Audacy Check In: Kane Brown

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Kane Brown joins us on #AudacyCheckIn to celebrate his latest album, 'The High Road' 🎶

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00:00Who would you say in the country genre tells the best story?

00:04Oh, the best story?

00:05Yeah.

00:06Oh, there's too many to name.

00:07Any favorites you had growing up?

00:09I mean, a huge Randy Travis fan.

00:13When it comes to stories, I love Almost Home, Craig Morgan.

00:17It's a great story.

00:22This is your check-in with Kane Brown at the Odyssey Soundspace

00:25at the Hard Rock Hotel, New York.

00:27My man, we were just chatting about all the wonderful things

00:30you have going on, so congratulations on that.

00:33We're going to get to that in a bit, but I wanted to ask you,

00:36I feel like a lot of my friends who grew up on hip-hop,

00:39like myself, within the past five years or so, I would say,

00:43have really transitioned, became like country fans, hardcore,

00:48and my theory is that with both the genres,

00:53the storytelling is the common theme.

00:56Do you see that?

00:57Yeah, I think country music is just getting a lot of cool new elements

01:04to the music that's getting added.

01:07Plus the storytelling, and there's a lot of cool artists

01:10in country music that's really stepping out, I'd say.

01:14As far as hip-hop goes, I would say the undisputed champs

01:17of storytelling, maybe Slick Rick and Biggie,

01:21who would you say in the country genre tells the best story?

01:25Oh, the best story?

01:26Yeah.

01:27Oh, there's too many to name.

01:28Any favorites you had growing up?

01:30I mean, a huge Randy Travis fan.

01:34When it comes to stories, I love Almost Home, Craig Morgan.

01:38It's a great story.

01:40Don't Take the Girl by Tim McGraw.

01:42Cool one.

01:43Yeah.

01:44What are the kids listening to now, aside from the new album?

01:47I mean, man, my kids will listen to anything.

01:51I would say recently it's been like dubstep wheels on the bus.

01:54Okay.

01:55Yeah, and when that comes on, I usually go crazy too.

01:59Are you introducing them to any and everything,

02:02or do you have very specific artists you want to expose them to early on?

02:06My wife's a huge R&B fan, so just big voices in general.

02:13I think Whitney Houston.

02:15Love it.

02:16Anybody with a crazy big voice is what she's trying to get them to listen to.

02:20We doing the Drew Hills and that era,

02:23or just sticking to Whitney and Tina and stuff like that?

02:27Yeah, basically like that.

02:28Okay, cool.

02:29And then, of course, the Disney princesses.

02:31Right, right.

02:32They got some bluey songs mixed in there too.

02:34Do you remember what the last movie was that you took your eldest to?

02:39Like a movie theater?

02:40Yeah.

02:41I haven't been to the movie theaters with them.

02:43I think they've only been twice.

02:44Okay, okay.

02:45Yeah.

02:46The last kid movie I remember watching.

02:49I try to get them to watch all the stuff that I grew up watching.

02:52And they don't do it, man.

02:53No, man.

02:54Oh, really?

02:55Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:56But I'll be like, this was Daddy's favorite movie.

02:58And then Kate will show them her favorite movies.

03:02The funniest story I have is Kate's deathly afraid of E.T.

03:06Okay.

03:07And so I told my kids about E.T., and so now they love E.T.

03:11And they've just been walking around going, E.T., phone home.

03:14Bro, I've been trying to push Batman onto my son since day one,

03:19and it hasn't been happening.

03:21They like what they like.

03:22I was surprised they like E.T. as much as they did.

03:24That's crazy.

03:25You're a bad person for that, man.

03:29Are you guys doing playdates with just some of the kids that they're in school with or whatever?

03:38Explain to me how that even goes down.

03:40Because, listen, if I'm at Kane Brown's house for a playdate,

03:43I'm going to get video footage of me being up in there before I leave.

03:47Is it just like –

03:48Yeah.

03:49No, country music, everybody has a kid.

03:52Okay.

03:53So I don't think you'll find an artist that doesn't have a kid, or it's hard to find that.

03:57So there's like a country pool.

03:59You have like a WhatsApp group of playdates with just the other country kids.

04:03Yeah, kind of.

04:05That's wild, dude.

04:06Yeah, it's just a big family.

04:08Is there anything your mother saved from your childhood that she really wanted to give her grandkids?

04:16I don't believe so.

04:17Okay.

04:18But I will say she's got a lot of clothes from me from back in the day, like my sports stuff.

04:25Yeah, yeah.

04:26So Thanksgiving she brought me my old basketball sweatshirt back.

04:29So I got my Red Bank basketball sweatshirt that I've been rocking.

04:32Oh, that's cool.

04:33Yeah, it was cool to wear.

04:34I felt young again, like 16.

04:37I love that.

04:38So I'm Listening is one of our big initiatives.

04:41We put the spotlight on mental health awareness.

04:44You have been through a lot of crazy stuff, your childhood, the things you've overcome.

04:51As a husband, as a father now, how do you make sure that you don't pass along those traumas to your family?

05:02I don't know.

05:03That is the hardest thing.

05:05And I still try to work on that as much as possible, even if it's the smallest argument, trying to get away, not let the kids see it.

05:14And just love on Kate as much as possible.

05:17And yeah, I guess it's just being a decent person in front of my kids.

05:25I feel like every day is a new day and you try to do a little bit better every day.

05:30Yeah.

05:31Which for me, though, I mean, it's not hard to be any better than what I had around me growing up stepdad wise.

05:41Yeah, yeah, yeah.

05:42So yeah.

05:43And I know your music is obviously a form of therapy for you.

05:48And you have like Haunted where you touch on a lot of those themes.

05:52Have the kids heard that song?

05:54Have you had discussions about that song?

05:56Oh, yeah, yeah.

05:57My daughter, I don't think they're old enough to really understand it.

06:01But I do know she's asked me to play that song like 10 times in the car one day.

06:05Okay.

06:06Which I thought was strange.

06:08Yeah, right, right.

06:09You're like, but the wheels are always turning, man.

06:12So maybe, you know.

06:13I don't know.

06:14She's only five.

06:15So I think it was just for the guitars and just the beat.

06:17Okay.

06:18I haven't really ever.

06:19I hadn't had to explain it to her.

06:21She hasn't came to me and asked me like, Dad, what's this song about?

06:24Do you feel like you're prepared for that?

06:26Oh, yeah.

06:27Okay.

06:28Yeah, I mean, I would talk to her.

06:29I want her to be able to come and talk to me about anything.

06:31And that's why I released the song.

06:33I want my fans to be able to do the same.

06:35I got a really sweet message from a guy in country radio.

06:40He got to hear the song before it released.

06:43And he sent me a video and just told him that he relates to that song so much.

06:48Thank you for writing it.

06:49And it was a very long but very special message that I keep close to me.

06:53And I ran into him the other day and gave him my number and said,

06:56If you ever need to reach out, I'm here.

06:58So it's a very lonely place to be, and I understand it 100%.

07:03I appreciate you opening up about that.

07:06Before we wrap, you know, staying on the mental health theme, social media,

07:10I think we all know how toxic it can be for us, for our kids.

07:16So how do you kind of balance that, how much you're, you know,

07:19reading the good and bad, how much you're on there?

07:22Yeah, I mean, honestly, for anybody, I feel like it's hard

07:26because you want to just, you know, you get so many good messages

07:30and you want to go read the negative ones, you know.

07:33It's just what our brains are torn on.

07:36I don't know, I think that's what's hard for me.

07:38I think that's why I got off social media for a little while now,

07:40trying to come back to it.

07:41I feel like the old man.

07:42Yeah, yeah.

07:44But yeah, I don't know.

07:45I was just, for anybody that's listening that's a new artist

07:49or, you know, going through the struggle of that,

07:51I would just say everybody has it.

07:54It's not just you.

07:55So don't, that's just people that ain't doing anything

07:58and they don't have anything better to do.

08:00Cool.

08:01Kane, congratulations, man.

08:02Thank you for giving us the time.

08:04Yeah, thanks for having me.

08:05We appreciate it.

08:06♪ music playing ♪

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