We're taking you on a captivating musical escapade as we chat with the incredibly talented OscariLoveThis. This episode Banski links up with OscariLoveThis to discuss his self-taught mastery of the piano, his music production journey, and how he turns simple tunes into memorable melodies.
Through a candid conversation, we uncover his hands-on approach to music production, leveraging digital tools and self-learning to craft music right from his room. Drawing inspiration from renowned artists and diverse genres, Oscar creates a genuine representation of his personal experiences, echoing with listeners on an emotional level.
Looking forward, OscariLoveThis unveils his strategic roadmap for scaling heights in the music industry, detailing his careful career planning and adept use of various platforms to disseminate his music.
Join us for this inspiring episode filled with personal insights as well as stirring performances of "Change 4 U", "Next Up", "Splurge" & more, showcasing a rising star's perseverance and deep-seated love for music. It's a testimony to what passion, determination, and hard work can achieve. Oscar's narrative stands as an emblem of inspiration, tracing a trajectory from modest roots to a future brimming with promise. Be sure to tune in for a heartfelt dialogue enriched with personal insights and dope live performances, offering a firsthand experience of a budding star's world in the music realm.
We're taking you on a captivating musical escapade as we chat with the incredibly talented OscariLoveThis. This episode Banski links up with OscariLoveThis to discuss his self-taught mastery of the piano, his music production journey, and how he turns simple tunes into memorable melodies.
Through a candid conversation, we uncover his hands-on approach to music production, leveraging digital tools and self-learning to craft music right from his room. Drawing inspiration from renowned artists and diverse genres, Oscar creates a genuine representation of his personal experiences, echoing with listeners on an emotional level.
Looking forward, OscariLoveThis unveils his strategic roadmap for scaling heights in the music industry, detailing his careful career planning and adept use of various platforms to disseminate his music.
Join us for this inspiring episode filled with personal insights as well as stirring performances of "Change 4 U", "Next Up", "Splurge" & more, showcasing a rising star's perseverance and deep-seated love for music. It's a testimony to what passion, determination, and hard work can achieve. Oscar's narrative stands as an emblem of inspiration, tracing a trajectory from modest roots to a future brimming with promise. Be sure to tune in for a heartfelt dialogue enriched with personal insights and dope live performances, offering a firsthand experience of a budding star's world in the music realm.
Speaker 1:
I, that's the intention. One, two, three.
Speaker 2:
That's the intention. One, two, All right why been here? Hey, we're recording this live, bro. What up, what up, what up. Welcome to the bands feed show main. And this is a special episode Because I managed to link up with Oscar. I love this.
Speaker 1:
What's good, buddy. Hey, it's good to meet you.
Speaker 2:
What should be true, bro man? So we're at brass bankies Getting lit with uh fat peas.
Speaker 3:
He's going crazy.
Speaker 2:
Fucking scandal dark color coming on later on for yo. So, bro, where you from? Because I know you're not from these parts, because we're in katani.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, so um. Born in woodland california, raised in sacramento.
Speaker 2:
Okay. Yeah where's woodland?
Speaker 1:
woodland is. It's like a little west of sacramento. Okay so it's out in that same area, yeah gotcha gotcha Yolo county.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I know. All I know about sacramento is, uh, the hottest fuck out there.
Speaker 1:
Oh, it's crazy out there.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, dude, like Stupid hot.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it's like 110.
Speaker 2:
And I know that it's macramento. It's macramento.
Speaker 1:
Oh my.
Speaker 2:
You know what I mean? Yeah, he liked that?
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that's what it was.
Speaker 2:
It was dubbed by mac drabe.
Speaker 1:
Macramento back in the day.
Speaker 2:
You feel me, but uh, yes, I was just telling you, I actually came across music. I was just listening to music online randomly and uh, but I don't remember what song it was, because but it was fire and uh, and then I actually looked you up and you had a bunch of songs that sounded just as fire and uh, yeah, bro, so keep doing your shit, bro, it's, it's dope music.
Speaker 2:
What inspires you like, because you got like a unique singing guitar playing type of style and like what, what? What do you listen to like? What inspired that style?
Speaker 1:
um, honestly, like I grew up playing guitar like a really young age. So, like I've always For me, guitars always been like really an escape for me and, like I was saying, musically I grew up listening to so random. I used to grow up listening to a lot of Bruno Mars. Uh, yeah, okay, how old you 19?
Speaker 2:
Oh, I didn't realize you're so young.
Speaker 1:
We're in the club. I'm not supposed to be here, but they got me. They were gonna have me performing, so yeah yeah, yeah, you're, uh, you're still.
Speaker 2:
You're not gonna perform anymore.
Speaker 1:
I don't. They got my step messed up so I don't know, we're gonna see what happens, hopefully, but it's not.
Speaker 2:
I'm looking too good right now.
Speaker 3:
It's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 2:
But, bro, you've been wiggling because I know that you did another show with fat peasy, I think, the other night and you guys were in uh, the goucher, or yeah, we do one in gouchos.
Speaker 1:
And so that's our Ramon, right, yeah, we had probably about three weeks ago, yeah, and then we had one. There was one yesterday I pulled up to. I wasn't gonna perform, but I just pulled up to show that.
Speaker 2:
That's dope. How long you've been playing guitar.
Speaker 1:
Uh, I got my first guitar when I was about five, so so, Damn okay 14 years now, that's that All right.
Speaker 2:
All right, you're the real. You're a real deal musician.
Speaker 3:
One of those ones that started it as a baby?
Speaker 2:
Uh, did, how did? Did someone introduce you and your family Like?
Speaker 1:
um, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2:
Or did you just? How did you get it so young?
Speaker 1:
my family, like I got uncles and cousins that that play guitar and play instruments. So like growing up around that and then also growing up in the church, like Playing for church, playing in the church. So, yeah, that's really where it all started.
Speaker 2:
The church. Yeah, that's, that's dope, that's dope. Um, yeah, cuz like I wasn't expecting I mean, I didn't really know how old you were but like, uh, I was thinking that you were influenced by like Like I don't know, like it's a blind or like oh yeah.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, no, growing up, my brother playing me a bunch of red hot chili peppers of like like bro it was, it was a Large variety, like a large variety of music really going. Yeah, it wasn't really like no, so that you're yeah, that's, that's hard, that's why don't yeah.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, yeah, you write hella catchy, yes, but the melodies and lyrics though, how'd you, uh, how did you get that down? And you can work on that, or for lyrics, yeah, yeah, can you tell me I guess I guess more specifically, you walk me through your writing process of, like, how you come up with the song?
Speaker 1:
Yeah, well, I'm like, for I mean, every song I say is different, but for the most part, like with the glad you left project, a lot of the times it was just me I was making these beats already before going through like an actual breakup. That was, like you know High school, like you know high, good relationship type you know, you know young, young, love. I got on quite a bit.
Speaker 2:
They listened to each other.
Speaker 1:
A lot of the times it was like I was already making beats and I was just going through it at the time. So it's like you kind of sit down and really just you know.
Speaker 2:
So you're not just like a performing artist, you also a producer.
Speaker 1:
Producer Do you?
Speaker 2:
mix in engineer too.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I'm mixing engineer.
Speaker 2:
Okay, yup, alright, well rounded. Are you self-tied or did you go to school?
Speaker 1:
No, I was self-taught. Okay, that's what's up.
Speaker 2:
It's like looking up on YouTube and just.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, bro, like, even like for piano and guitar. It was more like for piano. This is a crazy story, because we used to have a grand piano in our garage, like tucked away, yeah, and like. There was times my parents didn't know that I played it, but they would like I would sneak into there anytime, like my brothers were fighting with me or like I was just, you know, I would just sneak away into there and just play with it until I figured it out, like I just I found notes that I like that sound good together and you just start building chords.
Speaker 1:
And then eventually, along the way, I was like, okay, well, let me teach myself music theory, yeah, and that through YouTube. And then I took classes in high school and music theory that's crazy.
Speaker 2:
How come your parents didn't know, how come you didn't tell them that you're interested in that For the piano.
Speaker 1:
For the piano, well, they knew the guitar.
Speaker 2:
What was that forbidden for you to touch your pants?
Speaker 1:
No, no no, I like that. They're like. My parents got them like my first guitar for Christmas and when I was like little, so it was more like that the piano thing. It was because it was like tucked away in the garage. Like they put it away, they didn't think anyone was going to use it.
Speaker 2:
Oh you sure you just did.
Speaker 1:
on the sneak tip I would sneak in there and, just like you know, just playing the hit. It became kind of like therapy, so I was just yeah.
Speaker 2:
So you already graduated on.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I graduated class 2022.
Speaker 2:
So did you already go through, like you know, throughout high school releasing projects and people knew about your name and you were making a buzz.
Speaker 1:
Actually, bro, like in high school, I was making music, yeah, but like I never dropped anything, you know I was, but I was producing at the time. I was producing for artists, because I started off producing, okay, like you know, I started getting placements and then it got to a point, like in high school, where I was just like man, everybody who's rapping on my beats, like I'm not really like feeling it, you know, and I think I was like I don't feel like they're doing them justice.
Speaker 2:
Yup, I'll put words out my mouth.
Speaker 1:
Man. So I just started like messing around with it and you know like I had always been into like doing covers of songs, okay. So it kind of turned into like, okay, well, let me, you know, let me try and sing what I could do, and then kind of just lost them from there.
Speaker 2:
Did you like remake other people's beats and then do the cover, or you just did a cover from scratch, or like.
Speaker 1:
There was time, I would just like learn the songs on guitar. Like, listen, I could listen to a song and play a bag. Like so I listen to a song and just play until I figure it out and then just learn how to sing along with it. It takes like sometimes if you don't know the chords, it takes coordination to like get what's it.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, kind of like showing pattern and like sing along at the same time, super dope, and you don't even, you'll never, mess with the music theory. You don't waste your time with the music theory stuff.
Speaker 1:
I mean now it's just engraved like in the way I like. Approach chord progression.
Speaker 2:
Unnecessary at this point, or maybe yeah.
Speaker 1:
Yeah. I mean for me, like I can't look at it and not see it.
Speaker 2:
You already seen it, like the music, like Neil.
Speaker 3:
Exactly For real, that's crazy you didn't release.
Speaker 2:
You know. That reminds me of is Russ. He had like similar story. You know the singer rapper yeah, he's crazy, I love. He had the same story where he produced and he had other people rap on his shit and he didn't. He didn't even see himself as a rapper or you know, jumping on the dump stuff and then he eventually did. Yeah.
Speaker 1:
And now look at him man.
Speaker 1:
I see, I feel like, as long as I stay consistent, like even his thing, like like dropping a song a week, you know, I feel like for me, I think like, with time being, I think I'm like, I'm being, I think a lot of, because I have a lot of music. Spooze it. I got a lot of music in the ball, really, like just sitting, you know. So I think what's why we're at right now is like get the funds for having a consistent push, because I feel like, you know, drop a song a week away. Social media is nowadays like you have a one music video week content for the rest of the week off, like clips of the music video. Just just keep pushing, I think consistency, you know.
Speaker 3:
That's good, buddy. I'm getting it in, I got it, I got it.
Speaker 1:
We're performing, I guess.
Speaker 3:
I got your music on. You got it. Oh nice, so we're going to be able to see their performance. Let's go. No, no, no Got that shit.
Speaker 2:
Hey Music's on the thumb drive. Hey man, fuck that dude.
Speaker 1:
It looks like we're going to perform. I hope. You know hopefully you don't have the camera and I'll film your performance.
Speaker 2:
We'll get that involved in the mixing the episode for show. Let's go.
Speaker 1:
Fuck yeah. No, that's not. I appreciate you. Yeah, I appreciate you so much. Hey, thanks for coming out here.
Speaker 2:
You're all the way from Sacramento Shit. You came all the way to San Jose or Katari.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, we out here though.
Speaker 2:
No, for sure that's dope. Deliver the good news we're about to have this place jumping.
Speaker 1:
I don't think they're ready.
Speaker 2:
So you want to do it. So that's your plan is to do the one song a week and you're just stacking up, hella hits.
Speaker 3:
I mean excuse me.
Speaker 2:
Yeah like. That's dope, though, because not many artists can say the same thing, because most people make something and then release it the next day. They don't have the self-control or patience or the foresight to come up with a strategy, a release strategy. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:
For me. It kind of worked in my favor because it started off of really like me being, because a lot of the times I make my music completely privately. Ok, it's funny because I record everything in my room.
Speaker 2:
Tell me about it. Tell me about it.
Speaker 1:
I use a USB mic. The Samsung G-Track Pro plugs straight into my iMac, into FL Studio.
Speaker 2:
OK, a USB mic. So this is obviously not the final recording. Are you just laying down brainstorming?
Speaker 1:
No, yeah, no, that's the final. I mix it all on there.
Speaker 2:
So all the songs you apparently just released is on the US. You want no shit. And did you mix the engineer all of it?
Speaker 1:
And I made the beat on it Like yeah. Thank you bro.
Speaker 4:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
No excuses, no excuses bro A. Usb mic costs like $40.
Speaker 1:
I started off with a Yeti mic. I recorded my first song, Hate it, on a Yeti mic plugged directly into my laptop, and then from that I actually got the Young at Age placement like a little bit after.
Speaker 2:
I got to donate a mic to your cause. I was like you over here working on a.
Speaker 3:
You make a hit song on a USB mic.
Speaker 2:
Actually I used to do the Yeti mic for the podcast.
Speaker 1:
Well, they're not bad, they're good.
Speaker 2:
They're really good yeah.
Speaker 1:
So it's like. I mean, for me it was like it's crazy story about the Yeti mic, because there was my dad, there's real estate and they had sort of house.
Speaker 2:
And they were clearing it out.
Speaker 1:
And then the owner said, ok, everything in there is trash. And I looked in the closet and there was just a USB mic and they asked them they're like you want these and they're just like, no, you can throw it away. When was this?
Speaker 2:
Or how old are you?
Speaker 1:
Probably, I was probably, I would say a junior in high school.
Speaker 2:
Because that Yeti mic is like 10 years old.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it was the silver one, yeah, yeah, you know what's going on.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, that's the one. I got.
Speaker 1:
I forget the motto name.
Speaker 2:
I think I know I asked you about the writing process, but I'm not sure if I caught that. You said you write by yourself. Do you jot down there's? A come to you in the shower and then you jump out right on your phone. How does it work?
Speaker 1:
There's sometimes the song, the hook. I do be singing in the shower. I do be singing in my room. My brother would be like bro, why are you still?
Speaker 3:
singing. I'm like see you all the time.
Speaker 1:
Sometimes a hook will just come to me and I'll be making, Because I make beats all day, just like well, I work. But whenever I'm not working, I make a beat all the time.
Speaker 2:
Oh shit still.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
So you must be stacking up. Hella beats too Like that you're not even. Beats. You must have a bunch of beats that you haven't even hopped on.
Speaker 1:
So many, bro, yanni beats, hit me up, I got.
Speaker 2:
Nah, but it's like yeah bro, that's a thing.
Speaker 1:
I say a lot of the beats, I'll make ones that I really like and I'll keep them away. And anytime I'm going through, because I feel like a lot of my music is just what I'm going through it's like when I sit down to record I don't know how to explain it I'm going through it like a different zone and it's just like you kind of just let it flow out, and a lot of times it just starts with the first line.
Speaker 2:
First line you get it in and then just run with it, so you usually write it on the spot, yeah.
Speaker 1:
Some I don't know if you've heard not the same the song, not the same. That's all I wrote. That's the whole song I wrote down. Actually, it was an old rap that I had written in my notebook from high school.
Speaker 2:
Oh shit, yeah, that's what I love about music is timeless.
Speaker 1:
There ain't no age to a hit.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I actually do want to uh eventually. I want to, I want to play a song Of yours eventually. So I also want to ask you At what point did uh, did things start like picking up.
Speaker 3:
I feel like uh.
Speaker 2:
Or have has? Has your career always been kind of moving pretty fast or did it did something? Was there a moment where it was a pivotal change and you started seeing things like really picking up? You started to like noticing you, you know, like right now.
Speaker 1:
I think, I mean, everything's been going at a good pace. But, um, I think actually it's crazy because I think this moment, like Right, like the moment that I'm in my life right now, I feel like it's a pivotal moment because, like, what I do now decides what Drake said, what I do now decides the future of all this, is the longevity of this. So it's like you know.
Speaker 2:
I think I'm at a point Drake. Drake.
Speaker 1:
Okay, but it's like but it's true, it's like, it's like really, the work that I put in now is gonna like determine how you know, for sure, for sure so. I see it like You're laying the foundation right now is a very, very pivotal point, like I, just because all the music in the vault, really I know I'm planning like to do a really like, just a push like.
Speaker 2:
You know I can't wait. I can't fucking wait. When are you gonna start the drops?
Speaker 1:
You know, as soon as we get the funding, I'm probably planning like when the time's right. Yeah, when the time's right. You know, that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 2:
I'm on your side too, fat Peezy, he's good.
Speaker 1:
I don't know.
Speaker 2:
Hey bro, thank you for your time, man. Hey man, I really appreciate you come on the podcast bro. Oscar, I love this game, just shout out, just tell people where they can find you and, uh, whether you want them to check out your music and whatever else you got going on.
Speaker 1:
Oscar, I love this on everything. All one word, oscar, I love it. Spotify, apple music, youtube, instagram.
Speaker 2:
Yeah. Fire fire music. Check them out. Everybody man, you're gonna love his music. That's what's up. Appreciate your time, bro.
Speaker 3:
Uh, I think I love it, I love it.
Speaker 4:
I'll just get away too fast. I'll give all my all to you. Get Saheena's hair Feelin' for you. That come way too fast. You know it. I know this love is starting to spiral. Ain't gonna change for you say. I ain't gonna change for you. I won't waste my time with someone. Don't value one Cause. I ain't never gonna change you. I ain't never gonna change for you. I know you're strange, but this is the truth. I don't want to try to stay with you. I'm in a dilemma. When I'm with you, I don't have a clue. How do you get nothing back? I just get way too attached. I feel it for you. They can't wait too fast. You know it. I know this love is starting to spiral. I ain't gonna change who you said. I ain't gonna change who you are. I won't waste my time with someone. Know about you and why. I ain't never gonna change you. I ain't never gonna chase you.
Speaker 3:
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. Good job man. Hey, I didn't do it on my champion.
Speaker 4:
Baby, this is how I feel. Baby, that's how I feel. But I take over my city. Baby, I been felt like the one, me and bro we doin' this. So fine. Baby, I been busy. I been in the studio for months. All I'm really tryna do is run it up. Baby, hating on us, tryna say that we ain't next up. We gon' keep on ballin'. We don't care If they're respect's nice, not lovin' the game. Everybody actin' extra. I'm just tryna get my chase up. Yeah, it's a lifestyle not everybody can hate. All I'm tryna do is make a change in the game. I ain't gonna stop until the world on my name. They said this is the type of flood. I put a million in my pay, half a million on the chain.
Speaker 1:
I been lippin' outta the rain, oscar. I love this, by the way. Let's go chancho Yo good.
Speaker 4:
But I take over my city. Baby, I been felt like the one Me and bro we doin' this so fine. Baby, I been busy. I been in the studio for months. All I'm really tryna do is run it up.
Speaker 3:
Next song is so interesting. That's how I feel. I feel like I'm in a stage, this one's- called Spray. It's a show that I'm ready to see Spray tonight. That's a manager right there he's a guy.
Speaker 4:
She says she wanna roll with bosses. When you put a pain, you won't be the losties. When I never stop, we tryna make a profit. Tryna get it though, cause I need a profit, cause I need a profit, I don't gotta get it. Ain't no more off-heats. I ain't who I think I was. I ain't gonna talk to this. Fuck it's. I ain't gon' posse Turn up cause I'm already thinkin' they hurt me and it's tryin' to tell them. I wake up and swear, but I can't help it. I'm on the search, I know it ain't nervous, I'll get you pleasure.
Speaker 4:
That one's called Spray. This next one. It's called Talkin' my Shit. It's called I'll scare the police. Let me talk my shit again. I'm just tryna fill my pockets with these presidents. Come in front. And I was sick.
Speaker 4:
So I'ma represent Lil' Shadi saying that my flow is every cent. I know that she bad, but she won't leave me alone. If I needed a bag then I'ma get it on my own. No one belong until I take over the throne. I know I make it his cause. I been rallyin' my zone. I been sleepin' on the kid. I been make it hit After hit, after hit. I know that I'm next, but I think they forget. A lot of people only do this For the life and the check. I'ma do this Cause I still haven't got my respect. Let me talk my shit again. I said let me talk my shit again. I'm just tryna fill my pockets with these presidents. Come in front. And I'm with six. So I'ma represent Lil' Shadi saying that my flow is heaven sent. I do this for my family, I do it for my bros, don't do this for the fame and I don't do it for the hoes.
Speaker 3:
Cacales by the phone the rockin' is on the close.
Speaker 4:
I just want my mama livin' good when she old. I don't know if it's some money, but I'm feelin' different. We don't hit my phone if you ain't talkin' bout the business. They was sleepin' on me and they couldn't see the vision. A lot of people hate and I'm not in your opinion. They ain't fuckin' me, but I'm the man right now. They gon' try to copy when they can't stand out. Got a Shadi on my line and see a fan. One clock Gotta put up. My own pussy can't put it down.
Speaker 3:
Is this a show or not, baby? I don't know why, but I'm not even gonna let you know. I don't know why, but I'm not even gonna let you know. I don't know why, but I'm not even gonna let you know. I'm tryna fill my pockets with these presidents.
Speaker 2:
I'm just tryna fill my pockets with these presidents.
Speaker 3:
I'm just tryna fill my pockets with these presidents. I was tired ofе loses the last time I went away. No one should beamba anymore. No one should berika anymore. How long for me to be a faggot?
Speaker 4:
A little long time. I don't know if it's spiritsั้in' me. I'm used to love you, baby. I saw you in my Engagement. I ain't really putting salt in the cup. I remember I was down on a loan with no love and the same was that Kurt me to ask you for hugs. If you ain't with it, you can keep it with your voice. I shawty why you crying to me? Honestly, she wanted me, but she really went up on a week. She talking like she knew she was proud of me. She's talking like she knew she was proud of me. Every dollar's a cut, how it's gotta be. I ain't better spend all these on her pride to do. I'm keeping all my moves. I'm gonna lay watch for me. I'm gonna buy the money.
Speaker 2:
Keep on talking, I'm born for the times when I was walking. You see me, slimy baby I'm bullies off this.
Speaker 4:
I took a chance and it came with some losses. Relax the way it go. We ain't moving with buses. I need the big keys. Baby, please don't come around if you ain't feeling me. I'm right. This world around my city got no enemies. Five stars like a Jackson 17. She wanted me 17, yeah, Thank you bro. Thank you bro, thank you bro, thank you guys, thank you Thanks for watching.