February 6, 2025 • 31 mins
Viral artist, Maddox Batson blew up over the last year on TikTok & now he landed a record deal and is working on a ton of new music. He stopped by to hang with Wayne D & tay to talk about that experience and how excited he is to go on tour with Lainey Wilson!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're in studio with a guy who literally has a
massive following and hasn't even graced country radio yet, but
he's about to mattox bats. And what's up doing?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
What's going on? How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Life is good?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
You?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I can't complain, you know, I'm just living it up.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I gotta say, because you just turned fourteen.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I just turned fifteen? Fifteen fifteen?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
How's the driving thing going?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's good?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I mean, all right, so I'm going to keep it
a whole buck. I do homeschool, right yeah, And I'm
like since I was on tour, I mean, I didn't
want to do school, but my mom may me do school.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
But I'm a little bit behind, so I have to.
I have to get caught up like one.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Week or like two weeks of school, which takes like
two days for me. It's pretty easy to get caught up,
but like two weeks of school and then go get
my permit. But I'm a pretty good driver, just off
like growing up on a farm and driving around in
my papa's truck.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
So I'm doing okay. I think I'll be all right.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
So let me ask you the teachers versus the public
school versus homeschool. Which ones are better?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Definitely definitely homeschool, just because you know, I get two
teachers when I'm at homeschool, my father and my mother.
I mean, they're pretty legit. I'm pretty close with them.
Pretty good teachers.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
But I mean I liked public school. It was cool.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I miss seeing all my friends, but homeschool's pretty legit
because I can get everything done by like eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It's been roll, Yes, sir, What has this whole thing
been like? Because thanks to TikTok and YouTube and all that.
I don't want to say it's easier for an artist
to start a career, but there's definitely more options to
just begging a record label to listen to you and
give you a chance exactly. So what was that like
when things started to take off?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Dude? It was sick.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I mean from posting my first TikTok video and going
live for the first time on TikTok, I mean we
just saw like crazy just growth off rip, Like we
had crazy support. Like from my first live I'm getting
a couple hundred, couple of thousand viewers and just like
I have like a thousand followers. It's just crazy it's
just the love and support that people were giving me
just throughout, like the whole process, especially the beginning. It's
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just it's just absolutely awesome. I mean it's great. I
give it all back to the fans. I mean, I
got a few fans sit in front of me right now,
so I just give it all back to them. But
it's just because I wouldn't be here talking to you
without them, and just it's been crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's been a crazy ride. And like you said, it's
it is.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It's like you said, you don't want to say it's easier,
but you definitely have more opportunities to get like recognized
and all that kind of stuff through the social media stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So it's it's definitely awesome. I love all the opportunities.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Why now, obviously because of the fans that share the
same house as me. I've yeah, I can don't make
me sing, because I will, but no, I've gotten to
hear the songs and the music is good man. But
there's there's a lot of people your age, younger, older,
trying to break through the same as you did with
social media. Why do you think it was easy for
fans to see the first video and keep coming back.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I feel like, just to give a little bit of
advice to the other young artists out there trying to,
you know, break through in the social media game. It's just, uh,
you don't want to just do the music. You want
to show them a little bit of your personality. And
one of my biggest videos that blew up for me
during the beginning was one of my get ready with
me is Right? And I didn't see a whole lot
of people doing that, and I saw this one video
(03:02):
and I was just like, I think I could do that,
make it my own and make it just a little
bit of maddic, see, you know. And I posted one
of those and it, I mean, it did awesome. It
got like a couple million views. And that was one
of my first videos. So as long as you even
it out showing a little bit of personality and also
showing your music. If I mean, if you have a personality,
you know, yeah, you gotta have the personality, but but
(03:23):
if you have a personality and you just show that
a little bit, I feel like you can go a
long way with that.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Before music started taking off, was there something like, you know,
I mean, you're still a young man. You're still growing up,
But is there something that you were Like, I want
to play baseball, I want to play football. I want
to build rocket ships with Elon Musk. But yeah, like no, that's.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
What got me into music.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I mean I played basketball and baseball, where my two
main sports were really basketball, been playing that my entire
life was my first love. It's really all I wanted
to do up until I got this need disease. I
say this every time, but I get I got this
need disease on my right knee. It's called osgod Schlaughter's disease.
And we went to this the specialist who only like
works on this kind of disease, and he said it's
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the worst one he's ever seen, and he's been doing
it for like forty years. So it was pretty disheartening,
but it is what it is. When one door opens,
another one, you know, cracks. But yeah, I couldn't run, jump, stop,
do anything to play basketball or any sports on this knee.
So I was prevented from playing anything for an entire summer.
And that's why me and my dad started getting back
into music and you know, play on TikTok and all
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that kind of stuff. And ever since then it's just
kind of you know, snowballed and got bigger.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So did that start as something therapeutic for you then,
knowing that you were losing something that you kind of
could get lost in something else.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, one hundred percent, because I mean I was I
was bored out of my mind right Like I didn't
because previous summers I was either playing baseball or basketball
like every weekend, like all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I was bored, like I didn't know what to do.
And it was actually my mom.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I give all the credits to my mom because she
started a TikTok account and just posted stuff like very
mom stuff, if you know what I mean. But it
was great. I love my mom for it. I give
all credit to her. But she was really the one
who was just like Max, I think you should start
going live on TikTok and just just give you something
to do with dad and that kind of stuff. Because
my dad, he grew up around music. He was in
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like family bands and all that kind of stuff, bluegrass scene,
and he kind of passed that on down to me
and we got into it a few years prior.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Then it kind of fell off because of sports.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
But then after I got hurt, we started picking back
up and started going live on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So yeah, Dad's like you got hurt, we could make music.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Again, exactly exactly because like I'm I was never like
the biggest fan of the blue grass. I love bluegrass.
I have the biggest respect for the blue grass picker.
It's like, it's it's awesome. They're crazy talented, like my dad,
Like he's a like could be a professional mandolin picker.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It's awesome. But I have so much respect for them.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
But it's never something that my mind was just like
really like going after and we went to like these
festivals and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It was sick and I love it, but it was cool.
But he was pretty excited when I got hurt. I
guess you could say, yes.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well, so that dad is a world class picker. Yeah,
at some point, where's the collab coming?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
No, I wish it does. Bro, he's got to get
in the studio with me. Every time I ask, he's like, no,
you do what you do. But we're trying to get
him in the studio or get him on stage.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
One time. I think it'd be awes.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Listen, you pulled Dad on stage one time? That place
goes crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I know.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
That's what I'm saying. We actually did it.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
We did a hometown show and cross plain Sennescy is
where I'm from and where he's from, where my whole
family's from. We did a hometown show and we actually
pulled him up on stage.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
He never he didn't play mandolin, did you. I don't
know why.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I mean, he's crazy good, but we didn't play mandolin.
We just we played a few songs together that were
some of our nearest and dearest sour hearts that we
played when I was a young kid.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
So that was pretty that.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Listen the Maddox Monday numbers, I'm sure are big already. Yeah,
if you promote Dad coming through to play on Maddix Monday,
you might pull YouTube servers off.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
That's what I'm saying, Bro, You're actually right, dude, that
I feel like if we pulled in Dano to the
to the Maddix Mondays, I feel like that that'd go crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So we should do that's the idea.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Absolutely. We Uh, what made you want to make music?
As you listen to other Obviously you said you know it.
Being in the family is obviously in influence, But what
are some artists today that you're like, yeah, I love
them and I love how they do it.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, I mean I also say this a lot. My
sister she is She's twelve years older than me, right,
and she's actually one of the biggest influences for me
because when I was a young kid, I would be
in her car and she would play like one direction
in Bieber and like, you know, like everybody like the
the like Aldin and just I mean everyone, and I
would just get influences from that when I started making music.
(07:32):
Right now, I'd probably say two of my biggest influences
are probably like probably Morgan and Bieber. Morgan Bieber, I
get that a lot. Like that's actually one like a
nickname that people call me is like like that type
of thing. It's like a young Morgan Bieber and it's
it's crazy that I would get, you know, even compared
to those guys absolutely legends. But yeah, those are probably
like two of my biggest influences when it comes to
my music and just on stage and that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Have you met either of them yet?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
No? I have not.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I really want to, I really I really want to.
They seem like cool guys and I think it'd be sick.
I have met another one of my influences names Whyte Flores,
a really good guy.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Actually played on stage with him.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Texas country guy.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, yeah, big Texas country guys from Oklahoma. He's got
that like kind of like dirt road like that type
of that type of sound.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
He's really cool.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Uh. Played on stage with him during CMA Fest, which
was actually really cool and I got to meet him
and just talk talk guitars and stuff that type of.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So, uh, making music and putting it out is one thing,
but creating your own music is a whole different beast.
At what point you were like, hey, this is dope,
but like I'm tired of doing other I wanted to
do my songs. Yeah, at what point did that Did
that turn into that?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
All? Right?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
So? I mean yeah, Like throughout, like the very beginning
of like my TikTok career and all that kind of stuff,
I was doing primarily covers and that kind of stuff.
I was just covering other artists and covering other songs
that I thought were legit. And then I got picked
up by these two wonderful managers, Nick Barr and Eddie Franzoni,
and they got me down here in Nashville for the
first time. I grew up in Nashville, but then when
I was about seven, I moved to Birmingham and that's
(09:01):
and I just moved back in like September. But yeah,
they got me down here from my first ever studio session,
and I got to I got to see what it's
like to actually write a song and do that kind
of stuff. See what how like the process of it
with these professional writers, and it's it's pretty it's pretty legit.
And once I heard my song for the first time,
I was like, man, that's what I want to do,
you know, kind of like you said, I would rather
play my songs.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
You know, what was the first song you recorded of yours?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Oh, dude, that's a that's a that's a tough question.
I'd say, I think it's actually it's it was a song.
It had Tennessee in the title. It was like you,
me and Tennessee. May have been the word I can't
I think, I don't. I can't remember, but that was
may have been the first one. I can't remember, but
it was.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It was.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
It was something very similar to that. It was a
pretty sick song. We thought it was a hit bro.
I thought it was awesome. Dude off for Rip, I
was like.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Man, this is sick.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I'm I'm releasing it tomorrow. But that that idea got
shot down really fast.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But nah, it was sick song. It was something like that,
probably like you me and Tennessee. I think it was
something like that.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
What is the process like for you now that you're
starting to see I'd imagine you see music differently once
you're working with writers and you're in a real studio
versus just hit and record on TikTok, right, turn it
into a full career. What's something that goes into creating
music that you would have never guessed?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Really?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Just how many minds come together to get through one idea.
How long it actually takes to write a good song
is way longer than I thought. I thought, like with
these professional writers, you have to think they're humans, they're
not robots and just come up with.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Hits all the time.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
But I mean, I'm playing with these I mean great guys,
and it's taken us like hours upon end, hours upon
end to come up with like a chorus, and it's
the craziest thing to me. But once you get it,
it's just like an an uncomparable feelings. It's awesome once
you get a good song and once you vibe with
it and record it for the first time. Hearing a
good song on your voice is like, it's like unmatched feeling.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
It's so cool. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
What It's funny because talking to other artists throughout Nashville,
when you sit down for a rite or even just
to brainstorm, it's definitely like a no idea is a
bad idea, think yeah, but you still feel like I'm
not gonna say that I don't want to sound I.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Still feel that way sometimes.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I still feel like like every now and then, I'll
think of something and then I'm like, should I really
say this? Because this is kind of dumb the more
than I think about it, you know, But yeah, no
idea is about it. I mean, you're absolutely right, one
hundred percent right. You can throw out I mean anything
when you're in those writing rooms and sometimes they're like okay,
and sometimes you know it's it's great. But me, just
(11:29):
as someone who gets in there all the time, I'm
still on that level kind of like embarrassment.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I'm like, should I say this?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
You know? But I know I have to get past
that sometime, but right now I'm still like questioning myself.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well, so let me ask this then, what is the
idea you were hypist about that you shared and they
were like, what else you got?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
All right, exactly, dude. I've actually had one moment like that.
In particular. It was one of my first ever rights
and we were writing this song. I think it was
like called like I think it's called Grandpa's Boots.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It was.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It was really really good song. I love that song.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
It's one of my favorites to date. And I'm throwing
out an idea that's just like really ultra specific to me,
Like I can't remember exactly what I said, but it
was like really really specific.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Those are not really relatable the other.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
People that are, like, okay, so I may do it
broaden that a little bit. It was like it was
funny because I'm thrown out ideas like exact things that
happened to me only and I'm just and I was like, well,
I guess you're right, you know, I should probably make
it a little bit more relatable.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
But it was cool.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Out of the songs you've been able to create already,
we're about to talk about a brand new song that
we're gonna hear on the radio today. Yes, what are
what are the songs that mean the most to you
early in your career that you're like, man, I'm so
proud of this. So I know that the pool is shallow,
so far right for what's available for fans to consume,
but out of those, you're like, man, this one is
like close to my heart.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
I mean, like the one I just said Grandpa's boots,
just because it is so close to me. And I
know I was kind of making fun of myself for
doing like the specific thing, but I mean it's just
a very relatable song to me, and I feel like
it's only a song that I can sing because it's
I mean, it's just I mean it's I wore my
grandpa's boots to the studio that day, so that's I mean,
that's really why. But that one's one of the coolest ones,
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one of the coolest rights I ever got to do.
I mean, all songs that I have out right now,
I'm super proud of just because, like at fourteen and
fifteen years old, a lot of people like they kind
of like diss you a little bit for like, yeah,
you're a kid that type of thing, and I feel
like once I put after I put out music and
showed people like that, I like to actually do this.
You know, I'm not just I'm not kind of like
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playing around or anything like that. I feel like people
taking more seriously is really cool. And just seeing all
that kind of stuff go out and the fans loving it,
it's just it's I mean, it's the proudest moment ever.
Just seeing seeing those songs on TikTok and people making
dances and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
It just makes me. It makes me feel great.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
It's awesome social media, especially when you get to a
spot where you I think you have. Last time I
checked one of the social media platforms, you're almost at
like a million. I think that might have been on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, on Instagram I almost had a million.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
On TikTok, I'm like three point something million, and then
on YouTube I'm almost at a million also, Yeah, in a.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Year, which is congratulations because that's so much because that
means number one, you're you're doing what you're supposed to
be doing with your life, and number two, you're grinding
because I'm no.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
It's not easy.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
My content managers on my butt all the time, always
on my tail man, and I'm always making these videos
twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
But I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
The social media in general is a two sided sword, right,
because it's like, oh, it's great and it's doing all
these things, but also it gives people access exactly that
to make a comment that can shake you, of course, right,
And that happens to people that have five followers, that
happens to people that have five hundred million followers exactly.
(14:48):
So how do you, especially as a young man, especially
being brand new to this, how do you react to
negative comments and not let them shake shake you?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I mean, I just pray about them. You know, I
grew up up in a Christian household. Me and my
mom and my dad were very you know, prominent on
that as a young child, and I just, I mean,
I feel I know that deep down really that they
probably really don't mean it, and you know, I just
I just pray for them and all that kind of stuff,
and just I don't I really try to not let
it affect me a whole lot because I know that,
(15:18):
you know, at the end of the day, it's just
like it really doesn't matter because you can have you know,
five hundred Maddox You're awesome comments, and then you have
one Maddix you stink comment, And it's just that's the
one that sticks with you and just it stinks that
that's the way it is, but it is. And I
just pray for him and all that kind of stuff
and hope they, you know, find find their right path
and all that kind of stuff and figure out that,
(15:40):
you know, if you're not going to say like the
Golden rule, you know, and in elementary school that they
have hung up on the bullets and board, if you're
not going to say anything nice, just don't say anything.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Keep it to yourself. Just keep on scrolling. Man.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
But you know, if they do say it, I really
just I just pray for them and hopefully you know,
they get they get all good and you know, hopefully
take it down or something like that.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
But that's the same person asking for a selfie when
they catch you at the grocery store. You can't tell
you that, right.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
And yeah, and I know, and I'm never going to
turn those down, even if it's like a guy that
I know said it, right, I go to the grocery store,
I know, he commented on my video that I stink.
I'm just still gonna go what's up, man, you know
that kind of thing, because you know, that's just the
way I.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Was like, Yeah, it turns out I don't huh.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, I'm actually a really good smelling guy.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I put on a decent amount of cologne. You know.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
What is uh, what's something that you hold close to
your heart is a good memory so far because again,
we catch up with while you think about that, we
catch up with a lot of artists who don't get
to enjoy the journey because literally you have to think
ten steps ahead of where you are now. So it's
hard to be like in this moment. Matter of fact,
we just caught up with Landy Wilson a couple of
days ago, and she's like, I have learned to finally
(16:51):
like enjoy this and worry about that later and stop
worrying about that. It's like, just be here. So how
are you making sure with how quick this is all
exploded for you? Making sure that like you're enjoying.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Me really enjoying it.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, I mean just one of the things that helps
me with that is just staying with staying around people
that I know were with me for the right reasons
and all that kind of stuff. Just staying close to
my family, staying close with like really close people to me,
and they always make sure I'm in the moment, you know,
because when I'm around like these other people are only
worried about, you know, the wrong things. They always want
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me to keep keep thinking ahead and all that kind
of stuff. And I feel like when I'm around people
that really are with me for the right reasons, they
always keep me grounded and keep me in the moment.
And it's like badics, what you did was really cool,
like that type of thing. When I'm just I'm so
like crazy, like dialed into the next thing, you know,
I can't really think about it, kind of like, I mean,
I just played I sold out show in Brooklyn Bowl
(17:47):
at Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville, and it was I mean,
it was like a year ago. I'm playing at a
winery for like four people who are not even like,
you know, no clue who I am. And there's exactly
two of our parents, my grandparents. It's in the other
girl that's sitting in the back is talking about her wedding,
so you know, I mean they're planning their wedding. So
it's it's really you. Just I'm so very grateful that,
(18:08):
you know. I just I just want to I just
want to enjoy it as best as I can. Because like,
right after I got on stage, I was like, Okay,
what's next. So I got to make all these videos
and all that stuff, and they're like, Madix, you're good.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
It's like I was super super cool, and I was like, yeah,
I guess you're right, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
And let me say this about that Brooklyn Bull show
because we were lucky enough to be there. It was
a fun show. You did a great job that so much. Uh,
stop throwing stuff on stage. I saw people talking like
friendship bracelets. One of them dang there hits you in
the front, y'all.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Dude, It's it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I love it, but they're they're I have very passionate fans,
and I I couldn't ask. I have the best fans
in the entire world. And I'm on, Like I remember
I was playing in Tuscaloos ad I sold out show
there and they just start chucking their phones and I'm like, Yo,
your mom's not gonna like that later. Your mom is
gonna be really mad at you if I step on
your phone, you know, and uh, they're like, I'm just
(18:58):
I really do appreciate it, and I'm like, man, I'll
try to make all these videos off on stage as
much as I can.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
But like, please don't throw your phones. I don't want
your mom.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
To get mad at me, you know that type of thing.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
But no, I love it.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I'll pick up I'll pick up the wristbands and put
them all over my wrist anyway. I love it, even
if they hit me, you know. I just I'm so
grateful for my friends fans, And I try to say
this as much as I can. Like I said it earlier,
I really wouldn't be here talking to you if it
wasn't for them. So I really just try to take
in every moment I can with them.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
They're awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Some fans don't know the word boundary. I don't know
that you are. You are a human just like they are. Right,
what has been a fan encounter And you don't have
to say the city or who?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Dad's already laughing, nos.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
So what's a fan encounter that you had to be like, hey,
whoa that it was either scary or like.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Just just like probably it was actually a mom.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
It was a mom I can't remember exactly where it was.
And no Shade, no hate. I mean, it's completely fine.
But she asked me who I was voting for, and
I was just like, so, I am currently fourteen years old.
I cannot vote. I'm not sure you're aware of that.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But she asked me.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I was just like, Maddox batchin, you know, that's who
I'm voting for twenty thirty five.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I'll actually not even be old enough then, how old. Well,
I don't know. I'm voting for myself though me. You know,
I don't know. But she asked me that, and I
was just like.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Huh, I don't know how to answer that.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I don't know who will be running exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I don't even know. I have no clue what's going
on in the world. I'm just worried about, you know,
girls and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
That's I did not think the story would come up
from a mom.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It was crazy. It was nuts. But no Shade, it's
completely fine. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
The song is out now talk about the It has
to be so frustrating because again we catch up with
so many artists. You create this song, it gets mixed, mastered,
all that you know behind the scenes stuff that fans
have no clue what's even going down.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Uh, and then you have to just sit. Yeah, and
not just not just this single, but like anytime, because
there's the record label processes, your management process, there's a
release process. Pick a date. Does that date get in
the way of anything else?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Like, it's no, it's a it's a long process. And
you record a song that you love and you just
want to release it immediately, but then you have to
slow down and think, like, oh, I guess they're right.
You know, you really got to market it and all
that kind of stuff. So it actually does is decent,
you know.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
So there is a reason it's called I Don't Like
You Anymore. You played it at the Brooklyn Bull Show.
I heard you did it on a Maddox Was it Maddix?
What has been the hold up in getting this out?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
M hm?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And getting because you wanted to put the video out
at the same time, right, Originally you had at the
end of it was at the end of this month.
Now you had to push it.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
It's actually the one of the one of the main
reasons was actually the wildfires out in Los Angeles. A
big part of my a big portion of like my
my record label. I'm signing with Warner Records and We'rener
Records LA, and a big portion of all those guys
in my team and my manager and actually live out there.
So I was completely fine with postponing the release just
because I just wanted to make sure they were all safe.
(22:06):
I have a big, big, big portion of like my
team and all that kind of those guys out there,
so I just wanted to make sure they're safe, all
that kind of stuff. That's my number one priority, make
sure they're all good. Before I didn't want. I thought
it'd be kind of like almost kind of selfish to
try to release that song in the heap of them,
you know, packing, you know, evacuate from their homes. So
I had no problem, you know, postponing the release to
(22:30):
this month and earlier early this month is completely fine
with me.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So, yeah, did you get to finish the video? Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
No, Actually, I actually never went out there the school
that we were originally planning on shooting at, which was
where like some legendary movies like Team Wolf from like
the eighties, I think from the eighties, eight ers or
nineties whatever. But with that, I was filmed. It was
the film that that's going actually burnt down. So yeah,
it's really tragic, and I'm praying for all those guys
out there, praying for all the firefighters and all those guys.
(22:59):
I know they're doing the best. So uh yeah, and
yeah that school got burned down. We actually never ended
up going, but we're going. We were gonna go. I
think I think we're going to. We're leaving in the
mornings to go out there to film, so yeah, there
you go.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I gotta get it all done because it's both coming
out at the same time, right exactly, sir, Have you
had to focus too much on the music video stuff
or you just let like people do it for you.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
No, I mean a little bit, because all right, this
time this is actually kind of funny. So this time
they're making me dance. I just want to say, I'm
not a dancer. I am very uncoordinated. I'm all right,
I'm coordinated because I play like sports and all that
kind of stuff, but like when it comes to dancing, bro,
I'm a new but like I have no clue what
I'm doing. None, none, And I'm with these choreographers and
they're like, okay, you know I'm doing this stuff and
(23:41):
they're like, this is kind of I'm just like, all right, bro,
I have no clue what I'm doing, but I'm pretty
I'm pretty excited to do the dancing thing.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I think it'll be cool.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
We got a pretty good concept going for this music video,
so I think it's gonna be legit.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
When you you you brought up the Morgan Bieber thing,
and it's funny because if somebody says something to me,
because a lot of your your early hype feels like
when Justin Bieber came out because he got on YouTube
grind it that way was discovered. You got on social media,
grinded discovered, the music was there, the following was there.
The only thing that was missing was like the record
label in the airplay, and like, now that's coming right.
(24:16):
How do you, through the creation process make sure like, no, this,
I gotta do this way? Maddox wants to I don't.
That's too much like Bieber, that's too much like Morgan,
that's too much. How do you how do you make
sure to like continue to do it your way?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Yeah, I mean I actually like with the people around me.
I asked my dad a lot about this kind of
stuff is just because like I don't want to straight
up copy these guys.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
There are absolutely legends Ben. I have so much respect
for him, but I really don't.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I want to do it my own way, kind of
like you're saying, and I just want to like I'll
take bits and pieces from both of these guys and
how they came up and all that kind of stuff,
like with more with uh with bieber On, like the
YouTube thing and just you know, grinding out the social
media thing and getting picked up. Yeah, of course I
wanted to follow that path because you know, I was
like one of my only I was the only option
(25:02):
because I was doing TikTok.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
But you know, I didn't want to straight up copy.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
And I have so much respect for him, like I
just said, but you know, they're absolute goats. But I
didn't want to copy, and I want to do my
own thing, kind of like with the music, and I
didn't want to do like straight pop music and I
didn't want to do like straight country music. You know.
I want to meet in the middle and that kind
of thing and just just take both the great parts
of both artists and kind of mix it in the
middle and create you know, maddis I guess and here
(25:28):
I am.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah, exactly. I take bits and pieces from all kinds
of artists.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You know, tell us about this song I don't like
you anymore? And why this feels like yeah, obviously the
labels really behind this one.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Uh, there's a bigger deal with you releasing the song
and the video at the same time. So why is
why is this the right song that kind of feels
like a launching point for you?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Oh dude, this one, this one's absolutely jit. First, I
just want to thank the writers. You know, I had,
I mean I had some absolute go to write. I
had Ashley Gorley.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Uh, dude makes it hits.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Oh dude makes it so Yeah, I think like seventy
five plus number ones or something stupid.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Like like you could buy a village.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
With exactly, bro Like all right, So it was actually Gorley,
Hunter Phelps, and David Garcia, I mean, just three absolute
goats in the Nashville scene. They're I mean absolutely great,
some of the coolest writing experience I've had, But I
mean it was absolutely sick. And this song, I mean,
I think it's I think it's awesome because like, as
a teenager and experiencing young glove. You always have that
(26:24):
point where you're just like, you know, I'm I'm I
want to take it a step forward and that kind
of stuff. And I've actually had that like exact experience. Uh,
I'm not with her anymore, but I dated this girl
for like, I think, like almost like a year and
some change a little bit like that, and you know,
it was to the point where like I really I
really liked her, and it was just like, I don't
like you anymore. I kind of I kind of love you, you know,
(26:44):
and it was It's kind of weird saying that at
such a young age, because people don't really like, they
don't really believe you. Yeah, what do you know about them?
I'm like, hey man, I mean, you've never been in
a relationship. I don't know what you're talking about, but
I'm I'm talking to I'm not I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I'm kidding. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
But you know, it's just talking about in this song,
it's talking about that turning point of lacking the love,
and I feel like everyone goes through that at one point,
you know. So it's it's pretty cool. It's you know,
it's just it's a pretty cool song. So I'm really
excited for this one to come out. It's gonna be
a sick release and I'm just I'm geeked man, it's
gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
So you've had to sit on this finally in fans' hands.
I'm gonna have you intro the song once we get
towards the end of the interview here. But what's next, Like,
do you have another song follow up? Is this going
to be part of an EP? Are you working on
an album?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
No?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I think I think this year, I think we're gonna
work on probably like a little project, like a little
EP towards like April May that toward sign period around
like where stage Coach is gonna be pretty legit. I
don't know exact or anything like that, or exact song
it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I just know it's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
It's gonna be a great time, and I'm just I'm
really excited for the fans to have more to listen
to because it's easier when they know the words at
the concerts because my voice ever goes out, I always have.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
To go, hey, you got it? You know that type
of thing. So I'm really excited for more of those opportunities.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
What do you got coming up this year? Stage Coach
is massive, that's gonna be a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, it's gonna be sick, dude. I'm pretty excited for that.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Outside of that, do you have tour plans? Do you have?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yes, sir, I'm actually going out on tour this year.
It's going to be all through like the month of April,
like starting in March, all through April. We're starting in
you know, this side of the country and going all
the way to California.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
So it's it's it's going to be a pretty cool tour.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I think it's as of yesterday, it's ninety eight percent
sold out, and yeah, I'm pretty excited for it. I mean,
all venues were getting bigger rooms in New York and
it's just I'm really excited. That's what I'm saying. Man, Like,
these fans are just a whole another level, and I
just I give it all back to them.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
It's gonna be so cool. I'm really excited for this tour.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I'm going to ask something and I'm going to ask
it carefully. Yeah, to where neither of us are going
to get in trouble.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
There is a very ten to young lady in country music,
and there is a rumor that, as we know she's
got more new music coming, that she will support you
with a tour this year. Is there a chance that
you're with said artist if she had dates to play
at some point?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I don't know what artists you're actually talking about. Per Chance, Okay,
I don't know. Per chance. Now that we're on the
same page, that's awesome. I'm not neither of us were
gonna get in trouble because we didn't say anything. We
didn't say too much.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
We're all good. We didn't say anything. But there's a
perchance chance that I could be.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
You know, if you had to flip a coin, it
would land on one side.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah, I think I think both coins have the exact
same side. I haven't actually have one of those fake
coins that are both heads. You know, you know what
I'm saying. But no, I mean maybe who knows, so
you have to see I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Well, that's that part of this conversation will hit closer
to that announcement, and I'll just unofficially say congrats, because
that's I'm sure you can feel in your heart. How
massive that is?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Oh, dude, I'm excited for that.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
That's gonna be awesome, dude, because, like I mean, my
sister worked at one of the places that we're gonna
play like last year, and now that I get to
play there, it's gonna be cool.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I think I work at that place.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Yeah, you might work at that place sometimes. I don't
know who knows. But it's pretty good, pretty cool, pretty
cool venue.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Yeah, marathon musical. Yeah, all right, I'm gonna have you
intro the song, so this will be like an isolated
I'll open it and then you just say intro the song,
you'll say, I'm MADEX Batson. Here's song title on the
Big ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
On the Big ninety eight, I bet all right, here
we go cool.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
All right, it's Wayne d and we've been waiting. We've
been chatting with him. He's a Tennessee boy doing good.
Now you're on the radio playing your own song.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yes, sir, what's going what's going on? Everybody?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
My name is MADEX Batson and this is I Don't
Like You Anymore? On the Big ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Boom perfect perfect. That's it, So now out
We're in studio with a guy who literally has a
massive following and hasn't even graced country radio yet, but
he's about to mattox bats. And what's up doing?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
What's going on? How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Life is good?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
You?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I can't complain, you know, I'm just living it up.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I gotta say, because you just turned fourteen.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I just turned fifteen? Fifteen fifteen?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
How's the driving thing going?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's good?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I mean, all right, so I'm going to keep it
a whole buck. I do homeschool, right yeah, And I'm
like since I was on tour, I mean, I didn't
want to do school, but my mom may me do school.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
But I'm a little bit behind, so I have to.
I have to get caught up like one.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Week or like two weeks of school, which takes like
two days for me. It's pretty easy to get caught up,
but like two weeks of school and then go get
my permit. But I'm a pretty good driver, just off
like growing up on a farm and driving around in
my papa's truck.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
So I'm doing okay. I think I'll be all right.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
So let me ask you the teachers versus the public
school versus homeschool. Which ones are better?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Definitely definitely homeschool, just because you know, I get two
teachers when I'm at homeschool, my father and my mother.
I mean, they're pretty legit. I'm pretty close with them.
Pretty good teachers.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
But I mean I liked public school. It was cool.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I miss seeing all my friends, but homeschool's pretty legit
because I can get everything done by like eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It's been roll, Yes, sir, What has this whole thing
been like? Because thanks to TikTok and YouTube and all that.
I don't want to say it's easier for an artist
to start a career, but there's definitely more options to
just begging a record label to listen to you and
give you a chance exactly. So what was that like
when things started to take off?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Dude? It was sick.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I mean from posting my first TikTok video and going
live for the first time on TikTok, I mean we
just saw like crazy just growth off rip, Like we
had crazy support. Like from my first live I'm getting
a couple hundred, couple of thousand viewers and just like
I have like a thousand followers. It's just crazy it's
just the love and support that people were giving me
just throughout, like the whole process, especially the beginning. It's
(01:51):
just it's just absolutely awesome. I mean it's great. I
give it all back to the fans. I mean, I
got a few fans sit in front of me right now,
so I just give it all back to them. But
it's just because I wouldn't be here talking to you
without them, and just it's been crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's been a crazy ride. And like you said, it's
it is.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It's like you said, you don't want to say it's easier,
but you definitely have more opportunities to get like recognized
and all that kind of stuff through the social media stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So it's it's definitely awesome. I love all the opportunities.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Why now, obviously because of the fans that share the
same house as me. I've yeah, I can don't make
me sing, because I will, but no, I've gotten to
hear the songs and the music is good man. But
there's there's a lot of people your age, younger, older,
trying to break through the same as you did with
social media. Why do you think it was easy for
fans to see the first video and keep coming back.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I feel like, just to give a little bit of
advice to the other young artists out there trying to,
you know, break through in the social media game. It's just, uh,
you don't want to just do the music. You want
to show them a little bit of your personality. And
one of my biggest videos that blew up for me
during the beginning was one of my get ready with
me is Right? And I didn't see a whole lot
of people doing that, and I saw this one video
(03:02):
and I was just like, I think I could do that,
make it my own and make it just a little
bit of maddic, see, you know. And I posted one
of those and it, I mean, it did awesome. It
got like a couple million views. And that was one
of my first videos. So as long as you even
it out showing a little bit of personality and also
showing your music. If I mean, if you have a personality,
you know, yeah, you gotta have the personality, but but
(03:23):
if you have a personality and you just show that
a little bit, I feel like you can go a
long way with that.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Before music started taking off, was there something like, you know,
I mean, you're still a young man. You're still growing up,
But is there something that you were Like, I want
to play baseball, I want to play football. I want
to build rocket ships with Elon Musk. But yeah, like no, that's.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
What got me into music.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I mean I played basketball and baseball, where my two
main sports were really basketball, been playing that my entire
life was my first love. It's really all I wanted
to do up until I got this need disease. I
say this every time, but I get I got this
need disease on my right knee. It's called osgod Schlaughter's disease.
And we went to this the specialist who only like
works on this kind of disease, and he said it's
(04:04):
the worst one he's ever seen, and he's been doing
it for like forty years. So it was pretty disheartening,
but it is what it is. When one door opens,
another one, you know, cracks. But yeah, I couldn't run, jump, stop,
do anything to play basketball or any sports on this knee.
So I was prevented from playing anything for an entire summer.
And that's why me and my dad started getting back
into music and you know, play on TikTok and all
(04:24):
that kind of stuff. And ever since then it's just
kind of you know, snowballed and got bigger.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So did that start as something therapeutic for you then,
knowing that you were losing something that you kind of
could get lost in something else.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, one hundred percent, because I mean I was I
was bored out of my mind right Like I didn't
because previous summers I was either playing baseball or basketball
like every weekend, like all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I was bored, like I didn't know what to do.
And it was actually my mom.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I give all the credits to my mom because she
started a TikTok account and just posted stuff like very
mom stuff, if you know what I mean. But it
was great. I love my mom for it. I give
all credit to her. But she was really the one
who was just like Max, I think you should start
going live on TikTok and just just give you something
to do with dad and that kind of stuff. Because
my dad, he grew up around music. He was in
(05:10):
like family bands and all that kind of stuff, bluegrass scene,
and he kind of passed that on down to me
and we got into it a few years prior.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Then it kind of fell off because of sports.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
But then after I got hurt, we started picking back
up and started going live on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So yeah, Dad's like you got hurt, we could make music.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Again, exactly exactly because like I'm I was never like
the biggest fan of the blue grass. I love bluegrass.
I have the biggest respect for the blue grass picker.
It's like, it's it's awesome. They're crazy talented, like my dad,
Like he's a like could be a professional mandolin picker.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It's awesome. But I have so much respect for them.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
But it's never something that my mind was just like
really like going after and we went to like these
festivals and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It was sick and I love it, but it was cool.
But he was pretty excited when I got hurt. I
guess you could say, yes.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well, so that dad is a world class picker. Yeah,
at some point, where's the collab coming?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
No, I wish it does. Bro, he's got to get
in the studio with me. Every time I ask, he's like, no,
you do what you do. But we're trying to get
him in the studio or get him on stage.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
One time. I think it'd be awes.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Listen, you pulled Dad on stage one time? That place
goes crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I know.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
That's what I'm saying. We actually did it.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
We did a hometown show and cross plain Sennescy is
where I'm from and where he's from, where my whole
family's from. We did a hometown show and we actually
pulled him up on stage.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
He never he didn't play mandolin, did you. I don't
know why.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I mean, he's crazy good, but we didn't play mandolin.
We just we played a few songs together that were
some of our nearest and dearest sour hearts that we
played when I was a young kid.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
So that was pretty that.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Listen the Maddox Monday numbers, I'm sure are big already. Yeah,
if you promote Dad coming through to play on Maddix Monday,
you might pull YouTube servers off.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
That's what I'm saying, Bro, You're actually right, dude, that
I feel like if we pulled in Dano to the
to the Maddix Mondays, I feel like that that'd go crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So we should do that's the idea.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Absolutely. We Uh, what made you want to make music?
As you listen to other Obviously you said you know it.
Being in the family is obviously in influence, But what
are some artists today that you're like, yeah, I love
them and I love how they do it.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, I mean I also say this a lot. My
sister she is She's twelve years older than me, right,
and she's actually one of the biggest influences for me
because when I was a young kid, I would be
in her car and she would play like one direction
in Bieber and like, you know, like everybody like the
the like Aldin and just I mean everyone, and I
would just get influences from that when I started making music.
(07:32):
Right now, I'd probably say two of my biggest influences
are probably like probably Morgan and Bieber. Morgan Bieber, I
get that a lot. Like that's actually one like a
nickname that people call me is like like that type
of thing. It's like a young Morgan Bieber and it's
it's crazy that I would get, you know, even compared
to those guys absolutely legends. But yeah, those are probably
like two of my biggest influences when it comes to
my music and just on stage and that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Have you met either of them yet?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
No? I have not.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I really want to, I really I really want to.
They seem like cool guys and I think it'd be sick.
I have met another one of my influences names Whyte Flores,
a really good guy.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Actually played on stage with him.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Texas country guy.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, yeah, big Texas country guys from Oklahoma. He's got
that like kind of like dirt road like that type
of that type of sound.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
He's really cool.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Uh. Played on stage with him during CMA Fest, which
was actually really cool and I got to meet him
and just talk talk guitars and stuff that type of.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So, uh, making music and putting it out is one thing,
but creating your own music is a whole different beast.
At what point you were like, hey, this is dope,
but like I'm tired of doing other I wanted to
do my songs. Yeah, at what point did that Did
that turn into that?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
All? Right?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
So? I mean yeah, Like throughout, like the very beginning
of like my TikTok career and all that kind of stuff,
I was doing primarily covers and that kind of stuff.
I was just covering other artists and covering other songs
that I thought were legit. And then I got picked
up by these two wonderful managers, Nick Barr and Eddie Franzoni,
and they got me down here in Nashville for the
first time. I grew up in Nashville, but then when
I was about seven, I moved to Birmingham and that's
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and I just moved back in like September. But yeah,
they got me down here from my first ever studio session,
and I got to I got to see what it's
like to actually write a song and do that kind
of stuff. See what how like the process of it
with these professional writers, and it's it's pretty it's pretty legit.
And once I heard my song for the first time,
I was like, man, that's what I want to do,
you know, kind of like you said, I would rather
play my songs.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
You know, what was the first song you recorded of yours?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Oh, dude, that's a that's a that's a tough question.
I'd say, I think it's actually it's it was a song.
It had Tennessee in the title. It was like you,
me and Tennessee. May have been the word I can't
I think, I don't. I can't remember, but that was
may have been the first one. I can't remember, but
it was.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It was.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
It was something very similar to that. It was a
pretty sick song. We thought it was a hit bro.
I thought it was awesome. Dude off for Rip, I
was like.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Man, this is sick.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I'm I'm releasing it tomorrow. But that that idea got
shot down really fast.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But nah, it was sick song. It was something like that,
probably like you me and Tennessee. I think it was
something like that.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
What is the process like for you now that you're
starting to see I'd imagine you see music differently once
you're working with writers and you're in a real studio
versus just hit and record on TikTok, right, turn it
into a full career. What's something that goes into creating
music that you would have never guessed?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Really?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Just how many minds come together to get through one idea.
How long it actually takes to write a good song
is way longer than I thought. I thought, like with
these professional writers, you have to think they're humans, they're
not robots and just come up with.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Hits all the time.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
But I mean, I'm playing with these I mean great guys,
and it's taken us like hours upon end, hours upon
end to come up with like a chorus, and it's
the craziest thing to me. But once you get it,
it's just like an an uncomparable feelings. It's awesome once
you get a good song and once you vibe with
it and record it for the first time. Hearing a
good song on your voice is like, it's like unmatched feeling.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
It's so cool. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
What It's funny because talking to other artists throughout Nashville,
when you sit down for a rite or even just
to brainstorm, it's definitely like a no idea is a
bad idea, think yeah, but you still feel like I'm
not gonna say that I don't want to sound I.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Still feel that way sometimes.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I still feel like like every now and then, I'll
think of something and then I'm like, should I really
say this? Because this is kind of dumb the more
than I think about it, you know, But yeah, no
idea is about it. I mean, you're absolutely right, one
hundred percent right. You can throw out I mean anything
when you're in those writing rooms and sometimes they're like okay,
and sometimes you know it's it's great. But me, just
(11:29):
as someone who gets in there all the time, I'm
still on that level kind of like embarrassment.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I'm like, should I say this?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
You know? But I know I have to get past
that sometime, but right now I'm still like questioning myself.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well, so let me ask this then, what is the
idea you were hypist about that you shared and they
were like, what else you got?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
All right, exactly, dude. I've actually had one moment like that.
In particular. It was one of my first ever rights
and we were writing this song. I think it was
like called like I think it's called Grandpa's Boots.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It was.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It was really really good song. I love that song.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
It's one of my favorites to date. And I'm throwing
out an idea that's just like really ultra specific to me,
Like I can't remember exactly what I said, but it
was like really really specific.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Those are not really relatable the other.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
People that are, like, okay, so I may do it
broaden that a little bit. It was like it was
funny because I'm thrown out ideas like exact things that
happened to me only and I'm just and I was like, well,
I guess you're right, you know, I should probably make
it a little bit more relatable.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
But it was cool.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Out of the songs you've been able to create already,
we're about to talk about a brand new song that
we're gonna hear on the radio today. Yes, what are
what are the songs that mean the most to you
early in your career that you're like, man, I'm so
proud of this. So I know that the pool is shallow,
so far right for what's available for fans to consume,
but out of those, you're like, man, this one is
like close to my heart.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
I mean, like the one I just said Grandpa's boots,
just because it is so close to me. And I
know I was kind of making fun of myself for
doing like the specific thing, but I mean it's just
a very relatable song to me, and I feel like
it's only a song that I can sing because it's
I mean, it's just I mean it's I wore my
grandpa's boots to the studio that day, so that's I mean,
that's really why. But that one's one of the coolest ones,
(13:12):
one of the coolest rights I ever got to do.
I mean, all songs that I have out right now,
I'm super proud of just because, like at fourteen and
fifteen years old, a lot of people like they kind
of like diss you a little bit for like, yeah,
you're a kid that type of thing, and I feel
like once I put after I put out music and
showed people like that, I like to actually do this.
You know, I'm not just I'm not kind of like
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playing around or anything like that. I feel like people
taking more seriously is really cool. And just seeing all
that kind of stuff go out and the fans loving it,
it's just it's I mean, it's the proudest moment ever.
Just seeing seeing those songs on TikTok and people making
dances and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
It just makes me. It makes me feel great.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
It's awesome social media, especially when you get to a
spot where you I think you have. Last time I
checked one of the social media platforms, you're almost at
like a million. I think that might have been on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, on Instagram I almost had a million.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
On TikTok, I'm like three point something million, and then
on YouTube I'm almost at a million also, Yeah, in a.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Year, which is congratulations because that's so much because that
means number one, you're you're doing what you're supposed to
be doing with your life, and number two, you're grinding
because I'm no.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
It's not easy.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
My content managers on my butt all the time, always
on my tail man, and I'm always making these videos
twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
But I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
The social media in general is a two sided sword, right,
because it's like, oh, it's great and it's doing all
these things, but also it gives people access exactly that
to make a comment that can shake you, of course, right,
And that happens to people that have five followers, that
happens to people that have five hundred million followers exactly.
(14:48):
So how do you, especially as a young man, especially
being brand new to this, how do you react to
negative comments and not let them shake shake you?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I mean, I just pray about them. You know, I
grew up up in a Christian household. Me and my
mom and my dad were very you know, prominent on
that as a young child, and I just, I mean,
I feel I know that deep down really that they
probably really don't mean it, and you know, I just
I just pray for them and all that kind of stuff,
and just I don't I really try to not let
it affect me a whole lot because I know that,
(15:18):
you know, at the end of the day, it's just
like it really doesn't matter because you can have you know,
five hundred Maddox You're awesome comments, and then you have
one Maddix you stink comment, And it's just that's the
one that sticks with you and just it stinks that
that's the way it is, but it is. And I
just pray for him and all that kind of stuff
and hope they, you know, find find their right path
and all that kind of stuff and figure out that,
(15:40):
you know, if you're not going to say like the
Golden rule, you know, and in elementary school that they
have hung up on the bullets and board, if you're
not going to say anything nice, just don't say anything.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Keep it to yourself. Just keep on scrolling. Man.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
But you know, if they do say it, I really
just I just pray for them and hopefully you know,
they get they get all good and you know, hopefully
take it down or something like that.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
But that's the same person asking for a selfie when
they catch you at the grocery store. You can't tell
you that, right.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
And yeah, and I know, and I'm never going to
turn those down, even if it's like a guy that
I know said it, right, I go to the grocery store,
I know, he commented on my video that I stink.
I'm just still gonna go what's up, man, you know
that kind of thing, because you know, that's just the
way I.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Was like, Yeah, it turns out I don't huh.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, I'm actually a really good smelling guy.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I put on a decent amount of cologne. You know.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
What is uh, what's something that you hold close to
your heart is a good memory so far because again,
we catch up with while you think about that, we
catch up with a lot of artists who don't get
to enjoy the journey because literally you have to think
ten steps ahead of where you are now. So it's
hard to be like in this moment. Matter of fact,
we just caught up with Landy Wilson a couple of
days ago, and she's like, I have learned to finally
(16:51):
like enjoy this and worry about that later and stop
worrying about that. It's like, just be here. So how
are you making sure with how quick this is all
exploded for you? Making sure that like you're enjoying.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Me really enjoying it.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, I mean just one of the things that helps
me with that is just staying with staying around people
that I know were with me for the right reasons
and all that kind of stuff. Just staying close to
my family, staying close with like really close people to me,
and they always make sure I'm in the moment, you know,
because when I'm around like these other people are only
worried about, you know, the wrong things. They always want
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me to keep keep thinking ahead and all that kind
of stuff. And I feel like when I'm around people
that really are with me for the right reasons, they
always keep me grounded and keep me in the moment.
And it's like badics, what you did was really cool,
like that type of thing. When I'm just I'm so
like crazy, like dialed into the next thing, you know,
I can't really think about it, kind of like, I mean,
I just played I sold out show in Brooklyn Bowl
(17:47):
at Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville, and it was I mean,
it was like a year ago. I'm playing at a
winery for like four people who are not even like,
you know, no clue who I am. And there's exactly
two of our parents, my grandparents. It's in the other
girl that's sitting in the back is talking about her wedding,
so you know, I mean they're planning their wedding. So
it's it's really you. Just I'm so very grateful that,
(18:08):
you know. I just I just want to I just
want to enjoy it as best as I can. Because like,
right after I got on stage, I was like, Okay,
what's next. So I got to make all these videos
and all that stuff, and they're like, Madix, you're good.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
It's like I was super super cool, and I was like, yeah,
I guess you're right, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
And let me say this about that Brooklyn Bull show
because we were lucky enough to be there. It was
a fun show. You did a great job that so much. Uh,
stop throwing stuff on stage. I saw people talking like
friendship bracelets. One of them dang there hits you in
the front, y'all.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Dude, It's it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I love it, but they're they're I have very passionate fans,
and I I couldn't ask. I have the best fans
in the entire world. And I'm on, Like I remember
I was playing in Tuscaloos ad I sold out show
there and they just start chucking their phones and I'm like, Yo,
your mom's not gonna like that later. Your mom is
gonna be really mad at you if I step on
your phone, you know, and uh, they're like, I'm just
(18:58):
I really do appreciate it, and I'm like, man, I'll
try to make all these videos off on stage as
much as I can.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
But like, please don't throw your phones. I don't want
your mom.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
To get mad at me, you know that type of thing.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
But no, I love it.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I'll pick up I'll pick up the wristbands and put
them all over my wrist anyway. I love it, even
if they hit me, you know. I just I'm so
grateful for my friends fans, And I try to say
this as much as I can. Like I said it earlier,
I really wouldn't be here talking to you if it
wasn't for them. So I really just try to take
in every moment I can with them.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
They're awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Some fans don't know the word boundary. I don't know
that you are. You are a human just like they are. Right,
what has been a fan encounter And you don't have
to say the city or who?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Dad's already laughing, nos.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
So what's a fan encounter that you had to be like, hey,
whoa that it was either scary or like.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Just just like probably it was actually a mom.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
It was a mom I can't remember exactly where it was.
And no Shade, no hate. I mean, it's completely fine.
But she asked me who I was voting for, and
I was just like, so, I am currently fourteen years old.
I cannot vote. I'm not sure you're aware of that.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But she asked me.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I was just like, Maddox batchin, you know, that's who
I'm voting for twenty thirty five.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I'll actually not even be old enough then, how old. Well,
I don't know. I'm voting for myself though me. You know,
I don't know. But she asked me that, and I
was just like.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Huh, I don't know how to answer that.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I don't know who will be running exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I don't even know. I have no clue what's going
on in the world. I'm just worried about, you know,
girls and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
That's I did not think the story would come up
from a mom.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It was crazy. It was nuts. But no Shade, it's
completely fine. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
The song is out now talk about the It has
to be so frustrating because again we catch up with
so many artists. You create this song, it gets mixed, mastered,
all that you know behind the scenes stuff that fans
have no clue what's even going down.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Uh, and then you have to just sit. Yeah, and
not just not just this single, but like anytime, because
there's the record label processes, your management process, there's a
release process. Pick a date. Does that date get in
the way of anything else?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Like, it's no, it's a it's a long process. And
you record a song that you love and you just
want to release it immediately, but then you have to
slow down and think, like, oh, I guess they're right.
You know, you really got to market it and all
that kind of stuff. So it actually does is decent,
you know.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
So there is a reason it's called I Don't Like
You Anymore. You played it at the Brooklyn Bull Show.
I heard you did it on a Maddox Was it Maddix?
What has been the hold up in getting this out?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
M hm?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And getting because you wanted to put the video out
at the same time, right, Originally you had at the
end of it was at the end of this month.
Now you had to push it.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
It's actually the one of the one of the main
reasons was actually the wildfires out in Los Angeles. A
big part of my a big portion of like my
my record label. I'm signing with Warner Records and We'rener
Records LA, and a big portion of all those guys
in my team and my manager and actually live out there.
So I was completely fine with postponing the release just
because I just wanted to make sure they were all safe.
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I have a big, big, big portion of like my
team and all that kind of those guys out there,
so I just wanted to make sure they're safe, all
that kind of stuff. That's my number one priority, make
sure they're all good. Before I didn't want. I thought
it'd be kind of like almost kind of selfish to
try to release that song in the heap of them,
you know, packing, you know, evacuate from their homes. So
I had no problem, you know, postponing the release to
(22:30):
this month and earlier early this month is completely fine
with me.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So, yeah, did you get to finish the video? Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
No, Actually, I actually never went out there the school
that we were originally planning on shooting at, which was
where like some legendary movies like Team Wolf from like
the eighties, I think from the eighties, eight ers or
nineties whatever. But with that, I was filmed. It was
the film that that's going actually burnt down. So yeah,
it's really tragic, and I'm praying for all those guys
out there, praying for all the firefighters and all those guys.
(22:59):
I know they're doing the best. So uh yeah, and
yeah that school got burned down. We actually never ended
up going, but we're going. We were gonna go. I
think I think we're going to. We're leaving in the
mornings to go out there to film, so yeah, there
you go.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I gotta get it all done because it's both coming
out at the same time, right exactly, sir, Have you
had to focus too much on the music video stuff
or you just let like people do it for you.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
No, I mean a little bit, because all right, this
time this is actually kind of funny. So this time
they're making me dance. I just want to say, I'm
not a dancer. I am very uncoordinated. I'm all right,
I'm coordinated because I play like sports and all that
kind of stuff, but like when it comes to dancing, bro,
I'm a new but like I have no clue what
I'm doing. None, none, And I'm with these choreographers and
they're like, okay, you know I'm doing this stuff and
(23:41):
they're like, this is kind of I'm just like, all right, bro,
I have no clue what I'm doing, but I'm pretty
I'm pretty excited to do the dancing thing.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I think it'll be cool.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
We got a pretty good concept going for this music video,
so I think it's gonna be legit.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
When you you you brought up the Morgan Bieber thing,
and it's funny because if somebody says something to me,
because a lot of your your early hype feels like
when Justin Bieber came out because he got on YouTube
grind it that way was discovered. You got on social media,
grinded discovered, the music was there, the following was there.
The only thing that was missing was like the record
label in the airplay, and like, now that's coming right.
(24:16):
How do you, through the creation process make sure like, no, this,
I gotta do this way? Maddox wants to I don't.
That's too much like Bieber, that's too much like Morgan,
that's too much. How do you how do you make
sure to like continue to do it your way?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Yeah, I mean I actually like with the people around me.
I asked my dad a lot about this kind of
stuff is just because like I don't want to straight
up copy these guys.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
There are absolutely legends Ben. I have so much respect
for him, but I really don't.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I want to do it my own way, kind of
like you're saying, and I just want to like I'll
take bits and pieces from both of these guys and
how they came up and all that kind of stuff,
like with more with uh with bieber On, like the
YouTube thing and just you know, grinding out the social
media thing and getting picked up. Yeah, of course I
wanted to follow that path because you know, I was
like one of my only I was the only option
(25:02):
because I was doing TikTok.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
But you know, I didn't want to straight up copy.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
And I have so much respect for him, like I
just said, but you know, they're absolute goats. But I
didn't want to copy, and I want to do my
own thing, kind of like with the music, and I
didn't want to do like straight pop music and I
didn't want to do like straight country music. You know.
I want to meet in the middle and that kind
of thing and just just take both the great parts
of both artists and kind of mix it in the
middle and create you know, maddis I guess and here
(25:28):
I am.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah, exactly. I take bits and pieces from all kinds
of artists.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You know, tell us about this song I don't like
you anymore? And why this feels like yeah, obviously the
labels really behind this one.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Uh, there's a bigger deal with you releasing the song
and the video at the same time. So why is
why is this the right song that kind of feels
like a launching point for you?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Oh dude, this one, this one's absolutely jit. First, I
just want to thank the writers. You know, I had,
I mean I had some absolute go to write. I
had Ashley Gorley.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Uh, dude makes it hits.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Oh dude makes it so Yeah, I think like seventy
five plus number ones or something stupid.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Like like you could buy a village.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
With exactly, bro Like all right, So it was actually Gorley,
Hunter Phelps, and David Garcia, I mean, just three absolute
goats in the Nashville scene. They're I mean absolutely great,
some of the coolest writing experience I've had, But I
mean it was absolutely sick. And this song, I mean,
I think it's I think it's awesome because like, as
a teenager and experiencing young glove. You always have that
(26:24):
point where you're just like, you know, I'm I'm I
want to take it a step forward and that kind
of stuff. And I've actually had that like exact experience. Uh,
I'm not with her anymore, but I dated this girl
for like, I think, like almost like a year and
some change a little bit like that, and you know,
it was to the point where like I really I
really liked her, and it was just like, I don't
like you anymore. I kind of I kind of love you, you know,
(26:44):
and it was It's kind of weird saying that at
such a young age, because people don't really like, they
don't really believe you. Yeah, what do you know about them?
I'm like, hey man, I mean, you've never been in
a relationship. I don't know what you're talking about, but
I'm I'm talking to I'm not I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I'm kidding. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
But you know, it's just talking about in this song,
it's talking about that turning point of lacking the love,
and I feel like everyone goes through that at one point,
you know. So it's it's pretty cool. It's you know,
it's just it's a pretty cool song. So I'm really
excited for this one to come out. It's gonna be
a sick release and I'm just I'm geeked man, it's
gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
So you've had to sit on this finally in fans' hands.
I'm gonna have you intro the song once we get
towards the end of the interview here. But what's next, Like,
do you have another song follow up? Is this going
to be part of an EP? Are you working on
an album?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
No?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I think I think this year, I think we're gonna
work on probably like a little project, like a little
EP towards like April May that toward sign period around
like where stage Coach is gonna be pretty legit. I
don't know exact or anything like that, or exact song
it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I just know it's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
It's gonna be a great time, and I'm just I'm
really excited for the fans to have more to listen
to because it's easier when they know the words at
the concerts because my voice ever goes out, I always have.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
To go, hey, you got it? You know that type
of thing. So I'm really excited for more of those opportunities.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
What do you got coming up this year? Stage Coach
is massive, that's gonna be a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, it's gonna be sick, dude. I'm pretty excited for that.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Outside of that, do you have tour plans? Do you have?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yes, sir, I'm actually going out on tour this year.
It's going to be all through like the month of April,
like starting in March, all through April. We're starting in
you know, this side of the country and going all
the way to California.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
So it's it's it's going to be a pretty cool tour.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I think it's as of yesterday, it's ninety eight percent
sold out, and yeah, I'm pretty excited for it. I mean,
all venues were getting bigger rooms in New York and
it's just I'm really excited. That's what I'm saying. Man, Like,
these fans are just a whole another level, and I
just I give it all back to them.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
It's gonna be so cool. I'm really excited for this tour.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I'm going to ask something and I'm going to ask
it carefully. Yeah, to where neither of us are going
to get in trouble.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
There is a very ten to young lady in country music,
and there is a rumor that, as we know she's
got more new music coming, that she will support you
with a tour this year. Is there a chance that
you're with said artist if she had dates to play
at some point?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I don't know what artists you're actually talking about. Per Chance, Okay,
I don't know. Per chance. Now that we're on the
same page, that's awesome. I'm not neither of us were
gonna get in trouble because we didn't say anything. We
didn't say too much.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
We're all good. We didn't say anything. But there's a
perchance chance that I could be.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
You know, if you had to flip a coin, it
would land on one side.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah, I think I think both coins have the exact
same side. I haven't actually have one of those fake
coins that are both heads. You know, you know what
I'm saying. But no, I mean maybe who knows, so
you have to see I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Well, that's that part of this conversation will hit closer
to that announcement, and I'll just unofficially say congrats, because
that's I'm sure you can feel in your heart. How
massive that is?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Oh, dude, I'm excited for that.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
That's gonna be awesome, dude, because, like I mean, my
sister worked at one of the places that we're gonna
play like last year, and now that I get to
play there, it's gonna be cool.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I think I work at that place.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Yeah, you might work at that place sometimes. I don't
know who knows. But it's pretty good, pretty cool, pretty
cool venue.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Yeah, marathon musical. Yeah, all right, I'm gonna have you
intro the song, so this will be like an isolated
I'll open it and then you just say intro the song,
you'll say, I'm MADEX Batson. Here's song title on the
Big ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
On the Big ninety eight, I bet all right, here
we go cool.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
All right, it's Wayne d and we've been waiting. We've
been chatting with him. He's a Tennessee boy doing good.
Now you're on the radio playing your own song.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yes, sir, what's going what's going on? Everybody?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
My name is MADEX Batson and this is I Don't
Like You Anymore? On the Big ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Boom perfect perfect. That's it, So now out
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