Sunday, November 20, 2022

THE BRAD COONEY PODCAST SHOW CLIMBS ON APPLE'S TOP / BEST PODCAST CHARTS FOR THE UNITED STATES!


BIG THANK YOU!  We are currently charting on Apple's TOP best Podcast chart for the United States!  Also STRONG number over in Asia!  Currently #10 in Malaysia, and charting in Vietnam and Thailand.  We didn't get here overnight. It has been a lot of hard work and time spent.  BIG thanks for all of your support of the years! 

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

MUSIC RECORDING ARTIST "BENJAMIN HEY!" STOPS BY AND TALKS ABOUT HIS NEW SINGLES 'Ra-ta-tat tat' AND 'No Samples'

 

Love is the message in Benjamin Hey!’s new singles “Ra-ta-tat-tat” and “No Samples”

By John Hacker

 


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NEW YORK — Music has been saving Benjamin Hey!’s life ever since he took a personal pledge on April 15, 2017 to write a new song every day.

 

Now Hey!, also known as “The Captain,” is hoping his new singles “Ra-ta-tat-tat,” and “No Samples,” can reach out with love to help others and save more lives in the process.

 

“Ra-ta-tat-tat,” is a single that cries out against gun violence, especially the violence that is killing inner-city young people.

 

“No Samples,” is a love song that encourages people not to accept second best when it comes to the loves in their lives. 

 

Both songs were released under the John Beyer Music label owned by Hey!’s friend and frequent collaborator, John Beyer.

 

“With John and I, our goal is to not only have a hit song and hit record, but we want to bring a message to the music,” Hey! said. “We want to really connect to people who love the art of storytelling and listening to a song and being like, wow, not only is it an amazing vocal but there’s an important message that I really connect to that hopefully can move me and change my life.” “Ra-Ta-Tat-Tat,” is an anthem, released in May, seeking to promote peace on the streets of America’s cities, asking people to “Pull off the covers, of hate towards each other. We gotta start using our brains.”

 

Hey! said the song was originally Beyer’s idea and he was reluctant to even tackle the topic.

 

“It just pains me to se all these young kids, particularly in the inner-city, killing each other and the gangs and the gun violence,” Beyer said. “It’s not getting better, in fact it seems to be getting worse and I witness it from afar, I saw a glimpse of it when I was growing up myself in Queens and it pains me to watch it.

 

“I mentioned to Ben that I wanted to write a song about it and he said no, that as the subject matter hit too close to home for him.”

 

Growing up in the projects in Brooklyn, Hey! saw his fair share of gun violence.

 

“I could walk out of my first floor apartment, exit my building and then could run back in because someone just pulled out a gun,” Hey! said. “It could be a robbery between fellow drug dealers, it could be an incident with police versus drug dealers. Honestly it was usually around the element of drugs.”

 

A few months passed and Beyer brought the idea up again. This time Hey! was ready to take the plunge.

 

The two spent more than an hour crafting the right message.

 

“With “Ra-ta-tat-tat” it was very important to not just point out the problem but we wanted to offer what we thought was a solution,” Hey! said. “And the solution, according to our opinion is more guidance, more love, more support, more understanding, more reaching back into the community and not just being focused on the finances and the materialism. It really is about guidance, it’s about leadership, it's about love.”

 


The two turned to video director Doobie Duke Sims to work on the video.

 

“What happened was we sat at my kitchen island for about 45 minutes to an hour and banged out about 90 percent of the final product right then and there,” Beyer said. “I’d come up with the lyrics and Ben puts them together masterfully with the idea of the lyrics and he makes them rhyme and he mentions the cities in there so people identify with the song and hopefully it sends out a positive message.

 

“In the song you hear the gun shell dropping and we listened to about 1,000 different gun shells dropping to get the right sound.”

 

“No Samples,” produced by the hit producer Young Cutta, was released in the last week of September and is a love song of a different feel and vibe.

 

Hey! said he wrote this song during a period in 2021 when he was isolated and recovering from the Delta variant of COVID-19.

 

“At the time of being stricken with COVID and being by myself I just felt so lonely and being by myself,” he said. “I was like, damn, I wish I had somebody here, I wish I had somebody loving me or comforting me. While I want that, I don't want to settle for it. That's how this song came about.”

 

The video for “No Samples” was taped in the Hudson Yards Mall, a new retail and residential development in New York City.

 

“I said to myself, if you shoot in the city, I want to shoot in a location that’s still new that you won’t see in a lot of music videos,” Hey! said. “It’s only about a year or two years old. We lucked out because when we went in, it was really desolate at the time. So it looks like I shut the whole mall down. Doobie shot that video too.”

 

Hey! said the message in both songs is based on love — love and caring to address a terrible problem for “Ra-Ta-Tat-Tat” and not settling for just any kind of love in “No Samples.”

 

“In love you have to hold out for something special and amazing,” Hey! said. “I think at the end of the day, the ultimate form of love is something that feels solid and consistent. Get the steak and not a happy meal.”

 

Keep up with Hey! on all social media and streaming platforms:

https://youtu.be/SP6otWd17Ek

https://open.spotify.com/album/6UV2d9FAKbzmVeQMuvQ4pL?si=EqefUenJSSKzydQJ4ZGe1A

https://music.apple.com/us/album/no-samples/1639204669?i=1639204672

http://www.benjaminhey.com/

https://www.instagram.com/thecaptainbenjaminhey/

https://www.tiktok.com/@thecaptainbenjaminhey?_t=8VzgM7OZRyl&_r=1

For “Ra-Ta-Tat-Tat” specifically:

https://youtu.be/DNCjeyuHjtE

https://open.spotify.com/album/7DjSOVXHUDKcbb4qTPUGmp?si=BIBKGt17QTCCD7liE2GDIw

https://music.apple.com/us/album/ra-ta-tat-tat/1618363314?i=1618363315

For “No Samples” specifically:

https://youtu.be/SP6otWd17Ek

https://open.spotify.com/album/6UV2d9FAKbzmVeQMuvQ4pL?si=EqefUenJSSKzydQJ4ZGe1A

https://music.apple.com/us/album/no-samples/1639204669?i=1639204672

Monday, November 07, 2022

HIP HOP RECORDING ARTIST "TRUDY-THE-PRODUCER" TALKS NEW MUSIC VIDEO 'WELCOME TO THE WORLD' AND MORE!

Trudytheproducer tackles mental health with new southern hip hop track “Welcome to the World”


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Trudytheproducer tackles mental health with new southern hip hop track “Welcome to the World”


By Brennan Stebbins


The new music video from Trudytheproducer opens with some sobering facts about the number of people in America who struggle with mental illness. 


“Welcome to the world,” he says as the music kicks in. That first line is also the title of the song, which Trudytheproducer uses as a vehicle to examine loyalty, trust and deception among friends and family while also illustrating his own struggle with mental health. 


At one point in the video Trudytheproducer even sits on a couch in a therapist’s office – but he’s just talking to himself. And that’s a point he wants to make: talking to yourself can be therapeutic to mental health. 


“It’s about a lot of things I experienced in life when people were being disloyal to me, turning their back on me,” he says. “I’m to the point now where I’m saying I’m tired of it and I’m putting recognition on other people who may be going through the same things, checking in with their mental health. That’s the gist of it, just saying, ‘Welcome to the World’ and you’ve got to be careful with who you trust.”


Trudytheproducer has often found himself serving as someone else’s emotional outlet. But when you take on that responsibility it can be overwhelming, he says, and he hasn’t always had somebody else for him to turn to. 


“I don’t really talk to too many people,” he says with the song. “I can’t trust too many people.”


But, in addition to vouching for the benefits of talking to yourself for mental health, Trudytheproducer wants to encourage others who may be reluctant to feel comfortable enough to see a therapist and get outside help. 


Musically, “Welcome to the World” is southern hip hop and continues a trend of making music with some substance from the native of Dothan, Alabama. Trudytheproducer was raised by a family of musicians and has experience with R&B, rock and pop music in addition to hip hop. 


He used to sit in a car with his cousin and freestyle over beats, and he released his first song with family members at age 18, which was a hit in his hometown. But once things got to the point where Trudytheproducer couldn’t explain all the ideas in his head to an outside engineer or producer, he took it upon himself to go to school and learn the skills himself. 


Trudytheproducer came to New York City to build his brand and gain respect within the music industry. He connected with Anthony Brown, the founder and managing partner in New King Multimedia Group. Brown has managed multi-platinum record producer Damon Blackman, platinum producer Remo The Hitmaker and Kevin Randolph, who produced French Montana’s “Throw It In The Bag.”


The New King team includes Maurice Rowtham and Rayna Findley. The three met organically and created something special together, and they’re determined to showcase the artist development management company. Since working with Trudytheproducer, “Welcome to the World” already has about half a million streams between Soundcloud and Spotify.


“He has good music, he has strong production and his next single is going to bring everybody to see why I selected this kid,” Brown says. “People will see he’s different and he’s unafraid to work. He comes up with so many ideas and he hears music in his head and just has to go to the studio and lay it all out. A lot of people are going to be following him after his next single, and he’s already growing quite a following in a short period of time.”


That next single is called “Nightmare on Halloween” and is set for release on Oct. 31. 


“It’s a fun song,” Brown says. “It’s him from Alabama and an artist from Harlem, New York City and it’s real clever. Nice beat – a real nice beat – and it’s all produced by him.”


Make sure to stay connected to Trudytheproducer and New King on all platforms for new music, videos and social posts. 

https://www.instagram.com/trudytheproducer

https://www.instagram.com/newkingmultimediagroup

https://www.facebook.com/Trudytheproducer

https://www.newkingmmg.com

https://youtu.be/WdYz8Ug9PLA

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3x2oP1MPYL4y2LW4oNPxvu

https://soundcloud.com/user-306350383/welcome-to-the-world?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

https://www.tiktok.com/@trudytheproducer



Wednesday, November 02, 2022

HIP HOP RECORDING ARTIST "BRAEDEN-V" TALKS NEW SINGLE "TRENDSETTER" AND MORE!

 

Canadian rapper BraedenV makes music with melodic sound, hip hop attitude


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By John Hacker


CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island, Canada — BraedenV is one of those musicians that doesn’t fit well into the boxes where people try to put musicians.


He’s a hip hop singer who sings some of his raps, and he sings about where and how he fits into the music scene in his latest single, “Trendsetter,” which is also the title track to his latest, six track album, set for release on Nov. 10.


“‘Trendsetter’ was inspired by how I've been perceived in my hip hop scene since I began making music,” Braeden said. “The idea being that people kind of very quickly dismiss me in the hip hop scene because I sing more than them or my rap is melodic. I’m kind of different, it’s kind of hard to put me in a box with the hip hop guys or the singers, so I've been a bit of a standout, not necessarily intentionally but just because of the way my sound is. I don’t fit into those traditional boxes.”


Trendsetter” is a collaboration with the rapper and producer Spivey and was recently nominated for a MusicPEI Award, a provincial award given in Prince Edward Island.

The EP features three songs that have been previously released and three that have not seen the light of day.


He also sings R&B on the album in the song called “Nothing Left,” a song inspired by a tragedy that struck his home in picturesque Prince Edward Island, one of the three Maritime provinces in Canada off the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick coast.


I think ‘Nothing Left’ is a strong R&B song,” Braeden said. “It's got some rapping in it but it is the most melodic song on there. I think it will do well on radio. I think it’s kind of a Weeknd song with rappers in it, and it’s also very emotional. It’s one of the most emotional songs on the record, and to me that’s very important too.”


He said the video includes footage of Hurricane Fiona, which hit the Maritimes earlier in 2022 and left devastation in its wake. Braeden said he lost electricity and internet for nine days because of the hurricane.


There were 150-year-old trees that came down during the hurricane,” he said. “I’ve got footage of one guy’s house that got pulled out onto a sandbar. It was heartbreaking footage to see. I though that would be a good angle to take the record because ‘Nothing Left’ is kind of about shipwrecks and I use a lot of those metaphors. I’m going to dedicate that song to anyone who has been affected by natural disasters or climate change events.”


BraedenV said he’s dedicating his career to his dad who was a musician in his younger days but couldn’t focus on it as a career because he was also a single father raising Braeden and his siblings.


It was a family thing, I always felt like my dad never got the chance he deserved so I’m making sure I get the chance for both of us,” Braeden said. “I’ve always had a strong connection to music, we used to go on road trips all the time and we’d put on music and sing along to Rush and Barenaked Ladies and all kinds of famous bands, Peter Gabriel, I'm a huge fan of his, Tom Petty too. I kind of took a different path from my dad, he was very traditional instrumentalist whereas I do more hip hop and modern productions.”


BraedenV also has a podcast called The Chasing Planes podcast and named for one of the first songs he released in 2020, and he’s constantly releasing new content on his instagram, YouTube and Tok Tok channels.


He said he’ll be performing live as an opener for the rapper Dax on Dec. 3, 2022 at the Onyx Nightclub in Guelph, Ontario. That event will be a homecoming for Braeden who grew up in Guelph.


You can follow BraedenV on his music and social media channels

https://withkoji.com/@BraedenV

https://open.spotify.com/artist/56f4AjhocjduBsHZDoTD7l

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZyLLvqrT4008zcttYl0Vpw

https://www.tiktok.com/@braedenv

https://www.instagram.com/braedenva/

https://twitter.com/BraedenVA

https://www.facebook.com/BraedenVA

https://soundcloud.com/braedenv

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