Angela Lin 0:20
Today we have another cool guest that’s under our agents doing cool shit. We have a Lil Waterboi, what’s up?
Lil Waterboi 0:28
What’s good?
Jesse Lin 0:32
Why don’t you introduce yourself to our audience and let them know whatever you want to say about yourself, but also, where are you really from?
Full Transcript (Note: Transcribed via AI, may contain errors)
Lil Waterboi 0:42
Um I’m Lil Waterboi. I’m really from Montreal but my parents are from Vietnam. So I’m a Montreal Canadian Vietnamese artist. I go by Lil Waterboi, I guess that’s it.
Angela Lin 0:58
So where where did Lil Waterboi come from the stage name.
Lil Waterboi 1:02
Um, Lil Waterboi came from the time like back in like high school. I was hoping like, I was being on the basketball team, but like, you know, like basketball super competitive. I’m not that tall. So like, I was the waterboy on the team. And like, I just carry that underdog mentality into everything I do.
Angela Lin 1:18
And is that underdog mentality? A lot of the like, recurring theme in some of your rap songs, or is it just part of how you carry yourself?
Lil Waterboi 1:29
Yes. And no, in the sense that like, I feel as though the underdog mentality is like a huge thing in hip hop in general. But like, yeah, like, I mean, there’s always an attitude and edge to everything I do. And I think that comes from the underdog mentality.
Angela Lin 2:25
So on social media you talk about yourself as more than just a rapper. So what do you what do you mean by that? What else what else are you?
Lil Waterboi 2:36
That like kind of like little bio on my ID came from like just having such a hard time marketing myself. Because I do so many creative things like I shoot videos. I do photography, graphic design, and I also started a company like Bahai Collective. Yeah, I’m always creative always doing something different. And I just didn’t want to separate all those things. I want it all to be like one persona, but it’s just someone who does a little bit of everything.
Angela Lin 3:04
Is your rap personality, though the like most prominent Is that why you have to kind of like reel, reel it back that that’s not all you are?
Lil Waterboi 3:13
Yeah, I’d say so. Like, I think my rap personality is just like, I guess it’s the most commercial and the most like, you know, the part of my name that’s the most out there. So like, I guess it’s what ties everything together.
Jesse Lin 3:26
As a rapper do you feel like there’s like an alter form of you that comes out when you’re rapping? Oh, artists are like I have this like Alter Ego person. And they’re like, completely different from who I am in real life.
Lil Waterboi 3:38
Yes, and no, I did. Like, wow you guys are hitting me with the good questions right away. But um, yeah, like, in a way, like I feel so this ties into like, just music in general, I wouldn’t say just rap. But like your persona it’s not necessarily your persona and how you decide to portray yourself, but it’s how people receive you online is so different. Because like I feel as though is a synthesized version, like a watered down version of yourself, where you focus mainly on the most attractive or like, whatever you’re trying to pitch to people because if you put too many ideas out there, like me, I did the whole not just rapper thing because I didn’t want to go too elaborate in it. But like, yeah, if you try to pitch too many ideas, you get lost in the sauce, but you focus on like one or two things. And then when people meet you they realize oh, okay, I thought all rappers were this way. So I guess a lot of people are surprised when they meet me. There’s a lot of layers that I didn’t see before.
Angela Lin 4:34
I’ll chime in there too. Yeah, based on your IG profile. I definitely expected a different persona. I guess then what we’re seeing now, I mean, you’re super chill. That’s, that’s the vibe I’m getting right now. Right? But I feel like with rap, I guess rap and hip hop. You always have to kind of put on like a really hard exterior, I guess and like..
Lil Waterboi 4:55
It’s it’s so tricky because like people told me that all the time. I’m I’m still confused because I feel so it’s still me. Like, this is something that a lot of athletes have too. And it’s like, you’re chill. Normally when you’re walk around, but on the court, you’re a savage. And it’s the same energy. When it comes to my art, I’m super serious, and whatever. But like when it comes to like, just hanging out chilling in real life, I’m pretty down to earth kind of guy.
Jesse Lin 5:19
And so what are the energies, the vibes that you’re putting out in the form of Lil Waterboi?
Lil Waterboi 5:24
Lil Waterboi I think a lot of it is like the whole underdog chip on my shoulder kind of thing. But like where that chip comes from? It comes from just like being underdog in basketball, but also like the Asian thing, you know, sometimes you wonder, like, you know, do people underestimate me because I’m Asian, and I feel so that’s a really recurring theme, especially where I’m from. I know you guys, it’s a little bit different because the Asian scene in California is really big. But the Asian scene in Montreal is almost non existent and like that’s why I kind of like started Bohai collective, which is like an Asian like music collective. So yeah, I hate being put into boxes. And when people try to put me into boxes, I break out of them. So it’s everything that people said, I can’t be kind of in one.
Angela Lin 6:06
And let’s let’s dig into the Asian aspect of being the underdog because I think that is something we don’t yeah, we don’t have first hand experience of like being not around a ton of other Asians and the part of Canada you’re in and from is not super Asian, because I think depending on where people have been like Vancouver’s like super Chinese, right? There’s like a lot of Asians there. So I guess it depends on what experience you will have a Canada but Canada’s huge number one and like Montreal, is very different. Because it’s super French Canadian, right. So like, what was? What was that like growing up there? And like, how did your family end up there? If that’s not a big asian kind of community?
Lil Waterboi 6:48
It isn’t a tiny one, but isn’t a big one. You know, that’s where Montreal is. There’s actually a lot of like, Vietnamese people who immigrated during the Vietnamese war, who came over to Montreal. My parents being some of them. I don’t know why they chose Montreal. I mean, they like I guess during a war time, you’re like, you’ll take whatever you get, right. So they’re here. Fast forward, me living growing up here. I think the thing is, like, there is enough Asians in Montreal that you don’t feel like oh, I’m the only Asian in town. But at the same time, there’s not enough that there’s a strong Asian community. So growing up, like I feel as though like most Asians in my circles, I think this is a common thing. But everyone kind of wants to be white. You know, everyone tried to fit in really, really hard. And that was my case, too. Like, I have like a Vietnamese name. I also have like a French name. And like, I would like transition to my French name. But then, after a couple years, a few years of high school like I kind of went back to using my Vietnamese name.
Angela Lin 7:47
Let’s celebrate these names.
Lil Waterboi 7:49
Um, yeah, so I My full name is Kwok Chwong Francois, Francois is like Frank in French, Trinh.
Angela Lin 7:58
Canada is like one thing on its own. And then like French Canada is like, it’s a microcosm. So I didn’t even think about that you would have a French name in your like, full name. Right? Interesting.
Lil Waterboi 8:10
Like, well, I mean, like, you know, Jesse and Angela are your names like, you know, like, people here they don’t they get French names? Because people speak French. Right. So yeah, but like, easily it can be translated, Frank. You know, I also go by Frank, which is funny, because whenever I used to apply for like, normal jobs, or I would go by Frank in my resume, just because I I think it would increase my chances and like, I think it did.
Angela Lin 8:33
So sounds pretty white. Yeah.
Jesse Lin 8:37
Sounds about white.
Angela Lin 8:41
Oh, that’s so interesting. And we talked about this off camera before but you are fluent in French as well. So you are trilingual?
Lil Waterboi 8:50
Trilingual, yes.
Jesse Lin 8:53
How does your French stack up against your Vietnamese?
Lil Waterboi 8:57
Um, so in order like, it’s funny, because I went to high school in French, but like, my teachers hated me, because I’m always speaking English for like, a good reason. Like, I don’t know why I would find the English kids and speak to them in English. I don’t know why. Cuz I don’t know. But yeah, so my French is pretty good. But I’d say my English is better. So it’s English than French. And then my Vietnamese I can speak Vietnamese, but like, people are like, you know, sometimes when I go to big cities, like I went to Vietnam, maybe like two summers ago, and I would go to a big city I start speaking in Vietnamese, they’re like, oh, you can speak in English here. Like, aw man. Like, I could speak it, but my accents pretty horrendous. Oh, this actually ties into something else like since crazy rich. I don’t know why. But I’ve been getting a lot of new Vietnamese fans. So I installed the Vietnamese keyboard on my phone. I’m starting to try to answer people in Vietnamese it’s very basic stuff like you know, it’d be like thank you. I hope you like my music in Vietnamese but yeah.
Angela Lin 10:00
That’s cool.
Jesse Lin 10:01
You’re gonna start somewhere.
Angela Lin 10:02
Yeah. And so tell us more though about your, like, the reason why you you rap and this hybrid kind of language because it’s not like from what I saw, it’s not like it’s a whole song in English or a whole song in Vietnamese, it’s like, kind of mix and match and like, where that vision come from, and what do you hope people take away from that?
Lil Waterboi 10:24
I think with a lot of music, things, the best things come from, like not thinking too much about it. And like, basically, me and Yenny Yuka, like, we kind of reached out to each other because we were like, yo, you’re one of the only other Viet rappers in the city, we should really do something. So we kind of bounced around a few ideas. Eventually, we went with do my my, which is of the Vietnamese translation for like, “Fuck your mom”, which is like, so dumb as a song name, but it’s just like something that every Viet kid knew, even if they don’t speak good Viet, which is a thing for a lot of Vietnamese people in North America, their Vietnamese is not good. So we just decided to go with that. And like, we just spoke it the way we kind of speak at home, like a lot of kids speak French and Vietnamese at home, or English, Vietnamese, or Viet-glish, as we call it. And it’s just like, we just went with it. And this yeah, it’s not like we tried purposely to fuse the two. Yeah.
Jesse Lin 11:17
Oh, my gosh, that’s so cool.
Angela Lin 11:19
That’s really cool.
Lil Waterboi 11:20
Yeah, I think it just makes him relatable. Like, you know, we knew who we were speaking to. We were speaking to other kids like us and like we all speak Viet-glish.
Angela Lin 11:29
I love it. That’s so funny, because we’ve only really heard like Chinglish but I guess every Asian must have a…
Lil Waterboi 11:35
Yeah, for sure.
Angela Lin 11:36
Whatever ish
Lil Waterboi 11:38
Like, in Montreal, they do Haitian slang a lot. Just because like there’s a lot of Haitian people here, but I say it all the time. Like I kind of want to make Viet words like randomly popular if I blow up, I want people to like non Vietnamese people that use the Vietnamese word.
Angela Lin 11:53
That’s so fun.
Jesse Lin 11:54
I was to say, aside from incorporating the language into your music, like Are there any other musical influences that you’re taking from more of an Asian background or Asian origin?
Lil Waterboi 12:04
Um, in terms of like, purely musical like instrumentation, like Du Ma May samples like, Vietnamese dan bau, it’s called dan bau music. Other than that, um, the intro, I sing in a style called, it’s called Cai Luong. And it’s basically like, a soap opera singing. And like, I sing that but with really dumb lyrics in Vietnamese. And like, I don’t know, like, it’s just a little nudge for like, people who are Vietnamese they can they find that funny.
Jesse Lin 12:33
And like these musical influences, where did you pick those up from? Are they just kind of like things that most Vietnamese kids would know? Or it’s something that you specifically learned elsewhere?
Lil Waterboi 12:44
Yeah, um, when we were writing the song, we just want it to be relatable, like, it’s really a Viet diaspora song. Uh diaspora, sorry I always say the word wrong. But it’s a it’s a song that it’s meant to relate to these kids. So we just thought of like, all the things that are most iconic in like, what our parents taught us, you know, and like dan bau music and Cai Luong are very popular in Vietnamese culture. So, yeah, we went with those.
Angela Lin 13:10
And alright, so let’s, let’s get more into your rap career. So how long have you been rapping?
Lil Waterboi 13:17
Um, I started off making beats maybe like four or five years ago. I’ve always been a creative person. But like, I guess I never really pursued anything that deeply because my parents are very, like Tiger parent kind of personalities. Yeah, my brother’s a prof at Harvard so he ruined it for all the siblings. But yeah, so what I was noticing when I was making beats is that I never saw Asian rappers that much like back then back then, especially when I was making beats at first, I really didn’t see a lot of Asian rappers and I was like, You know what, fuck it. I’m gonna do it. And that’s where I’m now.
Jesse Lin 13:53
Talk about the parents. Yeah, Tiger parents. And especially with your brother being Harvard, like how to have that how they take that when you’re like, I’m gonna do this.
Lil Waterboi 14:04
Um, yeah. How did I break the news to them? I did not I lied to them. So I was in college, I was in uni, I was studying computer science, like, I in a different life. I probably would have liked it. But I was so focused on making music. I did not go to school. I was like, barely passing by, like, literally, I would show up to the exam. And no one would like have ever seen me, you know? So, um, but at some point, I was just like, you know, fuck it. I’m gonna go to Toronto. I’m going to make beats because I had a few cool opportunities. And I told my parents I graduated.
Angela Lin 14:39
So they still don’t know?
Jesse Lin 14:40
That’s ballsy.
Lil Waterboi 14:41
No, no, I told my parents that I graduated, but at some point, like I think someone snitched on me. I don’t know who it is. One of my siblings, maybe a cousin. I don’t know. But my parents were like, we didn’t speak for like almost a year after that. But slowly we kind of are getting better. And I think now that I’m a little bit older, I can kind of see where they’re coming from and like, you know, the pressures that are put on them, and they kind of like, you know, reflected on us. But, um, yeah, like something that I think helped a lot with my parents acceptance of what I do is just like seeing my financial stability, like now that I’m like, more, okay they’re less strict about it, and less intense about it. And also, like seeing me in articles, for some reason, just does the job for them. They think it’s more legitimate because they saw me in some, like, some school, like, academic article or something.
Angela Lin 15:35
Have they heard your music? Or did they just know that you make music?
Lil Waterboi 15:39
I don’t know. Like, there’s this funny thing going on in like my IG that, like, a lot of my followers are following. And it’s just like, at some point, maybe like, last year, my dad sent me an email and it was like, Hey, are you Lil Waterboi? He sent me an article about me. Yeah. And, um, yeah, so every time like, my dad sends me emails, I post on Instagram, because I find that stuff hilarious. But like, that’s literally all we’ve ever talked about my music is, are you Lil Waterboi. And like, Hey, I found another article about you. And that’s about it. He never comment on my music. After he sent me that email. It’s like, hey, do you want tickets to my live show? He’s like, No, thank you. But good luck.
Jesse Lin 16:21
The email thing is cute, though. It is very cute. I feel like it’s a way of caring. Yeah.
Angela Lin 16:27
Yeah, I feel like Asian parents have like a really tough exterior. So those are his little like hints that he still cares. And he’s still like keeping tabs on you. Right? Even if he’s not going to be blatantly…
Lil Waterboi 16:38
All my siblings watch my stuff. I know. I know, all my stuff, but they never talk to me about it. So it’s, like, kind of awkward, to be honest.
Angela Lin 16:46
I wonder because I like especially because you rep Vietnamese and your songs like, I feel like if they heard it, they, you know, feel some kind of way about it. Because you’re repping your culture.
Lil Waterboi 16:59
At the same time I am screaming fuck your mom and Vietnamese. Not sure about that one. But no, I think like, I have other songs about like, you know, my Asian upbringing, or just like a like Asian culture in general, like that are coming out. So like maybe down the line, they will kind of relate to like, why it’s important that I’m doing what I’m doing. But yeah, we’ll see.
Angela Lin 17:22
Um, okay, so let’s talk about then the family you choose for yourself, which is like friends and community and sounds like through your collective that you started, you found that tell us more about that, how you started, why you started and like what’s going on with it.
Lil Waterboi 17:39
So Bahai collective kind of started from the need of like, it came from the need, like what I was observing how there are a lot of Asian artists but not a lot of them were performing. So Bahai collective started off as like an event kind of like business where Bahai means home in Tagalog, by the way, because the organization has Filipino origins. We were collabing with a Filipino University organization called Mufasa. It’s like the McGill. I don’t know if you guys know what McGill University is, but..
Jesse Lin 18:11
I do kinda
Lil Waterboi 18:12
..it’s like people say it’s the Canadian, Yale, or something. But yeah, so the Filipino organization of McGill and North American Asians association of McGill. They kind of had a collab event with me, because like, I had a lot of friends in both groups. And we just decided to do a benefit concert to raise money for typhoon Ompong relief. That’s a typhoon that hit the Philippines in 2018. Yeah, so from that concert, we decided to throw more because it was pretty successful. And yeah, like, we were just booking as many Asian acts as we could, because we didn’t really see them get those opportunities. So what we transitioned to is becoming a creative studio slash creative agency. And the way we pitch ourselves that we offer everything a label would to artists that are independent, without actually being a label, making them sign anything like, you know, everything’s on like a one project per project basis. And we’re just like, really helping artists, like, you know, get everything they need. Yeah. So through doing Bahai like, you know, I really connected with a lot of the people that I met along the way some people from those University clubs, some people who joined Bahai later on my producer JT on the beat, he’s not Asian, but he’s down for the cause. He’s been with us since the beginning. So like, you know, my family’s really like, you know, my music family, and I physically live with them too like, Bahai means home into dialogue. And like the way our business grew, we turned it like into a physical place. It’s a house. So yeah, so we live like I’m currently in the Bahai house and we have like a music studio one room I have my personal studio and like my closet over there, and we have like a whole graphic design, like kind of like lobby kind of space.
Angela Lin 19:53
That’s so cool.
Jesse Lin 19:54
That is really cool.
Angela Lin 19:57
You’re like Terrace House but Canadian Asian.
Jesse Lin 20:02
So as part of the collective have you have you seen or met any artists that have already added to your own artistry, you’re working with them, and you’re like, wow, this is like a really cool whatever it is that they’re doing, whether it’s like rap or other other kinds of things.
Lil Waterboi 20:18
I think, I guess that’s the driving force between, like our transition as a company, but also just like, our continued passion for this project is just we constantly meet people that we wouldn’t have met otherwise. And we, like you, people really underestimate the value of a network. It’s humongous. It’s like, there’s so many cool people, but if they never met each other, like, they wouldn’t have been able to influence and work with each other. And like, you know, creating network just allows all these people to work kind of towards a shared goal. Like I’m so happy for all the people I’ve met through Bahai. And honestly, like, I don’t think I can count them. They’re just so many. And I think that’s something that applies to people who either worked or volunteered at our events, or the artists like everyone always meets people like I met Ching through Bahai Ching is the artists on crazy rich. But yeah, there’s play like Lonestar and Golden Child two Montreal artists also met and had us all together at whatever events. So like, yeah, Bahai events is definitely a place for people to meet. And that’s something we’re proud of.
Angela Lin 21:20
So question because it sounds like you know, through your own efforts and Bahai, you guys are creating this community and like bringing people together that otherwise wouldn’t know each other or know more people within this, like Asian Canadian space. Previously, we spoke with an Asian American singer, AZRA. And she talked about how there aren’t many like Asian American artists, I guess she was saying that it’s not super collaborative right now in the Asian American musician, space, because it kind of feels more like, there’s only a limited amount of like, attention or whatever. So they have to kind of, like fight each other a little bit, although she’s trying to change that by being more collaborative, but that’s the sentiment she feels. Outside of your own efforts really, like you are actively trying to be super, you know, collaborative and like community driven, is that largely similar to how you’re seeing the Asian Canadian artist space?
Lil Waterboi 22:21
I think, um, I think something important is like to be the change you seek, you know, like, the reason I do this is because I feel as though there’s a lack of it, but at the same time, I feel as though like, once you put the energy in, you’ll get it back, you know, like, because we create this network for people, they appreciate it, and they give back to us. And like, you know, this benefits us all. So I think it’s really like, you know, it is a kind of like a one step at a time kind of thing. Like, yeah, it can improve, but like, I do have hope for the future because, like, you know, I think the results are already coming. So, also, I’m very confused. Because when I look at the, like Asian Americans scene, and I’m like, wow, I wish the Asian Canadian scene was more like that. Because like, you guys, like, I feel as though like, Yeah, sure. Um, if you do the relative comparison, where you compare Asian American artists to other American, like, white American artists are like, wow, the gap is so huge. But like, you know, at least Asian American artists, like they have a platform, you know, Asian Canadian artists when you say that, I think most people are like crickets. Like, there are some but like, you know, like, what I’m trying to get out is like, it really is hard to like, name them if you’re just a casual music fan. Whereas like, with Asian American artists, like 88rising, that’s kind of like getting a name for it. So there’s like, I guess independent Asian American artists are also building a name for themselves like Keshi, Audrey Nuna. Yeah, I feel as though there are people to look up to.
Angela Lin 23:52
We gotta expand our knowledge of Asian American artists
Lil Waterboi 23:56
If you guys want like, I can make you guys a playlist because I think
Jesse Lin 23:59
I would love that. Honestly, I have found a few new Asian artists since this this like since we start working our podcast and we had AZRA on it’s actually like, really interesting the breadth of material that people are working on. So I was like, listening to I think like, techno-house from somebody in Hong Kong and then kind of this like, folksy rock thing, manic pixie girl from the UK. So it’s been an interesting.
Lil Waterboi 24:31
Oh, yeah, in the UK that like, UK & Australia there’s a few like, you know, is it I’m gonna butcher her name, but it’s like beabadobee?
Jesse Lin 24:39
Yes. That’s the one, so good. I
Lil Waterboi 24:41
Oh, yeah, like she’s huge now. Yeah, she’s dope. You should check out Dane is another artists like kind of in that lane that I’d like a lot. She’s from Austrlia. Like, she’s really not that well known yet. But I think she’s amazing. Is there a word for Asian diaspora like but like the adjective to describe someone from the diaspora?
Angela Lin 25:02
I think we just keep saying like Asian blank.
Lil Waterboi 25:06
Yeah, right. But I think there’s something that ties us all together, whether Asian Australian, Asian, Canadian, Asian American, there’s like there should be a word for it.
Angela Lin 25:14
Yeah.
Lil Waterboi 25:15
in Vietnamese there is though. Oh, yeah. Yeah, like, um, shout out VietQ playlists but they kind of like took a popular Viet word and like, every time a Vietnamese person goes to Vietnam, they call it viet kieu and that just means like, overseas Vietnamese person.
Angela Lin 25:31
Oh, interesting.
Lil Waterboi 25:32
But like, yeah, I met someone like through doing music that they were trying to start the playlist called Viet que, but with the letter Q, and they just like kind of like made a playlist of like Vietnamese artists all overseas, and they kind of made group chats for us and all that and like, it’s just really, really dope. Yeah, kind of all relate on a lot of things, even though we’re from different parts of the world.
Jesse Lin 25:55
I have one final loaded question about music. How do you respond to people who say that Asians can’t rap?
Lil Waterboi 26:04
Um, this is a really tricky one. I think all questions are tricky, actually. Because I’m one of those people that like, I hate black and white answers. I’m not a black and white answer person. It’s a hard space to navigate for sure. I think the first thing when someone says that the first thing that I kind of think of is like, why are you pointing it out? specifically? Because a lot of times people are like, oh, Asians can’t rap, but they’re okay with white people rapping and that makes no sense or Latinos rapping. Or like, when I think about that, I think like, yeah, like, are you genuinely offended of like, the content of my rap music? Or are you more offended by the fact that you don’t think Asian people can, like, you know, can do cool stuff, or, like, you just have these weird racial biases against Asian people. But for the people who are genuinely, genuinely, like, I guess worried about the kind of like, appropriative aspect of it, I think it’s a really hard space to navigate. Like, I do think that there’s a fine line to tread between appropriating and appreciating. And that’s always the challenge that every, like non black artist has to tread doing hip hop music. But at the end of the day, like, what I do personally, is like, I am very conscientious of like, my imprint on society, or on the music culture. And like, you know, I try to keep myself grounded by being around like, good people, when it comes to these kind of things. And like, you know, always trying to do something positive, as opposed to negative, because like, yeah, there’s a lot of artists that I feel like, you know, on one hand, some people think that it’s like, oh, social justice warrior stuff, like, oh, no one can do anything anymore. But, and sometimes that’s a little bit true. But on the other hand, sometimes there are people who are genuinely disrespectful with the kind of music or kind of content that they create. So it’s a fine line to tread and there’s no black and white answer to it, you really have to, like navigate that on your own, but do put in the effort to navigate.
Angela Lin 27:57
I do appreciate that you are making it your own, though, like with these Vietnamese influences and stuff. That’s like making it into a new thing, right? That’s like taking inspiration from something as a base, but then you’re, you’re making an new product out of it. That’s not just stealing. Yeah, that’s something else.
Lil Waterboi 28:17
And yeah, that’s something that I think about a lot too, like, you know, I don’t want I didn’t want to come in and like start making music about like, you know, hardships that I didn’t have to go through, right, that wouldn’t make any sense. So I kind of wanted to make music that I would relate to, and hopefully other people who had similar situations to me would relate to.
Angela Lin 28:32
Alright, so I think we’ll move into our closing Fortune Cookie section and we talked about this a little bit before, but maybe you have a specific answer in mind is, let’s dream about pre COVID days. Like, we want to know what’s the most fun show that you played pre COVID.
Lil Waterboi 28:55
I opened for Manila Grey. That’s their like a Canadian rap duo when they came to Montreal. That was a pretty fun show. Because I think that was the first time I performed at a big non-Bahai. I think was like 500 people and like, people were like, going crazy. And cheering and I’m like, who are you? Who are you? You guys are like going crazy. I love y’all. But um, so that was one that was pretty cool. And like the first Bahai event ever. I think that just holds a special place in my heart, you know, just because like, you know, that’s where it started. Kind of.
Angela Lin 29:26
Yeah, you did that. That was your baby.
Lil Waterboi 29:29
Yeah
Jesse Lin 29:29
You did that indeed. Well, thank you for joining us. This was a really fun conversation.
Lil Waterboi 29:35
Thank you so much for having me. Like I definitely got to know a lot more about American stuff.
Jesse Lin 29:42
And for listeners, where can we find you? What are what are the new projects that you have coming out, new music you have coming out?
Lil Waterboi 29:53
So I dropped I just dropped the Crazy Rich video featuring Ching we’re two like Canadian Asian artists trying to make it. And yeah, you can find me as Lil Waterboi on Instagram. You can also find me on Spotify, any streaming platform that you want. And what I’m working on right now. It’s like, it’s funny because like, I did Du Ma May, Crazy Rich and I have a bunch of these singles lined up. And they’re all have kind of like, they kind of have like some kind of Asian background to it. And I’m trying to do this and like, reach out to the Asian diaspora this way. But my project that’s coming out after that is complete, like, 180 because it’s super personal. And it’s really just about my experience. It’s very emotional. And the sounds and style is really different. So like, I’m really excited to see how, like, people take that like 180. But yeah, stay tuned for that.
Angela Lin 30:54
All right. Well, if you have questions about this episode, the topic or Lil Waterboi, you can also email us at telluswhereyourefrom@gmail.com the YOU’RE is Y-O-U-R-E, or if you’re also an artist and you want to connect you want to share your story write us in as well and we’ll we’ll see what we can do there.