P-COAT Loyalty & Legacy TiJay Staar’s Conversation w/ RECORDING ARTIST AND PRODUCER: P-Coat. I must admit, this next story brings me great pleasure to share!! I have grown up with some truly gifted and amazing people! We have stayed connected, through good times and bad! Gigs, no gigs, and pause and prep stages. We have gathered what we had been given, fought to maintain and earned, and created something worthy of sharing!! I have recently had the pleasure of linking with long time kinfolk and fellow Artist/Producer, P- Coat, from Vallejo, Ca. We met back in Junior High, went throughbHigh School and beyond! Over the years, we have done small collabs, a small reminder to each, that we are still around! A small little project away! LOL! But, this conversation/interview shows me that we are closer than we think! And I am glad to support him and continue to watch his passion push him forward! So, with this convo, I caught him preparing before a power packed show with Mystikal and The Infamous Kaboo!
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Maintaining sanity, during the pandemic was definitely a test. How’d you do it? I stayed aggressively busy, building the Brand of BFA
(Brothers from Another) with fellow artists I have been working with for years. Music projects from our collective, plus my own, has been the focus. Layout your newer projects: I have been workin on numerous singles and collaborations with: Ice Meez, Infamous Kaboo, and a host of others. My work that I have released is on ALL digital platforms. How does “OG” status drive people to grab your new stuff? Well, T. With us being in the game for so long, me, almost 20 years, it has been a blessing and a curse, so to speak! Keeping a track record of quality music, exploring your talents, and giving the fanbase what they want, are ways of relevence. I try to follow the steps, artists like E-40 uses to stay relevant. Such as, adapting and working with up and coming artists. What have you take from.the beginning of.your career, until now? What I have takenis the learning process of capturing the persona of me being an artist. Not a gimmick but, as in an entertainer. S olidarity and the mindset of staying creative also.
