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holy smokes So It's Album Time huh it's that time we've been waiting what's going on how you feeling out there I'm good I'm in New York I'm feeling great I'm feeling at home I'm excited isn't it fun when you put so much hot and soul
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and if into something and then you know you got it done and you know you got it right and then there's this little window between between finishing and us getting Y2K it's like that must be the sweetest spot ever yes this is so crazy like this will be the last couple times
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I can say I don't have an album out yet yeah which must have get been getting kind of boring with the level of success you got really fast how everyone's just like so where's the album so where's the album yeah it's getting a little confusing for everybody but we're here
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almost looks I'm so excited we're so excited and this song give me a light is just pure heat as as we've come to expect I love that you and R continue to to work together very very closely and this is important and how was it sort of continuing to to get into the studio
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with Riot with the success and the confidence that you've achieved together in the last couple of years to work on an album did it did it kind of feel different even in great ways no it does feel really different in the best way possible like I'm so grateful to have
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like this comfort and like bond that we have you know what I mean because recording like was a challenge in the beginning and now I'm just so much more comfortable and I'm like just willing to say anything that like comes to mind without feeling any type of way you know
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what I mean like even when it came to think you to like I just said it and I didn't have to think twice like you know if it was two years ago I probably would have been like no no like I probably would have never even let it come out my mouth but that honesty is like that's
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what we love about you is the fact that you know if it if it works for you creatively then we our ears are wide open um so let's talk about give me a light um we you know we know the original from Shawn Paul is absolute bonafied classic you hear that in
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nightclub and watch people with the aerosol cans and you know you're in a real scene it's like Go Time so what happened when you first heard this start to come together and how did it make you feel hearing this beat start to form and you're like oh man this is going to be
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my next one I was really nervous because I did like we really wanted to have a like very authentic Y2K stample in there and um I know like you know Shawn Paul he's legendary and that that song alone like his his his Give me the give me the
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light is so iconic that I was so nervous to sample it cuz I'm like this isn't going to get cleared so what's the point like you know but thankfully we got it cleared shouts to Sea Paul he's so real know he knows he knows he knows he know the and what you what you both did with
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it by slowing it down by you know by flipping it like that and bringing it into your world is is amazing let's talk about y 2K to the degree that you're willing to I know we're a little way off yet and it's only just being kind of announced but this idea of that era um
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that turn of the Millennium and being someone um you know that's long before you you were pulling thoughts and pulling ideas and creative and figure out what it all means so how did you approach the concept of Y2K uh as somebody who's you know had to inherit
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that information rather than was born into it you know um well I thankfully I had my mom so growing up like I'd see her like really embody the like Y2K aesthetic right it's like truest form um what is the Y 2K aesthetic in the truest form just a little bit of a description
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it's like it's like Duck Nails it's a stamp it's just it's like brown lip liner no matter where you go so you know thankfully I had her as my an were growing up um and of course just like the internet you feel me just like anyone else like yeah yeah yeah yeah
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just M for that info where were you when you came up with that concert when you were like you know what my album's going to be it's going to be a tribute to that Y2K energy the crazy thing is it wasn't just like a definitive moment it was kind of like just this like ongoing
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process of like what should we name the album and then I have like a book full of pages of like album names and different like ideas and I I just like really find the beauty and simplicity and I was just like you know what I want it to be short I don't want it to be
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like the super long phrase like it was going to go either way like it was going to be like super long in phrase or one word like there was no in between for me I love the way that you sum that up the beauty and simplicity I think that really is a very core part of of what
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makes you very special right now is that actually all this music that you make with Riot is like the most perfect few ingredients like what's on the plate is kind of perfect and and and I sort of wonder when you're making this album and
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you're sticking to that aesthetic that idea of less is more do you have to actively pull each other back sometimes from like no no no no no it's good with three things doesn't need any more than that yeah actually um a lot of the time like well either one of us um will have
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like an idea or just anybody else on the team will have an idea and like We'll add it and like sit on it for a couple days and then be like now let's bring it back to like where it was at you know what I mean yeah reduction therapy man I love it this is so exciting ice spice
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new album Y2K finally ready to come out I say finally like I'm being super rude about that it's like no it's okay everybody's been so rude about we just in such a hurry like it's just purely with a hunger anticipation is right it's a good R right exactly like give me a
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light is like good rude it's like good rude that's the way that's what you do yeah when I drop it it's going to be like a here damn moment but needless to say outside of making this album which has been a focus um you know we know you've been having a great time and and
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you know Coachella was a real moment everybody loved you at kachala I feel like both weekends you bought like a total like a legend legendary you know performance in that weekend how does the life Thing feel we spoke about that when we met face to face and you were saying
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you know I'm getting really comfortable but it feel I feel like you're there now fully there I feel like I'm more there than I was the last time you spoke about it for sure that's a humble way to look at it but it's a big stage and that's a
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big experience what do you remember from playing that festival and and and how has it changed you as an artist do you think Coachella was so fun definitely my most fun time on stage ever in my career um to this point and I was just so like amazed because I I was looking up like
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acts that have done the same slot and Stage just cuz you know you want to prep and I'm like what do I expect whatever and I did not expect that like I swear I didn't know that that tent goes that far back like I really did not expect that they showed so much love I was
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overwhelmed by the love for real I just love the fact that you're on stage and then there's like there's Taylor and Travis in the whole crew down there just going up just going n that was that was one thing I really didn't expect also like celebrities to just be on my set um
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but you know I realized that's that's the Coachella culture like yeah the celebrities act normal that day it's got to be one of the only times in recent memory where someone's had the ability to factually turn around and say shouts
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to Taylor Swift in the crowd right now cuz that just actually there that's right a blessing for real like my goods all right I spice I always really enjoy it was great to see you briefly at the festival and weekend to as well and I always really enjoy connecting with you
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talking about your music y 2K era is upon us I'm not going to try to squeeze any more information out of you because we've got the album title and we've got the theme and we're grateful and of course we' got give me a light which is an absolute Smasher so listen enjoy this
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moment and we can't wait for you to level up on this album you're the best a thank you thank you so much shout out to Apple music shout out to you the real thanks to you know how much we we appreciate you it's great to see you thanks for a few minutes take it easy