Speaker 1 (00:00.974)
Yo yo yo, it's DJ Potential, better known as Marcus Hart, the government. We on live and on the Kinetic P.E. Mix show at the time it's recording. We are like, man, just chopping it up and I'm talking to my brother over the side, you know, he's from Florida and we gonna be talking about vibes and just drop some real talk that you crave today. Today we cranking it up with a fresh voice in your gang. Here's the deal, you know.
King, Jay the Blood Man, he's a bit of a mystery, but he's gonna be soon gone to all you out there who's rocking with me. We don't have a full scoop on his story yet, but that's what makes this even more exciting. He's stepping into the spotlight and we're about to peel back the layers live on the show here today from his sound to his soul, we dive in deep. So Jay, welcome to the Connect P mix show.
Hey man, I definitely appreciate the opportunity being on your show man. you know being able to talk to you and you know being able to talk to you know your people and everything man. Opportunity. I appreciate you guys man.
I love the energy and I want to get it popping with you, J. Do you prefer King J or like J is R.
JQ, man, JQ.
Speaker 1 (01:19.744)
All right, so you got the mic hot from the start, you know, for the jump. So tell us a little bit of who you are, where you're from, and what sparked your lit to get the music fire in you.
Um, I'm King J the blunt man. I'm from St. Augustine, Florida. You know, if you haven't came yet, you better come visit, but you can't stay because it'd be too packed. You know what I mean? I really started making music a long time ago, man. It started with the drums and then it elevated to a, you know, uh, one of my buddies was an artist, you know, I was with him at the studio and you know, I definitely just
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:01.166)
You know, I was like, man, listen, I need to try this. I wonder what this is like, you know, all these artists and everything like that that we watch on TV. I'm like, hold on, Michael Jackson. I was that Michael Jackson guy back in the day, for real. So, know, realistically, I was like, you know, I'm going to try. So I tried it and I was like, OK, hold on, wait a minute now. know, once you find your little rhythm, you know, and you a nice flow. But it all kind of just depends. my situation, it ended up sticking.
you know, a couple of the guys ended up, you know, telling me, know, hey, you need to, you know, you might want to try to do something with this or, you know, blah, blah, blah. So I ended up, you know, calling myself King J the Blunt Man. So actually got that from, so I was calling myself King J, let's be real. And one of the guys at my middle school, he was like, the Blunt Man, you know, calling me down the hallway. He gave me good name for me, you know, the Blunt, I'm like King J the Blunt Man.
And then.
Speaker 1 (02:59.243)
Yes.
Yeah, you know what I mean? I'm like, okay, I like this. I like this, you know, man, I've been doing music for a long time and I kind of just want to, you know, take off with it. You know what I mean? Everything just kind of fit. Everything worked out. You know, it was just like, it just seemed like it was what I was supposed to be doing. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know, because I don't just do music. mean, apparently I'm...
somewhat funny to other people. People be telling me I need to keep doing my videos and stuff like that on social media, which I definitely do. man, at the end of the day, the music where it's at, I'm just excited. I'm able to show you guys exactly what I'm talking about. We're going to get to the music. We definitely go get to the music.
Yeah, we ain't gotta get there, man. So, like, know, what stood out to me most is the fact that you started as a drummer. I myself started off as a drummer and a trumpet player. And, like, it's something about them drums, man, and then you hear a beat, you're just like, man, I can do this. You know? Like, so, yeah, that's how I got started, man. I was just beaming on entertainment, man, freestyling with the little dog pieces out in high school.
Speaker 2 (04:34.858)
I mean like I do like funny videos, know, like rills and stuff like that. So, you know, I would do, you know, like I say, just something that people can relate to, you know, it kind of all just depends. And of course I will have my music playing in the background. Some videos I'll have it playing some, I'll just silence it so you can hear the people talking and stuff like that.
That's dope. That's a good one.
Yeah, and for this new project, I got a bunch of new videos that I have in place, you know, for the new project is going to pretty good man to be honest, I'm excited for everybody to see, you know, you know what I'm actually going to be dropping for this project, something different.
Nothing gonna jump on the bandwagon now. You know, I'm to energy. like with every like hero man or villain in the story, they got their origin story. And I know you as an artist, you got your day one, the moment where music went from a vibe to a mission. You know, where were you at in life when you knew this was your lane? You know, picture us the streets, the struggles, what shaped you?
I mean, pretty much everything you just said. The streets, the struggles, the sorry artists that I was listening to on the radio. like, I mean, it sounded like some shit. I just dropped in the studio, you know, and y'all on the radio and I can hear you in my car. I'm like, you doing this? Well, you know, hell, let me try and get my little self together and see what I come up with.
Speaker 2 (06:14.934)
you know, you know, fake friends, false friends, you know, people just fall out, you know, all kinds of shit, you know, shit. I mean, you know, I just, I try not to let shit get to me, you know what I mean? So, you know, we, you know how we move, you know, we brothers, barely, men barely talk about anything anyway, but at the end of the day, we make shit work, you know.
That's how we do it. We finally made a way to make it work. Everything just kind of fell into place. Where I was at, I would say between football, college, and everything, I've been doing it, but I kind of start taking it serious around my college days and stuff like that, distribution, big distribution. I got up.
I got major label distribution. So that's what I kind of started, you know, taking it serious because every time I, you know, communicate with somebody, try to, you know, what do you do? You know, how can I help you help me? You know what I mean? So I had that mentality and everything started kind of falling into place. Everybody started following my music, searching, following, you know, me on social media. So, I mean, I kind of rode with it.
Man, I feel you. I definitely feel you there, You do hear something on the radio and be like, Like, hey, you there.
Yeah, especially today it's ridiculous. It's like, it's all about something else, know, more like social media followers and then, you know, they're trying to create somebody into an artist that ain't an artist. So, you know, I ain't shooting no shade. I'm not shooting shade. But I'm just saying like people, real artists who really do this. And when I say
Speaker 1 (07:53.454)
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (08:17.536)
I ain't tootin' my own horn, I never was that type of guy, but I really do this, because I make different styles of music. So I have to really be open with what's really going on with everybody, because people be questioning, how is this rapper doing this kind of music, but then he come back and doing maybe a pop song or something like that. It depends on my vibe and my mood.
And that's really important too, because a lot of times you can tell when people ain't really got they heart in this. And when people really trying to put something out that's worth to listen to more than just today. can hear songs you want to hear 10 years from now, 20 years from now. Even when you go on this, people might be like, man, we're going on that King and J.
Damn.
I could definitely feel that coming from you and feeling that energy and the fact that you was playing football, man. I don't know if you're a Dolphins fan or not, Dolphins, they've been doing pretty alright. But to make that jump, that says a lot.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nah, I ain't no Dolphins fan. I'm a Saints fan and I'm a Florida fan.
Speaker 1 (09:32.514)
You're gay, you're okay, so yeah, if get it.
Florida State over here. I'm sorry for the staters. Love y'all too.
I feel you. All so like you got this spark, man. So let's talk about how you like fan that flame into what we're hearing now. Yo sound, Jay, you kind of like snuck it in a little bit. But what's the recipe for you? Are you pulling from hip hop R &B? I heard you talk about pop. Or is it something totally out of the box? And like.
And then tell us who's in your playlist. Is there any legends, any new cast that's inspiring you to just make your own wave in the pool?
That first question one more time hit me one more time on that
Speaker 1 (10:21.878)
Yeah, just what's your recipe, man? Like, you know, where you pulling it from, you know? that's
She said recipe. It went in and out when I, my But my recipe, it's all right. My recipe, like I said, literally depends on the beat. So like a lot of stuff be going through my head. Like I literally be doing something outside. I'll be, I don't know, cutting my grass. So I got to pull over, stop, pull my phone out, something to hit me, of course, to hit me. You know what I'm saying? Like, like,
It ain't nothing else. You know what I'm saying? Like, the chorus is gonna hit me, you know, or I might be shooting my gun. I have to stop shooting, my phone out. My chorus, chorus, chorus. Ooh, this verse, this verse is nasty right here. Like, sometimes stuff just be hitting me out of nowhere, you know? And sometimes, like I said, it depends on the beat. If my producer send me a dope beat, you know, I'm, ooh, it's a rap. Like, stuff will start coming to me, because I listen to the beat.
Probably, you know, I know. I listen to it a lot. And stuff will just start hitting me like boom, boom, boom. I write everything in my memo pad on my phone. So.
That's best way to do it, man. That's best way to create art. A lot of comedians do it that way, too. So that's how you know a good comedian from just a lame trash comedian. So it's the same way with a music artist, too. If you put a little art in this, you got to tap into that inspiration as it acts.
Speaker 2 (11:37.986)
But the.
Speaker 2 (11:56.142)
So as soon as I start, you know, everything start laying out, you know, I don't, sometimes I don't necessarily finish the whole song in one day. Most of the time I just write what comes to me, you know, and whatever comes to me, I'll write it down. You know, sometimes it might take, you know, I could finish a whole song in like five minutes or sometimes it might take, I don't know, a couple of days because I'm not.
rushing or putting in the time to do it, you know what I mean? But if it comes to me most of the time, I'll just go ahead and write it down real quick because I ain't trying to miss no dope lyrics from my own self instead of somebody else.
Right, right. That's important.
What my play with?
Yeah, do you still listen to anybody or dog?
Speaker 2 (12:45.11)
yeah, actually. the only people that I've kinda honestly been listening to is like Dax.
Speaker 2 (12:59.598)
cat name good god almighty but I listen to Shaboosie I listen to Morgan Wild and Bailey Zimmerman Luke Combs I listen to the baby a little bit sometimes you know his older stuff a lot of his older stuff just new stuff you know what I mean
the baby ain't a baby.
Yeah, we all who else gonna sometimes I like gonna be slide It's a lot of sometimes, you know, sometimes sauce Walker depends oh, you know, shut up. Oh And whoever else I don't know. I just be you know, it depends on my mood, you know, pay so pay so He part of sauce walk now. Shut up. Shut up. I'll be listening to all of them folks
For real, them boys be sliding on us. Stop playing.
They do, they do. It is a wild, that. So yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:03.902)
Up in those Rocker Sticks, he came out with that too, legit and acquitted. Young Dolph Pichel. Young Dolph. RP. But yeah, I'll be on a lot of folks. It just depends on my mood. But I don't be on a lot of folks, because I don't listen to garbage.
Yeah, that's good to have, I can see how your hustle come into life just based on how you choose when you listen to. So let's flip it a moment here, man. What do you feel is the message or the feeling you want to hit with your listeners?
that's okay to listen to music that you're not comfortable with. Sometimes, you know, and I ain't saying that for the people who like really, really clean music. That's listening to what I'm talking about.
dirty ass music. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about be open to different genres. Like you listen to dirty, dirty music. Be open to listening to something else, a different vibe, for real. It ain't always about the same vibe. know what I mean? Sometimes it's okay to open up and be different and listen to something else that you wouldn't have listened to around your apartment type shit, for real. But like...
I mean, it's hard to be different for real. And that's why I couldn't really stick with rapping with the music and shit like that. I had to venture out. I mean, love rap. Love rap. But I had to stick my foot over there in that pond over there see what the hell that was like. know what I mean? And shit, I got one song right now.
Speaker 2 (15:49.006)
country little bot with over 100,000 streams. I'm like, okay, and that's alone. Alone. I'm like, okay, well, fuck. Now I gotta...
I gotta do something over there and people being impressed. Yeah, you know what mean? So if people go on stream it, for it when they can get it for free off of YouTube. I'm gonna just go ahead and follow the, I'm gonna follow what's going on. You you gotta be smarter. Can't just be, can't just do what you wanna do sometimes. You know, sometimes you gotta, you wanna do what you gotta, this is what it comes with. You know what I'm saying?
So you gotta ride the wave, ride.
Yeah, that's a good way to set yourself up for success too, man. Yeah, it's real important to really listen, to have your ear to the street and really pay attention to what your fans eating up. When it comes to your fans, do you have more a female kind of crowd or is it more of a male crowd, young, old? How would you characterize it?
I was just looking at it earlier and I'm trying to actually remember because when you just had asked me that I was like, hold on. But I think it's more girls. I think it's 60 girls, 40 men or something like that. Or I think it's 30, I don't know, something like that. 40 I have to look at again. But it ain't 50-50. I know that for a fact.
Speaker 2 (17:27.884)
Who knows? mean, I don't know.
Do you keep that in mind going into the lab to like make something that like, okay, you know, I'm gonna make this for a female today or I'm gonna make this for, you know, like man, a homie is man, it's somebody who really, really needed to just bop for this.
So like, I'd know.
When I'm going to the studio, know I'm gonna make a song that's for already know like who okay this for the this for the girls, they know the girls or the women or whatever. Or you know this for the guys you know who had a hard time with a woman or something like that. Wanted some shit to work and didn't work whatever blah blah blah. So I have everything kind of already pinned out before I even get the time to get to the studio. So.
I think that's the best way to do it too. you know, cause then you can assemble your album how you want it or your EP the way you want it. And then, you know, you're going to get the better results that way too. So, so yeah, you know, so let's, let's, take this rocket ship to a different, different place, When it comes to dreaming big, you know, so dreaming before you meet the other KJ. Five years from now, where, where J going to be at?
Speaker 2 (18:36.91)
Bye.
Speaker 2 (18:49.902)
Five years from now I plan on Of course I hate to say it I love my job, but hey I got to quit my job. I'm definitely gonna have my own shit going I ain't talk about no job until my music wise You know I'm gonna be somewhere I knew I only want to tell you because
I don't know about to be trying to search for your boy, but I'm definitely going to a lot more successful than where I am now. I expect myself to have a lot more knowledge than what I have now. I expect myself to have more of an understanding of the business side of the music. I mean, I know a lot, don't get me wrong. I've been doing this for a long time, but I want more knowledge on what's exactly going on.
going on and how people are actually living in the industry who ain't got full package deals and stuff like that. it's a lot of little, I mean, it's a whole heap of stuff that that list is real long, I ain't gonna lie.
Believe it, I believe it. So like, is like in the eye of the beholder, man. And I already see you as success, man. already see, you know, sometimes we we humble ourselves and we really don't single, you know, each other, ourselves, like how other people see us. And, you know, must respect you. I feel like you're doing some big things right now and you got your mindset in the right direction. And, you know, there's big days coming for you, you know, I'm real hype.
Just hearing you lay out a little bit of your plan and it lets us know that you are looking beyond and keeping the humble.
Speaker 2 (20:45.43)
Yeah, man, definitely keeping it original, man. Original folks ain't out here. Or if it is, there ain't many of us left. You know what I mean? Like, OG the way to go for real. all this other fake stuff is, is, delete that shit over there. We ain't got time for that. So, you know, like I say, everything I, you know, everything I talk about is...
Either I done it or I already lived it or I'm doing it. So everything is what it is. We with the real life situations over here, all that fake cabin and toe tapping and shit over there, we can leave that over there.
Yeah, no doubt, man. Life throws a lot of chaos in this, man. We got to have a way to get through it. Life ain't going to be smooth at all. We got economic mess. We got doubters. We got whatever you want to put it. What's one thing for you that pulls you through the highs and the lows of life? Is it faith? Is it family? Or just a raw grit that you like?
pull along and pull yourself out of book straps.
Yeah, my family for sure. We like to have fun. For real, family over everything for real. mean, you know, we be out here, you know, doing fun stuff, our best life as much as possible because tomorrow I ain't promised, bro. Can't take the money with you to the grave. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (22:26.414)
You know, but make sure you got the money to have fun and to be out here, you know, spending your rent and your car payment trying to talk about some Jamaica or something. No, no.
Yeah, don't want to be stuck because life don't stop. But yeah, that's what it's all about, man. Having fun and doing what you need to do to get by because, you know, you got to make your own situation. You got to make the best of your own situation. You got to make your life. You got to make your life funner than, you you know, you just got to make it fun because it's just.
There's so much shit going on right now for us to even try to comprehend and even deal with. The days are going by so fast. Can't nobody really keep up with nothing. Everybody's attention span is very, very short. Can only keep up too much. So stay busy, get some money, enjoy life.
Real talk. Hey man, Jay, you dropped some gems today, man. Some very expensive gems that we cannot even afford in the jewelry store. So, man, I appreciate that. So let's lock in and send this off strong. So, yo, Connecticut mixed group, how we feeling out there? King Jay just bought the heat, peeling back the curtain on his world and I'm buzzing off this energy. It's contagious.
from sharing his stories of being a drummer, college football player, and now to the way he just hit us off just recently with telling us his recipe and how family is important and how you can take it along. That is how you do it. You're hearing the artist on the rise, Kay J. Where can the family connect with you? Drop your socials at any projects that we should be blasting out.
Speaker 2 (24:26.528)
New project out right now. just dropped it February 10th. It's called King J the Blunt Man Versatile. King J the Blunt Man, the name that you see right there. King J the Blunt Man Versatile. Learn how to spell so you can find it. Okay, learn how to spell. Versatile. I'm on every platform there is. I'm worldwide. My music is worldwide, so don't try to give me that excuse you can't find it. But.
My social media is KingJayDaBluntMan on Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and TikTok. And I'm JayDaBluntMan on Facebook because my last three pages got hacked. Everybody want to be me. I ain't even nobody yet. But I'm a somebody because I ain't nobody, but I'm a somebody.
Indeed, indeed. You all heard it here first. So follow King J, stream his joints and watch this star continue to climb. Big thanks to you, my brother, for rocking with us today. yeah, Definitely. Feel free to spin the block whenever you want to.
Anytime.
Speaker 2 (25:38.292)
We'll do man, this ain't the last interview man. Listen, we shouldn't run it up. I got all kinds of info to be talking about, all kinds of situations and stuff like that. We gonna run it up, trust and believe.
do it. So this is Connecticut P.E. Mix show where we keep the beats kinetic and the stories real hitters up on Instagram at Connecticut P.E. Mix show. Well that's Connecticut P.E. Mix without the show. Grab the replay on the tube and all your favorite podcast apps and keep it locked for more fire. Jay, any last words to the squad?
Hey, money, money, business.
and fun.
Money business is fun. I might as well swap one of them, but business is business, because you always got to stand on that, whether you want to or not.
Speaker 1 (26:25.294)
I like the
Speaker 2 (26:33.934)
How about that?
Yeah, let's roll with it. Let's roll with it. So that's a wrap fam. Let's roll into this next mix. James Bond got me hyped. Peace, love, and beats. Catch you on the next flip mode.
Yeet!
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