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[0:00] my belly big like a cushion this your
[0:01] boy KW want to say big up Canberry TV
[0:04] this your boy KW Ling you
[0:14] boom hey guys welcome back to p with
[0:17] cranberry of course I'm your juicy girl
[0:19] cranberry and guess what I'm here with
[0:21] one of the hotest boy artists only these
[0:24] days the man quanan all the way from
[0:27] Grand B what's
[0:28] happening and everything bless with you
[0:31] everything is great I am so excited to
[0:34] have you on board because when we talk
[0:36] about buo these days you cannot talk
[0:39] about booo without mentioning po little
[0:41] boy DJ Taffy and the likes so it's
[0:44] amazing to have you on board I I know
[0:47] you've been you've been doing a lot
[0:49] you've been toying and busy you know
[0:51] yeah booked and busy buy but a lot of
[0:56] the people out there want to know who is
[0:59] Quan that so we're going to get into the
[1:02] nitty gritties of who you are so first
[1:05] of all tell me a little bit about your
[1:08] well first tell us what your actual name
[1:11] is and tell me a little bit about your
[1:14] upbringing in Grand Bay and how it
[1:16] influence your passion for
[1:19] music um well basically my name is Quan
[1:23] mhm my real name is s okay I do want to
[1:25] put a different name because like I
[1:28] don't want to put John
[1:31] okay King right and then you have to ask
[1:33] me why is your name I don't know why
[1:35] you're asking me my name again but when
[1:37] he done come from there the Dan um my
[1:39] fellas give me the Dan okay yeah because
[1:42] of the ladies the fans so the Ladi the L
[1:47] well wow the ladies going wild so they
[1:50] give me that um thing because of Dan
[1:52] because you go out like he's a be what
[1:57] look would be somebody that yeah he's
[2:00] the top CH I yeah Quan so that's how the
[2:04] Quan come about but um I'm originally
[2:07] from Grand B mhm since
[2:10] Isa
[2:12] um well my mother have two of us okay my
[2:16] brother and
[2:17] I and we rais up from nothing to
[2:20] something else see okay so I always
[2:22] raise up like seeing ASA Ru K TJ tapy
[2:29] like on the truck and I used to say like
[2:30] what how one day I have to be up there
[2:34] man I always want to I always watch
[2:36] truck and I one day I have to make it up
[2:38] there and then right now I on All Stage
[2:41] DJ I rep as I I signal I rep everybody I
[2:46] wanted to play with so would you say
[2:47] that you know looking at these guys is
[2:50] what Drew you to buo how did you start
[2:54] in your journey
[2:55] basically basically is he was like my RO
[2:58] model okay yeah my world mod I it's like
[3:01] something about him he always have a lot
[3:05] of accomplishments I would
[3:07] [Music]
[3:08] sayh is an ambassador yeah yeah I say
[3:12] what I want to be an
[3:14] ambassador so you asire to be like ASA
[3:17] yes not not like ASA I want to be better
[3:20] okay so would you say like um I I say
[3:23] you see I was watching an interview with
[3:24] Bob Mali Bob m one of them yes Bob M and
[3:29] he was saying like um you see reach for
[3:31] the sky you don't want to reach for the
[3:33] sky you want to reach F so I want to
[3:35] reach f i don't to that with um I want
[3:38] to be likea better than ASA okay and
[3:41] besides ASA would you who else are your
[3:44] Inspirations when it comes to me oh um
[3:46] beside is I would go back to people like
[3:48] ly
[3:49] Doby or Mali midnight
[3:52] ders
[3:54] CA ber Hammon IIs open in um regish okay
[3:59] old school
[4:01] zook
[4:03] Yesa yeah and you from Grand I mean
[4:07] not but tell me what what is your
[4:10] process like when it comes to writing a
[4:15] song my process um well sometime you can
[4:18] you can take me like something like I
[4:21] would say a 10 minutes right or so yeah
[4:23] yeah it's like and I sometime I can
[4:26] write if I want to mhm or I can write
[4:29] the complet song in my head okay so I
[4:32] just freestyle I say okay that don't
[4:35] make any sense let's change that let's
[4:37] change that word that freestyle it again
[4:40] my favorite spot in my house would be my
[4:41] bathroom Okay so most of your songs are
[4:45] your your man
[4:46] K I com to take your yes because the
[4:51] bathroom is the spot in your house when
[4:52] you enter that spot everybody will give
[4:54] you your time and your priv nobody will
[4:56] come and ah time you to come out yeah
[5:00] be like yeah I using doing a number two
[5:02] not doing a number two I want my own
[5:04] space because
[5:06] no I get that sometimes I'll be in my
[5:09] bathroom and I there for no reason you
[5:11] and sing that me that is me I like to be
[5:14] and sing but you you spoke about take
[5:17] your woman um back in
[5:20] 2019 take your woman was a very popular
[5:24] song but it got you know recognition
[5:27] from the trinidadians when they came to
[5:29] the
[5:30] for World CR Music Festival we had DJ
[5:32] Private Ryan playing it on his set we
[5:35] had um Bon ging and F Lions playing it
[5:38] on their set what kind of impact did
[5:42] that have on your career seeing that you
[5:44] know even back then your music was being
[5:47] recognized by artists
[5:49] outside well um like I'll be telling the
[5:53] other artist I just came into the game
[5:57] I've been doing this for a while I me a
[5:59] profession
[6:00] yeah I'm on the to I don't consider
[6:03] myself the best I still working on my
[6:07] craft I still working on myself I still
[6:10] working on speaking better I still
[6:11] working on making better music every day
[6:14] I believe I improveing more and more I
[6:17] take points from certain people and I
[6:19] take advice from certain people not all
[6:21] right because I got where I am my go is
[6:25] my own path mhm certain people will want
[6:27] to tell you what to do but you see back
[6:30] then when you take your man you move ice
[6:33] in fridge and you put it and it melting
[6:35] M that was me melting
[6:37] away that was melting I like it's like
[6:41] with with emotions like yeah I could
[6:44] understand myself like what that's an
[6:47] artist that is like I would say maybe 10
[6:49] times bigger than me more popular than
[6:51] me right and he chose out of all songs
[6:55] My Song your song right so that was like
[6:57] a like a feeling I would never forget
[6:59] experience that I will never forget I
[7:01] was jumping up I was but I wasn't at the
[7:04] front stage I the at that time yeah but
[7:06] it was a wild moment wow yeah because
[7:09] out of all the other songs in Dominica
[7:12] during that season you know they chose
[7:15] that one song and I mean it was a hit
[7:17] song let's be
[7:19] honest but you the song that is most
[7:23] popular with you right now um in 2024
[7:28] moving into 2025
[7:30] is someone else which is the
[7:31] collaboration between you little boy and
[7:34] Trilogy that song you all did an entire
[7:38] little toy in Trinidad because I mean
[7:40] for the first time ever well I I
[7:43] wouldn't say for the first time ever but
[7:46] usually it you don't find
[7:48] trinidadians embracing boyo in that sort
[7:52] of way but that song has been dominating
[7:56] Trinidad Carnival spaces it's like right
[7:59] now everybody talking about booy and
[8:02] everybody's into that particular song
[8:05] can you tell me a little bit about the
[8:07] creation of the song and what how does
[8:11] it feel for you to see that people have
[8:14] been embracing that song on the kind of
[8:17] level that they have been across the
[8:19] Caribbean well basically I feel the type
[8:21] of joy that not even rum drugs money
[8:29] girl friend can give me right that's a
[8:31] joy that they cannot match up to
[8:34] but in the same time I would like to say
[8:36] you have to stay humble MH so I never
[8:39] feel like um like okay well one of the
[8:42] biggest song you never feel like okay
[8:45] I've arrived I'm a big celebrity now no
[8:47] I feel normal as possible yeah like
[8:50] people call me and me boy boy a big
[8:52] artist and I be like right I'm a normal
[8:55] guy just like you cuz I I I believe
[8:57] everybody's equal mhm everybody's the
[8:59] same I'm not better than you right this
[9:02] boy is not better than you right we're
[9:04] just um people doing music everybody can
[9:07] do music yeah and that's a very good
[9:09] attit everybody music so it's like I
[9:13] feel happy that all song like at at 5
[9:16] million right now mhm and it's safe to
[9:20] see it's safe to see that I've been
[9:22] looking at other songs like Bas party
[9:24] they that that was one of the biggest
[9:26] songs that was one of the biggest bu
[9:28] songs coming out of like um 3 million
[9:30] and something I'm not I'm not correct
[9:33] maybe not accurate but 3 million and
[9:35] something I would say or 2 million
[9:38] something but we at 5 million heading to
[9:41] 6 million but but tell me though because
[9:46] you know this song is major but like
[9:49] when you start listening to this
[9:52] song where the Big B thing come know
[9:56] because you Notting to hear that big
[9:59] belly season in that
[10:02] truck tell me a little bit about that
[10:04] verse and how that came about break it
[10:06] down not too in depth because little boy
[10:09] will give you in depth vision of how
[10:13] long he had the track and and no I just
[10:15] want to know about the big belly pack
[10:17] big belly pack was basically I had
[10:19] originally a first first for the track
[10:23] mhm and then you know when we in the
[10:26] studio we like to drink a little r
[10:29] so I went this kitchen I took like shot
[10:32] of B with and I I he and I check in my
[10:35] phone and I scroll and I see Taffy with
[10:38] d and Taffy B big mhm then I
[10:42] watching Freddy start I see he like
[10:43] something this is the season yeah so
[10:46] it's like what big belly
[10:49] season like big belly B and the kitchen
[10:53] and boy was playing the redeem he and my
[10:56] first was was playing the redem and I my
[10:58] barely Pig cuz it was originally
[11:02] ayle no it was a freestyle it was like a
[11:05] freestyle I like to Freestyle so I the
[11:06] kitchen my belly pig like a cushion cuz
[11:09] I was just sitting on the cushion you
[11:11] don't have a cushion no it's like it's
[11:13] just a rhyme because I was just on
[11:15] cushion little boys my belly big like a
[11:17] cushion I never hungry but I made the
[11:20] whole freestyle and then the little boy
[11:21] was like come come come come come come
[11:23] sing that on the mic and you know so
[11:26] many people just love that verse on that
[11:28] Stu it's um it's a form of
[11:33] confidence Rel people always feel like
[11:36] you going to Beach and you move your
[11:37] cruth and people looking like okay well
[11:39] that person F mhm boy that person
[11:42] getting be yeah yeah yeah but at the
[11:45] same time everybody equal like what I
[11:47] was saying from back then exactly
[11:49] everybody equal they comfortable in your
[11:50] own skin that is you that's how well God
[11:53] created you everybody equal but you
[11:56] choose to eat you get big but you still
[11:58] love yourself that's true exactly so big
[12:00] belly season is where when you hear that
[12:03] you can just rub your belly might be
[12:05] somebody pregnant it kind of like you
[12:08] know on the same on the same level as
[12:11] when Mr Killer came out with Roy police
[12:14] because you know people on the biggest
[12:16] side don't necessarily always get the
[12:19] love and appreciation yes that is it
[12:22] that is it that is it right now you have
[12:23] your own song yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
[12:26] that ver is just for you just for you
[12:28] just for you
[12:29] just for you okay so we're going to
[12:31] switch it up a little bit I'm going to
[12:33] ask you some questions and you're going
[12:36] to give me the first answer that comes
[12:39] to your mind okay that is it um one
[12:41] artist you would love to collaborate
[12:43] with one
[12:45] artist I don't have any you collabor is
[12:49] so many um as of right
[12:53] now maybe I want to make a track I
[12:56] triple K okay triple K triple k and what
[12:59] is one me memorable performance that
[13:02] stands out in your career oh my God
[13:03] France okay Cara one love nice tell me a
[13:07] little bit about that um well I work at
[13:11] staring and Sons mhm and then I had to
[13:13] leave because I got a geek in France for
[13:16] car one love I went to that gig but they
[13:18] make me true so I have to leave the job
[13:20] opportunity yeah and I never got close
[13:23] to the end of the crowd yeah a massive
[13:26] the was cheing like there 20,000 people
[13:30] plus mhm I was like wo and that was an
[13:34] experience I'll never forget because I
[13:35] ran on the stage with the mic mhm and as
[13:38] soon as I saw the crowd I ran back why
[13:41] you were scared it's like you know when
[13:43] you reach and like your your V tall I
[13:47] stall I stall but I came back I just did
[13:50] a little dance that's TR me once I get
[13:52] the new redem yeah nothing can stop me
[13:55] okay and if you could listen to one song
[13:57] for the rest of your life was to
[14:01] they I would
[14:04] say man the rest of my life mhm
[14:10] wo you don't have a favorite
[14:13] song I love so many s it's like I don't
[14:16] um C categorize
[14:19] songs I love all songs okay because I
[14:22] listen to Dan I listen to so I listen to
[14:24] Reg I listen to all type of gen I don't
[14:26] just listen to booo Because I'm a boyo
[14:28] artist I hip hop I listen to everything
[14:30] so it's like I wouldn't have like a
[14:32] favorite song I okay's what's your
[14:35] favorite Dominican dish to eat dish ah
[14:38] one
[14:39] po hands hands one pot describe boyo
[14:43] music in one word Bo your music
[14:48] togetherness okay and what's the weest
[14:50] fun interaction that you've
[14:55] had see tell me tell me tell me the the
[14:59] the way you move your there is like that
[15:01] story interesting a fan one time said
[15:05] that she was my girlfriend and I was in
[15:07] a conflict with my real girlfriend no
[15:10] that's not a fan that's a stalker man
[15:13] that's a fan but went overboard but that
[15:17] you go from F to
[15:19] ster you girlfriend that was a problem
[15:23] that was a problem and if you weren't an
[15:25] artist what would you be doing
[15:30] I guess dancing I used to dance Isa
[15:32] before I used to sing oh so you're a
[15:34] dancer Bo I was a dancer I was a dancer
[15:36] okay so I get dancing electrical I saw
[15:38] electrical too I still by staring son
[15:41] doing sales I love sales I love
[15:43] interacting with people and talking to
[15:45] people okay I can tell you are a good
[15:47] communicator just in the way that we
[15:50] interacting like people laugh I can see
[15:53] that cuz you like to Green like me
[15:55] definitely definitely um who is your
[15:59] dream International artist to perform I
[16:02] don't even have any I don't have any
[16:04] really it's like I live my life like if
[16:08] it happened it happened if it happened
[16:10] it happened because basically sometime
[16:12] you plan things in life and it never
[16:15] reach to happen right so it's like okay
[16:18] I get to meet Canberry for my first time
[16:20] right wow what a wonderful life right
[16:24] happen it happen but like to say
[16:25] planning I believe plan things don't
[16:27] always work out okay the unexpected is
[16:29] always the best so if it happen I end up
[16:32] performing with um young brother it's a
[16:36] blessing yeah yeah yeah but to say like
[16:37] I have a favorite artist so I just want
[16:42] to work with everybody got you stage
[16:44] just Studio which one feels more like
[16:46] home to you Studio the studio you tell
[16:49] me why um because that is where
[16:52] create the heat that's how we create the
[16:55] songs that's why I sit down and I say
[16:57] okay know I don't think that the fans
[16:59] going to like that let's change that
[17:01] let's do this so that would say that is
[17:03] how we make our one pot okay all our
[17:05] ingredients so that's that home for me
[17:08] okay and if you were to create a hit
[17:10] song in 24 hours who would you call
[17:12] first little boy little boy how little
[17:15] boy DJ Taffy that's my that's that's my
[17:18] that's just my boys little boy DJ Taffy
[17:21] okay and if you had to choose one track
[17:24] that you would always play to Hype up
[17:26] yourself what track would it be
[17:30] one
[17:35] track that song R through in my head
[17:39] KET is that kfet is really like a life
[17:43] story of mine okay so like KET really
[17:46] expresses how I was feeling at that
[17:48] present moment and that's a moment in
[17:50] time I will never forget like you know
[17:52] before when you coming up and you talk
[17:54] to a girl and she check like okay who s
[17:57] m to talk to
[17:59] yeah but right now because isw
[18:02] like hello how you
[18:06] doing yeah man after you run all your
[18:09] life so that's right that's my song that
[18:12] I play that song when I be and I like
[18:15] w Really you that make that
[18:17] song listen that song is ring my head I
[18:20] notat and R person but I love it it's
[18:23] just it's just different things in the
[18:26] song you know like everything in the
[18:28] song no no no I love I love this song
[18:31] for everybody yeah that song rent free
[18:33] in my head I'm telling you whenever I
[18:36] get into my vehicle and I go to YouTube
[18:38] that is the first song that will pop up
[18:40] because right now I think someone else
[18:43] is big on a big scale very big but when
[18:45] you see I travel to sing like I was in
[18:49] um ana
[18:51] seta and these two
[18:54] places I had to replay kfe more than
[18:58] someone else yeah because just have a
[19:01] kind of of a a rough kind of and I used
[19:05] I started I us started I started
[19:07] different like after you run all your
[19:09] life you play and the crowd of
[19:13] people a different vibe about it and
[19:17] that that KET is basically just you
[19:20] whereas someone else is the cab with you
[19:23] know Trill and little boy also singing
[19:25] on it but K has its own VI have it own
[19:29] space and I telling you that only even R
[19:32] in my head no payent no no no not at all
[19:36] but if you were to say that you have you
[19:39] you ever had an embarrassing moment
[19:42] during a performance what would it be
[19:44] did you ever have an embarrassing
[19:46] moment well besides the fact that you
[19:49] car and you run on the stage and you run
[19:51] back because you frightened by the crowd
[19:53] anything else interesting happened um
[19:57] embarrassing moment I would say uh there
[19:59] was a time I went to
[20:02] perform I try to remember which place I
[20:05] was which
[20:06] cor and you know when you go in the
[20:09] different country they pay like the
[20:11] hotel exclusive so you can eat all you
[20:13] can eat drinks so I end up trying
[20:16] different drinks and different foods
[20:18] with t because I'm a person I stick to
[20:21] what I know yeah cuz I don't when I show
[20:23] my stomach bubble
[20:25] I and I end up trying to food and then a
[20:30] whole performance like my stomach was
[20:31] probably oh my gosh so like you couldn't
[20:33] wait to get a yes that was an
[20:35] embarrassing moment for me like I can
[20:37] imagine yeah like you have to perform
[20:39] and jump up but you jump as an extra
[20:41] jump because you wanted because like I
[20:44] don't know accident to happen there that
[20:47] one was difficult for me SOA or so we
[20:52] moving away from the SOA or what would
[20:55] you Vibe most to on your days off when
[20:59] you're not creating
[21:01] boyo I would say both I I would I would
[21:03] even pick and choose both SOA and boyo
[21:07] they always have some in depth lyrics
[21:10] some very I can say it interesting play
[21:14] on words and it's always some lyrics
[21:18] that have to do with life or everyday
[21:21] life or everyday movement yeah
[21:23] definitely both of them and you know you
[21:25] know most of the up and coming artists
[21:28] these days
[21:29] if you had to pick one person you would
[21:31] say that we should keep our eye on that
[21:34] one artist who would you say we should
[21:36] keep our eyes open for to be the next
[21:39] person bringing the
[21:41] global someone I think that glal we
[21:45] should keep our eyes
[21:47] on I wouldn't say Freddy and Freddy and
[21:50] already yeah yeah I would say tricks
[21:54] okay Trix is a very very very
[21:57] interesting artist
[21:59] is wow like yeah man tricks okay and if
[22:03] you had one superow you were superhero
[22:06] and you could use that super power to
[22:09] push your music career forward what
[22:11] would that super power
[22:15] be a super bow yeah a super what G the
[22:21] superhero I would be I want to be
[22:23] invisible invisible I want to be
[22:25] invisible I telling you why time like
[22:30] for me I want to be invisible so I like
[22:33] to be in my own space right so I like to
[22:35] be invisible so like I would I have to
[22:37] be invisible so I can focus and make the
[22:41] music for you but sometime like I I
[22:43] don't get in the time because sometime
[22:44] people have to do this have to do this
[22:47] you have to be here you have to be there
[22:49] if I invisible like all see I I would
[22:51] work a lot and all music dropping left
[22:53] right and Center yeah but look for
[22:55] summer summer we're definitely going to
[22:57] bring like a new album for the carnival
[23:00] but fell for
[23:02] you we had to make that album with a
[23:04] different like a song for every body
[23:07] right f for you was a song for my mother
[23:09] okay like people more ageable people on
[23:12] the Block was a song for Batman mhm
[23:19] um songs so so on that note now we're
[23:23] going to move into another segment of
[23:25] the show which I like to call song off
[23:27] where I'm going to play you a few songs
[23:31] and you're going to tell me some of the
[23:33] songs will be yours some are not yours
[23:37] you're going to tell me what is the
[23:39] first thing that comes to your mind when
[23:42] you hear that particular song so you
[23:45] ready
[23:46] [Music]
[23:51] [Applause]
[23:55] [Music]
[24:00] that's the real old
[24:06] school first thing that comes to B City
[24:09] okay bbba City City Grand want that
[24:13] track used to Boom place telling you
[24:18] okay next track
[24:37] first thing that comes to mind growing
[24:39] up you see that track there growing up
[24:41] growing up that kind of song once you
[24:43] hear that you does know okay that's a
[24:45] heat okay that's a long time hit next
[24:49] song
[24:52] Scooby J
[24:54] [Music]
[25:02] bubble city bble city again bottom in
[25:05] bubble City trust me that track there
[25:08] ised to have the place okay next
[25:12] [Music]
[25:15] track that's a that's aan Dan San
[25:20] [Music]
[25:23] Charli so the first thing that
[25:26] go okay
[25:44] smiling first thing that comes to M
[25:47] every time I hear that
[25:48] song I remember when the woman was
[25:50] leaving me oh so oh so that's best on a
[25:53] real life
[25:55] story she don't live though she oh she
[25:58] didn't leave that song There the song
[26:00] bring her back that
[26:04] song okay next
[26:10] song you mentioned it a little bit
[26:14] [Music]
[26:25] but okay you see this thing that comes
[26:29] to wild wild wild like people just go in
[26:32] Wild mhm that song is definition of wild
[26:36] okay okay okay okay and you're a grand B
[26:39] so
[26:43] [Music]
[26:45] definitely as a grand man something must
[26:48] come to mind when you hear that
[26:52] [Music]
[27:01] You Close Your Eyes before that
[27:03] on that is real tell me first thing that
[27:07] comes to mind that is a real music real
[27:12] cultural in depth back in the days Yep
[27:16] music from the
[27:19] King okay and the song that R free my
[27:23] brain you know
[27:30] [Music]
[27:36] easy
[27:39] W that song is for your owners for your
[27:42] owners your rers
[27:46] only
[27:47] that song
[28:06] already song oh oh now you
[28:11] realizing that
[28:13] song song I picture in Tri coming the
[28:18] road or signal coming the road always a
[28:20] truck coming down the road p
[28:23] po okay next
[28:26] song oh
[28:30] [Music]
[28:40] Dom next
[28:44] song Go hurt you
[29:01] [Music]
[29:06] my mother first thing that comes to mind
[29:08] is your mommy my mommy that song I
[29:10] always wanted to make a song that my
[29:12] mother would love and that's that that
[29:14] is it okay old school love old school
[29:16] and our final track for you to tell me
[29:19] first thing that comes to mind
[29:28] [Music]
[29:34] El so easy down there once I he that is
[29:37] my belly big I know right big belly
[29:40] season big belly any time any
[29:44] hour all right so guys that was sound
[29:47] off with Quan telling us his thoughts on
[29:49] when he hears certain um music coming
[29:52] straight out of Dominica but now we're
[29:54] going to move to a section of the show
[29:56] where Quan tells us how his Dominican
[29:59] heritage has caused him to be the sort
[30:03] of artist that he is and we know that
[30:06] Grand Bay is such a cultural Village so
[30:08] I want to know how how the culture
[30:11] influence some of what Quan does so tell
[30:14] me qu how does dominica's culture
[30:17] Inspire your music and what you
[30:19] do well we always people that Lively mhm
[30:25] jumping connecting with people no matter
[30:27] where you come from mhm you can come
[30:29] from arba Arizona and new come Dominica
[30:33] is one team one dream one people one
[30:36] love and I would say
[30:39] granny
[30:41] like always when the road people singing
[30:45] drum beating you tell me you used to
[30:48] be I have I have videos I beating drum
[30:52] Pap that's my thing so I always try to
[30:55] put that type of energy in my song
[30:58] I kind of love this when people listen
[31:00] to my song you feel hyp you feel like if
[31:03] your day is down you feel wow like okay
[31:07] yes I want to listen to a qu I want to
[31:09] listen to a qu little boy it's like an
[31:11] on high demand like drums okay basically
[31:14] I'm selling musical drums right yes I
[31:16] like that and if if any what is one
[31:20] Dominican tradition or Dominican
[31:23] saying that you would say inspired one
[31:26] of your songs or project
[31:28] or if you have any projects in the
[31:31] future that you would say know that
[31:33] saying I going make a song based on that
[31:35] that is it anytime any day that is it
[31:40] smooth and easy that is it sure can you
[31:44] tell me how do you feel um what is the
[31:48] role of buo Music in You Know pushing
[31:52] the identity of Dominica out there to
[31:56] the the listeners out of Dom shows but
[32:00] basically it's a new
[32:03] genre I would say but have been there a
[32:06] long time yeah but people just starting
[32:10] to you know com into it yeah they're
[32:13] more apprecia of it right now so right
[32:16] now like when you listen to Bo your
[32:17] music say like okay where is it from and
[32:20] then you go to and then you learn there
[32:23] a little island in Dominica and then you
[32:25] come back to people like WC people like
[32:28] ra people like triple gay coming
[32:31] together and wear their own style of BU
[32:33] right so I would say like it making
[32:36] people discover Dominica too mhm cuz
[32:39] more they try to learn more about the
[32:41] music as more they would learn more
[32:42] about Dominica and our culture and learn
[32:45] about our Carnival and different things
[32:47] that we have to offer and what do what
[32:50] do you see as your role you know in
[32:53] pushing that new Evolution of the boyya
[32:57] genre and where do you see boyo going in
[32:59] the future basically I just want to
[33:02] bring people together so I want to have
[33:06] like
[33:06] carnivals where I will just be singing
[33:09] and we'll have no violence nobody
[33:11] fighting with one another everybody
[33:13] together you can be French you can be
[33:16] Europe you can be white you can be black
[33:18] you hold somebody and you just Embrace
[33:20] that person as your brother your sister
[33:22] Your Love whatever you want to embrace
[33:24] them as and we just enjoy our come
[33:28] together and just fill the music F The
[33:30] Vibes and I see Bo your music going as
[33:34] big as Dan s and app and everything we
[33:37] just have to put in that work and we
[33:40] don't have to fight one another work
[33:42] together push the music push the genre
[33:46] and make it as big as it can be right
[33:48] and if you if you were to write a song
[33:51] inspired by any one place in Dominic
[33:53] where would it be and
[33:55] why why I know you from there but why
[34:00] grand grand bold they aggressive they do
[34:02] tell you what they have to tell you and
[34:04] that is how I
[34:05] am and tell me how does it what is the
[34:10] difference for you between performing in
[34:14] front of a local audience in Dominica
[34:17] and Performing outside of Dominica to an
[34:20] audience that probably might not they
[34:23] know your song but they don't actually
[34:25] know qu that because even in Dominica we
[34:30] I tend to see that a lot where in
[34:31] Dominica there'll be a popular song and
[34:33] we'll be singing it all the time and
[34:35] then C festival season comes around and
[34:39] they will announce the artist that
[34:40] singing that song and everybody will
[34:42] like but who who the hell is that person
[34:44] until they figure oh that's who singing
[34:47] that song okay I would say in Dominica
[34:51] we have thing we
[34:53] do like okay because I know I see
[34:58] Roo I pass the name like
[35:01] okay I okay I know man yeah so when I
[35:04] come and perform it's like you have fans
[35:07] that will genuinely enjoy and embrace
[35:10] you and everything but have some fans
[35:11] that watch you like by don't me
[35:15] drinking I to feel but when you go
[35:18] outside there is a different a whole
[35:19] different yeah man I already walk into
[35:21] and play splitting the crow and jumping
[35:24] up on
[35:25] qu rich excited because they don't know
[35:29] you they don't get to see you every day
[35:31] or the thing with Dominicans I guess
[35:33] because they see you every day like okay
[35:35] from they like props yeah they see me by
[35:39] Fresh Market shopping they like look
[35:41] shopping M like I foot other like okay
[35:44] Trinidad you see them artist maybe like
[35:46] they pass around you know but they
[35:49] always busy always moving Sobe they see
[35:50] them once in but they still show them
[35:52] that type of Love yeah so I wish like
[35:54] they would just show us that type of
[35:55] Love Too show that love I I get that I
[35:58] get I love my fans the same way too yeah
[36:01] um do you have any upcoming projects or
[36:04] collaborations that you're extremely
[36:06] excited about can you give us a look a
[36:07] look like sneak
[36:09] peek um there's a
[36:12] project I excited about but I can't give
[36:15] any details on it it's just that it's
[36:18] going to be big okay very big even to
[36:22] bigger that's why I cannot even see
[36:26] bigger than someone else outside of
[36:28] domica okay well I I I I'm looking
[36:31] forward to that I'm looking forward to
[36:34] that but um besides the boyya but we've
[36:37] been doing so many things with the boyya
[36:39] where we experiment with you know adding
[36:42] different genres to the the boyo beats
[36:45] but do you see yourself venturing or
[36:48] dabbling in any different genres or
[36:52] different styles in your future songs
[36:55] definitely okay I started of singing
[36:58] dance okay I don't even know that I I
[37:00] was never a Bo artist I was a Dance
[37:02] artist yeah so now afro like what I
[37:08] can I
[37:10] can yeah man definitely definitely okay
[37:13] and how do you envision your music
[37:15] evolving in the next few
[37:18] years what you want to see quand in the
[37:21] next few I went to see myself right in
[37:23] China Japan on a big huge stage bigger
[37:26] than FR never
[37:28] yeah and because I have a friend that
[37:31] was basically a minister M he's my
[37:34] friend he's my brother and that's Mr
[37:37] honorable Prince Anderson okay he was in
[37:40] um Japan some
[37:42] conference and he was playing like
[37:45] certain songs and he was speaking on
[37:47] them and when he came out on the stage
[37:50] he recall like afro dance different but
[37:54] he say he was a little picky to say Bo
[37:57] because you know Japan and so far from
[38:00] Dom they even know what is going on so
[38:03] he said like okay no just going to leave
[38:05] it and when he came out on the stage the
[38:08] people was telling him like why you not
[38:10] saying
[38:11] Bo like why you not saying Bo like we
[38:14] know so he was like what what sounds
[38:16] like they they was like they know
[38:18] someone else okay all the way they know
[38:21] someone else and they know the song I
[38:22] was like ja that's so cool so I see my
[38:26] music going as fast as
[38:28] antactica in the cool I want all the to
[38:31] know about
[38:32] me yeah that's how I want to um but if
[38:35] you had to give any piece of advice to
[38:38] somebody who aspires to be an artist in
[38:42] Dominica what sort of advice would you
[38:44] give to
[38:45] them I want to give you the advice that
[38:48] it's a lot of work it's not because we
[38:51] see qu on the stage yeah on this stage
[38:54] that stage it was a lot of work it was a
[38:57] lot of sest nights MH it was a lot of
[39:01] boy you think I should continue or you
[39:05] think I should quit because you're going
[39:07] to get a lot of backlash you're going to
[39:09] get a lot of words are going to
[39:12] discourage you and make you don't want
[39:14] to continue to continue going to have to
[39:17] do shows where you're not going to get
[39:19] paid just to bring out yourself and
[39:22] showcase yourself because when I brought
[39:24] out that song Take Your Man canas that
[39:27] was a sure I was just doing okay just
[39:30] like a a promotional thing look at the
[39:32] song yeah yeah yeah yeah so you see in
[39:34] like you have to really push
[39:36] yourself and never give up never give up
[39:40] in what you want to do can be you want
[39:41] to be a electrician you agree on with
[39:44] the Prime Minister never give up believe
[39:46] in yourself and you make it okay and you
[39:49] talk about you know wanting to give up
[39:52] and stuff like that but when it comes to
[39:54] you know your creativity and creating
[39:56] song
[39:58] how have you been able to maneuver
[40:00] through the challenges and probably how
[40:02] have you been able to overcome when you
[40:04] have like a creative block when it comes
[40:06] to writing a
[40:08] song um I will basically I'm a bike
[40:11] rider mhm take my bike just going ride
[40:14] just go me sit down I'm a
[40:17] drink and just look around sometime
[40:20] while you looking around you guys just
[40:21] get different ideas boom I see something
[40:23] happening hey yeah that can make a song
[40:26] like boom hey what that's a situation I
[40:31] can put in a first so it's like it's all
[40:34] around you music is all around us it's
[40:37] in the environment it's in your dream
[40:39] it's in your sleep it's everywhere so
[40:42] everywhere you can get that um that
[40:46] idea we just in your imagination use
[40:49] your imagination some I don't go like on
[40:52] my bed and
[40:53] just and it just come into in my own
[40:56] world it just come to me or just listen
[41:00] to some old school songs because they
[41:02] always have some wordss of wisdom inside
[41:05] of
[41:06] there okay so I going to I going to
[41:11] play uh read from little boy that he
[41:15] released maybe about two two months ago
[41:18] and I want you to give me a quick off
[41:20] the top of your head just give me a
[41:22] quick like 30 second freestyle on that
[41:25] reading you think you do that
[41:27] [Music]
[41:29] let's
[41:50] go leave your problem at your
[41:53] home leave your home at your home
[41:57] car we com in we com in we com we com in
[42:03] for the road leave your problem at your
[42:05] home and leave your home at your
[42:09] home I tell you we come
[42:12] in carnival yes we come in that is it
[42:16] smooth and easy smooth and easy this
[42:19] carival is like you don't have to have
[42:21] no problem on your road the best way to
[42:23] enjoy your Carnival and I see leave
[42:27] woman at your home because sometime you
[42:30] bring your woman and then don't bring
[42:31] son to the beach yeah I I I don't it's
[42:33] like woman will reach and they will just
[42:36] make a problem out of nothing all right
[42:40] it's I just tell my woman that straight
[42:42] up
[42:44] it's I get it I understand it's in the
[42:47] nature of them okay but we coming to the
[42:50] end of the showan if you had any last
[42:53] words to leave with your fans what would
[42:55] it be
[42:58] I would say believe in
[43:00] yourself and
[43:02] pray pray nothing thing happens with
[43:05] that God nothing people just say okay
[43:09] boy do this do that push yourself but
[43:13] you forget God yeah you see God but I
[43:16] believe you need God yeah you need God
[43:19] because they're going to have days where
[43:20] you down they're going to have days that
[43:21] you want to give up like I tell you and
[43:23] them days just come back to back to back
[43:26] it can be a everyday thing where you
[43:29] just feel like you
[43:30] T and you just have to pray pray about
[43:33] it talk to God about it yeah and he will
[43:36] make a way CU he loves all his children
[43:38] he will make a way for you I totally
[43:40] agree with you guys and you you heard it
[43:42] from Quan put God first in everything
[43:45] you do once you have God at the center
[43:48] of everything you're doing you are
[43:50] guaranteed to succeed but F I want to
[43:52] thank you so much for taking the time
[43:54] out of your busy schedule to come and
[43:57] speak to me guys thank you so much for
[44:00] tuning in to another episode of p with
[44:02] cranberry I'm going to leave the links
[44:05] to all of Quan's social media in the
[44:07] description so go follow and keep up to
[44:10] date with everything that Quan is doing
[44:12] and tune in again next week for another
[44:15] episode of p with cranberry I'll catch
[44:17] you guys in the next one bye