Matua Mark
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But what's frustrating for me is, like, this is an ancient problem, and it's, like, also no one wants to hear a solution for it, but we all want to feel it.
It's that whole, like, I'm just annoyed at,
It doesn't feel like there's any movement where there needs to be.
We're all aware of, like, it be randoms that be supporting my shit the most.
It's all of these kind of frameworks we fall into on how to, like, create almost a gap.
And sometimes I feel like when people don't have enough belief in themselves or the work isn't done –
um the closest thing to inspiration for people is to push into hate so sometimes i'm like how much does it even exist you know what i mean it's like it's actually easier sometimes to be like none of my friends support me or um they don't support me because the next person over here is just a little bit better but that you know what i mean that's like it's this weird thing of people managing like what it really is but i don't know i don't know
Focusing on my own world, my own lane.
Thank you, Mello, for letting us talk about Tall Poppy in a time when we're supposed to talk about music.
Quickly, the reason why I downloaded the album straight away is because, let's turn it up, I heard this track.
I'm Polynesian, but I can politic with the corporates.
We all know that duality of code switching and all of that.
But then, bro, you do about...
like like i'm saying i ingested it two days before it released and i was like obviously i missed out on spotify playlisting or whatever but didn't even matter because i obviously i'm here with you guys and there's a lot of people showing me love so i really appreciate that bro love it congrats on the music thank you for this project bro i feel like um i've needed something to soundtrack my life too that's from here um not having to use the other artists to tell my story so appreciate you mellow and all the best respect brother this is the morning shift