Episode 132 - Sean Kingston

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

It's Sean Kingston! He's a Jamaican-American singer-songwriter with a handful of billboard hits you've probably danced to: Beautiful Girls, Take You There, Fire Burning, Colors. We talk growing up in Kingston, Jamaica and Miami, Florida, being discovered through MySpace, the toll of being a pop-star in 2019, and why he's ready for a comeback.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	The true love of music has to be a fact has to be you feel me can be on you has to be in you
0:18.2	And these people want to wear a whole bunch of jewelry and that's what it's on you. You know what I'm saying? No, a true musician
0:24.2	don't got to be on you, got to be in you. You got to be cut, it got to come from
0:27.4	here. The music got to be. When I do my melodies and I write songs, people like
0:32.0	damn, bro, this dude really, really kicked up.
0:34.0	Like that's really, like, this is his process, like, these guys are genius.
0:38.0	I'm just like, you know what, that's nothing.
0:40.0	Because I push myself every time, or if it's not, I'm going out the studio. I'm walking out the studio like literally for me it's about you
0:47.8	We got to make a hit before I leave here. You know what I'm saying? Period
0:58.0	That was Sean Kingston. I'm Sam Fregoso and this is Talk Easy. Welcome to the show. In 1990, Kishon Kingston was born in Miami and then, eventually, he moved to Kingston
1:30.5	Jamaica and then once more, back to Miami.
1:35.8	This all happened in his life before he was 16, and really before 2007, when a song called Beautiful Girls began playing on the radio.
1:45.8	To those listening in their 20s, it was practically the score to our awkward middle school
1:51.4	dance.
1:52.4	Your way too beautiful. awkward middle school dance. King's Stings!
1:53.0	Your way too beautiful girl.
1:56.0	That's why it'll never work.
1:59.0	You have me suicidal, suicidal. Suicideo suicidal when you say it's over
2:06.6	damn all these beautiful girls
2:11.6	the only one to do you dirt.
2:14.0	They'll have you suicidal, suicidal when they say it's over.
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