 The baller coming up for a good friend Joe Gibson, we'll take a look at that I mentioned and we'll tell you all about that very, very shortly before we go and Joe sent us a new song. He taught a brilliant version of Caledonia Jimmy, but I can't get it on the system here. But if we don't get it on, we will certainly be playing a wee track from the man that is the legend Joe Gibson. Anyway, we're going now from one extreme to another and we mean that respectively. We welcome Falkara rapper C.M. C.M. How are you? I'm very good. How are you? How's things for you? Ah, good. I've just been focusing on music recently, you know, yourself. And have you released much or have you, you know, have you done much? I have. I think I've released about 11 songs this year. Wow. But yeah. Are they on Spotify and what? They're on everything, every platform, YouTube, Spotify and yeah. Excellent. Tell me this now. How long have you been doing this rap? Coming up on, I think, two years now and I've been doing it since just before I turned 16. Started in summer of 2021. What influenced you more than, you know, into the rap? When I first, you know, started getting into just listening to music in general, I never like, rap at all. But then I started listening to, you know, Eminem, kind of the more like classic rap. Ah, yeah, I get you, yeah. And then I started like branching out into more sort of like UK rap. And then when I found out that, you know, I found out other Irish rappers, there's Irish rappers and then I thought, you know, I'll try to give this a go myself and see. And yeah. And you're happy with the outcome on it? Yeah. Did you do the recording yourself? Well, actually, do you know when I'm full talk studio is just over the road? I do. Yeah. I got introduced to him by my cousin because she goes to him for music sometimes. And then I got in contact with him and then I think it was June 2021. I came to the studio and then I released my first song there. And then I think I recorded two songs that day and then I released the other one the month after. So the song you're going to do first night is? It's actually just been recorded or been written today. Oh, no messing there. No. My God. Right. Do you need to get set up for me? Will I take a nap? We're OK. OK. So it's called? Oh, it doesn't have a name. It's just kind of off the top freestyle. All right. It's not really off the top of my head because I have it written down, but I'll do it off the top of my head here now. And you know, what's your kind of thought process for singing? What motivates you to sing? I just kind of like, I'll just listen to a beat on YouTube. I'll find a beat on YouTube. And then I'll just sort of kind of like mumble over it, kind of find a flow. And then I'll turn that flow into lyrics and then kind of just goes from there. Have you done any recordings with any artists or anything? I actually have. I'm on a, I've actually done a song with an American artist. Have you? Yeah. How'd that come about? I'm in this group chat with a lot of artists from all over the world. And I kind of, how do I say, I just got into contact with them and then we made a song and then a couple of weeks ago I'm on this other Irish artists album that I released a few weeks ago and then I'm on that as well. Very good. Good platform that. Yeah. And then I have another song coming out now in a few days with another Irish artist. So was this something you'd like to do on a full time basis? Oh, I would. Yeah. Well, and if there's, because there is good money in it, I have made good money from it. So if I keep going and. You have. I have, yeah. That's good. Well done. Well, are you school or college or what? I'm going into my fifth year now of secondary school. There's no reason why you can't take this to another level and be as good as another restaurant. No reason at all. We'd love to hear this, this first track and whenever you're ready, you just let it go. Good to go there, Jimmy. Here we go. I'm still living in COVID times when the broke guys need social distance and even needed handouts and assistance to be where I am today. I stopped to my grind and it's taken system. This baby gave TLC. She got better. She gave me wisdom running to man like a meet and greet and ended up like a christening. If you know, then you know, you don't, then you don't speak no more on this. I stepped on a party. Jipped out club lights. They got my diamonds. Listening. I stepped on a party. Jipped out club lights. They got my diamonds. Listening. She don't listen to Irish rap. Evidate me of gang. I'm on stage with a mic in hand, fully on charge like J-R-S-L-Bats. Bake her man. I stacked my bread. I wrapped my rats in elastic band. No one do it like me in the scene. I'm one of a kind. No cap. That's facts. That B got so much back. She should be in the Bundesliga. Came a long way from the rice and beans and now it's lobster, the chicken Caesar. My stacks ain't short like most man. My rats seen it at the Tower of Pisa. Walking the store and I spent 10K like what does a normal procedure? All of her exes broke. It's a good thing that she upgraded. Yo, CM, I'm highly rated. My lonely hate cause I'm elevating. Man do dash until they skating. I'm the hardest. And they know this. CM real star in the making. Pull up on man like Wargon speaking. Part tri like a Jamaican. Then man broke, they make no dose. CM man, I don't rock with their pagans. I'm humbled over the bread that I make. No way can they say I'm complacent. They see me shining. They hating. Don't hate them up when you're fading. On the beat, I got so elegant. I'm the hardest. How it's ever done. I'm fully on gold mode now. No way. No way. It's my work. It's settling. When I hop on that mic, it's therapy. True same music. That's my medicine. My designer, Sicilian. On my LV bike, Parisian. Top scorer, call me Killian. Pay friends, man. Gotta get rid of them. I'm next up. I'm loading wordplay, man. I speak in synonyms. Need to fly to the West Indies. Yes indeed. This flight Caribbean. CM rapper. That's class. Yeah, thank you. Well done. Thank you very much. And the back, the music in the back. How did that come? Did you arrange that yourself? Well, see, I heard another artist. Yeah. Well done. Well done. Thank you very much. And the back, the music in the back. How did that come? I heard another artist on that, a beat similar to that. And then I kind of went, and I thought, oh, maybe I could, because I knew I had a, because I knew I was going to be on this for a while, but I was really struggling to find something, you know, to wrap over. Yes. And then I was kind of just listening to other sort of radio performances. And then I kind of found a beat similar to one that I heard before. And then. So what's the first line of process? Is it the writing or is it the beat? It's mostly to find the beat first and then I can, you know, write over, like find the flow. Clicks into your head then, and then you go with that. Is that the way it works? Yeah. And then I kind of more focus on like word play kind of thing, like, you know, like references. Yes. What's it like? TV shows, movies, other artists and stuff like that. You know, as the modernized sessions, we go right across every genre of music. And that, like, you know, it's first class. The way you don't notice first class, absolutely brilliant professionally done. And there's no messing there. And have you played live? I have actually. So my school did this event for, you know, darkness into light. Yes. And it basically, there was a fundraiser down in my local hall. And they had basically they had a, what was it? There was a musical play that my school done. And it was really meant to be only the ones in the musical to go on it and do it. But I kind of went and I auditioned. And they said, oh, you know, since you're something different and you're not, we've never had a, you know, a rapper on before you can think. Oh, very good. And this is kind of funny. I actually, I asked, would anyone like, I know this is like a charity event, but is it, would there be any sort of payment in it for me? Because, but then they said no. So what I decided to do was I had released an EP, I think maybe two months before that. So I actually got CDs developed and I sold them there myself. Oh, smart boys. Smart boys use the head. I'm an entrepreneur. Of course. Why not? Sure. You've every right to be when it's your music, you're entitled to do what you want. Yeah, exactly. So have you, you know, what platforms is your music available? If people want to get in touch or have a listen? So on everything, it's just on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, all kinds of. Excellent. No baller, do you? No baller to me at all. No. And the future? The future. Well, hopefully more radio shows even might get my songs on the radio, like live to be played more often. You know what I mean? Hopefully more in real life shows on stages. Of course. And getting there, playing all, have you a process for trying that? Do you just land with people or what? I suppose I'll just try and just make more songs that's suitable for radio and then I'll just reach out to different radio stations and hopefully... Do that. Bombard them. I'm telling you, don't just sit and wait and reply. Bombard them. There's no reason why that music can't be heard and you can't be as successful as anybody else because it's as good as in them. Now I'm not an expert in rapping, but no means. The quality and the professionalism and your approach is positive. It's excellent and we wish you well. So on social media, what can people get you? Also on Instagram, it's just cm.official.one, same thing for my YouTube and then any other sort of things. It's just cm. cm. Come here. It's a delight having you up. We really enjoyed it. Will you come back this? Of course I will. All right. But maybe you might come back again if you're a star. Oh no. I'll still remember my first radio show anyway. Was that your first time on? This is my first time being on a radio show. Yeah, then the first time I performed live was at that charity event. Excellent. But this is the first time I've ever been on radio. And did you get a buzz performing live? I did. I was very nervous going up on stage first. Yes, of course. But actually since, so I think there was about maybe 250, 300 people actually there and when I kind of went on stage because obviously everyone was cheering for everyone else but as soon as I came on I started rapping. The applause was immense. Was that right? Yeah. And then that gets you the buzz. That gets you what that's what it's all about. Yeah. And then people are appreciating your personal music. You know, you weren't doing covers and you were doing your stuff. Yeah. And have you, have you a pile of stuff sitting on the background that you could... Oh, I definitely could. So, like I said, I think I released about 11 songs this year. I released an EP at the start of this year around January. Then I released one there about four months ago. Maybe five now. See, I started in 2021 but it was more near the end but in 2022 I didn't release any music at all till the very end. I released one song and that kind of went a bit viral but the thing is I didn't like it. So, see, I did, I have about, before I started making more music I had about five songs out. I think only one of them is still up on anything because it's just I didn't like it. When I first started rapping and when I first went into the studio with Tommy I was kind of, I was mumbling and I wasn't very, you know, coherent and just the quality of my music wasn't very good so I was like, nah, I'm gonna need to get... That's a sign of a professional. If you're not happy with it and you take it down, that's somebody you're not just firing any of the rubbish up there. Yeah, so I have, I have one song now actually because I released it on the very end of 2021. I think it was Christmas Eve. I released it and then no more music then till 2023 again, the start so January and then I've just been slowly releasing more music and then now there's what four months left of the year you'll definitely see another project from me. We're looking forward to coming here. Listen, C.M. from Falkara Rapper. I think a lot of people are going to hear a lot more of you and thanks for coming up and joining us. You're very welcome for having me. And check him out on his social media pages. C.M. official. C.M. official one. One. And brilliant. Well done. Thank you very much.