Good music in this hard time.
By the time I show up to the Chinese restaurant above his Brooklyn recording studio, Matthew Raymond Guzmán has nearly finished all his egg rolls. We're meeting to talk about his new music video for"The Way It Goes," premiering today on, and the latest release from indie labelFormer NBA player and longtime friend, Daniel Ochefu, joins while we wait for MRG's producer Kevin Cruz , to show up with the keys. Once the crew is fully assembled, we make our way downstairs.
"The song was inspired by a woman I was dating." Guzmán explains."We were intimate, but she'd just gotten out of a relationship, and wasn't looking for anything serious. When you've been with someone for so long, sometimes it can seem like the grass looks greener on the other side, and she definitely wanted to play the field. One of my favorite rap lines is from Nas.
Tracks like"ROD" and"Yerrr" feature his lyrical prowess while Guzmán dissects the anguish of rejection and redemption. The album is also a meditation on the delicate balance that children of immigrants have to strike between doing their own thing and living in the shadow of their parents' sacrifices. In Guzmán's case, he was a baseball prodigy and scholar who initially struggled to make music his full-time passion out of a sense of duty.
"I believe in the golden rule: Treat others how you wanna be treated," Guzmán says."If you're gonna cheat on your girl, or if you're a girl and you're gonna cheat on your man, you gotta expect them to do the same thing and be okay with it. For that reason I don't cheat. If I wanted to cheat I'd just be single, and do my thing. Me and my girl are very clear on that. Our relationship works because we genuinely want to be together.
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