EP12 Medylandia | From Bedroom Beats to Global Hits

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[01:01:30:17 - 01:01:32:23] I never fucked up my intros and today I fucked up both.

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[01:01:34:09 - 01:01:44:08] Que paso, que paso. That is a little hint into today's guest. We've got some real fuego in the building today. My

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[01:02:13:20 - 01:02:28:08] you still may time to come see us. I have to. So we really appreciate that. Thank you. We have a fellow Canadian, you're the second one. Canadian, man, that's the big word, Canadian. That's the big one. (Laughing) Exactly.

[01:02:29:08 - 01:02:32:08] It's not the greatest thing to, no, I'm not gonna say that. (Laughing)

[01:02:33:08 - 01:02:56:05] No, honestly, I'm super proud to be from Canada. I just don't like the cold, and I'm sure you feel the same way. That's the same way I feel, of course, yeah, that's why I'm here now. That's it, so hopefully, hopefully you'll be here for longer. I come to Miami, to be honest, like four or five times a year. I like Miami, I'm in love with Miami. I'm just trying to do, you know, whatever is legal to be able to stay here, you know what I'm saying? So I'm looking for an old lady, if someone is.

[01:02:57:19 - 01:02:58:00] (Laughing)

[01:02:58:00 - 01:03:02:08] I wasn't exactly looking for an old lady. I'm getting a massage, so no.

[01:03:03:14 - 01:03:12:03] Look, if you want the perks, you gotta give the sugar. Exactly, yeah. If you're willing to give the sugar, then I mean, I'm sure you can figure something out.

[01:03:12:03 - 01:03:12:16] There you go.

[01:03:12:16 - 01:04:28:16] So tell us how it all started. How did music become a part of your life? All right, so I've been doing music since 1998, right? That was never a choice. It was just music for me, like doing beats and stuff, was more like playing Nintendo, you know? So when I was a young kid, like around 12 years old and everything, we used to play WWF, wrestling, whatever. So in that time, Spotify, YouTube didn't exist. So how you put music, who had no idea, right? Lime wiring. Exactly. Not even Lime wiring was there, I think. It's crazy, I mesh and all these things. And so I started creating beats just to vibe out and to have like an intro, music vibes and everything. And at some point, I think like I had a couple friends coming over and they said, "Yo, you do beats. "How much you charge?" I said, "I have no idea. "Give me 50 bucks." Said, "Okay, cool, I want five beats right now." Said, "What?" So I can make that money right now. So I was working at Burger King. I quit right away. Really? With the $50 you got? I quit because they start talking about, yo, this guy makes beats. So step by step people start calling me and just coming to the studio. Nice. And that studio, my room. You know what I'm saying? The

[01:04:28:16 - 01:04:29:14] closet. Exactly.

[01:04:29:14 - 01:05:29:19] And then they asked me another thing, "Yo, can you record vocals?" I had no fucking idea. Right? So I said, "Yeah, of course I got you." So I had this big ass computer. You remember that big computers? With a mic on top of it. So I started recording with that stuff. Sound horrible. But we were super proud because man, we're making music. So step by step, I just started to make it like more professional and learning more tricks and that. And it became my profession. But was it something that always, because I know the Latinos, you go like the music is a big part of their culture. Was it just one day where you were just messing around and you're like, "Oh, I like doing this." Or was it really like, it was hearing the music, it inspired you and you were like, yo, I feel it, I feel like being creative. Let me do something. I think just the way I grew up as a kid and everything drove me there. Right? When I was a young kid before doing music and stuff, I was dancing for a Dominican group.

[01:05:30:19 - 01:07:08:12] Yeah, I was doing like, it's called Folklorico. Okay, Folklorico, Folklore music. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So just these things that give me the rhythm and everything, right? And then we're doing shows in Southern and Peak. That's the Montreal Expos. Olympic Stadium, yeah. So we start doing shows there, like festivals and stuff. And I just fell in love with it. And in my family, I have one uncle, he's a guitar player. I have a couple cousins. We all do music type of thing, right? So I think it was just in the family and the blood and I don't know, I just, like I said, it was not planned. I just liked it and I started doing it. And you started, and you're doing really good. I'm doing good now. But it's a day-to-day hustle, you know what I'm saying? It's crazy, one day is gonna be good, one day is bad and that's it, right? So from Montreal, I remember me being a kid, I was driving on the Carant. The Carant, on the 40. That's a highway, that's a highway. That highway brings you everywhere, from Montreal to Quebec. Exactly. So back in the days, there was a big building with the Sony BMG logo right there. So I said, you know what, one day I'm gonna go through that door, one day, one day. And they moved to Toronto. So I said, what? What about now, what are we gonna do now, right? So I moved to Toronto. Yeah, nice. Exactly, so me moving to Toronto, I was able to get a couple of connections with people down there and we started doing Universal and we started doing music. We have like platinum records, gold records and everything like got more serious. That's amazing. That's the thing, when you put your mind into something, we had, I can never say his name properly. How is it? Najove. Najove.

[01:07:09:15 - 01:07:31:10] That's my R-E-Z. Najove. Najove. Najove. He was here and we were talking about how, when you really want something and you really believe it, it's gonna happen. He wanted to open for Daddy Yankee and he did it and same thing for you. So that's amazing. The mind is really powerful, but we don't know about it. We always listen to people saying, you'll think about whatever you wanna do and it's gonna happen, but we don't know how it works.

[01:07:32:14 - 01:08:29:23] It's something, it's like a study. You need to study it. It's not easy and you have to be consistent just with everything, with your work, with your music. Sometimes I say to myself, I wanna do this and I'm like, well, I just gotta keep saying it to believe it, but if you're not actually saying it all the time, it's not gonna happen. You really need to be consistent. Yes, that's true, though. And that's something I always tell the new cats coming up, say, yo, yes, be consistent, don't stop, but chase your dream. And when I say chase your dream, it's not like, yeah, you can be good doing beats home, but if nobody sees you, what's the point? You know what I'm saying? You have to be out there. And the thing is in that today's day and age, we're blessed because of social media, because like you said back when you were starting to do beats, there was nothing like that. So it was MSN and that's all your friends. I was about to say, my biggest promotion was MSN. I was log out, log in, log out, log in so you can see I was there. You can see that you're assigning, but on MSN, it's only your friends, really.

[01:08:31:01 - 01:09:19:13] So at least now you have, we got so many platforms that we can promote ourselves, which is amazing because, and other people helping each other. You can never do anything on your own, I feel. Facts, facts, facts. You need people who believe in you. You need a team around you. You need people to support you. And then that cross promotion between people. Even if we have access to all these platforms to be able to promote ourselves, right? It's hard because there's so many different things and so many people doing it. So you gotta be different 100%. You know what I'm saying? Be something different. I don't know, something. Yeah, but you got a different style. You got the dreads, you got the shades, you got the vibe, you got the grills. I kinda feel like I wanna grill right now. Just like a little tooth right over here, little diamonds.

[01:09:20:14 - 01:10:10:08] That's part of the image, you know what I'm saying? So if it was not for the music and people recognize me like that because I do a lot of TikToks and stuff like that and people know the funny side of the music industry and me as a professional, you know? So just me having that look, whatever I go different countries, people recognize me because of that. They recognize you. So they don't have the bandana, the dreads and the guy, this guy, you know what I'm saying? So it helps me a lot for the image stuff. That's awesome. So you do a lot of Latino beats, right? Correct. So you are from, you were born, were you born in Montreal? Born in Montreal. You were born in Montreal. Now you're in Toronto, but you speak French, you speak English, you speak Spanish. Do you only do Latino music or do you also do different? As a producer, you know, I fell in love with music, not genre, right? So obviously I speak Creole as well. Oh, wow.

[01:10:11:17 - 01:11:57:06] I can understand Portuguese, of course. So all these things like give me like more open doors to be able to understand more music and do more type of things, right? Yeah, I do English, French, Morocco music, Indian music. Wow. I did an album with Greek artists in Toronto. I forgot his name right now. I think it's Dona. And that was Greek also. These guys were coming because you're Greek, right? I am Greek. Exactly. Yeah, so I want to know who that is. I want to check it out. Yeah, there was Malacca everywhere. Malacca. Yeah, that's crazy. What the fuck is Malacca? So Malacca, do you know what it is? Yeah, now I know. Now you know, but like when I went to Greece the first time I was 17 years old and like obviously I'm Greek, I know what Malacca is, but what was crazy to see is like three-year-olds calling people Malacca because to them it's like, what's up bro? Okay, okay, okay. Malacca. Okay. Tikani, it's like how are you? Okay, what? You can literally insult somebody with that word. It can be a bad thing. It could be a bad thing or it can be a good thing. That's amazing. It is, yeah. Okay, now I know that, okay, cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was working with this group and they, man. They were coming like five guys and there was always like insulting each other. Malacca, Malacca, I said, what the fuck is Malacca? You know, so, and I feel like a Greek sounds like Spanish. Somehow. It's very similar. There are a lot of words. I think, I understand quite a bit of Spanish when spoken slowly and that's because French and Spanish are very similar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There are a lot of words in Greek that are similar. Like I know telefono, right? Telefono, yeah. Telefono. Telefono, same thing. In Greek and then in French it's telefon. Yeah. Telefon. So it's all the same Latin thing, right? You know, it's all very similar. And I mean, my husband won't like this, but I did data. I did data Colombian

[01:11:57:06 - 01:11:59:13] and I did. Ooh.

[01:12:01:00 - 01:12:08:01] He's looking at us with some crazy eyes right now. Good times, good times. Young, wild and free, you know?

[01:12:09:15 - 01:13:35:16] Now we're just getting older and wiser. I like that. So yeah, I do, I jump on every single different styles. I can do pop, I can do reggaeton, I can do merengue, I can do trap and then do hip hop. Because the beat is a beat, right? It's universal, you can do it for anything. Then when they add the words, it, that's awesome. I built myself to be able to do everything, right? So I don't have to be blocked somewhere, you know? Cause you know, some people, for example, like some couple of years ago, they sent me to LA to do a production with this artist. I didn't know him. So they sent me there. So I think we're gonna do like some pop stuff, reggae stuff, whatever. And this guy came up with a, "Yo, let's do a disco." I never did it. Disco, interesting. I never, never did a disco beat. But now I'm here, I have to make it happen, you know? I say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, why not?" So give me a couple of titles, that songs that you like, so I can have an idea, right? I went to the Russian for 15 minutes just to listen to music, okay? And then I came back with an idea and we create like five songs, got accepted with the Hollywood records. Amazing. And Disney, yeah, it's crazy. That's crazy. Did you have any challenges trying to get your name out there? Or was it like organic? Did it happen, you dropped the beat and you got signed? Or was there a little bit of struggle? It's a mix of everything, to be honest, because I always been active on social media. I'm always trying to do something different, right? So back in Montreux, I was a DJ for 10 years. So the main reason why I became a DJ, because I want to play my own songs. So I don't have to, how do you say that, without bad words. It's okay, say the bad words, we can beep them out.

[01:13:36:17 - 01:13:36:20] Without

[01:13:36:20 - 01:13:38:14] all the DJs. Okay.

[01:13:38:14 - 01:13:48:05] (Laughing) So the, the, the, the, sorry. There's a word for that, right? Hold on, hold on, sorry.

[01:13:49:05 - 01:14:18:13] Producer told him to say, you could say a bad word. And then he says, why did you say that to make him feel bad? But it's all good, sorry. They can't hear him, so I need to let them know it. Exactly, so then I became pretty big in Montreux as a DJ. So I was playing everywhere, my song, my music. So that's how people start like, knowing my stuff, right? And obviously I was, I was wearing like pink stuff and just look at me, right? Yes, but that's how it should be, right? I'm a fucking Leo, so that's the thing too. Okay, okay, I like Leos, my mom's a Leo, I like you a lot, yeah. Okay.

[01:14:19:17 - 01:15:23:10] (Laughing) So yeah, so the mix of the work, obviously, whatever you're gonna do on the street and try to be out there and do music. And the way I was doing my promotion back then was I was just going to all my contacts on Facebook and one by one sending the link, yo, check this out, check this out. So, you know, it's a hustle, it takes time, but it works. But yeah. You know, so after, whenever we got the platforms and everything, so yeah, the professional side, the hustle, the image altogether, I think that helped me a lot to be who I am right now as a music producer. That's amazing, that's amazing. And obviously you gotta, they always say that, but you know, we gotta repeat that. So you always have to risk it. 1000%, there's no-- You have to. You learn by making mistakes, if you don't risk anything. A wise man once told me that. He's looking at me, I can, I know, I know. Cause I'm a scaredy cat and I don't like to take risks. I really don't. You go more like whatever you know. I like to stick to what I know. Okay. And I tell him all the time, you know, I like you so I stay with you, right? So he should, but if I were to take risks, right? Who knows what would happen?

[01:15:24:21 - 01:16:06:04] (Laughing) I like that, no, I'm sick. I'm just joking, babe. No, I like to stick to what I know, but he's helped me get out of my comfort zone and I understand you do need to take risks. You need to make mistakes. You need to try different things. In anything that you do, in life, in work, in relationships, it's all, you know, you gotta try. It's crazy how losing helps you so much. Whenever you lose something, like that's how you can rebuild and do, okay, you know what? Why did I, where did I fucked up? So you can fix whatever you did and do it better. That's it, when a door closes, another one opens. If it wasn't meant for you, it wasn't meant for you and you just gotta walk through that next door. Do you think, so you've been doing beats professionally since about 2006, right? Yes.

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[01:16:43:20 - 01:16:54:17] where I met one guy called Gobanito. Okay. So we start working together, just vibing out, you know? And then we did the reggaeton, so in French.

[01:16:55:21 - 01:17:07:23] And that was at the same time that Casarina was really big. So he said, bro, you should go to that company, it's called Sokan, to get your name registered so I can give you your royalties whenever the song's gonna be big. I told that guy like me like,

[01:17:09:04 - 01:17:20:22] this song is not gonna be big, what do you mean? Like that's French, I get tongue, it's impossible. He's like, yo, bro, trust me, I'm working with the others, and I say, yeah, whatever. So I think he repeated it to me like maybe like 15 times, I never did it. You never did it? Never. And it went big?

[01:17:20:22 - 01:17:21:16] Big.

[01:17:21:16 - 01:17:44:02] Fuck. So this is a big song in Montreux. For my Canadian people in Montreux, my French Canadian people, it's Amaria, Amaria, the Amarega Taung Taung, so it's an old song, but it's still on the radio. And you never, you didn't do it? Never, never got a penny for that. Fudge, fudge. But you know what, the way I see it, I was a kid that was like what, 15, 16 years old? Imagine that

[01:17:44:02 - 01:17:45:03] guy with-- 15? Type

[01:17:45:03 - 01:17:54:08] of thing, yeah. Wow. So imagine me, 15 years old, just fresh, brand new in the game, loving the life with like 500K,

[01:17:55:08 - 01:17:56:01] that'll be a problem.

[01:17:57:04 - 01:18:09:20] You probably would have gone down a different road. Exactly. That's true. That's how I see it now. At the beginning I was mad. I was going to clubs and people were playing my song. And I was like, no, no, that's

[01:18:09:20 - 01:18:10:04] crazy.

[01:18:11:19 - 01:18:30:18] I mean, you know what, a young kid with 500K, like it could be bad, but if you would have, you know. Yeah, but-- But at that age, I mean, as soon as I would get paid, it was gone, then I would go to tribe. I don't know if you know tribe. There was a club in Montreal called tribe. Yes, the best. Friday nights, not Saturday.

[01:18:30:18 - 01:18:31:21] I think I went one time.

[01:18:31:21 - 01:19:21:12] Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's where they played all the Latino beats. Okay. That's where, on Friday nights, that's where they played the R&B, the hip hop. I'm not a fan of techno, okay? Like, I mean, I like it, but it's a vibe. Maybe I should start listening to it. Maybe now I'll like it because it'll pump me up more. But when I was like 16, 17, 18, and I just wanted to hear the rap and like the hip hop and the R&B. And tribe was that place for me. God, I love it, good times. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, from Montreal, that was my first professional placement as a producer, right? And then I learned from that, until I opened my account, obviously. Yeah, I hope so. Lesson learned, if you didn't do that, then I would've been like, you're dumb. You know what killed me? The same artist, whenever a song got big, he's like, yo, I told you, but you fucked it up.

[01:19:22:16 - 01:19:42:11] He was paying me $200 to go with him to a show just to play congas. So I became like from the producer, but you're in the conga guy for $200 per show. And that shit killed me. It's like, damn, this guy's getting paid like 10, 15K for a show and I'm getting $200, playing, fucking, you know what I'm saying? That's crazy. So yeah.

[01:19:45:22 - 01:21:48:14] That's why you lose and you learn, right? So it is what it is. And then Toronto did the same thing. I went to Toronto, did another big hit called Dancing Kizomba. A song was everywhere on the radio and everything. But now, yeah, I got paid now. Now you got paid. Now we're good. So yeah, exactly. So you know, the hustle is there and I love what I do, man. That's the first thing because some people, they cannot do what they like. Exactly. You know what I'm saying? So I have both. I love what I do and I do what I love. That's amazing. And that you should be grateful for because a lot of people, you know, they do their nine to five. They're not happy with their life. Exactly, they're mad. They're mad and you know, it's just to be able to wake up and do what you want to do, when you want to do it, you know, get paid for it, that's a blessing. See, that's the main reason why I'm trying to move from Canada. It's nothing against Canada. I love Canada, you do Canada and everything, right? But people are, they live mad. We were talking about that with Fernando. They live mad. You know, so I'm that guy, I wake up with music, I dance, I say hi to everybody. So my neighbor is, "Yo, what up?" So he's always looking at me like, "This guy is fucking happy guy." You know what I'm saying? But that's how it's supposed to be. You know what I'm saying? So in the Dominican Republic, that's how we live, right? In Miami, it's not the same vibe that the Dominican Republic, but people are happy. People are very, well, you know what? It's the sunshine. I think. It's the sunshine, us in Canada, we have too much cold, we have too much snow. We're freaking deprived of the sun. And like, you know, we all have our issues. When I was in Canada, I was always a lot sadder. It's just like, you wake up, you see the freaking snow up to here. You gotta dress your kids. It takes them 10 minutes to get out of the freaking door. You know, then you gotta start your car so the snow can melt. It's just, you know what I mean? So like, being here, you know, we all have our challenges and our, you know, our problems and whatever, but like just waking up and I can go outside, literally how I woke up, you know, shorts, tank top. I walk out the door and I'm just like, thank God. But you know us guys, you guys know it.

[01:21:49:22 - 01:22:08:07] Us in Montreal, when I used to live there, right? We know tricks about girls. Okay. And it goes with the weather. Okay. So we know whenever it's getting cold, girls are looking for the huggy huggy. Yes, that's true, the huggy huggy. So we go out like crazy to make sure like-- That's when you attack. Yes. Yo, stay with me for six months because you know what's up, right?

[01:22:08:07 - 01:22:19:11] (Laughing) I'll keep you warm. Yeah, because you know, it's hard for a girl like, you know, in Montreal, people are crazy, man. You girls are crazy. You guys go out with-- Excuse me, you're on my show and you're calling me crazy? You know.

[01:22:21:15 - 01:22:22:18] (Laughing)

[01:22:22:18 - 01:23:33:10] So, you know, girls go with mini, mini-falda, like mini skirts, high heels, it's minus 40. I know. Weight on the line, that's, you need the huggy huggy. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, you need, yeah, but you know what? Thinking back, I did the same thing. Of course. I wouldn't even bring my jacket because I didn't want to pay the $2 code check, you know? So we're literally out there like-- This is crazy. Freezing our asses off. But now to, no freaking weight on-- No, no, it's impossible. But you know, so we know that in that November or maybe October, we have to go out because girls need to stay with someone for six months. You know it's like a six months contract. Yeah, exactly. Once it gets hot, she won't need a cuddle of butter anymore. Of course. Because the fact that we don't have like that summer life every day in Montreal, so the moment that it's sunny, girls go crazy. It's true. They just go out and they say, "Yeah, show whatever they have." You know what I'm saying? So there's a vibe there. That's so funny. That's why Miami is so normal to just be in tanga, right? Oh, you know, since I've moved here, like I said, I've said this before, I see people in sweatpants when it's like a little bit cold. Like I'm talking a little bit cold. It's not cold for us. Like 20 degrees. It's not cold for us.

[01:23:34:14 - 01:23:50:02] And then I'm like, that's never gonna be me. Never gonna be me, like no way. Even if it's a little chilly, because sometimes it does get chilly in the morning, you know? Yeah, but what's chilly? Well, okay, so I'm gonna tell you because they won't understand everyone else, but like 16 degrees.

[01:23:51:21 - 01:25:22:19] That's not, yeah, okay, I get it. But when you're used to like 35, 40, and you get to that 16 in the morning, but then after in the afternoon, we're talking Celsius, guys. We're not talking Fahrenheit. Celsius. It's 61 Celsius. 61 Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit. You know, okay, like I'll put a thin like shirt on. Yeah, but not a coat. Not a coat. People here are wearing Uggs. They're wearing, you know, jackets, winter jackets. When I moved here, okay, I kept my, I always keep my jacket and my boots for a long time because it's fucking winter. I don't give a shit how I look. I had cute boots, but I'm gonna keep them for a few years, you know? When we decided that we're coming here, I remember I was like, I took my boots and I just threw them in the garbage. I took my jacket, I didn't donate, I didn't do nothing. I just shoved it in the garbage. And I told my mom, "If ever I come to visit you in the winter," which I don't know if I would, but-- Yeah, I was about to ask that. What are you gonna do? I'm gonna send her to Walmart, okay? I don't care what I look like in the winter. Buy me a $20 jacket, okay? And then like, that's it. I don't, like I'm not going there to impress anybody, you know? So you didn't keep any clothes? I didn't keep nothing. That's crazy. The only thing I kept, I have one pair of sweatpants and I have like just a few pajama pants, but that's it. I have no winter clothes here. He kept some boots, he kept the jacket. He's like, "Oh, c'est horte en n'heure." The guy never wants to go back. So I don't even

[01:25:22:19 - 01:25:23:16] know why he didn't.

[01:25:23:16 - 01:25:39:23] It was if we go back one day in the winter, I'm trying to convince him. Like, come with me so I can see my mom. Anyways. It's a different type of life, to be honest, yeah. It is, it's a different type of life. So tell us what, like, how do you get inspired by music? Is there something,

[01:25:41:22 - 01:27:18:23] is it when you're by yourself at night? Is it something you see? What inspires you? When you go into the studio, how does that work for you? See, it's crazy because I used to be a vampire. So I was always working during night. Okay. Right, I don't know why. It's something with the music producers, man. Like we get vibey after midnight. Okay. Somehow, so we finish at five a.m. in the morning, six a.m. in the morning, then we sleep all day and we go back. So, you know, and that shit destroyed me, obviously, with years, right? And more being a DJ. So I was a vampire, that's that's it. And when I got my kid, my first kid, my daughter, I said, man, now I cannot do it anymore, right? So how are I gonna get inspired? And to be honest, it's just in your mind. Because now I just do music in the morning and it's the same vibe. So the inspiration, I think it's just like, whatever you feel, it's how to describe it because I don't know. You know, like my job is complicated. People say, yo, you have a cool job. Yes, okay, yes, it's maybe cool to see it, to watch it. It is. So what I mean by that, for example, I have a client coming up like tomorrow at the studio and they come to my place, I don't know him. He doesn't know me, right? And he just says, yeah, let's do a merengue slash Greek music slash this. I have to be creative on the spot. You know what I'm saying? And I can't flop because it's my name, it's my respect and it's my money, right? So I gotta be good right there. It's like doing a rapper doing freestyle. Same thing, but I do it with music. So I need to understand like what to use right away to make the guy vibe it right away and say, you know what? That's crazy, I like it. So I have session with people sometimes like awkward people. Awkward people.

[01:27:20:00 - 01:29:02:19] Yo, if you're a producer, you guys know. Awkward people just come and they look at you and say, yeah, I wanna do a rap track. Super high, super whatever. Yeah, cool, so you start to beat and he's not vibing, nothing, he's just there. And you try to talk with them because my job is a lot of psychology stuff, right? So you gotta be cool with them and make them feel comfortable so they don't feel awkward and this and that. And we always do good songs, but it's just an awkward vibe for five, six hours. So it's hard to connect with people like that. Nowadays, I always try to do a meeting first so I can have a vibe with a person. If I like it, let's make it happen. If it's too-- Awkward or-- No, I don't want to. Because it's hard for me to be creative because whatever gonna help me out to be better with my production is the vibe. 1000%. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You do it with podcasts. Well, that's what I was saying before. Like when people come on the show, we always talk a little bit before, we do what we have to do. But you, like I hung out with you a few days ago, right? Yes. We hung out, we partied together. So the energy was there. The energy was there, like the first, like the icebreaker happened. So now it just, it flows smoothly. But you do have some people where I'm just like, okay. Exactly. And there's no way you can just, you know, it's hard, but not like I said, I do a meetings and I make sure like, we can connect like energy wise. If we don't, I don't do a session because otherwise I'm gonna be just, it's painful. Yeah, I don't want those to burst. I can't do it, I can't do it. So you've had sounds that have gone golden platinum. Correct. How did that feel the first time that you got the news? What was that like? So now I know what we made it means.

[01:29:04:12 - 01:29:13:19] You can never make impossible. You made on the moment. Exactly. You know? So when we went to gold with the song and we started working with Universal Music in Canada,

[01:29:14:23 - 01:30:15:06] I said to my guy, bro, we good. So all my friends, like they came up to me, it's like, yo, bro, you're gonna be famous, bro. Yo, shit, I had this and that. You're gonna work with Drake. And then, you know how it is, right? I said, yeah, bro, yeah, bro. And you know, it's not like that. Like, yes, I'm making money with a song. Yes, my name got bigger. Yes, I have different open doors, but it's a constant hassle. You know what I'm saying? What I'm saying? So you can have like 15 gold record and then tomorrow nobody knows about you. Exactly. You know, that's the thing. So you gotta find a way to always be out. So people will remind you. You gotta stay relevant. Correct. That's why social media again comes in and is an important factor. Because like you said, (Speaking In Foreign Language) you know, it just, you snap your finger and you stop making, they'll still hear your old songs, but they're not gonna hear anything new. They're not gonna be like, hey, where's Mevi coming out with some new music? And then at a point, the money's gonna stop eventually coming in. Exactly, exactly. And you know, to be honest,

[01:30:17:06 - 01:30:32:20] people, you know how many songs I release on Spotify per day? It's crazy. Really? It's crazy. It's crazy. So there's so many music out there, so many artists, so many people, they can do whatever they want. So you gotta be different to be able to be consistent. And again, like we said,

[01:30:34:01 - 01:31:38:17] I can be creative, productive and everything, but at the moment that I stop, they're gonna forget about me right away. Yeah. Because that's the flow. It's as simple as that. Even in my line of work, I would see somebody constantly on social medias, on this and that, and I'm like, gosh, you must be doing so good. And then all of a sudden, bang, gone. Where'd they go? That's what happens. If you don't keep up the work, then it's just gonna stop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's just normal. So you just gotta be consistent. You seem like you have the drive and the motivation to keep doing that. I still have it. I see these kids now, like they're 20 years old and they good at the beats. And some people, they always come to me, it's like, yeah, bro, I'm better than you now, whatever. I said, bro. It's not a competition though. My competition is the longevity, right? Yes. So do whatever you want. You can be super fast now, but then you're gonna be tired. I've been doing this. That's what I do. I have no stress. I'll do it, no problem. So that's why I'm so comfortable to just reach anywhere and open my computer and just doing music by the way. Do music. And now with the AI stuff, she changed a lot because now AI can create music. Right? It's crazy.

[01:31:39:17 - 01:31:41:21] I feel like with AI,

[01:31:43:02 - 01:31:51:15] everybody in the beginning got scared, but at the end of the day, we all want, it's a tool. Cause like, you're like, there's even like adult stuff.

[01:31:52:22 - 01:31:57:12] That AI can do, you understand? And it's just like, we're all gonna be out of work.

[01:31:58:16 - 01:32:17:00] But the thing is, is that people still want that human interaction. So, you know, I don't care how much AI excels or continues. I think that we still need the people. We still need to have conversations, to talk to people, to have something that somebody created, not a fricking

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[01:32:54:11 - 01:33:10:05] And again, like, you know, in the beginning I was super against it. So, yo, how people gonna start working with AI? That's crazy. It's not real human, this and that. And then I started to see AI has a tool. And the way now I evolve, or, Jean-Christ, how you say that?

[01:33:11:17 - 01:33:35:19] Integrate, exactly. AI to my music, it's not them, it's my music. And then whatever you can do, AI come and help me out. Can help you out, yes. And then people are like, you know, they do good songs, but you have no idea, it's AI, right? It's not them. So you bring them to the studio and they shit. Yeah. Because they don't know how to create. Have you seen, I think it's gone like a little viral, like, what's that? Oh,

[01:33:35:19 - 01:33:38:14] sorry. (Laughing) Is that rain? Okay, sorry, I just.

[01:33:39:16 - 01:34:46:20] (Laughing) Have you seen, they're doing, like, AI is doing, these like gangster old beats, like 50 Cent with the reggae. How sick is that? I like that. I fricking love it. I fricking love it. I love it. I played it the other day and it's just so good. It's such a vibe. It's so feel good, you know? See, that's a cool thing about AI. Yeah. You have to break your mind and, oh yeah, it's raining, that's why. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Oh, they won't hear. So, you know, that's amazing because you can get a gangster song and just have it like in a different vibe. Exactly. And it sounds really good. It does, yeah. There was that 50 Cent, I think it was like Many Men or something like that. I think I saw it. Many Men. (Laughing) See, that's crazy, man. That's crazy. AI is here now. We have to use it. Yeah. So, do you think being born in Canada has helped you in your music, in your style, or is it purely the Dominican side that has dominated? No, it's Canada. Canada? Yeah. And why? Because we have the chance and we live in a multicultural country.

[01:34:47:20 - 01:36:13:02] So, you know, tomorrow I can be chilling with Chinese, tomorrow I can chill with different people, right? So, as a kid, you go to different places. In my time, because I'm 40, right? So, now kids, they don't go out. They just play viral. Well, I'm sorry about that, but in my time, you have to go to your friend's place to be able to play some games. So, you get into the family and the vibe and this Portuguese guy going in right between his house and then I'm going to a Haitian place, right? And then, so you get all the culture, all the music, all the people, you understand and you learn more. I feel like that's one of the best things of Canada is how diverse we are as a country. And like when I was in high school, like... Exactly, same thing. There was practically no white people. There was a few, but everybody else was Arab, Spanish, Chinese, Haitian. I realized that because I wasn't a Dominican public working in a studio in there. And one of my big, big, big good friend, he told me, "Bro, you're so lucky to live in Canada." I said, "Bro, I want to live here. What do you mean?" He said, "Bro, you have no idea. I have to do that type of music because that's what we have here." So, you know, if I want to do like some Arabic music, there's no Arabic people here. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So I cannot be... I cannot open doors. I have to do whatever is good here. But the thing is that Canada has changed a lot since we were teenagers. Yeah, for sure. You know, so I mean, I'm not... As much as I love it and, you know, it was great. I'm still okay with being in Miami. And I'm sure you are too.

[01:36:14:06 - 01:36:44:06] Yes. Well, Miami is another one too. Miami is mixed. It is. You know, so... It's just, it's whites and Latinos. Yeah. You know, like... And because I blend in very well and they all think I'm like Latin American, every time I go out, I'm just... People speak to me in Spanish. Everywhere I go. I know. Yeah. Everywhere I go, like I went to Walmart one day and I was like, "Hey, where can I find the pots for my plants?" And then he goes, "I came." And I'm like, "He must be Cuban. He's talking too fast."

[01:36:45:15 - 01:39:31:10] So I did it. I didn't quite get it. But then... And you know what? Now I don't even say "Hola" anymore because they're just going to think that I'm Spanish. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're going to keep talking to me. And then they're going to... "Hola!" I was just like, "I'm right." So yeah, that's the beauty of, you know, Canada built me like a multi-cultural vibe and, you know, so I can create a composite and all this music because, you know, the Haitians down there and then you go different. And of course, this should add up to my career. A hundred percent. Yeah. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. Yeah, I love Canada for that. I respect Canada for that. And I'm half Canadian, so I cannot talk that much shit. But... That much shit. He can talk to me... Not that much. You know, but traveling a lot... Traveling is always like a big thing in my life because that's how you connect with people, you know? I don't think that I would be where I am if I didn't move to Miami, to be honest. Okay. Because there's just so much more opportunity. There's... He keeps looking at me because, yes, this is all him. I know, I know. Oh, yeah. Like I said, I'm the scaredy cat. I didn't want to move. I didn't want to move. No, it took years of convincing me. Oh. Years. He... When we first got together, he's like, "I want to move to Miami." And I was like, "You better find somebody else." But why, though? Why you said no? I just... My family. Okay. My mom. My mom, I just said. Yeah, being far and everything, I get it. You know, and that's the only thing. We're like this. So, to me, you know, seeing my mom going to... From seeing her five times a week to seeing her once every six months... Shit, yeah. Is a big thing. Did you cry? Did she cry? She was here two weeks ago. Yeah. She left two Sundays ago. So, when she left, it was Sunday morning. I cried till Sunday night. I woke up with a migraine because I was just crying like a baby. Shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We talk every day. Actually, today she didn't call me. I told her not to call me. I told her because I was going to be working. So, it's 12 o'clock every day, you know? I get it. We're doing that. That, for me, was the hardest thing, too, to move from Montreal to Toronto because I have no family in Toronto, right? Yeah. And we have a big family. And, you know, everybody's cool together. Yes. And whenever you're leaving and you don't see them anymore, like, only once every five, six months, it's different. It's horrible. Obviously, we have FaceTime, so we're cool. But it's not the same. It's not the same, like, feeling them in your arms and hugging them, you know? For guys, it may not be like that, but for me, like, I still feel like my mommy's little baby, you know? Yeah, yeah. And even for the kids, you know, I know you guys have kids, right? So I have a daughter, too, and, you know, you want them to see their family, you know? So, yeah, it's a hard move, but that's the hustle. That's the hustle. If you weren't doing music, if you weren't doing beats, what do you think your creative hustle would be if you didn't have music? Damn, that's a good question. Right?

[01:39:32:21 - 01:39:33:11] Go, go, boy.

[01:39:35:06 - 01:39:41:15] So I was a DJ, and I stopped because I hated the nightlife and everything.

[01:39:42:16 - 01:39:45:12] If it was not for music, give me a second.

[01:39:47:16 - 01:40:24:03] I don't know. You don't know? I don't know. That's all that... I like to cook. Huh? But would I be, like, in the kitchen every day? I don't know. Oh, fudge. Exactly, right? I like to be my own boss, so I can do whatever I want, you know? But damn, that's a good question. I have to think about it. But I have no idea. Maybe I'll be in jail. I don't know. Maybe, maybe... (Laughter) Yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe. I have no idea. I did stupid stuff when I was young. We all did. We all did. But stupid. Really stupid? I'm going to have to do a little research on that then. Stupid. Okay, we won't put you on the spot here. Especially for Montreal, we've all done stupid shit.

[01:40:25:14 - 01:40:52:10] A good thing that music came up to my life because, man... Yeah, you... Yeah. You wouldn't be able to be creative. You'd be in a cell. No, no, no. Stupid, stupid. But yeah, I have no idea. I cannot answer it, but I think maybe, like, in the kitchen, something... Okay. Have you had any... Like, ever since going, you know, like, people know you and all that kind of stuff, have you have received any, like, crazy DM? Yeah. Oh, I would like to know. Yeah.

[01:40:53:13 - 01:41:14:17] (Laughter) Both sides. What do you mean? Men and women? Yeah. Well, I'm not surprised, to be honest. Yeah, and, you know, men don't give a fuck. They don't? Exactly. I know. And they don't care about whatever they're going to say. They're like, "Fuck you, my guy." You know? No, they don't care. That's it. So I know how you guys feel. You know what I'm saying? (Laughter) Yeah, so...

[01:41:16:10 - 01:41:21:18] But what was said to you? We can beep things out, don't worry. Ah, you don't have to beep it, but whatever.

[01:41:24:02 - 01:42:05:03] You just come... Whatever. I don't know which one I can say, but you're just... And my girl saw it, you know, and she don't care. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She doesn't care. And it's just straight up, like, pictures, videos. Pictures, really? Of men? Yeah, men and women, both. Really? Yeah. More women, obviously. They know I'm not that guy. But some people try. And now it's my decision if I go, "What do I do with it?" You know what I'm saying? Like, when I was a DJ, for example, in Montreal, like, some people just come up to me and it's like, "Yo, what are you doing after? Let's make it happen right now." So, you know, it's... I saw the power of being famous known. So I'm not that guy, but you imagine that these people, what they receive or something, it's crazy. That's crazy.

[01:42:06:22 - 01:42:22:12] I received one guy ask me to send him a picture of me. He wanted to give me, like, five grand, something like that. Of a picture? Of, like, your thing? Yeah. And I never replied. I was so shocked that I said, "No way."

[01:42:24:02 - 01:42:27:13] Show me the money first. And stupidly, I said, "Do I need that money?"

[01:42:29:12 - 01:42:47:23] I mean, who would have won 5K for a freaking picture? You don't even need to put your... And then I said, "Nah, nah." Because I don't know where the picture can go after and I'm not about that. You know what I'm saying? So, yeah. Oh my God. Funny stuff like that. Funny stuff like that. When I travel a lot, I have a lot of people that request me some crazy stuff. Some guys, they ask me, "Yo, how much would you charge me if I can fuck your girl?" I

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[01:43:10:21 - 01:43:16:03] "What do you mean?" "I'm not about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just want to fuck her because she's hot."

[01:43:17:08 - 01:43:26:12] "Nigger, what the fuck?" You know what I'm saying? And you guys are in the music world. You're not even in, like, what I do. This is Instagram. Exactly. You know?

[01:43:28:00 - 01:44:45:06] I'm like, "Fuck." And Najoby, there's another one. He has this crazy shit, right? So the thing with these situations, because whatever going to answer, he knows me, but I don't know him. Yeah. Right? So I have to manage whatever going to say. I cannot be like, you know, "Yo, whatever I'm going to say, I'm going to kill you because they smart." No, no. Exactly. You just let it go, but that is so crazy. I mean, I'm in that world and I mean, sometimes I see some messed up things, you know? But like, I think as the years go by, I just like laugh about it because there's nothing more that you can do. Of course. Like, take it as, like, you know, it's flattering, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, with my girl, that happened maybe like five, six times. Wow. People, or girls, sometimes they offer like, "Yo, with my boyfriend, we open if you guys want to do it." Stop. Yeah, it's normal like that. I just say, "Nah, we're not--" But people have no filter, eh? No, man. That's the beauty of Instagram. I was never, like, prior to what I do, I was never, like, super open on social media. I would post, you know, this and that, but I never had like, I mean, my account was always private, you know? But now that I'm public and like, I do what I do and I'm more out there, you know? I have so many platforms, I get ridiculous messages throughout. You must have crazy stuff.

[01:44:47:02 - 01:45:27:12] You know? You know? Like, every week I can get flown out if I wanted to. Oh, wow. No, Dubai, fucking Australia. I could visit the whole freaking world if I wanted to. You know what I mean? But man, you never know where you're going as a thing. I would never. I would never. But I'm just saying that it's crazy how people are so just like, "Jamanfu." I don't care, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're just-- that's ridiculous. That's crazy. And that's in my industry. You imagine your industry? Yeah. It's ten times worse, for sure. So tell us, do you have anything coming up? Any new projects? Any new collabs?

[01:45:28:13 - 01:45:31:11] So now we're working on a mariadist called Najove.

[01:45:32:12 - 01:45:46:22] He was here as well. And we're doing like a new album, step by step. We did the first one, it was more tropical, more merengue stuff and everything. So we're trying to put him out there more than whatever he's doing right now because he's doing good, right? So now I told him something.

[01:45:48:00 - 01:46:00:02] If we don't start traveling for your music, you're fucked. Yeah. Right? So that's the next step for him because I know a lot of people. I travel a lot and I'm always working with different people, right? But him as an artist, it's hard.

[01:46:01:12 - 01:46:03:20] That's what I was talking with this guy.

[01:46:05:03 - 01:46:09:03] Because me as a producer, it's easier than an artist because an artist has to pay for everything.

[01:46:10:14 - 01:46:12:04] So that's the next step for him.

[01:46:13:06 - 01:46:47:03] On my side, I keep doing placements with different labels, traveling. I'm doing a couple of things with kids too, with Tonya's kids who have funny cool music. And he's just opening more doors. Because now at my age, I'm not old, but I want to keep it independent. Yeah, as you should. Yes, because when you're young, it's good because they're going to give you a nice contract for five, six years. But me, I'm 40. You give me an agreement for five years, I'm going to be 45. It's nah. I've got to do my own things and that's it. And you know, work with different artists and just wait for that big boom. I love it.

[01:47:02:09 - 01:47:22:12] Je telescope si c'est細.

[01:47:23:17 - 01:47:26:01] Si c'est mal Business,

[01:47:30:07 - 01:47:39:15] pas trop mal. Un maximum de hops. Enfin... Je crois que c'est bon! On a d'autres entries? Bon. Je ne suis pas exact. Mais c'est pas ça! D'accord. C'est bon? Qu'est-ce que ça fait ? Qu'est-ce que ça fait ? Qu'est-ce que ça fait ? C'est le Cessar, et je ne donne pas de merde.

[01:47:41:06 - 01:47:43:04] C'est ça. C'est ça.

[01:47:44:07 - 01:47:46:22] Ok, je vais faire des chops ici, et voir comment ça ressemble.

[01:47:48:17 - 01:47:50:15] Et là, là, là, là, là, là, là.

[01:47:52:12 - 01:47:52:20] Ok, attends.

[01:47:54:21 - 01:48:00:00] On va ajouter le singe à mon résumé.

[01:48:01:01 - 01:48:04:23] Il y a ça. Le nouveau niveau en lat. C'est ça.

[01:48:06:14 - 01:48:09:17] C'est le Cessar, et je ne donne pas de merde.

[01:48:10:19 - 01:48:13:13] C'est le Cessar, et je ne donne pas de merde.

[01:48:14:15 - 01:48:18:22] Je vais prendre le fuck, et j'ai commencé à choper les chops de la main.

[01:48:19:23 - 01:48:32:17] Ok, c'est ça que nous avons fait. What the fuck ?

[01:48:40:06 - 01:48:53:03] All right. Je construis déjà des drums. Tu sais la musique d'emba? D'accord. C'est comme la musique dominique, la musique dominique, et tout. Donc, je me sens plus vite que je me fasse des

[01:48:53:03 - 01:48:54:05] trucs. Je l'aime.

[01:48:56:16 - 01:49:00:05] Comme les drums, on met la base sur ça.

[01:49:05:00 - 01:49:08:23] On va mettre un petit brin à la main, comme des trompets, tout ça pour que ça soit bien.

[01:49:10:01 - 01:49:16:23] Oui, et une guitarrerie, une guitarrerie. La guitarrerie.

[01:49:26:10 - 01:49:26:18] On va faire

[01:49:26:18 - 01:49:27:19] un cronk. Oui.

[01:49:29:02 - 01:49:42:14] Take it love. On va voir ce qu'on a ensemble. All right, on va voir. C'est le Cessar, et je ne donne pas de merde. What the fuck ?

[01:49:44:04 - 01:49:45:22] Le brin.

[01:49:56:04 - 01:49:56:15] Un petit change.

[01:50:04:17 - 01:50:05:09] Oh, mon dieu, on va voir.

[01:50:07:02 - 01:50:14:23] On va

[01:50:14:23 - 01:50:22:22] le dire le lexystar-demba. Il y a ça. Donc, je vais finir la production de la main,

[01:50:24:03 - 01:51:15:22] et c'est ça. C'est incroyable. Je l'aime. J'aime les mots que nous avons choisis. C'est génial. J'aime. J'aime. C'est incroyable comment tu ne peux pas faire quelque chose. Tout est possible avec la musique. C'est pourquoi j'aime la musique, car c'est une art, comme je l'ai dit. Une art qui n'est jamais venu de la chacune, et je suis venu de la Dark Side, donc c'est pourquoi je suis très créé. J'aime. Merci beaucoup pour ce beat. Merci pour nos viewers, pour nos listeners. J'ai apprécié. J'espère que tu as aimé ça. N'oubliez pas de vérifier MediLambia sur toutes les socials. Il va être sur Spotify et YouTube, ok? Il va être sur Spotify et YouTube. 1 000 % on va annoncer ça, quand c'est parti. Et on va avoir des views gazillionaires. Dali. Quoi? Et la la, et la la.

[01:51:20:09 - 01:51:21:20] C'est très bon. C'est bon, j'adore.

[01:51:26:02 - 01:51:28:06] Oh, c'était bon.

[01:51:30:02 - 01:51:31:12] On a le. C'est génial.

[01:51:31:12 - 01:52:09:13] Yeah. Thank you for being here with us today. Yes. Please let us know where we can hear your stuff and link your socials for us for our listeners and our viewers can check you out. Yeah. So my thing is really easy. Medi-landia. M-e-d-y, landia. And the reason why my name is Medi-landia because, you know, when I do music, I do everything. So I feel like you're coming to my land. Love it. You know what I'm saying? So you don't have to go to a different guy to record you. I record you. I do the beat. I do my ring. I do this and that. I will do the videos. I do everything. So I'm a one-stop shop. So Medi-landia. Amazing.

[01:52:10:21 - 01:52:13:09] Medi-landia everywhere. So that's it. That's pretty much it. Awesome.

[01:52:13:09 - 01:52:15:23] Thank you so much guys for listening and

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