(whispering) What up?
My name's Hobo Johnson.
This is Mind Massage.
(thud)
(shushing)
I made my first album when I lived in my car.
It was a beautiful 1994 Toyota Corolla.
(beads clacking)
(sprays)
I decided to make my first album inside of it
when I got kicked out of my house,
so I made the first few songs I released in that car.
Started playing open mics. (sprays)
Playing more often. (sprays)
And finally I met my friends The Lovemakers. (sprays)
And we got better as a band and we released
a video on YouTube and everyone liked it somehow,
and that's how I got to this place, in this chair.
I met my friends, The Lovemakers, mostly at
open mics in Sacramento, and we started
playing more and more, and we all became best friends.
We go on tour with each other.
(rubbing fabric)
We all got matching tattoos on our arms,
and even though we have our differences,
we still will always be best friends.
If you guys are watching this, I love you guys.
(laughs)
I met my friends, and we started playing more shows,
and then the other day we played a show
for homeless youth in (crackling plastic)
Sacramento at Ace of Spades, and the youth opened the show,
I think there was like, ten youth there,
and it was really fun and it made some of their days,
which was cool.
When I was younger I lived in my car for a little bit,
so it's cool to be able to help in any way that I can.
I love The Kings.
When I was younger, I wanted to be one of The Kings,
but I never got rid of some of that baby weight.
Maybe one day if I stop rapping.
(man gagging)
I'll get back to trying to dunk.
My dad once told me that I'll never dunk,
and I love proving people wrong.
Dad, I'm gonna dunk.
We're about to go on tour this Fall, all across America.
Then we'll go to Europe and Australia.
I'm excited to play all new stuff.
We have a new album coming out.
The newest song is called Typical Story,
which I'm excited about.
It's basically about how sometimes in life
you think something's gonna happen and it doesn't happen,
something else happens.
Classic.
Let's go through some lines.
One of the lines in the song is,
"We should sit in silence while we think of what to say."
So I think right now we should sit in silence for a second.
Ready?
(breathes through nose and nose whistles)
One of the lines is, "Settle down, little kid,
"your bones are shaking in your skin.
"Go and try and take a breath, though nothing more,
"nothing less."
I think it's about dealing with anxiety.
I feel like I'm a pretty anxious person.
Sometimes I feel if I'm really anxious,
that my bones are literally shaking in my skin.
(ball aerates)
(peeling card sounds)
"It's the typical story about the king who had it all,
"except for citizens who didn't want his head up on a wall."
It's about how you can have everything in life,
and even if you have everything, if the people
around you hate you, then there's no point,
and even having everything.
Everyone already hates you and they're just
gonna take all your shit.
So I feel like in today's society,
there's some people who are in control of our nation,
and they're fucking up and doing stupid shit.
I wanna write a sign for in a second.
(ripping tape)
And this sign is gonna be pretty simple.
Straight to the point.
Nothing too...
Nothing too stressful here.
Pretty just standard basic stuff.
So if you feel like I've been talking enough,
just tell me to shut up and I will gladly
shut the fuck up, and thank you for having me on the show.
It was pretty weird.
I'm not used to things like this.
I usually talk way louder, but thank you for having me on.
See you later, bye.
(shushing)
(crackling static)