The S.H.I.T.T.S Podcast
The S.H.I.T.T.S Podcast
Funk, Soul, and Slowing Down
Two minutes in and you can hear it: this is soul built for feeling and for the floor. We sit with Spanish artist Carlos Abril to unpack the spark behind Love So Strong, the disco‑tinted energy of Sensational and Get Down, and the quiet discipline of slowing down so songs can actually breathe. He traces a line from Don Blackman and Sheik to present‑day production choices—live‑leaning strings, drums with pocket, arrangements that give DJs space to work—and explains why he writes like a diary: honest, specific, and not edited for the algorithm.
We talk upbringing and how a small city with big support turned experimentation into a habit, not a risk. Stevie Wonder looms large—in lyric, arrangement, and sheer wonder—and that reverence becomes a north star for taste, not imitation. Carlos opens up about working mostly alone, catching himself before perfectionism breaks the vibe, and how a healthy relationship with yourself might be the most underrated tool in a songwriter’s bag. The conversation stacks into a bigger theme: time beats money. With time, you write, practice, connect, and heal. Without it, even a budget can’t buy you voice.
For selectors and heads, there’s plenty here: DJ‑friendly intros, the logic of long mixes, and why modern soul thrives when club intent meets headphone detail. Looking ahead, Carlos teases a debut album that folds in folk colors, Brazilian sway, and a touch of psychedelic haze—Motown uplift filtered through his own compass. If you’ve been craving groove with heart, hooks with heritage, and stories that feel lived‑in, this one’s for you.
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Yo, what up, y'all? Welcome back to the Shits Podcast. We are either shooting the shit, starting some shit, or picking up what shit left off. I'm your host, DJ Monsong to Rod, the coolest cast you heard thus far. And this week, y'all, I got a very special guest to the podcast. And I gotta, I gotta, I gotta put it out there. So I heard my man music um off of Facebook. And I was like blown away. Like his sound is so refreshing, it's it's super dope, it's super chill, it's energetic, like it just gets you excited about music. So um I had to reach out to him. And he's he's he's such a cool, such a cool dude that he was like, he took time out of his schedule to chill and and chop it up with me. And man, I I'm I'm totally appreciative of it, man. Um he's a dope singer and songwriter. So I want y'all to put y'all hands together for the one, the only I hope I pronounced my man's name right. I got the first name. I know I got the first name right. Carlos Abra. Did I pronounce it right, bro?
SPEAKER_00:Yes, yes, yes, yes. I'm good.
SPEAKER_02:Man, appreciate you coming, appreciate you stopping through, man. Real talk, man.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, thank you so much for having me, you know. It's a pleasure.
SPEAKER_02:No problem, no problem, no problem. Um, okay, so um the first thing that I really want to get into, man, is um my bad. Um we like to do uh on on a podcast, man, we like to do a like a check-in. So I always ask people, um, I ask people what they're working on. So a lot of the times, man, like artists, they always say like a project, you know, like um actors, they say working on a movie, but when I say that to people, I mean like what are you working on internally, like within yourself, what are you working on this week?
SPEAKER_00:That's a great question, actually. Um I think I think I'm working on taking things easy as you know. Um I often I in my mind things go way too fast. Like when I'm um making ideas or you know, the thought of kind of like I finished a song and I need to get on with the next one, or I need to um get on with a project. And I I'm kind of trying to learn how to slow down things and um take some time off music as well, you know, like just um working all the time sometimes can I guess take a tall. And um I think I'm trying to take some breaks from that, you know. I'm trying to enjoy the nature, I'm trying to enjoy the sun, I'm trying to go out for a little bit, I'm trying to disconnect um uh for a bit from from like that work perspective. And that's that's definitely what I'm yeah, that's definitely what I'm working on. Like just taking things slow, not rushing through things, everything's coming at its own pace, and uh yeah, that's what I'm working on. I think that's dope. That's dope. Yeah. Um where are you from? I'm from Spain. I'm I'm I'm from Spain and I live in Spain right now. Okay. Um a little city, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:No, no, no, go ahead, go ahead.
SPEAKER_00:You say a little city, uh, I I yeah, I was just gonna say a little city called Bayalarine. It's like North Madrid, but it's it's not very famous. It's very um, it's very local. Yeah, not a lot of music going on here, but yeah. Really?
SPEAKER_02:Well man, your your sound is dope. I mean, like, I I I don't I don't have a I don't have a lot of words to describe it. It's it's just dope, man. And and thank you for a person that has been taking in music for for decades, like to come across um a comp come across that song, especially uh Love So Strong, I was like, damn, shit is fun. Thank you. Thank you. It's it's it's dope. Yeah, thank you. And I always tell people, man, like when it comes to like creators, man, like to me, I feel like the creators are the most powerful people on the planet. You know what I'm saying? Because thank you. It's like everything that you see came from a creator, you know what I'm saying? Right. Something that was in your mind. Right. Something that was in your mind at one point in time.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it becomes it becomes a thing, like it's a bit more tangible.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Yeah, exactly, exactly. And then in today's um, in today's climate, with with the music going the direction that it's going, I felt like it was refreshing to hear a song like Love So Strong because like I want to say like it felt like a throwback. Um definitely but but it still felt fresh. Right. You know what I'm saying? It still felt fresh. You know, like it's it's fucking it's funky as hell, man.
SPEAKER_00:I love it. Thank you. Yeah, yeah. Um, yeah, what can I say? I mean um what was what was the inspiration behind it? Well, uh, I mean, I I'm I'm all for the 70s, like it's my favorite decade in terms of music. Um and um I love disco, I love funk. Like I just I love that. I love the um the the the the arrangements that were going on in the 70s and the music and how um everything felt very dynamic, you know, and I just love that. I love that. I love Sheik, I love um Cool and the Gang, I love like just too many to name, too many to name. But um what inspired me specifically was Don Blackman. I don't know if you know him, I'm pretty sure I'm sure you know, but if you don't, he's he was this uh funk artist. Um he made an album, just one album, and he was this keys player, incredible keys player. And um his debut album, I think it was called also Don Blackman, but it's I I I'll send it to you if you haven't listened to it. It's it's a great funk um album he made in the 1982, I think. But it was still like 70s, you know? It was like that transition from the 70s to the 80s, so um, but I just love that album. I love that album, and one of the songs particularly called Heart's Desire, which is one of one of his most famous songs. Um I I just loved it so much. And uh I listened to that album a lot, a lot for the for the past few months, like beginning of this year. And uh I wanted to make something like that. I wanted to make something funky. When you listen to it, you'll know what I mean because it's it's very the inspiration is there, and I just wanted to make a cool strength arrangement. I wanted to make it feel like real strings going on, and then the drums I wanted them to feel I I just wanted to, it was a throwback, like you said. It was really me trying to um I guess put together something that felt from the 70s or like from the early 80s, and how could I do it now? Yeah, that that was that was the idea, I think.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, and that's I'm I'm glad you did it. Um I'm glad you did it because I think that as music consumers, we need to uh have a better understanding of where the music came from, um the importance of um musical implementation, if I'm saying that correctly, and putting songs together, man. Like putting songs together to me that make people feel something. And I always tell my kids, man, I'm like the art that's supposed to evoke some type of emotion from you, you know. Like to me, like good art, whether it's a movie, a book, a song, you just don't sit there. You know, you feel something, you know, like it may make you feel like crying, it may make you feel like dancing or whatever, but it's supposed to make you feel something, you know. And I feel like I really feel like you hit the mark um with love so strong, man. Like it's it's it's thank you.
SPEAKER_00:It means a lot. I uh I worked a lot on it, and I I wanted to make sure I put my best work on it. So I'm I'm glad that you you think you feel that way. Thank you for for the kind words, really. You're welcome. Um, how would you describe your childhood? Yeah, great childhood. Loving. Um I've I've I've always like I I don't have a bad memories on it, you know. Um, I'd say like musically, there was a lot going on from my parents, like in terms of singer-song writing from artists from South America and such. Um, but yeah, just um a good lovely childhood. I've I've been very lucky in my life. Um, yeah. Okay, I have no complaints.
SPEAKER_02:That's good. That's good. I mean, like, you don't have to. Yeah. Um how do you feel, how do you feel your childhood has affected you as an adult, especially when it comes to your music?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. I think the freedom that my parents have given me always to do or or feel um whatever way I felt, like if they've been very supportive in terms of of what I make now. And I I probably wouldn't be here making the music I make um if it wasn't for their for them allowing me to do that, you know. I think I I I don't take it for granted because I know that um there are tons of people like me, my age, um younger, that are far more talented or skilled than me. And maybe they don't have the same resources, nor maybe they don't have like the same supportive parents, you know, or or people around them. And for me, I think that was always there, like the support. Um and I think that that that that's what really kind of helped me shape my myself in what I am now, into what I am now. Because they just allowed me to to be that, you know. They never um said, oh no, you shouldn't do this or you shouldn't do that. They were always like supportive of what I wanted to do. I think that's that's what probably made the difference or made me who I am now.
SPEAKER_02:That's awesome. That's awesome. You had that, you had that um that creative freedom to be who you to be who you feel like you wanted to be. Exactly. And and here you are. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:That's that's yeah, I'll always say this is thanks to my parents, you know, because yeah, a lot of things could have been different, you know. And and um yeah, but I'm grateful for for where I am now and for for how I've been brought up. And I I'll forever be thankful to them. Like this is this is thanks to them, where where I am now musically.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, okay. Um is there an artist that has influenced you a lot?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, whether it be from the 70s or 80s era, which yeah, I mean there's there's many, but I would say the the most probably the most uh there's just a lot, but I'd say Stevie Wonder is probably oh man, yeah. I mean he's he's oh man what can I say? I don't know he's super dude. Yeah. I I I can't really he's I mean like no no I was just yeah I I don't have words to describe him. What what what um his music makes me feel? I I just it's tough to to do that. Like I can't because it's just too good. Like there's I don't know. See, I don't I don't have any words. I I can't tell you why it is no, I agree with you.
SPEAKER_02:I I totally understand where you're coming from. Um listening to Stevie Wonder. My my dad, he's a huge Stevie Wonder fan. Um, and I don't mean like my dad is fat and he likes Stevie Wonder. I mean like he's a huge fan of Stevie Wonder. Um he put me on to Stevie Wonder early, and I used to listen to him, and it was like the lyrics, like he was he was one of the first artists that I listened to, and I was like, man, did you hear what he just what he just said? You know, yeah. Like he said, I will love you until a six becomes a nine. And I'm like, that's never, yeah. Like, well, wait, on one, it's like it's wait, it'll never become like that's crazy.
SPEAKER_00:No, I like who thinks of that. I don't know. His lyricism was I I I mean, he he wrote what how old was he with inner visions? I think it was like 23 or something. Oh man, and I'm 25. I think he was 14.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. I I think he was four. I I may be wrong, I gotta do the research, but I think it was like between 14 and 16.
SPEAKER_00:I think no, I think I may be I think 14-16 was when he did the fingertips uh single, like when he played the harmonica. And I think the bigger albums, like the 70s out decade, he was 22, 3, 4, but still, like even even being 23, like I I mean I'm 25, and when I think of his work with inner visions, not just lit the lyrics themselves, but like the arrangements, you know, and and how he how he played the drums too and everything. Um it's just it's unbelievable. I don't really I mean he's a he's a one of a kind. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I agree. I agree. Yeah. So I have heard, I heard there was there was a rumor that said he may not he may not be blind. So I was like, I don't think anybody would go this way fake, being blind. Yeah, I doubt it. Um however, I did think this much. Um the people that's in his camp, I know they had to be scared for a minute to think if this motherfucker ain't blind, we got a lot to explain to yeah, yeah. Lucky for probably done seen us do some shit. Yeah, um is there an artist that you feel is underrated?
SPEAKER_00:Um yeah, there's a lot of artists that are underrated. Um well he's he's underrated, but he's he's really like gonna make it big, I'm pretty sure. His name is Gareth Duncan. Um he's uh he's a music, like he's a musician friend of mine. And you should check him out because he's to me, he's like the yeah, the next the next big thing in the soul scene. Like Gareth Duncan. I don't know if you know him.
SPEAKER_02:I I I listened, um, I got a couple of his songs on my playlist. Um he put me when I when I heard one of his songs, honestly, and I mean this as a compliment, I thought it was Michael Jackson.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he's he's got he's got a very distinctive voice. I mean, he's he's he's a phenomenal singer. I think when I found his stuff, I was like, yeah, he's he's the next thing because he he's just got phenomenal vocals, like incredible um harmony, like knowledge, like just music knowledge in general. He's a genius, honestly. And um he he does the arrangements, he produces everything, he makes beats, he he's he's like, yeah, he's crazy. So um when I listen to his stuff, I he just has a sound, like you can just tell when someone has a sound that really separates themselves from from others, you know, makes makes their stuff special. And I I really thought he had that. I mean he I'm I'm sure he knows because it's in a it's incre like it's incredible, you can see it, but yeah. I I wouldn't say he's underrated because he's obviously like starting to bubble up, but I he's still not big big yet, um, but he will be certain for sure. He sounds dope. Yeah, he's incredible.
SPEAKER_02:He sounds he's he sounds dope. Um can you recall the first venue that you played? The first gig I ever played, yeah. The first gig.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, the first yeah, the first gig I ever played was probably um back when I was uh what like seven, six or seven, and I was learning how to play the classical guitar, like just very simple patterns. Okay. My first in in terms of like gigs forever, that's probably the first one I remember. I was seven and I had to play like some um like lead line of a famous song in front of parents and other children, I think. In terms of like Forever. That's the first gig I can remember.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. Um, how many instruments do you play?
SPEAKER_00:I play the guitar. Main main my guitar's my main instrument, the bass as well, but obviously um I wouldn't call myself a bass player, and I play keys, some a bit of keys, but I definitely would not call myself a keys player. I'm a guitar player mainly.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, okay. Um would would you consider yourself a songwriter?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, so so being a songwriter, um what topic do you feel is not talked about enough in today's music?
SPEAKER_00:I I think there's some great music out there um right now with like really um I guess great um hidden information behind the lyrics. Like I think there's there's some great music. I'd say I'd say maybe um yeah, I'd say maybe them I guess more like introspective, more thinking about talking about like yourself. How you how you feeling, you know? I feel like there's a lot of songs about love in terms of um, I don't know, loving someone or or like a breakup or a relationship and things like that. But I think a lot of yeah, it would be nice to see more, which I'm sure there are. I haven't listened to all of the um they lay like new music, but I think from what I hear, it would be nice to have more music that where the artist kind of talks about themselves, which I it now that I'm thinking about it, there's a lot of artists that do that, obviously. But from what I listen to, um maybe that. I don't know. I th I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:It's like kind of being more um being more vulnerable, right?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, right. I just think there's a yeah, being more vulnerable. Yeah, no, I just think there's a lot of artists that are far more impressive lyrically than me that are um reach like further depths with their lyrics. So I I don't know if I'm in a position where I could say I could where I could tell you, oh, this is missing, you know. I don't know. I think there's a lot of um just great minds out there, but yeah, more more about more about yeah, more about like personal growth or like how are you feeling, you know, and and things like that. Maybe maybe I agree.
SPEAKER_02:I agree with that. I I feel like I would love to hear um I would love to hear more emotionally intelligent content and songs, you know. Um just to kind of, you know, just to kind of contrast, you know, musically, I would I think that would be kind of I think that would be really dope to hear. Um I think we hear a lot of songs about relationships and breakups and uh course sex, you know, that's the main thing. Um I would just like to hear some some more emotionally intelligent kind of yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I um I know what you mean, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:For artists to really challenge themselves. Yeah, I I um how would you describe a healthy relationship?
SPEAKER_00:I was in like a healthy relationship with someone or or with yourself or period.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, I mean like a like a healthy relationship. Okay, um, you know, I'm glad you said that. I'm glad you said with yourself. I've never heard I've never heard that response from anybody. Elaborate on that.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, a healthy relationship with with yourself. I I guess um at the end of the day, for artists, I feel like obviously there's a lot of artists that collaborate, but for songwriters that write their own music and and lyrics and stuff, and that that that can feel quite personal, you know? And I feel like it's sometimes tough to um, I guess, allow yourself to not um be as good as you expect yourself to be, you know. Sometimes you think maybe you're like gonna write the best song ever and you're you're not writing it, or it's not the ideas are not really flowing, and and it's easy to bash yourself, like it's it's easy to bring yourself down or like kind of tear yourself apart in a sense and and get all negative about it. And I I think the way you treat yourself is very important if you really want to maintain a healthy relationship, you know, if you want to keep growing. I think it's it's important to check in with yourself and know when sometimes you're asking too much of yourself or when yeah. I I I think I say this because I I spend most of the time making my music on my own, you know, and I enjoy that. I really enjoy doing things on my own. But it's very difficult to it's easy to get lost mentally in that sense, and it's easy to get all negative and stuff, and uh it's very difficult to know when maybe you're like starting to drift off a song, or or maybe you're drifting off emotionally and you're not really finding the focus, and it's it's really easy to get lost and really hard to know when to say stop working on a song because you just you don't see the vision, so you just stop for a minute, put it aside, work on something else, or do something else, and then maybe it it'll come eventually, but it's just not the time now. And that's something that for for me it's taken me a long time to process. Like, I uh spending a lot of time with myself has helped me and is helping me trying to figure out how I behave, like how how how I react to different emotions, whether they're good or bad, within my process of making music.
SPEAKER_02:That's cool. I mean, thank you for elaborating on that. That was like I said, that was the first time that I heard their response from anybody. Um if you had if you had the power to control the radio airwaves, what would be the first thing that you would do? As far as if you had the power to control what was being played over the airwaves, what would be the first thing you would do?
SPEAKER_00:I'd probably play that like the whole 70s discography of the one. I'd just be playing that over and over. Uh yeah, so people, yeah. No, I I I play You the Sunshine of My Life, probably the first song that plays. Uh, everyone's tuning in the radio. That would be the first song I'd play.
SPEAKER_02:Man, that's that's a that's a beautiful song. Yeah, it's a um that one and um uh for once in my life. That's like two of my favorite songs from CB Wanda, man. Like it's phenomenal. Great songs, yeah. Um what would you say are your goals artistically?
SPEAKER_00:Um I I I think I just want to keep doing my my thing. I have I have um a lot of faith in, I guess, the stuff I'm working on now, you know, my my my next projects. I I I want to just keep on sounding like myself, like just keep on um narrowing the path into a sound that feels the most unique to me. Like the sound that speaks from my heart. And I think it's just it's just me doing what I'm doing right now. Like it's just working on my music, uh finding the ways to work on it the most efficiently. Um I don't know. I I I you know, I don't really think too much about it. It's more like I let my my I let my musical ear guide myself. Like I I don't really know any theory, I don't know anything. I just enjoy what I listen to. So my my my music compass is what really guides me into what I make, and um that's really what's pointing me my my way, you know. Um I just want to keep on doing and now yeah. No, go, go, go, go ahead. I'm sorry. Yeah, I just want to keep on doing my my I want to keep on doing the music that speaks from from my heart. Like I I I want to get to the most to the simplest expression of music. Like I really just wanna put out what I wish I could listen to or what I wish I could make, or I just want to put my emotions, what I'm feeling, and put it in in in a song that would speak to me. Like it's just all the influences I've taken, all the music I've listened to, um, and just take all of that, channel it through me, and put out music. I don't know how to explain it. It's it's it's I I never think about it like so um specifically. I just do it. I just yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I think that I think that you that you explained that very well, and it rem it reminded me of uh of a statement that Rick Rubin uh made. And he was saying that as an artist, your art uh it's like your diary. You know, the stuff that you put out is it's like your diary. And if you think about it, you wouldn't go in your diary and edit something so it appealed, so it so it can appeal to someone else. So when you made the statements that you just made, it made total sense to me because it's like like you said, you want to do you, you want to express yourself and you want to put it out there in I guess in the most simplest way or yeah, but you just you want it to be you, right? You know, you want people to get you like this is not a this is not a million followers um influencing a song. This is not an art or manager, a song. This is yeah, this is you, and I think to me, I feel like that's the purest, that's the purest form of art.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you know, yeah. I feel like it everyone's chasing it, you know. Everyone wants to, it's it's always you always try and find more. You want to get you wanna express yourself in the most faithful way, and you always think you can do it better, and you can do it more faithfully, and you can uh squeeze more juice out of the you know fruit. And I think that's the beauty of it, right? Like you just keep going, keep going, keep keep going further and further, and and you you keep um carving your sculpture, like your sound, you know. And it's without thinking about it, you don't think about it, you don't you're not you know being mathematical about it, you're just going for it. You're you're going moving ahead with the music you put out with with with whatever artistic project you have.
SPEAKER_02:You're being organic. That's what it sounds like to me. You're being organic. It's your authentic self. Right, exactly. And I and I feel like in this day and age, that's what's missing. Um and and and not just not just in in music, I think like social uh people are losing themselves. Like they don't even know who they are anymore. They don't they they don't know they don't know why they're doing something. They don't know why they want something. Um they don't know why they wearing these skinny ass jeans or you know, these big ass hats or whatever the fuck it is. You know what I'm saying? These big ass fat ass shoes. They they they've lost themselves. Right. You know, so when you speak about being able to um put you into your music and for people to receive it, I think that's a beautiful thing because it's like you've been out, you're being or you're being authentic, you're being genuine, you know. I think that's that's that's a lost characteristic. Um I got a riddle for you. Oh what can you do with money but no time? And what can you do with time and no money?
SPEAKER_00:Is it meant to be like the one thing both, or is it like one thing for oh for both? I mean like oh okay. What can you do? What can you do?
SPEAKER_02:What can you do with I'm sorry? What can you do with money but no time? And what can you do with time but no money?
SPEAKER_00:What can you do with money and no time? Well, I don't know because I have a lot of time and I have very little money, so um I don't know man. Uh I I I don't know. It's it so what can you do with time and no money? Exactly. I think that's a better question. Um, what could I do with time and no money? Right write music, you know. Um just enjoy nature, enjoy your surroundings, like be aware of what you have, you know, like focus on the present. What do you have? You know, the table you touch and it's real. Um, this conversation I'm having with you right now is happening, and um just really being aware of the surroundings and the present, because we we often get lost. I mean, I know this is cliche, but we often get lost in the past, or we think about the future too much that we forget the present. So I think that we if I if I have a lot of time and not a lot of money, well, I just try and be by myself and and and appreciate what I have around me or or within me.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I like I like, I mean, like, that was no right or wrong answer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, I just like I like I like ask I like asking that question to people because um I really want people to think about what what they hold um what they what they view as important, what what they think is really important to them. And um I always try to tell people that time is your most important thing. Time is your most valuable purpose, you know. Um because you can't do anything with money if you don't have time. Um but you can do a lot with time and no money, you know. Um what do you think on a lighter note? What do you think is the most overused phrase that people use that make no sense?
SPEAKER_00:Most overused phrase that people use that doesn't make sense. Um I probably do it often, I guess. It's not a phrase, it's it's more like a yeah, it's more like a catchphrase saying like all the time or you know. It's like yeah, I'm doing it right now. Just to fill just to fill the space, just to fill the space um within a conversation from the nurse or or the the lack of preparation. I I think I think it happens a lot. And um I'm trying not to do it now as I'm as I'm talking about this, because then I would look like a fool if I were doing it. Yeah. Yeah, I think I think that's it.
SPEAKER_02:I wouldn't be bothered by that if I was you. I'm personally I'm trying to get out of one, I'm trying to get out of using the phrase, you know what I'm saying. I'm trying to I'm I'm trying to get out of saying that. So the way I've been kind of doing that is kind of like slowing down a bit. And it kind of goes back to what you said earlier, um, when you said what you're working on. So like I'm just trying to slow down a bit. Right. Um, another phrase that I think a lot of people use um and it don't make sense is you can't can't have your cake and eat it too. Um I just kind of feel like then why the fuck is it my cake? You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah. Right. Doesn't make sense. Like, doesn't make sense at all, but everybody uses it. Right. You know, like just like just think about it when you have a conversation with people. Somewhere, I I I can guarantee somebody's gonna use it. Can't have cake eat it too. Yeah, I've heard it, I've heard it, yeah. Like, how does it that doesn't make sense? You know, like and somebody was trying to somebody explain it to me, and I'm just like looking at them right in the face, and it's like I hope you know that shit don't make sense as you're trying to explain it to me, you know.
SPEAKER_00:But anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a perfect sentence, honestly. I just couldn't think of any, but that that that makes sense. What do you say?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Um what's coming up for Carlos Average?
SPEAKER_00:If I'm oh I know I would say I'm I'm working on my debut album, and uh that will be it will still be in the soul because that's just what I do. I just want to make soulful music and whatever soulful could be. I don't know what it is, but um it's anything that just makes me feel that the the sound is special. It it stands out from the rest of the things I hear. So that's that's my aim. I want to make things that feel like that to me. And it will be, I think, more folky, soul folky, I mean more like the 70s. Um a lot of Brazilian music that I've been listening to. That feels more like that psychedelic rock, uh soul, where where a lot of that was happening in the 70s. I really enjoy that a lot. And um this this this last few songs were a bit more of a the a disco funk little project, and uh not not not to say that I will never do stuff like that anymore, but I think that was a little experiment that I did, you know, the more funky disco um music.
SPEAKER_01:Sure.
SPEAKER_00:And now now perhaps there will be something that feels more like Motowns TV, some more upbeat songs that might be not necessarily disco or funk straight a straight up, but they those they'll still have hints of that, you know. I mean in the soul realm everything is connected, I feel like, so it's tough to separate funk from disco from soul from all of these um like branches.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Well, with that being said, um I know Get Down was just released today.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, that is banging. Thank you, yeah, thank you. That is banging. Thank you very much. Yeah, um and and sensational. Thank you, yeah. That um thank you, yeah, thank you so much. Love social sensational get down. Uh on I I promise you, all three are on my playlist. Thank you. Um and and I'm I'm incorporating them into my DJ sets too. Um yeah, it's amazing, man. Yeah, and like um just to just just to take the people on a ride, bro. That's awesome. Just to take the people on a ride, like it's and let people know it's other stuff out here, yeah. You know, it it's other stuff out here that there's other stuff out here that mainstream radio is not telling you about.
SPEAKER_01:Right.
SPEAKER_02:And it's other stuff out here that feels fucking awesome. Yeah, you know, it's it's it's music out here that when you listen to it, it makes you feel good. It makes you feel like you wanna you wanna move around, you wanna do something, you know?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's it's so it's it's really nice that you say that because um like you saying that you you're gonna incorporate them in the into your DJ sets because I I love the idea of DJing. I haven't DJ'd, um, but I love vinyl DJing. Like I I I really admire that and um like DJing with vinyl and stuff. And um I just this project of the three songs that I made, I wanted to I made it also with the idea in mind of DJs. I I wanted to do uh a cut that felt like a disco mix from the 70s, like those disco mixes that would fall into the DJs, you know, and they would play them with the clubs. That that was my main idea. I wanted to make something like that. So that hopefully in the future I could um make these three songs things vinyl, bring them into life. But yeah, that was the idea. I wanted to make something that felt like a record, like a like a record player that you know DJ set. Well, so you're doing thank you for telling me that because that's awesome.
SPEAKER_02:Look, man, I'm I'm I I say this authentically. I am a fan. Thank you. I am a fan, dude. And I and I and I'm um I'm very appreciative of this moment because like I said, I got put on to your music um off of Facebook. Awesome, yeah. It was a guy on Facebook and he did like um he did like music reviews. Oh and and um he uh yeah, he did like music reviews. I don't I gotta find out his name. Yeah, but he did like music reviews and um he he put up the video of Love So Strong. And I was like, oh, that's dope. You know, so I I went to um I went to Spotify, man, and uh found a song, put it on a playlist. I'm like, I've been bumping ever since. So I was just like, yeah. And then when you dropped sensational, I was like, this motherfucker's nice, man. Thank you. Um so like I said, I'm I'm I'm very appreciative of this moment and I always tell people, man, that um money means time is way more valuable than money because you can't get back. Yeah, you can get money back. Yeah, yeah, you you can get money back. Um, I mean, you you whooping up ass, you can definitely get your money back. Um, but you can't get time back. So I appreciate your time, bro. Yeah, likewise. I appreciate your time. And um if uh if you ever come to the States, man, especially Chicago.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, a lot of great artists on Chicago. Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield is my favorite artist. I mean, he's my favorite artist. Man, you fall back, man. You got you got an old soul, bro. I uh what can I say? It's my favorite guitar player. Um I should have said him as well. I I always forget about this, but yeah, he's a huge inspiration. So yeah, I'd love to go there. I really if I get some shows done soon or something happens, well, yeah, I hope I can hit Chicago, honestly.
SPEAKER_02:Hey, if you do, holla at me.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, for sure, I will.
SPEAKER_02:Real talk. I say that, I say that genuinely. People say that shit all the time. And then when you go to their city, you call and they'll be like, ah, who is this? You know, like I mean that I mean that sincerely. If you come to Chicago, man, holla at me. Um, yeah, I would love to see you, I would love to see you live, man.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I can't wait for it to happen. I'm I'm sure it'll happen soon.
SPEAKER_02:Cool. Well, um, is there anything you want to let the people know, man, before we get up out of here?
SPEAKER_00:Just thank you for having me. I hope you enjoyed this. I hope uh I appreciate you, you know, taking me for being part of this of this of your podcast. And um yeah, I'm just appreciative, like you said, as well, of your time and of your questions. I I I enjoyed it a lot. And uh yeah, just listen to good music. Um be in a in be happy, I guess, be in a good mood, you know. Listen to lots of good music.
SPEAKER_02:There it is. That's that's the sound by the way. Be happy, listen a lot to listen to a lot of games.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's it.
SPEAKER_02:And and don't eat don't have kids either.
SPEAKER_00:No, exactly. I appreciate it.
SPEAKER_02:This is super double. He has a song called Sensational, this is superdog. He has a song called Get Down. This is superdog. I'm a huge fan of good music, and I feel like in these in these days and times I'm sorry in the times that we're living in now, we need something. We need something that that's gonna help us um to feel better um while we're dealing with all the shit that's going on. Life real. Especially with my people in Chicago, people in Memphis, my people in Portland, and all the shit that's going on. Like we we need something that's gonna help us to deal with all this shit. Um y'all make sure y'all check my man out. Um and at this time uh we're gonna get into the DJ spotlight of the podcast. Like I always tell people every week, DJs, if you want your 10 to 12 minute mix to play on the shits podcast, email me at DJ Monsoon Stira S T A R A W at Gmail.com. Make sure that you include your name in your mix if you can. Um and I play it, you know what I'm saying? I want everybody to get their shine, man. And I want to hear, I'm I'm a fan of the DJs because I understand that the DJs are very important for the music. So, on that note, we're gonna get into uh the DJ Spotlight this week. And it's one of my mixes, y'all. Your boy DJ Mindstones to Rock. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Yo, Rock Kim, what's up? Yo, I'm doing the knowledge, E man. I'm trying to get paid in full. Well, check this out. Since Norby Walters is our agency, right? True. Carol Lewis is our agent. Well up. The KM4 from Broadway is our record company. Indeed. Okay, so who we rollin' with then? We rollin' with Ruck, our Rush town management. So check this out. Cause we're talking over this deaf feet right here that I put together. I wanna hear some of them def runs. You know what I'm saying? And together, we gonna get paid and fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall.
SPEAKER_03:Make it up a master plan. This ain't nothing but the wet inside my hands. So I take it through my pocket, all my money. So I just deep off still coming up. So I start my lips, leave my residence. Thinking I could have given the dead present. I need money. I used to be a stick-up kid, so I think of all the previous things I did. I used to roll up, just a hole up. Ain't nothing funny, stop smiling, still don't nothing move but the money. But now I learn to earn cause I'm righteous. I feel great, so maybe I might just four nine to five. If I thrive, then maybe I stay alive. So I walk up the street, whistling fist, fillin' out place. But man, do I miss a pen and a paper, a stereo, a tape for a millionaire being a nice fixed rate of fist? Which is my favorite diss. But without the money, it's still a whip. Cause I don't like to dream about getting paid. So I take it to the book, so the vibes that I made. So now that's be a five out fool. It's a studio, but some paid for I don't fuck with you.
SPEAKER_08:You little stupid ass bitch, I ain't fucking with you. You look, you little dumb ass bitch, I ain't fucking with you. I gotta manage many things I want to fuckin' do.
SPEAKER_06:Come on, let's do raw.
SPEAKER_08:Anything that you do. Anything that you do. I heard you gotta do it. I see you taking a pick. I see you callin', I be making it quick. I'ma into that shit, like I don't fuck with you. Bitch, I got no feelings to go. I swear I had it up to here, I got no feelings to go. I mean for real, fuck how you feel. Fuckin' two since the finin' going towards the bill. Yeah, and every day I wake up celebrating shit. Why? Cause I just dodged the bullet from a crazy bitch. I stuck to my guns, that's what made me rich, that's what put me on, that's what got me here, that's what made me this. And everything that I do is my first name. Cheese talks, chase bread, all damn. She got a bird brain. Ain't nothing but trillin' me. Aw man, silly me. I just bought a crib, three stories, that bitch a trilogy. And you know I'm rollin' weed, it's fucking up the ozone. I got a bitch that texts me, she ain't got no clothes on. And then another one text, put me yo ass next, and I'ma text your ass back like I don't fuck with.
SPEAKER_05:I'm a girl with big deep slips. I mean my body to trip. And when I go over a house, you know what I like? Don't waste the time, take it off. I'm talking, 50 three, double.
SPEAKER_07:I fuck with these bows from a distance. They start the filling that stuff to fill it, they did not like your thief in the night. Take my teeth in the fight. You take your life, I'm thinking more life. What's up tonight? Come on, ma, I got a life. And even though that's 15 father not jumping out my eye. So what is it? You want from a dick I gave you, you gave me play two, you play this. Nothing more, nothing. But you went off the lift, it's the best, look at the test, put it in the ball up. I'm like, I dropped all the gave me, boom, from the dick. Baby, tell me what you want me to do with the feature, lift up the leash, don't let it in the leash too, the wheel, manica, snap it, left, oh manica, snap it, go ahead, hold on, ice cream on my life. Within still, but this is all some mother shit now that I'm fucking with you, but I'ma keep it real. What the fuck you both of my nigga? What the fuck you both for my nigga?
SPEAKER_10:How you doing?
SPEAKER_06:J my too wrong.
SPEAKER_10:DJ for the what you're drinking and I got to take a long day, feel that's a bee, please make it feel that we can feel it on your boot. It's a must feel it. Oh, feel feeling on your boom. I am fine, it's got me feelin' like spinning. With the back room, I could come to the listen. The way you back it up, on me, baby. Oh birthday on a body, yeah. Oh yeah. If it's your birthday, then put your hands up. You wanna get drunk, then put your hands up. And if you got some cash, put your hands up. In your own job, put your hands up, please wanna play. Feel so good, say it again. Yep, go to the monsoon to rock, first of his name, dopest in the game.
SPEAKER_02:Yo. What up, y'all? I'm back. It's your boy DJ Monstrooms to Rod, and we are here at the Shits Podcast. We're either shooting shit, fine shit, or picking number shit left on. And that was the DJ Spotlight for this week. And that was my mix, y'all. You know, like I said, DJ's out there, if you want your mix playing on the on the shit's podcast, email me at DJ Monstrooms to Rot at Gmail.com. Uh make sure you got your name in your mix, man, so people know who you are. Um I'm gonna leave y'all with this, man. I don't know who needs. But all my artists out there, all my creators out there, or anybody anybody out there that feel like they're working a dating job. Um a dating energy, you know, and you trying to get yourself done or whatever. Don't look at it as you're buried in a job. Look at it as you're plenty. What I mean by plenty. I mean that you're working, you can do your connections that can help you. Your career. You may need you an artist, and you sing. You may need somebody. You may need somebody. Um never people I mean, like everybody everybody has to be gotta you gotta make it, make you gotta make it make you dream come through. These jobs as dead-end jobs, and that you're buried in these jobs. Look at it as you're planted. You can meet people at these jobs that can help you with your career on your path. Network, talk to people, tell people about what it is you got going on. You may meet somebody that may be able to elevate you to that next level. Yeah. So, with that being said, uh, shout out to my man Carlos Abril. Y'all make sure y'all check him out on Spotify, Apple Podcast, anywhere that y'all get y'all music at, check him out. Like I said, the three main, he got a lot of dope songs. The three main songs that there's Willie on my radar. Love So Strong, Sensational, and Get Down. Super dope songs. Super dope songs. I'll make sure y'all check him out. Um I wanna say make fans not followers. Followers that get you clout, fans that get you work. Trust the process. Understand that the only thing that happens overnight is dreaming and slobbing. And that's my girl Didi Licious, I would say, and them babies. Um thank you to any and any and everyone who has supported the Shits Podcast. Whether you told a friend about it, whether you shared a clip, whether you downloaded an episode, I want to thank y'all from the bottom of my heart. I really do appreciate it. Um and things are gonna get better, y'all. These times that we're living in right now is crazy as fuck. Crazy as fuck. And you what I believe is everything happens for a reason, and the dots will always connect. The dots will always connect. So I want all my people out there to stay strong, keep keep believing, love one another, support one another, and understand that we are all connected. You may think that we not, we are all connected, y'all. We are all connected. Shout out to my brother Ty Barnett. Yo, y'all need to check him out on social media. Ty Barnett, T-Y-B-A-R-N-E-T-T. Ty Barnett. Look him up. Thank you later. And um, you can check out the Shiz Podcast on all streaming platforms. Um, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Podmatch, anywhere you get your podcast from, you can check me out. You can find me on IG at Monsong and also the Shits Podcast. You can find me on Facebook at Monsongrah or the Shiz Podcast. TikTok, Monsongst the Raw. That's S-T-A-R-A-W. And um, once again, shout out to my man Carlos for stopping by. And y'all make sure y'all check him out. And uh peace and love, y'all. I'll let y'all next time. I am out. Peace.