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MN Music Note - Ep 53 - The Wake-Up Call That Changed His Life with D.Santos
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What happens when chasing success nearly costs you your life? D.Santos shares the wake-up call that changed everything—and how it led him to discover his true purpose through music.
From growing up in Brazil to building a new life in Minnesota, D.Santos has lived a journey filled with resilience, sacrifice, and purpose. In this episode, he opens up about surviving burnout, becoming a preschool teacher, finding healing through conscious hip-hop, and why every song he writes is meant to leave people better than he found them. This is an honest conversation about choosing purpose over hustle and creating music that truly means something.
In this episode, we talked about:
🇧🇷 Growing up in Brazil and eventually moving to Minnesota.
💥 The health scare that completely changed his outlook on life.
🎤 Why he makes clean, conscious hip-hop instead of following trends.
👶 Balancing life as a preschool teacher while pursuing music.
🌅 His disciplined 4 AM routine for writing and producing music.
🎶 Bringing the sound of 90s boom bap into today's hip-hop.
🧠 How music helped him overcome some of the darkest moments in his life.
🚗 The unbelievable real-life story behind his upcoming song inspired by an AirTag found on his car.
If you've ever felt burned out, questioned your purpose, or needed a reminder that it's never too late to rewrite your story, this episode is for you.
Watch until the end—you might walk away inspired to make a change in your own life.
If you're part of the Minnesota music scene—or know someone with a story worth sharing—we'd love to hear from you. Reach out to us and let's shine a spotlight on the artists, bands, venues, and creators that make Minnesota music special.
The Minnesota Music Note is always looking for the next great guest!
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All right, so you and I met through the internet, and I actually don't really know much about you. So why don't you just start out by telling me your name and like who you are and what you do out in the world?
SPEAKER_02Wonderful. Well, um, my name is De Santos. Uh I'm from Brazil, from a city, it's about like three hours away from Sao Paulo City called Ribeirão Preto, which is uh in English is Black River. And um, yeah, or Black Creek, actually. And then um, I came to Minnesota back in 2020 just to do some like work and studies. I was an au pair. Uh if you don't know what it is, it's just like a foreign comes to America and then they live with the host family while taking care of their kids. And then you live with the host family too. Okay so doing that program, I moved to New York and then spent one year, then moved to Portland, Oregon. I spent five months there. Things didn't work out, so we went through a rematch, and then I found a family in Simlis Park, Minnesota back in 2020. That's when I arrived, April 10th, 2020.
SPEAKER_04Nice.
SPEAKER_02And how old were you then when you went through this experience? So that was back in 20 uh 17, 2018. So I would say 22, 23 years old. Okay. Yeah. Cool. And then I've been doing just taking care of kids since 2011. Um backing back at home, I also like took care of kids. Really? And then here I started like doing the program after my program. I did like nanny here, babysitting here and there uh until I got like the uh oh, I I could like be able to work. So I went and got like a job as a preschool teacher. That's what I do. Preschool? Yeah, preschool. Is that right?
SPEAKER_04Nice, nice.
SPEAKER_02So you used to love being around kids, teaching kids. I love it. Just you know, to make like them uh I don't know, just like helping them and inspiring them like to pursue their best selves and just be uh the best they can.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, preschool kids are just so uh goofy and innocent, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, they are. It's like they pay you just to laugh and have fun with the kids, why not? So let's do it.
SPEAKER_04Well, it takes a special kind of person though. My wife is very much like a kid kid person, like preschool. She could really get down on their level and and communicate. I have a difficult time at that age, but maybe toddler level, I'm like really good with. And I see, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02I I I think like I'm the opposite because I love babies. I used like I started as a uh infant baby, uh, infant teacher, and then you started as an infant baby too, me too. That is cool. I think I think everyone does, right? But yeah, and then um yeah, after that, they decided to have me in preschool, like in the preschool classroom. Um, I think like the other teachers and I clicked just like working together so well that like the directors liked it and we just kept going. And then and you know, in between like in the meantime, just also doing some music as well, just trying to share the message out there too.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, well, we're definitely getting on to the music. Yeah, uh that's definitely why you're here. But um, it's interesting that you talk about the teaching. So I did like I was an adjunct professor at a university when I live, I lived in the Middle East for a little while as well. And I always found it so daunting and challenging to come up with all the curriculum and all the material. I didn't realize when I said yes, how much work I was saying yes to.
SPEAKER_02I mean, is it the same at the preschool level or is it a little bit simpler because they're yeah, it's like simpler because all they ask us is just like to create like a lesson planning um based on um having fun, just like a playtime, you know, like it like just like playing roles. And I was like, okay, so let's do it. So instead of like, for example, my partner, they are a high school teacher, right? Like ESL. And then um, so like their lesson planning sometimes is like more difficult because you know, we gotta do like some math, some stuff like that. Right. The meantime for preschool, all you gotta do is come up with something like interactive, exactly just having fun, teaching, like, oh, today we're gonna learn about the letter F. Who like whose name starts with the F in the classroom? And then people say, Oh, my name starts, and then just like starting learning like that, just like learning by having fun. It's cool. All right.
SPEAKER_04So uh do you do you uh do you speak Spanish or Portuguese? Portuguese, but I also speak Spanish. You also speak Spanish, you teach in either of those languages, or do you teach in English? No, just English. Teaching English? Cool, nice, just English. Awesome. Well, let's get into the music because that's really why you're here. So tell me what you do musically.
SPEAKER_02So musically, I do hip hop, I I do songwriting, I also produce all my music as well. Um, I think like I consider my music being like a conscious high like rap. So it's more like about telling people, sharing stories that happened to me, but in a like pot in in a way that people be like, hey, that might be something that I could also do, you know, because I remember going like through a really dark time in my life back in 2021, 2022. Um songs like artists like Chupac McMillar, you know. I don't know, some every time I listened to their songs, I heard like something talking to me, like, hey, you can also do it. You know, like you are capable, why not? And then I started like writing some uh raps in English, but I don't know, I just don't feel like my English is good enough for rapping, you know. So I decided to, you know, go back to Portuguese. I was like, why not? And then I don't know, just like things started like working out, songs started like coming out as well, and um, yeah, and then just like bringing the 90s boom bap back to 2026. That's my goal.
SPEAKER_04Nice. All right, so so um who's your audience?
SPEAKER_02Do you do you have like a group of people that come to your shows and stuff like that? So usually it's like I see Latino, I see like Brazilian sometimes. It's you know, um, the first time I saw somebody from like a different nationality, it was a friend of mine from Colombia. He just popped up, and then that's how we met. And after that, um, I remember just like seeing Brazilians in the audience, like when I played uh at the Greenway Glow, uh, you know, some other like nationalities, but like mostly Latino and Americans as well.
SPEAKER_04Nice, nice. So um what so you got two two different stories going on here, which I find really fascinating, right? Obviously, you love kids and you have your entire life and you've been around taking care of kids. Um and obviously the music is a piece of it, but like how how do those two things come together? And then like how did you decide to get on an airplane and travel outside the country and do these things that you're doing?
SPEAKER_02That's a really good question. I think like the connection between music and kids, it's because I want to like make music available to everyone. I so let's talk about politics. Let's talk about politics, but in a way that I I don't know, I just don't don't like swearing on my music. So I want to like make available also like for the kids, you know, because I kind of feel like I have a message right there. So if the kids they are able to listen to it, you know, I think this is like something that uh I I really want to achieve as a goal. And um at work, for example, I don't know, just like being around kids, I feel like a kid myself as well, just like my my my kid, like my old self, like I don't know, five, four years old, just come up, you know, and then shows up and then we start like playing and having fun. And that's something that I like because bringing the 90s boom bap is like going back to a time where we were happy, but we kind of like didn't know what happened it was, if that makes sense. Yeah. So just like being with kids kind of take me back all the way to my childhood. I was like, oh, you know, always wanted to do this, so let's go and do with the kids. For example, it's no ball, it's no fight. You know, in the winter, when we had the kids outside to play with the snow, we did a snow fight. It wasn't really cool. Me being from Brazil, my hometown, the coldest we always like we ever we've had we ever had, it was something around 70 fighting height. What the coldest? The coldest. Wow, the coldest. My hometown usually even saw snow, maybe too. You can do these. No, yeah, that was the first time it was in New York. Wow. So I always wanted to do that, like build is no man, it's no angel. Uh-huh. You know, just like by watching American movies, uh being a kid. And I was like, well, one day I will be there. I'll be doing that. And nowadays I'm 30, you know, I'm a preschool teacher. Let's deal with it. Why not? You know, I still have the kid alive in like in my like myself. That's like my you know, why not? So let's go and have fun. And I think like the combination between being a preschool and a rapper, it's also breaking the paradigma. Is that yeah, paradigm. Yeah, yep. Yeah, here we go. Yeah, gotcha. So yeah, just because like sometimes people be like, oh, rapper, oh they they they cannot do this, or like a man cannot take care of kids, you know? Yeah. And I think like 2026 is the time that we have to break that. We have to stop with that. I think we have to be more open-minded, and um, I think that's what can make us like move along. So uh when did rap music become a part of your life? Ooh. Since I consider myself as a human being, if that makes sense. Yeah, I don't know. Because like growing up, I always listened to rap music, you know, like and why?
SPEAKER_04Like where did it come from? Who were your who were your influences? Was it your friends, your parents, your your your older siblings?
SPEAKER_02I think it's more about I I don't know, just like the beat. I think if it has like kind of beautiful melody, I think that's it. You know, I think that's where my listening like catches on, and like because I kind of feel like I'm like really creative and having that sound, that beat, that kind of like goes through my subconscious and start like me making me feel like damn, this is like so cool, you know. I kind of feel like inspired, and I feel like maybe I don't know, I definitely have like some background in Brazil. Uh, we have like a group called Racionais MCs. We have uh S and J, which is uh Somos Nós a Justiça in English We Are the Justice. Uh they have a song that I really love called Pensamentus, which in English is Thought uh Thoughts. And it's like one of the songs that I try my best to every pre performance before I get up on stage. I just try to listen for at least like a two minutes, like three minutes of the song, just like to get in that mode, you know, just get like aye, let's go, let's do it. It's my time, it's my turn to bless the mic, and that's my time to share the message and just connect with people through, you know, I don't know, beyond the language, because people don't understand what I sing. But that's the reason why my partner came up with a uh the idea of having live translated lyrics, and then I've been doing that. So every show I go, I have the set ready, and I also have the translated lyrics ready for those who enjoy like just following along or knowing what I'm like talking or rapping about.
SPEAKER_04That's pretty cool. So it's like a like rap with subtitles, huh? Yeah, that's really neat. That's a great idea.
SPEAKER_02And then one of my first music video called uh Hombra Amigo, one of my songs, uh, it has like the translated lyrics too as well. So if people wanted to know, just go over there and listen to it, read, and that's it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, because I mean it's the music music often has two pieces to it, right? It's got that beat and that rhythm and the the melody, but it's also got the story. Yeah. It's really yeah, it's really nice because if the people could feel it and also follow along the story, I that's it's like easier to like get connected.
SPEAKER_02Exactly. And then that's how I try like to build like my crowd as well. Yeah, you know, because I don't think like people go like to a concert and be like, ah, let's go over there and see some subtitles. You know, I don't think people go build but I also do thing, yeah. Right, exactly. And then be like listening to some like different other like than English, you know. I'm not special, I'm not saying that, but it's like I don't know, just like rapping in a different language. That's I kind of feel like what people feel when they watch me perform is what I felt when I, you know, grew up listening to Tupac, Snoop Dogg, you know, uh Dr. Dre, just like old school hip-hop, like American hip-hop. So um DMX. So I kind of feel like for me, it's awesome to be in that position to rap, to try to shed a message while the people don't understand, but vibe because there's like a vibe over there. It's not all about the story or the beat. I think it's like the atmosphere uh and just like in one thing, if that makes sense.
SPEAKER_04It does, yeah. And so I I want to go back again to like the neighborhood, you know what I mean. Was that vibe alive in your neighborhood? Was it were you like inspired to kind of get into this kind of music because everybody was really into it? Or tell tell me about that.
SPEAKER_02So Ribeirão Preto. So growing up there, it was amazing because in Brazil we have different like genres. We have rap, we have axé, we have uh samba, pagode. So it's all like this other genres that people kind of feel like more connected to, but rap music too is also like well played over there. Sure. So I would say like my neighbor would be like listening to pagogy, which is more popular, and in the meantime, I would be listening to rap.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_02Two neighbors down the street would be listening to a share or funk music as well. So it's like kind of you had everything because everyone were just like vibing on like their own like waves. So it was like just having hip-hop, rap, you know, pagage and other genres as well. And it's kind of funny because I kind of feel music started back when I was 12, 13, when I started like just forming a band and I was a bass player, but the other yeah, the other members, we were not on the same page, so things of course didn't work out. But um ever since I started like writing music, you know, but besides writing music, I also like I've written, I don't know, lots of like poems. So I think maybe I started like with poetry, and then I just go like jump the wall and go like, all right, let's do some music, let's have fun. And um, but uh rap, rap, like writing rap, it was back in 2021, 2022 when I was going like through like some mental health like you know uh times. But after that, I think like music really helped me to get back on my feet as well, and also yeah, just my spiritual journey as well. So I think like music, because my music is also talk talks about spirit is spirituality, um, mental health, resilience, you know, just those good stuff to help people.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I mean, music is such a healing potion for so many of us. Yeah, it's interesting. So you said you play bass, you also play you said you also earlier that you produce your own music as well as perform it. So do are do you play any other instruments, keys, guitar?
SPEAKER_02I I play mostly percussions, okay, but um, I play bass, I play a little bit of guitar, uh, I play ukulele, uh what else? Like harmonica, maybe just the the wedding song, that's it. Nothing else. But uh and then like the shaker, some percussion, yeah. Some yeah, I would say so.
SPEAKER_04So when you're producing your your music, like what what what sort of tools are you using?
SPEAKER_02So uh right now I'm just like getting all the license for my beats on beatstar.com, which is like really cool. But like producing, I use uh FL Studio and then I have like my uh home studio as well. So I just go and record like whenever I kind of feel like it, and then just like go working on on the song. And I kind of feel like it's healing as well because after a day of uh the day of at work, I'll be like, you know what, let's just chill. But I love taking baths, like but we do not have a bathtub. How am I supposed to chill? Let's go to the studio, let's do some music, and then I'd be just like chilling over there, you know, and I'll be like, this is kind of cool because I always find something to look forward to. So like every morning when I uh when I get up, just go to the studio and start writing, just vibing, just writing before work.
SPEAKER_04You gotta get a sign and nickname your studio the bathtub. Oh, I love that.
SPEAKER_02I love that. I'll actually do it. And then yeah, it's it's kind of like I don't know, just like hot bath, whoo, just three hours for me. Oh yeah. My my fiance can tell you.
SPEAKER_04But um I think you'd be pruned up like a like a prune at that point, right? Your skin all pruned up and oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02It's kind of like, you know, just I I don't know, kind of feel like, oh, this is not me. What is going on with my skin? The first time that happened, I went crazy and was like, nah, this is not normal. But after that, I was like, you know what? Maybe it was too much time, like too long in the water. It just had to be.
SPEAKER_04So uh give me um uh you know, a week in your lifetime, like what you know, how much you play in music, how often you're playing out, just kind of like I obviously I know teaching preschool kids most of the time, right? That takes up eight hours of the day, if you will. But then what do your weekends look like? Performances, that sort of thing. Just give me a give me your life.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, no, that's that's wonderful. I love it. Uh so like uh I started the like the week just waking up early and then I just go to the studio, just vibe, and then go to work. Oh yeah, I do. Really? Yeah, because I I I've been like time are you waking up in the morning? So I've been trying to do better four in the morning. Four in the morning, four in the morning every single day.
SPEAKER_04Studio time, get some bathtub time. Exactly.
SPEAKER_02Because I love just like be in a I I used to be the one person who just like would wake up, you know, get ready, go to work. But I kind of feel like that one was my health, it was kind of like feeling, you know, I I was feeling sick all the time. I was like, nah, I need to do something different. So I started waking up early, having dinner early, because Brazilians though, we have dinner so late, according to my American fiance.
SPEAKER_04But uh like what time are we talking about?
SPEAKER_02Like 10:30, 11 p.m.
SPEAKER_04Okay, yeah, it is a little late, yeah. It's almost the next day already. So yeah, like almost breakfast at that point.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly. But like, for example, my schedule back home, I would go like to uh to work and because I used to have like two uh two jobs and then uh college and then you know four buses back home. I would get home like around like one in the morning, two in the morning. I would go back uh to bed around like two thirty and then get up at like four or four thirty in the morning, just like because I I needed like the public transportation. So if you do not have a car there, that's it. Then you gotta just follow what the government tells you to do. Sure. And then gotta go just like grinding, wake up. But right now, it is studio time for two hours, and then 6 30, get ready, 7, bounce, work, 7 30 from 7 30 to 4 30, get done, go home. If I do not have anything coming up, I just go to the studio too, making music, listening to beats. That's what I like. And then take my puppy for a walk, you know, too. My partner, cook something. I love cooking too. And then I do. I I I kind of feel like I've I've learned a lot in the past few years, and I kind of feel like I'm a better cook than I used to be before. Because in Brazil, it was just make some eggs, make some that's it. Actually, there was eggs and rice. That that was all. That was all. And then here now, now I make like beans. You know, we have like uh this uh dish called feijoada in Brazil, which is black beans with pork and then has like bacon. It's so good. One day I will make it for you.
SPEAKER_04That sounds all right, yeah.
SPEAKER_02And then um, but um, yeah, I would just go uh after work, just chill at home, play some video game, you know. The next day, same thing. Four in the morning up, just listening to maybe the same beats and just try to write something. You know, and uh I always try to write at least like one verse in like two hours, every like two hours. So like let's say I woke up this morning, I wrote a verse, cool. Tomorrow I will try to go and keep going on that project. When I come back from work, I don't feel like I have the vibe because I feel like each project it has like its unique stuff. So if I started doing in the middle, like uh early morning, for example, four in the morning, I'm not gonna try to go back with uh my energy, with the vibe from all day long after work catching people's energy, you know. put it on the song. So I would just keep it right there. The probably what I was gonna uh what I'm gonna do is just go and just practicing what I have so far. But writing just the next day when I'm like cleaning quiet early exactly. That's what I've been doing for this new project uh coming out probably next month in April.
SPEAKER_04So four in the morning a coffee drinker?
SPEAKER_02I am not tea drinker? I am not.
SPEAKER_04Really?
SPEAKER_02Yeah. You just wake up at four o'clock like some crazy person, huh? Yeah, and then just like always try to have like drink at least one cup of water every single day before I have like anything like a cup of milk or like eat something. And I always try like to uh respect the 12 hours from my last meal to my next meal. Is that right?
SPEAKER_04Yeah fasting every day too huh?
SPEAKER_02I mean I've I I've been trying to do bet better. Because like before holy moly my routine before no good. Coke. I used to drink coke I don't know like how how many cans? Maybe like I don't know seven eight nine ten cans a day. Wow just like one after the other no water. Nothing. Probably lost a lot of weight after that I gain I gain I've gained a lot. Already I've gained a lot of weight uh my partner disagrees but that's alright. Uh but um the best part too I stopped drinking coke for over 200 days. So I've been coke free for no okay so Coca-Cola free. Yeah we got 200 days and I'm so happy for that because I don't feel like oh I need like oh let's go and drink some no I I I don't have the desire that wish the you know nothing. That's good that's good free no mark.
SPEAKER_04Yeah sugar is just as serious as an addiction as anything else man I I suffer with it. I'm always craving sugar and oh yeah it's hard to hard to hold back so yeah my that the only downfall though for me I stop with Coke and I start with a Sprite so let's go Sprite Alright Sprite you're looking for somebody to sponsor here we go just him yeah yeah nice all right so tell me you have any funny or crazy stories about your journey Oh so many.
SPEAKER_02Okay so many uh I had a stroke when uh back in twenty sixteen a stroke yeah a stroke for working too much wow yeah I used to back while when I had a stroke I had like three jobs plus college I was gonna say is this back when you were like going to bed at two and getting up at four exactly that was exactly that time okay and then I was working because I used to be a sports journalist back home as well because my background I have like graduation in journalism communication okay and um did four years but after that I was like I'm done and um yeah so uh doing the what what what were we talking about at first just funny stories. Oh yeah funny stories that's right um yeah so the the stroke I was at work just like doing um uh a live uh we did we had like this radio station that I was doing just sports news and I was in the stadium that uh at that time and I started like feeling so bad like uh I couldn't breathe and I was like damn I don't know what's what's gonna happen with me so I just I remember I was live and I was like hey man I cannot breathe any help that's it and I remember just passing out waking up at the hospital my dad was there a lot of people from the the club that I was in the stadium was that as well and then I was like what is going on what am I here and then they said like hey man you fainted you you had a stroke I was like I was I didn't have like no um time to relax no no chill time it was just like work work because I used to be a workaholic so for me you have two hours a gig over here please call me oh you have a three hours four or nine hours twelve hours please call me I always wanted to work because that's what I thought that my passion was about about just like reporting news being a journalist but that's not like I think my goal my my mission is doing music and then after that I had the stroke. I I don't think it was a funny story but that's something that an impactful one for sure. Yeah like looking back changed your trajectory right oh definitely definitely definitely because I remember like staying for like six to eight months just like in bad couldn't even see because I um I took like the the spine like the spine liquid or something like that. I don't know how to say in English but that was like the thing that if you sit migraine like boom so I had to lay down for about seven like six seven like eight months. Yeah and then my parents were like damn that's that's unfortunate I was like what can I do? But after that when I got better one job I didn't care about money that time like after that money wasn't the main factor.
SPEAKER_04And you still get to tell your stories but now you tell them through poetry and music. Exactly that's awesome. That's awesome right and now you've kind of carved out you're you've got now you're doing it with discipline rather than just working working working four hour uh two hours in the morning at four a m exactly as I I commend you. I've been trying to get up earlier to I get up usually get up at like 5 30 but 4 a.m is just too early man.
SPEAKER_02Too early I'm not as hardcore as you are but if you give it a try once I handle you look just tell me how it feels just like I I I don't know just like being able to uh have like a head start of just the world you know just like be like when people are just waking up and going to work you've been in function like functioning for about two three hours.
SPEAKER_04So your body's just like all right let's do it I've I've heard the same I've got other friends that also get up quite early and they do it for the same reason just that quiet space in the morning before the world gets too busy.
SPEAKER_02Yeah you know it's it's peaceful. It's really good. I'm trying to encourage my partner to do the same but is that right?
SPEAKER_04Yeah but Nelson says we gotta get it one day. My my wife tried to work on me with the same because she she to uh she used to write like a lot of speeches and be like a public speaker when she was young and that was like her grandfather always told her you gotta get up very early and that's when you do your speech writing because and you know she still swears by it so must be the same kind of mentality you know get up when it's quiet get peace your mind can work nothing else is clouding it yet no other exact things coming in from outside. Cool man so what what sort of fun projects are you working on right now?
SPEAKER_02Um right now I'm working on this new track called uh January 22nd which is uh storytelling of uh of the the one thing that happened to me back in January 22nd 2026 where heading back from work my phone started beeping just saying that there was a device trying to connect and once I got home I had to scan my car you know from top to bottom looking for a tracker. And unfortunately I found a an air tag that was put up on by ICE agents. So they air tagged me uh that day and that's the the project. So this is just a storytelling just every fact that happened that day I'm just like putting on a storytelling song and coming up soon.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_02That's that's a fun one.
SPEAKER_04Well it might be a couple of months actually before this episode comes out.
SPEAKER_02You think it'll be ready by then uh yes then definitely because my my plan is uh to release in April. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Cool. If it you know so we always like to put like you know a video performance whatever you want to put at the end so we you can choose what it is. It could be this particular video could be something else you did but lovely. When we get there so beautiful awesome man um I gotta so what I always like to wrap these up with the same question. If you've had a chance to watch any of the episodes you'll see that I ask everybody this question it is who do you recommend should be next on the show?
SPEAKER_02Artist wise or just a guest?
SPEAKER_04Music music music music related doesn't have to be an artist it could be a venue it could be a promoter it could be an agent but yeah something related to Minnesota music.
SPEAKER_02Um I have uh this one DJ that he was like the first one that I like got connected with and then um kind of like after connecting with him some doors started opening and like I'm doors that I'm like really grateful for. So uh his name is J Meath from St. Paul last name uh if you don't remember it right now you can give it to me later yeah I I think like it's just DJ uh DJ J Meath. DJ Jamie okay that's that's we'll we'll look for him but we've got time anyway so no lie I can definitely send you like his uh contact info okay as well cool well thanks for doing this man thank you so much I forget how like how did we get connected did you did we connect on it was on Facebook I think yeah I think uh I saw a post like from uh looking for guests like to be on the show yeah I know it was one of those posts I put out I just couldn't remember where the post like I think it was on the Minnesota Minneapolis music group or something like that.
SPEAKER_04Nice nice well this is great man I really I would love to have so you you recommended the DJ but I would really love to get to talk to more rap artists to get to talk to more people you know because I'm I'm a rock guy I'm you know I'm a metal drummer and I know a lot of people in that area but I want to get to know everybody so uh the DJ is also a rapper too.
SPEAKER_02Is that right? So yeah he's like but his main thing is like doing DJ but he also like his uh his his he has like some rap music as well available on all streamy. Awesome man well this has been really cool I appreciate so much thank you for having the time and uh yeah that that that was awesome to be part of it.
SPEAKER_04Thank you so much. A lot of fun right hey there Minnesota music family if I haven't personally reached out to you yet consider this your 100% official invitation to join me on the Minnesota Music Dode. I'm Will McLeod co-founder of the podcast crew here in beautiful Robinsdale host of the show and the guy behind the kit for the band Hits and the Misses. I started this podcast because I want to get to know the people who make our scene tick. Whether you're fronting a band, spinning hip hop, running sound, booking shows, running shows or teaching the next generation of talent, your story belongs here. We've had everyone from videographers to festival organizers on the mic and we're just getting started. It doesn't matter if you're playing arenas or just making magic in your basement if you're part of the Minnesota music community I want to chat slide into my DMs or hit the email below and let's hang out and talk shop Keith Porter Jr.
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