Chris Ivan & Joe Lujan (Part II)
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okay, what's good everybody? Welcome back to rebel Radio. I'm your host Malika Bella here today with our guests, Chris, Ivan and Joe Luhan. Welcome, welcome.
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Thanks for having me. I should say us.
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Oh, exciting.
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For one of the words we said identity and that one was stumping y'all, you're like, Oh, no. I know that, you know, at least you're bilingual. i You may be like trilingual or something else too. But I saw one of your songs Mia more, but really identity like, how do you bring, you know, even just the language like Spanish and English and different things like different parts of being from Cali. You know, all your roots. And also Joe, you know, El Paso filming. So how do you bring different parts of your identity into your projects? I
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he actually is more bilingual than I am. I I wouldn't even say I'm bilingual. I have a girl I had. That was maybe the most money I've ever spent on a session because I don't speak Spanish. I understand it. So I didn't I had to learn the correct pronunciation. And I should have hired someone to be in the studio with me at the time. But I FaceTimed my grandma who lives in Stockton, and it was a lot of like, Is this how you say it correctly? And how you do this? Because I would consider myself Afro Latino. Because my mom, she's Puerto Rican, black, my dad's Mexican and Jewish. So I am like a mutt. I mean, people don't like that. But
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I self identify as. Okay, I appreciate a mixture
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of a little bit of everything. But I wanted to add Spanish, solely because I mean, from the Puerto Rican aspect, I grew up hearing their Spanish, which is completely different from how he speaks Spanish and I went the more traditional route. And for me Add mode, but I have a new song called Ivan on my new album, the self titled track, and that one's in Spanish. And he listens to it and that's more of a Puerto Rican Spanish. And he's just like, we would never say something like that, because it means something completely different. But I definitely did have to add some type of Hispanic flair to that. Just all my art. Yeah, it's
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a little bit of everything. You know, it's the perfect seasoning. And I know when you're talking about like, Spanish and understanding it and barely like, you're like, oh my god, like I had to prep for that. Yeah, I wouldn't even say that I can do Spanglish. That's a step up, I can barely there's like, certain phrases that I'm like, Okay, I feel like a robot and memorize those. And then that's all I can't hold the conversation. I can't pronunciation is just trash. It's an embarrassment at this point. But I can understand like bits and pieces, so I'm like, yeah, and honestly, it's something I want to learn. So but yeah, thank you for that. So I do have like speaking of on Ivan, right, there's one track. I don't know if it's I Pisces or Pisces? Yes, I ask because are you a Pisces?
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I am. I am a Pisces. My birthday was March 4. So just a couple of days ago,
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Happy belated birthday. But yeah, I bring that up because I'm really interested in like, astrology and stuff like that. And I wonder if you tend to, you know, identify as a water sign if you're like, this is totally me. For me, personally, I'm a cancer. I don't know, Joe, if you want to say yours. I'm a Taurus. Nice. I feel like Yeah, we all get along naturally. I feel the vibes in here are good. But maybe that's why that connection just instantly happened. You know, way back when and you're like, you know what, we work? We work perfectly. So that's where this came into fruition?
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Yeah. Yeah. I think we just forget sometimes Chris
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wants to be more like a waterbender I think that's what he's
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I am an avatar. Lover Last Airbender.
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It's a perfect time for it to Netflix be hopping on that. But
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that that was amazing. They just announced season two and three and you could put me in as a dog. You can put me in as anything that flies I will hold. I'll even cook for y'all. You're like I'll be for free for free. for free?
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Well, I feel like this is coming to natural close. I appreciate y'all so much. But really with that, you know, with Ivan, is there anything specifically is there like a favorite song on the tracklist? Is there something that you want to talk about?
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I will say, my favorite song is the self titled track, Ivan. It's just, it was more of a self i It's crazy how you said identity and why I said love is because I had to find that love for myself, you know. And it's hard, you know. And fun fact, like Joe tried to buy that song for me for his album, really. And all now to hear since I mean, he wasn't going to announce it. But he's actually on the remix, for my remix album coming out in the summer. Waiting for that. And it's Joe has taught me a lot about love in so many aspects with yourself and more about yourself, you know what I mean? Because it's really hard to be comfortable in your own skin. So it was just a hard learning curve and learning experience to completely have something in your hands. And sometimes you don't know how to take care of it. And I deteriorated and set my whole world on fire. And that was hard. That was heartbreaking. But within this album and creating it, especially with Ivan, I had to find that love for myself, and like this really old old guy, and I'll call him an old guy. His name is Joey Salas. I remember messaging him one time, and I was just like, how do you love yourself and love for others? And how do you take care of yourself in a family and stuff like that. And he told me, and I will never forget. Because Joey like, talks a lot. And he's a goofy guy. But when he it's very serious stuff. I took it very personal. And he said, you know, you have to love yourself before you can love every anyone else. And that hit me hard and creating this album and Lehman creating that song, I always thought about that. What he told me is you have to love yourself before you can love anyone else. So when you set your world on fire, and you're trying to come back to the things that gave you life, I had to always remember that I have to love myself first, in order for me to love someone else. And I feel like that will be the biggest challenge for the rest of my life. Because it's hard to love yourself. But Joe was there throughout this whole project to definitely encourage me in more ways than people would ever know. By but it's ended there. It's like, if you have something and you love it, you're gonna have to work on it. And working on it can change 1000 times. Yeah. But what is Lady Gaga? Say you have one person in the room, that one person could definitely what is it that Lady Gaga says there can be 1000 people in a room but that one person could definitely take you where you need to be because all you need is one person support. So she says that's what she said. Yeah. One
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of my best friends actually is a little monster and she's obsessed with Lady Gaga. I could have just been like, phoned a friend like what's the best like whoa, this is your time to shine. Lady Gaga that's I think that's beautifully said beautifully said Chris because I personally and I feel like a lot of the listeners a lot of us in this room. What you guys will see that no no, there's a lot of self loathing a lot of self deprecation. I use it like to cope and I'm like, oh, yeah, no, I'll throw myself first before anybody else has a chance to and I'm like I'm the funny one whatever. But the thing is finding that Self Love is so hard and I feel like I'm still in that like love hate relationship. It's just all or nothing and I can never be in this in between. For me personally right but for you having that, you know journey of finding self love and being like, the things that give me life the things that I want to appreciate and have gratitude for. It's just, it's beautiful, really is
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both You? Yeah, I'm the same way I put myself last always. I always like to take care of everyone else before it comes to me. And then when it comes to me, I'm too damn tired to even take care of myself. So that's gonna change that has to change. It definitely doesn't have to change. Yes. Well,
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speaking of change, I have one last question for y'all. So, where do you see Chris Ivan? Where do you see Joe Luhan? Maybe? Where do you see Chris X Joe, like the collab in the next couple of years. So what do you want to manifest out there?
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Next couple of years, she'd
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be asking these
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next couple years, it's
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a therapy session, you know, but it's free here. You can work through something.
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Well, I mean, well, for me, I want to say so the next two years from you're already kind of laid out. I'm kind of locked in in a contract to make a total of 13 films the next two years. So I know that that's going to be something that's just going to consume me. At this point, right now, though, I feel like, I can't look that far. I'm so everything I do is for my family. I've dedicated my entire career and all the work that I do to my family that I kind of just focus on, like, what's happening today? You know, I've kind of always thought that way. Just because I've lost a lot of friends throughout the years family members that, um, like. It's a great question. And you only want to hope that you want to see and obviously I want to, you know, be doing studio work with universal paramount, you know, Disney, all that. That's the goal. Yeah. overall goal, but I think I can't see past that I think I can only see today, if that's a dumb answer. Is that a dumb answer?
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It's actually the most real, it's eye opening for me right now. Because, you know, having all of these plans like way way, like 20 years from now, you're like, Oh, I see myself doing this, this and that. I mean, that's valid, it really is. But your answer actually is something. What's the word like tangible and it's that step by step process that is so real, it's so needed to get to where you want to be? So I really appreciate it. Yeah,
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I don't know. I feel like to get to where I'm going to be in five years. I have to look at what I'm doing today. Got it's gonna lead me to tomorrow. And the day after that. I don't know why that's kind of how I always think, I think too much. It
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was really deep. That was
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really I gotta change my is
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not to be honest. I'm I still haven't grasped all of it. That's how deep it is. Because I'm like, how was it wasn't thinking that the that's so funny. Because it was the question about us individually, correct. Yeah. Okay.
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It can be it can be a future production.
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few music videos already. And posts together for some of his songs. So that's something that's gonna be coming out in the future real soon, as well as him returning for the next immortal war. She'll be back to reprise his role. Yeah.
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Yeah, that's excited, Wise. of you. Where do I want to be in five years? Obviously, music is always going to be the passion. And I would love to
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I would love to open up for Kesha or a UCLA even though my music doesn't fit. They're more like Kashia my music does, but any. My music has no correlate. I'm just an amazing fan of her. Because I love underdogs. And I don't see her as an underdog. But people do see her as that. Touring for some of my favorite artists opening up, even if it's damn 30 seconds, like I, I just put it out there. But the same time, I'm always going to do music, but where I would want to see myself in five years. I definitely would want Joe to direct a script that I write. I would love that. And I know that'd be really cool. Joe always writes his scripts. So this is like the first time he's ever heard that and he's probably like, getting so mad. Because he doesn't he doesn't like to I mean he writes his stuff. But I don't know I I do definitely want to get more involved in like the filmmaking. So five years would be not like anywhere between there has to be the fifth year because I'm not ready for that just yet. But yourself best. Yeah, I want to Write a script that Joe would be like really proud of. Because he's more dabbled in my world of music. I've never really dabbled a lot into his world. So that'd be really cool to write a script and then
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I able to perform at the Grammys in the five years like going on a world tour.
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Really?
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That's what I see.
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Let me start with North America verse. No, I love the love how you're being so supportive, but I have. Personally for me, I realized that being more realistic is more easier to accomplish than having these but
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you do have to give yourself credit though. Like his music is really good. Like for you to be on album three, not many artists get even album one. You know, it's like, so you have to you're being a little modest right now. But his music is people do connect to it. I've connected to a lot of your music. It's a great album. Ivan is probably like I said, it's his best album is his best music thus far. In five years, you might be better than I then that's what I see. And if people don't see it, well, then people don't have good taste. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry.
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That's how you know Joe's a real one.
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I know. I will also say I want to in five years. I want Joe to hopefully get the rights to film Underworld and Resident Evil but I'm talking about myself. I want to, I want you to get the rights to he loves Resident Evil, but I love underworld. So I would want him to get the rights for underworld. And I would love for you to bring back the lead actress Kate, Kay. And I will I wouldn't want to be a vampire. But Joe says I don't have a vampire. Look. I have you
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could be more like a king of a werewolf. Oh, I see that. Yeah, you could be like the king of werewolves.
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I know. But that's in five in five years, if anything, like that'd be so dope too. I love vampires and werewolves a
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whole nother episode right there.
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Literally, literally.
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So we'll keep that for the Halloween Special.
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Ooh, yeah, I'm down.
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Well, that's one of his projects. I mean, I will take anything but within his 13 films that he has to make, he definitely has some things were starting
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my next franchise within these 13 films that are gonna be it's gonna be pretty big. If people thought the immortal horses big this one's going to be bigger.
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And 13 the number itself, you know? Yeah,
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see what I got that I was like, This is Sue me. Let's do it. That was
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you. I love when things Yeah, and things just happen like that. It's beautiful. Yeah. Exciting. Well, thank you both so much for being here today. So definitely, definitely go listen to Ivan and honestly like all of Chris Ivan's music and all the labs, the remixes everything with Joe and Joe, do you want to save the most upcoming movie?
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Um, well right now we're on a press junket with the mortar wars. That's the new one. I do have another film called my little nightmare that was at least on Apple TV about a month ago now I think I have another film or s3 that's hitting hitting Apple TV. I want to say it's this month. I have a lot of projects. If you like if anyone wants to see to any of our films, you can go to carcass hyphen studios.com That's my production company. On that you'll see all the trailers all of the behind the scenes that everything that has to do with the films that we do here in Vegas or in El Paso or in LA you can see any of those projects but if you even just search my name or my films on like Amazon prime to be even if you Google it, I know that sounds very cocky. I shouldn't be saying it like that. If you do that you'll find all of our projects and what we're doing and what's to come to because we are casting films in Vegas because we're shooting in Vegas. So we're gonna do the same thing in El Paso we're gonna cast in El Paso because we're shooting in El Paso.
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Vegas is becoming a second LA. Yeah.
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Yeah. So and then, you know, follow us on social media, Instagram, Twitter. my niece's got me on Tik Tok doing very stupid things. But are you Jolin Han official Joe Luhan official on Instagram and Facebook and Tik Tok
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and then Chris any socials you want to plug?
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I am official Chris. I've been everywhere. So I would say I'm mostly on Instagram. I'm only on Twitter. For like, I waited too long people are probably gonna think I'm on Twitter for the wrong reasons. But I like to get all like the news and the tea. I will go to Twitter to people that's a spy wake. Texas's sources sources there you gonna buy he's like Lady Gaga is coming out with a new album cardi B's coming out with a new album.
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Like check your sources and he'll he'll be
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okay yeah, because firms he'll jump on Facebook I'm like these are no
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Twitter answers we're on now. Twitter
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is really accurate like everyone will be tweeting about the same thing with who's having drama at the moment. That's where I get I'll be watching baddies I don't know if you know what that is guy
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got me daddy. So
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what it baddies is Bad Girls Club um, back when it was on oxygen. It's like
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Natalie Nunn and baddies and it's not the
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most women like you because today's woman What is today's national women's day right?
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Yeah, International Women's Day
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so I'm let's keep it positive. And that's right. Because not only none has nothing. I mean, she does put her girls on but it comes with a few weaves and nails coming off so well. It's I mean, they're supporting each other in their own unique way. So kudos to miss Nunn. I love I definitely wouldn't want to chin check her.
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You will mess with the boss. Yeah,
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listeners got a lot to check out. They gotta they gotta watch everything.
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We're not here to secrets.
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Daddy's oh maybe you could work for Zeus Zeus Let's go. Or we could have Zeus is always doing like a new shows and everything. What if we had they had you film? Rising Stars in Vegas? Because there's a lot. Yeah, he
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has an idea. Zeus if you're listening.
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Let's do it. That is something within five years. And I another thing really quick. If anyone I'm looking to create my own boy band, so if anyone ever wants to look in being a band, just reach out to me. That's a dream. He's been talking
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about it for a while now. Yeah. Oh, that could happen. I could.
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I've just wanted to create a boyband and see if I could participate in it. Or maybe just create one in my own self because who knows? Maybe I'm a diva and I can't work with others. Who knows? I don't know. That's what people have told me. Or maybe I just want to create a be like Diddy and create another Danity Kane. Hey,
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we'll see. We'll see. See a lot of projects, a lot of hopes, plans, things that are going to happen. Stay
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positive and exactly can do. Exactly.
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Thank you both so much again, Chris. I've been Joe Luhan. Thank you so much for having us. And for everybody out there. Definitely go look up all their projects. The very few that I've seen so far. Amazing chefs kiss. And now you know the what did you say it was called my little vampire nightmare. Okay, the vampire talk really? Like I don't know. I think that's a legit movie from when I was a kid maybe like my little vampire or something like that. Yeah, yeah, that's, that's why that's a solid.
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Yeah, it's a good, solid,
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maybe just everything. The last brain cell really trying to hold it together. But I'm so interested in all these projects. Thank you again and thank you all for listening to rebel radio. Til next time y'all peace Thank you for listening to rebel radio with Malika Bella lyrics locals love on the rebel HD two
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