So tell us a little bit more about your identity and what made you wanna be part of the music industry in the first place.

Um, man, I, I think I grew up around music and just, I, I just always understood it.

Um, you know, I, I was a, a, you know, a little kid, uh, I heard stories, you know, my mother and father tell me about how I was like nodding to the, to the beat, to the rhythm, uh, as a, as a, as a child.

Um, so I've, I've always been, um, in tune with music.

I feel as though it is, uh, a way to express, uh, uh, things outside of everyday, you know, everyday life.

Um, or not everyday life, but like the conventional way of expression.

Um, you know, to, to say something is one thing, but to say it, uh, and rhyme it and do it with rhythm, you know, it, it makes much more impact.

The heart

Yeah, I'll

say.

But, you know, I thought it would be kind of fun also to show that The world on the surface wasn't such a bad place, you know, that they had cured AIDS and heart disease and a lot of cancers and things like that.

And, you know, and yes, they're taking our water, but, you know, their excuse is that it's like planetary dialysis.

We're just going to fix it up and send it back to you.

And the idea of sort of cross-cutting their propaganda, the visitors' propaganda, with the sort of bootleg resistance view of what was really happening was, to me, kind of an intriguing way to get an audience up to speed very quickly and also establish the world.

that we were living in, where in many ways it was a little bit like Paris in the 1940s during the German occupation.

And the counterpoint is Michael Ironside, you know, his character.