#JessieReyez makes her case for hot yoga, talks about how mushrooms might be aliens, and gushes about her new album 'Paid In Memories' on her RS Recommends episode.
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00:00I've always been cognizant of not getting too swayed
00:03with the reception that I'm getting
00:05because I don't want it to affect my compass.
00:07Even if no one was listening to my shit,
00:09I'd still be an artist.
00:10It's art independent of whether or not there's a spectator.
00:13If you live for applause, you'll crumble for the booze.
00:16Hello, I am Jessie Reyes, and these are my recommendations.
00:20I fucking love poutine, man.
00:30I'll fuck up a poutine from Harvest Cheese.
00:33You need it to be hot.
00:34You cannot have cold poutine
00:35because you need to see that cheese stretch.
00:37That shit is porn.
00:39I'll fuck up a poutine.
00:40Oh, and a beaver tail.
00:41Oh my God, a beaver tail, but no cinnamon.
00:43You know what a beaver tail is?
00:44You don't know what a beaver tail is?
00:46It's just a white people's churro.
00:48The secret to the best empanada is having my mom make it.
00:51I make them decent.
00:52I have to mix this shit.
00:53Bacon oil.
00:54Dough ready to go.
00:55Your queso.
00:56Roll this shit up.
00:57If I cook for you, I fucking love you.
01:00Happy Mother's Day.
01:03My mom takes the time with details.
01:05That means that her potatoes are fucking itty-bitty
01:07and they're perfect squares.
01:08Everything is just so beautiful, and it's jokes.
01:10It's not like you're going to see the potatoes on a plate.
01:12The potatoes are going to get stuffed into la masa.
01:16My favorite albums growing up?
01:18Oof.
01:19The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is one up there for me.
01:22That's a masterpiece.
01:23It was good for you, and not often are things that are good for you palatable.
01:29For example, spinach.
01:31Who the fuck likes eating spinach?
01:32But that music, that album was spinach for your soul.
01:34That was so good, but it was delivered in a way that tasted like steak.
01:37On a bad day, I'm seeking out refuge sonically,
01:41and to me, refuge is Bob Marley.
01:44Refuge is redemption song.
01:46Refuge is this love.
01:48Refuge is waiting in vain.
01:50It immediately soothes me.
01:53It can dry tears, which is really beautiful.
01:5930 ones.
02:0130 activities.
02:03Go-to that I'm listening to if I'm working out
02:05will be something more aggro like Pac.
02:07Probably listening to Glow.
02:09Some throwback Lil' Kim.
02:10China.
02:11I'm hanging that man in the back of the bus.
02:15Shawna, please have mercy.
02:17I ain't getting paid till the end of the week.
02:19Yo, that song lives rent free in my head, man.
02:22That shit is elite.
02:24How did I feel when Drake called me a national treasure during the Raptors podcast?
02:29Wowzers.
02:31An absolute national treasure right there.
02:33Lit.
02:35Felt lit.
02:36I love that guy, man.
02:37The city loves that man.
02:39The country loves that man.
02:40As everyone should, considering everything he's done.
02:43For the country, for the city.
02:44Yeah, I love him.
02:45He's great.
02:52Psilocybin and Daisies was made in LA.
02:54Jamming.
02:55They were playing ideas.
02:57I gravitated towards that one.
02:58Shut my eyes.
02:59Thought about my ex.
03:00And then this came out.
03:01I don't think I ever have reluctancy in putting a song out because someone might hear it.
03:04Fuck it.
03:05If anything, I'll send the song directly.
03:14My squad, too, were like, that's a Smashing Pumpkins sample.
03:17And I was like, oh shit.
03:19And then we reached out to Billy and we were able to clear it.
03:22Everything I make is a culmination of my life until that point.
03:27Some people know, some people don't.
03:28But I started off as a songwriter and for a long time, I would give away a lot of my
03:32quote unquote bigger records.
03:34I ended up identifying with being the underdog for a long time.
03:37Developing more of a taste for heartbreak and darker, cooler songs.
03:41And then by default, happier ones seem cheesy to me.
03:45Specifically in English, to be honest.
03:47Because in Spanish, it can risk being hella heavy in love and hella heavy in romanticism.
03:51But it doesn't run the risk of being cheese.
03:53But in English, it does.
03:54And I just remember being averse to that.
03:59Movies that I'm really into.
04:00One of the movies that I love that I could rewatch a million times is Scarface.
04:04That's probably the movie I've watched most in my life.
04:08And Goodfellas.
04:09Goodfellas is up there for me, too.
04:10And before Love Came to Kill Us, the first song is an ode to the scene where Karen's
04:14standing over him with a gun.
04:15Do you love her?
04:16Do you love her?
04:24I'm a sci-fi nerd, too.
04:25Inception, Gravity, Arrival.
04:27Prometheus is so fucking fire.
04:30I love Clockwork Orange by Kubrick.
04:32I love Pulp Fiction.
04:33I love Kill Bill.
04:34That movie's fucked.
04:36I love it.
04:37I remember when I first started taking meetings and shit and putting projects out.
04:40One of the questions was, what genre is it?
04:42I don't like genres.
04:43I don't like titles.
04:44I don't like turtlenecks.
04:45I don't like anything that feels oppressive.
04:46I don't like bras.
04:47Anything that tries to like.
04:48I needed a genre that would allow me to be free.
04:51For me, my genre is Quentin Tarantino.
04:53So if the song can play in a Quentin Tarantino film, then it's a Jessie Reyez song.
05:01I'm currently sober.
05:02Well, alcohol sober.
05:03I haven't had a drink for about two years.
05:05I like mushrooms.
05:06But I don't do it hella recreationally.
05:08I do it more so ritualistically.
05:10You know?
05:11With intention.
05:12Sometimes my intention is to heal.
05:14My intention is to find peace.
05:20You know some people think mushrooms are aliens?
05:21Have you heard that?
05:22Not from this earth, but that they have significant consciousnesses in and of itself.
05:27I mean, this is a whole YouTube wormhole.
05:29Go check it out.
05:30If an alien ever came down and they asked me to show them some shit,
05:33I think I'd find a video on my phone of me playing with my little nieces.
05:39Because to me, you can see love.
05:41Son of a bitch.
05:45Moving on.
05:48Cool, cool.
05:52I've been doing yoga for a long, long time.
05:53It soothes me.
05:54It soothes my spirit.
05:55Just brings me peace.
05:56Gives me more patience.
05:57Gives me learning opportunities in so many ways.
06:01Yeah.
06:05I had a girlfriend that was working at the gym and she was like,
06:07you should come to a class.
06:08And I was like, cool.
06:09I remember going and it was hell.
06:10Most people don't make it through the full hour.
06:12Because it's intense on your body, especially when you're not used to it.
06:14However, when I exited that class, I shit you not,
06:18the wave of euphoria that just hits you is so worth the pain of being in the class.
06:24My favorite is heart yoga in the studio when it's just fucking blasting.
06:27But in nature it's nice too.
06:28Like by the ocean, in the woods, camping.
06:30It's nice.
06:32I'm a fucking huge nature person.
06:34So I go a lot of places.
06:35I love going camping.
06:37Especially in Canada.
06:38Like bear country in Canada is really beautiful.
06:40There's bears.
06:41There's moose.
06:42There's wolves.
06:43There's these fucking bougie looking ducks that we call loons that are all black
06:47that look like God detailed white dots on them.
06:50It's a really beautiful place.
06:58It's beautiful.
06:59I love it.