Music & Lifestyle with Cris Cray

Cris Cray is CEO/Recording Artist at Cris Cray Music & CCM

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hello hello my friends we have an awesome space scheduled here but we might have a problem I cannot get a hold of Chris cray and I know for a fact he was very excited about this so I'm a little nervous right now that he's not um to be found right now so I'm just going to give this a couple minutes he was just messaging me oh here he is yes he is here Chris cray in the house let me pull you up my friend

all right we got Chris Craig coming up as the co-host go ahead and accept that my friend no what's popping Panda Mania hey I was just telling people oh I'm a little worried about Chris I can't where is he so oh I'm so glad you're here my friend how are you hold on one moment I want one second sorry no worries

I am uh so happy to see a lot of you yo my bad my bad pandomania um just got done putting shutters up this freaking hurricane made a shift and uh it's looking like we're gonna get like almost 110 mile per hour winds over here on this side so making sure we are yeah oh my gosh yeah I've been seeing some videos and it's it's starting to get Gnarly isn't it literally literally like last minute I walked in uh just about at 1 30 here I walked in the uh my dad's room and I was like yeah I think we should probably put some shredders up and he was like why and so we turned the weather on and they were just saying that Port St Lucie area is gonna get like extremely affected by this I was like oh Jesus oh my gosh I wish this was like uh you know I wish we were in a real you know room as real people and we could all band together and come help out real quick

are you no doubt no doubt we are good that good now though I'm just getting set up in the room here got all the sounds ready and uh ready to set set it off with pandemonium man it's music and lifestyle baby to Panda space with Chris cray hey hey yes I've been so excited for this Chris oh and I you know what it's music and lifestyle I kind of leave these Panda spaces up to kind of go where they go I don't know where this is gonna go you know do we have some music that we want to start off with I have my my usual songs that I put up at the beginning but I it didn't do it justice it didn't set up the mood for a Chris cray special so I don't know do you have any music you want to share with us right off the bat of course ma'am of course I am uh getting plugged in here um I have a dope group of people that I'm trying to get in here as well um I have a group called toyo's door and they're a great group of artists that I wanted to have come in here and check the panda group out uh just to see how big you guys are and how how awesome the community is having the hydro hippos involved having um the egg egg involved the egg group involved having everybody else on the board for this music you know concert because this is really what I love this is this is web three concerts you guys get a whole whole concert right here in a Twitter space make sure you guys strap in you got your water bottles you got your snacks because it's going to be a freaking show you guys let's get it hey I love it yes that's what I'm looking forward to and I I also want to pick your brain and I want to let you know Chris uh you know we're competing with some big spaces going on right now I know not everyone's going to be able to hop in here live I do have a giveaway up there for those that are here with us live but I'm going to throw down another giveaway after this I record these spaces I want to I want to get this out so that people have a good hour of Vibes they can put in while they're working out or on their commute I think this is going to be a really great space for future listening as well so I'm just really excited man I I also want to kind of dive into your story a little bit I know you've got an awesome story so make sure you leave some space in between the music that we can chat a little bit here and there of course bro of course um that was actually I was able to share my story last night uh for toygo and toygo's door and it nearly brought me brought me to Tears like because I haven't actually spoken about you know my deep uh life story behind my music and I don't very rarely speak about it because it is so personal and it was very traumatic and I did go through a lot of uh PTSD with the situation so uh we will get back to that so you guys can know uh the crazy life that I had gone through uh to take me to my spiritual affirmation and uh to the level I am now uh as a human and an individual with my chakras being a line and the people around me being filled with love and feeling the love that we give back so that's really important to me I want everyone around me to feel the love to feel the positive energy to feel uplifted by these Vibes because the music that I make is spiritual hip-hop and it's something special it's a form of therapy and a form of healing so thank you guys so much for being here with us today in this space make sure you guys retweet the Space Tag three people baby it's music and lifestyle in the panda space with Chris Craig music hey hey and I just have to tell you uh people that are are special will get other people talking about them and uh I I see Mr G in the audience he was who uh told me about you Chris Gray and man it's just so cool you know love uh is shown and it comes back your way and you can tell that you're you're one of those people that puts love out into the world and it's going to come back to you and I'm just I'm really excited about your project I'm really excited about your music I am I have been begging Chris cray for a panda song I know I know a lot of uh projects out there uh once they once they hear Chris cray in a story um that's what I really love about you Chris is is your passion and your meaning behind your music and uh I I every time you talk about it it just just it uplifts me and it it you know not that it's just music I I think we all can connect with music it but whatever it might be that Chris Craig gets into I think you'd put the same love and passion into it it just so happens that you're you're musically gifted which uh is a blend for the rest of us as well so I'm so glad that you're sharing it with the world that you're taking your story and you're turning it into something beautiful and uh it's just an honor to have you here with us spending an hour with us man so I I just sure hope you uh understand how appreciative I am that you do this with us most definitely it's my pleasure I'm excited and I've been waiting to uh to jump in the pan to space and rock the stage with you guys so we'll start it off with the first one here and the first song uh that is coming out very soon you guys we're releasing the music video I'm looking to have the official release date on Halloween night so Halloween night this actually ties right back to my story so on Halloween night I was actually released from my incarceration and uh during that time I was there I really really didn't think I was actually ever gonna see the light of day again so um that being said we'll jump right into third eye and then touch a little more on the story for you guys

always make it die but I'm here by your side by your side hey

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that's for my Enterprise I walk across the line and don't get penalized smoking women

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but I'm here by your side by your by your side opening up your third eye I'm angel in disguise but I'm here by your side by your side

demon in the sky look into my eyes focus on the prize taking summer rise pull up in a ride pull up in a ride

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I'm about to break the limits though whoa

I was meant to die but I'm here by your side by your side

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what's the story behind that I I have my own interpretation of that song with different stuff I've been through uh what's the story behind that song so I was uh man I was 18 and I was messing around in the streets I was messing around with uh a lot of things I shouldn't have been uh involved in the streets uh very heavily around gang affiliation very heavily around uh the Trap and a lot of the uh the drug life of that uh the Styles you know the way that they do that in hip-hop the the drug dealing and uh pretty much live that trap life and uh I I lived it for um you know about a year maybe a year and a half at the most um just because I had put myself in a in a pretty bad situation uh trying to live with the best friend and try to pick him up and try to pull him out of a dark situation while Act accidentally putting myself in that same darkness and uh it really it really closed me off fast to the world and I got to understand how quickly Freedom can be taken away uh in the blink of an eye if you don't take care of yourself and you don't protect your own energy so with all that being said you know I really do just like to make sure uh my songs kind of give off that same energy to where you can understand that I am I am repenting and this is this is my Penance like when I do these songs this is this is my way of getting through that turmoil and that PTSD and that and that darkness that held me down for so long and uh it was really just about being money hungry uh letting vanity rule my life and not really focusing on the love and the people that surrounded me and really giving back to them instead of constantly taking and so now I'm trying to give back as much as I possibly can through my music through my energy through my performance and through everyday life uh to make you know those around me happy and those feel the love that I am possessing and that I give off but uh through that through that uh incarceration I was uh really you know troubled as far as uh torn between good and evil and what good and evil was and where where I wanted to place myself in this war and where I wanted to place myself in life and do I want to be on the side of good or do I want to be on the side of evil and uh in all truth in reality it's it's really it's a bit of both it's yin and yang and everyone has a bit of both everyone has to go through the darkness in order to see the light and I don't say that without a heavy heart because anybody that has gone through any of the turmoil the stress the PTSD and um everything that I had to go through to achieve where I'm at now you'll understand that it really wasn't it wasn't worth it I didn't need to take that route to get where I am today I could have taken a positive route I could have taken a better route to achieve the very same goals and maybe even at a faster Pace but I see that now in hindsight and I want to allow that path for those who can see it with me and Achieve those goals and not have to go through the darkness that I did so I'm guessing that because you want uh you know you have these goals to to spread love and a message I'm guessing that at some point music touched you and helped change you and helped give you a message do you have any specifics I'm I'm curious uh any artists specifically or songs specifically that have touched you at certain points in your life uh helped you grow in any ways I was like when I was in my dark situation when I was incarcerated I was probably like a buck 20 bro I had like no muscle on me I was small I was not supposed to be in uh in the drug dorm A1 with all the kingpins and Killers um it was a pretty rough situation where I didn't see myself making it out alive and uh so when I got there they pretty much asked me like what what talents do I have and what can I have to offer the dorm and uh order to basically survive and uh so I told them I rap and meanwhile I was the only white dude in the entire dorm bro like I was the only [ __ ] white kid and I was scared to death I was pretty traumatized already from being handled by [ __ ] DEA and the SWAT team and they took me in and it was a very very serious serious uh way to be arrested it wasn't just I got arrested by cops like no I got swatted by the [ __ ] DEA and they really rushed me with AKs and M16s and threw my ass on the ground pointing red dots in my face telling me that they were gonna [ __ ] kill me if I ran so it was serious to God the the hardest way to go down and to be taken in and then also be confronted right then and there by kingpins and and Killers to basically fight for my life and so fighting for my life was music and I had music on my side and music was the one thing that I always kind of went to so they asked me to wrap in front of everyone before I even got to my bunk and even the cops like that were bringing me in and escorting me were still there so like I I dropped my [ __ ] and I just started rapping like performing like I was [ __ ] on a show and uh yeah they just kind of let me do it they didn't bother me or like grab me or nothing they let me finish my performance and then they walked me to my bunk and I pretty much got the respect of all 100 and like 20 people in that [ __ ] huge ass dorm so uh it was pretty scary but that uh music saved my life and Hip-Hop saved my life literally literally saved your life that's amazing that I ca I've I've had nightmares of that situation of going to prison I I am a skinny guy I grew up a little guy and I man I I cannot imagine the the fear and how much uh courage you had to have to to come up with uh just that idea to begin they'd be messy enough to uh use that as your talent because I'm sure they I'm sure they helped you to a standard if you come in here offering rap uh I'm sure they they were like okay yeah let's see what you got I what level of terrifying was that yeah they were gonna chew me up and [ __ ] spit me out that night if I didn't spit the hottest bars on planet Earth so I uh I went deep into the bag and freestyled like to the point where I was nearly in tears but it didn't break me it didn't put me to that point until after the fact where I had gone to my bunk and then kind to cut my bread and was just like damn I really just did that [ __ ] man that's like that's like a movie scene and what uh what what led to that music ability did you did you always have it when you were a kid were you making music uh were you always messing around with instruments or has it always been vocals um it's kind of crazy you asked that no I haven't gotten asked that question yet um thank you um so that for me it's a little bit of everything um I used to like when I was like five as young as I can really remember because like I guess I smoke a lot um but uh as young as I can remember I was dancing in front of my grammy Johnson and trying to like re-sing Elvis songs and like I would like grab the guitar and come sliding in like I was like little Elvis or something and like really I was performing at the youngest age that I could possibly remember and it wasn't just that I enjoyed it it made me happy it really made those around me happy and I saw that so like as a young age I saw how powerful music was but I didn't really understand and so like As I Grew Up Older you know I I messed around with vocals and I started getting into uh different types of music like uh some some rock and like old classics like journey and Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix and really expanding my own Horizons to music and what it had to offer and that allowed me to come back towards hip-hop and and really when I was going through a lot like at my earliest teen teen years uh my parents you know were kind of going through a split a little earlier than that so it kind of put me into a depression at a young age to where I was listening to like Eminem and Lil Wayne and like all the all the goats man like their goats now but they were just getting started then and at that age yeah I would remember all those songs and like when I was like really set or something I would just recite like I'm the Fire Man Fire man I got that fire um come in I got that fight like I knew the whole Fireman song bro and uh it was It was kind of something that I realized like if I could remember a whole song like I I should start writing my own music and so when I got into high school um I was bullied a lot I was picked on I was kind of overweight and um I pretty much found myself like at the lowest point bro so like I started writing poetry and poetry kind of saved me and brought me to rap because I realized the poems that I were writing were very angry and aggressive so like I used those poems and I use that aggression to help perfect my craft and I used it to Freestyle and so I started remembering my writtens and piecing them together at like lunch and battle rapping kids so like I would have a couple different poems I would write that I knew were good for battles and I would go into lunch and I would kind of just like Slaughter kids and they're super super jaw-drop like what the hell just this happened this kid just destroyed me like he's been rapping for his whole life and uh I haven't but I definitely put the work in to make it seem like I did and so I've been uh I've been doing that pretty much my whole life music has progressed with me over the years and it has taken me to this point where I like to incorporate many styles into my hip-hop I love that you you mentioned Jimi Hendrix Journey uh classic rock I I love that when there's uh mixing of styles you see that with different artists uh when I was in high school you know uh Tech Nine with the the rap and and rock uh I I love when you mix Styles and you can you can hear that and just the the few songs I've heard of yours there's a mixing of of genres and styles I love that so you touched on uh mental health so I I feel like it's it's a safe uh space we could we could talk about that um do you do you feel like I guess here's where I'm going with this some some people that you would never guess struggle with mental health because they're so loving and happy and and spreading Joy you'd think that everything's okay um I I find with people like you that I you just never know that you know oh you struggle with mental health I would never guess not do you do you find that um music obviously it has you already said that but creating it and listening to it just tell me about your journey with with mental health and and how important music is uh to that afternoon definitely um yeah I feel like the therapy uh the therapeutic side of music is really what helped me not only progress as a person and grow through a lot of the drama uh trauma PTSD tribulations and trials that I've overcome it's also helped me to realize a lot of the good things that I have around me in my life it's allowed me to gain a different perspective on who I can be as a person and where I'm going um I I'm able to get a bird's eye view through music and then the creation of my music so while I'm making a song I'm Not Just providing what I see hear and feel in my life I'm also providing what I desire what I see in the future and how I plan to get there so I I like to make sure that there's a full understanding of where I'm going why I made this song and why these people are listening to it because I don't want people to listen to my song and ever question why am I listening to this song because they'll feel it emotionally they'll feel it in their spirit and in their soul why they hear this song why they're listening to it from Chris cray and what message it holds to help through them help them through their life um so it really is a therapeutic process and each song that I make helps me through my mental health I deal with anxiety I deal with depression and I deal with PTSD through a lot of the past of losing friends and losing those close to me so that really helped me with music to process that and really get past it and and grow and so because you never really get past losing somebody you really don't and it's always there it's always there in your mind it's always there in your heart that that love will never die and that is really what I try to instill within my music is that once we leave this earth that love is still there that love is always there that love is Everlasting and that's why we make spiritual hip-hop that's why I do spiritual hip-hop for everyone that listens to me because I want you guys to feel the love to feel the happiness and to help process all the pain all the trauma and all the turmoil that anyone has been through well I have to tell you Chris when you uh were talking about Elvis I'm not gonna lie I got a little emotional over here uh my Dad loved Elvis and my dad passed away it's it's almost five years now and for about the the last five years of his life he was uh dealing with Parkinson's and it was uh a real nasty terrible just awful disease that uh we had to watch him go through this and it got to a point where he he wasn't really with us uh you know there there were days where he would come to and and he'd be there and we'd have a conversation but most of the conversations I had with him because I cared for him every day with my mom and it was mostly you know War Stories and he didn't even serve in the War uh he he did go to boot camp but you know he would he would uh wake up from a nap and oh Lane they're coming after my money you know he was he was living in in some really distress I mean he was in under distress and uh just living a a crazy Fantasy Land in his head most of the time but when we would turn on certain music man was he back and I have this video of uh putting on some Elvis and he he was having a hard time even walking and standing and we were doing exercises with him but that day he he stood and you danced my mom and and he was singing the words word for word to Elvis it was just amazing what what music could do to switch on something in his brain and he was able to I mean he could barely talk and he was sitting there uh just loud singing Elvis and it was really magical it was that's the best way I can uh put it is that it was magical and I I think music can do that uh it can unlock things it can it can uh you know bring bring a mind back even for a moment at least and so I I just wanted to make a couple comments there man just music does get me emotional especially when I start thinking about other emotional moments that music has had

sorry my dogs I wanted to ask you then could this be a good segue to play another Chris cray song of course of course let's go the next one I got lined up for everybody is called close my eyes this is a very very near and dear one to my heart I do hope everyone here enjoys

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make sure that I'll make you greater she take over my mind

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siren like a waiter like I'm Damon Wayans I keep the pain major again

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I love that what was what was that song titled that song is closed my eyes and that's actually an unreleased one that I'm sharing with you guys especially here um so that's exclusive for this special space so anybody that listens to music and lifestyle pan to space with Chris Craig music we'll get to hear the close my eyes unreleased track hey hey oh bro that's [ __ ] fire so tell me this this is a good segue then let's just dive into it what you're doing with your with your project and what what are your goals

all right um so my goals with this project is to really Branch out of the regular d-gen art play style and uh get heavily into this music that is the web 3 Journey that we're pioneering and uh the hip-hop culture and all the IRL traits that can be found at a hip-hop event or at a uh like a rolling loud or a Sun Fest and and basically we'd like to bring that culture into the web 3 space with our music and so while creating spiritual hip-hop while making these beautiful songs that have so much meaning and layers to them I like to highlight the traits and throughout the road map of each community so when I'm making this song I like to make sure I know exactly what the community is looking to highlight I like to also help highlight some of the key people in this community whether it be artists co-founders Founders um whichever but I like to make sure that those those few individuals are highlighted uh that they are shouted out that they are brought up during the song um that we are able to highlight key parts of this project like saving the pandas for instance uh that would be a huge part of the song uh would be to save the giant pandas and it is an exclusive uh you know thing that you guys are doing saving giant pandas and I don't really know of too many other nfts that are even doing anything close to what you guys are doing um aside from maybe saving the Tigers and trying to preserve the ocean so uh these are all things that I'm trying to also do like I can't do everything I'm just one man so if I can accumulate amazing projects and communities such as yourself and uh you know digital dolphins and ATS and crypto hippos and really put on uh you know a special concert for everyone and help manifest that true true fruition because I see us all on one platform together in an ecosystem as we should be and as animals should be we should all be able to be in one ecosystem and coexist without stealing without backstabbing or without trying to bring down one another and that is why spiritual hip-hop is so special because it's all positive you're not going to hear any type of negativity you're not going to hear us bringing down any other communities and every single song you get there's going to be a pure genuine factor of love and that is truly why my songs are special and why we are able to offer value to each community that we make a song for because these aren't just a song that you're going to hear on the radio this is a song that you're going to want to go out of your way to find to download and listen to because you want to know what's going on with the pandas what's going on with the crypto hip dose what's going on with the digital dolphins and if you can't technically afford one of the uh you know nfts to onboard yourself into the community um then maybe you can afford a single to support and listen to the song as well because because the song is only thirty dollars USD I figure that is a fair price for everyone to enjoy the cover art to enjoy the song to enjoy an exclusive Crystal healing merch pack and to also get exclusive cover art merch uh with their nft that they hold so if you're a digital Dolphins holder you'll get exclusive digital Dolphins merch if you're a ATS Anthem holder you'll get some of the ATS Anthem merch plus if you're a crypto hippos holder you'll get some of that merch as well so that is why this project is so special because we're building a foundation not just for ourselves and for the community that gets on board with us we're allowing to give that value back to each community that we work with and if you guys mint out you're single you guys get a music video on major platforms on Major Distribution sites you guys get DSP rights to sh with me as well to share and help get that you know Community more funding and so that's a whole nother Avenue of Revenue and that is literally what I'm providing as a music nft to every community that we work with to every Community we make a song for we are adding that value tenfold so please guys tap in with Chris Craig music if you guys need a song we make songs for communities we'd love to make you guys a song and um obviously like I said there is gonna be uh equal uh you know both parties will agree mutually and that is the most important part is that both parties are happy with the outcome of this situation so that's what CC1 is you guys we're a wave of the future taken over with music helping through spiritual love and positivity and we will not stop until every member of web 3 knows about the CC1 project and is a holder let's go I love it bro I'm excited to to be involved obviously as a project owner I think uh you have a really really cool pitch because you man you you appeal to everybody the creators the project Builders the the community members um what what goes on in your head when you're writing a song I'd like to I'd like to know yours your whole process like how do you do it I you know when I think about the the songwriting process and I've tried a couple times with my guitar going through those sixth grade phases trying to impress the girls I couldn't I couldn't do it and I feel like I'm even musically gifted to be honest and I I cannot write a song can you help me with the songwriting process how do you do it

I'll tell you I say it on a couple tracks my mind is amazing it will have you amazed um it's a long lengthy process that is very very deep uh very spiritual as well

I just had to get some water sorry uh very spiritual as well and that's pretty much the how do I put it the uh the difference in making music with me than making music with another artist is that I don't just go to a studio and make a song I prepare I meet with the community I I'm in spaces with you guys I like to feel the Vibes and and even in the Discord jumping the discords and show some love show some support uh make sure that I see the community support as well uh before you know just making a song obviously and then also making sure to build that bond in that relationship so that when this song comes out like I said you guys are surprised with the shout outs like oh my God he said my name like oh my God he said this like yeah of course because now I'm so close with the community I understand what your goals are as well and your goals can be the same as mine we can make those goals together one and we will make that goal a possibility and come to fruition very soon because music is powerful and just like I was saying the power of music is is Everlasting and once you guys have an nft Anthem that is something that will never die The pandomania Anthem will live on far longer than you and me my friend and that's the exact reason I make music for the Legacy for the longevity and for when I'm not here I have something to leave this planet that I know I did something positive and I hope that it helped people

man I I really need to take notes and give it a try again because I I feel like I do have a message inside me sometimes that I'd love to get out uh but I I just don't think I'm fit for her bro I would I would not mind like being on a call with you and uh we can go through some beats and like kind of work together on creating this pandomania song so that way it like I said is tender to everything you want and like you know how you're saying it's kind of hard for you to create this song maybe I can help you in creating the song you want to create and I'll create it for you and then that way you'll have something that you can present and and and show others you get what I'm saying and you can be like I had something to do with that you know no joke that's that's honestly something I've even like toyed around with in my in my mind is like do you hire a coach are there people you can go to that and I know there are but it's just like uh that's a dead dying dream I don't want to pursue that so I'm glad you're actually like not laughing it off and taking it serious because I I should bro I've even dabbled and tried with poetry just to get my thoughts out artistically I just I'm [ __ ] terrible at it bro so I need I need a coach maybe so maybe that's another uh another area of music you can pursue as is coaching I've uh I've I've helped my beat maker I've helped my engineer I've helped a few people write songs I don't really take credit for it but like yeah I'm not bad when it comes to helping people right oh that's so cool so tell me this what uh what kind of collaborations are are possible for you do you think in this genre I I'm thinking of a couple artists specifically in my mind that uh that do fit into this genre and have hit it big spiritual hip-hop what uh do you do you look for those do you look for collaborations in the in the music scene

um I really don't want to sound uh like I have an ego but no no I don't I don't look for collabs um there's a reason behind that and uh it's more along the lines of the industry contracts paperwork um I'm a professional artist and I'm on multi-platforms I have over a million streams and uh I have proof of that so it's kind of I've been doing this for over a decade um so when I say that I don't want to collab with people it's not that I don't I'm not currently opposed to it I'm just not looking so if someone like Jay Lee for instance with her amazing amazing presence her voice and her style were to want to do something special with Chris cray I'm not really sure I could be opposed to that so there's very few exceptions in this space that I would love to be making collabs with and it's very very ironic that we have Jay Lee here with us I love that she popped in the spirits are on point today so thank you Spirits thank you Jay Lee for showing up pandas man thank you for that question because I was a great way to set way into that one let's get it

and uh I'm I'm thinking here with the last 10 minutes Chris we we've got to have another song in here from you don't you think most definitely this is my favorite one actually that I I like to play for everybody um it's called high grade so like this is kind of the smoking song so you know I I if you guys are smoking if you guys got something rolled up in the room I know we got a big room so if anybody in here smokers make sure you guys get that light up right now because this is the song to do it too baby hey hey hi grand baby

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we've been only smoking the high grade imma make sure they feel my pain make sure they feel my pain

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can't even sleep I can't feel anything is this what it's like to be dead I've been keeping up with my breath I've been keeping up with my friends I hope you find the message to say hey

all of this hate it just gave me a migraine 's running through my brain smoking the high grade imma make sure they feel my pain make sure they feel my pain

keeps keep running through my brain we've been only smoking left high grade I'ma make sure they feel my pain y'all ready trapped in the darkness attacking my artists anxiety bad depression the hardness they driving me mad I had that was boredom planting my seeds now I'll walk through the garden

been working the hardest living like martians my homies they Spartans don't run up they spark it and you see how we March in take over the market take over the market one bedroom apartments shopping at Target no brand on my garments who took it the farthest let nobody harm us life is a struggle and nobody warned us

pain keeps running through my brain we've been only smoking the high grade imma make sure they feel my pain make sure they feel my pain

make sure they feel my pain hey

I really like the line uh where you said no one warned us uh that it'd be this tough I I have those thoughts all the time you know I've I've had my my fair share of mental health struggles and I I have that thought reoccurring just like I didn't ask for this you know what I mean at my lowest of lows um can you can you give us a backstory I I obviously take my thoughts and run with them when I'm listening but uh what what's the specific backstory to that

I would love to tell you the back story real quick daily did you uh I saw you

Chris Gray that was so good I love it I love it yeah I would love to hear the backstory that was that was so good Beyond this look in the high grade oh yeah yeah oh yeah oh it's [ __ ] get it yo so that song that song came out of uh a pretty amazing experience actually um I was pretty much I was in New York and I was at the HOT 97 rep your hood concert and I got to meet DJ drewski I got to meet a lot of uh pretty big names in the radio industry for HOT97 and um at this show uh we really like they they basically rolled up some weed for me and they were like yeah man like this is a gift and you did an amazing job we want to put you on like some high grade and I was like what do you mean and they were like this is rapper weed I was like what do you mean what's rapper weed and they're like nah bro you're this is not what you're smoking in Florida try this and so like I can't even lie bro like I sparked up right there in the club and I was like I took like two or three hits and I had to put it out because like I was blitzed bro I was gone like I just got hit by a linebacker and I'm so glad I did my performance and then smoked because my ass would have been falling off the stage like oh boy it was it was nice though and so like on the ride home because we drove we didn't fly so like on the ride home from New York back to Florida I was in the car just writing and so like I basically put all of my past problems through that whole year because I it was a hard [ __ ] Year bro like it was 2019 right before covet really kind of kicked in and like we got all our shows canceled because of covid we got all our [ __ ] unplugged like I was streaming on radios that they just decided to take me off because we weren't performing no more so it was a really hard hit and I kind of was gonna quit music so like I used all that emotion into this song and like they really brought me up when they when they brought me me that that Jay I was I was lifted man that was something special those lyrics were so sick like you know one room apartment and going to Target and don't bring any Brands like you know eating like [ __ ] like I totally felt all of that that was so good that's so good I'm glad I came in this room me too Jaylee thank you so much and it really helped when I was uh answering that question too because like I feel bad when people ask me uh the whole collab question but like I really do like to work with other people it's just I'm a very shy person and I'm very closed off as well so as open as I am with all of you guys as an artist when I create that's a different side of me as well well collaborating is really difficult too sometimes like I've had a hard time like saying files to people and just like getting things to be like on time you know like on the same timing and like it we passed on my cure it's basically time we do like you know we drop bars together but it's not there's a delay and it's difficult you know so it from when you're creative like sometimes you're just really high and it's great you're like well if you're not here I'm gonna create but I want a collab with just I can't it's just it's it's difficult you know so there's nothing wrong with you know acknowledging that it's difficult you might want to I would prefer like for instance like I had sent you uh I had told you before I don't even know if you saw the DM but uh if you ever come to Florida if you're ever in the area like we got you we're cop in the studio and we're setting it up like right then and there like I'll check my deal I'll check it okay I'll tell you guys I learned how to go straight to someone's profile and check DMS now because like my DMs are so dumb so I'll write you back and uh this coming up like with uh all the uh shows coming up we're making sure to have a couple different Studio openings uh so if you're able to make it to the women's web 3 which I know uh you're a mother and I know you have obligations so I don't expect you to but if for some magical reason you make it please let us know we will make sure you have studio time and you're able to rock out with Chris crane we can create something special oh my god oh okay I'll let you know I just dm'd you so um yeah we'll we'll connect most definitely yo um I do have another song here if uh if you're down pandemonia uh this is true yeah we've got no we've got no time crunch for an hour my friend but let's have another song bro we're extending this space

yo this one's

this one's fun and love into this one I made this one uh well y'all hear it just just listen to the song

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I don't really care

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don't know how to keep on stressing me got sauce got drip when I'm dressing see my angels Keep On Blessing Me

I'll take us through this century

we came to save Humanity get rid of all the vanity we came to save Humanity let me show you what we're meant to be we came to save Humanity

it is

loving my dreads the way they keep pulling my hair wrapping the legs you want me to take her there hey don't play in the game it is not fair enough they went dead yeah

he want me to take her there

waiting I'm playing the game

jump

go hey

I got in the flesh replenish my image revive me from Death this is the presence of essence of greatness that we can reflect don't tell you you rate me and then we connect don't tell you you love me cause I want respect don't act like you talking cause you ain't been wet she left in the pool last 16 turned 21 and then I left gone yeah it was either the end of day yeah

to the top Ain't No Illusion yeah it is

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that's like my super that's my super Jumpy Song so like at the end of like my performances that's my third song If I do a set of three and um after I do that song I normally get the crowd so stupid hyped that they make me come out and do a fourth song so it's like I guess that works right that's the plan that's what you want them to do but it's like half the time I have to do one of my third three songs because I don't come with the fourth one so it's like damn it next time I'm coming with four songs because I know if I perform this one they gonna want another one

yo I could be screaming Encore all afternoon here Chris I I'm going to let you go ahead and wrap up this space when you want to if you want one more I'm down but uh essentially I I want to give you open mic to uh give us you know remind us again of any important dates or any sites your Discord Twitter any any of those details but uh Hey again like I said I can be screaming Encore all afternoon oh man yo thank you no that's that's that's the right thing a DJ needs to keep the artist in check bro like that's what he said make sure you let the people know where you at where are you from shout out to face you know I'm saying let's go let me get some pin tweets at the top for you guys um the next one I'm gonna run while I get these pin tweets going uh let's do let's do stress that's like my favorite one to do for everybody everybody loves this one

I got

it

make sure my recipe

but I refuse to rest in peace better hear me now better hear me out demons in my head

my request cut the check take some time and then reflect

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they say it's the killer it might be

but I got some left I got some left we had through the good damn bad even when you cry never leave my side cause you're all I have won't let you out my arms they say Love Is Magic and you can't be charm feel like we're Invincible we can't be harmed riding through the Flames finally made it through the storm I'll give you my name long as you give me your heart take away the pain like a tranquilizing dog feels tranquil and it's hard you're the life to my dark um scar your scars that's the best damn fart that's the best damn part hey

it might be my dad when you know what's next

but we ain't gonna let stress kill us

better get right before you get left I loved it it's not gonna stop it oh my gosh yeah that is one of my personal one of my personal favorite bars too it's so like it just makes sense like you better get right before you get left like stop yeah I just love it I love it I called that

you know thank you guys so much for allowing me to share my music and perform for you guys in this space today it has been my pleasure and I enjoy everybody's energy love support we got amazing people in the room man shout out to the metal office where's little boss rolling up shout out to Queen for pulling up shout out to Roscoe for pulling up Mr g j the B club man we got a bunch of people in here game over even pulled up Hydro hippo love you I love everybody in the room thank you guys so much for being here if I missed your name there's a lot of people in the room I might have just scrolled past you so mad love to everybody supporting and uh s been the multiple I did miss you uh my bad

yo Chris hey what an honor bro and what a good time I just have to thank you a million times over give you a bunch of big virtual hugs bro this this could go on for just hours I feel and I mean I think I don't even think we scratched the surface you know I I just have to tell you I just have to die you gotta do this again would you be down to try it again yeah yeah of course I was gonna say I made sure to pin the tweets up there for you as well uh the next event uh coming up for us is going to be the women's web 3 Miami Summit shout out to all the beautiful women in the room thank you for being here I appreciate you you guys are beautiful souls and we could not be here without you guys it's called Mother Earth for a reason man let's give love to the ladies so thank you guys and um ATS nft that's going to be the next one over uh that is the link you guys can click the link to my website chriskramusic.com that'll bring you to the project you can mint anyone one of those singles for thirty dollars USD that'll get you the exclusive merch drop that'll also get you the crystal healing package that we send out plus you get to wear that cover our Azure pfp and um haven't seen too many people rocking it so guess what Crystal healing package what yeah yeah I love that I love that that's what got me through like a hard time like forgotten to web3 I was wearing crystals around my neck like every day like a freaking weirdo but you guys it actually like really helped a lot that's really cool okay I didn't know that okay I'm excited now all right I'm setting up let's go y'all heard it it's the crystal healing package that has to go out with the merch because we want to make sure you guys are able to align your chakras and purify the energy around you we also send a payLo Santo stick inside the bag with the crystals uh that will also have little uh note cards that tell you about each Crystal and how it can help you uh with your energies and your chakras damn I love that that's all just stuff I practice on a daily um because like I have my crystals next to me on the table here um so I also have been integrating that more into my Twitter spaces so we listen to vibrations and frequencies throughout the space to help realign chakras to help purify the energy around everyone in the space and that's something new that I added so I also have that as my last uh post up there uh that's my Twitter spaces every Tuesday Thursday and Sunday at 3 pm Eastern Standard Time to 5 PM a lot of the times we've ended up rolling over because we end up going hard you guys so don't miss those concerts they end up really rocking out guys don't miss those I know I'm gonna show up and uh Chris cray we we got more hours in the future on these spaces if you're down I just I would love to have you as a repeat uh guest in the future and uh catch up with you and just always always stay pumping the Chris cray so yeah I'm looking forward to it my man I'm thinking next time we uh we give him a sneak peek of the panda song for that next one do it that oh that's perfect bro that's exactly what I'm thinking let's let's hold a big space to uh reveal it

I'm super down bro I'm all in let's get it well hey much love to the community for joining us today I'm really really appreciative of Chris cray and all the other speakers that are up here with us and I do want to announce a winner pillow Max one of the Panda nft from up above so I'll shoot you a DM and get that all squared away with you and you guys I just can't uh tell you enough how much I appreciate that you'd spend an hour with us and uh just tell me if Chris cray thank you Chris

yo I'm thankful to be here with you guys man the energy was awesome everybody in the crowd thank you guys for tuning in for listening if you have followed me I'll try to make sure to follow back um I'm looking for a application that helps to unfollow those who don't follow so if anybody's got an application to help unfollow uh that won't get your account banned uh go ahead and shoot it over and I'll try to uh unfollow some people so I can get all the rest of these follows in because I try to make sure to follow everybody that supports like mad love to everybody that showed up thank you for rocking out y'all know what it is music and lifestyle with the panda space Chris cray music hey hey hey hey hey let's try that at least once thanks Jay Lee thank you guys have a wonderful day bye guys thank you pandomania have a great night bro hey link me on the phone so we can get on the phone today and uh get on the back end uh for your song let's do it all right love all right likewise take care everybody

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