Hey listeners. This is Neil Ludovic and Amir done, Dolly. Welcome to leave looking at, where we have uplifting conversations about the state of the world, with our heroes, with the intention to demystify orient and leave you our listeners inspired. Today, we sit down with Brady, D w, a critically, acclaimed, producer multi-instrumentalist bandleader and cancer. Survivor. He's been on thousands of recordings has headlined and performed with some of the
biggest artists of nearly. Every genre from hip-hop icon Talib Kweli and comedian, Dave, Chappelle to rapper Matisyahu, to members of Rage Against the Machine and electronic artist Mark rebbe. A you may know Brady from a series he created called base and bars that features. Company iconic, musicians and Duets of their most popular songs Basin bars has garnered, tens of millions of views, alongside his concerts and performances online.
Culminating in Brady's career quickly, achieving worldwide recognition before, he's even released a second album and I first met Brady in New York City. Back a gin fizz, a local Harlem hangout that hosted a jam session run by on her son called The Shed living and working in Harlem while running Harlem Arts. Oil, this was the spot where the best musicians and artists came through from multi Grammy Award winners, Robert Glasper and
Bilal to acclaimed harpist. Brandy younger to tap dancer Michaela Lerman both of us regularly, went there to chill out after a long day, so it was only a matter of time before we were introduced to one another. In this episode, we learn about the Journey of bringing dreams to reality. Brady talks to us about the power of grit and hard work and the lesson that no matter what adversity Is standing in your way, always show the universe that you're worthy.
And so now, without further Ado, let's start this episode, we've got a pretty special guests, a good friend. Someone I'm super glad to have on the show. Brady W, Brady say hello hello, hello for the people that are listening. I want to give a little bit of context of who Brady plays with peace. I'm tell him quality this Brady. What? This is Basin bars. Let's go. Hi-yah class material. What we do is not dirty, rice County to damage. Our Brooklyn. Peaceful York is in the building.
This is based in bars. My man, bring you out on the base. Jay with the damaja. It's on the Box. Hill 3:. Warren G. And I'm on the go, we can hit lock with Grady what and it still won't beat you in the shit. Don't stop. Aye said one I've seen him too. Tour with and perform with DJ Premier to live quietly. Mar Crevier the it's a pretty
long list. I was doing Harlem Arts Festival years ago and he was one of our Headliners there and he's since just popped off and didn't you just release relatively recently attract with some of the guys from Metallica, right? Yeah, we're Robert Trujillo of Metallica. Yeah, it's nobody home. That's out. Now, that's me, Robert. And Brad Wilk.
Rage Against the Machine and it's so, you know it's trying to bring back the the supergroup idea because a lot of my records, pretty much all of them. They're all collaborations, you know, even if I'm doing a most of the stuff, which on this was pretty, even split. I feel like as a producer I even if I bring in some drummer singer or whatever it just makes it into a whole new thing and I treat all the compositions as Works in progress.
I'll have the original idea together and then I'm like, okay drums then That takes four months, five months maybe five days, maybe it. Maybe track is done in one day. Usually not. But I mean nobody home took a year and a half at least in the music video and making it all happens. These songs are really like babies except this more than nine months.
So you know this is this why we get we get like very attached to it because you know there's a lot of business steps and things that have to happen in order for it to get rolled out right? Which is cool because you don't want to do all that work and then no. And here's it that's worse. Had that connection with DJ Premier and to live with because those I think are the main ones. I mean the Mark.
Mark one is pretty recent but how did those to start while Lee was Dow Jones. Put me on the gig. Mmm, I had put him on a gig before that in, you know, that's kind of how it works. You don't get in no situation because I just like, hey great, you know, to live needs basis. Cool. And just kind of threw you in and he liked you and that was the end of that. And Then I was just the bass player. Okay? Yep. For quality. And that was probably when I was
about 23, the yeah. It's been a while tell, if he's like, older brother, you know, yeah. And so been around a lot of greatness in Primo. He was my favorite producer since I was a kid one of his interns do, I was a big fan and invited me in one day. At this point, I already had a reputation. I was already has probably like, 26 27.
If he didn't know about, Anything I had done, but he says he still remembers seeing me in on the, on the security camera it with my base and like leather jacket, and he's like, who's this motherfucker? Is do look, he looks like a rock star. He says he's interested, right? When he saw me on the security if you know, preemies like crazy
about security. So we met and just talked about base and stuff for like an hour when we talked about music and Jaco Pastorius James Jameson, all the greats and Jazz. He knows his shit big time. Even with the players on. The records because he's a DJ and producer, he loves the liner notes reading all of them. And he's really knows his Rock and Roll History too. Much more so than people understand because he was a rocker and high school.
He was wearing leather jacket and he was on that funk to from his parents at the. Yeah, he was like a rock and roll Kid in Houston Texas and we listen to music a lot. It's always Rock. But yeah, I've been working with him forever and what happened was he picked me for his band like it years After our meeting. Oh, that did. That wasn't like a sequential thing. That was like, so cool. Thanks for coming. Bye. See you later.
And then, wow, it was years. I never thought that I would do anything with him because he does all his beats himself. He does the base at the keyboard is very particular about it where I've worked with him and dr. J and dr. Dre, get a bunch of people in the studio. He kind of conducts, different people, a lot of collaboration, Primo, sits in there by himself, and just doesn't, I'm self. You know, just within the last
few years, She started. Sampling me and Carlos and he had sampled Adrian Young on that Prime record, but it took a long time for me to touch any of my music. Sam planes. Don't think we're gonna work. I just thought I'd met a hero of mine but then he hit me up a few years later and he got a offer to do a Europe Japanese tour. Yeah. So he was setting up the band and they kind of put together with well-known Jazz, dudes, and they're trying to put a bass player and there and he was
like, oh no, I The bass player. Got the bass player. Wow. So you always tells a story to everyone and he had already had me. He never seen me play but he knew from our conversation that I was legit and I think he probably looked me up or whatever. Yeah. But but yeah, he locked that in for me. Next thing you know we're in Japan. Rock and favorite songs is a dream.
Come true. Wow. And then after that, we rocked all through Europe and I had released my first solo album as like a producer artist, you know, featuring a bunch of people Beach. And quality my album live Tronics. Yeah. Which people love to this day, I made that when I was living in an abandoned building on 137. Yeah I remember you talking about that. So I was touring in selling that CD to fans after because I'm a
hustler, I'm getting paid. Yeah and then I'm going out there selling these for 10 bucks each, they got printed up in the projects down the street. I picked him up day before we left, that's great. A fucking Inc with wet smell like shit. There's the open this bag. Everyone's making fun of me, dude.
They ain't didn't. I and I went right on the plane and there was like it was a rotten smell dude - well it's great traveling around selling them and like this guy's a hustler Indian was with us on the road. Yeah, it's his like that's the guy that we should probably sign, you know, and I started getting some big placements as a producer. So then Ian started managing me who's Ian, Schwartzman is the manager of me, primo, and Joe
bought in some others. So that was That but that was after we known each other for like a year, you've worked with a lot of people. As we see you've also launched a whole series called Basin bars, every single one of those has a video and those videos also popped off on YouTube. So when we talk about starting at the beginning, talk about how you got here, working with all these people producing your own stuff you know you were a basis or producer.
Now you're singing give us a little bit of the origin story like well I always just tell people. Everyone has a different phases when they're kids. They try different. Sports and they start playing Guitar, they get into rollerblading and I was like that. I was into breakdancing wrapping it all this stuff but that's not right. Not even me rapping but like I liked rap because I didn't really start writing until way later in life. But I was a huge just in the culture, all these different
phases. But then when I hit guitar at age 13, I just never stopped. And I quit everything else and then one year later, I switch to body. Base. Because my punk band needed, a bass player was the name of your punk band. We had several names but the main name we landed on smashed City. Okay. And in my city my trumpet player climbed out over you know like underneath a bridge how there's like a little bit of space. Yeah, he climbed out underneath and it's like at least a 50 70
foot drop. He's climbed out underneath the bridge and spray paint is smashed City with two stars on it and this is when we were 14 years old 59, And what city is it look for still? No way. Yeah, because no one else would go up there and then when are they gonna bring a fire engine to come? Take it down. It's still there in his all these other graffiti but no one dared. Do that says, still up there. Smash city. Where welcome to city with the city?
Where the city I was in was Nashua, New Hampshire, actual? Okay. Yeah. And what was your band members names? We thank you. In case the police go after you for for graffitiing that area. But fucking well done. That's it. I mean we're talking about it now so yeah. Oh, that's a good job. Statute of limitations. No, I checked it recently. I was like still there. So then Callie I love that.
Okay. That was my band and then I just I kept going from there when I started playing bass I really locked in on that and practiced every day. Got a teacher like really, really went in and right. I started playing bass. I realized it was all these different techniques, so it's very interesting and everyone was kind of playing guitar. And I'm like, if I go in on this it was very obvious that that was my instrument base right?
When I started playing. Okay. And I'm naturally very dexterous. My hands moved, my fingers and stuff, but my ear took forever to work on. I'm not a natural musician by any means, so that's another whole thing. Wow, that took just tons of work. What kind of work we Talking about when you say tons of ear training and learning so many songs. And I remember I used to be really nervous about jamming with people because I couldn't figure out what quiche it was in
for a while even tuning. I just didn't have the ear. Yeah. It was a concerted effort. No, I've seen it but I think that's amazing because a lot of people think if I don't have the ear, I just can't do it. Not some people are just naturally gifted but I think that's it's a total myth. So, 14, Smash City years of training And working on your Technique, listening going to some Jam sessions and you got to Berkeley. This is Berkeley Boston. Not California.
Walk us through from there to plant a church Berkeley. I only applied there. That's all I wanted to do once I realized it was possible to become a professional musician. So up until this point pursuing music, as a career didn't seem like a reality for Brady. He didn't know anyone from New Hampshire that had become A professional musician. So he spent his time earning money landscaping and doing masonry work. He figured The Next Step would be going to a college, like UMass, Amherst.
I'm getting a business degree because that's what people around him were doing, so that's all he could imagine for himself, it wasn't until he attended a music summer camp, at Berklee College of Music for the weekend that his imagination. Got to push it needed to consider a new possibility that music can be a real path and a Real career.
Once I found that out, I apply to Berkeley got in went there and realize that everyone was way better than me, way better than me. Like, I was cool but who like, you know, these kids all went to Performance high schools or their relatives were famous musicians. They had ends, they had been going to Berkeley for years leading up to this. Yeah, you know. So that was my competition. Like the Louis caddos of the world? Yeah, whoo. Yeah. Abel is there since I was like,
holy shit. I mean the first couple weeks. I was like, yeah, this might not work. You might lose this battle and you know there was sleepless nights and I remember nights just just sitting there like I'm not gonna be able to do but then then one one night I remember I pulled an all-nighter and just had some talks with God. Like it was you know doing it or not and I was like I'm just gonna do it. I'm gonna I'm gonna fucking do it, you know, work really hard. There's the practice rooms right
there. I got the stuff I need, let's just buckle down and get it cracking. And I decided then and people asked me if I ever thought I was going to quit and things got harder in my 20s. I mean, picture, all that stuff, I had to do now, nope, there's never been that. There's never been, I might have to give this up for a job. I've never worked a job what and
I knocking that. But, but nah nah, because the second I did that is the second I show the Verse that I'm not worthy of this shit because it don't be Givin it to everyone, man. It ain't supposed to be easy and I would feel really bad if I, if I ditched it. Yeah, it once again, not and not knocking anyone. That's done it. I just would never be able to come to terms with that, right? No. Almost like a fun time since that night, I've never had a doubt. Like disrespecting the door that
was open for you. Yeah but if we're actually diving back into the history a little bit you know something that we often ask our guests is, is there a first heartbreak anything that really informed your identity or some of the music that you're writing or your mindsets?
There's a lot of different kinds of barriers meant to one's physical ones and some curious if there's something in your mind that really provided a definition for you, I guess 11 turning point was when I was first moved to New York, I audition for Lady Gaga like when she was really big like at the at the peak in like everyone in the world audition for it like flew in and there was this whole thing and you'd go up and play solo, which is weird. And I was like, 22, 23.
I remember even like my mom, let me use your credit card to like buy a fly outfit for it was a big deal like grandfather's rooting for me. I kept on getting it. I kept on moving on and I'm like, oh shit. Yeah, I made it again. It was like, weed, and down, and down, less, and less. People showing up to this audition. I made it all the way to the
end. It was really between like me and Kern Brantley at the end of it and he was 46 and I was 23 and he ended up getting the gig in and they toured forever, you know, my God. But through that, I gained a lot of confidence in the fact that I made it past all these other folks, And I just moved to New York and I was like, maybe this will work out because they think I'm dope. So one door closes. Another opens. Always you always going to live Brady? That's beautiful. Did you feel that way?
When that door closed, or did it take you a while to kind of be like Oh wait. This is just a redirection. Yeah well the the dude I was up against was so good it was just like you know damn okay yeah he's got the gig. They all they're all friends. The whole band he probably had it. Yeah. Before. So no I was fine. I don't really be taking shit to personal man. Hmm. And there's someone really disrespects me. Yeah, that's big man. Don't take it personal in the music business.
I have to do it at all time. People ghost Basin bars shoes where I paid for the whole film crew happens all the time, dude, Jack Harlow. Who during Basin bars season early on, before Jack Harlow was famous. We've agreed to do a basin bars day of. He, he canceled. And I had already had my film crew set up location all this, he canceled, but he called me. In was very apologetic and you know, I would never do this.
But I got this video shoot with Cole Bennett and I'm like, oh, that's gonna any artist, that does a cold Bennett video blows up. You should probably do that. No problem. I don't like your pending Bobcats, was the biggest song that year, maybe the joint got like, you know, that's that's a huge round, dad. Blew him up. That was double booked with Basin bar. No, that was my biggest song of that. Yeah it's so good and then he went on. Yeah. You know and we were going to do that record to.
I have like a whole base likely I was like now go ahead and do that and like I said he was apologetic. I'm interested. Right in like, how did that? I guess. Thousands of there was a first, right? And the second and a third, where was that first introduction? What was the first rap record? And how was that experience? Was that how was that experience? Where you just? Oh cool. Here's our bases. He's from New Hampshire.
He's pretty. Adobo is always an original music guy, start and bands and working with this artist and then going to New York to record with different. Producers far as the size and up goes, you have really proved your worth if you play real good though, you know, let you in the door you know? Yeah I am appreciating all the the humanizing moments that were hearing.
It sounds like you were kind of putting out a sound you were really validated by that by people be like yo come hop on this or come help us with that and you're just like okay cool there's something here. Mmm, right. And then eventually your thing just starts to expand and then
people look to you. What comes out for you, as I say that, yeah, bills over time the confidence thing, people look at me and they see someone really combine the way I am on stage and just the whole thing in, it takes a long time. It wasn't just like that. That's why I always bring that up, even with the ear. Think I'm not, I'm not just some freak who, yeah, can go up and not give two shits. What anyone thinks? You know, I mean because we're in these extremely judgmental situations.
When you get on stage it took a while to get there. I'm still getting better at it, you know? Yeah, the confidence builds over a really long period of time. What are some of the greatest insecurities you have around being on stage and presenting performing? Anything lingering? I mean I just try to prepare a ton now, you know, and now that what I do now is wait, Way more difficult than what I used to do. I did my first, my vocal debut was witmark rebbe.
A, I sang a little bit there but fucking around, but like my vocal debut with my full set was in fall in the fall open and for Mark in LA in front of 3,000 people. I had never even sang in front of a coffee house, dude. So everything I do now is already in front of you. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah, so everything. You know, there's only that built-in pressure yo Get to that moment. What's it like? What's that, like step onto the stage, you see how those people what's that?
What's good prepared? Like crazy. Like the last couple years, I've had a vocal trainer who's actually Carlos, homes, wife, Jamie homes, the stage thing. Luckily I have Carlos with me everyday to and he's signed to the label. He's fucking musical genius. I keep him around because he's better at me, the music so there's all these people around me that are like really good at shit. Yeah. You guys off, you know? Yeah, my managers like, Like a, like a with you with business. He's a maniac.
That's why it's dope. Now I'm kind of like that because I'm with them every day. Yeah, I'm with DJ Premier every day and I mean texture what that does to your production when I'm making beats next to that dude every day so everything I do is get to be fire. Like I'm not making any weak shit in that room. Dude, may happen every day is like that so eventually now with the Beats I can always make dope beats. It's just it's just automatic, it's not mine. To be inspired today.
It's like throw the shit on. Yeah, I know how to do this. It's a process. I've made thousands of them. We're all trying to elevate and this way you're talking about rubbing off, I got to be around the best of the best of the best in anything. That's not that you know and this is the irony of that, right? You want to be around people that are better than you but just better enough that they'll still tolerate right, right? Because otherwise if you're that person, like not like, thanks.
But that's, that's the beauty of learning and whether it's sports or music. Isaac, this is The Mastermind Alliance that we've spoken about in the past that Napoleon Hill and Think and Grow. Rich talks a lot about where he says, The Mastermind Alliance, is a group of people that are better than you that make up for your gaps, but your responsibility to those people that have these abilities is to give them more than they give you so that you will always have
a purpose in that group. Having been on thousands of recordings, collaborated with countless major artists as a bassist and producer and solidified. Professional representation, Brady's career seemed to be on fire and only growing bigger when things suddenly took a serious turn. In late 2021. Brady was diagnosed with testicular cancer. He didn't want to shift the focus away from his music but he decided to announce his diagnosis on social media through it all he kept his fans updated.
Letting them know about his surgery, months of chemotherapy documenting, his hair loss and everything. It took to fight his cancer. Fortunately, his doctors caught it early enough and he was able to recover and is now in remission. But what I found most impressive was that he continued to release his own music and promote new releases from his fellow musicians throughout treatment. I want to bring it into present-day a little bit.
You've been pretty vocal just even in the past six months about your day, has changed pretty significantly. Since you had a diagnosis of cancer and I think, you know, it's another hat that you're wearing and so as someone that knows you, I want to know how has it changed your mindset. I talked to me about that experience because there's a lot there I guess, man. Same values though. I mean still like I remember when I was on chemo I kept on
being like man, I can't wait. After to just be chilling, my family drinking beers on the beach smoking weed. You know? Because I couldn't do none of that. While I was like 'hey, why they wouldn't let me even smoke wheat because of the certain cancer. I have the THC messes with the test the ASO and I'm not even like a pothead but, you know, I just like smoking. Yeah. Just like I was like, Ah, that's gonna be nice when I can do everything normal again.
Yeah, I looked forward a lot to family and just continue in the path. I was on on which I kind of just did and there's also a, really Peak position when it struck me. Like I was in really good physical shape and then the career was really good and it hit a time where I was up and I was like shit, man. I get remember how you feel right now because you're gonna have to get right back here to keep going and I had already done the work so it was like this. Pause a little breadcrumb.
Yeah. It was like, don't forget you know what you're doing and it is easy to forget because when you're on that shit, you don't really? I want to write you don't really want to write you want to like get through the day in like eat enough food in the I yest enough to get back in there. Ya go get filled with fucking toxic shit. Again you know, you got to just get in there to do it. So now I'm just getting back to where I was and luckily I got a whole team of people that I'm
here. I get the support system, the family's super tight, but then my business colleagues and my, you know, I got Iain kives preme my lawyer. Several videographers I work with the creative director. Like I wasn't going to fall because these people are fully invested in me. Yeah, she kept moving. I had enough money coming in there. Wasn't there wasn't no fundraiser. There was no Brady W fundraiser for chemo. You know, not knocking it but that didn't happen.
Yeah, I'm going took five months off as a musician, you know, so I'm shit. I'm proud of that. Yeah. Can bills or pay. I mean, if that did hit me a few years ago, wouldn't be cool.
Yeah, you know, so I'm blessed that we may do that and the things one thing I would say is, I know, with my vocals and all my creative decisions, I'm standing by him, like a hundred percent because I had, you know, my, my hands are mad swollen and they still hurt, you know, it hurts when I play, I'm still doing it. And so that shows from the chemo. Yeah. Yeah. What what?
Like, they're like swollen. They've gone down considerably but but like this would only go to like here in and my voice was really messed up during all that. So I lost like a noise into the video to see that, right? Yeah. That's where the video only subscribers right there. The pretty good now is still it still hurts though little sore. So I know what it feels like to have my voice. Taken away and my hands. I'm pretty much both of my in Endeavors were taken.
Yeah. And it was possible that she would be gone forever. Those part of the, the chemo of his on, it could have severely damaged. My lung capacity, rendering me, not able to sing and do the whole thing that I do. You know, I mean, and with the hands and neuropathy was possibility, so my whole everything could have got taken away. So I have just mad conviction but I had That before but now it's like really solidified, fuck it.
Dude, it was just like a nasty time period man, like glad to be Beyond it. Like just pretty gross dude, you know saying yeah, you're here glad glad that it's gone. Just push through it showed up and did what I had to do. How I do anything. You know, just showing up. Yeah. Knowing you look great by the way, yeah, yeah, thanks. Absolutely for real.
Yeah, here's just now coming. And I was saying, like not a lot of People can pull off the, the bald look and I think you're, you're making, you're making it look good for any man that's losing their hair. That's weird. Yeah, one day I'll probably have to do it again, you know, right. You're inspiring me. I got a Syrian bald spot kind of form informant in the back. I'm very, very Arab. Okay, you know, and I see my future self at some point.
Like, I think, I think when I gain maybe like 15 20 more pounds, and I mean with, like, Burly chest and that whole bit, and I'm going to shave my head. Yeah, the shaved head listen. There was no shortage of Age of messages from women with the with the shaved head really chicks. Dig it. I've been there, you know I'm saying? Like confirm like for real. Yeah it's all good like to anyone losing their hair out there and let it rip. And yeah, they got like the
Horseshoe thing. Just yo just shave it off of this. Is this is your this is your order right now, alright? It's gonna be alright. You're gonna look flyer confirmed. I think we got the biggest Insight of the episode. Yeah, I've been down, right. All right, Brady's Journey To Success was filled with countless twists and turns from auditioning, for Lady Gaga, to being diagnosed with cancer or singing. For the first time in front of
thousands of fans. Every moment presented a new opportunity, and a new challenge for Brady to face. It also gave his imagination at push, just like when he attended the Berklee College of Music summer camp, all those years ago, every time he reached a goal of His his imagination continue to stretch to fit the next goal. So what'd your past self one for you.
Now it changes, it changes often like my main goal, when I started playing bass was to play at the Middle East downstairs, the venue in Cambridge. And that was like, if I could do that, yo, that was it. I love it. I love it. Yeah, then I would just be the man and yeah you just hang it up. So sick. Yeah, and then you do that so many times. And then then you just like doing tour dates, you remember, where the hell you are the
goalposts constantly changes. But I would say in a nutshell it was always to be like a like legendary bass player that was that was the overarching thing. Yeah. Which then I became a producer at some point during that which kind of mixed into it. We often like to have a part of the episode of thing. Take a beat and think like who haven't you given? Thanks to that, you might want to give thanks to now, hmm and why? Well since the timing is exactly exactly right.
Got to thank Megan. Stabile. Yeah for introducing Neil and I it at Jam sesh lausanne 1/25. What was that club? That was a fly Club. Gin fizz gin fizz? Yeah, yeah, so she introduced us in introduced me to like mad people man. I mean you know got me my first premiere at okay player when I dropped First record and has lots of stuff like that, you know? And it's not just me it's like everyone she United tons of people just these little intro like texting show change your life.
Yeah. It was like, yeah. She been doing that for all of us for a long time. I've noticed since I was 18 36. So yeah, half my life. Got a shout-out, Megan stabile on my behalf and everyone met everyone. You know, I knew her very Clothes and rest and power. Man, this is a hard one. So Megan stabile was an iconic, music, producer and the founder of Revive music. But more importantly she was a close friend of mine for many years.
She was a huge inspiration to myself and many musicians like Brady trying to make it in the world of Music. She's shocked, the musical world when she sadly passed away at age 39 by Taking her own life in June of 2000, 22. After a lifelong battle with depression and addiction She came up in our conversation with Brady because the news of her passing had just come out the news, really rippled through the community, she was a hero to so many of us.
And if she was here today, she would be on the show. She, that's the woman with the vision and she did a lot for a lot of people. No words describe the impact that that Megan had changed my life and perspective in that position. Is that I could say that position doesn't get a lot of upfront.
Thanks, it's the dudes. It's on stage and in blowing up and they they get there the recognition and unfortunately that character the connector doesn't always get the recognition and yeah nor does they get payment like a lot of having been in that position? It is one of the most difficult places. Has to be.
And I mean, I would even say more so like those are some of the more upfront challenges but as a woman in the industry, and especially if you're not coming from a super privileged backgrounds and with everything else, it's something to be recognized and she brought people together made some incredible things that were all fortunate, better off that she was here. Yeah, absolutely, yep. I guess very apropos to the name of the podcast. Is what have you learned recently?
That's left you looking up. I'd say, I've been trying to be really present in all my moments and kind of take my time. I'm really efficient but I kind of like to take my in between time and slang throughout the day and not rush into things and I was just like eating a sandwich on like lean against my car on Steinway yesterday, but in a way it was like it's not going to get much better than this. I mean this is it. Yeah, nice out. Keep it simple fucking chillin just don't work out.
Feel good. Hmm. This is it man. You know in China China feel that a lot. Really, just contentment and wherever we are so easy to jump forward. Excellent word. Yeah. Yeah. That's my favorite acronym that I was taught by a social studies teacher. Shout out to mr. Pathak kiss, keep it simple stupid, you know, nice and easy. And I think on that van were talking, I like was leaving. You looking up is thinking about our listeners and what would you want them to do?
What the first thing to do after they listen to this podcast? Well, all the bass players go practice the heck. Yeah. I said yeah, all the musicians. Go practice. Nice. Yeah. What about is that? You? Can you access more but you better go practice. I'm gonna go screen. Write a film that's been popping off in my head for a long time and feel very motivated. Very motivated. It's impossible to not leave motivated after talking to Brady, though. Your will is contagious, right?
Yeah, I don't know if that's natural or what. I don't know. I'm pretty give yourself some credit, man. Optimistic, I'm an optimistic guy is Well, be, you know you might as well. Yeah. It's the same amount of effort to be negative so you might as well be positive. Just don't do nothing to be - manage. It doesn't lead anywhere else not good. Even if the shit's gonna hit the fan is going to do it and then you're gonna keep going. Truth couldn't have said it better myself you. All right.
So I think this is we're about to switch to one of our favorite Parts, the rapid fire round. Hmm, rapid. And we're going to switch off back and forth. I'm going to ask the question. He's going to ask the question. You got three to five seconds. We're not going to time you. That's gonna be like a little trust in contrast things. Just just give it first thing that pops off in your brain, whatever you think. Think of, that's, that's what you should say. So I'm going to start off.
Brady. Favorite food, Italian. Name a four-letter word, that starts with the letter, B Band Thousand Miles. So yeah, name an onomatopoeia boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. What is your favorite type of music? Hmm. So the listener like rock and roll. I like epic rock and roll. Have you ever written a song for someone? Oh yeah. So many last one. You wrote for someone? Whoo. Working on one right now is called she's fun, but she's not the one. Oh, that Reza get to know who it's for.
We're gonna have to find out later. It's actually about, it's a lot of my songs. I'll start right at about someone and then it will become about a lot of different people that I go. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes it's about one person and then sometimes it takes a life of him who I remember her and then her and yeah, you got to be careful too.
Because with the, with the song, Works in Primo talks about this all the time they'd be coming true and you know, this is coming from someone who is with big and POC and, you know, yeah, Guru seen a lot of people get killed in the rap game. And you know, the thing about the lyrics manifested in real life and nobody home my single. Yeah, the lyric is, I've been fighting with the devil inside of me. Every time I check upstairs is nobody home and I wrote that a
year and a half ago. And then I got cancer. I cannot even write it about that but that's what manifested. I'd written. It originally about kind of something else actually just like fit and I was like, think about the duality of mind, but then, it actually manifested as an actual fucking getting cancer. Yeah, well I'm Year and that, you know, the timing it just get has right after. Wow, crazy! I didn't know that none of this was gonna happen.
That's just an example man. It comes true which is why with these rappers you might as well think a little forward and be like Cruise the city and a bulletproof Dozer heavy metal like is No Leaf Clover, you know? I mean yeah you might as well be driving in your mind in the fly car before you even have it. Yeah. And like, did he? It's about that they were the shit they're talking about but big and Mason did, he? They weren't rich and they wrote it.
Wow, they're rich. But a year later and had them thinks. I mean this is what is Road and into reality. I've seen I've been in the rap game so long. I've seen people do this for a long time. Yes, I mean this is like with Jim Carrey world. A 10 million dollar check yourself. What's your favorite store? The deli, I guess. And what time do you usually go to bed at night? Geez. Somewhere between 9:00 and midnight. Brady, thank you so much for joining us today for being a
guest on leave. Looking up. You seriously kick ass as a human, as a musician, as an everything. It's been incredibly, inspiring speaking to you today and as our first in-person guess 20. That's that's really special. I mean, you've added a lot of fuel to this fire. Aw, thank you very much. Thank you. You can follow Grady and all social channels at Brady At base or on his website at www.breckwell.com or folks that love what they're hearing today
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slipper medium and engineer. Justin jet Carter. Original theme music by Brady W and background music. Provided from Blue Dot sessions.