#210 - Blanco Brown on Original Title of “The Git Up” + Meeting Tim McGraw for the First Time + Being Discovered at 7 Years Old

out from a trailer doing a dance. I could probably do that. And so then I watched the video of you and Laney, who, by the way, that video actually brought her an eye to be close. And so I was like Laney, I said, Laney, can you come and teach me how to do this dance? And she goes, I'll just call Blanco. Next thing you know, you're driving up with shooting back at the pool. You pushed me in the pool. We got ten million viewers on ours. You got like a billion on your man and they

get up as as blown up. Let me play at it to get up first. Here it isn't you have dance dance this thing? Do you think over five thousand times. I don't even count. You're doing your sleep now. I hadn't done it a lot of times your whole life. You're gonna have to do it right. Yeah, it ain't gonna ever go nowhere. It's gonna be a part of my journey. You know, you're about the only guy I look at right now and go I relate because I'm traveling like crazy, trying to eat, trying to work. Oh yeah,

and I see last night. I saw you Sunday at the Titans game singing the national anthem, and then you were doing the dance in the end zone, and then I see you at the World Series last night, and then you're back here tonight. You're you're hitting hard. Man. I'm telling you, I couldn't turn down them tickets. I was like, this is an experience I've always wanted to go to one, and this is bucket list. What's the last six months been like for you? Uh? Non stop, busy, busy.

I mean I haven't been in Atlanta longer than three days at a time, none stop. And are are you in a mix of so appreciative but also so tired and just going? Man? I can't wait for the holidays. I mean not even that I'm tired, um holidays. I may be working doing a holiday. We're gonna talk about a couple of things. We'll talk about the album, which it's out. I want to do a little bit about you first. And your real name is where Blanco Brown comes from, because I neither wanted those are in your

real life. I also used a pseudonym, so Blanco Brown is from what people used call me ben in Blanco from the Bronx. But I'm from Atlanta. Um, my real name is Benny and Brown. I dedicated Brown to my grandfather who was adopted. UM, and that was our original last name. So that's how you got Blanco Brown. And so you don't want to go by how do you say your name? Benny? Benny Benny Yeah, Amy Amy? Are there two other Benny Amy's ahead of you? Yeah, my

granddad and my dad. My granddad passed and so you were like, Benny Amy, that's not a stage name because I didn't use mine. My real name is Bobby. My my real last name is Bobby Est. And I was like, dang name. Yeah, I mean really, people started calling me blanco and being calling me blanco for so long that. That's what everybody called me in you know, in Atlanta,

l A, New York, it was just Blanco. You grew up in Atlanta, but you have spent a lot of time like in like rural parts of Georgia too, in the country. Uh, during the summertime, I would go to the country, but the Gioga which is Taylor County, and I spent that time with my bunts and cousins and family down there and learned the other side of the world. And so growing up for you kind of talk to me, talk to me about what it was like growing up

at like age ten, eleven, twelve years old. Um man, I mean it was a lot going on in the world. I hadn't seen so much by then and had been through so much by then. Um, but I think I was a sweet kid. You know, I was real chill. You didn't really know my circumstances. Um, I just didn't enjoy life. But even then, there was a lot of rehearsals and uh, singing that talent shows, trying to win some money back and then you know, help mom out. Um yeah, I mean my childhood it's always been about music.

Let's talking a couple of things. I wanna talking about. We'll get to the like the childhood performing because I'm interested in that where that all started with you. But you talk about your circumstances. Talk about that for a second, because I'm not super familiar with your circumstances, Like what you grew up in. Oh, I mean three bedroom apartment, brick walls inside out, no soft landing, hard concrete floors. Um, three families in one three bedroom apartment. It was me,

my aunt, my cousins. Uh. I mean my grandmother had my other aunt older, so she was around my age older hunt mother. I mean like it was deep and you know, violence not in the household, but outside the household, like every day. I mean gun shots and fights and the better things to be remembered, uh, opening fire fire hydrants and just being in front of the water with everybody playing freeze cups. And I was, you know, I was the type of person when I got the freeze cup,

I ain't like to eat it from the top. I turned it on the back on the bottom. That was the soft, good, sweet part of the freeze cup. And um man, I mean the lightning bugs, catching the lightning bugs playing not not zoom where you go to somebody house you're not gonna do and you run um once you through red, Like I mean, like the the goose,

how didn't go Seek? How didn't go get? I mean like that was my childhood and those are the memories and they're like I mean, just talking about them and thinking about them, it's it's still up a moment in the space I would do all over just the way it was. It's funny you say that, because I grew up a poverty kid too. I'm pretty proud of it because and I say that often. It's funny that you

say that like I used to. I used to go, I'm very resentful that I had to grow up and eat a meal a day, hopefully, or I grew up on food stamps or welfare. I used to be really resentful, But as I got older, I started to go, man, I'm so strong from that, and I also know what it's like, so I can help other people now, because I think there are so few of us that understand and can do something about it. And so it sounds like as you're telling your story and I'm watching on, oh,

I get that. I understand that. And when you say you wouldn't change anything about it. I wouldn't either, man, because as we rise, we're able to help others, like others helped us at some point. Yeah, and you talk about my grandma raised me, adopt me for a while, and so your grandparents are a big part of your life. Um, my grandmother's. My granddad was like never really around, and um, as I got older, I could have spent more time

with him, but I just didn't. And then when he passed, it was the most hurtful thing in the world, and I just went back to that moment of Man, I could have changed that situation on my own. I don't know if he didn't want to be around, if it was something that was going on within the family, you know what I'm saying. I don't really know the details of it, just know that I've badly seen him. When all of you guys are in an apartment, I get

that too a little. All my cousins I used to live, you just live where you can live, right, Like everybody's trying to to to have enough money to pay rent. Sometimes you got money to pay rents. You all moved together. A bunch of us live in the trailer for a while. A bunch of us an apartment, So like, I get that and also know me, I was the kid in the group that was I'm gonna get out and I'm gonna use education like that was my thing. It sounds like yours was music. Sound like you were doing music

way early. Yeah. Then my first deal and I was seven. You what? Yeah, my first deal when I was seven years old? And how did that come about? And how did you get to a place where someone could see you at seven to go? I like that, kid, man, that's a good question. I never really got the answer. I never asked that question. I just know that we were we're recording and doing records like just like that.

I just remember who it's seven years old discovers you. Um. It was New Star Records guy by the name of Anthony Richardson. Um. And I don't know if he discovered us, if somebody took us to him, you know what I'm saying. I really can't remember how it happened. You're seven years old? Yeah, I just know we were singing, recording, practicing, going to school. Who's we by the way, me and my brothers? Okay, so were you guys like in a singing group and

a group? How many were there called times three because it was three of us, all brothers, and it was just the X with depostrophe S three. I still got the pictures. Now, where were you in the age group of the three brothers? Um, I'm in the middle, okay, And so you got with the goal of what I know, you're only seven. But looking back, were they trying to

break you guys? As like the JA five? But the X the three like what I think more so like another bad creation meets some singing brothers because we were we were like really singing, like you know what I'm saying. But Jackson five, it was that would have been hard to Jason five laden there. Man, they weren't legendary tal after they were legendary though, Like they had to even start at Yeah, what I'm just saying. Like by time we were the eight, they were already like Jackson five

ABC is a good like another bad creation? All those groups were around that time too. We're all you guys just singing or you guys doing hip hop stuff too, just singing. And I was the rapper in the group, so wait where are you rapping? I was like the the uh, but it's from immature who I was did like the sexes talking. I did the sexest talking eight. I'm telling you, yeah, girl, you know all this time

I've been playing around. I mean like, yeah, I've been playing with my g I Joe's and POGs Girl, and I've been thinking about you. I know, I'm nine, man, that is hilarious. I know I'm a third grade girl, but I'm drinking milk. Yeah. I mean so that's kind of how you know, um growing up I was I didn't have the confidence to sing, so they would give me the parts where I was more like mellow talking, kind of rapping kind of singing. I didn't find my

singing voice until like fifteen sixteen. So you're fifteen sixty. Are you still in school? Yeah? Definitely, okayt you graduate high school? Ye? Okay. So you're singing all the way through high school all the way? Are you known as that kid? The singing kid? In high school? Like we're all known as something? I was a nerd. I wasn't known as the singer. Okay. So you're singing all the way through and as you go through up until about twelfth grade at that point, is your biggest break before

you graduate high school? Uh? I mean we met with a guy named Kada Masson Bird. He was over at Motown and we were about to do a deal. Met him at the Intercontinental UH in Buckhead, right by Lenny Small. He looked me and my brothers and my mother in the face said, y'all don't have no worries, Mama. They've benna be able to take care of everything. We're gonna sign. We didn't get signed, like two weeks later, found out he was no longer with Motown. That was one of

the moments that was like a huge moment. And then do you think he lied to you or do you think he got fired in the process of signing you. I don't know if he got fired, if he just something happened the way he just left. Um, but I just know the deal didn't happen, right And uh after that Outcast we were doing a deal with Outcasts, and you know they was you know, uh at that time in my life, they was just a dope group. It

was from Atlanta, like guys from home. Um, and I remember me with them, and they wanted to sign my younger brother to a solo deal. So he's gonna do a solo deal. And then you know, me and my older brothers were like, okay, cool, let's that would be fine once she get all the way a way he needed to beat and then he'd bring us home. And then that didn't go the way we planned it either,

you know what I'm saying. They send up signing him. Ah, he ended up signing to a whole another deal and he came out with a song or a few songs. And yeah, I mean when you meet with outcasts, do you actually meet with Andre and Big Boy like the other guys who show up and they're like, all right, this is the plan. So they were doing things outside about cast away early even before they blew up. They

were they were purple label and gonna. My dad actually just text me that picture like two days ago on my phone, like of us in the same room with him with our shirts on, taking pictures with him. Yeah, so that didn't work out. You graduate high school? Yeah, and what's the plan then for you musically? Because high school it's probably big deal to graduate high school? What's from me? Well, my whole my whole life. I was told, you know, um, stick to my art. I went to

school for art. I got a basket of fine arts and so we're not to college yet though. Yeah. From high school to college. Okay, So then you decided to go to school where you're gonna go to school? Where did you go to school? I went to a I U okay? And your thought when you go to college is blank, finished college or learn music or make friends? Like really my thought what college was be the person that went to college. And if that don't work out, just know that music is always number one either way.

I went down just there's you know, pretty much just said I had a degree. And what you study in school? All right? So you study art, but you're doing music. Okay, so you studying what does it? What do you just study art? Or what does that mean? I mean you go through all like art theory and like paintings, like sculptures, like the like, not even music, like you're a whole

different track. Yep, I did. I did all that, like sculpturing and websites from dream weave it to mag went three D and I do all that so even like some digital art stuff too. And then if you were to have let's just journey off a bit and let's say the music stuff, you end up getting an art degree. If you were to pursue that. What would you have done in art? Oh? Man, you know cartoon network or something some voice over us with some animations. I can

talk just about like anything, and you can. Yeah, let's just squirrel, just a squirrel, pretty good? That duck one warm? Okay, let's do one more. That doesn't That isn't an easy one. How about a platypus, because we have no idea what a platypus sounds like. I don't know, maybe, but earnestly um music was always the forefront, but I didn't have confidence to do it. I didn't have the confidence in myself. So I just wanted to figure out how to be

a part of it. I started engineering straight out of college. I started engineering so like the sound engineering, so for if you're listening right now, what that is is you're at a computer and you're basically adjusting the levels of everything, like to break it down like a five years old. So you're you're engineering music. Where do you learn those

skills to be a music engineer? Uh? One of my homies named Darryl showed me how to use the controls, and I started messing around with it, and then next thing you know, I was engineering recording for the Wild Gospel compilations and stuff. Uh deep set. So I bet self taught. Yeah, your friend just said here, there's the kind of how to do it. Then you just took it in digit thing. He gave me a um a

layout template. I started building from that, and then I came up my own template and I just started making money doing it. So it was just like one of those situations. They kind of filling my lap and I was just like, Okay, I get to start building relationships with people and then hopefully they listened to some of my writing one day because I was always writing. You know what I'm saying, note here, note there. I was a professional haiku writer. Can't nobody outright me in the

haiku format. You know what I'm saying? Wait, you got you didn't You got paid right of haiku? No? No, no, because if there was no money, I know it ain't no money. And I'm just saying it was a good That was a good start. I got the creative block going um and I just built from there. After that, I was like vocal reducing for free, but didn't know that you can get paid more to vocal reduced. Thank you,

we're getting paid to engineering, said that all day. Why are somebody to tell you what to do and what not to do? What's the difference in vocal producing and engineering engineering. I'm him buttons, I'm copying page and I'm moving stuff vocal reduction. I'm telling the artist what't notes to hit, how to take the song to the next level. It needs a harmony. Here, go low, here, lead this blank, it's it's it's producing. So I found the love and that and realize I can get paid more in two hours.

They're sending in the studio for sixteen now. Just about vocal producing. So I said, I was never engineering no more. And you were good at it, like you felt like you you kind of found your calling vocal producing. Yeah, I was great at it. So who was one of the first artists to come to you and go I'd like for you to vocal produce me. And you're like, wow, I'm actually moving up, Like somebody who's got some real

money on them is actually asking me to help them. Oh, Christine and Milly, Yeah was the first, like Dippelow like that just for those listening to Christian Millian thinks diplop songs. Yeah, yeah, Like I was doing her stuff, and then I went from her stuff to um, Kiki Palmer. Then I wore

him dad to like Selina Johnson. And so does words start to spread then, like if you work with someone and and Christie Milian goes, he's great and she chucking her producers the producer talking, they're like, you know you get shoulda blanco? Is that kind of how your word came in? That's how it came in? And then before you know it, I was voke reducing Monica and uh, I mean different people. Uh Fergie, yeah, Fergie. Uh. I did Chris Brown stuff, um, Childish Gumbano and Lloyd like

different records. All that just came all in one nutshell. They came at me fast. Some of the stuff that I went vocal reducing, I did the vocal reduction. I mean I did the vocal arrangements on them, and they were my backgrounds that I was singing for these records that they didn't want to replace, so they paid me and they just put you on the record. So you were singing it as an example track, but it was so good they said, hey, we're just gonna put this

on the record. So not only you're producing now you're actively on background vocals too, Yeah, by mistake and um Man, I mean you can't really guys work. So who did you work with where you go wow? Like that is a special vocalist? I mean plenty of dose. But who comes to mind first thing where you you're in a studio with them. We just talked about a big list of names. He trying to get me in Trouble, No trouble.

I'm looking for a good one where you walk in and you're just not bad, but one where it's just like oh wow, like your eyes open, because everybody's good at the major league level, everybody's good. Man. There's so many great vocalists, you know, you know who blew you away blackout where you're like wow, it's a lot of great ones. Fergie, it was a lot of great ones. Um, I mean it still is a lot of great ones. I mean from Monica to Ki going Monica that was

the first one you mentioned, Monica Special. It's a lot of special ones, you know. Hey, diplomatic ancer, how did you work with Kane Brown? Uh? A producer that I met and I was doing some Voger production for some other artists that he was working with. Um Kane was working with him, and he become the studio every day and like he was like, I want this guy to

Voger produce me. I like, what do you do? And we got in the studio and I started them are records for him by singing them, and he would get in the booth and just put this thing on and we just built like I mean, it's some records that note the world I haven't heard yet. I mean we did a good eight nine records. Yeah that he's just sitting on right now. Yeah, they just sit there. They

jamming too. I've heard about people and I talked to John Mayor about this where people can see colors when they hear music, And even John Mayer said he wasn't so advanced, and he's very advanced musically, but he's like, I don't I can't see colors. Like I don't have that. But do you have that where you can hear colors, see colors from music like a certain note? Yeah, definitely, I see him colors their shapes. Talk to me about

that for a second. How does that work? I don't know how it worked, but like, if you hear like a ge, is that a color to you? I mean, it's the melodies that paint the pizzas from me. And can you memorize the colors? Yeah, I mean I know what what each color makes me feel? Um, And then at points it's so sporadic that I see colors, don't think about the process, and but I just go with the art that is presented at the time. And is that where the ear came from? You? In the ear?

The ear the ability to listen down one time to a record and tell you exactly what it's missing. And they trusted you to listen one time and go, this is what I feel, and you had so much success, they were like, let's hire of the ear. Hey, you know uh, they kind of just put their name on them. After doing it so much and being known to listen to records and tell you how to take them to the next level, it kind of came to get up.

Whenever that that that you kind of stumble into a smash because no one ever picks us smack, no one ever goes this is for sure gonna be a smash. Any smash of talk to anybody, it's like, well, I remember thinking about it, we recorded it. You kind of don't know, you know it starts to pick up and you're like, holy crap, can't believe the traction is getting So the infancy of the get up, let's let's start back. Did you go I think I'm gonna do a song? Wear they dances? Or did it just kind of come

and phases? Um? I did a song, and I said, people gonna love this record. It's gonna bring a lot of smiles to people faces. It feels like a two dound nineteen two twenty eight can break your heart. To me, it can be next level. And I just remember telling myself this is special. I put out a one minute clip in April on TikTok or just on another platform, not even on YouTube. Um and five maiden views first week, and then the gas from TikTok. What before we get

to take it? What? What clip did you put up? Though? There was one me dancing in front of the door. Okay, so it was visual and it was okay, so it's you dancing. The dance was like like the hook or do you verse? Okay? So I gonna do the two this part here and you're doing the dance in front of the door in the house. Yeah, with some basketball shouts. Song a Western black shirt, a cap and some church socks.

I was just really messing around um with the dance and said, I want to record it because the floor kind of feels slippery. Rear Groovy had already came up with the dance, but I did the dance and sent it to Zach Cat's John Loeban, my homie Jasper Cameraon and my brother and it was just like, man, this is out of here. Were you surprised to see that many people watch that video that first week? Yeah, I was shocked. You're just like what, there are a lot

of videos. How came minds getting five millions? It blew upon this guy name DJ Big Shaka page first, and he started hearing me like in boss and me keeping me updated like on like what it was actually doing, the impressions and everything on it. He was like, man, this is crazy. I never had anything like this many

views and this demand on my page. And then other people started posting my video on their page and they're started getting one Magan two million, three million views, and by then, I mean before I realized it was on TikTok, he had already had like close to sixty million views. So it goes over to TikTok was the first big TikTok video? Or that kid puts his arms out like this he does like that? Is that is that the first really big one. It's probably been the first really

big one that everybody know of. But by time he did it, it already had like so many millian views. Um, this guy named a journey I saw my video and did a dance on TikTok and that your dance. He did his own version. He did his own thing, and that's the version that Harvard did. They got problem with the arms out? Who you later put your video? And a Johnny is in my video too? Oh yeah, they in it. I got a little a little running note.

I'll take it, run it. We're good. So when you travel and listen, when you travel all the time, that happens, you got it. You wash? I wash my hands all the like. I am obsessed with hand washing because I'm on the road so much that I start like my hands are raw from all the washington that I do. You got to Yeah, I'm just not a lotioner. I don't evenink I owned lotion, Like anywhere in my house do I have lotion? I think when I was like eleven.

I want to do it a little back up, and you have a big booger in your nose right on it. So it's blowing up on TikTok. And it's only TikTok sixty seconds fifteen seconds, two versions, which which was blown up for your fifteen or sixties. Okay, So they're doing fifteen second clubs of TikTok. And this is the infancy of TikTok where unless you're like fourteen, you don't even have TikTok. Yeah, but that ain't true. Wow, listen, I'm on it now. It's uncomfortably a lot of fourteen year olds.

I'll be honest with you. I posted on TikTok. It's my favorite platform, by the way, because there's so much funny content. But these four year old girls gonna never start dancing and shaking there. But I'm like, not next, it's like all all kids, okay, most most, I don't know. There's a lot of four on TikTok. I don't know what section you being good listen. Then there's that four you sexually keep sending me those videos. I don't know

what it says about that. Hey man, When I go on TikTok, it's not okay, let me pull out my TikTok and let's just see what happens, and let me let me pull out my mind. So I'll pull up my first How old this girl right here? It would be yeah, the first one that pops. I don't follow her and so she look what I get? You got an old man? He has like ganded off the grade I have like a fifteen year old girl. All right, let me swipe another one. I'll go my turn, swipe.

This is a how old is this boy? Here? He's probably okay, you swipe yours up. Now, let's see what you get another adult? I mean, he's alright, My phone is not. I don't like the algorithm that my TikTok is giving me. Oh everybody that will, Yeah, Wilsmon's funny on TikTok. Look at this the hold this girl next nuf one about seventeen eighteen. Yeah, well, I don't like what mine showing me. I need to have a talk. My TikTok's all I never see. Um. I don't like them.

I don't know why they keep giving them to me. Yeah, it's the algorithm thing, probably, But maybe you've got special tiktoks that you No, I ain't got no special TikTok. You know, TikTok, TikTok, TikTok. So it does the thing, it does the thing of TikTok, and that world it blows up. That took it to the next level because so many people are on the platform and it's just one click, you know you yeah, slap slash slap, keep going,

and a lot of people were doing it. Yeah. I mean like over three points some million people have done the dance just on that platform alone, but across every platform. It's Yeah. I was reading and you don't have to comment on this that you have made somewhere from about a million dollars in YouTube and TikTok out money money from the playing your videos about a million dollars. I'm saying anything. I'm saying that out loud. That's just what

it says. Estimated different things from YouTube channel alone ranges around one million dollars. I look at that. Good on you. I was reading the YouTube comments. I'm saying anything back. I'm just saying I'm just saying that out loud. Good on you, and on you. I don't know if you ever read the YouTube comments. I tend to not but

that your number one comment is actually super positive. That when a guy named Jonathan Baker, he says, this is so refreshing to see a dance video without half naked women and instead of a dude and a trailer park wearing jeans, epic. You're the man. So rare that a top YouTube comment will be positive and yours is. And I was drawn to it because in the video or you're teaching it, which is why watching first, you're standing outside because your your friends like a trailer park. You

guys live by. Oh yeah, he stay right. He used to stay right beside it, and his name Cavin, y'all. He did like this picture right here. Um he did to get up cover. I mean that was that was like another thing that wasn't gonna be a cover. We was standing in the same trailer park and I took a picture on the steps and I looked down like this. He said, make that face again. I said, you got it. I did like two shots with the sky behind me. It became the cover. Um. I went back to his house.

We was hoping doing some stuff. I said, hey, man, I want to shoot a vertical video in front of that trailer. It was an abandoned trailer and um, he said cool. So we went down there. It was kind of sprinkling outside like sprinkling. We pulled out a little generator, shot, did two passes. You put oh two paths together and

uploaded and then boom again. At that point, so many of so much to the content and the song is blowing up that you have to go, there's something here, like, you can't blow up this many times and get this it's not luck. After the third time it blows up and you have to go, all right, there's something here. It was organic, no money behind it, no radio behind it. It was straight consumers, people going clicking on the song

listening to it. I mean, like twenty million plus views on that trailer part before then I think it's like fifty something now something. It's never actually in the song that the words to get up, never a dedicated to title to my grandmother. She's come early in the my owner, she vasseling on me and my stibiling face, my cousin, everybody that was in the house in a loving manner, though you know what I'm saying, and and say get up. That just meant being vertical with the world of finding purpose,

finding joy, finding happiness. Um, you couldn't do that laying down, and she meant that both grandmothers. Was there ever a title of the song before they get Up? Yeah? We was there a working title? Yeah, Um, I actually look like I guess, let me guess Cowboy Buggie. Nope, too, Now I can't be two steps because cow that's bad. Hold down, hold down. It had then to do with the song, ain't I ain't the title of the session God's Gift, and that was gonna be the the working

name of the song. Yeah, that was never the name of the song. It was just when I created it, it it felt like there was God's gift to me, and that's the original title of the session. I have it. I have it on my laptop like right now. So the get up starts to blow up? And what what's like the big first crazy call you God where it's like, Wow, I get to go do this now? Oh the c m A fest I dreamed the performer there the year before.

A lot of people didn't even know it, but I had already done my deal with Broken Bowl Records and BMG a year prior to me putting out a one minute video clip. So they get Up didn't get you a deal. You had already signed talked, worked out a deal with the record. I didn't know that I signed the deal, uh eighteen and uh mayor June and the get Up I wrote September two thousand eighteen. When you sent it off to John Loebo, for example, what's his

response back? It was like, man, this right here is impressive. That is strong, you know, John, that's that is strong. And then you go out and you have to do radio tour. Yep, Well set out the radio tour two and a half, three months after the song had already been out. It had already done what it was doing, and then um decided to take it to radio. But you you have pop stations playing you, you have country

stations playing your little bit. Were they like, oh, we kind of don't know what to do with it, so we're gonna let everybody go with it. Like what was the plan? Oh? I don't I really don't even know. I think, Uh, I really don't know. Grandma would taught me and my mama. See I don't say my mama a lot, but she taught me a whole bunch. I used to saying my grandmother. But look, if you don't know what to say, just don't say nothing, because I

don't know the process of that. UM. When they decided to pisit to the radio, I just went on the radio tour, and I told them that I wanted to go on the radio tour and I wanted to be and the people faces and getting to meet them and greet them, and and that was like priority to me to go on the radio tour. So John said, let's make it happen. Where's the weirdest place you did the dance? Not even radio touris in general because you've done it. I see like on local news. I see you at

zoos yell. I just did it yesterday at the uh the World Series game during the ninth ending and somebody was getting struck out. I was just in the middle of the out doing a dance. Cooler celebrity you've seen do the dance. I mean it's a it's a lot of people. Name one. I can't even don't start with Monica again, No, I can't even one celebrity ain't seen how do the dance? No, but one name one celebrity is seen to the dance. So it's pretty cool, man. It's it's the one of the one of the one

that took me out was Howie Howie? Who's Howie? You don't know? How We? How We? How are the duck? How are we? From back Street Boys? How We? Who's how We? I'm gonna let you figure it out. Who took you out? I'm saying that. That made me like, laugh, Mike, do you how he is? Howie Mandel? Howie Mandel? Okay? Okay? Would have been my fourth how we pack? You just said how we like I don't look he go out

at the first one. I was just like, I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna play a little game and let you guess this one since you don't want to say Monica again. It was Howie Okay. Um, you've been all over the world language barriers with the song weird or now uh. I haven't had any issues there. I see people just enjoying it, laughing, enjoying themselves and funny accents. I'm going to do the two staff bad. I'm trying to think, if you know what, let me let me do something

right quick. But as you look at up, I'm gonna do something here. So the album is called Honeysuck on Lightning Bugs obviously, to get Up. Here's some of Georgia power right here. Thank God, Yeah, yeah yeah. Any miny miny miny miny mode. I'll never ever ever let it take my soul. Any miny miny miny miny mode. I don't ain't, dude. I don't see any many many miny miny mode. Everything that the world a little bit of let's tennessee whiskey. Tell me not say you're are glass

of shipping and understand, I see game. Tell me what about to do? And here is a little bit of temporary insanity from the record I feel so cold. You look out for this one. Players. You love this one, man, I'm gonna tell you like that was one of those records like to get Up. I wrote it right before I was done with my album. I'm actually playing good

turn there too. I played in these keys and I tuned to a certain way to make sure they had that dark texture, so I didn't tune it in like you know, the regular standard tune um and it has a dullness about it. It felt magical to me. Here's some more of this turn it out, like everything and anything that broke me and took it away and you feel my pain. Proud of this one? And that was me talking to myself. Everything that was a little bard. I was putting my poppy sing away. He ain't how

many times to take the single this one down? I mean I sung it like two times through kidding me, you know what I know. I'm gonna tell you the first experience. So we have met at the house. He came over and then I said, hey, you should come up and do the show and play. And I figured you'd be good. And we were in a temporary studio because we're building a new studio, and everything was kind

of a mess. And you walked in and you had the guys from Parmally Matt came in with Parmaly's right and you started singing, and I was like, oh my god, you may you And again I don't have a system, but you maybe, if not the one of the best singers ever being just sing straightforward. I was blown away. And I don't throw out compliments like that very often unless I mean it. And again I don't have a full ranking system, but you may be the best singer I've ever had in that room. And we have a

lot of great singers in that room. It's my eyeballs were so big. I was like, oh, this is it right here. It was crazy, man. That comes from trying to be hurt for so long, going through the hurt, not being accepted, uh, wanting to never fit in but

stand out. And you can just hear the pain in my voice when you started, I was born a real I was like as soon as you started, hm and you left, and we were all like, well, nobody needs to come in the next couple of days because they can't do that, Like, you gotta start the concert over. You gotta have a new show. No one needs to follow that. People surprise when you because you're the get Up such a dance song. Are they surprised when you

just blow the place with your vocals? Yeah? I mean you know you go from to the left to the left, now to the ride to the ride. It's different from built in. You know what I'm saying, to get up start the purpose for what it is and what I'll forever will be. Um the get up is like you hear it, and you see this house when you dig into like the album, you end the house. Now you see how I decorated everything you get to enjoy the furnishing.

What handles did he choose? How did his kissing come together? Why is there marble in the middle? You know what I'm saying. Why is there this? You kind of paint the picture. Honeysuck on lining bugs the album ten songs, You're right on all the songs. It's important to you to be a writer. Um if somebody give me a record that just touches my heart, then I definitely cut it. And uh, I have a couple that I've cut that I've probably go on the second album. You already working

on the second album? Yeah? I mean I chose ten records for this album from like an eighty song catalog, straight trailer's wrap and the rest of your life. You what we're doing to get up and you're good with that. I'm good with that. The last movie you saw in theaters? Yeah, I can't do a while. Yeah, I ain't been in a minute. Last concert you bought tickets for um that I personally bought. Yeah, they didn't give you. Mumford and Science where l a one? One more question? What's superstition?

Do you believe is true? Will you walk under a ladder? And I don't believe in that. Okay, so you walk under a ladder, I will too. I don't believe that. Will you break a mirror? Someone said, you're tin bucks, break that mirror? Yeah, break all right? If a black I need them, tim, But I'm not a superstition guy either. Well, it's it's it, it's a it's a really interesting story. I'm glad that we could, we can talk about it shared a little bit. I appreciate that. Thank you for

you evory thing. Yeah no, I just such a fan, such a fan. I hope everybody listening to this check that honeysuck on loney bugs. I'm gonna go back and really listen to temper Insanity because I see, like that's your favorite, like that not but that's something you're really proud of. Like I want to go spend more because I listen to the record a couple of times. I really like it. I mean the first line like I

never meant to break your broken heart. These lonely nights keep me staying awake hoping that my phone we ring. All my life, I've been chasing charts. Never felt like you know what I'm saying, Like it's getting into the depths of things, because now it's all reversed. Now that I'm doing my own music, I could care less about looking at the charts every week blood Persson going up and down. I just want to make music that's purposeful,

that people can relate to, that people can feel. And I'm not looking for one big old combustion, one big boom. I want people to go along a journey and wrap with me and get to know and grow with me. I'm thutty folk. I'm not trying to fast forward nothing. It's still the same process. I'm doing everything one step at a time, as if the get up don't exist. It's just a blessing to be here. I saw the Timber Girl story two in the tweet you intended to don't take the girl? Yes, that was like, so how

did that come together that I never knew could happen? Um, we had a show in Australia together and John told me that he wanted to meet me. He said, Hey, don't get your hopes up. I don't know what's gonna happen when you meet him. He may get too busy, you say, But y'all are being the same place at the same time, so more than likely would happened. I walked in the room one of the nicest guys I've ever met. Uh. They had a good talk and some keys.

I said, oh, it's about to go down. I went to sweating and he was like, you know the song right? I said, of course? And I said I got one fact for you that you probably ain't thought about. Johnny would be thirty three today. His son would be Tim. In the song. They had him at twenty three, and when Johnny was eight, I was nine. So I know Johnny age. You know what I'm saying. He was just like, that's a good one. We saw in the song. Where did you sing the song? Uh? In the green room?

And so that record, I'll play it right here. So this this don't take the girl? You and Tim, you guys are just playing in the green room. Was that it was like surreal? I mean I still look like at the video and like this is really happy. I mean, it ain't a moment that can make up for that reason that has its own shelf, is own book. And you get to play the ring your debut November nine. What are you gonna do? I'm going there and give

it my all. Do you know what you're gonna sing yet, Yeah, yeah, you don't say huh, I mean I'm I mean, you're definitely gonna hear temporary insanity. Yeah, you're gonna hear to get up. Yeah, you're gonna hear jowls to power Tian whiskey. You know, might have another one. Congratulations, Thank you so much. I appreciate the time there is. Check it out the record, honeystuck on Lightning Bugs Blanco Brown and on Instagram at Blanco Brown and if you do the dancing tag him

here I post it. Okay, you're always watching, always watching the stories, and I'm working on some secret things. Well that does nothing for me. You're rolling your hands all right. You know, I don't know what a secret thing is, but some some great things coming. Just remember you heard it. We heard that you're working on a secret thing. Yeah, guess what. I also I'm working on a couple of secret things. But I will give you anything else and

then feel good? Does it holding? Alright, that's an episode two and nine with Blanco Brown. Uh, check out the whole record. It's been a few minutes with it. Alright. Good to see you. Thank you. H