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EP: 656- DJ Mustard Interview (uncensored)

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DJ Mustard came through the Cruz Show to talk about his new album Faith of a Mustard Seed & revealed he will be rapping on his album for the first time. He also talked about some of his favorite songs on the project and his process. Mustard also told us he still send Kendrick Lamar 5 beats a day & he revealed details about his hit with Kendrick "Not Like Us".

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What what what rab from? Then? Like a flowing to the cyling man. I put the new fivey's on the middle finger up to the middle with you club shut up, well all the all the hi must hand the beat. Hey, hey five a year minute parking lot o black trucks taking part this class and got your Heyo mustard is here. Let's get to it. Intro by d J Fuse right there. I learn that that was amazing.

It's crazy, right, I was just talking to Fuse in the elevator on the way up today, like, Yo, there's so many songs we can hear for another thing three hours now. You picked you picked the right one. Those records are the one. Most of those records helped change your life. Yeah, yeah, it's definitely. Yeah, the radio changed your life. That's why I never take it back on the radio. Radio is I know it. I know it. Radio is extremely important. I think till

this day. Yeah, there's artists like yourself that it's just it's just there. There's proof that's you are the proof of radio. Yeah, because I never forget, like growing up as a kid, you know, listening to the radio. You know you're going on your way to school listening to the radio. I used to call the radio station to win tickets, you know what I'm saying, Like literally, like I went to like all the summer

jams like one tickets, calling over and over and over. Right, I even want a snow trip one time I went to the snow with my sister. That's right, pretty crazy crazy, Like radio radio is just like it's a part of you. That's great. Once you were on the radio, things just changed forever. That was it. And then you helped create a sound that changed West Coast radio and radio across the country. Yeah, it's definitely that's that sound had that's the goal. That's that was always the goal.

Yeah, and then you started hearing like many mustards everywhere. That's to go to to that that that's that should be the goal. Going back to radio, though, do you feel like us at two three and just keep it a book, do enough to put on for our West Coast artists? I mean, yeah, I feel like the song is great. I don't I think that it's excuse people make it's like you don't play West Coach. I don't. I don't know, because all my songs get played. I

don't know what anybody talking about yeah, I've seen that. But it's like people like all my songs gotta play like I mean, he was in it was literally my song. Yeah, I mean all those but you know it's like you get that hit, you gotta get the hit, get here, you're gonna get played. I don't think it's and everybody like I feel like, if you know something's hot in the city, you guys are we can d m you guys. People that's not you know you you hear stuff.

It's like you get a hot record, ninety percent of the chance it's gonna be on the radio. If you get a hot record, I don't mean hot in your in your bedroom hot. Everybody listening to it and it's going up social media, right right, people understand and get it right right? Yeah, man, Mustard is here. So yo, shout to a parking lot with Travis Scott. That's out now, that's crazy, congratulating, appreciate. Yeah, some of the barbecue time, barbecue, my son's out was

hot hot outside whos down? Yeah, pause, Yo, that's crazy Mustard seed. We're gonna see it. July twenty sixth Yes, sir, Yeah, the album's done. Vocals are all in. Yeah, all the vocals in vocals are in, yeah, okay, any interludes, yeah, my mom my sister watch on the Kwan. Yeah. He's been very much a part of the whole process with like me trying to the story that I'm trying to tell so that can change his life. Man. Yeah, it's gonna

be good for him. Is there any pressure with this album putting it out? Not no more. I think I think maybe, Like a couple of months ago, I was like, all right, what I'm gonna do to make everybody listen? It was like, what's the role got, what's the role out? It's like, no, I don't think it's I mean, it's always pressure, you know, you want people love your music and stuff

like that. But I think that you know, I make music with feeling, and if you got any type of heart or feeling in your body for the West Coast sound and just for the people that I work with, you'll be fine. You're like the album. Yeah. Man, when he did perfect ten on my last album, he did that song, he was telling me I should name that album faith with mustle See, and I was just

like, I already got the titles, you know. But we talked for hours that night and I always kept in the back of my head because he told me, like, man, if you before I saw, I said, you need an album called Faith with must See. And I'm like, all right, bet Yeah. And when I was making this album, I was started off making a different album and I'm not gonna say the title because I'm couldn't use it. But and I made this song for my mom called

a song for Mom, and she's a big Luther Van Draws fan. It felt really soulful, and I was just like, Okay, maybe I should go to like I think Faith imus See fits it better. Yeah, how'd you go about the samples? Because I know you're not necessarily a huge sample guy. You find ways around it. You get very creative with sample. Yeah, I usually don't sample, but I just I guess as of recent I've just been like trying new things and stuff and trying to just make the

sound bigger. So there was a lot of rumors about the not like a sample. It's not ether, it's not ether. I was telling people, yeah he was, you heard it. It did sound similar, but it wasn't talk. Man, I seen a DJ playing everybody there wasn't that was was originally I believe it. No, no, no, it's a blues song. Its like again, I don't think no know it is called I believe. I think the sample is called it is right, I believe, yeah, right, But I don't know if that part is there because we

didn' sample that part. Okay okay, Yeah, And the song was done in thirty minutes and didn't heard until we heard it. Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. We have a lot in common now, Yeah, we are the same say yeah, yeah, we all want Yeah. So you heard it right online or I heard it on YouTube. My man just sent it to me, and a couple of the other homies was just texting me and stuff, and I was just like, what did I miss? I wouldn't listen to it. I was like, I was on my way to a

baby shower and I was just like going crazy. I damn didn't want to get out of the car. Nah, I was just listening. I kept listening. Yeah, I was kept. I just kept listening to it. And then I went in the baby shower and people next door was playing it. Wow that fast? Yeah fast. I saw an interview said that you were sending Kendrick five be today, right, Yeah, I just sent them five beasts today. I sent five beats every day. Yeah. How long have you been doing this? Maybe no? Five months? OK? Maybe

nah, not that long. Maybe I've been sending the beats forever beat list send me, send me him. I can try. I got you, I got you Spanish and find out a little faith. I got the faith. I got you hard part of his faith though in this game, and it's super important. Man, having faith. It is like the whole. That's it. Like you, you can I tell everybody only take one.

You know, one song will change your life. You know, even if you the lowest artists of the highest, you can be off deck and get one song, and it's just everything is you know, you change yourself. Having the faith and believing in yourself is everything. You know. And people may think it's easy for you to get Kendrick on the track your mustard, right, I don't think anything. Even if it wasn't Kendrick, I think

getting a song on anybody isn't easy. You know. It's just you know, being persistent and having faith and believing that one day of the come and your time is coming. That's what it gets you. The song. It's got to be right to the line. Because sometimes even artists threw in their head about certain songs, like I don't know if I want to put this out anymore, because they were in a certain headspace when you first the song was created. I'm sure Mustard Mustard has had a song on the shelf for

ten years with songs like that. Yeah, never the last date, that's crazy, something like that. I want to hear it. I don't think anybody would ever hear I know right Yo, the the pop out was crazy. You're set with out of here bro than congratulations, thank you man. You're out there having fun. Man, it felt fun. It was in the backyard at home. Now. You gave it a club vibe. That was my That was my whole thing, is like I want to just make this feel like a party. Yeah. When I heard fat Man Scoop,

I said, okay, Mustard is in his DJ. Yeah. Yeah that was that was that was That was like the second track. That was the second track. Yeah, that was the second trick. Yeah. I knew I wanted to start off with something of mine, which is pure water. And then I was just like all right, let me go. We go to the club real quick and like make people know it's okay to party and get the energy. Fat Man School emailed me to day after that, It's

pretty crazy. I appreciate that man like you. I appreciate I appreciate you. Nah. But I remember back in the day I was talking to him about doing some stuff, but I never worked on I'd be crazy as a DJ doctor when it comes to that set, Mustard, Are you giving complete control? Are they you got a week? Literally I don't even know if I had a week, but I think yeah, it's complete control. Nobody

telling me what to do. It was more so like we want you to do, you do what you think is best, and I'm like, all right, okay, yeah I can do that. Yeah yeah. And it's almost like it felt as if if preparation and opportunity met right at the right time. We only rehearsed one day. We ain't really rehearsed. I was just like, look, you coming in at this part. You coming in this part, Steve Lacy like part I'm coming in, and you're coming there

right here. Tyler didn't show up, Like why you went there? You went there? Guys. Yeah, it's cool. I think man. I saw a video again on TikTok stay off of TikTok Jesus Christ. I mean, what happened? What was the video? So I saw the video, right, and it's the side of the stage. Doctor Dre walks up to you. You a big hug, whisper something in your ear. Yeah, probably says a good job or good ship bro. Right, he definitely said good job. Yeah, good job, right, and then he sees Yg

gives him a hug and says, call me, call me twice. That means you got to call doctor Drey. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's time for a Mustard co produce Doctor Dre yg album. That would be amazing. It would be I don't know if that would happen, but definitely that would be amazing. It can happen, it can It's possible. Of course, it's possible. You're here, bro, It's possible, like you want it to be possible. I think that would be crazy, and it's time. I think it's time. Yeah, let's send him to the moon.

Yeah for sure, he got some good stuff coming to Yeah. You know what I was explaining to them, I thought it was common knowledge. You're Mustard on the beat hole drop that's why g Yeah, from back in the day, Like I said, everybody knew. When I said it on the air, it looked at me crazy. Yeah, even she was like, yo, you're lying. Yeah I might have. I might have missed the dog. Yeah, don't be mad. Back in the day, from back in the day, I'm good. I thought he was lying again because of

TikTok. Yeah, speaking of back of the day, do you remember doing the show in Peko about like ten years ago? It was you yg the Rejects tied t C forty eight hundred. I believe, I think so and Shi. It was crazy. I was that I was DJing for one of the rappers. But I always I was like, yo, that's fucking nuts. I was like, I wonder what he wanted his paint these, I wonder what a little bit and nothing? Crazy, Like I wonder how much that pay? Because it was a fucking it was a lineup. Yeah,

it was probably broke. It was definitely like it probably wouldn't that much. Five hundred piece. What's up, let's get to it and let's get super fright. You have to do that right, almost like like a comedian. You gotta do little shows on your way. You gotta work and skip that. Yeah, that's not that don't. It don't work like that. You gotta you gotta pay a dudes. And yeah, you can't hit all the

clubs. I feel like I hit all almost every club out here, I would assume, I think, yeah, for sure, seen you at playhouse a few times. Playhouse playhouses seemed to be crazy, right Mustard here his eye when you said supper clubhouse, Yeah, they don't know, don't know about that. Supper club was time the couch, That was the time. That was. That was a good time. That was a crazy we haven't had no club like that like that was like, you know what crazyest we

made it out of live out of those motherfuckers. That was dangerous. What was supper club? Mustard? Like, if you could revisit and and and just man, that was DJ Mustard right there. I think it was a little bit of the same. I just I don't know, man, I was that was some crazy times. That was flowing, like yeah, forty two, the Acespace coming out, the theme raq everywhere, it was TORAQ was everywhere crazy at that time. Insane, man, Yeah, no,

that was some crazy times. You know, much of what I was thinking about, right, we're at the pop out, We're broadcasting live. We get to go in and witness history one of the best concerts, if not the most iconic rap concert we've ever seen in our lifetime. Right, and there you are in the middle of it. And as a dad and as someone who works every day, I'm thinking, like, you know, this isn't just like this is just a small part of what Mustard is going through.

There's also life happening. You have to navigate through all the success and all of it hitting you all at once. Yeah, right, Like it must have been so much going on while all of this good was happening. Yeah, yeah, that's what we're saying. I mean, but that's how I go. You got to balance it out and you know, take the winds with the I don't take since you know, that's how I go. I feel like I was built for this. And as a that too,

you know, I know you're a dedicated father. Yeah, I'm my kids, got my kids week on, week off every week at my hospital dad school right now, that summer camp. But yeah, I'm very very telling me it was like a serious and you were like, yeah, my kids about to get haircuts. It's the first day of school tomorrow, the first day of school in an hour. That's definitely possible, but try to get

them to sleep around nine being a part of one. Like Cruise was saying, history, what was the best concert that you've ever been to as a fan? Maybe one of the summer gyms a long time ago. That was with the Beat, right, I think the beat? It was the beat? It was. I remember Usher performed and he did a back flip and the chain came off and winning the crowd, and I gave it back to him. Wow, it was crazy. It might be on YouTube or something, but I was in a concert coming from l A. You could have

kept that. I didn't. I didn't catch it. Somebody else caught it, but they gave it back to him, and I was just like, it's crazy. Out of it back in the street, don't we call that taxes paint? To give it back to speaking the street? Mustard? Right? You know so many sections on stage right and for politics to be on hold that definitely don't understand how massive that is. That's why it's like the beef is. It's like this is way bigger than beef. Like it's like

bigger than that. I don't think I've ever seen a place where like like that. It was like nobody smirked, nobody looked at nobody, nobody banged on, nobody was everybody was on stage having a good time. It's like, man, this is way bigger than any We didn't hear about anything happening. Nothing happened, Everybody went home, everybody was cool, and everybody was on Instagram happy and we I don't think we've ever seen that kind of fellowships

and last ride, Oh yeah, yeah, a thousand percent. We haven't seen nothing like that. Watching the trailer for the Faith of a Mustard Seed, you get emotional, man, because it's almost like your personal history and there's glimpses inside your life that we don't normally get to see. Is there

a song on the project that makes you emotional as well? Not so much emotional, but it's a song on my album where I'm rapping at the end, And that's the most vulnerable because I've never rapped or never done anything of nothing like that. But you told us once you would never do that. Yeah, I definitely said that a lot of times. But I think that I've been behind the boards and the beats so long that nobody's ever heard of mind Side of things as far as when it comes to anything family or friends

or you have a voice. Yeah, so it's like I think it was just the time. Do you feel like it's just time to unload everything I bottled inside? I just feel like I owed it to I owe it to my fans to like show I let you guys know where I've been in the last five years and what's been going on in my life, you know, like the everything COVID divorced from everything, you know, so life just telling people about your life. Sometimes people need to hear it because you know,

from you and not from the internet. Sure, no, exactly, it's gonna come from tiktokiktok damn TikTok. Sometimes you got to pop out and show them. In fact, I can't say the way it was written. That's my version. The video shoot was wild man crazy, super crazy man. I love the video of you k Dot in front of the tams. Yeah, like that's that's it. Like that fries is crazy. They got some good fries. They got the best fries best, but they got some good

fries better than interneut fries. I don't like you know you like you know fris inn out fries are good. Really, yeah, I know everybody hates you have to ask for them, like, well done, that's what stake. Fries are good too. I like the big, thick fries. I like, say, fries cool. You like like, yeah, does that change your relationship a little bit? Fries is cool when you're hungry, of course you'll cut that ship off. The interview and I got me looking crazy.

What's up Jack? When you get your first number one song? Like, how does that feel for you? I think it just feels like everything I've been working towards is panning out the way that I thought it would. And like I said, like, I'm super grateful, but I'm not surprised with all the all the work that I do every day. So look good. I feel like you're a type of person to like be humble but also brag about like the stuff that I mean. I think at this point,

I don't really have to brag. It's like I don't got to say that. It's like it's nothing you can really say this one. It's crazy to see Steve Lacy after you mentioned Steve lasone creative Tyler. I didn't know Tyler's coming out to the night before really reaction was nuts from Tyler invited himself. He can Yeah, so you didn't know. So he was like, yo, the night before they like Tyler coming, I'm like for real, alright, bet Yeah. It was good to see Steve Lacy up the Steve joined

himself the crowd going crazy, crazy man, insane. Yeah yeah, I thought Tyler hurt himself. He jumped off the stage. Man, he's still that guy is crazy, man, Yeah, that guy is crazy. Yeah. I think there's nothing he can't do. There's nothing he can't do. He's like a superhero or something. You know. Roddy did mention that he canceled Fashion Week in Paris to be there. Was there anything that you had, like prior committed. I was supposed to go to fashion Week too.

I'm the one who told Riddy to cancel it. I told him, like, bro, shit, he was like, I'm gonna still, I might go. I don't know. I was like, man, shit, I think you're gonna go to Paris and you're gonna see this and be like dang, I wasn't not there, And he thought about it. He's like, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna stay. Bro. I was like, all right, bit yeah, because it's like, well, you don't want to miss this. This is gonna be historic, and it was historic. Yeah,

no, no, cancel your own funeral. Doctor. I definitely was supposed to go to Paris as well. Are you really Yeah, I'm supposed to go. I just didn't. You got to move a lot of stuff. That does that cost you? Yeah? The don't call. It's like what do you like? What do you want? You know, like it's like you pay for I'm doing music right now, fashion weeks? I can wait. I'll be there next year. I'll be there in the next one. Is this is history, like it's gonna be It's gonna be talked about

forever. Man, it is. Yeah, And it's the most watched Amazon Music production my point. Ain't no fashion show out there like that right now? No? Absolutely? Yeah, the most the most the biggest song that we've seen in a long time, not like us. And it continues to grow, It'll grow throughout the summer. It's only been off with like two months. It's crazy and it's massive and I don't even know what the words to put for that, Like what do you do? What's going on?

Is there any way you celebrate this personally. Do we get a new car, do we go on vacation. No, I ain't buying no cars right now. I'm about to have a kid, so I think that's my celebration. That's right, and congratulations chilling man. I go out to you do normal stuff. I play tennis every day. I just do a lot of

normal things. I don't really do like I feel like. I was talking to my mentor the other day and he was like, man, you remember back in the day, you would have probably like parking lot, came out, even been in the club spending money for no reason. I was just like, you're right about that. I don't. I just I find fun and like the normal ship, like being normal and going, yeah, like

going to play tennis or going out to eat with my girl. I don't hang with a lot of people, so I keep you around it from out right, I don't even think it's nothing. In my mind is like, let's wild out like I don't. I don't even think that's cool anymore. That's right. That's right. You're an adult. You grew up grown man. That's what it takes. Man. Would you consider yourself a good tennis player? I like to think that I could go pro. Yeah, you have to go bro. You can get that Serena. I don't know if

I can get that Serena. But I can hang. I think I can probably hang. I can play a couple of points. I can play. I can play. I can get a couple of points, maybe a point stretch. I probably get a point. If she if she fought, she messes up, not off me. If she's got COVID, I could beat her. Yeah, something like that. How long you've been playing tennis for maybe like two years and something. You got a coach? Yeah, I got a couple of coaches. That's right, man, Tennis was it?

I don't know. Man, Like I walk, I used to walk every I still walk every day, do my miles and stead. But I don't like running on the traademill I was born is born, and you love running the trimming when I do, I've been running in a while. Look at me. But what I'm saying is I'd rather run on a treadmill than run outside. Really like tennis is like I could run a thousand calories an hour and a half, and tennis, you know you can't do that run. I mean you can if you ran the whole time. Yeah, I'm not

running the whole time. Have you tried pickleball yet? Nah? I ain't playing on pickleball muster. Is there a verse that you can't wait for all of us to hear on the album? Is there one? Like? Fuck, I can't wait for everybody to hear this ship? I think I feel like that about every song on my I just feel like the songs are just gonna resonate with everybody. So definitely a little nervous for like my song and I'm rapping, But I feel like anytime you're nervous, it's a good thing.

Yeah, you're nervous the first day of school, you got a fresh fit. I wanted, Like my fis nervous. When you have a kid, You're nervous everything that you you know, you are nervous about. Every time I played it for like jay Z and stuff, and I played it for like who else play for jay Z, played it for Vince Staples, maybe Tiger YG. Everybody's like wow, feeling itverybody. It's not like no turned up song though, it's not like that. It's like every real song

for sure. What hepes say I mean because he says this is beautiful beautif he said, man, this is beautiful. Man, it's that beautiful. Just rap on the end of it. Give me a verse, this is that beautiful. Let's he's not on it, but it's just my song. Probably wouln't make sense for him to be on anyway because it's literally personal about me. So oh really yeah, it's all about my life, about your life. You are to that point though, songs gott to make sense,

right, You just can't force something for the look right. Yeah, No, I don't do that. I'm if the verse is not good, I'm not if it doesn't match. I just want to put random people on songs. I think that's one of my gifts, to of putting different people with different people. It just sounds oh yeah to me, that sounds good at least is that you would never think is there a beat or song that you've heard from someone else that you wish you would have did? Uh could have

been an older song too. It's like, yeah, damn shit, California Love. I wish I made California Live. I wish I may get Low by Little John too, like Bro, like Man blow the Whistle, like I wish I had made. There's a lot of songs. I feel like that about right, And it's that kind of thinking that got you into not like us right because you thought yourself, what would a song that Doctor D

produced for for Little John sound like? Yeah? Or like yeah, like if they were both in the studio, what would you who would you want to hear? And that's how you're like done done, Dona. It's like yeah, like you know, this is how we do this, Like the drum is just like some Little John don't don't don't like this crazy eight o eight. Yeah, that was my thought process. Man, look at it now, man, Yeah, it worked. We did it, man, listen, man you put on man. Congratulations. Appreciate that all day.

Bro, thank you for the time. Yeah, most definitely appreciated. How many times I've been d M and d d J. Mustard Bro, how ain't you back though you did? Thank you? That's why that's like you do it today. I'm like, all right, let's do it. That's great, bro, definitely, And I'm about to go play tennis time time. Let's get to it. Man, parking lot is everywhere not like us everywhere, of course. Faithful Mustard Seed July twenty sixth, can't wait for

it? Brongrat appreciate our blast Bro. Thank you Bro always, Thank you man It, Sir Muster, Cruise Show Real Naty two to three d JA. Hey, Hey checking Rich from the Cruise Show. Thanks for listening to The Cruise Show podcast to make sure to subscribe, and hey auto download so you don't miss an episode. So so so so so

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