Groovy Talks Viral Hit "Jersey Love," Signing With Warner Records, "Crying in the Club" Release, & More!
Jun 21, 2024
Nyla Symone
Groovy from Union, New Jersey joins us on "We Need To Talk" to share how growing up in the shadows of New York City sculpted his unique musical perspective. With a father who was a DJ, Groovy was immersed in a rich tapestry of musical genres, especially house and dance music. We explore his admiration for Schoolboy Q and the TDE era, which heavily influenced his artistic journey and identity. Groovy's nickname and the cultural melting pot of Jersey added layers to his sound that you won't want to miss.
Imagine balancing a job at Qdoba while your song goes viral on TikTok! Groovy takes us through that whirlwind journey, from his early days of job-hopping and creative exploration to his sudden fame with "Jersey Love." His story of navigating newfound fame while keeping a regular job is both inspiring and relatable. A pivotal moment came when he signed with Warner Records, a move that solidified his place in the music industry and brought him one step closer to releasing his highly anticipated project, "Crying in the Club."
Baltimore Club music, Jersey Club variations, and Philly influences—Groovy gives us a deep dive into these rich musical landscapes. We reminisce about iconic tracks and influential DJs who shaped the genre. Groovy also shares his collaboration experiences with artists like MC Vert and DJ Smalls, emphasizing the unity and potential within the Jersey music scene. Ending on a high note, Groovy talks about his new project "Crying in the Club," set for release this Friday, and hints at an intriguing conversation with Nyla that listeners will not want to miss.
Groovy from Union, New Jersey joins us on "We Need To Talk" to share how growing up in the shadows of New York City sculpted his unique musical perspective. With a father who was a DJ, Groovy was immersed in a rich tapestry of musical genres, especially house and dance music. We explore his admiration for Schoolboy Q and the TDE era, which heavily influenced his artistic journey and identity. Groovy's nickname and the cultural melting pot of Jersey added layers to his sound that you won't want to miss.
Imagine balancing a job at Qdoba while your song goes viral on TikTok! Groovy takes us through that whirlwind journey, from his early days of job-hopping and creative exploration to his sudden fame with "Jersey Love." His story of navigating newfound fame while keeping a regular job is both inspiring and relatable. A pivotal moment came when he signed with Warner Records, a move that solidified his place in the music industry and brought him one step closer to releasing his highly anticipated project, "Crying in the Club."
Baltimore Club music, Jersey Club variations, and Philly influences—Groovy gives us a deep dive into these rich musical landscapes. We reminisce about iconic tracks and influential DJs who shaped the genre. Groovy also shares his collaboration experiences with artists like MC Vert and DJ Smalls, emphasizing the unity and potential within the Jersey music scene. Ending on a high note, Groovy talks about his new project "Crying in the Club," set for release this Friday, and hints at an intriguing conversation with Nyla that listeners will not want to miss.
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Speaker 1:
I look so big on the camera.
Speaker 2:
There you go. No, you don't, that's your tight shot, okay.
Speaker 1:
I got you. And then there's the wide Like us next to each other. I'm like tall. You know what I'll say?
Speaker 2:
crisscross, I'm a saucer, oh nice.
Speaker 1:
Now they give me some. There you go. Yeah, now we're nice and balanced. There you go. All right cool, sound good. What part of Jersey Union Union, new Jersey.
Speaker 2:
Oh, you right there.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I wouldn't leave either.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I'm saying If you was a little deeper then all right, maybe Like if I'm going to Brooklyn with no traffic, it's only like 45 minutes. It's not bad. Yeah, it's about the same as like a train ride. That's not bad at all.
Speaker 2:
I lived in Cherry Hill for a little bit.
Speaker 1:
Okay, nice. What were you doing out in Cherry Hill, just living?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, my dad was in the Army. Okay, got you a lot of like the army kids.
Speaker 1:
Like stopped through jersey at some point yeah, yep, I made my right of passage. I did. Jersey, it's a nice place to live it is it's just boring a little. I feel like it is boring yeah, I like jersey well.
Speaker 2:
I ended up growing up in maryland and I love maryland okay I like jersey too yeah, new york a lot.
Speaker 1:
It's a lot to take in every day, on a daily. I'm over it, but I'm here. There's just so much like opportunity and work here, you know.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
I can put it on. Thank you, yeah, the ringer's usually off, but then it's going to be like buzz, buzz, buzz. Yeah, I don't know, we were out very late yesterday.
Speaker 2:
All right, sounds good, look good. I don't know, we were out very late yesterday. Alright, sound good, look good. What's going on, guys? Nyla Simone here with another episode of we Need To Talk, and today I got a very special guest in the building. Jersey's in here. We got Groovy.
Speaker 1:
How are you? I'm doing well. How are you? I'm good. Nice to finally meet you. I know right, I love what you do, so it's great to be here.
Speaker 2:
Thank you. Same Love the fit too.
Speaker 1:
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I be putting it on sometimes. Love the fit, love the grill. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you Tough tough. Why did you want to run with?
Speaker 1:
that when I was a kid I was a huge Schoolboy Q fan. I was really on the oxymoron wave Okay, he was Groovy Q. And so when I was like, oh, who am I Like? Where do I want to make my name? I was like I want to be Groovy Jew, which is like also my real name nickname. And so when I started making music, I was likeovy for quite some time now, even before all the music and stuff. That's fire, yeah.
Speaker 2:
Love that Schoolboy. Q's a great one too.
Speaker 1:
Oh, schoolboy Q's the best. When I was 15, that was the soundtrack to my high school experience. That was a good era. Yeah, that's the collard greens, right. Yeah, yeah, the TDE era, when they really was blowing up Because.
Speaker 2:
I feel like they have done it the best, now that this rap war is over.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
SZA was dominating all last year. Now it's like Kendrick.
Speaker 1:
Kendrick just got a number one on a diss track Like that's crazy. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2:
Shout out to TDE. But OK, so growing up you were a big schoolboy fan. When I think of Groovy, I automatically started thinking, ok, he must come from like a soul background. Started thinking, okay, he must come from like a soul background but I know you grew up in. Jersey. I feel like it's such a melting pot, yeah around so many sounds. So just talk to me about like what were your inspo's growing up so my dad was actually a DJ, like when I was young.
Speaker 1:
He's been DJing since he was like 18, and so I grew up listening to a lot of like house music, a lot of cookout music, a lot of like Michael Jackson and Prince. I definitely grew up with some groovy type music, a lot of just dance. So it kind of makes sense that I make dance music now, because I've been hearing it since I was, before I was born.
Speaker 2:
That's tough. Having a dad as a DJ is such a cheat code, because he can push you on to everything.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, but then it never stops Every morning at 6am, every single morning. Yeah, that's true, yeah, so I didn't even really appreciate it until I got older, because I was like, oh, my dad's just always loud, that's what I thought as a kid. And then, when I got older, I was like, oh, he was really putting me on game from a young age, like I just grew up with it, but I did not appreciate it in the moment. That's how I'd be as kids way, my dad's the same way too. Now I'm like, oh, I know that song. Yeah, literally. Yeah, like you kind of like cultured and like you can talk to older people like, oh, like I've been listening to this since I was five years old. In the moment it's like brad dad turn that off literally.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, that's funny, all right cool I love that that's what's up. So, all right. Grew up in jersey. Dad is a dj, so you've always been innately around music. What made you like want to commit to creating your own?
Speaker 1:
so I was like always into art, fashion and like music. I like was trying to make clothes at one point when I was like 16, um, and a bunch of my friends were artists and so we would like be around a bunch of artists, just like on a local level, and like we would like play around in the studio, and I just knew I never wanted to like do the nine to five thing. Like I've worked jobs since I was like 13. It just never felt fulfilling. Oh, we'd be here for a long time. I've had a lot of jobs like Quidova, laundromat, wendy. I've worked everywhere.
Speaker 1:
I was just always job hopping gotta start somewhere because I was always like yo, like the next job gonna pay me more, so I'll just leave and like get more money, um. But yeah, so I just started messing around on the mic. I like put together a little like fun ep at one point years ago, um, and it just got more and more serious. I started getting more and more opportunities and then when I dropped officially, like as groovy, like by myself, you know, I started making traction and doing shows and then, you know, like the song blew up on TikTok. So now we're here.
Speaker 2:
Now let's talk about blowing up on TikTok. That is a new experience that a lot of people don't even get to obtain.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
How did it happen? Did you just wake up one day and was just like, oh, shoot, it's up?
Speaker 1:
Or like talk to me about that.
Speaker 1:
How wake up one day and was just like, oh, shoot it's up. Or like, talk to me about that, how'd you prepare? It was a slow build and like when I first started putting jersey love on tiktok I wasn't very familiar with tiktok, um, so I'm like okay, like I'm noticing it's getting some traction, like people are liking it, people are using it. But to me I was like I don't even know what this means for real. It had like 100 creates at one point. I I was like, oh, this is cool and it starts climbing. It's climbing, people are using it. And then, like one day it just went viral. Like I woke up and it had a thousand creates and I was like, well, I was like that looks like a lot, but you know, I don't really know yet. And then the next hit 10,000. Now I'm getting phone calls like oh, like, are you signed anywhere? And I was like signed, no, like I'm working a regular job, like I just make music. And then it hit 100,000 creates and like now Sony Records is calling. Mind you, I still got work the next morning. They're like yo, like do you want to do a deal? And I was like what is going on right now? This is crazy.
Speaker 1:
It all just started happening very fast. Like I tell people all the time like last year I was kind of a baby in this scene, like I had never really been to the club before, like I had never worked with like real artists or like been in these type of situations. I had never worked with like real artists or like been in these type of situations. So I reached out to this indie label that I used to work with years ago and they got me connected to who my current manager is, jacob Skywalker, and it just was. It just started happening very fast and like I noticed my stream spiking on Spotify. Like it went from seven thousand a day to twenty thousand a day to fifty thousand a day. It was crazy. But but and then you know, with streams like you don't see the money till later on. So, mind you, I'm still like broke, like eating mcdonald's, like I'm still broke but like I'm lit. It was so crazy.
Speaker 1:
Um that's everybody, that's every artist, yeah, but they don't feel real till you get them like you know what I mean till you get money. So I'm thinking like, oh, this is, but like I literally still have to go to work today to pay my bills. And you know, eventually I ended up settling with Warner Records and things started changing a lot after that. Beautiful.
Speaker 2:
So dope man I love that it's kind of no way to really prepare for like.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, no, I feel like I'm still like I wake up and I'm like, oh, I'm here still Like this is crazy, yeah, but now that you're here, you got a project that's going to drop, Would you say, like this is your intro to the world.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, this is like the first official. Okay, this is Groovy. This is what he sounds like. These are the artists he likes to collaborate with. This is the producer he likes to work with. Definitely some other you know. Jerseys yeah, yeah, my contemporary MC Vert is on the project R2RMO, veda and Kani is on my project. So it's definitely like the other people who I listen to personally and like recognizes my contemporaries. I think it's a good representation. Yeah, yeah, I just wanted it to be like authentic, but like also like indicative of what's going on outside right now, and it's a good representation. Yeah, yeah, I just wanted it to be like authentic, but like also like indicative of what's going on outside right now, and it's good.
Speaker 2:
You know, like I, I like my music so yeah, so talk to me about the title, because who made you sad? Or? Or is this like a joke? Like what? What is the? The theme behind the?
Speaker 1:
I'm crying in the club. So like when I first started going to the club, I just didn't get it. You know, like I'm not like the tough guy in the club, like that's not me Even, like in how like I deal with women and things, and I'm a very soft person, I'm an emotional person, I'm a Cancer, oh, yeah, I love that I'm a very soft person, I'm an emotional person.
Speaker 1:
I'm a cancer. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that. I'm a cancer moon. Oh, you're a cancer moon. Yeah, I'm a cancer sun and rising, so I really be in my back. Woof, okay, okay. And so I just deal with life in such an emotional and sensitive way. So, even when I'm in the club or even when I'm dealing with girls, like when I'm making music, there's this like softness to it and, um, I call it crying in the club because I want people to understand that, like, even though I'm making club music, there is this emotionality to my music and like this tenderness, you know. And so all the records, like even on the more upbeat club records, like, um, it's tender, you know, and that's what you're gonna get from my music yeah, I definitely like that it's it's softer yeah um softer dance yeah, yeah it's softer the right word um, it's like more appealing than just like it's not violent.
Speaker 1:
There's like no violence. In my music, um, there's a little like sexual themes, but the most thing that I wanted to get across is that, like when you're dealing with people, especially like in a romantic sense, like there should be romance and there should be intimacy, I think, um, my music brings across intimacy more than sexuality is like what I push that's beautiful yeah.
Speaker 2:
I love that intimacy more than sexuality.
Speaker 1:
Yeah and they go hand in hand and I feel like a lot of times we get one without the other, you know yeah, I feel like intimacy is dead yeah, well, a little bit, and I'm there's people doing it, but I want to like really, my whole thing is you have to give people the message in a way they understand it. So if we understand the club, I'm gonna give you intimacy in the club.
Speaker 2:
Yes, crying in the club yeah okay, cool, yeah, nah, the name is definitely super dope. Talk to me about the recording process. How long did it take you to put this project together? I know it seems like you've been through either different relationships or maybe one long one.
Speaker 1:
I'm not really sure where we're at with it, but just talk to me about that I mean I started making the project even as soon as I dropped Jersey.
Speaker 1:
Love've been making music, you know, consistently since then. But it started to really come together the more I was outside and like experiencing these different things like obviously I started with my, my little boo from way back when, before whatever. But you know, you go outside, you meet new people and you're like, oh, the grass is greener. And then you get burnt and you're like, oh, maybe the grass isn't greener. And then you get burnt and you're like, oh, maybe the grass isn't greener. And you start you just start to see life really for what it is Like I feel like a great thing about being an artist is I really just get to look at life, cause you know, I'm just creating, I'm not working, I'm just like taking in everything.
Speaker 1:
So I'm like, wow, this is, this is really real. Like the movies are true, the songs are true, like you could really get hurt, you could really hurt somebody else. Like there's there's consequences to my actions, you know. And, um, I feel like this year I just really learned that like there's repercussions, there's consequences and sometimes you're gonna get hurt, and I feel like that's what you, you feel on the project yeah, yeah, dang.
Speaker 2:
So you, you've been living out loud yeah, I've been.
Speaker 1:
I've been outside. I've definitely been outside and I've just been experiencing things and like it's been inspiring me to make more music interesting, so interesting that you you word it like that.
Speaker 2:
Do you see yourself or have you seen yourself trying things just for the sake that, so you can write about it?
Speaker 1:
oh yeah, like I don't skip life experience like any any crazy thing, like if it's gonna happen, I, I got to just experience that Because it's life. You know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, if you sit inside all day like you're not going to have nothing to talk about, nothing to write about, so I got to go wherever be with whoever see, whatever you know that's true.
Speaker 2:
Oh my God, You're in a dangerous weather right now.
Speaker 1:
I just love fun. Like I was talking to somebody and they were asking me like, oh, like you know how do you write your music, and I was like you know that feeling you get like when you're outside and you first like lock eyes with someone, like y'all haven't even spoken yet, but you look at each other and you know Like that makes you feel so like excited and good, Like I love to talk about. It's about the end result. Sometimes it's about the journey, how you get there, like it's exciting, true, yeah and sometimes there isn't an end result.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it's just that moment sometimes you just look at each other and then you walk off. But you know like that look made you feel a way and like how did it make you feel? Tell me about it. Like tell me how, how you felt when you first met eyes with somebody.
Speaker 2:
You are really a cancer yeah, sometimes it just make you feel away but I felt that I did. I love that alright. So, um, okay, so new project. Talk to me just about growing up in the dance scene and being, I guess, a black person in the dance scene too, cause I felt like it wasn't always, you know, popular like now the sound is coming back and everybody else is hopping on to it, but just how did you create your space within it?
Speaker 1:
So in Jersey, dance was actually a pretty black thing, like Jersey club music. I remember my high school. I went to Union High School. We went viral a few times just from people dance battling in the hallway oh fire, that was a pretty like regular thing.
Speaker 1:
From where I'm from, you know you had like DJ Frosty and Lil man with all the big anthems, um, but it was never like a mainstream thing.
Speaker 1:
And so when we started noticing it going viral on TikTok, a lot of Jersey artists were like yo, like we should try and like really make this a mainstream sound, because before it was real rough and like it was only on SoundCloud and stuff, um, and so when I dropped, like of course you get the hometown support because like that's what we already know, and then you get this huge push from all these people who are like yo, what is jersey club music which is so crazy for me to hear because I'm so familiar with it? Like since I was 11 years old, I've been hearing jersey club music. Um, and I think the one thing that jersey artists can do better and which I'm trying to work on is making full flushed out dance songs Like not just something you're going to play a snippet of like you only going to play it on SoundCloud or whatever. Like, make a full song with good songwriting and like structure. That's how we really push it forward and that's what I've been doing.
Speaker 1:
Definitely the new element too, because you usually just know the hook, yeah, you just dance Literally Right and it's like a funny sample of something from the internet, like that's how it used to be. But now you can really push it further and make like a huge record. Like look at Bad Bunny Song's huge it's Jersey Club, you know.
Speaker 2:
True, true. I grew up off of Baltimore Club music.
Speaker 1:
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:
From Maryland Definitely an era but, moving to New York. Then I learned like oh Jersey Club is a little different.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Different producers, different just everything ear-wise. But you know, baltimore started it.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2:
Just throwing it out there, just making sure that you know.
Speaker 1:
Like there's the whole Philly-Jersey debate, which we could talk about that all day. But I do remember when I was first hearing club music, baltimore had like the elmo remix and the door explorer yeah, we was listening to that. So maybe, maybe y'all had some, some, some groundwork down watch out for the big girl watch out for the bigger. I'm gonna go get my gun, yo classic dang man.
Speaker 2:
I've been getting my gunstar. He's one of my favorite.
Speaker 1:
DJs.
Speaker 2:
But I'm familiar with Frosty's work too, so who are some of the? Are you working with DJs or producers when you're cooking?
Speaker 1:
Like now more that the project's done, because my project was executive, produced by my producer, alejandro he's, who I've been working with for years and, like I was like yo, I really want to lock in with you. That's my best friend, so that's who I mainly work with. But MC Vert is on my project. I'm talking to DJ Smalls right now. I met up with him in LA. He's fire.
Speaker 1:
Nice, yeah, that's good, he came in, played a beat and the room was silent. We was just like yo, this is crazy stuff. Um, who else from jersey have I talked to? I think charlie heat is from jersey maybe, um, and like artists, like bandman real, I'd be talking to nice. I tapped in with dj unique pretty early. Uh, cookie kawaii pretty early. Yeah, yeah, she's great.
Speaker 2:
So, yeah, I'm tapped in I love to see that man I really do I know, know, jersey, you feel neglected yeah. But, I always say that is so. Cap Jersey. I feel like it's treated much better than Staten.
Speaker 1:
Island. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:
Like you, guys have mad points on the board.
Speaker 1:
We do have a lot of points. We just got to really like lock in all together to elevate. Yeah, I feel like we don't always have to run to New York to get stuff done. You know, we have stuff within us.
Speaker 2:
That's true, that's true. All right, so let's talk about. There was one more question I wanted to ask for the game so Project Drop-In Jersey Movement's going crazy. I guess that's it. Let's get into the game, Nice. So it's called Questions that Need Answers. I guess that's it. Let's get into the game, Nice. So it's called questions that need answers. All you got to do is fill in the blank. Okay, all right.
Speaker 1:
The older.
Speaker 2:
I get, the less I blank.
Speaker 1:
No the less you know. Yeah, because there's more questions, the older I get Interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:
Dang. You said that with no hesitation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, every day there, older you get, the more you realize you don't know nothing at all. I feel that, yeah, every year, every three months.
Speaker 1:
I feel like I'm like damn I thought I, I thought I was here.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, then you reassess, okay. Um, you would never believe me if I told you blank I play a lot of pokemon. I don't know if I look like I play pokemon, but I play so much wait, still the one that goes like this nah, that's Pokemon Go.
Speaker 1:
I don't play that one, I play like the game, like I be on the game for real nah, I'm not familiar to the Pokemon game, but I heard that new Spiderman was fire oh yeah, it is. It's crazy, you tried it. Yeah, I don't have it, but I played it at somebody's house. It was lit.
Speaker 2:
I gotta get a whole new console for it, because you'll be playing games sometimes dabble just a little bit. Um, really, fortnite is what dragged me into it I love fortnite.
Speaker 1:
I know it gets a lot of hate, but it's so much fun people hate on fortnite it's like cringe a little no yeah, it's a little cringe, but I still play it yeah, what?
Speaker 2:
why is it cringe? I don't want to know I'm, I don't care, like what? Um, all right, I can't believe I actually blinked when I was younger thought I was fly.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I thought I had that shit on.
Speaker 2:
I did not have that shit you probably did at the time for the time.
Speaker 1:
Nah, you know that awkward stage they call it the awkward stage in fashion where you're just throwing random clothes on. You're like yo, I got this. Nah, I looked crazy.
Speaker 2:
Alright.
Speaker 1:
I looked insane.
Speaker 2:
You gotta go through it to get through it.
Speaker 1:
Well, now we're here. Yeah, this is a great fit. Thank you, wow. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I'm a little embarrassed by the fact that I know so little about Blaine spitting game.
Speaker 1:
I have like no game what? You're all heart man yeah, literally like if she's not already into it, I'm not gonna talk her into it. I have no Riz L Riz interesting. I feel like probably now you don't even really have to try that hard um, if she's into me, she's into me, but like, if I gotta riz her up, I'm probably taking it off.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, yeah have you tried pick up lines?
Speaker 1:
oh see, like I cannot, like, I'm gonna like stutter or something like get the words out it's bad man, I just put it in the music I don't got. I don't got the gift for gab.
Speaker 2:
Wow, that's so funny how some things don't translate oh not at all.
Speaker 1:
You're on stage. Oh yeah, literally Like on stage. I've had a video go viral. I like rizzed a girl in the crowd from on the stage. If it was just me and her one-on-one, I'm fumbling every time.
Speaker 2:
That is actually insane.
Speaker 1:
I wonder, that's funny. Someone else is like that too.
Speaker 2:
Oh, skill baby's like that, hella shy. Yeah, I'm so shy, but then in real life.
Speaker 1:
You know, yeah, I mean that's, that's your job, you know you go up there, you do your thing. But like on the social tip, I'd be like don't look at me.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, funny okay, um, from time to time it's good to do blank.
Speaker 1:
From time to time it's nice to go to a fancy restaurant. I love a good like a little wine. Oh, I'm a big foodie. You get you a nice meal Like maybe a silly little dessert too. That's my vibe bro, vibe yeah.
Speaker 2:
Not mad at that. Sometimes I look back at my life and blink.
Speaker 1:
Be appreciative. I love my life. I love what I'm doing. I'm like blessed to be able to be here.
Speaker 2:
Sometimes I'll just sit in the car and be like wow, this is fire, this is tough.
Speaker 1:
I'm happy for you.
Speaker 2:
Thank you. You have great energy, so you deserve all the good things that's coming your way.
Speaker 1:
Thank you.
Speaker 2:
I made a complete fool of myself when I blinked back when I was rapping.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I used to rap and like I was pretty good at it, but it was like like it's like little dicky rapping, like a nerd rapping, yeah, you might have to pull some clips. Oh no, don't. Uh, I'm not even gonna say now, I'm not.
Speaker 2:
I'm not even gonna say he's like nah yeah, singing is definitely the lane for me all right, fair enough um my personality trait is blank like shine till you get to know me.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I have like a bunch of different personalities, like I, I'm all over, but I'm like pretty crazy and weird, but like you got to get to know me first, so I guess, like layers, my personality trait is layered. Yeah, I like that. I'm complex, yeah, yeah, so you gotta, you gotta, peel back the layers a little bit if you want to get to know me.
Speaker 2:
All right, that's the stuff I like that. And so for those who aren't already familiar with your music, if you had to give them, like a starter pack, three records that they should know by you to get put on, what three records are those?
Speaker 1:
Well, let's do the main ones. Let's do Jersey Love Know Me, and All my Fans Love Platonic, which is like a slightly older song I made. So Jersey Love, know Me, platonic, until the Project Drops.
Speaker 2:
Until the Project Drops. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you said wait, but the project's about to drop soon.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, on Friday. So if you see it before then, listen to those three. Okay, okay yeah.
Speaker 2:
And why you say the fans love Platonic Are you over that?
Speaker 1:
I've been over it for years. I don't like it, I don't listen to it. But when I went viral, that song went viral too. It's almost had a million streams. It's like an old, very not well-produced song I made, but they just like it. People love rawness. Yeah yeah. I mean I'd be in my head like no, I don't sound good and they're like yo, I love this song, so I like it. I love it. What they want, yeah.
Speaker 2:
That's what's up, all right, cool. Well, thank you for stopping by no.
Speaker 1:
thank you for having me. I had a great time.
Speaker 2:
Shout out to Graham. Let everybody know where they can follow you.
Speaker 1:
You can find me at groovyju on Instagram and any streaming platforms.
Speaker 2:
You can just find me at groovy. Crying in the club Crying in the club out now. Make sure you guys tune in, Talk soon. You think it'll be out now Because it drops this Friday. Yeah we can put this Monday.
Speaker 1:
Okay yeah, fire Cool yeah.
Speaker 2:
And then just do a drop. Be like what's up, it's Groovy my new project Crying in the Club out now. What's up, it's groovy my new project crying in the club out now. What's up.
Speaker 1:
Nyla, we need to talk oh, that's fire, okay, oh yeah, just start now. What's going on? It's groovy. My new project, crying in the club, is out now. What's up, nyla? We need to talk cool bye, oh sorry, all right, ready. What's going on? Y? Y'all it's Groovy. My new project Crying in the Club is out right now. Let me do it one more time. What's going on? Y'all it's Groovy. My new project, Crying in the Club, is out right now. What's up, Nyla? We need to talk Nice.
