By now, you’ve gotten in all probability listened to the primary episode of Artist Pleasant, Joel Madden of Good Charlotte fame’s new podcast introduced by Various Press, that simply dropped at the moment and options rising different rockstar DE’WAYNE. If you happen to haven’t, drop all the things you’re doing and dive into the deep, introspective dialog that transpired between DE’WAYNE and Madden.
All through the practically hour-and-a-half-long dialogue, DE’WAYNE speaks candidly about his upbringing, passions, and private development that in the end formed who the 27-year-old artist is at the moment. Whereas the interview was recorded shortly earlier than the discharge of his stellar 2022 sophomore album My Favourite Blue Denims, DE’WAYNE used the chance to not solely have fun the discharge and the whirlwind previous few years he is had touring throughout the globe — however to additionally take a second to replicate on the near-decade he spent working tirelessly to get right here within the first place. Whether or not you’re a diehard supporter, an informal fan, or only a music/podcast connoisseur, it is a must-listen dialog.
These are the 5 takeaways from episode 1 of Artist Pleasant, that includes DE’WAYNE.
DE’WAYNE is an enormous fan of Ink Grasp
Whereas it could look like he’s attempting to attain brownie factors with Joel Madden, make no mistake, DE’WAYNE is a “huge” fan of the Paramount+ tattoo competitors sequence, Ink Grasp, which Madden additionally hosts. DE’WAYNES’ “private favourite” tattoo artist is season 14 runner-up Gian Karle, largely for his showboating and “badass” demeanor, but in addition has love for artists Angel Rose and resident troublemaker Creepy Jason. (Though, he was remiss to not point out how “heated” he was with the current shake-up that allowed earlier champs to re-enter the competitors.)
“Life is sweet” after seven years of grinding it out
When DE’WAYNE made the leap from his humble hometown of Houston, Texas to maneuver to Los Angeles to pursue music, his success didn’t occur in a single day. Actually, on the podcast DE’WAYNE displays on an almost seven-year interval of growth and exhausting work that it took to find who he was as an artist. At one level, DE’WAYNE remembers recollections of being broke, careworn, and scraping collectively simply sufficient cash to order McDonald’s alongside his pal and frequent collaborator Mitchel Cave (Chase Atlantic). These days, he says he finds himself with quite a bit to “smile about,” noting how thrilled he’s that My Favourite Blue Denims, which was years within the making, is lastly out on the planet.
Household is DE’WAYNE’s largest inspiration
DE’WAYNE describes his upbringing as a “duality” between two very completely different parental figures. On one hand, he had his mom, a strict however loving father or mother with a powerful non secular religion, and on the opposite, his father, who was as soon as a free spirit however has grown tremendously in each his skilled and private life. Whereas DE’WAYNE might have had a posh relationship together with his father at instances throughout his youth, he proudly shares that his father instilled in him a confidence and hope that he might be one thing nice, so long as he pursued his desires. The singer even mentions that he and his father lately reconnected throughout a enterprise journey to his hometown of Houston, which allowed them to make up for misplaced time. DE’WAYNE additionally admits that his mom was at first hesitant about her son’s profession alternative of being a rockstar, however has since grown to be his largest fan and is at peace figuring out that her son is “OK and surrounded by nice folks.”
DE’WAYNE is an avid reader
DE’WAYNE is many issues — a rockstar, an actor, and a renaissance man, basically — however do you know that he’s additionally a bookworm? He tells Madden that he is at present absorbing Shakespeare’s Othello and tries to get in as many pages as he can every single day — going so far as studying it out loud so as to totally grasp the phrases. It’s no shock that the rockstar is in tune with the literary world, as his music and lyrics have at all times possessed a palpable sense of poeticism.
DE’WAYNE is betting on a extra various future for rock ‘n’ roll
Within the subsequent 10-20 years, DE’WAYNE hopes that there shall be extra Black children entering into rock music, and is assured that they are going to uncover and create the music with out concern, judgment, or exclusion. DE’WAYNE is worked up concerning the present examples of distinguished Black artists within the rock house at the moment, and declares that “whoever is listening” must take observe so as to form the longer term.
