and we also have entrepreneur hip hop artist and educator chadwick now philip stopping by as well a superstar mommy all around wonder woman and the voice contestant miss ashley the balls to honor us with a present now what i need is for i live audience to make some noise  also want the audience to give a lot of big thank you and give yourselves a grade of coming out here support candy fresh  so without further ado we're going to go ahead and get us started don't go anywhere because we're keeping a suite all night for you this is candy f happening across the world and not just happening locally and try to you know bridge that gap between what's happening in you know on the continent of africa or south america or in new york musically artistically visually spiritually you know  trying to provide people with some extra outlet that maybe they may not have seen in these parts before ok ok so what's going to happen next now that you're taking over the twin cities you've been able to travel around the world doing what she loves what's next for you what project it's kind of a bridge between house hip hop afro b and trap and just like all those things that get people hype then you know but also with the with the with the good know i haven't really written anything purposely haven't written anything for about seven months now and i'm just like trying to reimagine myself artistically and take all the things i've learned over the last seven months and incorporate them into a new piece of music we've been putting out these things called breaking bread these pieces with elders and young people in the community having these cross generational conversations about what's really going on it's in the round table breaking bread so we're constant people with different things every week so also produces and he'll be the one that's providing the music that so he talked about for that future album and of course will provide on the crown lands media group social media page all of the links to information to help you provided b s l tools radio or this old tools  facebook page now talk is not just an artist an entrepreneur but he's an activist as well so talky i want to ask you with everything that's happening in the world you know social media seems to be over saturated with negative messages and it can be depressing at times what do you do to keep life sweet so i think those negative messages were there before and social media is just bringing light to it so people that are in the struggle and in the fight know that those and they carry that way all the time and i think it's important for us to and and spend time with each other he could food you know celebrate have fun have conversations that's just us and not everybody is in the mix of what we're talking about and you know we just continue to try to to cultivate some goodness in  the face of all the hate the sadness and that's so so important i hope you all are able to cultivate that love in the midst of all the hate and they get to video as well but i also want to ask you as an artist you know you said you going to be putting out you know a more party upbeat album something that's really really fun but something that's still conscious as well something that makes people think so as an artist how do you say well how do you not get symptoms to fall into just the party and start up vibe that seems to be trendy right now what is it that you do to stay well i think if you've been woken you've been in the struggle and you've been dealing with reality it's hard to go back to sleep again unless you know unless you so my through a rubber band for the money in front of your face and tells you to go  think about sun else i have no choice but to be in the struggle because i'm struggling more people are struggling and we go through several days and i hop out and get my car and we have to deal with driving home black when i mean when i put out a record i got to deal with put out a record black when i lowly well i hope you all at home listening are taking notes right now because this is a very accomplished artist activist an entrepreneur who's had the opportunity to travel around the world doing what he loves and has found great success while still remaining conscious and not giving into the mainstream and i hope you all can do the same without being tempted to conform to something that you're not we're going to go ahead and turn it over to my co host sonny right now but make sure you stay connected with tokyo right on social media at mr right see see or talk you right on facebook and welcome to candy fresh i mean it was sunny and today i have with me go get young man i don't even think that that's enough to explain what you're doing so much for joining us thank you for having me i appreciate it all right so i didn't let you see the interview questions i know some holes they let you i'm the founder of an arson in the same and curriculum call of hip hop history and the arts that i teach in twin cities high schools all the around the past year i taught at roosevelt high school patrick henry high school gordon parks high school in the elizabeth hall and a national a mentoring and we finished last school year an album called the random piece that will be released and this summer i taught at fairs school downtown and the students recorded the music e p called my generation in conjunction my name is don and you've been watching katie fresh tell us about the piece you just created the piece i created is actually the young lady i actually saw and i was inspired by i her movements i think she's about eleven years old and i was a serving through a friend's pictures on face i was like wow that was amazing so i just saw the youth and her her youthful moment and it was inspired by it so i decided to recreate it inspired by the youth i love that i love that now tell us about who you are as an artist obviously folks can see this piece and i kind of can see your aesthetic but tell us more about who you are as an artist and how you got your start who i am as an artist i actually i got my start washing my father as a child i was actually my way of connecting with them i really wasn't academically into books or into academics that when i as a child and so he used to communicate with me to get me to do better in school and so i remember i think it was like sixth grade i remember coming home and there was an art table sitting in the house and i thought it was his it was a real clean professional set and i was like wow this s pretty dope and  came in and he attacks me about school and i got my grades up and he was like the shores and i was like had the biggest smile and grin on my face and stayed at the table for hours just drawing so that's how i got my that's how i got started or interested in the arts through my father so and your father is an artist as well yes is yes charles caldwell a native of many a native of arkansas and when he moved here when he was a kid as well so i am born and raised here ok ok well since we're talking about minnesota tell us what you know because a lot of artists say they just want to establish themselves in a place other than where they were growing up you know so i want to know for you why is it that you chose to stay here in minnesota and so very interesting question so i actually thought several times about moving out of minnesota and going to bigger cities where the community receives the are a lot more like some of the bigger city like l philadelphia and california in new york so as i was thinking i was talking to some somebodies of mine who own businesses and whatnot and they were actually in our classes with me when i was a teen north high and they said you know if you could go somewhere else and jump on a bandwagon and be a part of something that's already movement moving or you can stay in minnesota and be a part of something that you're starting you're creating because minnesota's an untapped market so i chose to do that and create my mark in america receiving a lot of love from minnesota so i figure stay here and make my brand starting here so if i can make it here i can make it anywhere absolutely and folks don't seem to understand that there's so much talent here in the twin cities in oftentimes artists that are born and raised here think they have to move to a bigger market like new york l a atlanta london accent or a but there's so much opportunity here and we're proving that not just with kennecott well as art but with candy fresh now kenneth i want to know i know you're into music as am i in a musician that i really love is nina simone and something that nina simone says is how can you be an artist and have your art not reflect that time so please tell me how does your art reflects what's happening here in the community today well this piece right here is a prime example of it i feel like when i walk out the door there's are around me all the time and this is just a matter of opening your eyes to see it and so i take a lot of pictures surf the net look in a lot of magazines a lot of books may not read them but i do pick up a lot of books for the pictures and one of those kids  so i'll just poor from my surroundings and things that i see and and just try to recreate it i don't have a specific style per se yet some still exploring in experimenting with a lot of styles and so when you look at my body of work you know it looks like there's a number of different artists that are creating the pieces but it's because i'm still finding myself within the art so absolutely with all of your work is beautiful we most definitely appreciate you doing this he did this in like twenty minutes you  over one hundred ninety thousand subscribers and they've they put my music in like all like their past five episodes was pretty awesome for a lot of exposure coming from that and i've been touring in which is awesome is overwhelming but is is definitely a blessing so so and i've seen it i've been added some inspector gadget and i see different people singing your songs will be you ironically with about the last song almost the last on that we recorded and we were having the most like trouble sometimes coming out with the title for the album we had all these songs that we knew were going to go on the album and anyway long story short we felt when this song came out first was one of my favorite songs on the album and out i thought it was perfect to represent my next project because you know of obviously when you have a second project from an artist there are some guesses about what it's going to sound like you know there are some expectations for what it should sound like and i was like you know there's some things on here i'm a little bit more vulnerable than i was on my last album but i was like you know what i'm going to be myself i'm expressing myself to music that's what i do and this perfect song came along and i was like you know we're going to make that make this the title track of the album and we're going to name the album be you because i'm being me and i want to encourage other people to do the same like you know express yourself and don't limit yourself based on other people's expectations of you and role societ expectations for you know it's out of us so yeah like i'm glad you said that and the reason why is because i know there's some type in the and the day and age of social media there's all these kind of cults going around artistically speaking what quote do you fall back on that keeps you going as an artist what quote all that i think about this i just you know what be the change you wish to see there's some changes i want to see in the music industry and in the mainstream because i grew up wanting to be those mainstream artists right because that's what i listen to i listen to like the top forty radio and stuff and i'm like there's so much good music out here that could be on the radio but is not being played in no shape their own to what is on the radio but there's just a more out there and we need to show people that there's other ways of expressing yourselves you don't just have to be and you know i won't go down that ok i'll just say when and when it comes to my music my music that i make i feel like is commercially viable and it doesn't always have messages that you marshall radio and so i'm as i'm writing it for myself and in the future in the near future for others i'm going to be in certain that change that i want to see in the mainstream music world so listen to some of your songs like to see that and i really link to all of those social media sites so i'm just going to give you actually do both that's d u capital b o s and you go there and it's a one stop shop you can click on all the links whatever social media platform you prefer to use i'm really excited to see you continue to bubble and blow up thank you for coming now my name is