Here Comes the Break inventively threads together a scripted story—starring EMMY® Award-nominated Asante Blackk and Daniella Perkins—and unscripted interviews with Def Jam’s rising new talent, including Bobby Sessions, Saint Bodhi, Nasty C, Bino Rideaux, and more, to create a high-concept fusion of fictional narrative and real-life conversations with buzzing stars.
And in celebration of Hip Hop Recognition month, Double Elvis and Def Jam commemorate the first season of Here Comes the Break with a podcast soundtrack. The album tells a unique story, fusing music and podcasting with the theme of mental health awareness.
Binge the entire first Season of Here Comes the Break and stream the soundtrack wherever you get your audio content.
Executive Producer: Asante Blackk
Producer: Daniella Perkins
Starring: Asante Blackk and Daniella Perkins
Co-Starring: Bobby Cius, Rayme Cornell, Christopher V. Edwards and Taylor Bettinson
Written by: Taylor Bettinson and Nakia Hill
Directed By: Christopher V. Edwards
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When did You Fall in Love with Hip Hop? Close Out hip Hop Recognition Month, def Jam and Double Elvis present Here Comes the Breaks Soundtrack and Oh to the yester years of hip hop and the music and storytelling We're one experienced tracks by artists like Bobby Sessions, Nasty c, Novaa, Jo Lee, Being Overdo, and introducing Boston's Own, all in a continuous blend of original music, scenes from the podcast, story and artist interviews. Listen to the Here Comes the Break Soundtrack by Def Jam and Double Elvis on Spotify, Apple Music, Title or wherever you stream music. And to tell you more about the podcast and the featured artists, here's Jake Brennan, host of Disgrace Land, so on your show, Here Comes to Break, can't talk about Here Comes to Break without first talking about deaf jam. Def Jam, as you probably know, has been a massive force in popular music for almost forty years now. Ever, since Russell Simmons and Rick Ruben decided to create a record label out of a dorm room at n y U back in the nineteen eighties, we've covered some huge def Jam legacy artists in dis Raceline episodes, most notably Run DMC and Jay z and it's been really incredible for Double Elvis to collaborate with def Jam on this hip hop inspired podcast. But instead of focusing on legacy artists from def jam stack catalog, Here Comes the Break's host Asanty Black, you might know from NBC's This Is Us. He uses the narrative of the show to talk with emerging artists and they debut songs from those artists on the podcast on Here Comes to Break, new songs that you can't find anywhere else. The show is super unique, and then it combines these real interviews with a fictional narrative told from the point of view of a young podcaster named Reuben, played by a Santy Black, Reuben Rick Ruben def Jam Here Comes to Break. But I digress. At the pulse of this show are these real, live interviews and if you haven't heard yet, here's a little taste. There's so much going on in the world. What role does your music played during the time of revolution? That's crazy because I've been like reflecting on that. It's anitas to own interview that she did, and she said that as an artist, our job is to reflect the time, and so I've been been pushing It's difficult because when you start off as a certain type of artist, everyone's just like ARTI standing this lame, famous lane. But when you start seeing your people, in your black women and black men dealing with so many things, you start kind of getting that revolutionary strike going on. And so it's just been forcing me to more so speak about what I've dealt with as an African American artist. You know, sometimes you can't just release a record we want to. So I've just been kind of hammering people on the head like this isn't right. Aggressive. I guess you can say I've been a really aggressive artist. This is not only their problem, it's my problem. Don't sounds central? Yeah, how's the influence she was an artist? I appreciate my experience kind of like moded me as a woman and as a human. I've seen a lot of things. I've seen a lot of darkness of you know, just I can go down the list, but it helps me. I guess it helps you be strong and sensitive at the same time and creativity, Like it's so much art. I know. Sometimes I'll just drive onto the hood and I like, I'm in the hood all the time and I'm shopping. Slawson and everything, and that's where all the art comes from. It doesn't come from being in Beverly Hills and being in Talking Santa Monica and all these things. It's like the arts where the people are. I have show remember all the grinding, and so sometimes I'm just like, I deserve this. I deserve this, I deserve this. I created this, I made this. But what I've been noticing now as a young woman, is that my over it. And so because I dealt with so many traumatic experiences like throughout my career, and so the thing that's helping me let it go is alright, creating music. Talk your feelings out and then you have to let it go or else I'm not gonna be able to evolve until the next person if I keep holding onto all the trauma. And so I think that's how the background is starting to shape me. It's just I'm starting to process. Hello, dude, you're not always okay, and this ship was sucked up and you gotta release. And so that's what it's doing. I don't make music, and it might sound crazy, it's like, I don't really make music because I want to to help people. But I'm doing it because this is my only sense of therapy at itself. I can't talk to someone about it because no one gets it. If I make the music for some reason, that's the only way I can help. Wow. Wow, that's powerful. That's powerful. Um Okay, what advice would you give to emerging artists just getting started who want to signs for labels? I mean, I guess the best advice to be you gotta be patient. You know, this is a new generation, no only my twenties, and so we want ship expeditiously like instant coffee. Be patient, have intuition about the situation. There's gonna be times where everyone is wrong and you're the right one, and you're gonna have to speak up for yourself and just like now, man like, that's not the hell I want to do. But you also have to continue to be humble because you know, don't shoot yourself at the foot because your label, they're all working for you, not against you. Sew them in to start off too serious. But in learning your bank story, I learned that when you were young, your mom was in prison and you and your siblings were left to survive on your own until thankfully and relatives stepped in to support you. How old. You know, I'm twenty four, and then happened when you were a teenager? Yeah, yeah, I was about I want to say, maybe about thirteen or twelve or fourteen. Maybe I don't want to make assumptions, But now that you're an adult and you're pursuing your own dreams as a music artist, why would you say it contributed from that experience to what type of person you are now because of it. I mean, honestly, I feel like I feel like the main thing that made me is just like it made me really strong, because I feel like I tell my story to people and they're like not amazed, but they're just like really like wow, like you went through that. But to me, it's kind of normal. I feel like it's like, yeah, like that's is that bad? And I just feel like it made me strong because if I look at that like, oh that's it's it's nothing. Yeah. I just feel like it made me like a really strong person, Like the way I look at things, the way I handle certain situations, the way I react. I just feel like it definitely toughed me up. You know, I'm just a simple person. I like the simple things. I'm just like a cool chilled person. When I think of Florida, I don't think of put as far as like all this is concerned. I know that all artists out there, but my mind goes first to say Miami, to talk about what the music scene is like in Temple. It's kind of like a love hate relationship, you know how So it's kind of like a love hate relationship. If you ask ten different rappers, you're gonna get ten different answers in Tampa because you know, certain people on on different levels to other people, so they feel like they were teasing and stuff like that. When you build your fan base to what they like from you, that makes the fans. So, I mean, we don't really have a specific sound right now, but we got a few artists that signed, and we got a few artists doing anything agingly too, so you know, yeah, like listening to their music. And and also I went back and like Rick Ross has his own sound. Ace Hood who's from Florida too, has his own sound trick Daddy. So that's interesting that you said that bigger picture. Can you talk about being signed to a major label and how has that transition? What was that transition like for you? I mean it was pretty easy because I always kind of like care of myself, like I was important anyway before I was signed, So it's like it's just like a label. Now I'm actually signed, so you know, I have a reason not to go to the club all the time and stuff help me save more money and a long run. How did you develop your fan base? Instagram is the most amazing thing that guy ever crazy. Do you feel like you're collected to your fans that way? Do you recomments? Do you respond back to comments? Oh yeah, I clapped back on the regular. Like if you say something to me on the screenshot, go on your page, get one of your ugly pictures and post it so the world can see that this is a person I was talking about me alright. That is a little taste of our new show, Here Comes to Break. Please check it out. You can find it anywhere you get podcasts, Amazon Music, Apple, Spotify. Go out there and get it. You definitely want to check the show up. Awesome sound to sign, awesome storytelling. You're going to dig it.