Yes, yes and yes… 

 

So AJ sends me through a couple of pressers (press releases) and a copy of the brand new single “It Ain’t My Fault” and then come Monday morning, I find myself in the boardroom at Central Station Records in Sydney for a 2:1 chat with Kraft Kuts and Chali 2na. Awesome!

 

Our vast ranging chats cover Krafty Kuts' earliest ever memory from his childhood of the family cat in Kingston upon Thames in the UK and Chali’s memories of his 2nd birthday in the projects of south-side Chicago, the pleasures of working with Dynamite MC and Chali 2na to bring this jam to life, our shared experiences of the inspiration of hip hop street art in Miami, Rome, Montpellier, Belgium and their 2 pieces of advice that Krafty Kuts and Chali 2na give to someone who has a dream, but is afraid to take that first step.

 

As Krafty tells it, studying your art and creating magic is all about practicing your art form to hone yourself into the best at what you do and I felt that myself even during this interview, as while I usually capture what I need in hour long shows that I’ve been recording for 2.5 years, we made this shit work in 25 minutes. 

 

I’ll be heading down to their show Beach Road Bondi this Wednesday night 1st of March for sure!

 

Stoked to be able to launch “It Ain’t My Fault” by Krafty Kuts & Dynamite MC featuring Chali 2na of Jurassic 5 on my show on Bondi Beach Radio at 9am AEST this morning (USA 2pm PT and 5pm ET) and now you can also download the interview right here, right now on iTunes.

Enter The Ladies Lounge podcast. Launched in mid-2016 and created by Sydney-based businesswomen, Anna Massie and Emma Franklin Bell, The Ladies Lounge is a show that has exploded in the past 6 months and is focused on getting up close & personal, sharing the candid stories and adventures of successful female (and male now too) entrepreneurs.

 

I met The Ladies Lounge crew as Anna is an amazing networker and quite literally cyber-stalked a bunch of podcast hosts, including yours truly, to see how The Ladies Lounge could grow their own podcast audience by guesting on the shows of others. 

 

 

Indirectly, my connection with Tashi is actually the reason Hot & Delicious: Rocks The Planet! is now a weekly show on Bondi Beach Radio.

 

Tashi and I met at the Two Space co-working space for start-ups and entrepreneurs at the Kings Cross Hotel a few weeks back and I just had to get him on the show to tell his story.

 

Partnering with Optus and Amazon, TwoSpace connects underutilised spaces with a community of entrepreneurs, creating unique spaces that help businesses start, connect and grow.

 

We also chat about his work with Carbon Conservation, a business dedicated to conserving the rainforests of Indonesia and current protects 1 million hectares of rainforest and the introduction of Himalayan Chai into the Australian market back in the day by his grandmother, which went on to be adopted by Gloria Jeans and more.