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On his way to releasing his debut, full-length album, Elmiene stopped by the Hard Rock Hotel New York for a talk with DJ Buck and Regg, to discuss the making of 'sounds for someone,' his journey to R&B in the UK, how he manages his mental health, and much more.
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00:01Welcome to the Odyssey check-in at the Hard Rock Hotel in New York City. Sitting with you right now,
00:06it's El Mee. Reg, my daughter introduced me to El Mee a while ago.
00:12I heard about that, you told me about it.
00:14And she wouldn't stop talking about this guy until I watched him.
00:16You know what's crazy? He told me about you, that his daughter was talking about it, and then he was
00:20like, guess what? I said, what? He said, we gotta go interview El Mee. And I was like, wow, that's
00:24a coincidence.
00:25Ah, full circle.
00:26She just put him on. Yeah, full circle.
00:28Welcome, man. How you feeling?
00:29I'm good. I'm happy to be here.
00:31How's the city treating you so far?
00:32I love the city, man. It never treats me bad.
00:35What was your first time when you first saw Times Square? What was your reaction?
00:38That's not even that. Times Square, I feel like it didn't bring nothing out of me.
00:42Nope.
00:43It was just, I usually like to stay in the Lower East Side and just being there, looking, seeing the
00:50fire escapes, seeing the blocks, and seeing the street names.
00:55It's just like, it's like Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
00:57It's like, it's the film.
00:59I've heard you've seen it in a movie, right?
01:00Yeah, I'm here.
01:01That's the thing about the whole of America, the same.
01:03Like, the first place I went to in America was LA.
01:05And as soon as I landed, I was like, oh my God, I'm in heat.
01:08Like, this is amazing.
01:09It's GTA.
01:10Like, this is what.
01:11Does anything about New York remind you of home?
01:14Yes.
01:14New York is the closest thing to London.
01:17New York is like a intensified version of London.
01:20Anything in London just enhance it.
01:22That's New York.
01:23Like, even the boroughs, like, it's all.
01:26Since I started listening to you, Elmin, you have an old soul, but you're a young person.
01:31How did you get that soul?
01:33And when you sing these songs, these cover songs, you bring a certain feeling out.
01:36For a young guy to bring a feeling out to some of these songs, how do you do that?
01:40How do I do that?
01:41But I think the cheat code was, I mean, I'm a nerd, number one, is the first source of
01:47how I can even know all this music, is that when I like something, I need to know everything
01:52about it.
01:53So if I like, I mean, the thing they introduced me to, it was like, even like, I'm sprung,
01:57T-Pain was one of the first songs I ever heard in my life.
01:59Right.
01:59And I heard that, and I was like, I like the sound.
02:02Let me go back.
02:04Where did the sound come from?
02:05Who was before this?
02:05Oh, it was Usher.
02:06Okay, cool.
02:06Let me listen to 8701.
02:08Okay, what's before that?
02:09Okay.
02:10My way.
02:10Okay, what's around my way?
02:12Who else is around?
02:12Danelle Jones?
02:13Who's that?
02:14And then that kind of kept, until I ended up in like, Billie Holiday, or like, all of a
02:19sudden I was looking at, you know, Curtis, maybe, like, I was looking at all of them.
02:23I was like, oh, Little Richard.
02:23Like, I went that far back.
02:25Wow.
02:25You're a music nerd.
02:26Massive.
02:28That's all, like, that's what makes it fun to me.
02:30Like, I need to know the internet.
02:31Like, I need to know, I'll be like, especially when new music comes out, like the new Brennan
02:36Mars album, like a song would start and I'd be like, is it Johnson, James Brown?
02:40James Brown drums.
02:41Oh, he, and I like to like, even another thing, I'm like, oh, that's, he's doing Lenny Williams.
02:45That's what he's trying to do.
02:45You pick it up like that?
02:46Yeah, yeah.
02:47He's trying to do Bobby Womack.
02:48That's the Bobby Womack thing.
02:49He's doing the, oh, oh, oh, oh.
02:50He's doing the Lenny, the, okay, cool.
02:52Let me figure that out.
02:53Like, I like to know that much about things.
02:56It gives me a lot of joy.
02:57You're up all night watching YouTube.
02:58You're up all night studying.
02:59Just, bruv, like, when I met Tank, when I went to the R&B Money podcast, I was like,
03:04yo, there's just one YouTube video of you.
03:05It has like 9,000 views of you playing Please Don't Go on the Piano in this one room.
03:09And he was like, what are you talking about?
03:10I was like, 2011, May.
03:14And he was like, oh, I remember.
03:16I was like, yeah, yeah.
03:16And then your kids come in and you talk about their mom.
03:18Wow.
03:19And I was like, I watched that video every day when I was a kid.
03:22Like, it was just like that.
03:24Because also, I'm from Oxford.
03:25Like, we ain't got R&B bursting out.
03:28Like, there's no R&B like that coming out.
03:30So, like, R&B just felt like my thing.
03:32It was like my treasure.
03:34I found it.
03:35Like, I used to play a game where I used to go to certain streets and play, like,
03:39a B-side Ideal record.
03:43Wow.
03:44Wow.
03:45And then be like, I'm the first in history to play Ideal on this very place.
03:49You are.
03:50No one in human history has ever played Ideal.
03:51I love Ideal, too.
03:52When you said that name, I was like, Ideal.
03:54That's crazy.
03:54So, you really went and studied these people.
03:57I seen you singing the Please Don't Go with Tank.
04:01Oh, yeah, man.
04:01What was that like?
04:03Now, you sitting there, you know all of this about the song,
04:05and now you're sitting there while he's keying up.
04:08Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:08The keyboard, and you're singing it.
04:10It's so surreal.
04:11It's so good.
04:11It's crazy.
04:13What it is about is just like,
04:18you view these people as so far,
04:21because they were so far away,
04:22even physically from where I was in the world.
04:25And then now you're talking about all these things that you love about the
04:29records together,
04:30and they're talking to you about the same things,
04:31and it feels weirdly close, like family,
04:34because you understand that.
04:36We love and are pulling from the same pool.
04:38Like the same fabric is what we cut out,
04:40work off from,
04:41and we love,
04:42and we're like,
04:42we're still like,
04:43oh, my God,
04:43remember that one time
04:45when George Clinton did that thing on that song with Super Spirit?
04:48That's crazy.
04:49Yeah, I love that as well.
04:50And I was like,
04:51oh, you're just like,
04:52we're brothers.
04:53So, as soon as he came up,
04:54and he was trying to help me out,
04:55and I was like,
04:56perfect.
04:57Perfect.
04:58Let's go.
04:58Do you ever pinch yourself sometimes?
05:00All the time.
05:00Because you're so close to these people now?
05:01I keep a constant,
05:02I actually have like a little,
05:03like a clothes hanger I put under my leg,
05:05just to constantly be pinching me,
05:07so I'm always,
05:07in reality.
05:09Yeah, it's mad.
05:11It's really mad.
05:12So, now,
05:13like you said,
05:13you're from Oxford,
05:15raised in London.
05:16Raised in Oxford.
05:17Raised in Oxford.
05:19You didn't get RMB and stuff like that.
05:21So, where did you discover that,
05:23and who was it that you see?
05:24I know you said T-Pain.
05:26Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:26But for that Neo Soul sound that you have,
05:29where did you discover that at?
05:30So, my older cousins introduced me to music in general.
05:33So, I was born in Frankfurt, Germany,
05:36and my family mostly lived in Oxford,
05:38and I moved there when I was five.
05:39So, when I moved to Oxford
05:41is when I first kind of met people my age,
05:43or a bit older,
05:44but like family cousins.
05:45So, they were the first introduction to like,
05:47yo, we like this music,
05:49we like Usher,
05:50we like whatever,
05:51this is it.
05:52But I,
05:53because of my nerdy mentality,
05:56went way deeper than they ever did.
05:58They carried on to whatever else was called,
06:00you know,
06:00I like grime,
06:01I like this,
06:01like in the UK what was happening.
06:02I was like,
06:03no,
06:04whatever you introduced me to,
06:06I'm not,
06:06I like this gift that you've given me.
06:09And that's how I went back,
06:10and I was just lucky enough to grow up
06:11in the age of the internet,
06:13where I had the best vinyl shop in the world
06:16in my pocket.
06:17So, I didn't need to have money,
06:19I just needed time,
06:20just to go online and be like,
06:22I like this album.
06:23Or even like,
06:23the art of sampling took me many places,
06:26because you'd hear like,
06:28you'd hear like a Usher superstar.
06:32You go,
06:33where's that?
06:36Then you find the vinyl.
06:38Then you find,
06:39oh yeah,
06:39the first refund a sample of the thing.
06:41Oh,
06:41that's really,
06:42oh,
06:42that's cool.
06:43What's that?
06:44What's that movie?
06:45Right.
06:45And then you go,
06:46what's Shaft?
06:47Like,
06:47let me go back and watch,
06:48because I listened to the Shaft soundtrack.
06:50That's a good soundtrack.
06:52That had that,
06:53that's Bumpy's,
06:54that's Bumpy's Lament.
06:55Yeah.
06:56Oh.
06:57And I'm like,
06:58oh wait,
06:58Dr. Dre did that,
06:59and who else did that?
07:00This guy,
07:01he's not that young.
07:04He's not that young,
07:05Rich.
07:05Ain't no way.
07:07That's just a story.
07:08He just said,
07:09George Clinton,
07:10Usher,
07:10in the same sentence.
07:11And he said,
07:12I deal.
07:12He said,
07:13I deal.
07:13I deal.
07:14I could talk with you two about ideal.
07:16We could just do that.
07:18Now,
07:18from where you come from
07:19to where you are right now,
07:20there can be a lot of pressure sometimes.
07:21You have to,
07:22mentally,
07:22you have to prepare yourself.
07:23How do you handle mental health
07:25because you're becoming this bigger,
07:27bigger person,
07:28and it can get you at times.
07:29Yeah,
07:30I hear it for sure.
07:31How do you handle that?
07:32I've definitely had moments
07:33where I've looked at my upcoming schedule
07:35and just kind of like froze,
07:37panicked.
07:38And I remember when I first saw it,
07:40I didn't know that releasing an album
07:41is hard work,
07:43not because of making the album.
07:45It's for what it takes
07:46to promote the album.
07:48That's the part.
07:49I remember being like,
07:50man,
07:50why do people take three years
07:52to make an album?
07:53I'm like,
07:53it's not hard to make 10,
07:5512 songs that you're proud of in it.
07:57Then I realized,
07:58oh,
07:59you just don't even want to do this again.
08:01You're like,
08:01oh,
08:01I just did the,
08:03I made the album,
08:03I loved it,
08:04but I'm not in the mood
08:05to do like the promo run
08:06for six months.
08:07So I'm not going to do it.
08:09So how do you do it?
08:10How do I do it?
08:11How do you get yourself prepared for it?
08:13I really don't know yet.
08:15I feel like one of,
08:17I figured out one skill
08:18that I've been trying to practice a lot
08:20where the idea and concept of home
08:24has changed
08:25as I've gotten more into this,
08:26where home isn't anymore
08:28this one physical place you go back to
08:29because I don't get to do that a lot.
08:31I'm everywhere.
08:32So home has now had to change.
08:34I had to change my understanding of it
08:36where now home is,
08:38if I'm ever in a moment
08:39where I can
08:41and I'm allowed to say
08:42close my eyes for 40 minutes
08:43and just be with myself,
08:45that's home.
08:46Wow.
08:47I have to take that as what it is.
08:48So home is in here.
08:49Home is in here
08:50because home cannot be physically in a place
08:52because I can only be at home
08:53for a week at a time,
08:54if that.
08:55So it has to be something inside me
08:57or else I'll go insane
08:57because then I'll always feel like I'm homeless.
08:59But if I manage to figure out how to,
09:02like if I'm in an airport
09:03and I've got to the gate
09:04and I've got two hours left,
09:06that's home now.
09:07So that's a tool for you.
09:08That you use,
09:09just close your eyes
09:10and just go home.
09:11And just be.
09:11If I'm ever in a place
09:12where I'm allowed to just like
09:14get into things I love,
09:15like I love comic books,
09:18I love like trading cards,
09:19I love all these things.
09:20I've built all these hobbies around me
09:21that I can do anywhere as well.
09:24I can play games,
09:25I have like a gaming laptop.
09:27So as soon as I go to a hotel room
09:28and I turn the gaming laptop on,
09:29okay, I'm home now.
09:31I've got a bed,
09:31I've got a toilet,
09:32I've got a whatever
09:33and I've got my laptop.
09:34It's done.
09:34Now when you think about home,
09:35you've got an album coming out,
09:37Sound for Someone.
09:37When you think about home,
09:40this album means a lot.
09:41It was intentional.
09:43Yes.
09:44And you talk a lot about your dad
09:45and what your dad meant to you
09:46when you lost your dad.
09:47So a lot of these songs,
09:48they mean something to you.
09:51How was it putting this album together
09:52thinking about your dad?
09:55It was,
09:57it's crazy
09:57because when you're writing an album,
09:59it's never,
10:00all right,
10:01today we're going to write a song one,
10:03tomorrow we're going to write a song two,
10:04three, four
10:05and then we have an album.
10:06We've told someone,
10:06it's like,
10:07you just write music to write music
10:09for a long period of time.
10:12So I didn't have the theme
10:13or I didn't know
10:14it was going to be about my father
10:15until I looked back at,
10:17say like four,
10:18five months of writing music,
10:19look back at like 30 plus songs
10:20and go,
10:21hold on,
10:22in one,
10:22two,
10:2313,
10:2416 and 18,
10:25I think I'm talking about something
10:26very similar
10:26and I keep coming back to it
10:28in different forms.
10:30On Tuesday
10:30and the next Thursday I did it
10:32and did it
10:33and then I go,
10:34oh,
10:34hold on,
10:34there's a thread
10:35and you see it
10:36and I see it
10:37like subconsciously
10:38there's something I need to get off my chest
10:40that I only see
10:42through kind of just letting the floodgates open
10:44and just expressing myself creatively.
10:46I might write about
10:47some sort of like,
10:48I'm feeling good
10:49and like,
10:50you know,
10:50some sort of like gracious
10:51and then tomorrow I'm talking about this,
10:53I'm like,
10:53why do I keep going back to that?
10:55And eventually it kind of came
10:57so it was almost crazy
10:58like it was only intentional in retrospect
11:00where I got to the point where
11:02it was no idea
11:03who heard
11:04a collection of songs
11:05that I played him
11:06and he was like,
11:08you finished the album,
11:09you just don't know it yet.
11:11So I thought
11:12songs for someone
11:13when I heard the title
11:14I was like,
11:14hmm,
11:15I heard the music
11:16and I'm like,
11:17maybe he thought
11:18this song is for someone
11:19I didn't know if you felt like
11:21you didn't know
11:21where your sound
11:22or your music
11:24fit it,
11:24you know,
11:25in the industry
11:26but you're saying
11:27it's about your father
11:28and other,
11:29so it's for someone.
11:31Well,
11:31the fun part
11:32with the title
11:32was that it also meant that
11:35where it was like,
11:37there's a sound
11:38for someone in this album.
11:40Anyone out there,
11:41I feel like I've built
11:42a diverse enough album
11:43where any one of these songs
11:45you might connect to.
11:46You might not like
11:46the other 11
11:47but you might like one.
11:48Do you feel sometimes
11:50when you're recording
11:50or performing
11:51some of these songs
11:51your dad is right there?
11:53It feels,
11:54it's interesting
11:55because there's a push and pull
11:57that was very common
12:00within me
12:00and his relationship
12:01where I don't think
12:04that he would be proud
12:05of the thing
12:05that I'm doing.
12:06So there's a real distance
12:08inherently between
12:10even me writing an album
12:11about him
12:13which is a form
12:15or a medium
12:15that he wouldn't have even
12:16like really taken in like that.
12:18So it's very much
12:20like it's become something
12:21that is weirdly selfishly
12:23really just for me
12:24because I know that
12:25even if he was alive
12:25and I showed him this album
12:26like he might not even
12:27take it in like that
12:28because it's in music form.
12:30Now back in England
12:31when you was younger
12:33trying to get on,
12:34trying to chase that dream
12:35what was it like in England?
12:37Because like you said
12:38it wasn't a lot of the music
12:40that you're doing out there
12:41so what was that grind
12:42like trying to follow a dream
12:44with really no path
12:45where you was at?
12:46Well I think what's
12:47I've been blessed
12:49is that
12:49I never actually chased the dream
12:51until it came to me.
12:53When I was in Oxford
12:54when I was studying in Bournemouth
12:56I was studying poetry in Bournemouth
12:58I never thought
13:01I could ever do
13:02the musical artist thing.
13:03That was never a thought
13:03that crossed my mind
13:04until it happened.
13:07So I did the viral
13:08I did a cover of D'Angelo
13:10and that went
13:10and then it was
13:11oh this is possible
13:13I can do this
13:14maybe I should
13:15it was like at that point
13:16it was inevitable
13:17I should probably give this a go
13:18because it's right in front of me.
13:20If I didn't I'd be stupid.
13:22So I never had to go through
13:23the real hard struggle of
13:26I'm trying to be a musician
13:27but I live in Oxford
13:28how do I start?
13:30it kind of suddenly
13:32thrust itself upon me
13:32and then I had to
13:33make the best of what I had
13:34in my hands.
13:36So that's what
13:37what you meant
13:37when you said
13:38a poet accidentally
13:40turning into
13:40an artist.
13:42An artist
13:42because my poetry
13:43for some reason
13:43like I sang all the time
13:44at home
13:45and I wrote poetry
13:46but my mind never connected
13:47the two
13:48so the first
13:50kind of struggle
13:51when it came to
13:51suddenly I'm in a studio
13:52because it really is just like that
13:54one week I was in Bournemouth
13:56cooking sausages
13:57and the next I was in a studio
13:58like write a song
13:59and I was like
13:59wow
14:00that's crazy
14:00what's happening there
14:01that's crazy
14:01you still do poetry
14:02huh
14:03you still do poetry
14:04still do poetry
14:05but it was
14:06it was hard
14:06I'm like okay
14:07I know how to do that
14:09and I know how to do that
14:10how do I bridge them together
14:11and I really had to figure out
14:13how to create melody
14:14and bring the two worlds
14:16I mean the song Reclusive
14:18when I hear that song
14:20it reminds me a lot
14:21like myself
14:22I'm in a public
14:23I'm in a public figure
14:24but if I'm in a big
14:25big room
14:26I'd rather be by myself
14:27right
14:28but if I'm on stage
14:29I understand the job
14:30yes
14:30and I got that
14:31I get that from you
14:32when I listen to the words
14:33you're like
14:33you're telling
14:34you're telling a story
14:35of someone who
14:36is very popular
14:37yeah right
14:37in a crowded room
14:38you feel alone sometimes
14:40correct
14:40is that what that song is about
14:41that's really what it is
14:43I mean it's
14:43writing that song
14:44that was the most
14:45that was the hardest song
14:46to write on the album
14:47because it was so
14:51personal
14:51on a surface level
14:52well when you go
14:54deep enough
14:56there's a weird comfort
14:57like you feel more comfortable
14:59talking about
14:59really deep things
15:01like my father
15:01or this or this
15:02or that
15:02this or that
15:03but just talking about
15:04I'm kind of like this
15:05on a Monday
15:06feels way more exposing
15:08and writing that song
15:10was like
15:10I was like
15:11who cares about me
15:12being reclusive
15:13I couldn't understand
15:14it was really
15:14my producer
15:15Jeff Gitte
15:16that produced a song with me
15:17he was the really
15:18like the champion of it
15:19where he was like
15:19man I'm telling you
15:20you need an autobiographical song
15:22you need people to know
15:23who you are
15:23when you're sat in front of me
15:24right now
15:25and not the person who
15:27you know
15:27the introspective person
15:28is great
15:29you're always going to do that
15:30but this part
15:32we've not seen this before
15:33and I remember the whole song
15:34even the way of writing
15:35it was like
15:35he was just like
15:36tell me what you do in a day
15:37just tell me
15:38and I was like
15:38I wake up in the morning
15:39I play video games
15:40like I'll be real
15:41it's pretty boring
15:42there's nothing I'm really doing
15:43I do this
15:44I get up
15:44I don't really want to do this
15:46I was like
15:46you know what
15:46I'm a bit of a recluse
15:47and he was like
15:48that's it
15:48that's the word reclusive
15:50that's the word
15:51that's the hook
15:51and I was like
15:52are you insane
15:53you're going to be saying
15:54the word reclusive
15:56is probably the least sexiest word
15:57but you nailed it
15:59we figured it out
16:00we figured it out somehow
16:01but that became the thing
16:03it was hard man
16:04but that's exactly what it is
16:05like when I'm on stage
16:06you're in my domain
16:08I dictate what's happening
16:09how did you teach the kids
16:11how to sing it
16:11because I've seen you
16:12with some kids
16:12oh that was really fun
16:13how did you teach them
16:14how to sing their recluse of part
16:15yo that's my boy Jamal
16:17he's the best
16:18he really like
16:18did the heavy lifting
16:19but even with that
16:21like the hook
16:22was just so fun and easy
16:23when we were writing it
16:24I was like
16:25this is perfect
16:26I was like the Bruno Mars
16:27like
16:27woo woo woo
16:29see you driving around town
16:31with the girl I love
16:32and I'm like
16:33fuck you
16:36woo woo woo
16:37like that kind of like
16:38people love
16:39it's like Dion
16:39when I was writing
16:40no idea
16:41we were writing
16:42we were writing
16:42we wrote a song called
16:43Don't Say Maybe
16:44and he walked in
16:45and he was like
16:45we need to write a vowel song
16:47I was like
16:47what's a vowel song
16:48it was like a song
16:49where the main catch of it
16:51the catchphrase
16:52is either a ooh
16:54or a e
16:54or a ah
16:55or a da
16:56he was like
16:57there's loads
16:57there's like
16:58umbrella
16:58ella
16:59ella
17:00yeah
17:03under my umbrella
17:04yeah
17:09Michael Jackson
17:10he was like
17:11they're the big hooks
17:12they're stadium songs
17:13they're stadium ready songs
17:15because it doesn't matter
17:16where you go in the world
17:17Brazil
17:19France
17:19Portugal
17:20like you don't need to know
17:21English that well to go
17:22ooh e ah
17:22everyone does that
17:24he's like
17:25you can't
17:26like these songs are great
17:27but sometimes
17:28at that level
17:29you're not gonna
17:29you'll get lost
17:31in the wide range
17:32of what that venue is
17:34so that's the same
17:35with reclusive
17:35it's just like
17:37I get so reclusive
17:41I get sorry
17:43I get sorry
17:45it's like that kind of like
17:48like that kind of like
17:49very
17:50you do this so easy man
17:51are you even trying
17:52I mean
17:54now you seem like
17:56you love singing
17:57yes
17:58like you love singing
17:59and like you said
18:00your poetry got you here
18:02so
18:03where's L-Ming
18:04trying to take this
18:05me
18:07I'm just trying to
18:10as long as I keep
18:11being in a position
18:13where I'm allowed
18:14to just
18:14creatively express myself
18:16through albums
18:17I'm good
18:19that's as far
18:20the only thing
18:21I want to take higher
18:22like the only competition
18:23I'm in is with myself
18:24to continue
18:25to being more honest
18:27and expressing myself
18:28even more efficiently
18:29that's really the best
18:31I could ask for
18:32how do you get
18:33your first project
18:34to be so vulnerable
18:36you know
18:36and
18:37and talk about things
18:38that you know
18:39that's
18:40that's
18:41deep within you
18:42you know
18:43it takes some people
18:44a couple of albums
18:45to get to that
18:46to get to that point
18:47yeah
18:47I said this the other day
18:49I was like
18:49I'm an only child
18:50I had a lot of time
18:51to myself
18:51I had a lot of time
18:52to be private
18:53I'm over it now
18:56I'm ready
18:57I watched you
18:58I watched your video
19:00in New Orleans
19:00it had to be hot that day
19:02because New Orleans
19:02can be hot
19:03yeah
19:03when you had to be
19:04how do I feel
19:04with that live
19:05being following
19:05around New Orleans
19:06that must have felt good
19:07that's so good
19:08we got so many more
19:09of those
19:09I love those
19:10we're doing a couple
19:11for a couple songs
19:12on the album
19:12but that was just brilliant
19:14like hearing
19:15you hear about
19:16it's again
19:17it's like America
19:17something about America
19:18it's just like the movies
19:19no one lied
19:20it's exactly
19:21you see New Orleans
19:22in all the films
19:23and whatever
19:24like Streetcar Named Desire
19:25or whatever the plays
19:26used to
19:27and now I'm here
19:28I'm like
19:28whoa
19:28and we went around
19:29Mardi Gras season
19:31so people were about
19:32I'm having alligator hot dogs
19:33and like
19:34they didn't make you
19:35stand in line for a beignet
19:36did they
19:36no
19:37you can't stand in line
19:38for a beignet
19:39it's crazy in New Orleans
19:40it's crazy
19:41there's a beignet everywhere
19:42like
19:43it's crazy
19:43you know what I'm saying
19:44there's a little cafe
19:45oh that was the best
19:47like
19:47such a good feeling
19:49also like brass
19:50is something that
19:50to me is such an end game thing
19:53like
19:54I'm in the dream
19:54when I'm doing shows
19:55is I want to have brass
19:56and six backing singers
19:58and the band
19:59and two basses
20:00two keyboards
20:01like
20:01so when I had the
20:03I was like
20:03well I've never had this before
20:04like for my music
20:05to hear my music
20:06being played like that
20:07I mean
20:08you got a lot of love songs man
20:10yes
20:10but you've never been in love
20:11correct
20:12how can you
20:13how can you sing about love
20:15but you've never been in love
20:16I've been in love
20:17I've just not
20:17it's just not reciprocated
20:21it's just a one way street
20:22it's a one way street
20:23it's been a one way street
20:24that's far
20:25you felt those feelings
20:26so I know how to
20:26yeah I know how to feel
20:27because I feel like
20:28I've been saying that a lot
20:28but I feel like I've been
20:29expressing it wrong
20:30where it's like
20:30I've been in love
20:32I've just never been
20:33in a relationship
20:35so the feelings
20:36are real
20:37when that relationship
20:38comes I can't wait
20:39to hear that song
20:40I'm terrified
20:40my cousin told me
20:41last week
20:41he was like
20:42I can't wait
20:43till you get your
20:43first heartbreak
20:45what's wrong with you
20:45why do you want that
20:46from me
20:46like what
20:47you're supposed to
20:48hope it never happens
20:49they say that's when
20:50the best music come out
20:50music come out
20:51hey man
20:52if it does
20:53sure
20:53I mean that'll be
20:54a nice bonus
20:54but I think
20:56it terrifies me
20:57that I can write
20:58with so much feeling
20:59now
20:59that if I'm ever
21:01in this scenario
21:01I might just die
21:02like I don't know
21:03what
21:05right now
21:06you're writing
21:06from one angle
21:07from loving
21:08so now you get
21:09the right
21:10love being loved
21:11back
21:12that's crazy
21:12man that's another
21:14that's a platinum album
21:15yeah that's a layer
21:16I mean one last question
21:17if it wasn't music
21:18if music didn't come
21:19calling you
21:19what would it be
21:20what would you be
21:21doing right now
21:21I'd be a bodyguard
21:22I'd be security guard
21:23no
21:24that's really
21:25that's what it'd be
21:26no no no
21:26that was the plan
21:27no you're too talented
21:29to be sitting there
21:30telling somebody
21:31to let me see your hat
21:32it was gonna be
21:33I was gonna be the one
21:34I was gonna be a pushover
21:35if I would have let
21:36a couple people in
21:36they would have known me
21:38like hey
21:38you would be singing
21:39break the fight up
21:40you would sing that
21:40yeah that would have been
21:41part of my
21:42that's a security guard
21:43that's a great skill
21:44to have
21:44a pacifier
21:46I don't need a stun gun
21:47and I'll just
21:48do me a favor
21:49before we leave
21:50let's just go in there
21:50with all my heart
21:53I'll love you
21:54baby
21:55can't nobody fight
21:55just keep that in there
21:56you're like
21:57oh you know what
21:58can't nobody fight
21:58while that's happening
21:59like you're right
22:00before we let you go
22:01I want you to do
22:02one thing for me
22:02go on
22:03you sang D'Angelo
22:04yes
22:04can you give me a little piece
22:05of that
22:06because we lost D'Angelo
22:07a little after you
22:08sing that song
22:09absolutely
22:09untitled
22:10yeah
22:11okay I got you
22:12girl it's only you
22:17have it your way
22:20and if you want
22:22you can decide
22:26and if you have me
22:29I can provide
22:33everything
22:33that you desire
22:35baby
22:36said if you
22:39get a feeling
22:43feeling
22:45that I feel
22:49so won't you
22:52come closer
22:55to me
22:56baby
22:57cause you've already
23:01got me
23:02right where you want
23:03me baby
23:05said I
23:06I just
23:08won't
23:08be your man
23:10can't ask for much
23:11more
23:12amazing
23:14Elmene
23:14thank you for stopping
23:15by the Odyssey
23:16checking at the
23:17Hard Rock Hotel
23:17we appreciate you
23:18thank you
23:19album coming up
23:20you're going on tour
23:21too right
23:21I am
23:22I'm going on tour
23:24from the end of
23:25April
23:26to July
23:27I'll be in New York
23:28at the start of June
23:31it's May 9th
23:32we already know the
23:32date
23:32oh perfect
23:33I'll be there
23:34you'll be there
23:36absolutely
23:36thanks for coming
23:37album comes out
23:37Friday we appreciate
23:38you checking
23:38I can't wait to
23:39catch you on this
23:40tour
23:40thank you for
23:41having me
23:41thank you
23:42we're going on tour
23:43oh my goodness
23:47it's
23:48you
23:49I'm
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