And welcome to another episode of the Bakary Cellars Podcast. Today I got my Morehouse

brother, good friend, and you know, I don't even know if you can say underrated, but he is by far one of the best musicians walking

R&B vocalist Maroon 5 just all around great dude and he may not even be the best singer in his own family

but that's that's neither here nor there what's going on

PJ Morton how you feeling my guy what's up bad I'm good I'm good good to be with you man I finally made it to the

to the to the Bicari sellers podcast man man. I feel honored. I'm here.

Man, look, you've been traveling the world, you've been in the, you got an album, man,

you've been doing a lot of work, so I'm glad to get a minute.

But we start our shows the same way by having our guests walk us through

the arc of their career. So talk to me about the moment when you knew that music would be your

calling and what was your first big break in the industry?

Yeah I've had, I say, I've had so many breaks, right, like, you know, but the first time I knew that I wanted to do music, especially professionally, I wrote this song.

When I got my license, which was at 15, the year changed right when I turned 15 in New Orleans.

And it turned right back to 16 the next year, but I was 15, got my license,

and I started going to the studio using my own money.

And I recorded this song and I let my best friend hear it.

And he was like, man, you gotta let my brother hear this song.

Like he just, he just joined this group.

They about to do an album.

And they liked the song, like they liked it enough to record it and put it on their album and then I got a check for it. I was like, wait, I could do just what I love and like get paid for it too. So I was 15, it was probably 16 when that album came out. I was like oh I'm I'm done like I know what I want to do and I've been laser focused on like what I do since then really.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that we're both Morehouse, man.

How did that HBCU experience?

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