DC Music and Models/CRED Magazine: I'm here with DC Loverboy prominent R&B artist how are you feeling?
DC Lover Boy: Feeling good man I'm glad to be here based on prior events man I am glad to be alive. I live within music I breathe, eat, sleep and die for music so for everybody that listens to this or reads this just know I am all about music and I do this for you. What up What Up What Up!
DC Music and Models/CRED Magazine: You live and breathe for music when did your life in music start?
DC Lover Boy: Well I was um… My story is a little weird I was adopted from Brazil my birth mother had me when I was fourteen and I was adopted by an American family. Then I came here and they have nothing to do with music. I probably started music when I was six or seven. I was always walking around singing and my father built me a stage when I was six or seven and got me a microphone and if I wasn't singing I was always acting. I was always about music and entertaining people. I was always like that I got a scholarship to almost every school I visited in my life for music. I've been about music since I was like six or seven and it hasn't stopped it has only grown.
DC Music and Models/CRED Magazine: You mentioned having a scholarship did you ever pursue any of your educational endeavors? What schools?
DC Lover Boy: Yes I did I got a scholarship to Arch Bishop Spalding High School for music then I got a scholarship from the best music school in the universe for music Berkley College of Music. I was always about my studies but I always knew that I should be out I don't want to say real world but I am going to say real world entertaining people and learning about the art of entertaining people not from the school aspect. The school aspect was about learning about music in depth and breaking music down and breaking it in to like parts. It wasn't for the performing aspect. Youi have got to perform to learn about performance you know I study. Everyday I watch Usher DVDs, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson and Brian McKnight and Chris Brown. You got to study these cats because they been doing it and they understand it.
DC Music and Models/CRED Magazine: Is it safe to say that when you come out you are going to be a breath fresh of air? If so how are you going to do that how are you going to be different? How are you going to be different? From a marketing standpoint how are you going to be different in the conditions that you just described?
DC Lover Boy: First and foremost there is no artist like me. I'm Latino. First and foremost I can do what an African American or Caucasian can't do. If you take a look at what is coming out does Omarion ever step out of his lane? No, he will continue to do that type of R&B until he dies. I can do pop, Spanish records, mahatma, meringue, salsa, pop, hip hop and R&B. SO you will never be subjected to one thing. I am in the fast lane in a Masarati and y'all not catching me. I have my own lane and I have so many lanes that I can dive into. You know with me being Brazilian there has never been a Brazilian artist ever in the history of music to do commercial music and then on top of that a Latino. We've never had a young type I don't want to put me in the category but we have never had a pop R&B, hip hop R&B Latin cat ever to really blow like that and go platinum that is under the age of 25.
DC Music and Models/CRED Magazine: You alluded to a car accident would you like to tell the people what happened? How did that happen and how are you recovering?
DC Lover Boy: I was taking a meeting. I fell asleep at the wheel. I crashed into the Jersey wall. I broke my foot and my hip. It was crazy how it happened I saw and I could see it I my bone popping out of my body and I don't know if it was adrenaline the car was smoking I lost my phone, I was looking for my phone I called my mother and told her I was in a accident. I don't know what forced me to get out of that car but when I hit that wall my car kind of barely and I mean barely backed up in the HOV lane. I walked slash limped out of my car with my bone popping out don't know how I got out of my car but I got out. Five seconds later this cop car came rolling down the HOV lane with his lights off and hit my car. If I didn't get out of my car then I would've been dead there is no way that I would've survived that hit. I just watch my car just spin around and get totaled. I watched all of my albums just go across the highway. It was like an unbelievable experience to this day and I am still trying to get over it and I am recovering. I'm in a little mini foot joint cast. I got my staples out yesterday I am recovering right now man I getting ready to come back. When I come back I am going to come back strong so watch out this is a speed bump in my life everyone goes through those but it is how you come back from them.
DC Music and Models/CRED Magazine: I definitely can't help but notice that you are absolutely beaming with confidence despite several adverse conditions. You've gone through adoption you were born into adversity whereas several people would've folded up and quit you tend to respond with a lot of confidence is that?
DC Lover Boy: I've been through so much all of the crap that comes with the music industry if you're not if your mind is not built for this game you are not going to survive in it. It is the jungle man it is a worse than the hood. The music business is an oxymoron it is the most beautiful, sickening, amazing, cruddy, beautiful, snake like it's just so much about it I have learned from every aspect so much bad and so much good. You are going to hear no so many times before you hear yes if you are not ready for that- it doesn't matter how good you are there is going to be people who don't think you are good. You can literally murder something and somebody will be like ‘it was cool'. You are going to look at them like ‘what' you have to be able to look at them and say ‘OK that's whats up. Thank you for your opinion. You've got to know how to talk to people and flip certain situations if you can't do that then you are not going to survive in this game because it is going to come off as cocky. There is a difference between swag and cocky you've got to swag out and know how to talk to people in a polite way. I've been through so much from the car accident to losing my voice for 11 months and dropping out of college. I've been through so much I am so prepared for everything now how I am now times that times ten once I get out of this cast my confidence will be through the window it will be through the roof. I feel like nothing will bring me down plus I have an ill team that believes in me so much they will always keep me afloat but you got to keep your self afloat first you have to believe in yourself first before anybody believes in you. You are going to be the one to keep you afloat but when you go through something you have got to have a team that's going to be there for you. I'm blessed man.
DC Music and Models/CRED Magazine: You said the music industry is an oxymoron it is a beautiful and cruddy thing can you describe some of the cruddy things you experienced?
DC Lover Boy: People promising you money and when you get there you are not getting a dime. People saying they will meet you there and then not showing up. People saying they know this person or they can get you this and they never call you back. People promising you that they are going to get you a deal in this time and they don't do anything for you. People lying and stealing money from behind your back. There is so much that I've been through that I could get into people promising you a show like a two hour show and you drive all the way there and you are not on the show they have never heard of you there are a lot of things man you have got to be ready for it and you have to know how to make a cruddy situation beautiful. I have learned how to do that like if I come to a show and the promoter says and I'm not on it please believe me and my goonies is going to post up and we going to make you know who I am before I leave and pass out a million fliers. Go backstage if we can, if we are not supposed to we are still going to go backstage. You've got to learn how to turn a bad situation into a good situation.
DC Music and Models/CRED Magazine: You had a deal with Warner Brothers is that correct?
DC Lover Boy: I had as little situation with them. Now Blue Williams is managing me. He manages me Nick Cannon, Nas, Aaron Carter and me. He managed Trina at one point, he managed Kase and he still does business with Big Boi. I got a big time manager right now I am actually in talks with Def Jam, Jive, and Universal. That is actually who I was in talks with and who I had meetings with until I got into the car accident the next week until I got into the car accident. The sooner I get out of this the sooner I can get to the labels. Please believe I will have a deal before 2009 and this interview is going to be worth a lot.
DC Music and Models/CRED Magazine: What advice do you have to give to artists that want to ascend to your level and to the level you plan to ascend to?
DC Lover Boy: If you believe it you can achieve it you have to for see it. Everything is premeditated you have to want to do it, it takes work. Real talk there is going to be nights when like Jim Jones and Jeezy and them don't cry. You are going to cry there are going to be nights when you are going to give up. You got to know that this is a stepping stone, I'm supposed to be crying right now, I am supposed to be doing this right now it is just a test. The devil likes to come in our lives a lot he tests me I fell asleep but god woke me up and I am here. You got to really want it and you have got to study the game you don't want to come in the game fresh. Not to sound like this but you don't want to come in the game like you a virgin because they will rape you. You got to come in the game like let me teach you something but you still got to want to learn and be a sponge because there is stuff that you don't know. You have got to come into the game knowing something.
Interview by LD Williams
