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I feel like that's something that a lot of songwriters and producers struggle with. Like you just want to contribute the most to the song to have the biggest split, or you're trying to show off to like take up the most space, but it's not about that. It's about the betterment of the song and like helping it reach its full potential. The One More Time Music Podcast. Genuine conversations with genuine people about music. Hosted by Henry with a three and playback Ben. We're from Bemo Coops to peace off, Tomorrow Distant, and so Partner one more time. They pay that one more time, one more time. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back for another episode of the One More Time Podcast. I'm your host, Playback Ben here with my co-host. H3 aka The Trap Jack Black. H3, who do we have in the hot seat today, my friend? Welcoming in on episode 76. Last of Ladies Month. Rounding out Ladies Month with episode 76 of the One More Time podcast. It's everyone's favorite star on the screen. It's Moana.

The amount of times that I get that, especially for Halloween. Like, so you're gonna be like Lilo, right? You're going to be Moana. I'm like, no. That would have been a good one too. Yeah. I am yes, Moana. Nice to meet you guys. In all seriousness. We have the voice of an angel, songwriter, extraordinaire. We got Storm Ford in the motherfucking building. Storm Ford. Happy to be here. Happy to be here. Thanks for coming. So you've gotten the Moana thing before? Often everybody thinks I'm Hawaiian or Samoan. What is your ethnicity? Let's start there. I am Lao, Nigerian, and Narragansett Indian. Okay. So you do have some, so that's like Southeast Asia for those that are ignorant. I was like having to think about it. But yeah. A lot of people know where Laos is, it's like the smallest country. It's a very it's near like Thailand and Cambodia. and stuff, right? Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, my wife did like a Southeast Asia run. So I think she was like there for a little bit. I need to, Like ASAP. Yeah. I need to get on that because I I want to taste the food authentically. The food. I've always had Americanized Lao food, but like to get it from there, I know it's going to be out of this world. Absolutely. So I did want to call out your tattoo

on your hand real quick. If you can show that up, yeah. So see art, be art, make art. Yes. When did you get that? Um I got this for my 21st birthday. Um, it was around the time that I had my first camp in uh Atlanta for like my album. A writer's camp. Um, a writer's camp, exactly. Um, and all my family came to town, and we just all got like matching tattoos and stuff. So we got the 401 and our dragonflies and stuff. It's honestly it's the art for my first merch drop um when I did a fundraiser for um a bail fund for the Rhode Island uh prison. Um and it's just about being the difference that you want to see in the world, you know. Um, whether that's through art or politics or fashion or just everyday conversation, just making a difference in a little ways. Absolutely. So the 401 is paying homage to Rhode Island, yes, Providence, Rhode Island, the best kept secret in the universe.

It's so funny because not gonna name names, but you probably know who we're talking about. We were supposed to have another Rhode Island from Providence. Okay, okay, okay, okay. There's that lives here in Atlanta. Lily Rain. We didn't say that. I didn't name names. She's a goat. She may or may not have had to reschedule on us. Um it's kind of ironic. She's Mr. Worldwide. Mrs. Worldwide. Yeah, always on the go. It's it's funny that we have another Rhode Islander. So like tell the people what the hell Rhode Island is like. Like all of us from Atlanta have like no idea no idea what it is even like, you know what I mean? Rhode Island is the smallest state in the country, so of course, everyone likes it Long Island, no, Rhode Island. Um, it is the creative capital, which not a lot of people know. We have peop gifted people from all different types of art, whether it be fashion, um visual arts, uh music, production, instrumentation, just like everything. Everybody's just so low-key about their gifts as well, which is so weird. Um, but there's definitely it's one of the best Providence is the best at creating community when it comes to art and helping all those different fields come together.

Um we have a lot of places like New Urban Arts, which is like uh after school, it's like extracurricular, but they have free medium, whether you want to do photography or painting, they had a free studio, which which is where I recorded my debut project. Oh wow. Um, they have AS220, which also offers like support in all those fields. Um we have RISD. Brown has always given resources to creative people in Providence. So it's just like honestly an artist utopia. And it's really small, like you can walk from one side of Providence to the other in like 25 minutes. So we're all kind of like Wow, and then how much of Rhode Island is Providence? Because like I'm thinking a state that small, a big city, and that's it. If you're driving What else is there besides Providence, if you're driving, I want to say you can get across Providence in like 10-15 minutes. But how far can you get just from one end of Rhode Island to the other? Maybe like an hour and 10 minutes. Crazy.

Wow. Yeah. That's like really fucking small. That's like from a suburb of Atlanta into the city. I'm driving further than that for a wedding this weekend. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's micro. Wow. Micro, yeah. Cool. Damn. Um, but I love that place and that is home. And I want to rep them everywhere I go because they just we a lot of this. okay, so there's a lot of talented people from Rhode Island, but they always take their gifts somewhere else. And I feel like you have people like uh like me and Lily, and even uh I want to shout out D Gomes, who are like out here building these things with our gifts so that we can bring those resources back home because that's really what it's missing is that exposure and that chance for people there to shine, you know. Yeah, I mean yeah, it definitely reminds me a lot of uh like you know, Pote Baby, who I think you you know, we saw as a mutual. So he's from Savannah, Georgia, which is right, you know. He just did a show with my best friend Danielle Carr, really talented producer, writer, engineer. She does everything herself. Hell yeah. Yeah, but so like his whole purpose with this artistry of his is literally to build a name for himself, but then ultimately bring back the resources that come with like being an established artist, right? And they've already started to do that.

I mean, we were down there for what they call Pote Day. So Pote is basically just slang for Savannah, like port, the port of Savannah. So he basically made this thing with his business partners, and it's like so fire. Yeah, That's dope. yeah, it's like a show. They had like educational workshops. So like Zeke from since the eighties who manages, you know, JID, EARTHGANG, the list goes on and on. He was there exactly. He was he was given like a little workshop around like music management. They had a block party the next day. So it was like a whole thing. Right. And it was sponsored by Vans, LRG, SoundCloud. I mean, they're really bringing like Yeah. I heard about that through my through Danielle, yeah. Yeah, so they're like really bringing they're already starting. So like I I'm excited for you to start doing that as well. I mean, it sounds like you and Lily, I mean, you know, she reps Rhode Island to the core as well. From her project names to her brand to everything, like I feel like she does a really good job of just showing what Rhode Island is about, which is being eclectic and being authentic and just like wearing that as loud as you can, you know? Yeah.

Um It's beautiful. You gotta start Providence Day. When's that happening? That needs that needs to happen, honestly. We need to just have like an arts day just for Providence. Yeah, you know what I mean? Just to celebrate all the gifts and stuff. Absolutely. So I was just listening to the West Side Boogie album, and guess whose name pops up on track one. By the glory of God. Storm Ford. Okay, by the glory of God, but like how did that record actually come to life? So, you know, me and Boogie are both with LVRN. me for Pub, but um my manager Naj is just also like him and Boogie are like brothers. Shout out Naj. Yeah, shout out Naj. Najmula. The GOAT. Yes. when it came to down to him looking for vocals for the intro, he was like, Oh, Storm is perfect for this, locked it down, and it just it happened pretty seamlessly. It wasn't really a big scheme or anything, it just kind of like made sense, you know. Um I had when I first embarked on my songwriting journey, Boogie's one of the first artists I ever worked with, and he's always been extremely supportive of that. So I feel like it only made sense for that to happen the way that it did.

Have you written other things specifically for Boogie or like any of his projects? Or was this kind of the first even like? working with him? Not anything that's out, But definitely when I was still like kind of fostering like my pen and like even just learning studio etiquette, a lot of that took place in his sessions at first. So what's like the biggest gem for someone that doesn't understand studio etiquette or even know that that's a thing? Oh what's like one of the first things that you did learn, maybe even like the hard way. Or something that you were messing up. Something you were messing up at first, and then you're like, all right, I gotta adjust. Overthinking it uh because time is money, and I feel like uh you have to. No, honestly, I'm lying. The biggest lesson that I learned in the studio was from Naj, actually, even before he started managing me. And this was honestly when I knew I wanted him to start, like just to join my team. Um, we were in a session and we were co-writing, I forget for who, but LVRN had thrown a camp. And um I was having a hard time, like I guess like changing my songwriting style and approach to like beats and stuff, um, to adapt to my co-writers and like, okay, how do you guys uh form your songs or whatever? And he was like, you just have to have humility and like understand that you don't always have the right answer, and sometimes you might have the wrong answer that leads to the right answer when it comes to like a song flowing perfectly.

And I feel like that's something that a lot of songwriters and producers struggle with. Like you just want to contribute the most of the song to have the biggest split, or you're trying to show off to like take up the most space, but it's not about that, it's about the betterment of the song and like helping it reach its full potential. And once you master that, then the art will just like flow, and that's that's when the hits really happen when you stop caring so much about them, you know. So does this does what I'm writing fit this artist and overthinking that? Yeah, I feel like I wish I had more opportunities to practice that though. I feel like a lot of times, um, as a songwriter, it feels like you're shooting in the dark because sometimes these artists don't know what they want to hear. Truth be told. Yeah, Jim. Um and I mean, you know, at least Jace, who's also like pen game is strong, he's written for you know, herbo. He writes a lot for like female artists as well. Neomza. Yeah, Neomza, I mean, you know, Cody Shane. I mean, I think like, you know, just just kind of you know, some of the big female rappers, right?

Right. He said, oftentimes you don't even get direction though, either. You don't. It's like, make us a hit and we'll see if it lands or not. That's always so frustrating. It's like we might actually land somewhere if you tell us, at least with my thing, when I step into a session as a songwriter, and I'm with the artist, I'm always like, what are you going through right now? Like, let's make a song that you actually get on stage, you feel it. Or uh we'll ask, you know, what what are you missing? You know what I mean? What story haven't you told yet? You know, um, because you think artists have a tough time maybe connecting, like performing songs that they aren't feeling anymore, they're not in that same state of mind. You think that's really important? I just think that labels are in such a rush to like make artists pop that they don't focus enough on the story. And like you can, I'm not gonna say any names, but you can think of an artist that you listen to. The first album you listen, you felt like you knew them, you felt like they knew you, right? And then there's the you can I know you can think of a million other artists who you've listened to 10 albums and you still don't know who they are, you know. And I feel like labels, ARs, and artists themselves are just losing sight of that.

Like your relatability is what curates your core fans and you're like you're, you're family, I guess, you know, in the business, in not even just for consumers, but just like the sonic team that you build, your marketing team, everything like that, just has to make sense and it has to be authentic to who you are. But that's also the long play. They also don't understand it that like that. also takes time. The storytelling, It might reach fewer at first, but they're gonna be there for the fucking long haul. Yes, but you know, that that's where I think it does get lost in that like they're chasing that short-term, you know, virality or just like that mega hit where yeah, you could listen to a song that's on the radio, and you have no fucking clue, personally speaking, like who that artist is. Exactly. You know what I mean? It is. And also, I feel like that that structure and that process, it like fosters a narrative that's hard for like real artists to like, or it fosters a society that makes it hard for real artists to thrive in, you know, because you have people who actually do care about what they're saying or and how it's being said, and spend hours on just a verse instead of just like trying to get 10 songs done in a session, you know what I mean? And it doesn't really leave a lot of room for also.

But I feel like things are changing. I feel like people are like honestly in search of something realer. So it's well, see, that's what I was going to say. I hope so. I was going to say. Like, how much of that is supply and demand, right? Meaning, like if the market is demanding just like quick shit that like they don't give a fuck about all of this, like time spent and artistry, and like, oh, this is this deep meaning behind the story in this project. Right. If that doesn't matter to the consumer, then maybe that's so you know what I mean. Like it depends on the market. How much is it like? Yeah, exactly. Like it depends, it depends on the person. Um, but I will say that I feel like the genre that I'm speaking most about right now would probably be pop RB. I feel like because that's the the space that I'm in most of the time. I feel like I can speak on that for the most part. Um I feel like pop does that, but I would say that like there are also just a lot of like new genres coming out, I feel like, or like uh alternative artists coming out that blur those lines between genres. So it's like lack of genre almost.

Exactly, exactly. I think genre is damn near dead. I think genre dying, and I like it. I'm here for it. Yeah, I think make whatever the hell your soul tells you to make, you know, definitely. I don't think you have to define it. Definitely. So so you performed with Boogie here in Atlanta, right? Yes, that was a star-studded show. Oh my God. Like I'm so pissed on this. I couldn't even believe I was a part of it. Honestly, it would have been fire regardless. Um who is on it? Smino, Baby Tate, Laila! Face, Alex Vaughn. Um Grip, right? Yeah, like it the list goes on, honestly. And you know what it was? We were all backstage, and nobody maybe I'm projecting, but I don't think anybody knew that we were the other people were performing. Because I opened the show, then Boogie went on, and then next thing you know, Laila! was like, I'm up next. And we were like, You're up next. She went on, and then next thing you know, Alex Vaughn was like, Oh I'm up next. And I was like, You're performing too. I thought we were all just kicking it back here. Um, but then everybody just kept taking turns. Hitting the stage, it was fire, fire, fire, fire. Um do you get nervous before something like that?

The crowd was. huge. Oh no, yes. I definitely I have stage fright all the way up until I get on stage. Okay. Like I get up there and I'm like, oh, this is where I belong. You kind of black out. My anxiety, exactly. Yeah. No, my anxiety eats me up. I start sweating. I'm like, nobody talk to me, like leave me alone. Like, I need I need some water right now. But then I get up there and I'm like, I feel like it's like photosynthesis. I'm like feeding off of the crowd, you know, and their energy and just how receptive they usually are. I don't think I've ever performed in front of a shitty crowd before. Like they're always super supportive and you know that probably that's rare. It probably speaks volumes to you, maybe as a performer. I think I've just gotten lucky. Or lucky. I think I've just gotten lucky. Because you know there's a lot of haters out there, you know? So um, but yeah. So we're the Aquarius gang over here. You not not him, fuck him. Your birthday is a week before mine. On the 17th. Oh my god. Wow. Okay, nice. What's your sign? I knew we were gonna be best friends. What's your sign? I'm a Capcorn. What does that shit even mean? Can we not get into that?

No, honestly, what what does the Aquarius stereotype look like? Here we go. Because I don't know much about it. They say that men are assholes. Am I allowed to curse on here? Fuck no. Okay, but they say that Aquarius men are assholes. Like just super. Are you getting that vibe? No, I think you're cool. I think you're cool. I would never assume you were an Aquarius, honestly. I wasn't going to say cancer. Actually, you're dead on. The funny part is you're dead on. It's crazy. She's like, are you really an asshole? No. On the low, it's okay. You're not an asshole to me. You can admit it. You can admit it. Henry, keep going. So other than the asshole. we're usually like super creative and ambitious. Ambitious, yes. We're overthinkers, very still thinkers. Um, it's hard for us to like put that thought into action sometimes, but once we do, it's like not like you can't stop us. No, that's um okay. Well, I guess once you do, because I'm like probably more action-oriented. I mean, you you would probably attest that. Like, I want us to like But do you know your moon and rising? I don't know what the fuck that is, All right, all right.

Well, because we can I don't really get into it, but no. The world is flat. Aquarius are just like your creative, rebellious, overcompensating best friend. That's really what the Aquarius is. Okay. Honestly. Wow. Would you say you're rebellious? I don't know. I'm kind of more conservative. Like, I don't know. Okay. On the low, is it like low key rebellious? I guess it is like, do you think that way, but maybe don't act on it? I definitely have had my moments. And I think that that's probably where my mental goes, to your point. Gotcha. But I've maybe been held back in my action on some of the rebellion, right? Like throughout my life. Okay. That's what I would say. That's fair. That's fair. Yeah. But I mean, that's everybody. That's literally everybody. So you don't believe in astrology, and that's exactly why. Okay. You're a Capricorn. I don't feel like I don't know a lot of Capricorns that even believe in astrology anyway. So Oh, they're the good ones. Yeah. So you had a quote, I think it was tied to your first project, but basically it was about like a process is not a project. And it was like this whole trippy thing that you like expanded upon.

Oh, that was uh, yeah, that was my second project. Okay, your second project. I released a project in college of straight voice memos. Oh because I did not have access to a studio and I was kind of broke at the time. And I was like, This these songs are great, people should hear this. Yeah, like spoken word, no beats. No, like I had like uh I was I spent a lot of time in the world. in that place I mentioned earlier, New Urban Arts. I had the free studio space. Um, and um there was a point in time where like I just didn't have access to as many resources as I needed. So I was recording all of my jam sessions on my phone, or I would record my freestyles on my phone or conversations or just anything, me playing my guitar in my dorm room, and it had like hundreds of them, and me and my manager, KT, shout out KT, playing an 88 game. Love it. Um he was like, You should just drop these as they are. And I decided to call it in the moment because it was just like a bunch of fractions of moments, and I felt like it was a process and not a project because it wasn't saturated, there wasn't a lot of effort that went into it. It was just kind of like effortless.

Like, this is just this is literally you're hearing and experiencing me just like living, you know. You're experiencing my experience essentially. Um that's the best shit. Yeah, like it's just like it was so cool. I'm not gonna lie, like you know, the mixes, of course, are like super raw, super raw. They're not. Honestly, there's no mix. Yeah, they're not, they're not existent. yeah. And so, like, you know, having worked with him who's a mix engineer, like I my first instinct is like, uh, like they don't have a good mix, but then I'm like, then you really hear it. Then I'm like, oh shit, like this is like speaking to my soul, you know, what I mean? it's like an interlude bank, and it's a sample, like it's just like you could sample it in a million ways, and it has been sampled a lot of ways. There's a lot of stuff coming out. Oh shit. One more time Exclusive. Can we get an exclusive. Give us one exclusive. God, storm. No, I anticipation. All right. you say you want to know, but then when you find it, you're gonna be like, oh shit. Watch, I promise. Fine, fair enough. But yeah, it was just to remind people that art is still cool at its genesis. Like you don't have to like do too much.

Um I think it's coolest at its genesis. You look at like XXX Rest in Peace, who like was getting on these Ronny J beats that were just breaking every rule of mixing, these basses where these 808s were just like crushing, like clipping everywhere and just doing all this crazy shit that like any classical, like you know, music person would be like, what the hell are you doing? That's not how you do it. And it connected with millions of people. Yeah. Which is so cool to me. So if it just if it connects to someone, I would like more artists to tap into that. Even if it's like releasing the actual record and then the demo, like I feel like art like fans usually, and I say this as a consumer, like usually like love hearing how a song came about. You know what I mean? It makes you love the record more, it makes you love the artist more. It's more intimate. It's the story. Yeah. So I don't know. I hopefully it like fosters a wave of artists like doing more shit like that. Which I also feel like I hear more artists including voice memos uh in their projects and stuff because it's just it's a warm and welcoming aesthetic, you know.

Even dropping like a voice memo that like after you drop the song, like here's the voice memo that I recorded first that inspired the song. Exactly. So you might appreciate it more. Yeah. Uh with East. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I mean, he had an artist that basically had sent him some like just you know, hilarious voice note that was basically like, yo, I want the like drums to go like this. Boom boom boom. Yeah. Boom. And then like Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, boom, boom, boom. And then you really created that song. Did you put it in the beginning of the song? You released it afterwards. It's the hook. Oh no, I just did like a piece of content that like highlighted that after, yeah. Sick. Yeah, but yeah, but to your point, like people eat that shit up of just like seeing it come together. Exactly. Because for those, especially that aren't musical and don't have any idea what goes. What goes into a song being made? I mean, even me walking into like working with Henry, right? I'm like in a studio session, never been in one before. I'm like fanboying over just like wait, this is how it works. When you put a lot of hours in, they be making it look so easy.

He's like the fastest engineer I've ever seen, and then like making a beat, it's like incredible, right? And I'm just like, and then rappers that are really good at recording, it's like how you know how good are you at, you know, coming up with bars, you know, going in, you know, you know, recording them, stacking them, harmonizing, like just the whole process of like we just take it for granted as the consumer of like, oh, that's what the song just sounded like that, like when you first fucking did it or something like that. Right, and there's a lot of energy that goes into it. Yeah, I um I always try to dip into the production thing, but it's just a lot of moving parts, especially like a lot of buttons to click. Yeah, exactly. Engineers too, like they'll just I don't know. It's technical uh for sure. Yeah. So learn your hotkeys. Yeah. What does that mean? Learn your hotkeys, motherfuckers. Learn your hotkeys. I don't know what that means, but learn your hotkeys, right? Shortcuts, like like uh command control A. Okay, I know a couple of those. I know like I know like five or six of those. I can I feel like I'm part of the hotkey club. Because if you can just do that, like I've recorded myself just messing around, and it's so fun to just be like, oh no, I fucked that up.

Okay. Try it. So, So is it safe to say that like you went absolutely bananas when the pandemic hit and just joined a fuck ton of these like Instagram live, like open mics and showcases on the internet. My um and that that's been like a big part of like at least kicking things into like hydro gear, I feel like. I would say my KT shout out again. Um he used to call it the quarantine come up because I had I was like freshly, I had freshly dropped out of college. I was like, this is not for me. I was studying to be like an entertainment attorney, actually, and I was in music business class, and he was like, you know, the best way to learn this is to live it. Like I can't really teach you anything else here. And I was like, Oh, I'm dropping out tomorrow. And I did, I literally dropped out. I was like, fuck the shit, I'm not giving you all another dollar. So he was your teacher? Yeah. And he was just like he was like, you're gonna learn it by being in the business. Like you can start this book up down left right. And I was like, oh, Yeah, I was like, Yeah, I'm out. Um, and the school was like, damn, bro, you can't keep telling all of our students to drop out.

No, right, but if you did, maybe you know, you'd have more stories like this, you know what I'm saying? So more donations from you know, Storm's about to drop the bag at her school, but not that school. I'm sorry, I can't peace out. What school was it? Oh my god, I can't say no, I was just shooting on them. Why? Okay, um, Manhattanville College. Okay, yeah. They never they're not getting the bag. They owe me a lot. Is that New York? They're not getting the bag, yeah. Like in like the purchase area, kind of like Westchester. So, like, I don't know. Okay, yep, yep. Don't don't quote me on that. Um, but uh KT had sent me uh Justice Baden's post, and he was like, Oh, I'm doing a live in like a couple hours, and like the best song. For those that don't know who Justice is, can you co-founder of LVRN, A&R, head A&R. Legend. he wears really cool pants, yeah. Hence his Instagram name, Justice Wears Cool Pants. Right, yeah, yeah. I feel like all of them are like part-time like influencers and like label executives. Like fucking Amber Dines.

if you didn't know, you would think that the founders were the artists too. I always say that. Like you would never be able to tell because they're cool as shit. I think they do. They just recognize the value of a good brand, right? Oh, for sure. Of course. Because they put that on their artists and they and they lead by example by doing it themselves. And they're all fly. They're all fly. And they all are actually cool as hell. They're all talking about the music shit, so. Yes. But he sent me his post and he was like, I'm looking for the best writers, best producers, best, whatever the hell. And I at the time, That's me. Right. just because all the music industry was shut down. So everyone. No, literally, everybody's like, we need to do something to stay busy. Like, let's stay alive somehow. That's how I got so many people to take my phone call. I started in music basically right then. Right. I was getting people taking my calls that, like, we never take my call. Everybody was just looking for something to do. They're like, just for the sake of staying busy, sure. Sure, I'll take this. Fucking kid's call. You know? So playback Ben, sure, I'll take his call. Yeah. At the time, I think I had done like three or four other lives.

And I had like I had done with, like, one with Sway, I did one with the NBA, I did. sway, yeah. Sway in the morning? Yeah. Nice. And NBA, like the National Basketball Association. Yeah. Which I thought was so interesting that they did a music. Shout out to United Masters. Okay, that was a UM play. That makes sense. Um, what else? Uh, Scottie Beam, but they were all just doing talent shows kind of like Justice. Yeah. And I'd realized that like when okay, so when like an official Instagram account gets comments, they see the people they follow first, and then they start seeing that like everyone else. So when I joined these lives, I would send it to everyone I knew and be like, comment my name a thousand times so that that increases my chance of being noticed. So when it came to the Justice one, I was like, I I send it to people I people who was following me, their followers and their followers, like a thousand, like hundreds of people. I was like, comment me as much as you can. He's going to notice me if it's the last thing that I do. Gem. Fucking don't be too cool.

Don't be too cool. Rep yourself. Like, you cannot, you can't be followers of followers. You cannot be too thirsty for your own dreams. That's literally impossible. Especially if you're good. Like, if you're not good, then like everyone will just ignore you. But like, if you're good, then like they're everyone wants to support something that is good and they're fucking hungry for it. If you're authentic, it's not even about being good, It's just about being authentic. People love authenticity. It's true. Um I agree, good is overrated. They were tagging me a thousand times. I got to join, sung a little bit, and literally the next day he was like, Are you signed? And I was like, No. And that's when this whole how quick did it go from that message to being signed to LVRN? I didn't sign officially until like a year and a half later. Okay, I'm I'm thinking it's the next day. Okay, so a lot of people don't know. Like, I really just wasn't ready. In what sense? And and like I had gone to LA, I had been at a camp. Um, kind of like a camp, I guess you would say.

Um, and I just I think LVRN and I realized that I really just wasn't ready for what it took to navigate my first deal or just to be a songwriter in general. Like, I didn't know any of the etiquette. I didn't really understand, like, I hadn't yet worked through the confidence that I needed to command the space that you need to in sessions to get the song done. Um, I had to like really learn how to believe in myself more than everyone around me. That contributes a lot to like how the art comes about. So, how did you start to learn these things? You know what I mean? It's more of a will thing. So, so I whatever we had decided, like, okay, this is not the time, right? Um, then they had another camp in Atlanta, and he was like, Come down, come stay for a month. When I got back to the end of that month, I was like, I don't care, I'm leaving with the deal. Like, y'all are gonna see that this is for me. I didn't, it was probably a couple months later. I kind of let it eat me up a little bit. I was like, damn, like, did I like mess up? Did I whatever?

But when I got there, I just I feel like I just prayed a lot on it and just really like set my mind towards being the best songwriter that I could be, and like soaking up as much knowledge as possible, which I was getting a lot of that from Nash just about that humility thing we were talking about, um, really not overthinking or oversaturating like the flow of songs as they come through me and just like trying weird shit. I feel like I also the first time around was scared to step out of my comfort zone. Um, so just like just being more open and just like more of a sponge instead of this is how I do shit and you guys are gonna learn about me instead of like I'm willing to learn how this should go or more about myself, you know? Well, yeah, I think it was Rick Rubin I was listening to talk about like specifically like within a band dynamic, but maybe in just a group of songwriters dynamic. Right. It oftentimes is everyone wants to be the one that comes up with the hit like lyric or whatever. Right. But sometimes it's about acknowledging that what you did is not the best thing that's come out of this session, right? Right.

And being able to-sometimes that leads to what was the best thing that come out of the session, you know what I mean? So it's it was just more about just like being being a student. When I was ready to be a student, that's when shit really took off for me. Um, and I think everybody was like starting to see the see the growth and see the willingness to learn. Um, and then depended the paper, and it was just like go to it. Boom. Yeah. So did you have any placements? At the time, no. Prior to signing a publishing deal? I had never ever, ever, ever been in like I've never written a song for anyone other than myself prior to that. I've never been in a real studio session because my other projects were, my first project was recorded in at that uh, like, free studio free studio program. And then the second one was voice memo. So I never even knew what it was like to have an engineer and like, you know, bro. This is so inspiring. Yeah. Like if y'all are listening to this shit, being like, you can fucking do it. Yeah, like you can do anything you put your mind to.

This is incredible. Yes. Because okay, I do want to like ground everyone out there that this is not the norm. No. Most people that get pub deals have significant catalogs. Have records that they had publishing splits. I think Justice just Really believed in me. I think he saw he just like saw, I don't know. I think he saw something in me. He saw that I was hungry. One. And two, just like, I think he recognized my style of storytelling. It was like there's not a lot of this, you know. Um, what, what would you characterize as your style? What would you characterize your style? Um, like if I had to put like create a genre for or like real providence shit. Real PVD shit. Um, I would say that uh my style of storytelling is really it's based on the internal dialogue instead of like a reflection of outwardly experiences, which I feel like a lot of music is about, like, oh, this, it's like this happened, this happened, this happened. But my music is more like this is how I grew in it, this is how I feel about it, this is how I am after it, this is what I'm working towards.

I want people to really understand where I came from, where I'm at, where I'm going when the time they listen, they're done listening to the song. You know? Wow. No, that's that's beautiful. I don't know if I don't I don't know a lot of I haven't worked with a lot of other artists that take that time personally. Yeah, I've worked with a lot of writers that care. The writers are shout out every writer in Atlanta because they're also hard. But a lot of these artists are very just like, oh, as long as it's catchy, I don't care. A lot of artists are like, let me let me take this situation and let me, you know, spin it, let me describe it in the coolest way possible. Exactly. And it sounds like you're more like, this is how it sounds in my head. Even if it's not that cool, this is how I perceive it, and that's how I'm translating it into the song. But I also I feel like even being around those artists and being in those spaces, um, has changed me as a producer and songwriter, kind of because now I see not even just see the beauty in, but like I want those bops and those hits as well. So like I do focus on being more like melody-centric and like what is catchy because I do want my songs to resonate the first time sonically as well as they do like lyrically, you know?

And then they're deep later. Yeah, having the repeats. Exactly. I've always said that's the best music is catchy the first time, and then you hear it the fifth time and you're like, oh shit, yeah. There's no way, and they said it like that, like, yeah. Yes, yeah, it needs to all make sense. Damn. So, like, how much do you think though, you know, your personality and the way you're able to work with people has played into like why you, you know, got signed, like why justice was a fan of yours, right? Like why people like artists are fans of yours, right? Because for me, we've talked about it's not always about who's the best songwriter, right? Like, you know, technically speaking, it's not about who's the best producer, like who makes literally the exact best beats, right? It's sometimes about that studio etiquette that goes beyond just like you know, knowing when to say something, when to not, whatever, but also just like being fucking likable and no, that goes a long way. Don't be a dick, don't be a dick, because it's gonna just block your blessings. Um, but I would say he's killing me with these sound effects, y'all.

It's ridiculous. But um I wish we could mute them. I was literally just having a conversation with my friend the other day about how I think just you're in such a phony industry all the time, and you're there's a lot of politicking and like baby kissing, so that I can call this favor later, let me do this for you. But I'm just a really genuine person. Even when I'm genuinely wrong, like I'm genuine about that. I'm like, sorry about that. I'd rather just like be 100% me. And I think that as I meet a lot of people from songwriters to execs to managers to producers, they always say that it's just like really refreshing for them because they're used to people that are just like more transactional. Whereas I, if you're a part of what I'm building, you should feel like family, and there should be a mutual respect there that goes beyond whatever we're creating right now. But that's just me, and I've also learned that not everyone is like that the hard way, you know. Um, so I think right now I would say I'm working on like learning who to do that for because some people you do have to be transactional with, but I think just being being genuine will take you a long way. How hard has it been to find your um kind of like go-to collaborators?

and stuff like have you found somewhat of like a go-to like crew and like a usual like roster of people that you're you know likely to be found in the studio with at this point, or not really yet. I think I have, yeah. I honestly, yeah, I would say I do, but I had to work on like not leaning on them so much, you know. Um what to not be like overshadowed by them, I guess, or like what overshadowed. But like I would I think because I was seeing the artists that I was writing for kind of just take a back seat and let these producers and writers take up, like take over for them. That when when I was creating these sonic teams, I was expecting them to do that, but I'm not that kind of artist. So it took a long time for even that team, that tribe of people to make sense for me. Like I had to learn how to like navigate that crew. Okay, so speaking more on you as an artist now, yes, but I would say that now that I know how to navigate having that type of sonic team that I have a better idea of like who my my tribe is for sure. So so where are you at right now with your artistry, right?

Because I mean you haven't released music a long time. It's been a minute. Yes, because I was like, is this real if you just want to be a songwriter too? Like, no, I don't, I don't. I honestly hate it. Yeah, you want to be a good one. Yeah, I I am an artist first, but I think that in songwriting, there was a lot of you should sound like this and you should say this like this, and da-da-da-da. And that was fucking with me as a creative overall. So it was like holding up, like I have hundreds of songs on my phone, but I was like, oh, but this doesn't do this, this doesn't do that. Like, I was so caught up in like what people would want from me or what they expect from me, instead of like what is an honest reflection of who I am because that's what people are always gonna want from me because it's what that's what they've always wanted from me, you know. Um, but that's what you're gonna do best, exactly. At the end of the day, You're not gonna do anything better than yourself, exactly. So I have a single coming out next month. Oh wow, and an EP coming out in the first quarter of next year that I'm really excited about. Is this a one-more time exclusive?

Has this been announced? No, actually. It hasn't. we got one. Now you guys can hold me accountable. Episode's over. We were just fishing for a one more time exclusive. Let's wrap this shit up. I'm Over my nerves. I'm just ready to just like embrace myself fully. Is that what it's been? Yeah, it's just been really insecure about my art, honestly. So you've been overthinking shit. I've been overthinking, like, fuck, I've been on my Aquarius shit. You know what I'm saying? I've just been fucking overthinking it. Taking people's opinions of what your music should sound like to you. Yeah. Or This shit looks like this. It is like nobody fucking cares. Like, honestly, no one cares. So I just need to tap back into that bag that I was in when I released in the moment of process. Like, I just didn't really care, you know. Um, and I'm on that time again, and I feel good. I feel like my music is honest and true to the things I've been through in the past two years. I think that people are going to be moved by it, and that's really my only objective anytime I release music. So now that I am reminded of my purpose, it's time to let it go. So I can do we have any titles for the single or the project?

Can we get a um we get a can we get a name here? The title of the project, I don't I feel like KT and I are gonna punch me for this. and be like, we didn't talk about this. Nah, they'll be fine. They'll be fine. the title of the project is The Cost of Feelings. Wow. Ooh, yeah. That's deep. So you well, you know, you talked about it being kind of a representation of what's happened over the last couple of years. Yeah. What are some of those themes? You know what I mean? Like what has happened that you're gonna speak on? Yeah. Um, I so the first single, um, 21 is coming out. So we just got the single too, Henry. Fuck yes. Damn, y'all really good at this. Fuck yes. Man. featuring 21 Savage. That's really funny that you said that. But wait, wait, wait, Go ahead. I'll tell you later. You'll see later. You'll see. tomorrow. So Drake's dropping an album with 21, and then Storm is dropping an album with 21. 21 is going crazy. It's a Gangsta Grillz, DJ Drama, I'll

never know. I'm putting this out. You won't know until you know. I'm putting this out there. Storm has a songwriting credit on the Drake and 21 Savage album. That's what I'm speaking into existence. Speak it I need more people like you around. You do? Yeah, you heard it. Manifest. Sometime soon. All right. But actually, it might be the day this is no, it'll be the day before this episode's out. Yeah. It's Friday. The project comes out Friday. Drake and 21. And this episode comes out on Thursday. Three or three days. I don't know, y'all. I don't know. But yes, 21 is about breaking cycles. And um, it's about coming of age, um, but your patterns and behaviors not aging as gracefully as you are or you as you would have liked them to. Um then you have uh Step Back, which is not really a secret because I perform it all the time I've been doing a lot of shows lately. Um Step Back originally was about taking a break from a relationship that isn't functionable anymore. Um, and it was used to be about like a relationship with someone romantically.

But um recently I took like a five month month break from Atlanta. Like I sold all my belongings and did like a road trip of the East Coast and Cool. My Family and in Baltimore and New York and Vermont and everything, and just got back, had a resurgence of self and got back to who I was. And now I feel like the meaning of the song has changed because I hear it, and all I can do is think about how I took a step back from all the pressures and like the status quo of Atlanta and like the music industry here, and then coming back to that with just like more sound, you know what I mean? Yeah. So what I think you just kind of hinted at that's interesting is that a song could have an original meaning, but then whether it's you, the artist that has it take on a different meaning, or you the listener, man, it's like something totally different. Who fucking cares? what The original reason for writing the song was. Some of the best art will always do that. Like as you grow with the music, and I I think about uh Lauren Hale and Erykah Badu specifically. When I listen to the music, the older I get, their music means something different every year.

Yeah. Or a certain line will resonate deeper than it did before, like, oh shit, you know. Um do you think that's why they they tell songwriters to kind of be general? Do you try to be general with your writing so that maybe can apply to more people? I feel like music is so general now that I try to be really specific, actually. I want people to like be able to like see, taste, and smell the song because it's just getting muddy. Like all these songs are kind of like starting to sound the same because they're so general. So I feel like I'm the specifics kind of make it unique. Yeah, exactly. I met you with the red lobster cheddar biscuits. Exactly. Shout out to Beyonce. But stuff like that, it's gonna it sticks out. I think she said, I don't know what song that's in. I'm going to sound like a fake Beehive fan, but I'm like, I thought that was H3 original, honestly. I'm going to take his ass to Red Lobster. Yeah, I was right. I don't know what song is. Formation. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's a hit. See, for sure. Yeah. So when you moved to Atlanta, yes, 2020. What were your first impressions of Atlanta?

I love asking this. Traffic. From Non-Atlantans. Weed is expensive as hell. Like so expensive. Like so expensive. I mean, not now because I'm used to it, but when I first got here, I was like, I am never smoking again. in my life. But It's gotta be better than Rhode Island swag. No. Come on. No, Rhode Island's got the gas. You're capping. bro. I'm trying to tell you. You can ask anybody. You can ask anybody. I'm about to ask Lily. I'm about to text Lily right now. Yeah, I'm going to call my best friend. You're big. You can call her if you want to on everything. She's gonna tell you. Call her right now on the podcast. Call her. No. I swear. Call her. I'm trying to tell you. Rhode Island has some of the best weed. Everyone that's traveling has been there, will say will tell you to your face. I'm not lying to you this podcast is gonna live into infinity, and you just said that. Yeah, I'm trying to tell you. On record. Everybody has to go to Rhode Island now just to smoke and then come back and we don't grow the best weed here, but we're a fucking hub and we get it. But no, no, no. Y'all have that too, but like it's like not good enough for y'all to be taxed in the way that y'all do. Like it's absurd.

We have some cappers, some taxers. Yeah. For sure. so I would say that um y'all don't give a fuck about the quarantine whatsoever. Facts. Nope. didn't shut down at all. Um, very chaotic. The traffic did I didn't really think it was that bad when I first moved here, but now because it was pandy. Oh my god, Pandy? because you had you were a pandy traffic was straight. That was the greatest. it's ever been. Did you hear someone called it a Pandemi Lovato? I was so dead. Yeah, baby Tate was so funny about like in the middle of a goddamn Pangea bitch. Are you kidding me? Yeah. So I would say that traffic has gotten significantly worse. Um, yeah, I just think everybody here is so fly, honestly. I just A lot of culture, right? I feel like it's a Mecca of just like really sick people. Yeah. Um, and I just wanted to be part of that. Hell yeah. Now you are. So I do think it's important for honestly for our knowledge as well, because I don't think I I've had the privilege of being a you know officially associated with like a writer's camp, right? You mentioned like a few writers' camps, whether it's for you know a specific artist's project, whether it's for I think you've been a part of one for insecure, maybe yeah, yeah, yeah.

That was so sick, yeah. Yeah, which insecure, as everyone knows, has the dopest fucking music, right? Yeah, and so that had to be cool. The score is always it never disappoints. Yeah, it a lot of my peers and friends are actually a part of the score, so it's been really really cool. amazing. So like walk us through what a camp actually like you know looks like and like feel you know what I mean, like what's actually going on, right? I think people- It's a fucking slumber party of dope people basically, no, honestly. It there's a lot of all nighters, but typically like a a label or an artist or et cetera we'll rent out a whole studio and you have each room has 10 producers, 10 writers, or sometimes three producers, three writers, and we're just all kind of trying to make the best shit, you know. Um most of the camps I've been to is kind of like shooting in the dark. It's kind of like just make the illest thing you can make, and we'll try to place it somewhere. Um some of them have had direction, some of them that are based like for shows or movies, etc. Um, or even just brands, you have a better idea of like what they're looking for, so that like time is managed better. Um, but I camps are just really an opportunity to show what you're made of around of a bunch of other people who are made of the same thing, stardust.

Um, and it's an opportunity to learn. Hey, Devon. What is ill. You weren't supposed to hear that one till later. Yeah. Wow. Sorry. Jesus Henry. I cannot get your fucking fingers straight. Um but yeah, it's it is like kind of like an artsy slumber party. Everybody's just kind of like chilling, waiting for their turn to like get on the mic or add something to the beat, and yeah. Is that probably where you is that kind of where you got probably thrown into the studio crash course thing, right? Definitely Because if you're just in a producer and one writer and the artist just for a normal, hey, want to go to the studio tonight or we booked a session, cool. But like for that, when you're when you mentioned the numbers of like 10 and 10, yeah. To not like know how to navigate that, like that sounds stressful. Yeah.

To someone who hasn't been in those situations. There's Definitely a lot of awkward, embarrassing moments. I've learned the hard way. What's the most embarrassing awkward moment that you had? You gave someone like a shitty bar. Come on, you should rap about chicken wings, right? It's supposed to help people. not embarrass you. Okay, you know what? maybe I have an embarrassing moment, but it's not really about studio etiquette, it was just embarrassing. Okay, we can have that too. Okay, sounds like some. So I was at the Insecure camp. So the Insecure camp, and where I was in one of the rooms, and someone's in this in the booth, and I just got out of the booth, and I wasn't really paying attention. I was kind of like nervous and flustered because I didn't like my take. So I'm like going by my manager. I'm like, I can't believe I just did that. And this person gets on the mic, and I'm like, oh my god, he's fucking hard. I'm like, that sounds like Coltrane. Everybody yelled at me and said, they were like, that is Coltrane. And I was like, oh, sorry. Because I have this thing where like I listen to a lot of music and I know a lot of artists' voices. I might even know their whole discography, but don't know their face. So I could see them and not know who it was. Oh, that's so stereotypical. So that happened a lot at the Insecure camp where like I was like in the studio, with a lot of people, and I'd be like, oh my god, you sound just like maybe like, no, that's who I am.

Nice to meet you. Yeah. So I'm kind of I live under a rock a little bit. Like, I'm kind of like, yeah. No, I feel like I have to tell Henry, like when we're at events, I'm like, yo, that's like this. guy. He's like What are they? What do they even do? Like I mean, like, but then I'll I'll second guess myself too. And so I'll make him look him up on Instagram. And it's definitely them. Yeah, that happens with me and KT. they got a story here five minutes ago, bro. That's that person. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Um I I think I read somewhere that you have a Diddy cosign. Is that real? What? Is that about you? Has Diddy cosigned you? I don't know if he's he's cosigned me. I met him before. Um, I met him. So some like publication really gassed this interaction. I definitely gassed that. Um, I would love that. Speak it. Shit, speak it. Um, but no, I've met him before. Because I was imagining a Diddy said Storm Ford is the truth. Yeah. We're manifesting. We're manifesting right now. Um, but no, I've definitely I've met him before in a session. I think I was in a session with uh London and Summer. Okay.

Summer Walker? Yeah. Um, and a bunch of like my favorite other writers, like uh Deja Ross, Shamba, et cetera. No Deja? Yeah, she went to my high school. She's yeah, worked with Deja. Wait, Shamba the artist? Yeah. Okay, so she's also in the uh she was there that day. Okay. Um, but yeah, I don't know about cosign, but you know, maybe that happened and we don't know about it. Damn. I don't know. I need to fact check this. Yeah, we do need to fact check. Let me know what article that was at So I can call them. I'm like, is there a tweet out there that's like Storm Ford's the shit from at Diddy? I tweeted that I met him with the second it happened. Of course, that's about it. Some blog ran with that be like, Diddy co-sign Storm Ford. Yeah, She's up. Yeah. That's gonna be the title of this podcast Diddy's best friend Storm Ford. Oh, I'm literally putting Diddy cosign for sure. No, that's hilarious. That is hilarious. Actually, though. just because we talked about it for once if they listen to this they'll say it's a joke, but fuck them clickbait runs YouTube. Man, Seriously. Honestly. we're doing it. So we got the single 21 coming up uh in November, Mm-hmm. right?

And then we got the project to follow. What was it called again? The cost of feelings. Um first quarter. First quarter, I don't want to make any promises. I want to get everything just right. I want to make sure everything's delivered perfectly. You know, absolutely. So what else can we look forward to? I know you just had a show that I was bummed to miss out on at the mood room. Honestly, these shows have just been coming like that. So honestly, I feel like I'm praying that this this momentum stays up because I love hitting the stage. That's where I feel most uh aligned with my my purpose, you know what I mean? When I f can really connect with people in real time. Um, so definitely more shows. Um, you know, I'm praying that you know, if everything works out perfectly, more singles before the project comes out. So, you know, visual stuff like that. Um, because do you have any music videos out? No, I just finished co-directing um my first visual with my best friend Natalia Veras, also known as Culture Face, very talented photographer, videographer, graphic designer. Um, and I'm excited for you guys to see it.

And that's for 21? No, that's for another song of mine called Wanna Be in Love. Um like I said On the project. I'm sitting on hundreds of songs. Yeah, it's it's ridiculous. It's time to get rid of that. Let those babies fly. Yeah, yeah. Let them leave the nest. Yes. So we need that for sure. And if we do a one more time writing camp, would you? Oh, I'm I'm there. I'm gonna be the first one here. I know I was too much late today, but I'll be here. I think we just planned it. Yeah. Absolutely. Henry, we've entered a final segment of the podcast. Storm. Buckle up. We're here. Oh my god, is this a talent I've never heard before? Uh-oh. Oh god. No, but it is about it is it's coming. Okay. So it's coming. Wait, what is this? I'm nervous. This is the Rapid Fire Rampage. It's a three-part rampage. Okay. Not that hard. You don't have to stress too hard. It's it's a lot of just unconscious, just first kind of answer type of things. It's three parts though.

The first part is just gonna be a short answer questions, real simple questions. Okay. Second part is gonna be a this or that. I'm gonna give you two choices, and you pick one. Okay. Last part is a word association. I'm gonna give you one word and you just say the first word off the top of your head, right back at me. Okay. And we can go back over that as it comes. But starting with the short answer, you did buckle up, right? Is your seatbelt good to go? Sorry, we're just doing it. It's fastened the belt. Fastened. Here we go. She's locked in. I'm in. Ready, let's go. One more time podcast, episode 76 with Storm Ford. This is the Rapid Fire Rampage. Alternate reality, Storm Ford. Never finds her way to the music industry. What is she doing? She is running a soul Thai food restaurant somewhere in the Caribbean. And the restaurant is called Soul Ties. Wow. She's thought this through.

You should actually, still do that. No, I am. That's the plan I was speaking of. Man. We've manifested a lot. We have. No, this is we're gonna come. This is gonna be something that people come back to for years. For sure. That's our goal. Yeah. We want like OG Storm Ford fans to like be able to look back at this. when they said this. Do you remember when they said Diddy co-signed her? And then she Look at her right now. Yeah. She had her own liquor with Diddy. Oh, they dropped it to King. For sure. Okay. What is one of your favorite projects of the year so far? Um, Renaissance, by Beyonce, obviously. That was a no-brainer. What is one restaurant everybody visiting Providence should go to? Um, Asian bakery on Broad Street. Yeah, without a doubt. Period. In the next 15 seconds, invent a genre of music. Apocalypse music.

Fire. Sounds hectic. It is. I like it. Sounds dark. Yeah. Okay. Dark and twisty. I'm gonna put a spin on this one because you kind of hinted at this. Okay. You've just opened a shop in Atlanta. It's not a restaurant. What do you sell? Toothpicks. That's the first thing that came to mind. I think you're going out of business. No, but like gold and platinum toothpicks, like reusable toothpicks, you know what I mean? So you never have to buy one again. You get them on a chain. That's the first thing that came to mind. I'm just going with the punches. Come on. Yeah, no, that's what we want. Speed counts more than you know. There are times recently where I've looked in the mirror and seen something in my teeth and wish I had a toothpick. A platinum one gold. Yes, you can use it whenever you need it. Like, come on now. I don't know. You can pick locks with it. Yeah. I might just go with like the embarrassing moment of having something in my teeth. Ben, we're in the middle of the rampage. Please. Excuse me, Henry. If you were a piece of equipment in a music studio, what would you be? The speakers, because I'm loud as hell.

It's because you're an Aquarius. Yeah. Can we don't shut up? Yep. Facts. Just need the answer. So I want him talk to you like that. Sorry, dynamic. I have bigger fights to fight. Okay. Stormford, if you were arrested, what would your friends and family assume it was for? Probably fighting on behalf of one of my friends, honestly. I'm very protective. Great answer. I would not want to throw hands with Storm. You don't. You would get all this generational rage. Definitely. Generational. Yeah. Amazing. Pack it a punch. Okay, this next one's a bit of a philosophical question. Love those. Is water wet? No. No way. I was expecting something else, Henry. This is the start of a new era. Thank God. With the philosophical. Finally. If you could party with any fictional character, who would it be?

Um Jake from Adventure Time. Fire. Duh. This is a fan favorite. You must get rid of three states. What do you get rid of? Idaho. Gone. Um that's the gunshot killing Idaho. Idaho. Um Connecticut. They gonna hate me for that one. Gone. Um, and Florida. I'm sorry. No, I'm sorry. Sorry. Makes sense. It's okay. It's so chaotic. It's okay. And I've lived there. There's too much going on in Florida. There's too much. I'm pretty sure a number of fat of past guests have taken out Rhode Island, so. Really? So this is your time to clap back at it. Only a couple. Wow, a couple? I'd say Florida is more a bigger target. Oh, wait, so no, I'm being serious. A couple people have Rhode Island. Pretty sure. Think about it. It's a small state. More than one person. No one's been there. It's the smallest state. I think they took out. Have y'all suggested Rhode Island or people just said well?

We don't make suggestions. We're not biasing their opinions. That's just, you know, I don't like that. That's why I was excited. I'm excited to have you speak on, you know, how cool Rhode Island is so that future guests. Everybody needs to go. Wow. They're haters. Let me know who they were after this so I can. We won't. You might have to watch every single episode. You can go watch every episode. Okay. Okay, just a couple more here. A couple more for the short answer here. Let's let's get through this. How many Oreo cookies would fit in a Dodge Challenger? Um I wanna say 75,000. And the last one, wrapping up the short answer. What is your favorite curse word? Fuck. Part one of Part one of the rampage. Part one. 75,000 Oreos in a Dodge Challenger. That's a little much, but it was a quick answer. I believe you a crush them, like, yeah. Oh, crush them, yeah. We didn't specify. You didn't. To be fair. All right. Yeah, no. Moving on to the this or that portion. I'm gonna give you two choices.

You pick your favorite. Buckled up. I am. Rampage. Y'all. New York music or Cali music? New York. Pop or RB. RB. Rock or jazz? Jazz. Rich or famous? Rich. Pancakes or waffles? Waffles. Dogs or babies? Babies. Everyone thinks I'm going cat. cats. I don't go cats. Permanently sing instead of talk or permanently dance instead of walk. I'm gonna say dance because I always sing and talk anyways. Yeah. So you're just gonna do both. Yeah. Yeah, I'm like, wait. It's gonna be a walking musical. Yeah. Good lord. You're losing friends by the second. Did you see that chick that was singing? How's everybody? Doing today. They're gonna hate me. Jesus. Oh Lord. Nice one, Henry, by the way. That was thank you. Great.

Uh rendition. Be underdressed or overdressed? Overdressed. Nikki or Lizzo. Nicki Minaj. Queens! Yeah. Yeah. Eat mushrooms with every meal or never eat mushrooms again. What kind of mushrooms? Any kinds of blanket mushroom deal. Like shrimp? Okay, uh, mushrooms. Every meal? Yeah. Oh, I think she was asking if they were psychedelic or not. Yeah, that's what I was asking. Uh these were we didn't specify, I guess, again. So if you want to if you want to dose every meal, then by all means. Is that part of your creative process? No, honestly, but I'm about to now. Okay, there it is. Okay, go ahead. So if her music starts to take a weird turn, guys. You heard it here first. Look back on the one more time episode. And it got a little crazy. Get a face tat of Chris Brown or lose a foot. Chris Breezy. Yeah. Right on her cheeks. Sorry.

Uncontrollable gas every time you enter a studio or wet yourself every time you're in a car. Wet myself every time I'm in a car. I'm sorry. You're not fucking up with the bag. I can't. Nope. Can't do it. She always drives by herself from now on. Yeah, no car pooling ever again. No, extra. Extra. Storm. Can I get a ride? No. I'm sorry. Sorry, my car's full. It's actually flooded. It's actually really wet. I can't. Sorry. Last one of the this or that. Catch your partner cheating or get caught cheating. Catch my partner cheating because that album is going to be fire. What? Part two. Part two. The last one. That was a really fast one. That was good. You upped your game right there. Thanks. Try not to overthink it. See, we're working on that. And that's the and that's the key here. There's no correct answers. It's all about speed. So first half was decent. First third was decent. Second third, phenomenal. It's all gonna boil down to the word association. I give you a word. You just give me the first word, maybe two words. Okay off the top of your head.

Here we go. Let's do it. Hip hop. Music. Cadillac. Bike. Square. Triangle. Biscuit. Bun. Cash app. Give it to me. How do you give someone an app? Moving on. Outfit. On. Have it on. I don't know. Okay, go ahead. No, that works. Base. Home. Zaza. Expensive. In Atlanta. In Atlanta. Cousin. Brother. Cap. Liar. October. Halloween. TikTok. Annoying. You're gonna grow this brand. You better get on.

You better get on the fucking TikTok chain. It's only annoying because I have to do it so much, but yeah. For sure, for sure. Tornado. Storm forward. Ooh. Chips. Keto. Lil. Big alien. Beyonce. Only fans. Profit. Podcast. One more time. One more time. Amazing. West Side. Boogie. Part three. Part three. This has been Storm Ford. Storm Ford 21. Coming to your ear holes very soon. The cost of feelings. Might have to wait until the new year, but nonetheless. Still soon. Appreciate you coming on. Amazing story. Amazing person. We appreciate you. Thank you so much. Appreciate y'all. Until next week, Henry, what are we doing? Getting out of here.

Getting out of here. Peace. Bye bye. Ladies month. It's a wrap. Pa that shit like one more time. Pa that one more time. Pa that shit like one more time. Pa that one more time. Oh. Hop up in that foreign skirt. No. Oh the homie this year dripping off. Middle finger to the law. Yeah.