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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yes, straight from Pakistan to LA to Boston New artists.
There's nothing, for nothing more sexier for me than a
pathway accident from the UK Mortgagzar, How you.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Doing, I'm good?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
How are you? I love listen to you. I could.
I could just get lost in your music all day long.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Oh, thank you very much. That's the plan.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
That's a plan. How you doing? Congratulations on everything?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm still a little bit jet lag.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
That came back from La like ten days ago, but
it's still I'm still jet lagged, definitely.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
But apart from that, things are good.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well, you're here, you're working, you got the you got
the album out. Congratulations on the EP. Emotional Gangster, Thank
you very much.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Are you a thug in life?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
For?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
What are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Do you know what it is like?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I'm half a Doug and then I'm half this really
like vulnerable character. You know, it's very in touch with
my emotions. I'm very sensitive. But all my friends used
to call me emotional gangster, so I felt like it
was just the right thing to do to call it that.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Because I wanted to give everyone a piece of.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Like a piece of music that kind of represents my mind,
like stepping into my brain for however many minutes it is.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
You know, I'm new to you right now, but you've
been in the game for a minute. Tell me about
your story. You took a little break.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
It looks like, Yeah, So I started dropping music when
I was twenty So I'm twenty four now, so I've
been making music for a while, but in the actual
industry only about four years.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It's been It's been good. You know.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I dropped music for the first two years, and that
was in COVID lockdown, so it was a weird time
to kind of.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Be, you know, dropping music.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
And then I kind of once I was in between labels,
I started writing for a artist. So I was traveling
around the world writing for artists. You know, I was
writing for K pop, which is like my main thing
when I'm writing for other artists. So that kind of
brought me back, you know, before I signed to Red
Bull in the US, that was kind of the place
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where I it allowed my creativity to like go up
to the next level, you know, I could write for
other artists. Sometimes it pulls you into a different creatives
that you've never been in before because you're kind of
stepping out of your own and going into somebody else's world.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So it gives you.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
That extra creativity that you need. So that's why my
project came so easy. Like, this project was so easy
to make because.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I was so inspired by the people I was meeting.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
That's definitely now as a writer.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Obviously when you're nineteen twenty or even younger than that, Yeah,
how do you advise that when it comes to becoming
the artist as secondary? Now it's your main focus, But
obviously when you were younger, you wanted to be that
where you are right now, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah, you know it's so easy to have imposter syndrome
and kind of sit there and be like, why is
this not happening yet?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
But then you realize your journey is so special and
the things I'm doing now because I'm always so.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Hungry for more. That's why I have imposter syndrome.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I'm always satisfied, but you know, never fully satisfied.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So I've always been.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Quite a hungry person when it comes to like success,
So I'm aiming for the top. I just have to
also remember to appreciate the small steps that it takes
to get there, you know, because when I was a child,
I am now doing things I never would have you know,
I only dreamed of it.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
So yeah, so Morgan's on right now, the EP's out.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Now. Tell me when you say I think our industry
is definitely like always going to the next step.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
When will Morgan be like I made it? What will
that look like?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
For me? It's selling out stadiums and arenas.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Okay, that's like.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Being able to have my music be heard all over
the world. That's the main aim.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
And I also, more than anything, want people to hear
my name and then be able to attach realness and
you know, authenticity to my name because that's so important
to me as well. And the culture. You know, I'm
half Jamaican. My mum's side of the family are Russian
and Hasidic jew and then my dad's dad's family are Jamaican,
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so I've got like a cool mix. So it's important
to be able to also express my culture. So yeah,
that's that's the main aim for me, is being able
to you know, when we listen to music and we
have times in our lives that we can attach the
music too. That's what want people to have with my music,
you know, to be able to have that nostalgic feel
when they look back at my songs and be like, wow,
I felt this when I heard that, you know, just
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connect to it on a personal level.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I love it. That's why I'm also a program director here.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
But like I always tell everybody that if you took
away the introduction of music or being able to bring
people to a space, because I get to introduce music,
I get to DJ and I get to play music,
I probably wouldn't do this anymore because it is that's
the making someone have that memory of like, oh I
heard this for the first time, or taking them back
to I heard this when I was in high school
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breaking up with my.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Boyfriend or girlfriend. You know what I mean. I love it.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Now this EP, you obviously are very you have Jamaican
and you know, a couple of the songs that we've
heard has been very dancehall reggae. But you're not in
the box, bro. I heard some of your features that
you're on, some of the records. You got some range.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Man.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Yeah, I'm definitely not in a box. There's no one
that's going to put me in a box. And I
think that's The main thing is everyone tries to kind
of ping you down and tell you what you should be.
And honestly, the artists that I look up to, like
the Rhiannas of the world, they've done We Found Love
with Calvin Harris and then they've done work with Drake.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You know. It's like you can't put a box on yourself.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
When you see the people you look up to and
they haven't done that either. I'm not subject to a genre.
My music is. When people say what do you make?
I say, I make what Morgan makes.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Like I.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
My music, My artistry is my voice, what I have
to say. It's not what category people want to box
my music into. So for me, when people listen to
this project, so make sure you go listen to it
now it's very much a step into my mind. But
your press play and from top to finish, once you've
listened to that project, you would have felt a lot
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of different emotions.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
The last, myself is where you're really like, I heard
that record, obviously hearing the other ones bum bum which
you did amazing justice to that classic record right there.
The feature you're on with the symphony, what was that
the Symphony Orchestra that you did that feature.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
On oh my previous music.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, it was yes, you you kill that bro, Thank you,
and then yeah, and then you hear last of Myself
and you're like, Yo, this girl can blow man, she
can sing sing. So yeah, I like the variety and
the range you got on this on the CP.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Thank you so much, Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Now you got this record with Byron Messiah to talk
about this. How did you guys come together?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
This song's a banger.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
So yeah, it was a very easy process with him
because he loved the song genuinely.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I feel like a lot of artists, their labels.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Push them with this other artist to do a collab,
and it doesn't feel real or authentic. You know. Me
and him made sure that we communicate on a personal
level to be able to like be on the phone
and speak about the song. He was invested in you
know why I wrote the song, what I wrote the
song about, so that when he did put his verse down,
there was a complete understanding of where we.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Were both going.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
And I feel like that's so important and important in
the creative process to be able to really you know,
some people just chuck a verse on and it's like, oh, okay,
but he really because he's such a good songwriter and
such a like real authentic artist and he's raw as well,
so it kind of it just felt so natural, and
because he was so invested in the song, right, it
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just made sense.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And I feel like you.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Can hear his passion when he sings his verse because
he's he's done it so well, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
So yeah, but it was an epy process.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Do you feel like artists are losing there? Because you
It's true.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
People will send music to other people and then the
artist has to go and redo their verse because to
match your features verse because they're saying completely something different.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah, like that happens a lot with artists when they
don't really they're not they're kind of just doing it
for the money and they're not really invested in what's
actually happening in the.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Song, right, And that's what I respect.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
About Buy And you know, he's he's really invested in
it so and he's been very supportive. So it's it's
nice to be able to to chat to him and
kind of get to know how he works musically as well.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Definitely, I love it well, since we're talking about the record.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Wheel up right now we got you on the EP's
out right now emotional gangster.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Let's go to introduce the record.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I'm Morgan and this Why.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Are you talk?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Why are you? Why are you middle duns me? Or
are you plentybody? Everybody getting down looks.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Make them mes Amester week in a veranda.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And the CoA with the nephew.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Everybody got up on the lis of arlin. Pull me
in a little bits to arming. We don't even need
knows to get the target. And one a sick. I
wasn't down for love a traitor looking at me? You
screw up with already? Put them hairs where they're gone
(09:06):
simulated and even but will you right almost in a cup?
This well will right up getting.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
One up? Holy Eve, it's gone still.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yes, well there you go, we'll uprate there. Morgan's are
right now EPs out, make sure you go check it out.
You're been a singer songwriter. Any big K pop songs
that we would know, like.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
On the side, there's a song. Yes, there's Jason from
n c T. There's a band called Kepler. They're they're
they're pretty huge as well. I've got some more big
K pop cuts coming up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm going
to be very excited about that, the kind of you know,
like life changing ones.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
So yeah, it's gonna be sick definitely.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
All right, Well, when you come in the studio, we're
going to talk about how you even made that connection
and all that, because I know, I know you're gonna
be moving around, so we got to get you in
the studio, but.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
We have to get you on.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Appreciate you all.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Thank you so much for jumping on the EP's out
right now real quick. What was your first job before music?
Did you have a regular job?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Ever?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Never?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Never?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Never?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Out so straight into music?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Are risked?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Everything?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Nice? Good for you. All right, well I'm looking forward
to meeting you.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I got stuck with your music. Bum bums, dope. All
these records are great, So congratulations on everything.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Thank you so much, Thank you,