EP16 Najove | The Crazy Story Behind His Viral Latin Hit

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[01:09:14:01 - 01:09:47:22] to the show. I am your host, Lexus Starr. Another week, another episode, another guest. We are not stopping. If you thought I was going to stop, you're wrong. You'll be a hater, all right? My guest today has got this super smooth, infectious energy that just wants to get your body moving. His new single, "Uya-ya" is out now. So make sure

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[01:10:17:23 - 01:10:15:04] To give our viewers a little idea of how we met, because I think that's important. It was

[01:10:15:04 - 01:10:15:18] quite funny.

[01:10:15:18 - 01:10:18:18] Also, we did the two kisses to represent the hometown.

[01:10:18:18 - 01:10:20:00] Montreal.

[01:10:20:00 - 01:10:23:14] Montreal 514. All the Americans here, they do

[01:10:23:14 - 01:10:25:04] the one. It took me time

[01:10:25:04 - 01:10:25:23] to get adjusted to

[01:10:25:23 - 01:10:28:03] that. That's so weird. When I

[01:10:28:03 - 01:10:34:23] met you and the other guys, and we did the two, I was like, "Whoa, I just got accustomed to doing the one."

[01:10:35:21 - 01:10:55:22] So we met at a party at Tonya's house a few days ago. Tonya skits. My husband and I got there early. You guys were staying over there. I saw you guys peeping through the window and you saw us pull up, by the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because they're saying, "Who's that? Who's that? Who's coming? Who the fuck is that?"

[01:10:55:22 - 01:11:03:07] We were there early. We were one of the first ones. Then we're just chilling, whatever. We hear "medi."

[01:11:03:07 - 01:11:04:06] Medi, yeah.

[01:11:04:06 - 01:11:05:05] Medi?

[01:11:05:05 - 01:11:06:05] Medi. Medi.

[01:11:06:05 - 01:11:12:02] The Latin flavor to it. Medi. Medi says to you, "Teu," which means,

[01:11:12:02 - 01:11:13:04] "Where are you?" In

[01:11:13:04 - 01:11:15:10] French. Then you said, "Aqui."

[01:11:15:10 - 01:11:17:01] Yeah, it's so weird.

[01:11:17:01 - 01:11:21:08] Then we both looked at each other and we

[01:11:21:08 - 01:11:23:07] were like... Are they speaking French or speaking Spanish?

[01:11:23:07 - 01:11:34:12] Yeah, right? Because maybe he said something else in Spanish that was fast or whatever. Then my husband's like, "Hey, what did you say?" He said, "Were you speaking French? Is that what

[01:11:34:12 - 01:11:34:20] you said?"

[01:11:34:20 - 01:11:48:00] He's like, "You were speaking French?" Then that's how it happened. We spoke to each other. You guys are from the same area that we are from. That's really cool that we meet Quebecers.

[01:11:48:00 - 01:11:50:23] It's like instant connection. Instant, right? Because we

[01:11:50:23 - 01:11:52:04] have no Quebecers

[01:11:52:04 - 01:11:53:00] here, it's

[01:11:53:00 - 01:11:53:21] like, "My people."

[01:11:53:21 - 01:11:55:21] That was

[01:11:55:21 - 01:12:04:15] quite funny. Now you're here on the podcast. Again, thanks for coming on such short notice. Tell our viewers and our listeners a little bit about yourself.

[01:12:06:10 - 01:12:11:18] I'm Na'Jove. I'm an urban artist from Montreal, born and raised in Montreal.

[01:12:11:18 - 01:12:12:03] Represent?

[01:12:12:03 - 01:12:13:03] Yeah, represent.

[01:12:14:16 - 01:12:29:09] So my dad is from Dominican. My mom is from Chile. I grew up in Montreal. I'm trilingual. So not a lot of artists are trilingual too. I speak French, Spanish and English.

[01:12:30:15 - 01:13:07:03] I started music early on when I was 12, 13. So basically how I started is I'm a super fan of hip-hop. But then before discovering Reggaeton, we didn't really have that... I didn't know that we had an urban scene in Spanish. I used to just listen to English music. So then when I discovered that we had Reggaeton, we had that in Yankee, all those artists. It's similar. It's the same culture, the way I dress, the way you act. It's like hip-hop, but in Spanish.

[01:13:07:03 - 01:13:11:16] So then... So then... What does that even mean?

[01:13:11:16 - 01:13:13:10] That's merengue. But

[01:13:13:10 - 01:13:17:09] so it means softly.

[01:13:19:06 - 01:13:19:13] So

[01:13:19:13 - 01:13:24:08] yeah,

[01:13:24:08 - 01:13:41:20] I discovered Reggaeton around that age, 12, 13. And I just got interested in making my own music. But I started doing covers. So I remember I had a webcam.

[01:13:42:20 - 01:13:49:18] So I would just put Daddy Yankee songs on it and then I would just record my voice over the songs.

[01:13:51:08 - 01:14:59:00] Did you always have a good voice or did you have to work at it? My voice was like... It was always good. No, no, no, no, not at all. Because I started more like rapping. I never really did melodies and stuff like that. So I recorded my voices on the track and then I used to send them to my... Do you remember MSN? Yeah. Oh my God. Good old times. MSN. Yeah, yeah. So I used to just send tracks to my friends on MSN and stuff. And then it's like, oh, that's nice, whatever. And then, yeah, I started just meeting people from the industry. Like people that started making music like me. And then I just went to the studio for the first time when I was like 15. I was so nervous. Oh, wow. Yeah, I could imagine. Oh, I was dying. Yeah. And then from then, I just started meeting people. Then that's when I started discovering myself, writing my own stuff. Obviously, I was like 15, 16, was in the same music I'm doing now. Because now as an artist, I feel like I found my sound and I found my style.

[01:15:00:02 - 01:15:30:10] And then, yeah, from that day, I just continued making music. Amazing. Was music a big part of your life growing up? In the house, was there always like... Latino beats going on. 100%. 100%. We're Spanish. We were born to... To move and make music. My first love was actually like baseball. I used to play baseball all my life until I moved to Toronto. So I moved to Toronto in 2016. So that's when I kind of stopped

[01:15:31:16 - 01:15:57:08] playing baseball. But I used to like... That was like my first thing. Baseball was like my life. And then I always had music on the side. It was like more of a hobby. But then bit by bit, I started leaning towards music. When did you say like, "Okay, this is it. I need to focus more on music." The thing about sports is you have an age gap. You get to a certain point and you can play,

[01:15:59:01 - 01:16:42:07] but it's not really to be able to be professional. Because obviously, there's an age gap. But then music, there's no age. You can keep going. So I started leaning towards music when I knew that I was reaching that age that you can't really make it professional. I can still play and stuff. But obviously, I just started leaning more into music. Towards that. Music has no age. I mean, you can go viral at freaking 90 years old. So it doesn't... 90 year old, that's a tough one. I know what I'm just saying. Just like baseball or sports, you're not just going to be like, "Okay, now you're too old. Peace out." Yeah, you can make it whenever.

[01:16:43:10 - 01:18:09:20] So when I met you, and from us just talking, you got this really fun, cool vibe. Have you always been like that? Or do you think that's just like being in the music industry and having to stay true to yourself, but still have another persona in a sense? No, I always been goofy. I'm always been goofy. Even in high school, I'm always been the clown. But I'm introvert. Are you? I could not tell. Yeah, exactly. But music helped me a lot because I forced myself to meet people and talk to people and stuff. But before that, if there's a room or 100 people, I would be the one that in the corner, just chill. In the corner or not. So I meet people and then I get comfortable. That's where... You let the group decide out. Exactly. But now I let it a little bit quicker because I'm kind of used to it now. But I've always been goofy. I don't really take nothing seriously. Until you've got to take stuff seriously. But even then, I've got to crack a joke or something. That's how I break my... You break the ice. Break the ice. And when I get nervous, I've got to joke about something or else I get too nervous. That's good. So then would you say that you are shy a little bit? I was shy. I was super shy. I remember my brother used to help me a lot because for me, I don't like calling people.

[01:18:10:20 - 01:18:19:14] Even to this day, I don't like calling people. Would you rather text? Yeah. I hate calling people. I don't know why, but I hate calling people. But then when I was younger,

[01:18:19:14 - 01:18:20:08] like...

[01:18:22:03 - 01:18:28:00] So the producer says that he called him Daddy.

[01:18:29:21 - 01:18:31:12] Captain Daddy. Captain Daddy.

[01:18:33:07 - 01:18:58:20] Yeah, I remember even to ask something, like anything, even to just ask a question. I was shy to just go to the... Really? Yeah. So my brother used to help me a lot. Like, "Oh, can you ask him this?" And then we'd just go and stuff like that. You know what I'm saying? So then, "Présentation aurelle" was in your forte back in high school. Oh, I hated it. "Présentation aurelle" is like when you... A presentation. A oral presentation, basically.

[01:18:59:20 - 01:19:11:05] I remember I used to skip that day, that was my turn, but then you got to do it, but then just with the teacher after. With the teacher? Okay, that's smart. You know what I'm saying? So I was like, "Oh, I'm sick."

[01:19:12:05 - 01:19:58:09] And then when everyone's done, it's like, "Oh, yeah, you still got to do it. Okay, I don't mind doing it." But now it's just like... I remember just sitting in class waiting for your turn and you're like, "Oh, man, I was... I hated it." Two more people before you, two more people before me. I hated it. So then how was your first performance? Oh, I was dying. Really? Yeah, yeah. I love hearing first-time stories. I was dying. I was maybe like 13, 14. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, yeah. And then I'm happy I had my brother that helped me with everything and asked for anything and whatever. But then obviously, it wasn't really like a show. I go there, I did my song, I was looking on the floor. The floor? Like the floor, all the performance.

[01:19:59:18 - 01:20:01:06] And I just put the mic and just bounced.

[01:20:02:17 - 01:20:32:13] How many people were you performing in front of? Oh, that was like... You know "Carcie Tally"? "Carcie Tally" one? Yeah, that's one of my first shows. It was like a couple, I don't know, like, 1,500 people. But you know, it's a park. So everyone is not like a crowd. It's like, you know? Everybody's stuck together. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the thing is about those kind of festivals, they don't really give a fuck who's performing. They're just doing their own thing. So I'm just like, they're performing, no one's really looking at me. And so it's just my family, they're like...

[01:20:34:00 - 01:21:48:03] So basically, I kind of like performed like for... For your family. Yeah. Just focus on them and nobody else. Okay, but you've performed at bigger events since then. Oh, 100%. And also like now that you're older, right? So how is that different? Because I've seen your clips, I've seen some things. You seem like you got it all together. Oh yeah, now it's like... You know, like... Now it's five. Yeah, now I have no problem. Like I got to transform myself when I go on stage. But it's still weird because like, for example, if I have a show, there's like 50, 20 people. And then you put me like on a stadium, on the stadium, I'll kill it. But then the one with 20 people, I'm gonna get so nervous. Really? I guess because there's less people and like... It's like more personal. You know, it's like I can talk to you. You know what I'm saying? But then when it's stadium, it's like, it sees you because it's a crowd. It's like it gives you energy. It does. You know what I'm saying? It must be like a rush. The bigger the show is, like, I don't... Obviously, you get nervous at the beginning of the show. Every artist, like, it would lie that if they say they don't get nervous, like even like the biggest artists in the world, they do get nervous. Because I feel like whenever you don't get nervous, because you stop caring. That's very true. You know what I'm saying?

[01:21:49:13 - 01:22:46:19] But yeah, now like, you can put me on any show and all. And you'll kill it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's like, it's just experience, you know? Like, I wasn't like that like 10, 15 years ago. But like, I did a lot of show and I did an enemy show I do. Like, I like rewatching it to just see like what I can like... Improve. Improve and stuff. What are they wrong and what are they good? And then it's just like literally like 15 years of like experiencing different type of show. Big, big, small, medium, you know, like bars, anything, you know? Yeah. So yeah. Like you said, the moment you stop, the moment you, you're not nervous is when you stop caring. Because in anything that I do, I still get nervous. Yeah, of course. Because you're always thinking about like, oh, am I gonna do good? Or like how are people gonna perceive me and stuff like that, you know? Do you have an issue with what people think about you? Because you are performing in front of a lot of people. You are out there on social media. Do you ever get any like hateful comments

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[01:23:23:21 - 01:23:31:09] Honestly, like I only care what my people think, you know? Like my close circle, my family.

[01:23:32:22 - 01:23:43:16] Because like at the end of the day, like we're in an era that like people can say whatever, you know? People... It's hard. It's hard. I think the worst part is TikTok. If you go on TikTok and you promise, you gotta be...

[01:23:44:21 - 01:23:56:21] I know. You gotta have a strong skin there. Yeah. And sometimes like, yo... People are very hurtful. And that's I think like the only like downfall or like negative side about social media is that there's always gonna be trolls.

[01:23:58:00 - 01:25:06:19] And no matter what you do, like you can't... There's not one person that doesn't get hate. You know what I mean? But yeah. You gotta like filter it out. But at the end of the day, you gotta see it as a business too. Because like, for example, you have like 10 comments. And then five are hateful. You still have 10 comments. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Any bad publicity is still publicity. Because they don't see the comments hateful. Like the platform doesn't see that. This is... But you still have like eight comments and it helps your algorithm. It's still engagement. And you still saw the video that you hated. That you hated. Exactly. You still sat there and watched it. And you still supported me in a way. Exactly. So it doesn't matter really. Like Cardi B had said once. She says when she won an award, she says, "I want to thank my haters because you still listen to my shit too." Right? Yeah. It doesn't. It doesn't. It doesn't. It doesn't. And like for example, if... I don't know. If someone hates my music or I don't know, it can be anything. Like in my head it's like you hate him but like you can't do what I do. Exactly. Like you can't. So... Yeah. But you just gotta treat the trolls with like...

[01:25:07:19 - 01:26:47:02] Like just... They're just trolls and you just gotta laugh it off. I had somebody... I have one hater that just doesn't go away. He's your number one hater. He's my number one fan. Yeah, exactly. He must be because in every video that I post is like you have a monkey face. Monkey face? It was better when you weren't showing your face. Please stop doing these videos but every time I post a video, he's the first one. If you watch it. And every time I'm always commenting before when people would leave a bad comment. I'm like, "Look at this fucking people leaving me comments." And then now I'm just like, "Thank you so much for watching my video. I'll keep that in mind." You know? Yeah, because if you put too much attention, that's just gonna drive you crazy. Yeah. Do you write all of your own songs or do you work with other people? Yeah, like I collab and I write my own songs too. Nice. Because now the industry changed a lot. You know what I'm saying? Obviously when I started, I wanted to write everything. But now there's so many different aspects in music. There's a lot of good songwriters too. Why am I gonna limit myself? Because I know I can write. I know I can do my own stuff. Why am I gonna limit the art to have a better song or to have a better product if I can collab with someone that can give me an idea or another vision that I don't see? I like collabing with people too. Yeah, that's great. So I do both. Yeah, that's good. You're Ooyayas single. I heard that this morning. It was a vibe. It was definitely a vibe. I saw a little bit of the music video as well.

[01:26:48:03 - 01:26:56:20] You worked with Mehdi on that, right? How did that... You guys worked together a lot? Yeah, all my music is... So basically I met Mehdi.

[01:26:58:15 - 01:27:03:19] So I'll give you a little background story. So Mehdi was huge in Montreal back in the day.

[01:27:04:20 - 01:27:25:22] And I'm younger than him. I'm like seven, eight years younger than him. So he was huge. He was playing in every club. He had a group with all the artists he used to produce to everyone. So I always look up to him. He's like, "Oh, that's Mehdi." Whatever. But then I was the younger and then I couldn't really go to the places he... He was going to? Yeah, because I was young, right?

[01:27:26:23 - 01:27:32:19] And then... But in Montreal, you can get anywhere with a fake ID. I didn't say anything.

[01:27:34:07 - 01:27:51:00] But I feel like... I feel like it's easier for girls, though. But you know what? I don't know if... Sorry for interrupting you, but when I look at myself at 18, I'm like, "How did they let me in the club?" But that's what I'm saying. When I was like 16, going in a club, how did they let me in? I used to go when I was 16, but damn, I looked like...

[01:27:52:03 - 01:28:22:04] I don't know. I looked like a kid. Right? But it's just because we're getting older, so I guess our perspective has changed. No, it's not even that, because you see young people now, they don't look like us. If you see a picture of high school, of our friends, they don't look like... They look like me right now, like makeup and... Yeah, they don't look like back in the day. I know, yeah. I don't know what they put in the water or what's going on. It's in the fillers. Yeah. So basically... Yes, it is in the fillers.

[01:28:24:02 - 01:28:24:20] So yeah, so I did...

[01:28:25:21 - 01:29:18:15] Basically, yeah, Medi was big and everything. So there's one day I did a show. It's called... I don't know if you know Bay Mature. Bay Mature. Wait, isn't that the guy with the long hair? No, no, no. Bay Mature is a venue. Oh, no. It's like a... Bay Mature. Well, it's a pool. Okay. But it's an empty pool. Okay. You know, so they used to do events. It rings a bell. Okay, so you guys would do events in the pool? No, not inside the pool, but it was like a place where they just emptied the pool. Okay. And they used to do like show the stuff. Oh, that's cool. So then I did a show there, and that was like maybe like 13, 15 years ago. Okay. And then Medi was there with his crew. Nice. So then he saw me perform. I was like there with my brother and I saw a little ass kid like, oh, jumping around and stuff. You know what I'm saying? Because that's where I started like to be more comfortable on stage.

[01:29:19:19 - 01:30:26:16] And then he really liked what I did. And then that's when we started working together. So like we've been working together for like over 15 years. Wow. So like him being my main producer, so like all my music, like he produces and everything. And then, and then yeah, that's like all my music, my EP, like he's the producer. Amazing. What inspires you when it comes to writing music or like thinking of a beat or thinking of a lyric? Because I know you work with other people as well, but like sometimes when you just want to get creative, like what inspires you? Oh, like I feel like it's like creating a movie, you know? Okay. You're just creating a story. It can be like inspired by other people or something that I saw on Instagram or like something that I hear because I'm also a barber. So I hear a lot of stories. Yeah. That's true. I hear a lot of stories. Because even me, like with my hairdresser, I don't freaking shut my mouth. Right? Like we're barbers, but like we also like a therapist. For sure. You know, so like that, I feel like ever since I'm a barber, like I get to like a lot of, thank you my boy. Sorry, bro.

[01:30:29:00 - 01:32:25:16] Yeah. I hear a lot of stories that like I can get me inspired. So like I always like, um, but like I'm more like a spontaneous guy. I can have ideas and I write down my ideas or I can have like a melody in my head and I just like record it. But I always like, I really go with the vibes. I like just going to the studio, uh, like fresh with nothing. And then we start building, uh, everything from scratch there. That's what I love to do. You know, I'm not, I'm not a type of artist that I can like just be home, sit down and write a song. Right. I can't, I can't, I just go with the, with the, with the vibe. With the vibe. What is something that you want people to feel when, when they hear your music? Happiness. Like I like, I like my music is, uh, didn't even stutter. I love it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Happiness. Like I want, um, and I feel like that's the power of like Spanish music too. You know, you can't, um, even, even like, if you listen to like a, um, a sad Spanish music, it makes you feel like, you can, you can hear like a sad reggaeton, sad perreo music. And then you, you're like crying, but like dancing at the same time. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. I love it. And then if you hear my catalog, like all my music is like really, it's just like party music and just like makes you feel good. Like make you feel, you know, it's summer and, and, and all that vibes, you know, just good vibes. Yeah. I was, I was, I was driving my little ones to, to school today. And then on the way back, I'm like, let me listen. Let me listen to the song. And like God wasn't even ready. I was just like making eight in the morning, driving back and I played that and I was like sick. And that's the thing with, with Latin music, it does have that. It does make you feel like you just want to, you know, yeah. And we, we're coming from a, from a cool ass country, you know? So like, I feel like, uh, Spanish music helped me a lot in during winter, you know, cause like you drive and then you thinking about like being in the beach and stuff. Yeah. At least thinking about it, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Cause from in Montreal, hold on cut. Yeah.

[01:32:26:21 - 01:34:12:04] so I was driving back home at around eight o'clock in the morning and I put the, the, your song. And it was just such a feel good vibe. And I was just like, well, I'm in Miami. You were saying in Montreal, you know, so I mean, I'm, I am a lot happier than when I was back in Canada because in Montreal, like for people who don't know, it's like freezing cold for like eight months out of the year. And you get like two weeks of summer. You get more than that, but really it feels like two weeks. So, um, so barely get a parking spot in, in, in, in winter. And yeah, when you go like downtown or like Jean Talon and, uh, Marche Saint-Ran. You gotta put your show on the car. Yeah. You gotta, you gotta, you gotta create your own parking spot. Yeah. Because especially those little streets and then when the big snow plow comes, they just like freaking close you up completely. So you got the Ooye-ya that came out or do you have any more recent songs that you, Yeah. So basically I, I did a song, uh, called Como Ya'ai like couple of months ago that did really good on, on, on social, on, uh, on the platform. I have like almost like 400,000 streams. Nice. So then, um, I reached out to one of my boy in, uh, in Toronto. His name is Fito Blanco. Shout out to Fito Blanco. He's like the, it's like the number one Spanish artist of the country. Cause he, yeah, he's like one of the few Spanish artists that made it out of like Canada. You know, he has like a song at Fast and Furious. He, he was signed to pit, to pit bull and everything. And like, uh, if you research him, he's a big guy. So, um, put in a good word, tell him to come on the show. A hundred percent. And he always comes here down to Miami. Like he was supposed to come to now, but like, uh, he didn't, but he's always here. But, uh, but yeah, I'll connect you. He's super dope.

[01:34:14:01 - 01:34:21:20] And, uh, yeah, so like I did the, he did the remix. Uh, so like for me, that was like, uh, uh, one of my goals, you know, cause like, uh, I'm always like aiming high.

[01:34:23:02 - 01:35:32:04] I don't, I don't do a lot of featuring. I have a couple of featuring, but then I always like, I was like pretty vocal about it. Uh, I did a podcast, like before the, before making the song, I did like a podcast, uh, uh, Toronto, like maybe a month before. And they asked me like, Oh, uh, what's, uh, which artists you want to collab and everything. Yeah. And then I said, like, yo, I feel like, uh, uh, like here in Canada, like the only one that I would really, uh, love to cloud would be like feet to blank when I have like the perfect song for him and stuff. And then, and then he's my boy, you know, like, uh, he's my boy for a long time, but then we don't, I never really like, uh, ask him or anything about music, you know, cause like, I feel like it's tough has to be like organically, you know, it's better like that. And then, and then after that podcast, like, I don't know, like I said, like, yo, you know what? Like, let me, let me, let me tell him, you know, and then I put a song and then he loved it. Amazing. So then, uh, and like, and we make the song, we made a song and then a week later we filmed, we shoot, we shot the video and then the song, uh, it's called como y I remix and it came out like three weeks ago. It's a banger banger. Check it out, guys. Check it out.

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[01:35:55:01 - 01:36:51:01] I'm going to ask you the same question, but you can give me that response and, and we'll go worldwide. If you can collab with any other artists, who would you want to collab with? So I told you, I started like listening to, uh, I got introduced to what Spanish with reggaeton with, uh, that Yankee. So I see that's like the absolute like goal. Yeah. So like recently, uh, two days ago I was a, so basically I came here to Miami for the Latin billboards because they do like the award show on Thursday, but like during the whole week they have like Latin billboard week, which is like, just like networking panels and everything. And then, uh, and then I saw him like two days ago that Yankee did a panel. Nice. You know, that guy has like the biggest aura ever. That guy walks in like, it's like, it's like mystical. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy. It's crazy. He has some good freaking beats. I remember freaking back in the days. And then I go tell I got, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[01:36:52:16 - 01:37:08:15] So, so you're a 16 year old twerking at the club. Yo, that was like the best era ever. Yeah, it really was. Um, but yeah, that, that always like been my, obviously now, well, he, he, he, he switched his career. He's doing like, he still, he just came back to music, but he's doing more like, um,

[01:37:09:22 - 01:37:33:17] like a Christian music. Oh, you know, but he, that guy is so sick that like, when you listen to his song, it doesn't sound like a Christian song. You know what I'm saying? Like he has like the same flow, same vibe, but obviously what he said, like he just switched what he says in songs, you know, but like to see, but it's the same vibe of music. It's not giving me the gas anymore. It's, it's giving me Christ. The guys is too expensive. You know?

[01:37:36:10 - 01:38:10:21] Yeah. So, so yeah, that, that always been like, my absolute goal. And then I, and I feel like grateful to that. I opened for him in 2017 in Montreal. Yeah. That was like one of the best day of my life, you know? Yeah. Because like funny story too. So he, he went, uh, that was 2017, maybe like six, seven years prior to that. Medi did the opening for that Yankee with another artist at the same stadium. Uh, study. Yeah. I used to work at a new. I was at the pharmacy.

[01:38:12:02 - 01:39:35:20] Yeah. So he went there and then I went and that does before I kind of like connected, uh, the shoulder that I told you with made and stuff. So I went there like, uh, obviously his daddy Yankees his first time in, in, in, in Canada. Yo, I'm gonna go for sure. I'm gonna go watch my idol. You know what I'm saying? So like, so then I saw maybe doing the show and I was in the crowd and it's like, damn, that's crazy, man. Like, you know, like obviously I know maybe he doesn't know me that much, but I know me. It's like, damn, he's opening the show. That's amazing. You know, like I want to, like, like, like, obviously like I want to be there. You know what I'm saying? Like I felt like, yo, I want to be there. Then seven years later, I'm in the same stadium with Medi doing the opening. That's amazing. You know what I'm saying? That's amazing. So I feel like you got to put stuff in the, in the universe and 1000%. You gotta, you gotta say it. You gotta preach it. You gotta believe it. What is yours? What you want? It's already yours. And you know, it's coming your way. But also like you gotta work for it, you know, 1000%. Yeah. You're not just gonna, you know, vomit stuff and then, and then it's gonna happen. Obviously not. So tell us what you have planned for the future. Like, what should we expect? A lot of music. Like I drop a lot of music. Like one of the, I'm one of the most consistent artists in Canada. I'm always dropping music every month. I have like new new product, new videos and stuff.

[01:39:37:12 - 01:39:44:22] I want to drop an album, like an EP next year. I want to, like I told you before, like, I feel like I kind of reach my,

[01:39:47:08 - 01:40:32:00] like I kind of reach my accomplishments back home, you know, like in Canada. And then it's, it's harder for a Spanish artist to like do more, you know, because I've done all the biggest festival. Like I've done all the shows, all the club, like everything, you know, so like my goal right now is like really to expand it to the US, to the Spanish countries. Like I want to start like going there, you know, do the same thing I'm doing now. Podcasts, everything just like to make people like know me a little bit more, you know, my music and also like me as a, as a, as a person, because I don't do a lot of interviews, to be honest. Like I, I'm, I'm camera shy. Yeah. You're not, you don't seem like camera shy too, but you know, you don't feel like it. You know, we're playing. I'm a good actor, you know?

[01:40:33:02 - 01:40:47:03] But yeah, I don't, I don't do a lot of podcast. I don't do a lot of interviews. So like, I feel like one of my goals also is to, to show them another side of me. Yeah. Because like what you show on social media, like my music,

[01:40:48:03 - 01:41:17:01] they see the artists and everything. But like, if they know me in person, like, I'm just a chill guy. You're just a chill guy. You're just a chill guy. I love it. Thanks for coming here. I, I sincerely from the bottom of my heart, hope you achieve everything that you want to do. And I know that you will, you will get there. And then one day down the line, I'm going to be like, yo, I got this guy on my podcast. When I make it to the big leagues, I'll come back. I want front row seats. And I'll be talking like this. Yeah. You're going to like your nose. You know what I'm saying?

[01:41:19:13 - 01:41:19:18] Okay.

[01:41:21:17 - 01:41:30:13] Give us your socials and where we can find your music. So you can find my music everywhere. Basically Spotify, Apple music, every, every music platform.

[01:41:31:15 - 01:41:51:19] It's all not Jove and a JOV and then my platforms, Instagram, YouTube is all not Jove music. So all the same, not Jove music. Just type in a Jove music and you'll find it. You'll find everything. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you guys for tuning in. Thanks to Nijove for being here with us today. We will see you on the next episode. And don't forget to check out his music.

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[01:45:04:21 - 01:45:23:14] Please welcome, Na-Jee-vo! Na-Jove! We do the whole thing, motherfucker! Fuck! I'm going to do the whole thing? Na-Jove! Na-Jove! Na-Jove! Na-Jove!

[01:45:25:05 - 01:45:30:13] It's the first time I fuck my intro up. Make me laugh?

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