Seth Anthony details his unlikely rise from seven years in prison for drug sales and bar fights to a country music career fueled by connections with Nelson Johnson and investors like Kenny Mollins. He explains how his "Roughneck" persona blends singer-songwriter and biker heritage, while admitting success relies on relentless marketing, frequent video releases, and enduring early failures like a disastrous debut show. Despite recent arrests for driving without a license, Anthony emphasizes that authenticity, hard work, and embracing internet trolls are essential for connecting with fans and achieving fame. [Automatically generated summary]
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Fort Pierce Roots00:04:00
Yo, yo, we're live with Seth Anthony and Kenny Mullins.
Yo, yo, yo, what's going on, guys?
It's good.
Seth Anthony, the country singer from where are you from?
Fort Pierce, Florida.
Fort Pierce, Florida.
I'm born and raised in Florida.
Born and raised, man.
Born and raised.
How did you meet this guy over here?
Over on the couch?
No, this dude.
Oh, Shane?
Yeah, that's how he told me about you.
That's how I found out about you.
It's funny, man.
And I also want to know how you met these guys, too.
Oh, yeah.
We'll talk about that after.
Yeah, they're important over there, man.
That's why they're here.
Shane, I met Shane just about two months ago through Kenny, my manager right here.
And I said, you know, I'm not going on tour until about the end of June.
So let's, I need to work, man.
I can't just sit around and keep going to the beach and not making any money.
And, you know what I mean?
I'm not on the radio or nothing yet.
So let's make some money, man.
So he hooked me up with Mikey Lambert, man, a guy he works with.
And I went out there, I was doing concrete, man, for like, what is it?
Dark till dark.
Yeah.
Sign up to sundown.
Yeah, man.
Getting it in.
Nine to five.
Holy shit, that's crazy.
So, you guys were working construction?
Yeah, man.
And then, how did you just he just told you about the country stuff and the music?
And yeah, Seth was there for a little bit, and then word went around a job site.
He sung country music.
We looked him up on YouTube, and he's got a lot of views on there.
And yeah, he's blowing up a little bit.
So, yeah, that's crazy.
How did you get into all that?
How did you get into music?
Uh, it's crazy, man.
Um, you know, last year I uh I left from Fort Pierce, Florida, and I just things weren't going right in my life.
And I took off.
I left out of there, man.
And I came to, he was building a house over here.
My boy Nelson Johnson, man.
He was building his dream house, man.
And all my buddies were working on it and everything.
And they brought me in and $20 an hour cash.
I was like, you know, I'm going to come over there and work.
I started working and everything.
And next thing you know, I'm doing tile one day.
I'm singing.
And Rob was like, man, you should really try singing, man.
You never know where it's going to go, you know?
And I was like, yeah, fuck that.
Whatever, man.
Fucking keep fucking working, man.
You know?
Then I thought about it and I was like, what the fuck am I doing?
You know what I mean?
Fuck it.
You know?
Give it a try.
So I took the money that I was making working on his house and I bought a beat.
I wrote the song to it.
I copyrighted the lyrics.
I paid for the studio at Executive Studios over there with Sean Forbes where he records that.
And I recorded Roughnecks Fall in Love, my first single.
And then next time he came to me.
What was it called?
Roughnecks Fall in Love.
Okay.
When you were playing earlier.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
That's the first one I recorded.
I put a different drum of him out earlier.
Yeah.
So I recorded that and then I played it for him and he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Make it better.
And he just kind of walked off.
What the fuck?
So I was like, all right, make it better.
All right.
So I went to another, what was it?
Clear Track Studios and got with a guy and he made it a little bit better.
And next thing you know, we got it and it was better.
And then he heard it and he said, still make it better.
So James was in Atlanta at his other studio and he paid him $300.
He was like, I'm going to give you $300 right now.
I want it mastered and done tonight.
We're going to play it in the club.
I'm not even an established artist.
You know what I'm saying?
So it was pretty crazy.
It was kind of.
From the start, it's been a dream, you know?
Yeah.
So I was just surrounded by the right people, and he did that, and we got the mix, and it played in a ton of video on Facebook and Roundup.
They played it the first night, and ever since then, it kind of just took off.
After that, I asked him, I was like, hey, loan me $5,000, man.
I'm working for you.
I'll give you $500 back a week, and let's do this, man.
He's like, all right.
Try to give him the money, and he was like, oh, man, I'm good right now, man.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, I was like, all right, man.
Who is it you're talking about?
Nelson Johnson.
Nelson, okay.
He's the bank.
He's the bankroll.
He's the guy that started my career.
He started my career.
He's a brother, man.
You know what I mean?
He doesn't support me no more, only emotionally and physically as his brother.
Seven Years Behind Bars00:15:03
Not financially.
I'm fucking out of him.
You know what I mean?
And this is all down south, like in Fort Pierce area, or is that up here?
This is right here in Clearwater.
Oh, wow.
So, yeah.
So, Fort Pierce is a small town.
If you know where West Palm Beach is, it's probably about 45 minutes north of Fort Pierce.
Yeah, yeah, north of Fort Pierce.
Yeah, yeah.
So, it's not a lot going on there, man.
It's kind of a lot of people that retire there.
It's a small town, but.
All the Jewish people that moved down from New York.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, yeah, definitely.
A lot of New Yorkers.
And they all complain about how the food sucks here.
It's not like New York.
The food sucks down here in Florida.
Right, Forrest?
Yeah.
So, what were you doing before you met this dude and started making music?
Oh, man.
I was fucking.
Unfortunately, man, I was growing up.
I moved out when I was 16 years old and didn't make the right decisions.
And then my father died of a heart attack at 51.
I took it really hard.
And.
Got in a lot of trouble and went to prison for seven years.
Wow.
Yeah.
So, which is a long time.
It was a really long time.
So, I went to prison for seven years.
And through that time, you know, I read a lot.
I did a lot of working out.
I did a lot of physical healing and mental healing and figuring out what the hell I want to do.
Because when you put yourself in that situation and you just stop and you look around and you see what the hell is really going on, the people I'm around, you're better than that, you know.
So, I had to make a choice in life.
And mentally, what I wanted to do, you know what I mean?
So, I knew I wanted to do music and I knew I couldn't just get out and do it, so there were steps to it.
So, I got out and uh, I had a kid, and things weren't going good and they went bad, and you know how it is.
So, um, I went to college for two years to be an electrician, and I was doing good, I was making great money as a commercial electrician.
I just wasn't happy, man.
I just something in me was just like, you know, you have to go for what you want, man.
And so, I had to, I had to just quit it all, and I just took a chance and came here.
I didn't come here for music, but the ultimate goal was.
Music, but I just had to get to a bigger place where there's bigger people that are networking bigger and bigger situations that are trying to do something, if that makes any sense.
You know what I mean?
So, yeah, absolutely.
Why'd you go to prison?
All right.
So, I, my father died at 51.
My mother, my mother just passed away two weeks ago.
So, that's why I canceled.
But before she was alive, and it was just my mother and my sister, and things were kind of rough.
And I didn't make the best choices.
I really wasn't there right in the mind and how.
My father died, so I talk about embalming out a little bit.
You know, I drunk when I missed the call and everything.
So, um, I uh, I took a bad and uh, I got involved with the wrong people.
I made money and was selling things and you know, selling drugs, yeah, selling drugs, man.
And um, got a lot of drug dealers on this podcast, yeah.
I'm not a drug dealer, it was a life lesson, a life lesson, you know, I mean, so yeah, um, yeah, so I did that, and then uh, you know, they wanted me to tell and do all this, and I couldn't do it, man.
I had a two year old daughter.
And, you know, my kid's mother wanted me to, you know, she's like, you need to be here.
And I just couldn't do it.
So I went and did the time, man.
So I had seven years, man, you know.
What were you slinging?
A little bit of weed and pharmaceuticals, you know what I mean?
So a little something there.
No cocaine?
No, no.
We had one guy on here who got busted with like three pounds of cocaine.
Really?
He was like 10 keys.
Oh, 10 keys.
Why is he not in prison?
He was in prison.
He missed the 90s.
Oh.
He missed all the 90s.
He was in prison for 10 years, yeah.
Obama party.
Crazy motherfucker.
Really?
Oh, Tampa Tony.
Yeah.
No, no, I was talking about BB.
We've had two guys.
So, two guys.
I watched the interview with Tampa.
Tampa Tome did you?
I was talking about a different guy, but yeah, Tampa Tome too.
Oh, yeah, he got a couple keys too.
That was the 80s, 90s, yeah.
Damn, that's wild.
So, what did you learn from being in prison for seven years?
What was the biggest thing you took away from all that?
The biggest thing I learned, to be honest, I learned a lot of things, man.
I mean, if I'm going to be honest with you, the biggest thing I learned is every action, That you every action has a reaction, you know what I mean.
In life, you know what I mean.
So, like, I just the biggest thing I learned, I thought about, and anybody does that, spending them in them circumstances.
Like, when you're sitting there and you got seven years and you can't, there's nothing you can do, you got to do it.
You got to be a man and man the up and do that, you know what I mean.
So, uh, you know what I mean.
Like, if I wouldn't have done this, right, I wouldn't be here if I didn't do this and you beat yourself up.
So, it's a life lesson.
Like, before you make a decision, think about that because there's a reaction to that, you know what I mean.
Not always the way you want.
You know what I mean?
Was it tough when you got out?
Like, was it a big learning curve for you?
Is it like the world different?
I tell you what, man.
Seven years in seven years, I'm sure.
Oh, yeah.
How old were you, first of all, when you went in?
I was 22 years old right before I turned 23.
Okay.
Yeah.
I got out right like three weeks before I turned 29.
Okay.
Yeah.
So I spent pretty much my whole 2020s in prison.
I mean, shit doesn't change, man.
Girls get pregnant, girls get married, people die, new Wendy's go up.
I mean, simple shit like that.
But the shit, they don't sell vodka.
The bar scene stays the same.
It's the same people, just different people, if that makes any sense.
You know what I mean?
So, the biggest thing that changed for me when it was like an awakening is like I went to work release and I did seven years.
And I, you know, very in, I had like two months and I was in a work release program.
I could work, I could ride my bike to a job and ride back and make money.
And they take pretty much all of it.
But whatever, you know, you're getting back into society.
And I was with these group of guys and they're like, come on, man.
And I just said, seven years of prison.
I'm like, all right.
I'm like looking around.
I'm scared as hell, man.
I'm like, I don't, you know, you just feel like a bad feeling when you go through something like that.
So, we go to a big intersection and you have to hit the button to cross the main highway.
Yeah, yeah.
So they're just like, man, fuck it.
And they just ride.
I'm like, oh, man, I'm just, you're waiting.
I'm pressing the button.
I was like, totally, I was mind screwed, you know what I mean?
So it's kind of, it takes a while to adapt, you know what I mean?
And just not even that with, I had a problem with fighting when I got out, you know what I mean?
Yeah, you know what I mean?
So in prison, You know, you don't talk, uh, unless you really mean it and there's consequences, and that's what happens.
So, after you know, I mean, like seven years of just doing that, uh, I couldn't really go out, man.
You know, I mean, I went back to prison, yeah.
What, yeah, I went back to prison, man.
Uh, fighting, yeah, I was out and I was doing good.
I didn't go out one time, and I was with a girl, and I got married and had a son, had a place, I was working doing AC, probably doing 70 hours a week, and um.
I got into an argument with her.
It was one year from me getting out of prison.
And, you know, it just, I decided to drink that night and I drank and she just, that, that, that, that.
And I was like, you know what?
Fucking done, man.
I'm fucking done.
You know what I mean?
Like, I've fucking done everything as a man and done every single fucking thing.
I'm just done.
I got in the car and I went for a ride.
And I ended up, I knew a girl that bartended somewhere.
So I went up there, had a drink.
And I'm just being real with you guys.
This is my life.
You know, this is what you wanted.
So, I went up there and I had a bud.
I was doing a lot of steroids then.
I was working out.
I wasn't partying, so I was really into that.
That was like my getaway from everything.
So I was up there and I was having a drink.
Next thing you know, there's a dude talking shit.
He's like, so loud.
He's like, like, you can't hear him, but you can see his mouth and shit.
And I'm like, oh, what the fuck?
This dude's fucking trying me right now.
I need to fucking get out of here, man.
You know what I mean?
I fucking go out one night.
You know what I mean?
Like one fucking night.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, what do you expect?
It's a bar in Florida.
So come to find out, come to find out, he was with my ex.
So he knew who I was.
Oh, shit.
Yeah, he was with my ex.
And I didn't know that till later.
But I told the bartender, I said, hey, man, I gotta get out of here.
I'm about to fuck this dude up, man.
And she's like, Seth, just fucking go.
I've been seeing you.
You look great.
You're fucked.
Just go.
You're drunk.
I was like, all right, give me one more shot, more beer.
I'm out of here.
She's like, no, go now.
I was like, no, I'm not leaving until I get one more shot, one more beer.
I was mad, you know?
Yeah.
So, and I was already drunk.
Yeah.
So I fucking took the shot in the beer and I fucking put the money on the table.
I went to walk away and I heard he like screamed above the thing.
I was like, I gotta say something.
So I walked over and I was like, hey, man.
I didn't make a scene or nothing.
I was like, hey, man, you got a problem.
You know, you want to come outside and handle like a fucking man, then that's what it is, man.
And he's like, all scared and shit.
I just walk out and he starts screaming.
Next thing you know, the bouncers run up.
They pull me out.
The bouncer punches me in the mouth.
I get into the bouncer.
I go back to jail.
I go back to prison for a year, violating my probation.
Yeah.
So I went back to prison for a year, man.
And going back after doing seven years for something that was just like, I wasn't really doing nothing.
Now I was just, you know what I mean?
I was like, this shit.
There's no room for error.
You know what I mean?
Like, there's no room for error, man.
Like, hang out and have a good time, but don't let your mind put you in a situation that you can't get out of.
And that's what the circumstances in that night was.
You know what I mean?
So, I had to, that was like the real, real awakening, man.
So, I got it.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what I mean?
So, I got out.
And that's when I really, when I got out that second time, that's when this happened when I met Nelson.
I already knew Nelson.
You know what I mean?
He came through, he was doing his business and everything.
He went to prison for seven years.
You know what I'm saying?
So I related.
You too?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Damn.
Lucky seven.
Did you meet him in there?
No.
No.
I met him through a really good friend, Jeremy, man.
And just tied in through people.
And he, this guy right here, man, he kind of paved the way for me, man.
You know what I mean?
I messed up.
I messed up.
You two are the last two motherfuckers I'd want to run into in prison.
I've never been there, but I can't imagine.
Yeah, man.
Wow.
That's wild.
Are you doing music when you're locked up and stuff back then?
Yeah, man.
It's actually a funny story because no one could ever say anything bad about me in prison.
I own money.
I didn't fight.
I was just me.
You know what I mean?
You got to put yourself, really think about it.
You're in prison.
Let's take all this shit away.
The world, your show, all this shit.
You did whatever.
You fucking left here.
We had some drinks and you killed somebody on the way home on accident.
Right, right.
And you're going to prison for seven years.
And you're in prison.
What are you going to do?
What's your mindset?
Fuck it, man.
I'm not going to fucking let nobody fucking try me.
I'm going to fuck.
I'm not trying to cause no trouble.
I'm trying to do my time.
But I'm not a fucking bitch.
And I'm going to fucking.
You know what I mean?
So when you go into that, you go into that and you have that mindset, man.
And if you don't have that mindset, then it's bad.
It's bad time.
You know what I mean?
It's just bad time.
And he can vouch for that, man.
You got to know how to hold your own, man.
Yeah.
And um, and not be, I wasn't gang banging, I wasn't doing nothing.
I was just a tattoo man, I worked out and I walked all over.
And you talk about singing in prison, yeah.
I wrote songs and I brought that up to say this because the black guys at first hated me.
Yeah.
Because I walked around and said, But ain't it out on my room?
I'm in my head.
I'm in my head.
Yeah.
I'm in my head because when in prison you have to learn how to.
Get this country motherfucker out of here.
At first they do.
Crack and shut your fucking ass up and fuck you, man.
That's what I'm doing, man.
You want to do my time?
All right, fuck you, man.
And I keep doing it.
And after a while I say, You know what?
I'm going to write a song.
I told my bunkie that he had life.
And he said, Country boy, I think you will write a song.
And I was like, I'm going to fucking write a song.
And I wrote a song.
And then I started singing it.
And then next thing you know, I'd be sitting on my bunk and I'd be writing music.
No, like not out here with beats or anything.
It's in your head.
You have to just write.
So people go, hey, hey, they all get smoke and get high and shit.
And they'd be like, hey, white boy, play that country shit for us real quick.
Oh, yeah, then they want to hear it.
Play that country shit for us real quick.
So, you know, it's like, I was like, hey, man, if I can make these motherfuckers like this shit.
I think I got something going on.
You know what I mean?
So, because I wrote from the heart.
I always write from the heart.
Everybody's not going to like a song.
And it takes me a long time to do a song only because I have so many good people behind me.
Like, I got Luxury Forge right here.
He's a singer-songwriter.
And I know he looks like Usher.
I'm not bringing a surprise artist.
I was going to say, he looks like Zaytov.
He counts like Zaytov.
He counts like Buff Zaytov.
Singer-songwriter.
Singer-songwriter.
Y'all know Kenny Mollins from Resonate.
Yeah, we know Kenny.
Nelson.
So I have a team in Pittsburgh.
Pete's not here.
I have a big team behind me.
So I do a song and I let every single one of them hear it through all the stages of it.
Yeah.
And I might love it and they'll be like, nah.
You guys are a team.
And we argue.
They'll be like, well, if you don't want to fucking hear my fucking advice, then fucking all sit it.
You know what I mean?
Because I'm like, this is fucking great.
And they're like, nah.
So I try to take it all with all these intelligent, this powerful circle I have around me.
And that's why it takes me so long.
But I write the songs from my heart, man.
And anybody that just, I hate, I hate, man.
I hate anybody that says they're artists and they just jump out of album and, Two weeks, three weeks, if a month or whatever, and just put anything down, it just sounds good.
You had to make that sound good.
We were writing a song last night, man, and we were hanging out.
We were hanging out, man.
We were vibing hard.
We were vibing hard.
I was looking at your Facebook live video where you guys were hanging out.
That was it.
Yeah, that was it.
Yeah, we were writing a song last night.
We wrote a song, well, halfway through the song last night.
So he's going to branch out.
He's in Resonated.
So he's going to do a solo song with me, Kenny Mullins, and Seth Anthony.
We're going to do like a little hip shit, man.
Hell yeah.
So it's about writing from the heart, man, and it's not about.
I don't want to say it's not about the fans, but if you have to write from your heart and then the people would just love it.
You know what I mean?
Like, if it's good.
Are there any artists that you kind of like look up to that you kind of like model yourself after that you kind of like, I want to be like this dude mixed with this dude.
Is there anything like that?
I could break that down in every genre.
Classic country, like country everybody knows, Garth Brooks, George Strait, Old Country, Wayland Jennings, Hank Williams Jr.
David Allen Coe.
I love David Allen Coe.
Not a Country Motherfucker00:08:02
I got the Hank 3 shirt for you.
Fuck yeah.
I love Hank.
That's my favorite country singer.
I love Hank.
Hank 3.
I sing Hank, man.
I love Hank.
I don't like that fucking pop country, though.
I like that fucking pop country.
Well, you gotta have some kind of fucking pop country in there, man.
Like Luke Bryan, you like Luke Bryan.
You're that guy that goes on the fucking internet and flees those dirty ass concerts.
I'm not a country motherfucker.
I'm not a country motherfucker.
What the fuck, bro?
I'm out here making music, Danny.
Come on, internet troll.
I'm not an internet troll.
I just fucking love Hank 3.
I mean, that's like my favorite country, dude.
But I mean, respect to all those guys.
Hank the third is great.
Wheeler Walker.
But Hank Williams Jr. is the guy.
Of course.
Right.
All right.
So let's just put it that way.
Right, right.
I was introduced to country through Hank 3.
That's how I kind of got like.
Well, of course, because how old are you?
I'm 30, 31.
31.
So you're around the age of me, man.
So, well, yeah, I heard Hank Third, but I grew up on Hank Williams Jr. because of my father.
Okay.
So I didn't even, I knew Hank Williams Jr. before I knew Hank the Third.
You know what I mean?
So it's hard when you, it's different.
I'm a fucking, I'm a country poser because I, you know, you came in through the.
No, there's no country poser, man.
Look what I'm wearing right now.
Look.
Do I look like a fucking redneck?
Look, I'm wearing fucking flip flops, man.
Backward shorts.
Yeah.
I'm not, I'm not a redneck, man.
I'm a country boy, man.
I grew up in the country.
God bless my mother.
She was a singer songwriter from Tennessee.
My daddy, she was a redneck.
Right.
I'm going to explain this to everybody because everybody keeps asking about the roughneck thing.
I didn't work on fucking oil rigs.
And if you do, I respect you because it's a hard fucking job.
Yeah.
My mom is a singer songwriter from Tennessee.
She's a redneck.
My dad was a biker from Illinois.
He moved to Fort Pierce as a fisherman.
He's a roughneck.
He was a rough rider.
Yeah.
So I took, I'm both of them.
I'm roughneck.
You know what I'm saying?
That's why I came up with my whole little roughneck thing.
It's because.
That's just who I am, man.
I'm not a redneck, but I'm not a city boy.
I'm not a surfer.
I'm just me, man.
And I grew up with country ways and I grew up on the beach and I grew up.
It's who I am.
You know what I mean?
So I don't feel like it because my heart's in country that I hate that because people stereotype if I don't got fucking, I got cowboy boots and I fucking wear them and I just stop dipping because it ain't fucking good.
You know what I mean?
And I fucking love it.
How about that?
I haven't quit drinking or smoking weed because I love those two things and it's gonna be hard to let them go.
You know what I mean?
So I'm calming down with it a lot.
You know what I mean?
My mom just passed away a couple weeks ago when I canceled this.
I really wanted to be here, man, but it wasn't.
I wasn't mentally right.
That's heavy, dude.
Yeah, man.
So I drank so much goddamn whiskey and moonshine and fucking beer and fucking cried and fucking laughed and fucking sang and fucking, you know what I mean?
So yeah, man.
You know what I mean?
I got some fucking gifts for you guys, though.
Really?
Yeah.
Of course, man.
You think I'm a scumbag?
I'm not going to fucking bring you guys something?
No one's the only person across there.
Nobody's ever.
I brought you guys each Seth Anthony shirt, man.
Oh, fuck yeah.
There you go.
There you go.
Hell yeah.
There you go.
So I got you guys each a Seth Anthony shirt.
Hell yeah.
I appreciate that one.
I got you guys some Reef and Reel.
It's a company.
The Reef and Reel, dude.
This is another thing.
Look, you see me wearing all their shit.
Yeah.
If it's made in America, I fucking love it.
Yeah.
I'm America Pro.
Yeah.
So my next song is American Made.
This fucking AC unit we got here is made in China.
That's why it's broke.
That's why it's fucking broke.
It's a piece of shit, bro.
All right, and we got two freaking fat ass Americans fixing it for us, and they're fixing it though, yeah, because they're American, they are.
So, look, I gotta get some beer, uh, some beer cozies, man.
Oh, bottlenecks, man.
Thank you, dude.
Yeah, man.
Oh, yeah.
So, uh, these guys, is this your company or no, dude?
They're not even paying me, bro.
That's the craziest thing.
Look, I gotta get my beer bottle opener.
Look at that.
Oh, yeah, hell yeah, I'm just saying, I got some vodka if you want some vodka.
I'm good for now, yeah.
So, um.
I met these guys.
I was with him on the jet skis, man.
And we were just out ripping it up one day.
I just came from an hour across town.
And he's like, let's take the fucking jet skis out.
I was in town for 10 minutes.
I'm like, fuck it, let's go.
Took the jet skis out.
He's like, we're riding all over the fucking place and shit.
And next thing you know, fucking, we see this whole group of people with these big ass boats, these girls in bikinis.
And I'm like, I got to get in the mix.
That's where we got to go.
I got to get in the mix.
You know what I mean?
So I walked over there and it was these guys.
Okay.
Family owned fucking.
Company men, fucking, their shirts fit great.
Their fucking hat, I put their hat on.
It's a big thing with hat.
I wear a lot of hats.
Yeah, yeah.
Because I shave my head.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
So I don't want to, a lot of people say, oh, he looks KKK.
He's got all these tattoos.
It's another thing, you know.
I got all these tattoos and everything.
So I wore my hats.
The hat fit perfect.
Yeah.
Half fit perfect.
It did.
KKK.
Shout out to Reese and Rio.
They say when I take my hat off, I look like the KKK because all these tattoos, I got a full, my whole body's tattooed, man.
So you got all your tattoos, most of them in prison?
Prison, man.
Really?
Wow.
Prison.
Yeah.
Damn.
I mean, that's the best ways to get them, right?
He puts a story behind it.
Fuck yeah.
I didn't get this from some guy drunk, fucking not wanting to do the tattoo.
This is a guy trying to live.
And he put his art in my body.
Yeah.
It wasn't bullshit art, man.
He put Some good shit on me, man.
Hell yeah.
That's what's up.
You ever thought about collabing with a hip hop artist or anything like some Old Town Road shit?
Old Town Road.
What do you think of that song?
I fucking love it.
Okay.
I like it too.
You should fucking like it.
What do you think about Lil Hank?
The Lil Yodel Boy, the Walmart Yodel Kid?
I couldn't even tell you who the fuck that is.
Really?
I wish you'd do.
You need to have a fucking.
Kenny, you know who he is?
Are you talking about the guy who doesn't say actual words?
He was yodeling in Walmart.
They made the viral video about him.
Then he was in fucking Coachella.
And you know what I think about that?
Good for him.
It's over with.
What's he going to do next?
I don't know.
Yeah, it was like one song.
It's like, I want to get back in 20 seconds.
Thank you for entertaining me for 30 seconds of my life.
But then fucking, what are you doing after that?
So I don't follow people.
I mean, it's a fucking, it's realism, man.
Fucking, do you want to fuck?
You know, people getting into the music industry, I thought it was so easy and I was so blind to this shit, man.
And I went through a lot of Fucking trials and tripes and fucking dumb shit, man.
I had this dude fucking literally, he was investing in me, giving me $500 to $1,000 a week cash to live, fucking paid for a house for six months, paid for my everything just because he believed in me.
Because, first of all, I want to tell any artist that watches this if you believe in yourself enough, you can make somebody believe in you, put money into you, make the whole world believe.
And that's fucking truth.
Positivity, man.
You gotta put it out there.
It's facts.
It's facts of life.
All right.
So if you believe in that shit and you live that shit and you really dedicate yourself to that shit, It will manifest for you, man.
I promise you.
That's a little knowledge I want to drop for you, man.
But I met this dude right here, man, and he did all that for me.
And about four months into it, I didn't think it was going to go that fast.
No one does.
It kind of has blown up pretty fast.
So, what, in a couple months?
Oh, dude.
I got the perfect people around me right now that.
That have me to a point where everybody's knowledgeable in their own degree.
You see what I'm saying?
We have a perfect circle.
We were talking about this.
When you have a perfect circle where everybody just does their own thing in their job and their role, things work like an old machine.
You know what I mean?
So when you don't have that, you're overworking yourself and you're stressing yourself out and you're not getting productivity as much done as it could be.
You know what I mean?
So you hurt and you lack in areas where you have a strong team and things are going right and everybody's not fucking up.
People are gonna fuck up, but you keep each other up.
You're you're that's why I in the beginning I just jumped so fast and I made a lot of bad decisions that I'm glad I made them.
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We talked about this because if I would have made them uh later in the game, it would have me up, it would have hurt me, yeah.
Because I made them so early in the game, I mean, I up, yeah.
I was going out and spending three hundred dollars a night at a bar and ended up in who knows where with females and you know, I mean, I was just like, hey, but I would always show up doing my music, yeah.
But people knew they were like, hey.
Fucking look like shit.
Yeah, you're here.
Yeah.
But fucking, you know what I mean?
Like, what the fuck have you been doing, bro?
Like, are you fucking?
Do you want this or you want to fucking party and mess around with girls, bro?
And I'm like, no, I'm just, I'm here.
And I just kept going and I fucked up so much that this guy picked me up.
I went to his house and he told me not to, I'm not going to name her name because it's going to fucking cause a lot of shit.
But this is a girl and he told me not to, you know, just be with her that night and do my thing.
And I didn't, I didn't listen, bro, you know, and I just kept, I was still doing my music and I brought her around.
Next thing you know, she's around.
He gets one double, he's like, Oh, yeah, yeah, come over to the crib, man.
Come over to the house.
All nonchalant.
This is why I fuck with this dude, man, because he's real.
Yeah, so he pulls me over.
We're drinking, we're hanging out, we're doing all this shit, man.
So he's like, Hey, man, he's got an AMG fucking Rentec all hooked up.
Scariest car I've been in, man.
Almost killed me on fucking being Clearwater, motherfucker, man.
760 horse, what I don't even know what the fuck it is, man.
Fucking scary ass car, man.
You know what I mean?
So he's like, Get in the car, man.
Just fuck, just come with me.
I'm like, All right, I get in the car, I got the beer.
I'm like, Hell yeah, bro, I'm about to go do this show.
He goes, Bat.
He slams on the fucking brakes.
I almost slapped my head on the fucking thing.
He's like, You think this shit's fucking sweet, bro?
I'm like, What?
I'm like, What?
I'm like, What the fuck's going on?
He's like, Bro, you think this shit's sweet?
I'm giving you money.
I'm doing this.
I'm paving your fucking career.
You got talent.
You're over here.
You don't want to fuck.
You think you're going to spend my money and just go hang the fuck out?
He checked me and left me right there.
And I still love him.
I still love him, man.
I love him and I respect him to this day because that's what I needed.
You know what I mean?
Because I was fucking.
You got to think when you come from nothing, man, and fucking.
And and and do something.
It goes so fast.
You kind of get caught up in that vibe of that, that stream of just like of things going on and everything and it's not.
It's not good man, you know what I mean, because you're just going to ruin your career either if you're drinking too much, you're partying too much, spending too much money, you're spending too much time on women, not enough time on music, whatever the it is man, you know what I mean.
So he checked me on that and it was, I was a and I didn't.
Even the way he checked me was so masculine, like you know what i'm saying.
It was like some real and I was like, all right, he's for real.
Yeah, He's obviously for real, you know what I mean.
I don't think he's playing, so uh, damn, I'm up for him to be this serious, and uh, you know what I mean.
And I have not stopped talking to him for any reason.
And anytime he flips out on me like that, I know there's a reason behind it, you know what I mean.
So, uh, I'm not perfect, you're not perfect, nobody in this room is perfect, man.
And uh, doing what I'm doing, or doing even which I respect you guys, man.
Yeah, uh, shout out to you guys, what, two 220,000 subscribers or something like that, 227.
Something like that.
I look, man.
Yeah.
It's growing.
That's a big shout out right there, man.
It was nothing quick, though.
It took us years.
Okay.
What I'm saying right now, it took learning and doing things.
And you know what I mean?
Kenny told me last night, he said, Seth, man, people ask me all the time.
I've been a musician forever.
I toured nationally everywhere.
You're my manager and you live the same life as me.
Our life is like a pinball machine.
Explain it.
How did you guys meet Kenny?
We've known you, Kenny, since high school when you're in an emo band.
Hey, with Mikey.
With Mikey.
Three times fast, I think it was called.
How did we meet?
Actually, a buddy I went to high school with, I don't think you guys know him.
I asked you before, but Naren Connor's brother, one of the team members, I guess you could call him.
He hit me up on Facebook and was like, yo, man, I got this.
I got a buddy of mine who's a country artist and I want to write some music.
He's moving over here.
So I thought about you.
I was like, okay, cool.
Yeah, man, bring him over.
I got a bunch of sessions open.
I've been doing a lot of co-writes.
So he came over.
Actually, I usually try to listen to the music, try to figure out what the vibe is a little bit and try to merge my fingerprint on it with what he's trying to go for.
And I had this song written, halfway written.
And Seth came over one night.
I didn't know what I was getting into.
Because I never worked with a rough neck.
Are you trying to sound rowdy, bro?
Oh, get the fuck out of here.
A little bit rowdy.
I try to keep him in line.
I was just telling him on the, yeah, you know, like we're the yin and the yang.
You guys got a completely separate audience.
I mean, you're like resonated as like reggae pop, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like pop reggae stuff.
But I mean, I write with soul artists.
I write with R&B, rock, pop, whatever.
Anyways, he comes over.
I met him that night at my house.
We had a session and we just wrote a banger song and it was just on from there.
He was coming over to actually just write with me.
He's like, bro, fucking, how'd you do this, bro?
You, you.
You fucking you're the man you could be my manager man Like well, I don't know maybe you know like I'm thinking in my head I'm like this is just like kind of right, you know You meet a lot of people you write with you hang out with you know you create that talk a lot of stuff and you create something you get like into that shit right into that like it like I can't explain it unless you know you're like how you guys are into this You know you guys you guys are into that shit.
So we I knew that it was like something good I didn't even really listen to any of the like look at the views and stuff like that I listened to songs.
I wasn't.
We're looking at it that way.
I was just looking at, could I vibe with this, you know?
And uh, we vibed first night.
We moved on to another song and uh, all of a sudden, you know, three months later, he's living at my house, he's living in the studio yeah, and uh, in the studio, in the studio.
So we uh, we've got to spend a lot of time together and uh, he's definitely, you know, he's got a lot of motivation.
I see that.
You know, like he was saying earlier, you get people to believe in you, like I.
I know the feeling as an artist.
You know, i've been in this game for a long ass time and i've realized that my strong point is writing.
You know, I love traveling.
I've seen, i've been to tons of places, played a lot of awesome venues, play with tons of awesome bands and stuff, but my real passion is just writing music, you know.
So that came along and then I go doorbells.
Yeah, I had a bunch of buddies who jammed and I know tons of musicians because you know I do the jams and stuff everywhere, blues jams, funk jams, you know, Reggae jams, whatever.
So I know tons of musicians.
He's like, yo, i'm moving.
I, you know, I need a band, I want to really do this.
I was like so, you're not, you know, not trying to just put out music on your own.
You really want to be, you know, have a band.
So I, I connected with a band.
They rehearsed at my house.
We, you know, I don't even think we tried out anybody I think it was the first guys.
I was like these are the guys.
I kind of went there rough man.
I went there.
I was like uh yeah, so they, you know, they smoked a bowl and I was like hey, what's up?
Guys, we're gonna play this music showed up late, because that's how you do it, you gotta show up late.
But no they uh they, they vibed it there, you know, they practiced this, all you know, at the Crib and at the studio.
And uh, and then you know he's like i'm i'm, he was working in Spring Hill or, you know, with Nelson Right, working with you.
I was working in Spring Hill, I was him before.
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Okay okay okay so, yeah.
So then he moved in and we just, you know, and vibing got him an agent, so now he's booking shows.
He's got we just confirmed like yeah, shout out to Georgia here, we're going to Georgia june and june june 14th and 15th i'll be in Statesboro and Savannah Georgia, nice.
Um, I'm gonna be in Daytona, Stewart, Florida, California.
We're going all over, man.
Yeah.
So this year is gonna be a fucking fun ass year, man.
You know what I mean?
I've been telling people on Facebook for like fucking eight months.
I'm like, I'm coming out of Florida.
I'm coming.
Are you guys like an album or anything?
What are you guys working on?
Oh, yeah.
A bunch of singles?
How does it work?
You guys just like put together a bunch of singles and then I'm like, I feel like we had a different mindset at first.
I think Seth needs an album.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
There's a lot of good hype on the singles and stuff.
Yeah.
But it doesn't have to be anything like super long or anything.
But I think an album would be easy to knock out pretty 10 songs.
You know, just like.
Working on an album right now.
We already got probably half of it done.
Yeah, we got half the album done.
So I mean literally in this next like three weeks We're probably gonna be sitting there With a guitar jamming out me and him and cranking out the rest of these songs and then We're make some demos.
I'll go to Orlando and Mike Steve So, like you guys remember, smoke signals resonated, album Sativa FIVA, that yeah, yeah, so that producer, he's now the drummer for the LAX.
You know the LAX, i've heard of them.
Um, who's the LAX?
Mike Steve the LAX, they're country, country rappers.
Okay yeah, they're really blowing up right now and I just kind of utilize my connections right, I was like do I know any country?
Right hookups, you know like, maybe you know, and are you?
I just have guitar and on the the music no no, I just write, I just write.
And who's playing?
Who's playing?
Is there guitar?
There's guitar?
Yeah, I gotta, they're not here right now, they're all, they're all sitting musicians.
Okay, I got you, I got you like hired on the spot pretty much for most of the stuff.
Okay, the stuff that I did with Seth um, I did guitar on um, but it's it's a lot of collaboration and back and forth and stuff like that.
So you guys are all there together at the same time, just like.
No no, like we'll write a song together and then we'll it'll maybe be him and someone else in the room next time and then we'll share mixes and stuff like that.
Okay, so everybody's happy, kind of like we were saying earlier and you know, just like, get it where it needs to be and uh, and that's what i'm, that's what I do.
You know what I mean.
Like that's where I come in.
You know like I, I I work with a lot of different pop artists, and Not necessarily country, but now that I've dipped into it, I've developed a ton of relationships with people.
And it really just comes down to making the best song.
And if it's not with these guys, maybe you could write a great song, but it's not produced right.
You know what I mean?
So there's different elements to it.
You could write a great song on guitar and then take it to this producer who costs you all this, or it doesn't cost you that, and you get what you're not really expecting.
So it's kind of like a the fact is, make a fucking song like old Town Road.
I mean, just fucking make some simple, stupid.
Right, yeah.
It's fucking sad to say, man.
It's really fucking sad to say.
That's what catches on.
I mean, you know what I'm saying.
It's sad.
You know what I mean?
No, if anybody can vouch for this, the man sitting in the middle of the fucking couch will fucking vouch for this, and he gets so angry.
Why haven't us three done a song together?
We should do a song together.
I'm trying to bring him a little bit out of like soul kind of R&B country vibe.
I don't do solo in art.
But you know what, last night he was doing it.
And then he could do it.
I mean, he was playing down a little bit.
I mean, I could do it, but fucking Old Town Road is just think about it.
It's so fucking simple and basic.
But you know what people want?
People want something catchy.
Yeah.
And something they don't hear a whole bunch of words and they can sing along to and know the words.
So when they're in their fucking car, they can jam the fuck out.
Or when they hear it, they're like, oh shit.
And they fucking jam out of this fucking dumbass bar where they're drinking margaritas, where the fuck you're at.
You know, I eat Taco Tuesday.
I don't give a fuck.
Wherever you're at.
Send an apple.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Who gives a fuck?
You hear that song, you get hyped because you know the words, it's a catchy beat.
It's simple music, and that's what's selling, bro.
And it's sad to fucking say, like, people, like, anybody that does music, it's like, it's selling out.
And fucking, you know what, man?
I wrote a song.
I'm in it for the money because everybody's fucking talking about I'm in it for the fans.
I'm doing this, I'm doing that.
You know what?
I'm not going to name the artists, but I've hit up a lot of artists, man, that are in the game.
And I talk to them.
I'm going to say, hey, man, look what I'm doing.
Look at my views.
Look what I'm doing.
I'm only a year in this shit, man.
Watch what I do, man.
I want to do a song with you.
I like your music.
And 75% of them come back with, all right, I'm down, but you know, I don't do features for free.
So you're not in it for the fans.
You're not in it for the love of music.
You're not in it for that.
So I made a song about, I'm in it for the money.
I'm in it for the girls.
You know what I mean?
I'm going to keep it real.
I'm going to keep it real.
What are you in it for?
You're in it for that motherfucking money and you're in it for the women and the fucking fame.
I don't really give a fuck about the money, the fame, anything.
I want to live a good life.
I don't want to have to hurt for anything.
And let's just be real, nobody does.
You know what I mean?
I don't want to be like, hey, fuck, man, I don't want to stress about no bill.
I just want to sing my music, man, and make people relate to it.
And it's nothing, it's no high I've ever been on.
Like being on a stage, man, and singing a song and seeing people just in that euphoric stage of just happiness, man.
And just fucking loving it, man.
That just, it brings a high to me that just motivates me.
Fuck the money, fuck all that shit.
And I love the money.
I'm in it for the money.
All right.
Let's just fucking, fuck you.
You know what I'm saying?
Right.
Yeah, for sure.
You come to your job for free?
No, you don't.
Okay, then.
It's my job.
All right.
I need to fucking get paid.
All right.
So, but I mean, I love the fans, man.
And it's a high that fucking brings such joy to me, man, that I've never felt in my life, man.
I've been through a lot of fucking shit, man.
And it just does.
I get excited about it.
This fucking guy, everybody in this fucking room, besides him, Sean's brother, he hasn't met me that much.
Every single person in this room has probably hated me and loved me at the same time, I promise you.
I'm a full fledged character.
I really am.
I'm a full fledged character.
People don't know how to react to me.
They're like, who the fuck is this fucking guy?
I just told him today that we should do some kind of cartoon with all his personalities.
I'm telling you, man.
I know a couple guys.
I know a couple guys, right?
Yeah.
I fuck it.
I'm in it for the money.
Hell yeah.
Yeah, you can do it.
Hey, so what was the first show like?
You haven't been doing shows too long, right?
Oh, yeah, man.
I just started doing shows last year, man.
So what was your first one like?
My first one was Okeechobee Stampede.
And for a night that they had nobody there, we had a pretty good turnout.
And it was my first show when I played with the band, not my band, but the band that I record my music with.
And they were like, This is your first fucking show?
Are you nervous?
No, I didn't tell them that.
Yeah.
I just fucking did the fucking show.
I drink a lot of matches.
I drink like.
Two Josh Jamison and about three Bud Lights.
I went there and killed that fucking shit.
You know what I mean?
I told him after it was the first show.
You know what I mean?
I fucking, I didn't tell him that.
Yeah, okay.
Because if you do that, then you're fucking, you're putting doubt in the fucking artist.
You know what I mean?
Like, oh, fuck.
Now they're worried about, am I going to fucking be on cue?
No, don't tell them that.
I'm so professional.
They're like, they think I'm a seasoned vet, motherfucker.
You know what I mean?
I go up there and do my motherfucking thing.
You know what I mean?
Like, fuck it.
You know what I mean?
So I went up there and fucking, I sang that shit and I clapped all their hands.
I gave him each money and I was like, Hey, this is my first show.
They're like, this is your first fucking show?
I was like, yeah.
They're like, what the fuck?
And I was like, yeah, man, this is my first show.
Yeah, that's what I was like.
They're like, what the fuck, man?
And the next show was a fucking blank.
It was fucking horrible.
Yeah, people got fired.
It was horrible.
Almost lost an investor.
It was fucking, you know, but you got to do that.
You have to do that as being an artist, man.
If you don't have a story to tell, this is how I look at it in my life.
Anytime I get down on myself, I'm a positive thinker, man.
And I just think, even when I'm in the rut, And I'm in a rut.
I don't think I can get out.
I fucking think of some positive shit and I get myself out, man, because I think about it like this.
If there was no story to tell on the way to the top to make a music, you're not fucking interesting to me.
You know what I mean?
If this shit was just handed to you, like, hey, you see this shiny rock?
If you hold this rock, you're on the radio, and I just hand it to you and you hold it, you're gonna be like, you're on the radio.
Who the fuck are you?
Fuck you, Chain.
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't give a fuck about you and your glasses.
You don't wear a sweater and you're like, you're glowing rocks.
Oh, shit.
I don't fucking care.
You know what I mean?
Like, being honest, you know what I'm saying?
You gotta go through that shit, man.
You have to fucking sleep on couches and eat ramen fucking noodles after fucking prison.
And that's ridiculous to get where you're going and fucking do things and fucking be a mess and fucking be all over the place.
And that's what you have to do, man.
You know what I mean?
Like a lot of people, every single person I've noticed, and I research everybody.
I'm a YouTube stalker, man.
I research people that are successful and then I go outside of YouTube and I research them.
And every single person that has been successful with music, acting, anything has either known somebody.
And got them the in there, or they went through the ringer, man, and they didn't quit.
Because you know what?
No matter how many times you fail, you keep going.
You see what I'm saying?
And the that just quits is you're working on your nothing.
If you're working when you're not nothing, I don't want to say that because people take that the wrong way.
If you work a nine to five and you're happy with that, not what you were trying to do.
I'm not trying to do that.
I don't want to go on vacation once a month and be and work a pay to uh week to week paycheck and pay my mortgage and goddamn the radio broke on the truck, babe.
Fuck, you know what I'm saying?
Like, fucking all this dumb shit.
I don't want to do that.
I have potential to do something different.
So I have to fail, And I have been not failing, but I'm going to fail.
I'm going to fail.
Something's going to happen and I'm going to fail, but it's not going to fucking set me nowhere.
I'm not going to get upset because when I fail, I boost up and I learn all the mistakes and I don't make the mistakes no more and I fucking go forward.
And that's what it's about.
That's life, man.
It's energy.
You know what I'm saying?
It's some shit that fucking a lot of people don't get.
You know what I mean?
Like, it's.
It's serious shit, man.
Like, what's been the key to your success so far, though?
Because you're, you're like blowing up now.
You're doing really well.
So, what have you been doing that's working?
Like, what's, uh, to be honest with you, man, keeping positive people around me, man.
Okay.
You know what I mean?
Like, all these dumb sayings that people, that people, uh, you hear through growing up and it, birds of a feather fuck together.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, it's truth.
Fuck together?
No.
It's that, it's that, it's that, it's the vodka.
It's the vodka.
Flock, fuck, tomato, tomato.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
So, um, You know, it's use that as an analogy of positive people and bad people.
Everybody in this room has negative people in their fucking life.
Either it's a family member, a homeboy, anything, man.
And I don't give a fuck who you are, how big you are, how small you are.
You have that.
You have positive people and negative people.
If you don't have that much positive people in your life, well, then fuck you.
Be by yourself until you find more positive fucking people and stay on the right track, man.
You know what I'm saying?
Because if you go back, because it's easy to go to negative people, man.
And I'm telling you from life experience, man, it's very easy, man.
To do dumb shit to make money or hang out and just get in trouble, man.
You know what I mean?
That's deferring me from where the fuck I'm going with anybody, man.
And I preach that because I believe that so much.
And take it from a guy that fucks up a lot, man.
Yeah.
Take it from a guy that fucks up more than you fucking know.
I don't let it be seen because I have an image to keep.
Yeah.
I don't want my fucking personal shit when I fuck up.
Who would?
You know what I mean?
I fuck up.
You know what I mean?
But guess what?
I'm going to take my horse to Old Town Road.
I'm going to.
I'm going to take my horse.
I'm going to get back on that road, man.
I'm going to keep going, bro.
I'm trying to tell you.
I'm not stopping.
You got to drive.
Yeah, you gotta have that.
What the fuck are you doing?
Yeah.
What are you doing?
Yeah.
What are you doing?
A little bit of confidence, a little bit of drive, and a little bit of vodka.
That's all you need, man.
Usually it's whiskey, but this fucking guy over here, you know, I'm trying to quit drinking, man.
So why are your videos blowing up so much?
Like your music videos are fucking going crazy.
What was the fucking talent?
What the fuck you mean?
Yeah.
I thought that was too, but my shit ain't blowing up like that.
No, man.
So, no, I got the best marketing guy in Florida, man.
Fucking.
These fucking guys, he's on point, man.
So, uh, he's got a good team, yeah.
I have a good team, man.
You know what I mean?
That's what when I went to this and I took it serious, man.
I had to take a step back, and you know, I've been the more flawed guy out of the circle than anybody, you know what I mean?
So, if that's the situation, that's a good thing, yeah.
You straighten yourself up and correct the little things here and there, but you know what I'm saying?
So, it's just you know, me with um, just me dealing my own and uh, like.
You don't understand, man.
This thing has literally come overnight, you know what I mean?
So, uh, me just doing music and even doing this right here, him being my manager, him, my life, these people in my life, this just came like uh overnight.
So, um, you know, I don't stop thinking, I'm a thinker, so I'm thinking, but I'm not thinking.
So much is going on, I'm it's almost like I'm not thinking if that makes any sense.
Like, I'm just like kind of like rolling with it, you know what I mean?
I'm just like, I gotta go here, I gotta do this, I got so much, yeah.
So, uh, I got off track a lot and.
Did a lot of stupid shit, made not stupid decisions, but not the correct decisions.
And it fucked up things, but it was supposed to happen, man.
And that's what I believe, man.
You'll fall into place.
It is.
It is.
I mean, things are supposed to fuck up for a reason.
There's always doors opening in life.
You know what I'm saying?
People aren't awoke to nothing.
People are probably thinking I'm crazy for talking like this, but I'm so, I'm not crazy.
You know what I mean?
So I just used it in my life and I know it works.
Doors open in your life, man.
And if you don't take that door, Don't get discouraged and go back to the bullshit because there's always going to be a door opening.
You know what I mean?
Like, you have to take the door, and that door, at least, I want all the door, man.
And it's what you put into it is what you're going to receive.
So, you know what I mean?
So, I know when I'm fucking up and I know when I'm drinking too much or I'm not concentrating enough.
And it weighs on my conscience because I've trained myself to do that.
You know what I mean?
And once you put yourself into that element, man, to doing something, I don't give a fuck what you want to do.
If you want to build it, I keep going back to this fucking.
Stupid ass glowing rock, glowing which I like.
This rock, I'm gonna take this rock.
I'm gonna take the rock.
If I wanted to build this rock, I said, I would just say, I like the rock.
I'll be like at night, like, so if I want to build this rock, yeah, all right, literally think about this with your mind.
I want to build this, I have an idea with a glowing rock, and I want to build this.
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And it's gonna cost me 233 or 433 to make it.
And it's the shit, and you do all this, and you put your mind to it, you're gonna fail.
That's life.
You're gonna fail, but guess what?
If you reconstruct it and you do it right, you will not fail.
And I'm not saying how fast, maybe, maybe he needs a light bulb, Sean.
You know what I'm saying?
That's the cheaper way, right?
I might have the LED in there, that LED, or putting a regular light bulb in that, bro.
You know what I mean?
Like, it's just life, dude.
You know what I mean?
So, I do music, so I fail and I learn.
I'm like, he can't even deal with me, bro.
I'm trying to tell you, I wish I had a GoPro.
This guy right here, he's like, fuck with him.
This guy's like right here, he's like, I can't fucking deal with this dude, man.
You know what I mean?
Like, I can't, you're too all over the place, Seth.
And I'm like, I just gotta figure it out.
So, like, you've hit it, obviously, you've hit like a certain level, like a pretty high level so far.
Like, you've started to take off online, people are noticing you.
So, like, what, like, in a certain timeframe, whatever that may be, like, what's, like, the next step?
What's the next level that you want to hit that you have, like, in sight right now?
That's a big question, man.
To me personally, I say true, man.
So, I'm going to say true to the people that it's, you know, this is fucked up, man, because the music industry, man, is so political and people don't even fucking realize it, man.
You know what I mean?
Like, there's so much things that go into it that you don't realize until you do music, man, on a big scale.
You can release a song, put on, I mean like career wise, like what's the next level?
Like career wise, money wise, like like well, with the top bro yeah, I mean well, you gotta take it step by step, though.
Right, you just want to shoot straight to the top, or do you think like it's not gonna happen that way?
Because i'm a realistic dude?
Yeah right, this dude, let's cut the man this dude's gonna be, this dude's gotta like, so we just got this agent, I think developing like true, like organic fans seeing him live.
Yeah because, you know, I mean, it was kind of overnight, like like uh, almost what do you call?
Influencer situation in a way um, but taking those people, figuring out where those people are and touring to those areas and right right okay, I think that just right.
I don't know about him for himself, but I think, like that, that's like gaining real people right, real people to like have seen.
That's step one.
That's, they're gonna pay to come to your show.
Yeah, that's step one.
Step one is to do this.
I'm already doing it.
Get on some tours with some bigger artists.
Yeah, get seen.
Maybe do some features with some bigger artists.
What kind of features you guys want to do.
What kind of artists do you want to work with?
Ah like, if you could pick three right now, pick two, two.
Yeah, pick two two any, anybody.
Any artist.
Ryan Upchurch, Walker Hayes, no, Miller Walker, Ryan Upchurch, and Taylor Ray Holbrook.
I don't know any of those guys are.
Me neither.
That's the two people that I personally would feel personal satisfaction music wise, okay, and personal gain.
Have you ever financed out?
You know what I mean?
No, I will.
You know what I mean?
I will.
Right now, I have so much going on, man.
You know, there's a time and place for everything, man.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
For sure.
If you step in too soon, yeah.
You fuck up the whole thing, man.
You know what I'm saying?
You got to feel it in your body when it's like, it's like, it's a fine, well oiled machine, man.
Like, it really is, man.
You'll know when things are just moving and you'll see it.
You'll see it.
And you'll be like, it's time.
Bam.
And you reach out.
You know what I mean?
So, I already got a couple artists.
I'm not going to name them, man.
I'm going to do some features with, man.
And they say they want to do them, but they're on tour and they're doing this and doing that.
And I talk to them.
So, you know, if we do it, we do it.
If not, Keep whatever you know, I mean, there's a lot of big up and coming music musicians around this area, like in this dude.
St. Pete is very hard for so many, it's crazy.
St. Pete is like a reggae capital, man.
Yeah, it's reggae vibes, yeah.
A lot of hip hop, a lot of rapping out of hip hop, reggae, like you know, I mean, we got Ruger Rye, we got yeah, well, he's Clearwater Luxury Force, man.
He's he's uh, he did do a song with uh, who was that one dude that did the big tube party on uh, oh, yeah, 4G on a blow?
Oh, yeah, we did some videos with him.
He did a song with him, and there's this other kid, Rod Wave, who's blowing up around here, yeah.
We did some videos with those dudes.
Those dudes are Rod and Glock 9.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm not really into the rap thing.
Yeah.
Yeah, you gotta.
I'll rap.
I'll rap.
Just dip your toe in.
Yeah, it's gotta be like a little.
You have a little like rap hip hop feel to your music.
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Yeah.
Well, you changed the country twang a little bit and put a rap beat behind it.
I think that's what we just did last night a little bit.
Well, we did a little bit last night.
I told him last night, I was like, I wanna fucking rap a little bit, man.
You know what I mean?
So you should have fun with it, man.
You know, people talk shit on the internet.
People will talk shit on the internet no matter what.
Oh, yeah.
They roast on the fucking video we put on the internet.
Well, fuck them.
Fuck them, bro.
You know what?
Thousands of times.
Oh, we're going to get fucking ethered on this video right now.
I fucking love it.
Yeah.
We do it every time we get a video.
I hope they talk fucking shit.
Yeah, they are.
They fucking stick it up their ass, man.
You know what I mean?
If you're talking about you, you're doing something.
Hey, it's a good thing.
Yeah.
Fuck the internet trolls.
No, we love the internet trolls.
You gotta let them.
You can't fight hate with hate.
If you don't love them, man, then you fucking don't love the game.
Exactly.
Because the game is part of hate.
Exactly.
It really is, man.
You know what I mean?
So when I first started doing it, I fucking was so.
Bro, listen, I'm trying to tell you, I haven't told a lot since I've been on this fucking goddamn interview.
I sleep my goddamn phone on my chest, man.
And when that shit buzzed, I wake up in the middle of the night.
A bad comment, I what when I first started because I was so I'm so passionate about what the fuck no, but what I do, you know, I mean, so I was like, Motherfucker, I was like, if you knew, because I put no one knows, just a dumb.
I had to take care of the uh stalkers when can I say about a few months ago, you were you went to jail again, or a couple, yeah, I went to jail.
We had some, we had some crazies following, and I'm like.
Answering back these girls and they're, they're pissed at you replying like.
You just be like, thanks for hitting up the page yeah, but they one girl was like when it was pretty funny he's got a mega fan.
I'm not gonna say her name.
He got a few, he got a few makeup.
I think I know who you're.
You know who i'm talking about.
Yeah, we're gonna go there, but anyways, she's a good girl.
She's a good girl, she's a good girl, she's and she's at the show.
And there's this other fangirl there and that's another one you probably know and um, she's like, hits up the page, hits up the page.
Like three days after this, this uh festival or fair, you did like three shows.
It was like three days of shows.
And uh, she's like, yo Seth, i've lost all respect for you.
You, I tried to take a picture with you and that girl came up in the middle of it and like, did it on purpose, I know for sure.
So i'm not following you anymore.
So I was like, okay, I'm not going to answer that.
The next thing she hits back, she's like, look, I'm not saying that I'm totally not going to follow you, but do you have any more extra large shirts of yours from the show?
And I'm just sitting there watching it happen.
I mean, she went on.
I could go on and on.
But she went on and on talking to herself.
And then once she got positive about it, I was like, thanks so much.
And she was like, cool.
I look forward to the next show.
So that gives you an idea.
I saw the whole rollercoaster.
I do a lot of social media, and I was like, oh.
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Take over it.
You know, I didn't really expect I didn't know I was getting into.
Yeah, you know, I was like yeah, he's got, you know, got a few comments here and there, you know whatever.
But it just started blowing up and, like it was, it was pretty funny resonating, not pulling in those fans.
Oh yeah, we are actually.
We got some country fans, actually a new single.
We just got a stalker fan.
Oh, we got some stalker fans.
Yeah, do you more like weird stoner hippies?
But yeah yeah yeah, this is the best, but yeah, it's uh, it's pretty interesting watching that fold out.
You know yeah man, I it was crazy man.
I went to jail just a few months ago.
Yeah, what the you go to jail for?
Nobody.
All this talk about like the same.
No listen, nobody positive talk.
Oh, it is pop, check this out, check this out.
Danny's over here trying to focus some negative.
This is what I just told him today.
He goes, man, I gotta work, I gotta do this.
He's like, I don't even care, i'll drive there.
I'm like Seth, what'd you just go to jail for?
I don't give a, I gotta make it happen.
I'm like, is that really worth it?
Is that really worth all that you know what I mean.
No like so, like you, you know you're talking about action, reaction.
I have my license.
There's the action.
I'm so busy, man.
I don't have time.
And this is the truth.
I don't have time.
I have to do a fucking class, man.
And I don't have time at everything I'm doing to go sit somewhere for fucking 24 hours, man.
Two days, man, and take this class.
And I'm going to have to take.
It you know, I mean, but I don't drive, I don't drive, okay, yeah, yeah, I don't drive nowhere, you know, I mean, so uh, I do what I gotta do, I don't drive, so you know, I went to jail because I didn't have the license, I had the class, and um, I left the studio and I was way across town, man, and I was in somebody's car and I was going to do my thing, and the cop pulls me over, man, I'm like, man, I got my Seth Anthony shirt on, just to the photos, I'm like, all right,
I'm gonna play it up to that, man, you know, I mean, I'm not, you gotta sell something.
I gotta fuck it, yo.
I mean, what the fuck?
Cops are dicks, you know what I'm saying?
I like the real cops, but there's not many of y'all, all right?
Yeah.
All right, so I'm just keeping it real.
I love you guys, but fuck.
So he pulls me over.
I pull into the 7 Eleven.
I'm like, fuck, man.
I open the door, I just put my fucking foot right on the door.
I'm like, this is gonna go bad.
I already know it, man.
So he pulls up.
He's like, hey, license registration.
I'm like, all right.
Fuck, I left my wallet, bro.
He's like, I'm gonna get a pin and pad.
I'll be right back.
I'm like, all right.
I'm like, it bided me time, you know what I mean?
It bought me time where I could just.
Think about what the fuck I want to do.
So he came back.
Never call a cop, bro.
I did.
I did too.
I did a part of it.
I did too.
I can't help it.
I call everybody.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I told him, I was like, bro, listen, man, fucking.
I did, I swear to God.
I told him, he came back with a pad.
We've all done it.
And he started writing my name.
I was like, S E.
I was like, bro, listen, I'm just going to be real with you, man.
I was like, look, dude, I got to take a class.
I was like, I fucking don't have my license.
I got to take a class.
I was like, so, you know, fucking.
That's what it is.
You can look me up on the internet.
I'm like, search the car.
I'm not on drugs.
I'm not drinking.
I'm not nothing.
Look, see the name?
Look it up, man.
I'm about to go on shows.
I got shit going on.
I'll have somebody come pick me up.
You know what I mean?
He's like, because you're real with me, I'm going to let you go.
I was like, bet, bro.
I was like, so I park it right there.
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He's like, no, no, no, no.
I'm still arresting you on paper, man.
I was like, what?
I was like, come on, man.
Fucking they took me, ended up taking me to jail, man.
So I went to jail for a couple of weeks, man.
And nobody knew.
Nobody ever even knew that.
This is the first time any.
Anybody's ever known that you know what I mean because everybody thought I was just out and do it.
I had the video dropping still.
Who's the first person you called when you got locked up?
No comment, no comment, no comment.
All right, we don't have to say her name, yeah.
The girl from the comment, oh, no, no.
So, uh, yeah, man, oh, that's why we're calling the jail.
She don't like me.
She friend requested me.
I didn't.
We need to get the uh, the St. Pete crowd up.
Up on the country vibe, for hell yeah, we do, we do.
Yeah, there's not much country going around.
We're doing what are you doing?
You got a block parties right.
Can we get them on a block party, a mad beach party?
Well, we've been talking to um AEG, which is uh, you know they do buyers for, like Janice and stuff.
Yeah, we're talking about doing a summer show at Janice for SETH.
So, hell yeah, we had one offer, but I think it we were already doing something, so we just uh kind of waiting for that to come.
We're using the same, uh same buyers for Resonated.
Since we already got that relationship, I kind of like Just get invested.
Yeah.
You know, honestly, I buyers like talent buyers.
You know, like, so basically, like, what if you have a show, like, you have, like, somebody who finds investors, basically, talent buyers.
So a bit, like, if you have, if you want to put on a show and it costs, I don't know.
Yeah.
Right.
You got to rent a place.
Yeah.
You rent a place out.
You're a promoter.
I mean, it's a promoter.
Like, they like to be called talent buyers.
It's promoters, like, the shun name, I feel like these days.
But, like, too.
But, yeah.
That's not in the word.
Talent buyers buy the talent.
They agree to a deal and then whatever they make on that deal, they walk away with.
So in a small nutshell.
But yeah, we're looking at a summer, late summer date at Janus.
So we're going to be doing something in St. Pete.
Let's get it.
Hell yeah.
Let's get it.
Yeah, it's going to be right as fuck.
So when are you going to release the next, when's the next tracks coming out?
You got options.
I think.
I got options, man.
When can the people expect that?
I have to release one here in probably about two weeks, man.
So I like to keep it relevant.
So I feel like that's a lot of.
It has to do with a lot of.
It's all about content.
Yeah.
People following me, man.
Because I steadily put.
Every six weeks, I put on a new video.
You know what I mean?
So I'll do a song, do a video, do a song every six weeks.
And it buys me time to make more music.
It's like a weird balance between quantity and quality.
There's really no.
Way to do music, man.
If that makes any sense, man, you just fucking do it.
Like, people ask me, like, people that are.
There's no, like, proven strategy as far as releasing content.
No, there's not, man.
There's not.
What it is, is you have to just fucking be the best that you can be and fucking just keep releasing content.
Unless you're Gucci, man.
Then you can be locked down.
If you're Gucci, man, then you can just do whatever.
You can have clones and make music and the clones making music and fucking releasing albums every fucking week.
It doesn't matter.
Yeah.
I don't even know if it's Gucci anymore, but we're still rocking it, right?
Yeah.
It's definitely not him anymore.
Yeah, fuck it.
That's dope.
Cool.
So, where can people like follow you?
Like, people that are watching this, where can they like find out?
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You guys can follow me at uh, on go on YouTube, Seth Anthony.
Um, you can go on Facebook, Seth Anthony CM.
You can go on Instagram, Seth Anthony CM.
Um, don't follow me on Snapchat because I really don't go on there, man.
And I think it's kind of lame, but I still do it when stupid shit happens, man.
I feel like the stupid things happen, you put it on Snapchat.
Yeah, it's not professional.
So, uh, it's kind of personal, dumb shit I do.
Um, but yeah, SethAnthony.net.
You could purchase hats, shirts, beach towels, phone cases, fucking everything.
Book bags, fucking tote bags, fucking whatever.
You know what I mean?
Thanks for this badass shirt.
Yeah, man.
That's one we just made for the last show.
We have all different kinds.
We have ones that have rough neck on the back, different logos and everything, man.