what's going on welcome back to another episode of kelly would t v music for the people by the people the best local and independent music a yeah yeah long time coming but i have the one and this because people might not know i think i might know why you went with this name but let's tell everybody clay go c l a y o two is a little bit about the name it actually started in college my roommate an like graduate i got home and that's you know i think that's a cool name so that's really how i got it yeah my roommate he kept calling me that over and over and over and over it's funny that day and i'm like you know what i kind of want to record some but i won't go to the studio so when just by like on my own equipment right so i start recording some music i let my cousin and my best friend here and they're like don't want to put it out right now you've got to put it out so they convinced me and kept pushing me and pushing me and i finally put it out and my biggest reason why i didn't want to put it out because you know everybody nowadays is trying to be a rapper or wants to be a rapper dr yeah when same route you know the equipment got to their house and yeah i want to be put in that category as just another person trying to rap again yeah when i feel like i happen to do other things i don't want people to think that this was just day yeah i used to hear it in at the time i got in understand some of it right when i listen to when i get older i see how socially conscious it was and how political it was at the same time and i hear that i might ma'am i would love to try to incorporate that to me at the same time so ok yeah it's interesting i always like to ask that question because you know when you're listening to somebody and you hear multiple songs by that person and you get there by you know where they can do in it and not that it all sounds the same but you know you can kind of just see that there was you can gauge their style yeah exactly i just yeah and there's definitely interesting to hear what influences go into that deficit same thing i grew up in a household where my parents play a lot of music so i'm talking everything from jazz and thirty's to class and i was that was my grandma you know my real dad always going to sleep listening to classical and waking up with songs and it's crazy it's crazy that way so some of the influences that lyrically try to make statements and it definite some of the things i hear over and over like i appreciate people who can tell a good story and not just rapping about just things you know i mean what i hear you know what i'm saying you and i even think i just saw this in this in the statement you know don't really care for the fame i just want to be heard exactly kind of thing so let me switch it up a little bit fame or fortune which would you honestly out i really don't want either one of them now i just want to be happy at the end of the day you know i just i just want to be happy and and with this music it's something that i can do to make me feel happy and i just want to see the people around me the people that i love just be happy because chase and fame or fortune you know you're going to keep chasing that you know there there's really no into that i think i heard bob marley say this one time like if you're chase him money fame i just really want to be heard exactly and i think that's a good statement in and your music is a definitely people when you listen to it you want to listen and you want to be or you know what i'm saying i try to  see this cat was that live performance for the for that contest oh yeah the audience go with it too and that's so that's a great song to get the audience really into yet something easy to remember as far as  far as somebody this specially a young black male in in today's world is trying to make it in this what their mindset is and then how would a simple police interaction can go wrong you know so that's that's that's and i know everybody at some point has been affected by cancer whether they know somebody a way to embody or you know exactly so with that one i think that one tests a lot of lives so that those two are probably my top two songs honestly i like the music is always cool good because you sent me some tracks to get a few for radio cory's favorite price it's always cool to check out the visuals and try to get more visual studio yeah i've been to look out for that yeah and who you tell me your boy that comes up with some of the most of the safe and go so great with the storytelling of the music to so you guys you bring that to life you bring it to life bro yes thank you as fun as definitely fun all right before we get bad here you get the last video in which everybody knows where they can find you and now six no six zero we're back a i know you're filling that know right away i want to get personal or a thing but you want to tell people why you went that route with that song or sounds like i talk so much of my sons never sell out and stuff like that and that point i would be being true to myself so with that song i was pretty much just addressing everything i felt when i came back from that trip because me thank you for watching this is ben kelly would t v music for the people by the people the best local and independent music make sure you come on push play one time check out my mentor more time where they can with a catchy and you can find me you know