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Intro
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00:25
DJ Beowulf
This is DJ Beowulf in studio with the members of Young Bull, here to promote their upcoming set at Double Barrel benefit. Hello, boys. Thank you for being in here today. You want to go ahead and introduce yourself down the line.
00:37
Christian Sinclair
What's going on? Christian Sinclair, rapper, singer of Young Bull. My fault. What's going on? Christian Sinclair of Young Bull. Rapper, singer.
00:49
Mique Cameron
What's going on? It's Mique.
00:51
Solomon Fox
What's up? This is Gabe, AKA Solomon Fox. I'm the producer and singer.
00:56
DJ Beowulf
Fantastic. And this is only three of the members. How many else do y’all have?
01:01
Solomon Fox
A million.
01:02
DJ Beowulf
A million. That's high standards.
01:04
Mique Cameron
Wu Tang.
01:04
Solomon Fox
Yeah. It's a movement. It's a movement. But we have. We have six to seven main.
01:11
Mique Cameron
Five to eight.
01:13
Solomon Fox
Five to eight.
01:14
DJ Beowulf
I mean, that five to eight includes six to seven. So it's that range.
01:17
Solomon Fox
Yeah, yeah. When we play live. So we play with a full band.
01:20
DJ Beowulf
You want to drop their names just for audience purposes.
01:23
Solomon Fox
Yes. We got Dorian Dotson on drums. Butler Knowles on the bass, AKA on a guitar, Elijah Foxpeck. My brother sometimes, occasionally makes guest appearances. A variety of horn players. I won't name them because there's them. Not curse. All right.
01:43
DJ Beowulf
I'll literally edit it out. Also, like, if there's ever something like this where I'm just talking, this is just gonna come out. It's super authentic, casual, like I said, off the cuff. I'll make it sound all professional later. We all good? So if there's any awkward pauses, they're not going to be there. Don't worry about it.
01:59
Christian Sinclair
You won't be awkward.
02:01
Solomon Fox
That's going to be hard.
02:02
DJ Beowulf
You won't be awkward on the Internet.
02:03
Solomon Fox
You can edit that out of me. Can't edit the awkward out.
02:07
DJ Beowulf
So you guys are scheduled to play on which night of Double Bear Double Barrel benefit, Saturday.
02:12
Mique Cameron
The second.
02:13
DJ Beowulf
The second night?
02:14
Mique Cameron
Yes. All right, the second night.
02:15
DJ Beowulf
Where are you in the lineup?
02:17
Mique Cameron
We're headliners.
02:19
Solomon Fox
Wow.
02:20
DJ Beowulf
What can we expect from your headlining set? What kind of trickery y’all get up to?
02:25
Mique Cameron
Greatness. And I mean that in the humblest way.
02:29
DJ Beowulf
Now we're not here to be humble. We're here to talk you up.
02:31
Mique Cameron
No, we're definitely. We're definitely humble individuals, but we also, like. We're also. We like, know ourselves. We're very knowledgeable of ourselves to know that if you come to a young boy show, you're. You're going to have a great time.
02:47
DJ Beowulf
Hell, yeah.
02:47
Mique Cameron
You're going. You're going to leave better than you came.
02:50
DJ Beowulf
So let's talk about that. What happens at a Young Bull show? Y’all have a favorite show you've put on recently or ever?
02:57
Solomon Fox
Yeah, we had a really dope show over Thanksgiving near. Around Thanksgiving. Thankful bowl, which is. It's called. Yes, it's called. That could have been the name actually, but was called Dubs Giving. And it's the fourth year we've done it. And it was just at Motorco in Durham. It was super packed. It's really great energy.
03:17
DJ Beowulf
Ooh, Young. Thank God. That could have been it.
03:20
Solomon Fox
Yeah, young. It's a lot of puns, for sure. Young. Red Bull. I don't like that one.
03:25
DJ Beowulf
What's your favorite flavor of Red Bull?
03:27
Christian Sinclair
Original.
03:28
Mique Cameron
I'm not a fan of Red Bull.
03:29
DJ Beowulf
Really? You like Monster Rock Star?
03:32
Solomon Fox
Well, actually, we are sponsored. We're actually sponsored. Sponsor. Sponsor alert. We're sponsored by Guayaki Yerba mate. So we don't drink any of that.
03:40
Mique Cameron
So yerba.
03:42
Solomon Fox
Yerba way.
03:43
DJ Beowulf
Yerba away.
03:44
Mique Cameron
Yerba mean.
03:45
DJ Beowulf
I don't even know what yerba mate is. That's some sort of kombucha.
03:48
Christian Sinclair
Should have brought you some.
03:48
Solomon Fox
No, it's so. It's so much better than kombucha.
03:50
DJ Beowulf
It's like, put me on, please.
03:51
Solomon Fox
It's like a South American tea. This is just literally an advertisement for guyaki. But it's really good. It comes in, like yellow cans. It's like. It's kind of like an alternative to coffee. It's. It's got a lot of caffeine.
04:05
DJ Beowulf
Duly noted.
04:05
Solomon Fox
It also has, like a lot of other herbal good stuff for you.
04:08
DJ Beowulf
I like tea. So would that be up my alley?
04:10
Solomon Fox
It's a tea.
04:11
DJ Beowulf
Okay, cool. Duly noted. Yes. I'm from Ireland originally, so I drink tea for everything. All the time. Constantly. Yeah, yeah.
04:19
Solomon Fox
So I respect.
04:20
DJ Beowulf
I'll have to check it out. Yerba mate. Duly noted. But anyways, the show over Thanksgiving, yeah, it was really.
04:28
Solomon Fox
It was really fun. It was very lit. It was nice tea. It was our first show.
04:34
Mique Cameron
All the above. Just about.
04:36
Solomon Fox
It was our first show in Durham, which is where we're from, in a While. And we just, like, really people came out and supported. It was a packed house.
04:45
DJ Beowulf
Are you guys from Durham?
04:47
Solomon Fox
We. Yes, as we're based in Durham.
04:49
DJ Beowulf
Okay.
04:50
Solomon Fox
Tamik and I are both from Durham. Well, close enough.
04:53
Mique Cameron
City all day, every day.
04:55
Solomon Fox
And Christian is not from Durham, but he's an adopted member of Durham.
04:58
Christian Sinclair
Yeah, I'm from Winston Salem.
05:01
DJ Beowulf
Close enough. I mean, Greensboro is like an hour 15, so Winston Salem's like, in an hour 15. Hour 30.
05:06
Christian Sinclair
Yeah, but it's okay. I mean, you're coming from Ireland, so. So you're like. Yeah, it's close.
05:12
DJ Beowulf
I'm just across the pond, man. It's not that far. I don't have the accent, so no one would know. And I do say y'. All. So I'm like, an honorary Southerner now. I have my American citizenship, so you guys can't say anything to me.
05:23
Solomon Fox
How did you lose the accent? How did you lose the accident? You never had it.
05:26
DJ Beowulf
I left when I was, like, four. Yeah. I was like a wee lass, as they say. Thanksgiving show, we keep getting sidetracked.
05:36
Mique Cameron
Thanksgiving show, it was packed.
05:37
DJ Beowulf
It was lit.
05:38
Mique Cameron
Yeah. I could. I mean, detail.
05:40
Solomon Fox
Yeah.
05:41
DJ Beowulf
Detail.
05:41
Mique Cameron
Yeah.
05:41
DJ Beowulf
What makes it so lit?
05:42
Mique Cameron
All right, so, like, so it was our fourth year. Fourth year doing dugsgiving. Previous years, this was the first year that it was at Motorcoat. Previous years, it's been at Pinhook. Penhook has venue Steeple in Durham. Staple.
05:59
Solomon Fox
I'm sorry.
05:59
Mique Cameron
Yeah.
05:59
DJ Beowulf
Yeah. WKNC and the Pinhook are. We're buddies. We're pretty tightly linked.
06:03
Solomon Fox
Yeah, we love that.
06:04
Mique Cameron
Yeah. I said, I've been playing Red Dead too much. I'm sorry.
06:07
DJ Beowulf
I said, Steeple, you should have shown up to the interview riding a horse.
06:11
Mique Cameron
Yeah. I was on that joint all last night. But Thanksgiving show, we. The capacity from Pinhook and Motorco are kind of significantly.
06:26
DJ Beowulf
Y’all stepped up then.
06:27
Solomon Fox
Yeah.
06:28
Mique Cameron
And then also, like, our past shows at Penhook for dubs giving, like, we had some lit, like, some years before. The one last year that were, like, had more of a crowd, like, so, like, the last year we did it there, it wasn't, like, the largest crowd that we've ever had. So to, like, move to a bigger venue and, like, get more people in, we tried, like, a lot of different stuff that we hadn't done at shows or because we. I don't want to say we hadn't done at shows, but we hadn't performed in Durham in a while, so we tried a lot of stuff that we've been doing on the road and stuff with, like, people at home. And it was just like a good feedback. Like, just everybody just responded really well.
07:11
DJ Beowulf
Hometown shows are, I don't want to say always the best, but, like, it's really comforting after you haven't been there for a while, just. Cause, like, everyone who's been your fan since, like, day one and. And you've grown so much and progressed and just get hype with them.
07:23
Mique Cameron
But also it's kind of confirming in a way, too, because at times when you from somewhere, like, it's like. It's like people, like, hate on you. They just hate on you from you being from a similar place, like they being from. And not even like they trying to do what you doing. They just kind of don't, like. I don't know. I don't know what it is, like, but I like this.
07:46
DJ Beowulf
A little bit of competition.
07:48
Mique Cameron
And so just amongst, like, I don't know, like, the pool of, like, entrepreneur.
07:53
DJ Beowulf
People, like, baby, there's a shark in the water. It's young bull.
07:56
Mique Cameron
I don't know. It's not. Not us.
07:59
DJ Beowulf
I just mean y’all are rising up. I mean, you're playing Double Barrel Benefit. You're headlining for us. Like, you're making waves.
08:04
Mique Cameron
Nah.
08:05
Solomon Fox
Yeah, for sure.
08:05
DJ Beowulf
So you guys might not be the aggressors, but reason to fear.
08:09
Christian Sinclair
Yeah.
08:09
DJ Beowulf
For other musicians out there, you know what I'm saying?
08:13
Mique Cameron
We might be the whalers.
08:14
DJ Beowulf
They have bull sharks.
08:16
Solomon Fox
The peaceful whale.
08:17
DJ Beowulf
The peaceful whale. We just vibing out there in those. Whales do sing too. So that works.
08:24
Solomon Fox
It's true.
08:25
DJ Beowulf
I like that. I like that analogy.
08:27
Mique Cameron
You feel me? They peace.
08:28
Solomon Fox
Should we change the name, Young whale?
08:31
DJ Beowulf
Oh, that's a wolf. But I was trying to make, well, whale sounds.
08:36
Mique Cameron
I mean, shrimp are cool, too.
08:38
Solomon Fox
Shrimp are cool.
08:38
Mique Cameron
I like shrimp. They small.
08:40
Mique Cameron
You feel me?
08:41
DJ Beowulf
Well, I mean, they got those jumbo shrimp, though.
08:43
Mique Cameron
Jumbo shrimp. But I'm saying when you throw. When you throw that shrimp, like, say. Say like them.
08:49
Solomon Fox
If you got a.
08:50
Mique Cameron
If you got a. A seafood boil, you know what I'm saying? You throw them shrimp in there, like, you going to taste them shrimp, and they make a big difference. But the shrimp is just so small.
08:59
DJ Beowulf
I mean, big things come in small packages. They pack a punch of flavor.
09:04
Solomon Fox
For sure.
09:04
Mique Cameron
For sure.
09:05
DJ Beowulf
I love y’all also pack a punch in your music. And so for the audience members who haven't checked you out, where can we find stuff to listen to?
09:13
Solomon Fox
You can find it anywhere on the interwebs or in person. If you want to buy it from us directly, the old fashioned way. We have CDs, I think we have some download cards. It's on Spotify, it's on Google, Play, Amazon, SoundCloud, anywhere that you get your music.
09:34
Mique Cameron
Title.
09:34
Solomon Fox
Ours is there.
09:35
DJ Beowulf
Title.
09:36
Solomon Fox
Yeah, title. Bandcamp, YouTube, they go.
09:40
DJ Beowulf
It's everywhere. Do y'.
09:41
Mique Cameron
All.
09:41
DJ Beowulf
If you. If a fan approached you and said, hey, I saw your set last night, I didn't know any of the music. What was a song that you would say, check this out. This is our music.
09:51
Mique Cameron
It really all depends on who comes up and talks to us.
09:55
DJ Beowulf
Okay.
09:56
Solomon Fox
Right. Well, we have.
09:57
Mique Cameron
If it's you.
09:58
DJ Beowulf
If it's me.
09:59
Mique Cameron
Okay. If it's you. Tough.
10:00
Solomon Fox
Have we. Have we judged you correctly yet? We don't know.
10:03
DJ Beowulf
Who knows?
10:04
Christian Sinclair
I would try the song some night. Some like, Friday.
10:08
Mique Cameron
Yeah.
10:09
Christian Sinclair
Like, I can't get you out of my head. Yeah, we up or something.
10:13
Solomon Fox
Those are very different songs.
10:17
Mique Cameron
In a way. No disrespect, and I don't mean this in, like, a malicious way. You. You don't give like a. And this is also kind of like a complimentary way. You don't give off, like, a specific vibe.
10:30
DJ Beowulf
Like, I appreciate that.
10:31
Solomon Fox
Like, I would have to, like, compliment.
10:33
Mique Cameron
I feel like I would have to, like, I would have to, like.
10:36
Solomon Fox
I was a very strong vibe going on.
10:38
Mique Cameron
No, I don't think so.
10:40
DJ Beowulf
I've got a wallet chain on, though. I think I'm putting.
10:46
Mique Cameron
With pink hair.
10:48
Christian Sinclair
That's a vibe.
10:48
Solomon Fox
That's more of a vibe than that's what I.
10:51
Mique Cameron
Is it?
10:52
Solomon Fox
Yeah, I'm just wearing, like, a jacket.
10:54
Mique Cameron
Nah, bro. Like, if I seen Christian, so I could easily.
11:01
Solomon Fox
This is way less of a vibe. This is. He's wearing a jacket in a black beanie. That's the most.
11:08
Mique Cameron
The standard. The standard is like.
11:10
Solomon Fox
That's what I'm saying. The standard outfit.
11:12
Mique Cameron
The standard sound of, like, what he would be listening to.
11:16
Solomon Fox
So you're not basic enough for us.
11:18
Mique Cameron
Like, I don't want to say a name, but I got a perfect incident like when we met Bruh New York. Oh, when we met Bruh New York.
11:28
Christian Sinclair
Yeah.
11:28
Mique Cameron
And we was at his brother crib, and he was all like, he, like. He not giving his attire and stuff. And we was like, what are you talking about? But he's sitting here like, what Y'.
11:40
Solomon Fox
All are talking about?
11:41
Mique Cameron
The dude who wears.
11:43
Solomon Fox
Oh, yeah.
11:44
Mique Cameron
Okay. And you like, how are y’all. Getting that from that? And it's like you saying that she giving a vibe. He Won't. Giving a vibe.
11:56
Solomon Fox
No, that's good.
11:56
Mique Cameron
And I love all people. I want to say that I love all people.
12:01
Solomon Fox
No, our music is for everyone.
12:03
Mique Cameron
Yeah, it's definitely for every.
12:04
Solomon Fox
But it's true that we have songs that are like, yeah, if you don't like one, just play the next one.
12:10
Mique Cameron
I'm sorry, I mean, to cut you off, but example, when we was outside of Honey's that time, it might. And both of y’all might have been there, but then people from England had came. It was a lot of people from England. That was at our show in New York one time. Yeah. We did a show in Brooklyn at a spot called Honeys. Brooklyn Overground. Shout Out Christian Homie Zach. That also went to. They go to school here.
12:29
Christian Sinclair
Appalachian.
12:30
Mique Cameron
Appalachian. Shout Out Appalachian.
12:31
DJ Beowulf
I've seen his tight.
12:32
Christian Sinclair
Yeah, super.
12:33
Mique Cameron
And Shout. Yeah. Shout Out Zach. But we did a show, and they came and talked to us outside after we did a set, and they were like, they really enjoyed our music and, you know, just kind of really showed mad love. They was real, like, happy to meet us and stuff like that. So they came across our music on Spotify. But one thing they like about, like, our shows is that, like, you. Not. If you don't like every song, there's a song that we have for everybody. She was like, we got one song that's at least, like, somewhat like everybody is going to.
13:05
Mique Cameron
And that doesn't mean you're going. Everybody's gonna like that one song. But we have a song for, like, everyone.
13:11
DJ Beowulf
Yeah. I mean, there's, like, 10 million of y’all in this band, so all the vibes are covered. Everyone's bringing something different.
13:18
Solomon Fox
But also, like, just before we move on, it's also like, I feel like song for every. It's for everybody. Sounds like it might be like Jack Johnson, but it's like, it's not, like, basic. That. Basic. It's not that. It's so basic that anybody can listen to it. It's like, we just have a lot of different, specific vibes. Okay, I get that.
13:40
DJ Beowulf
I get that. I'm not gonna put y’all in a box or nothing, but there's another group out there. I'm sure y’all have heard of Brockhampton, and I feel like they do a similar thing where, like, they have so many different types of songs.
13:54
Mique Cameron
True.
13:55
DJ Beowulf
There's a little bit of. I mean, I'm not comparing Yalls music to Brockhampton. I'm just saying, like, there's one song that they have that everybody have Has. And that's because they've got so many people, like, in that collective.
14:05
Solomon Fox
Yeah, definitely. The collective mindset. I feel that. Sure.
14:08
DJ Beowulf
It just brings more angles of creativity.
14:11
Christian Sinclair
I'm not a Brockhampton fan.
14:12
DJ Beowulf
That's okay. I mean, maybe you just haven't heard your song yet. There you go.
14:18
Solomon Fox
True.
14:19
DJ Beowulf
That's my whole point. But this isn't a Brock Hammond interview. This is Young Bull.
14:23
Solomon Fox
Yes, exactly. Gotta keep it.
14:25
DJ Beowulf
Do you, Christian.
14:26
Solomon Fox
Yes.
14:26
DJ Beowulf
Have a favorite song that you've done.
14:30
Christian Sinclair
Right now?
14:30
DJ Beowulf
Yeah.
14:32
Christian Sinclair
The favorite song that I've written isn't actually something of ours, but my favorite Young Bull. Because I used to make. I actually started making music at Stanhope over here.
14:41
DJ Beowulf
Oh, Sick.
14:42
Christian Sinclair
Sick in My Closet. And so my. My favorite song that I've written with these guys is We Up. Probably just because it's.
14:50
Mique Cameron
It's.
14:52
Christian Sinclair
It goes all over the place or Lie To Me. It's my favorite that I've written with these folk.
14:59
DJ Beowulf
You're nodding in approvals. That your favorite, too?
15:02
Mique Cameron
Yeah, that's my favorite song on Midnight Sun.
15:05
DJ Beowulf
I just want to get you to talk, like, as much as possible. Your voice is soothing to listen to.
15:09
Mique Cameron
I appreciate it.
15:09
DJ Beowulf
That's some ASMR type stuff.
15:12
Solomon Fox
I agree.
15:14
Mique Cameron
Also, I'm not trying to sound like this. This is just like my natural.
15:17
DJ Beowulf
Yeah, that's. That's why it's soothing.
15:19
Solomon Fox
It sounded like this since he was, like, 16 years old.
15:21
Mique Cameron
Old.
15:22
DJ Beowulf
Y’all known each other that long?
15:23
Mique Cameron
Yes, actually a little bit longer than that.
15:25
DJ Beowulf
That actually leads into my next question. How did Young Bull get put together? Are any of you guys founding members?
15:31
Solomon Fox
Yeah, we. We, too, are founding members. Mique and I. We met in high school at Durham School of the Arts. We actually met on the basketball team, the gym.
15:43
Mique Cameron
We knew each other a little bit.
15:45
Solomon Fox
We got to know each other on the basketball team. Yeah, I would say we played on the basketball team together, but I didn't play as much as sit. But we met through that, and then we, like, just sort of randomly did this talent show, like, audition thing. There was like. We weren't supposed to be playing together, but we ended up getting paired up. It was very Hollywood. And then. Yeah, it just took off from there.
16:12
Mique Cameron
By the way, me and Gabe, just speaking of, like, talent shows and just stuff like that, me and Gabe have really been hoed in a lot of situations.
16:21
Solomon Fox
Been what?
16:22
Mique Cameron
Hoed. Slayed. Slayed us. They slayed us dead as dirt.
16:25
Solomon Fox
Oh, yeah. We didn't win the talent. We should have won the talent.
16:29
DJ Beowulf
Really?
16:29
Mique Cameron
Yeah. We didn't win.
16:31
DJ Beowulf
Young bulls just gotta make up for it now.
16:32
Mique Cameron
Nah. Yeah, it's cool. That's why we go so hard. Yeah, you gotta prove yourself for that one talent show. That's why we go so hard.
16:40
DJ Beowulf
You ever write a song about being okay? So this is going to be a weird side note. I've been watching this British reality TV show for a while now, and when someone gets, like, scuffed, they say, like, mugged off or pied. You got to write a song about getting pied by that talent show. They didn't recognize your talent.
16:57
Christian Sinclair
Mique wrote one.
16:59
Mique Cameron
Which one?
17:02
Christian Sinclair
It's not released yet. The one were just talking about with G. Oh.
17:09
Mique Cameron
Oh, Yeah, A little bit, basically. Well, eventually, for sure.
17:15
DJ Beowulf
The fact that it's not released yet means y’all have music in the works.
17:18
Mique Cameron
For sure.
17:19
Solomon Fox
You're killing these transitions.
17:21
DJ Beowulf
I mean, it is my job.
17:24
Solomon Fox
But you're doing it well.
17:25
Mique Cameron
That's why.
17:25
DJ Beowulf
Thank you. At the Double Barrel benefit set, are we going to be hearing stuff that's already been released or can we expect to hear some spoilers?
17:34
Solomon Fox
We will. Yeah. There's a couple unreleased songs we'll be playing for sure.
17:38
Christian Sinclair
Both.
17:39
Solomon Fox
Both. Yeah. We've got new music. We've got. We'll play a few of the old. Not old, if you haven't heard us, but that we've been playing them new to us.
17:47
DJ Beowulf
Old to you.
17:47
Solomon Fox
Right?
17:48
DJ Beowulf
I say us as if I haven't listened to y’all before.
17:50
Solomon Fox
Right.
17:51
DJ Beowulf
I did my research. I have not. I'm actually new Ish to the area.
17:55
Mique Cameron
I got you. Side note.
17:57
DJ Beowulf
Side note.
18:00
Mique Cameron
How we perform our songs are almost nothing like our music.
18:03
Solomon Fox
Like the recording.
18:04
DJ Beowulf
That's cool, though. Yeah, that's mad cool.
18:06
Mique Cameron
It's a different vibe. It's. I want to say, like a different. It's like, vibe is such a, like, wide variety of like.
18:15
DJ Beowulf
It's contextual.
18:16
Mique Cameron
Yeah.
18:16
DJ Beowulf
I'll figure out those connotations. You just say what you want.
18:19
Mique Cameron
But no.
18:20
Solomon Fox
Although we are recording a live album this weekend, actually, so very cool in the midst of that. So you. There will be some more of the.
18:28
DJ Beowulf
More content online. Where are you guys recording this live?
18:32
Solomon Fox
We're recording at a studio. A studio in Durham called Deep Sound. And any.
18:39
DJ Beowulf
Any association with that bar, Deep South?
18:43
Solomon Fox
No, not that I know.
18:44
DJ Beowulf
Didn't they get closed down recently or they. They are no longer in business.
18:47
Mique Cameron
I'm not sure Christian knows about the bars. You a bar man.
18:52
Christian Sinclair
I know Bar Rat. I know that was where you.
18:55
DJ Beowulf
You appreciate the sauce get lost in it.
18:58
Christian Sinclair
No, I don't.
19:00
Solomon Fox
That's actually true. He doesn't really drink.
19:02
Christian Sinclair
Yeah, I don't do much of that anymore. I had to hang up my jersey.
19:07
Solomon Fox
Yeah.
19:08
Christian Sinclair
Had too much fun when I was going to school here.
19:11
DJ Beowulf
It do be like that. Go pack.
19:16
Christian Sinclair
No, I don't know anything about Deep south other than they probably did get closed down because they were wilding, they were wiling.
19:21
DJ Beowulf
I'm pretty sure they're out of business now or something like that.
19:25
Solomon Fox
Yeah.
19:25
DJ Beowulf
I'm gonna. I'm gonna focus on Christian for a second. For the audience who isn't here as. As. From my perspective, he's drawin during this interview and has mentioned that he used to make music in his closet in Stanhope. It seems like you have a very creative mind as a member of Young Bull. What would you say you contribute the most? This is the shit I'm gonna cut out.
19:50
Solomon Fox
Nah, keep it.
19:51
Mique Cameron
Keep it dramatic. Keep this shit. I can even extend it the part.
19:56
Solomon Fox
Where I'll put it like the.
20:00
DJ Beowulf
Yeah, the Jeopardy.
20:01
Mique Cameron
Song. Yeah.
20:03
Solomon Fox
Christian, what do you do for us?
20:05
Mique Cameron
I don't know, man.
20:06
Christian Sinclair
I don't.
20:07
DJ Beowulf
Or. Let me rephrase that question. I sense a creative vibe from you.
20:12
Christian Sinclair
Yeah.
20:14
DJ Beowulf
What. Who are you as an artist? What kind of stuff do you like to make?
20:18
Mique Cameron
Oh, man.
20:19
DJ Beowulf
What have you made in the past?
20:20
Mique Cameron
Yeah, yeah.
20:21
Christian Sinclair
All kinds of stuff. Like, I. I think that's what it is. Is. I don't know yet.
20:25
DJ Beowulf
Okay.
20:26
Christian Sinclair
Because I just started making music two years ago, so they've been. They're like lifetime musicians. And I think that's what I bring is like, randomness. Like a lot of learning. Like, stuff that's like.
20:38
DJ Beowulf
Willingness to learn is important.
20:40
Mique Cameron
Yeah.
20:40
Christian Sinclair
Stuff that's not musical. Bringing it to a mu. So it like, kind of makes it more random sometimes. I don't know. I don't. I don't bring much other than random ideas and. And raps.
20:57
Solomon Fox
Why?
20:59
DJ Beowulf
Well, founding members of Young Bull, long time musicians. What did you guys do before this?
21:04
Mique Cameron
Before Young Bull, before Christian, Both.
21:07
DJ Beowulf
Let's go. Before Young Bull. Let's go way back.
21:09
Mique Cameron
And then before Christian, before Young Bull, what was I doing?
21:14
Solomon Fox
I can't remember.
21:16
DJ Beowulf
We were on a basketball team doing talent shows.
21:19
Mique Cameron
I was in high school. I was in middle school.
21:22
DJ Beowulf
Oh, so Young Bull goes like all the way back.
21:24
Mique Cameron
Okay. So I'll tell you. We started in high school.
21:27
DJ Beowulf
Got it.
21:28
Mique Cameron
And yeah, we kind of just carried it on. We started like junior year. Like, that was like the.
21:35
DJ Beowulf
Still under the same moniker.
21:37
Mique Cameron
Young girl, Tommy Kingade at the time,
21:40
Solomon Fox
Tommy King, Gabe, a friend.
21:42
Mique Cameron
Like, friends kind of just like tagged Young Bull owners because were young and from the bull and so, like, we just kind of stuck with it. And actually another thing is, like, since, you know, you was like, all, you know, authenticity and stuff. Gabe. Actually, we. We went through a lot, like, with that name. Gabe wanted to change it, like, a lot, really. We went through a lot.
22:04
DJ Beowulf
Did you have any suggestions? What would you want it to be named?
22:07
Mique Cameron
Watt Street Wizard. All types of Trinity Tree Boy.
22:15
Solomon Fox
Those are. That is slander.
22:17
Mique Cameron
Those are the bad ones.
22:18
Solomon Fox
We had. We had a lot of brainstorming. We weren't sure what our name. Finding a good band name is an art. I will stand by that. Those. Those may have been some of the early. I didn't have a better suggestion. I just wasn't satisfied with Young Bull for a long time now. I, now. Now I've grown into it, but I just, I was just like, you know, you can pick apart anything and I'm like, I have a very critical brain. So I was just like, yeah, people are gonna think it's one person, like, blah, blah.
22:44
DJ Beowulf
Do you think your critical brain impacts the music writing process? Are you satisfied with what you've put out?
22:51
Solomon Fox
No, never. That's not true, actually. Sometimes. But it does definitely. Sometimes it's like, it's hard to work with, probably, I'm assuming. No, yeah, I. I like. I feel like the creative side of. I have a. I like to use my creative brain, like, earlier in the process, but then when it gets to, like, so I'm the producer. So when I'm, like, mixing the songs or I'm sort of putting it together, I think I sort of turn on the, like, critical puzzle solving part of my brain and just like, okay, let me just fit this through this little jigsaw puzzle. So definitely, it definitely has an impact on the music and how it sounds.
23:31
DJ Beowulf
What tech do you use? What's your mixing software?
23:33
Solomon Fox
I usually mix in Logic Pro, but I've lately using Ableton a lot more for Beats.
23:40
Mique Cameron
This is for all those people that DM us on Instagram. And what software do you use? Check this out right now.
23:46
Solomon Fox
Let it be known. Ableton and Logic.
23:49
DJ Beowulf
So, so people actually hit you up. Like, how do you make your music check?
23:53
Mique Cameron
Like, we all have access to the Instagram page. Yeah, yeah, we like, we check that stuff. And I respond back to people when.
23:59
DJ Beowulf
I. Yeah, y’all were super quick to get back to me because some.
24:01
Mique Cameron
People, like, DM us And be like, I wanna work on music. Wanna work on music. And it's just like. It's just hard at times for us to be able, like, we all three individuals like, to be able to, like. I try to explain this to people a lot of times, like, to be able to get all three of us on something is, I wanna say extremely hard. But it kinda is because we all have to, like, find a liking in, like, what you're trying to get us to be on or whatever. Collaboration. And it's like we all had three different tastes.
24:33
DJ Beowulf
Three different tastes, three different, like, time schedules, three different lifestyles, three different creative.
24:40
Mique Cameron
Styles, all, like, check most DMs. And we definitely appreciate everybody that send love and everything and post us and all that. We definitely appreciate every listen every year.
24:49
DJ Beowulf
For those sending love. Have you ever had, like, a really cool fan experience that kind of, like, made you go like, yeah, this is.
24:54
Mique Cameron
What we're doing all the time, anytime.
24:57
Solomon Fox
For real. For real.
24:58
Mique Cameron
I hate to, like, say that. Cause it just kind of.
25:00
Solomon Fox
I got one, though.
25:01
Mique Cameron
Yeah, you go.
25:01
DJ Beowulf
You're being genuine.
25:02
Solomon Fox
I had. So we all lived in New York for pieces of last year. But, like, right when I got to New York, I went to this jam session on Thursday night at Arlene's Grocery. It's a great jam session if you're a musician in New York. But randomly I just got to New York. I didn't know anybody but my brother. Randomly, I was backstage trying to get on because you can join the session. And I just heard the baseline through the walls for Chocolate. And I was like, I know that's Chocolate. It was really muffled because I was backstage. That's Chocolate. I told my brother. I was like, that is like. I played that bass line. I know that's a bass line. He's like, I don't think so, man. You're probably just hearing something else.
25:43
Solomon Fox
But then I went to the DJ and it turned out it was Chocolate. And he was just randomly a fan at this random jam session in New York. And I was. He had no idea I was there. And I was just like, wow, our music has spread.
25:57
DJ Beowulf
That is incredible.
25:59
Solomon Fox
Awesome.
25:59
DJ Beowulf
Did y’all end up, like, touring up the East Coast? Did that bring you to New York or.
26:04
Solomon Fox
Yeah, yeah, that's.
26:05
Mique Cameron
We've.
26:05
Solomon Fox
We've. We've done. We've toured up these coast. We've also just played, like, one off shows in New York and were all living there. We played.
26:12
DJ Beowulf
What brought you guys to live there?
26:14
Christian Sinclair
The city, like, it being. It's New York.
26:17
DJ Beowulf
It is New York. Yeah.
26:18
Mique Cameron
Yeah. So I know. Shout out west side Flip.
26:21
Christian Sinclair
Yeah.
26:21
Solomon Fox
Oh, yeah. That was. That was the DJ who. Who played my. Played our song.
26:25
DJ Beowulf
Sick.
26:26
Christian Sinclair
For me, the biggest, craziest fan moment was signing an autograph. Was crazy.
26:31
DJ Beowulf
How long ago was that?
26:32
Christian Sinclair
It was last year.
26:33
DJ Beowulf
Damn. So you've been signing autographs for a year now? You in the big leagues.
26:38
Christian Sinclair
Yeah.
26:39
DJ Beowulf
I mean, as far as somewhat local music goes, like, people don't sign autographs. So when you get asked, like, that's a fan, not like a hometown homie.
26:46
Solomon Fox
Yeah.
26:47
Christian Sinclair
Yeah.
26:48
DJ Beowulf
But speaking of playing songs, I believe y’all mentioned wanting to do something for us. Yeah, I would be super into that if you guys were down to perform.
26:57
Mique Cameron
I need the key.
27:00
Solomon Fox
Yeah, go ahead.
27:01
Mique Cameron
Just start it off in any key.
27:02
Solomon Fox
Yeah, I'll find it.
27:09
Mique Cameron
Y’all on two different tempos now.
27:11
Solomon Fox
And two different keys.
27:12
Mique Cameron
Hold up, hold up. I'mma just start it.
27:14
[Young Bull performs live in the station]
29:51
DJ Beowulf
Oh, my God. Damn. Y’all just layered that one after another. Hell yeah.
29:58
Mique Cameron
Excuse my off Keyness partially you was.
30:01
Solomon Fox
Even notice I couldn't hit the top. Notice.
30:04
DJ Beowulf
Y’all really did that. Well, if that doesn't get the listeners pumped for Double Barrel benefit and for the young Bullsette, I don't know what will because they will surely be missing out if they ain't there.
30:15
Solomon Fox
We have instruments too, you know, we play.
30:17
DJ Beowulf
Oh, yeah, that's just a T. Y’all got tons of members. You got a whole backing orchestra, it sounds like. And a producer who knows what he's doing. So thank you guys for being in the studio. I'm gonna give you a chance to just shout out some last moment things once again. Where to find you, when to come, and who you are.
30:37
Mique Cameron
So yeah, DBB, be there February 2nd, Saturday night, young Bull headlining. There's gonna be some other great performers on the bill, other shows that we got coming up. We got February 1st in Charlotte, Snug harbor, if you at.
30:54
DJ Beowulf
Damn.
30:54
Mique Cameron
Yeah. February 1st.
30:55
DJ Beowulf
Those are my old stomping grounds.
30:57
Mique Cameron
I'll see you at the seven zero four though. Hey, shout out to the four door. But listen, hey, yeah. If you in Charlotte on the 1st, be there February 2nd. DVB. We also gonna be in Charlotte on March. I know that's a little bit further ahead.
31:09
DJ Beowulf
That's okay.
31:10
Mique Cameron
March 1st and March 2nd as well. Y’all can follow us on all socials. Youngbull music if you're on Facebook, just Young Bull. My words are spelled correctly. Y O U N G B U L L M U S I C. We also just dropped a music video for our song miscommunication. Y’all go check that out on YouTube. Am I missing anything?
31:34
Solomon Fox
Got a live album coming, got a new single dropping. We got a lot of stuff going on this year, so yeah, stay tuned.
31:40
Christian Sinclair
Year of the Bull on the Chinese calendar. So no coincidence.
31:44
Solomon Fox
There you go.
31:45
DJ Beowulf
Well, I'mma finish us off with one last pun. They have given you a ton of heads up, so y’all better grab the bull by the horns and be at the show. WKNC 88.1. This is DJ Beowulf out.