I am sitting down with a local artist Chicago born-and-bred from bronzeville
said the Baptist and thank you for joining us no no problem and I'm glad to
be here our sandwich today's been supplied to us by perris Delhi there an
alarm of Chicago's best we're big fans of them on the show we thought we'd get
a sandwich in your honor this is called toots temptation let's talk about you do
you have a brief description of exactly who you are what you are what you do I'm
a preacher's kid from Brownsville my dad was a pastor spent my whole life in
Chicago mm-hmm and he loved music a mixture of gospel and jazz a little bit
of everything and Uganda Thames said about this yeah cuz I I spent most of my
time in a church and my dad start off as a Baptist so if ever had said the
Baptist hey a great song to check out it's raise hell yeah which is a great
track someone said two million now two million hits on Spotify yeah check that
here we go I'm going in he's gonna take he's gonna take that he's gonna take the
first bite on behalf of both of us hmm yeah really good well you attempted
clearly the Baptist was tempted it's really hard to do like talk and eat on
camera like this is what they forced me to do every single day my like I'm gonna
like a first date a son what would be your ideal first date I like to go
extreme you do yeah what's extreme whoa okay okay well this is mood lighting so
I like to go extreme or like helicopter right I like to do the extreme stuff and
then peel back so you like to go all out to start off with yeah really impressed
on state and then you roll it back inside the second date you just sit with
your hand down your pants watching watching today's Oh have you been before
you even date a girl you take your timing you you followed through as a
friend then you just turn you guys writing this down and emotional this is
important advice right here where do you like to hang out late night and grab
some food no like Kingston mines is like the props like the dopest spot in
Chicago if we go then will they see you hanging out left yeah we gotta go kart
now you go around the population of dough cause like I I sit in kingston
mines for at least all right gold gold oh I thought I gonna call heart I
thought you said go com I'm like dude I think people want to know what will you
eat our late night as well are you up your burger guy you'll have
the guy you oh the ribs you ridden my poor boy rip or a pope really big online
okay I go to New Orleans often and I love polka well you're very place to put
all right I think I like performing at Reggie's I love Reggie's in South Metro
budget is great i love the record show that i get trapped in the record store
for hours i'm a big big final man yeah right Reggie's is like it's like home
it's like if I had a church in Chicago it would be Richie's that would be your
judge ever we heard about you through a producer Molly because back in the day
notice not a day's like last year I can't let lost yet you're a lyft driver
huh I was working at leo burnett and I was doing music and music business for
mcdonald's corporation okay yes i was covering there i was covering all of
their there are campaigns for music I tell IRA and tell us who is the head
over at leo burnett at the time for music I'm gonna go in and figure this
thing out mm-hmm I go and try to do music I end up homeless so I end up
sleeping out of the car that I drove for him you're kidding me yeah so what I
would do is just sleep in my car overnight downtown somewhere and then in
the morning air it out drive fresh it and you know put on some new clothes or
try to freshen up in the best way I could and then drive people until I can
get enough money and enough people around me to help build the type of
impact i wanted to do on the music coach the team I've built has taken me from
homelessness to it to deal with 3.7 million that's getting deep when you
play these shows they say hey what do you want you could say I you could be
the biggest diva I want to write I want yeah yeah so they gave me the writer and
I was like hey I want my writer I want to donate it to a homeless shelter this
guy we literally gave all like we hey you have to get these many socks and
shoes and what are you doing come up a mother's day no I'm Jesse just about
money your mom wants money wow you know you know your son has made it with the
Motherhouse for just a man she said you're not gonna buy the bed
if you're just not wow she knows you there's a lot lot by then you're gonna
buy a crappy gift don't bother just give me the money and I'll go and buy one for
myself thanks all the same nice plus I wouldn't have made it this far if she
hadn't put her credit on the line to let me get that car nice trucking you don't
hear many young rappers or artists who site Louis Louis Armstrong is one of the
biggest influences I'm so glad bye baby I was gonna ask you if you could if you
could do any any scouting or neah anybody any Lewis first you can't come
from bronzeville and not my vine teacher um vocal teacher Connie Rogers I'm she
was blind and I had a speech problem okay and she was trying to teach me how
to be able to to sing so she taught me to smile and to scat I've got you under
my skin but undiluted tea I've got you deep in the heart of me o.o was so deep
in my heart that you're really a part of me as a ba ba ba de Lobo got you under
my skin yeah yeah yeah Louie will say zabba Dabba Dabba side identity yeah
yeah I got you I got you I deep in the heart of me then that always over
pronounce you so deep in my heart really a part of me r & applause that's my bet
I suppose for this so I Sunday's best that's beautiful I know you're gonna ask
at some point and it's gonna be embarrassing I don't embarrass you so I
signed a picture for you from me just saying how much how much I enjoyed our
time together and it's me playing an organized is because you don't bring
that you can you know whatever you want to do then hey like organs are so
important to my sound working is like a staple in the
the brand of hearing what so the Baptist sound like so like dude yeah heck yeah
this is though so the Baptist check him out let's do his music it will make your
weekend special if you listen to raise hell trust me