Yo, this is DJ sensex for very very special edition of who he talks Vine. I'm backstage at Brixton Academy. I'm about to start the show.It's a very very special shows a tribute to Cadet. I'm sure you've heard about what happened tragic passing of a very very great talent very very great artist and tonight the holsteins unified. So for this edition of who we be talks, I'm going to reflect on what's going on. This is going to be a very very special episode and it's going to be emotional can be painful but it's gonna be a celebration and it's going to be a episode filled with peace love everything because we're celebrating Cadets life today. DJ some sex who would be talks and my first heard about Cadets music on YouTube. And then from there I was just listening to it and when these did features with people just like this In on Soundcloud as well when I'm driving in the fall. Anyway, he's a guy who has a lot of positive energy. I think he was able to tell stories very well for his music like very well, I think him and rapmon very good at telling stories through their music. I first came across Cadets music with his freestyles online and also the stereotype to and just his freestyles to begin with and then when he sort of started Making some bangers with a dino. That's when I sort of knew he was good. All right. So backstage could that show DJ sensex right now with my Minecraft. How you doing, man? How you doing? My brother? Hi you good. I'm good, man. I'm I'm honored to be a part of today's special day right now, of course and you know, I was as well as black because obviously as you can imagine a few people get my not but I saw the love you is showing Cadet like differently row like it was like love like No, I can spot when man should last saw it. You know, I'm saying it out as soon as you hit me as I guess em, like I know Sam has love for card you get me and like it made sense straight away. But like I wasn't even if I didn't even need to think about it you got me. So that's why I definitely wanted you to be a part of this moment as well moment. And especially use what you know, you shared one of these last moments with him at the event that you know, is that yummy so yeah, man, I sort of art work right when you dropped out. As it was like a calling as I gotta be them and yeah, bro, man, like like even you know what it is. Like when we're doing our work was sitting down with critical like it that much just getting emotional because it's like that we have to even do this without saying like and yam and I reuse one of the one of the one of the pictures you done from a magazine shoot before look sick. And then yeah my like we you know, we there was people that are you going to announce the lineup this I said no like you don't need to announce anyone like trust me Cadet was loved and people are going to know that whatever we're going to do the amount of people that are going to be there to support him. It's going to be a good turnout. So I'm people can feel that you know, I mean, like even the situation of it happening like how much people had receipts of their interactions with him. It was all the same like it was consistent like the love that he shared between. Everyone was consistent. There was no No, like like Cadet someone who's like he expresses himself in it and when he's got love for someone who tell you like that. I love you, bro. I love you. Got me. So like you can see that all the people they touch because like he's a genuine guy. Like he doesn't have a bad bone in his body. Like, you know, I'm saying so that even a response like that. It was like even a realization of how loved he was like, it was a no-brainer for most people most people are even at you know, I don't like a private story in Italy. And said like if we're supporting a show because I had ideas like one if everyone because I know everyone's busy with everyone do it with everyone like and I just said let me let me ask any because we know who follow each other. So yeah and a response to the ourselves out there like don't have to ask me twice someday for could have caused some damn damn damn damn damn day. It's not mean and yeah man, like so when we used in a fly, I'm just not over 25 hours. It was started as like over 2000. Sighs and then you know more I started saying yo like and I was like, yeah, of course, of course, of course, of course and it was just became more and more and more and more and it yeah and it just became so big so much people it was like our I want to help like, how can I help like like Austin was the first person actually that actually said, is there anything you need shami? I'm there. Like he was actually the first like first person not hands down first person that Dummy so that even when you said are doing the podcast of breath like that's why I said let me I let me explain it to the farm. So they know that I'm fine, sir fine voucher for this you get me. So yeah, man, I just want to say thanks for the love to to use them and to Spotify like helping to demon put on the event. You know, I'm trying to say played a big part. So yeah, man, like just amount of people that are here. Bending over backwards to make this happen line got people like found the bricks in in even Brixton. They gave us the venue for next to nothing. Like, you know, I'm saying like everyone just said, yeah like we're here for the love like down to the production crew. Like yeah, we're doing this out of love like will do extra dish will do this. Like just bear love like the artist. Yeah, man. I'm dare. Like would you anything tell me what song you want me to do? I'm doing it and that's the kind of energy that's around this whole I'm saying that it makes me happy man. Like it makes me feel like he left a mark. Like he didn't die in vain, you know, like he didn't Paulson and you know, it's just something that was just over looked like everyone felt this problem that we felt this like I can see like everyone felt this obviously people know our relationship like we're like Bonnie and Clyde you get me like that's my flight was born. I was born to give him out. My mom was there when he gave birth his mom I was dead when I gave birth like that's the kind of Relationship I have with him you get me in Black. So to put on this event like it's like I'm just so happy man like that. There's so much love for women and everybody's coming to show the support the way they are showing their support like like to book all these people go over a million panel probably because of the sickest DJ like Where can you go and you got like the the D just to start in DJ's or straightaway levels lion and everyone just Isis bangers off the back of the banners of the bangle of the back like and this is what it now, you know, I'm saying no one wants anything. No one knows requesting anything no and saying I need travel. I need it like it's just I'm here like will make whatever like we're here with their with their Duke I'm saying like and it's always full of love man, and I'm just grateful that we can No, man's in a position where we can do this and you know, like big up Craig because I hate Craig and I said yo, like I told him that I did and he was like, yeah, give me give me a few hours. I'll have a few venues back for you gents. Let's see if we can get such short notice. Like I don't know what we're going to come up with and it was a lot smaller venues. And then this was like the biggest venue that was available and it was like Yeah, can come visit our books we can do this. We talking about like yeah, I mean and sjm they came in and was like, yeah, like anything you need that they've been you know speaking to the venue the way they even got the fee for the venue fly next nothing down to the you know, usually these venues ranging even sell merch they take a percentage nothing. I said know that everything's going to the cause his mom my Aunt Janice. She was she was like she wants something she wants to do something in his name for the community. So if we do something can we raise funds? I want it to be for the community so that the community is really it's like they invest in their self-care I'm saying and everyone donates or everyone bought a ticket like that that money that you spent is going towards something good and great and positive in his name to go I'm saying and and his mom asked me if Can do that and bro, that was the house that you going to make happen. Somehow making it happen. Your mom's awesome. Awesome and to do it. Let's do it. Let's go back. Yeah, so that's why I meant to scan so hard man and like probably I think that people are you actually like involved in the logistics of it? And well, I mean every single email red flag is mad like I'm like I'm going so hard but I've like I've never had this much emails in my life too so much. Correspondence analyze crazy laughter. I feel it for me. Managers are not like I can see that how much work that managers have to put into to just put on an event you got I'm saying so like mine's actually put in a lot of work into making this happen and is so much great people whose management, you know helped us like, you know, you've got like other platforms. I've said, yeah, we can help set up streaming like going out like it was upstreaming like this do that. You can live stream it let's do this and people said, yeah. I hope you like doodoo the merchant or I helped design this are oh Do this like, you know, I'm saying like people are just throwing in helping a friend sent home and like men's. Yeah. I'm grateful rough luck. I can't even express that had started rambling in Italy. I decided rambling on what like I just I'm just so grateful run for everyone that's even in this building like that means everyone that's in this buildings over here to showed support putting towards their adding a helping make this happen in it. So, I'm just thank you for thankful for everyone. I see him and you get me thankful for Being in a position where a man can't even do this on broadcast it out to the world. You get me I was at Hyde Park and it was like, I mean we should sit down and do this another time talk about it. But as I said, like maybe something good might come out of it and it has right, of course like that. The high part even was like, you know can definitely made made us feel like the amount of people that turn up that High Park and in a daze know. Slack well, yeah, we're going to be a high pot this time. It was excited to see of people like so many people and I gave the hope of like you're not we can do this event and it will sell up here also like Brixton. So I'm saying this is one of those venues. They wanted to sell out geom saying like he will sell our Brixton and we saw that Brixton like and I know like I just wish that he can see this like like how much love he's getting burglar that this is It means everything to member of like this this like my current like I'll put everything on pause like a minute be handing in stuff for our album and this and that brother forget that that I'm making this happen. I'm take that laxed everything stops, like everything stops. You know I'm saying and I want to keep his name alive. No matter what you get me like that that I'm doing this for him now like this was his dream brother like you They're like I'm saying that just in a blink of an eye bruh, just been taken from but like at the same time. He's he's definitely got to wear a place where he wanted. I remember you wanted about he's I wanna bang on YouTube angle need a hit. I need a hit I'm saying I'm doing the freestyle the sick, but I can either hit so I can be here can be there. Got it bro. It's like he's 90 cold rough. Like I'm still in the charts like he's Still in the Charles up click on my radio Pompey advice like, you know trendy like they're just bringing these Tunes like and it's just like the lingerie overflow. Thank God. I don't have like you couldn't have hit me any closer. Like I did like this is the closest thing to me right now. I've lost like I'm saying like but we're here for good causes his birthday as well. Say they even get to Stew You know it stopped about tonight is it will display Unity Pro Unity rough like Unity like rough like there's there's even people that didn't really get on. You know, I said, you know put outside good school. I'm putting this aside no issues not that's the kind of you need to respect your I'm saying like but even at his nine night People in there God knows if they saw each other or any other time. It's on it's on nothing cool. We're here to kill them. That's the kind of respect. Everyone's coffee. You don't want to say like real life situation for being poor. Everything's been important to look at this from a Cave System. Well yesterday said I got I got I got something for you is I need to speak to you but also I'm in I'm in the middle of the reception service my life. Yesterday I was running around helping the food and you know I'm saying and man said your own it. I said that cool. I'll meet you. He just probably just gave me this from that gold diamond card in the middle this gave it to me. Like I said that she was crazy pendant crazy rough. Like this ain't cheap rough, but I'm saying like this brought the last guy in any way like the loves just I just loved it so much. Love so much. Love you. See you seen the line of Refuge in Allah. Yeah, it's crazy. Hola crate like this may never happen again may never ever happen again. Like one in this venue that lineup it's crazy. Crazy Brave like crazy like so let's just go for the line up again. Yeah, let me get my phone. I'm gonna get my phone lineups crazy. You might have to do this. I've got I've got some things in my eyes. I got this i got this so the the lineup We're premiering a brand-new Cadet video today. He's got a you had a song. I didn't the song is about to drop sick concept. It's called gang gang, but it's about police and it's like alternate world of police interrogation him, but they both stood out above you'll see you'll see sick. So sick. His skill was just unbelievable the even if way he fought to do that. It's just I'm saying so yes, it's about the police. Basically if they was to be rappers or or creators. And you know, there was the reply Costas is basically what they would say because this is basically what they're doing, but when it's expressed away Cadet done it they kind of looks like oh well now you look at it a bit differently like, you know I'm saying so yeah, you'll see anyway, but the premiere we open up with that then we open up with Mr. Hudson foreveryoung emotional that's going to be emotional gave ones like so and that you get me like, yeah, man, and then the trailer starts and then we open up with a Cadet trap Pompey swarms Dino AJ, come on open up with Pompey. Then after that swarms brings out t on Wayne does badly and T on Wayne brings out am and they do trending with Cadet then t on way and brings out NSG they do options. Then I fro be does Joanna then Tina and AJ do London and then Amelia does baddest that becomes in that zone where I kind of a.m. Western they do bend over then bring out one ace and device of Versa then one day something that Hardy cap. They do best life that smoke boys do lock off fake. He does sit in their lethal Bizzle. There's Festus can power $23 ain't bothered. My diaper does man's not hot. Unknown T does helmet and be Rams does barking D-Block Europe. Do not see bring our young vein and do coochie-man. Then young beam. Does Rihanna the young then brings out young and that's best young another thing or nothing. Then notes comes out does Aladdin then notes brings out chip. They do crb, then note Springs, IA J Tracy. They do butterflies. Then we come out and do what whoa, whoa. Air Force remix bring out dig that K trap then we do lie. I'll bring out most stack most that does what I want to then brings out Dave does no words then Dave does hangman then storms the big for your boots ends it beautifully Blinded By Your Grace and then we stopped for a moment to I'm going to call my Auntie and Uncle in the stage and then they're going to bring out advice plan. Because obviously he's going to Silver a bunt over 200,000 copies and then when I get everyone on stage and we're just going to go crazy to advise moment and then like that's it broke like the ultimate the ultimate lie number you get me. So yeah my last dust the love they like you heard every song I was saying to you man. Yeah I'm saying so look, I think I'm supposed to be DJing for Mr. Hudson. Yeah, but it is I'm sure be all right, but listen, you know. I'm going to let you go because it's a big night. There's a lot going on and you know some point we'll sit down and talk. Yeah, but look well done and putting everything together and stay strong man. Thank you so much as well. Thank you for coming and being a part of this. Yeah, man think I've won involvement under a legend now the real legend Cadet rest in peace, bro, Jesus who will be talks backstage Brixton Academy right now with King storms e ha ha I just wanna ask you one question. How important is today? Listen today? What we see today? The father is his birthday Brixton Academy and knowing catcher and it sounds so good. You know when someone passes for think things can start sounding cliche, you know, like the same things that come up above cat. This cat was gonna do Brixton one day hundred percent 100% And when he got here What would the meant to him Bravo? I don't like. What it would have meant to him at Birth. I don't even think no one understands, you know, when people say a dream before that part of what what that if kid, it was here today during Brixton Academy and he had sold it out and it was like he had progress and he got to that stage. Well, he'll be in tears about I know I know cat he will beat you all will be mad at me. He wouldn't believe he's here about you get what I mean. So for for him to sell it out today everyone here from above its marked by shit stolen before real friends news problem. They don't even feel real friend, but Yeah, but it's not this even what I'm saying. But of course, he's such a because he's one of the guys was pure joy from pure joy. So Hunter pop all these things is so mad, you know all the things that don't make sense. Like you hear people passing a people say the same problem with cat everything is true. But you know what people say he would have wanted you to do this, you know, that's like a cliche things are he would have 1200 percent are strong. My mother's life care. Today would have wanted everyone to turn on. I promise you that if he's watching. You want everyone to turn on you want me to drink they call you want everyone to turn up like he wouldn't want no one that I couldn't he wouldn't want to know why I'm crying. Nothing is my promise me my friend. It's so fucking not fun. I'm having believe it no more talk. I can't believe about he wouldn't eat but I promise you I put a pan of my heart. You don't know what he would want everyone to turn up. Why are you crying from? That's what he said right bro tap probably whatever to turn on will be flipping tell everyone open their mouth the Pinstripe Bowl pouring it. Ridiculous amount that men should not be consuming by his tellement. Well, it's mad if he done it today, but his man, you know, if he was a really good day young all these things are brothers. I've never bought the epitome of it Bob. So the point is doing that's why I don't feel real. That's why I didn't throw a roll and do not no matter how I saying that they were, you know, the quote whenever people will say all these cliche things around people say God wanted to put someone died because God wanted them up. Up there with him. Well, I am never understood or not. I've never understood it. I've always thought that's just one of them lines you said but I promise you both. That's the only explanation from that's the only explanation of that the only expert without man trying to be poetic or trying to say infant brother promise you that's the only explanation but that got got myself Bob you're too pure for your too pure for this world friend or whatever. It was from that. That's an angel fan. But yeah, but today's weather today we got to do it for him. Going through it from this Madam Apophis management. It's my property owner has a special day. We're going to do it from differently. Tonight the lineups in saying it's crazy to a lot of eyes night. There's a lot of artists that have come through the same time. Is Matt that everyone's unified in this moment? Right? I've never never never problem. I've never seen so much love for one man ever yesterday. My brother. My brother Caesar is popped big on sir. He said he said he said it might sound ridiculous, but Rob cat died and felt like Michael Jackson or principle that I get it. It's not the same skill or whatever, but rather I put fam everyone. I've never Nat pop and got puff but man God knows - a lot about a lot of clothes people got a lot of friends pass away from when I was 12 to 25 now about and I've never ever ever ever seen even knowing that half of this law as in like problem and it got real bad word to say family. I ain't got a bad word to say I've got I got best friends. I got a lot of loads of people in my life while of my closest friends and if they passed I could say, ah, he was moaning rubber. I that's awesome. Sometimes he's back. He's this well, I haven't got what that's why I heard so much from Franco 1password. There's nothing to save him. Nothing. I got one bad. I've know what but one bad experience with no one. No one little one do not only thing I have is he let me money when I was dating. Let me a back button at the time a in a bag is Crate like that. It's not just a thousand eighteen years old a bag is meant well you might as well. Give me a hundred bag of crazy money. I didn't pay him back. I'm young problem. 13. Mm. Huh? Laughter gonna pay big bro. I ain't got to pee right now touching and touching him. He's spoiling me I'm touching and you know, I hate them but he just texts me bro. You know, I love you, man. You ain't gotta do that. That's it. I said, oh the man money as soon as he had to say to him follow him. You know, I love you man. Hey go do that ball to me coming me bro, then go do that, but that's who that's that's it. That's that's not the one time. We had a bad and even then we just had proper love. You ain't got a problem. It is not fun. It's He's like a sick dog family that I've come one man. Mean that Robert Doyle Bears mad this month from a book and we're backstage. It's been a very very emotional night and I'm with a very very dope artist actor comedian for juicer. Right one of the most talented guys out here Michael that by you doing man. I'm very well. Thank you. My brother. Are you I'm good, man. I'm good, man. How was it performance tonight? Nice. Nice, you know. Yeah London's always nice to I'm saying so but as you said when he's in the intros and it's mixed emotions you got him. Because we're coming out here to celebrate the life of our brother and I would have been nice to become an I had to performing them to perform with our brother. You know, I'm saying so mixed emotions, but I'm just grateful that you know that so many people came out to support the event number one. So many artists have come together number two, and you know, it's like we're we're even though like we're still partially mooning with tonight is a night of Celebration. raishin, so for Mila improper grateful for that what what what is the takeaway from this because it's very difficult to understand like one for what's happened and to you know, we're here we were a show and you know, we do show some always doing different things and everything with this this is this is a special moment, but I don't have never experienced the loss of an artist and the scene like this and never I've never been Situation. So I guess what I'm saying is from your perspective, you know as an Entertainer what what? Yeah. Well, I don't even know how to say like what was to take away from this like what what what why is this happening? Was it for us? Is there a greater good is coming out. You know what that I think everyone's taken something different to go. I'm staying away from the situation, but for me, it's it's about I've been one for my love learn from could then just he was a man of love you got me and for me, that's that's what I want to walk in with the rest of my days here to go I'm saying and it's also just made me realize that you know, you can't take anything like, you know, you hear people say all the time and sometimes we say don't take life for granted, but you literally can't take anything for granted. You know, I think it's helped me too. I say my is having his brought me closer to God personally Gia I'm saying, you know, I'm just more grateful, you know, like it's made me appreciate things that maybe before I was overlooking Gia I'm saying like even having breath in your lungs. It's like a big thing. You get me if something goes wrong inside of your body. That's it. You got me, but we don't actually deep it but that's the reality and I think for me, it's been a proper like Gchat. And I'm I'm thankful. But like I said, it's sad that I had to come like this and now Second thing is MM celebrate people why they Hammer because like I said, it's only after cats these parts in that we see all of this love now I'm saying but we where we're actually prison she got him saying we're blessed enough to be present. So I think it's important to like celebrate each other was we're here you go. I'm saying like drunk people messages check up on them. Genuinely jams in that simple, right? No, it's that simple. How you doing, bro that you know, how you doing sis. Is everything good how you holding up? You know like generally lot support each other today I'm saying it shouldn't take for someone to go for then everyone to start sitting up in and all but we're going to come together and boom Johnson because it's mad, you know, it's mad that but I think it is it's a point of change for everyone in that regard any way you can appreciate and laughing generally supporting a pair is 1 coughing in the UK, especially there's this mentality of like everyone's gone off to the same thing with no Joe I'm saying like that's why the people in other territories especially in America are thriving so much because they have realized that if you build an ecosystem by supporting one another and that's how your scene grows bigger. That's what hip-hop is now like a number one selling genre. Globally. It wasn't had that before it was seen as an underground drama, but they've together built this scene and now everybody's In everybody's doing well, everybody's getting Grammys and doing sold out tools and stuff like that and it can happen over here Jones in this is a much smaller country, but I just feel like people was like we're fighting over scraps to kill him saying we've all got different goals my goal and my life is different correct and colons or storm diesel a devil's. Oh, you know Childish Gambino, press table, you know, like we're all different people everyone wants to and I think that's the most important thing like just realize like bro, like support your people man Jones, and I didn't even That is Cadet. I was saying in an interview previously that he was the first artist that opened up my head launcher to I'm saying and now I literally message him. I said bro. I'm doing a show I didn't even ask. He just said I'm there whatever you're doing. I'm dead. She got I'm saying and it was Where do you get that these days where you know, like you have to run people down? Yo, I'm doing I need you for this. Yo the you know what I'm saying that why you know, it's not needed man. Everyone just needs to like get off your high horse, you know spread love and Loveless leave your mark and just you know, cause like I said, it's true man, you show 28 years old row. Matt but you know, it's not a bad emotions today. It's about celebrating looking forward and you know, I will forever love Blaine and you know his contribution into my life my family left and you know, just the people in general and so yeah today we're going to celebrate its TJ sensex who will be talks. I like I said before when I was talking to crept I should have been downstairs. I should have been downstairs DJing for this guy. Mr. Hudson, what's going on man Sam, it's good to see you. You're sorry. I let you down man. It's good. You know this luckily there's there's quite a few DJ's here tonight. So, you know, I had one to my left one to my right. We were we were covered. You know, it's I get the impression it's a you know, such a family affair anybody trips. There's going to be someone to catch them, you know, so no technical worries. It's crazy that you're here today because you know, you spend a lot of time in the US and then when you send me the email saying like, you know, you saw What was going on he wanted to be involved. Like how did it look being an Englishman overseas seeing like the output of compassion for Cadet, you know, that's what I was going to say. You know, I spend a lot of time in America in Los Angeles specifically and to be honest the way I keep in touch. I'm just stalking everybody on Instagram. So I know what you're doing. I know what you're doing. I know what that's kind of grind daily as Might you know, I don't need a newspaper. You know, I just I keep in touch thanks to the gram and you know to be real I didn't know Cadet I hadn't met him unless it was a very long time ago and very briefly. I don't think I've ever met him but you know, I had heard some tunes. I thought you know, there's a talented guy, but what really hit me was when he passed people like, you know friends like you there was this outpouring of love and and obviously loss and pain and it made me sad that I hadn't met him properly made me sad that I hadn't been around, you know, and I looked at my diary and I was like, I'm going to be in London for this this event for this tribute and I saw that it was for charity and I saw you were involved and I thought maybe although it's too late to work with him or to hang out with him. Maybe I can offer something that will be of some help. To his people, you know, I reached out to crap. Some Crepes was like, yeah, of course, this would be amazing. You know, I'm flattered to be involved. I just hope it didn't seem big headed to like throw my name into the mix. But you know, I just wanted to reconnect with the with a seen that to be honest launched my career. I mean you remember 10 years ago. I was you know wandering around North London with my guitar getting ignored but it was the hip-hop. Saying it was the crime scene that took me in, you know, and just said look we believe in you and then I ended up getting record deals and Publishing deals and going on a mad adventure and ending up in America working with ye and various other people and that was thanks to the UK and specifically the the London hip-hop and crime scene. So I will always have a debt to the scene. So I hope I can always be useful and pop up and kind of help out with lots of different projects whether it's Grassroots projects or people who've you know, whether it's people have already got their hustle together and I can just you know, listen to some music and offer some criticism as a producer. I don't know I just for me it was a big reminder. Like don't spend too much time in LA. I get back to London and be involved. You know, how does it feel to see the scene now because it is totally different from when you was out here regularly and when you was coming through and when he was doing jump off and so forth some of the names are still around but how's it has it feel coming back? And doing a show like this like especially tonight because pretty much most of the scenes is some of the main players. Yeah, it's you know, it's great to see certain people who are still still up and running from from back in the day hip hop and grime in in the UK and London 10 and more years ago was it was more geographical. I feel like North London was a hip-hop scene West London was definitely hip-hop East London was Grime, you know, there were these different movements and they would you geographical now, I guess in the word in the words of Steve Jobs the world is one place so you can be in South London making trap. You can be in North London making Grime and let's not just talk about London. You can be up in Manchester or Birmingham making any old music you want and mixing those genres which didn't really happen in the 2000s. It's easy easy to forget now, but things will get a lot more kind of compartmentalised and kind of tribal and I love the fact that now Anything goes and people can just slide in each other's dams and say let's work. They don't even have to get in the same studio. Just like let me send you some beets or let me send you some drums or an a cappella. I get a lot of work done that way. The last time I saw you was here with DJ Snake and you know, he says I hit him up. I think he hit me I slid in pretty sure he slid in my DM's but you know, we already had a record together before we even met really so that's how the scenes changed. You know, I'm I'm a dinner before the show texting a rapper from Portland, you know knowing that I'm going to go and hang out with with people in the UK scene, but it really is just it's just one thing now, you know, you can collaborate across an ocean and you before you've even crossed it. So now though 5,000 people were all here for could that how did that feel tonight? You know, I just got the sense with the crowd that they were like definitely won crowd. We've been talking about like Oneness. It's kind of been the answer to a couple of questions is how things like becoming one and they were singing back at me. It's almost like I didn't need to be there they were they were singing like you the words I think so. Yeah, maybe not the same. Maybe not the second verse maybe if we that Jays bit they would have known that but it was it was it was beautiful there were kind of all glued together by him and the music and I think that's that's something I want. To say was I really got the sense. Kind of learning more about him since he passed the none you before that. He's one of those people that glues everybody together that are seeing needs those people that they're shown love. They're showing up that if you have a show there there the probably want to be your hype man, the giving you constructive criticism, you know, I see these screen grabs of the people say the last communication they had with them. We was just saying, I love you I believe in you. So that just came back from the crowd tonight. Well, I sort of came across because that's music when I first moved to UK. So two years ago and I started seeing his like storytelling videos and I just like fell in love with that because it's so like touching and sensitive and real his storytelling. That's that's what made him. That's how about them out storytelling is actually amazing. He's a there's no one that can tell stories like Cadet like, There's no way yeah, it's very Legends. Honestly, just like he's actually pretty to Freestyle where most a lot of rappers can like. Yeah. It's just he's so fast like his flow is just so quick and he was yeah quite good. There's something who would be talks DJ sensex right now with one of the hottest in the game. This guy's killing it either to Eternal Club bangers. No.33 not to be my man swarms. What's going on man? Let me All right. I'm good, man. I'm good like that. You came out last year. You can flush out the box with like her instant smash right now. Bali is the joint, you know, but, you know some fortunately the recent events, you know, we've involving Cadet and we actually we did a show together right like just like a week before he passed away like is crazy that we're here right now backstage of Brixton Academy right now. It's crazy. Um, What happened shot? Everyone? Obviously, no one deserves to die. Not bomb that I like to say that Cadet like out of all the rappers. He was the first-ever rapper to let you reach out to me. So when I done my lack of track he reached out to me told me what to jumping like a remix that from didn't like that's all we started speaking got close. Obviously my management during that one my manager joined up with be Freaks. And then after that I met with gibbet we've done checks Pompey Together made a good bands. What was he like to work with? He was like a big brother. Let me Me I come from a big family that I've got three brothers and four sisters, but that kid that was like a brother to me let he will give me advice. So like I'll do something stupid on the Instagram. He'll call me be that you'll take that down. Like don't do that because obviously obviously he's been in the game longer than me. So he was teaching me the ropes and like he was so confident with me. So like so like that kills truth was also like if I'd done something rubbish, he will tell me in it. He wouldn't lie to me and that's all. Yeah man working with him was a blessing that I think God that I worked of him. That was a good opportunity one. How is that on stage tonight now? I was that I felt it that obviously respect to everyone. That's me. This happened today that it was crazy like that. Michelle was crazy. Maybe one of the most I've performed in front of obviously I felt everything that I thought everyone. I thought that I thought the now what could I say that I just felt like I really explain that. I just thought that the dispute letter atmospheres crazy. It's crazy, man. You know, we've what's happened and you know, the fact that he was on Pompey and you guys were doing shows the government is no longer here. Does that does that change your outlook on anything as a changed your approach last saw you at Hyde Park as well that was deaf. That was a crazy moment as well. Like none of us have experienced any kind of collective moment like that. But as it is it change the way you think moving forward just changed a lot of things like even my friends when they're driving stuff that has made me realize that life is precious like you only One chance one laughs so you have to take everything and let you do everything you can in this case of time time runs out so quick. So yeah, so it has bought that it's just been obviously stressful in that like we had on release bangers about to come out and that obviously is change things and that as well, but now I was a blessing to work with him and that and like he's just himself. He just a role model like he's taught me a lot of things easy like him being gone that good black is bad. But he's told me as well, like don't take life for granted just keep family grow. Something like sad but stressful that was a crazy show. I'm with someone who was very involved to cut that did you want to introduce yourself? Yeah. Hi. I'm Jay Spiro. I'm Cadets manager. How was it seeing that tonight? It was bittersweet one part. It was so amazing in the love was insane. But half of me is well. I wish he could he could see it as we you know, we've been doing a lot of touring lately doing a lot of spot days and you know, we talked about doing the Arenas and we talked about doing these type of shows. This is stuff that we always talk on the way back from from doing shows. So to see this it was stuff that we talked about and where was heading so I know he's seeing it. Yeah, so the love is there, you know and that's the good part of what happened tonight. It's amazing as we view a couple of weeks ago. When we you know, we did we did a show called and Dino's NFL party and I never dreamed we'd be doing this right now. Hello, and I remember spoke briefly and we got a date I think with the 28th of February we got in you know, and it was never ever ever ever have any plan like even when? I got a late now call it wasn't even it can never be you know, so to hear that it's not it was never in the plan, you know, and I never in my wildest dream, but you know, he's truly an angel. So only God knows you know, what what happens next for his legacy because tonight it was crazy. But you know, I think one thing that I realized this world is that he like we've done a lot of good work, you know, there's like he's good at for the weave and thought and how For he's going, you know just from the outpour and how things happened and the month of love that he received and continue to receive such as far as its Legacy. You know what he had what he left behind obviously, you know, like any artist you continue to work and you got the projects come in and you got a lot of you know, amazing records and a lot of amazing things, you know in the works. So even the videos and you see the video they played before nice teamwork backstage man be like, that's the last video you shot like you got four or five videos he already shot. Before we got projects and so, you know you continue to work they know how it goes with every artist. So as far as its Legacy is to continue to you know, put his music out and make sure that his message gets through and I think one of the things that was very important to him was love and communication so hopefully through his books and he's written a lot of poems as well. Like we don't know him as a poem that you wrote a lot of poems as well. So their plan is to make sure his legacy lives on. And you know create a platform where other I've been coming so Grinders and he's very much about the songwriting process. So just its Legacy is to make sure his music continues and he's forever here, you know in through his music and in hearts does the plan as a platform? So right now, I'm outside wixsanic. Jeremy It's been an incredible night you heard from some of the greatest artists doing that thing in the UK right now. I'm not going to lie, when we talked about recording by backstage this event. I wasn't sure if we should actually do it. I think right up until I was DJing at the start of the show. I wasn't sure if we should do it but having spoken to the people that are spoken to haven't seen what I've seen at the show. I think we definitely needed to do it. I think it was important that we've documented this moment in time. It was an artist that touch the lives of many people as you've heard and you know, he was taken before you had a chance to really go the full distance, you know, we'll never know how far I was going to take it. But what we do know is he touched a lot of people it's got a lot of fans. We do know that the music is going to live on his poetry is going to live on his Arts. live on It's like I said, when I started this podcast it's a celebration and you just don't see anybody Unified. And my takeaway from this is just you just got to go all out treasure every single moment and just live life to the fullest, you know rest in power Cadet. Got give a big shout-out to Crepes and Cadets family for allowing us to do this today. It's an amazing night and it's an important night. DJ sensex who would be talks?
At 28, Blaine ‘Cadet’ Johnson was a highly skilled rapper from London, UK on the verge of attaining mainstream success. The 'Underrated Legend' was renown for his freestyle ability, and club bangers such as 'Advice, ‘Pumpy’, and ’Trendy’. On Febuary 9th 2019, Cadet was the victim of a fatal car accident on the way to a show at Keele University, Staffordshire. His family, friends, fans, and the UK artist community were devastated by the tragedy which was covered by news outlets across the world. Cadet touched the lives of many people, anyone who had met him was exposed to his infectious love and positive energy. The day after the tragedy, Krept (Cadet’s cousin) led a crowd of thousands at a gathering in Hyde Park, London to release balloons in Cadet's memory. Days later it was announced that there would be a ‘Rated Legend’ concert at Brixton academy on March 2nd. The charity event was to take place on what would have been Cadet’s 29th birthday. With over 25 surprise acts on the line up, the 5000-capacity venue sold out within minutes. DJ Semtex opened the show, and Cadet’s family graciously gave permission for him to interview artists backstage for this special episode of Who We Be Talks_. Artists such as Krept, Stormzy, Michael Dapaah, Mr Hudson, and Swarmz shared their personal memories and spoke on the significance of the much loved, and sorely missed Rated Legend. 