 years old listening to that show. It was crazy. Marvin's room had like 13 year old me crying about the ex-girlfriend that I've never even had. I used to get mad at my ex and listen to karaoke. Damn. Everybody wants me, can't you? Holy shit. Never been. Man, no, Drake is really one of them ones, that one, if anything. No, he's, you know, he's V1 right now. Nah, he is, the boy is. Like Akai is the most influential, but Drake is like, I don't care what the way he say, he's like the Michael Jackson of this generation right now because it's nothing Drake can't touch and it turned not gold, not just gold, but diamond. Anywhere, anything, especially in hip hop, if anything Drake get on, like what actor you saying? Stimulus package? Like Drake really got a stimulus package, like anything he jumps on is like, okay, now you out of here, like now you, you take a picture with Drake. You out of here, you found out he was Drake. You out of here. It was like, it was like, wait, wait, wait. And to this day, I ain't gonna lie, I still use Drake's quote on drugs. Yeah, Drake's pen, Drake's pen is absolutely unmatched, like the, I'm sure you listened to him when it was at 8 a.m. in Charlotte. Man, nah, I just don't know that one. Yeah, oh yeah, it just dropped, it just dropped. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But lately I ain't gonna lie, I don't listen to music. A word? Nah, I listen to like, at this point, I listen to like Tracy Catman. Like I go listen to a Tracy Catman song, I go listen to like DMX, like how's it going down? I go back to DMX, like I'm like, I've been listening to music like that. Yo, actually one person I had listen to was Young Boy. Yeah, I can't tell you, she can tell you all about that. Young Boy is, I mess with Young Boy. He got a lot of pain in his music. Yeah, he's got a lot of, whole lot of music too, bro. I feel like him, I could compare it to like a low beat type, where he's just got like an absolute massive music. He dropped a lot, I think, like 10, 13 projects last year alone. You get a mixtape, you get a mixtape, you get a mixtape, that's where you're at. But I will, especially when, I'll listen to Young Boy when he be doing like a hard, like New Orleans sound, I listen to him when he does like a melodic sound, because Young Boy melodic is like fire, like fire, yeah, okay. Okay, let me get right back on track here. So we're gonna play another game. This one is the last game, and it's a little shorter. So it's just the last time you do X, Y, Z. So what's the last album you listened to in full? The last album I listened to in full. It was an album that recently came out, I did that too, I can't remember, but probably I would say Young Boy Album. I would say Young Boy Album. What is the last movie you saw? It was an old anime movie called Godfather in Tokyo. Oh, now I'm, now you have a movie on, bro. Okay. What is it, what's the last thing you ate? The last thing I ate was waffle. Mm, nice, nice. Love me a good chocolate chip waffle. So yeah, what's the last thing you spent money on? My kids. Love that. Stand up answer, who's the last person you talked to? My girlfriend's life, baby mother. What's the last, are you a gamer? Yeah. Yeah, perfect. What's the last game you played? I think Wulong Dynasty, no, I'm lying, it wasn't Wulong Dynasty. It was, I was playing in the Hero Academia room. Oh, yo, I just started playing, that's what I said yesterday, that's crazy. Yeah, that's just fine, that's just fine, that's just fine. That shit is tough, bro. That's just fine, yeah. I keep trying to play as Midoriya, and it's crazy because every time I wanna do that, everybody else is playing as Midoriya, bro. But you know, it's crazy, he's like a cheat. It's like, it's a couple players that's a cheat. I just found out Dobby, using Dobby's a cheat. A word? What? Dobby's Bakugou, I know you watch everybody use Bakugou and they be like, just go hand in hand. That flying shit is mad OP. Ridiculous. And everybody else is just hopping around for the most part. But I just called like, I was playing yesterday, I called like two, three dubs and a matter of five games. Oh, word? Yeah, me and my minions, we'd be cooking up. Sure. Nah, I don't think I've played like 10 games total and I almost won once, but nah, I've just been playing with randoms, so like, kinda just going with the flow, but it's all right, definitely. What system you playing on? Yeah, Xbox Man or PS5, man. Actually PS4, man, still. Yeah, bro. We gotta get you into the mnugen, man. Yo, next month though, next month, cause Spider-Man's coming out this month and I gotta cop up on my PS5. Oh yeah, it is coming, I gotta buy that for my son. Yo, that's just gonna be crazy. And then last, last one is, what's the last song you made? The last song I made was He Can't Touch You, I'm Touching You. Please, if you want to, I forgot the name of it. I don't know if you want to. I forgot, but it's, I forgot the name of it, but it's like a love song. Okay, that's a love song, yeah. All right, bud. All right, so with Count These Vans having just come out, what can we look forward to next and during this last quarter of 2023? Last quarter of 2023, you can look for more music. You can look for a remix of Count These Vans to come out. Oh, sure, okay. Yeah, it might be one of somebody's favorite artists, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, okay. We, you know, from Count These Vans, you don't get it city, the country, the city of the state, the country, hopefully to go. Oh, heard that. All right, Sheen, thank you so much for coming on the show. It's been a pleasure. Why don't you tell the people? Oh, why don't you tell the people where they can find you? Oh, you can find me on IG, S-H-E-E-M-K-L-U-A-F. Yo, hit me up, send me some love, baby. So good a sign, I appreciate it. So I thank you for having me. Much love once coming up. Big coming up, be going up.