Mario Reveals His Super Power, Teaches Angie How to Sing & More

What type of Mario in the building.

Right then?

Did you just do your.

Own theme song every time Mario, every time you walk into understand for me, this is very nostalgic, Angie, like your voice is a very is a staple for me as an artist, as a creative.

You know, you're one of the first voices that I ever heard in New York City. That's something legendary.

I think, then I should have a song when I walk into a room, but it's yours, So I think you should make you pression you were you're gonna use it if I really what would.

It sound like?

It'd be like Angie, Like, what would.

It be like?

It would be my like Angie, Angie, I have to walk slough when you hear that voss No, that is my baby, Angie. I don't know something said, but that's just me off the cost.

You know, that's not even me getting in my bag yet. I got you though.

I feel that until every time I be when I'm coming in, you just play it and then I'll walk in while.

You know what I'm saying, he actually not feeling it that day.

You just play it anywhere that will put me in the mood. I'm saying I love that, the fact that you could do stuff like that on the spot, and so up it's you deny, you stop, stop, So.

What's up with you?

We're getting ready for album drop out?

Does that feel with your zone? Like, what your mood like? What does this music sound like?

It feels very you know, I've seen this already, you know, I have four visions for it. Glad You came as a project that mentally has been in the making for a while, but me and James Laurd, who executive produces record, was just trying to match our schedules together.

It was crazy.

You know, he's working with Bruno, working with all these people, and I was just moving around doing to is.

This your first time or you worked with him before?

We worked before, but not a whole album.

So I recorded records that ended up on other artists of his. Like, we were in the studio talking about all of it, stuff that we didn't even know we were a part of. So it was just a four circle moment. But this album, intentionally, for me, it's just getting back to the root of what R and B is to me. Yes, where people hear my first album,

Play ten years from now?

Still?

That's like the that's the conversation.

Where what about does it affect like where you are in your personal life?

Like the music that you make, Like I think my personal life affects the music that I make it and the way that the music affects my personal life is just making me more busy, you know what I'm saying, not being home, you know, And that's that's a whole other lane as a man now that I have to do it and be like, you know what, if I want a relationship, I gotta balance both out. You know what I'm saying, making those calls in the morning at night when I'm done.

You know all that.

But how's that?

My personal life affects the music a lot because it gives me reference. You know, when I'm in a studio and I have writers black, all I have to do is think.

About my life.

Think about the conversations I have on my shorty, think about the ones that's great, the moments where we don't communicate, the moments when we do, the moments when I'm thinking about, damn, how she really feels stuff she may not be telling me. I put all of that into music because my music is very imaginative. I write very metaphorically sometimes, and I like that because it allows me to be as creative as I want to be.

I'm just trying to see if you're like because you know, are you R and B guy at home?

Too? You know what I mean? Are you like R and B guy in your relationship?

Not as much as I I think that should be.

You know, are you like walking around like do you show up with like no shirt on and flowers for your lady?

You know what I'm saying?

Not guy, Honestly, she'd be like, yo, you need to be more romantic, Like, honestly, come on, I know, I know, come on, I have my days, but when I'm in it, I'm in it.

But it's just because I've been super busy. I've been busy and it's not an excuse.

But at the same time, every day has been like you know, I'm running New Citizen, which is my label.

You know, I got my investment side.

I do it movies movie side.

Like it's so much stuff, you know, she understands, But is the more stuff I get in my bag? Though?

I get my bag in your bag?

Show what is you did the BZ movie just recently Christmas?

For Christmas? Yeah?

Is there more stuff come into or absolutely?

I got scripts that I'm writing right now that I'm pitching that I'm selling. I got about to build a studio soon, like a film studio soon on the West Coast and maybe another place too. That's gonna happen probably in the next year. But all these things are in the works, Like I have like big visions for like New Citizen productions and.

The type of what is New Citizens? Where did you come up with that New Citizen?

Yeah?

So New Citizen came about I would say after I.

Left, right before I did my first independent project, I was in a space of like this whole spiritual journey just finding myself, like really like coming moving back from to LA from Baltimore, just deciding.

Like what do I want my life to look like? Right?

And I was rebuilding myself basically, So it's like I became a new citizen of my own personal universe. So that's kind of how it like developed into something.

I was like, you know what I need.

Whatever I I name it, it has to be a part of who I am. I can walk in every day and feel proud of. And it's growing with the net. So I did that for all my companies.

It's a good name nobody had. Nobody had it had it. That was like you got a logo, Yeah, I got a logo.

So it's like it's a it's a it might be on.

That paper, that's what I was looking. I don't see it.

They can't put it on there.

Okay, now we gotta get it on the things so I can find it's it's basically a crescent, so it's a new it says new and then the crescent moon is the sea citizen and The crescent moon is just an ancient symbol that represents wisdom.

And you know, so you are R and B do it at heart?

You do have R and B tendencies, you know. I hit them with the crescent moon. So it gives R and B doing a little bit.

I take it.

I like list.

I guess I'm R and B a hard they can't leave.

Let's see if you're in your questionnaire says your R and B do it at hard too. Let's say what you got here?

Can you understand my writing? Because I never write?

I can.

Why don't you never write? A songwriter? Here?

I have all my stuff in here? Is crazy?

What's the last thing?

You ate?

Many many Dutch pancakes? What is that?

These many pancakes at this spot called of pain?

It's like an I think it's like a French sounds delicious.

It's amazing.

What is on your bucket list? Swimming with the sharks. I'm surprised you haven't done that, and why do you want to do that?

So?

I think sharks so amazing, you know what I'm saying.

Like sometimes they get a bad rep because the people think, oh, if you see a shot, they're gonna attack you.

I actually swim with a shark and didn't know and.

Uh yeah yeah, and where was that turks and turks you know the out there.

They didn't They didn't tell me because I had we had docked, and I was like, Yo, I'm gonna swim back to the dock, y'all take the boat.

I'm gonna swim back.

It was only like probably like fifty sixty feet. So I jumped off the boat and it was shocks under me. Oh, swimming the whole time, the whole time. I'm glad they didn't tell me. I'm anybody catch it or no, they just didn't tell me. They no one said anything til I guy was like, yo, you know, you swim like

The power of it until you in it.

M H and I feel like it gives you power, like coming off of that, coming back to like do whatever I do in life. It just gives you power. Anything that's powerful in nature, like it gives you energy. So it's like you'll know what it's like until you try.

This is very R and B.

A you're the next one. What is your superpower? What I say discretion, Yes, that is mad R and B. I love that, But for me, that's not R and B because I feel like discretion is like some that's gangster to me, like if you can do be who you are for real and like and get things done and not nobody know your business, but you're still making it happen, like that's gangs.

You know, that's pretty good you discreet.

I haven't heard nothing about energy.

I don't think.

I don't think the term R and B means soft or not gangster.

You could be your R and B and still be gangs stuff.

To me, R and B means more like poetic, like like oh yeah, if that's me, that's what I mean.

That's when I think of it like that.

I don't think if you go through my text messages with my shorty or just like how I write ideas down like super R and B.

I know it is already know that's how I think R and B. I don't think it has to be soft.

I mean this.

I just think it means like you're like, yeah, yeah, smooth, like you know what I mean.

Facts facts.

Discretion is a.

Very like discretion as a superpower.

Is a superpower that means, baby, don't worry.

You don't got to worry about this.

Or it's like or it's like when somebody like I put the R and B voice on, you don't gotta worry somebody like you know somebody.

Ution is my superpower. That sounds like an intro for R and B song right there.

That sounds like a song title discretion.

Why haven't you done it?

I'm about to do it and need it like I'm working.

On that, Okay.

And your celebrity crush is Nia along.

Yeah, that's that's cute that you know Nia is. She's very specially her eyes so deep.

Have you ever liked Yeah, I hung out with Nia and she's dope.

She's like a cool girl.

Have you met her?

I've met her before. It was like on a red card.

She knows you're like, she's your celebrity crush now, but you know, I got.

To show it's a respectful But yeah, she's the one.

Yeah, yeah, she's the one of all the crushes.

Okay.

So oh and what is your go to karaoke song?

Rock with you?

Michael? You probably body that that's my favorite Michael song.

But do you body it?

You have to close your eyes.

It's not fair.

Let the rhythm get into you. Don't try to fight it. Hey, there's nothing that you can do.

Mhm.

Relax, mind, lay back and cool and mind you gotta feel that.

And a week a rib and bugay.

Yo, you're probably terrible to do karaoke with.

Nobody wants to get on karaoke. We did karaokee my house and the Thanksgiving and let Me Love You?

Does anybody sing let Me Love You in your karaoke?

Just because she could sing? She always does, she body? So this is what happened.

My son did it.

My son didn't let Me love You?

Ahead what happened in your karaoke?

And I did.

We did it in groups, so people were like in groups of threes.

Right.

They went up to my closet, got my jerseys, got my jackets and did just a friend.

That's fire. Yeah, my son Nicola did let me love you.

He kind of bodied it.

He kind of he got some he got he's got.

He's got a little bit of pipes. He don't really use them. He shy of them, but whenever he decided.

He'd be getting shy around you sometimes.

No, I just think he.

Doesn't like call himself a singer or anything, but he he a little note that's fire.

So he kind of bodied that in karaoke. And when I said, Mike, you gotta sing it too, Hell no, hell go.

He let the people hear.

So I like to go for like an s w v wee or like I like to go for like sometimes I'll go crazy, depends what we're drinking. I go crazy and go for like a Kelly Clarkson. Since you've been gone, go horrid at them, you know what I mean?

Get you right with you.

But I'm gonna be honest. It's terrible.

It's terrible.

It's terrible, all these years to listen to music. Maybe you can help me.

I can help you, for sure. Can you really teach you how to start with confidence?

You gotta be okay with messing up a couple of times and not being perfect.

Give me a good karaoke song that I could sing, so you think everybody could kind of because people think they could.

Let me love you is a good one.

Tucy just did toss. Yeah, it wasn't bad.

For you.

I don't know what type of voice you.

I don't know if you've got a raspy voice.

Him, give me a little.

Mario, oh ship, tell me how to do it again, Marie.

All right, I'm doing Mario.

No, I can't do it. Let me try here, right, let me try.

Let me try, Mario.

See you in the key. That's that's a starting point. Is that good?

Some people don't even be in there in the right key.

That's terrible.

So okayse Mario, you did like a thing that I can't.

Yeah, I can't do that. Okay, keep me in my tone in the right key. Okay, give him something in the wrong key, so at least you know my key was good.

Okay, good, great, okay, great, Okay.

I would say, okay, so you gotta I would say, like a Okassie, Oh.

Yes it is.

I'm gonna bust this South Christmas Eve.

You know what I'm saying.

Like you can do that?

Like you can do something that's just in a pop pocket because you need a pocket.

I ain't gonna say, Mary, no, I ain't gonna get because married, you gotta go. You gotta need great pipes for that.

Yeah song, no, no, how are you in those TikTok challenges?

Could we do like a TikTok challenge today?

Absolutely?

Do you do those?

I did the It was the yams.

You not get to the yams?

Sweet yams? Oh showing me the wait because I got Bill Soupe.

Yeah, he's such a show. Hold on which which tiktoks do we have?

That's why I was I might have to warm up for that one.

I not warm up to boo.

Let me try it, Let me try him.

I got one.

Yeah, no, I.

Cad, that's all I go.

I stopped to stop by the kid.

I usually got warm up for those type of notes, but here, let me try.

Okay, cool what you got in the first Yeah, it sounds amazing. Can you do that one?

Let me try it first?

Let me try first. All right, that's hard. Whoa, that's all I got?

You stop it right now?

For you to do is be in the key.

Okay, mm hmm woo, I got I got war More.

I was fired.

I was fired.

We got one more, that's who That's great.

I try it, try that one whoa, whoa.

I was gonna do it, but since you already did it, I don't have to do it. I mean one time for the pipes off, Mario, appreciate you.

I feel like you should do more tiktoks.

You should do these I got, I got they got. I got a couple of moments on there.

I mean, when you got pipes, you should show them off as much as you can get facts.

You know what I'm saying.

That's why I got an album coming out, you know, out right now called Glad you came and you see what you did there as.

Much as you want.

Twenty four seven is all you new single? Keep going, oh my god, oh.

My god, all those pipe let's go. What type of money on the be able to get down from everybody?

Yes?

I want to five point one