Toronto crooner Tory Lanez dropped his new album, ‘Love Me Now?’ last week and it’s been getting a lot of good reviews. Tory stopped by Power 106’s #TheCruzShow and talked to J. Cruz and the team about the album.
On the topic of the album, Lanez spoke about his work ethic and what drives him to succeed.
“I’m addicted to success man. Im not scared to fail. I actually like failing sometimes because it’s the best way to learn,” he said. “You know you can’t really learn unless you’ve felt every single feeling of a failure. ‘Cause then it’s like damn, I don’t want to feel like this way again, so, I would do this right…so it ensures that I don’t feel this way again.”
Tory also talked to #TheCruzShow about squashing his beef with Drake, Drizzy’s ’90s-inspired birthday party, working with Spanish artist, and revealed he’s dropping an album with Chris Brown and a Spanish album very soon.
“Me and him [Chris Brown] actually really got like nine to ten songs, but on the project we got two.” said Lanes. “Spanish album on the way. The things about it is, people got to understand is that I work a lot…When it comes to projects, I like to work ahead of time. So, like, if something is supposed to come out four months from now, I’m finishing it now, instead of three months later.”
While in Wyoming last week for Kanye West’s ‘ye’ album listening party, J.Cruz and Cece Valencia of The Cruz Show on Power 106 caught up with Kim Kardashian and Kid Cudi. One of the main topics discussed was the recording of Ye and Cudi’s ‘Kids See Ghosts’ album.
Other topics discussed was Kim K telling The Cruz Show about Kanye’s devotion to music, how he loves a woman’s point of view, his creative process, and how he scraped the original album. Kim went on to tell Cudi the collab album with him and Yeezus was going to be worked on after the listening.
On Kanye’s album remake Kim said, “He had a whole different album and maybe two weeks ago, he just came in, woke up one morning and re-did the whole thing.”
Shoutout to Kim for shouting us out too! LA LEAKERS, baby!
Last week Kanye West hosted a private listening party in Wyoming for his recently-released ‘ye’ album that J. Cruz, Felli Fel, and Cece of The Cruz Show attended. While there the Power 106 fam did an exclusive interview with Ye, where he confessed he remade the album after his controversial TMZ interview.
“I redid the whole album after TMZ. Just [because] energy,” he said. “I was sitting in Calabasas, I’m working on my sweat pants and my shoes, and everything was going perfectly…As soon as stuff stopped going so perfectly, I was like, ‘Oh, I know what to do with this energy.”
Other topics discussed in the interview were Yeezy’s family love, making half-a-million on Wyoming merch in 30 minutes, working on all upcoming G.O.O.D. Music releases, hints at more G.O.O.D. Music releases after Teyana Taylor’s album, having a potential album with Ty Dolla $ign, and more.
The homie J. Cruz had a candid conversation with Cardi B on #TheCruzShow, where they discussed her debut album ‘Invasion of Privacy’, pregnancy, upcoming Coachella performance and 10-hour rehearsals, the night her baby was conceived, surpassing Taylor Swift or most streams on Apple Music by a female artist in a single week, and much more.
Cruz even went above and beyond to throw Bacardi a little unofficial baby shower filled with gifts, giggles, and great moments. The conversation is a must watch, as the questions everyone has been wanting answers from Cardi get answered. This is just another reason why #ICHOOSECRUZ.
Watch below and make sure you tune into #TheCruzShow Monday through Friday from 5am to 10am.
J Cruz takes us on a tour of his hometown of Van Nuys, California. Watch as Cruz walks around Grant High School sharing memories of lunch time meet-ups, the first time Power 106 came to his school, hip-hop discussions at the lunch table and riding around with his dad listening to the radio. Cruz also shares a funny story of our very own Justin Credible, whom he attended high school with.
The Game has always been a major advocate for change on social issues in America. Just last week he along with Snoop Dogg and Problem led a peaceful rally in LA and met with the Mayor, Eric Garcetti and LAPD Chief, Charlie Beck in hopes of unifying LA.
Today, Game joined Power 106’s J. Cruz and Yesi Ortiz for a special edition of #KnowledgeIsPower, where he along with Nick Cannon, Dr. Abdullah, and Wendy Carrillo talked about the ongoing race issues in America and the definition of #BlackLivesMatter.
Following the conversation Game delivered a very powerful spoken word speech that he tirelessly worked on and fell asleep writing “so, it may sound unfinished at the end.” Read the lyrics to the unnamed piece below.
Game’s Spoken Word
The problem started with our fathers being forced to sell drugs to our own people given to us by the same government that locks us away in cages. Taking black men out of the ghettos they were put in and leaving the black woman and child alone to survive in a world with little or no resources because they lack the strength instilled upon man by God who as our creator knowing which roll the male species will play in building of what we now know as the earth. We were put here to share this one race, the human race, but over time the devil in his hatred of God as caused a wedge between man and the earth or a glitch in the matrix as some would say causing a ripple in the bloodlines of Black, White, Asian, Spanish and Indian cultures causing a segregated lifestyle in which the minority, yes the minority, it being us, African-Americans has surfed the most in all areas deemed inhumane from being slaves tied in chains to slaves hung by gangs.
These gangs, the American government, and KKK are now equal to African-Americans when we roll up and pull out a KKK. But who are we pointing our guns at? Each other, our sister and our brothers, but we scared, yeah we scared to point it in the direction of others. But the white man he’ll walk in church and kill our aunties and our mothers and we just lay down in streets cold and stiff under white covers. The same covers the Klu Klux Klan wore over their over heads to do us in then we get pulled over by the police and they wonder why we got guns because you ain’t gonna shot us man.
We want to defend ourselves like Mutombo, we want to be at home reading our children Micky Mouse and Dumbo, we want pardons by Obama before he gone, so we make it home just in time for grandmothers gumbo, but it won’t happen cause even Barack don’t have the freedom that he wants. He in the white house with black skin, I’d rather be out in the front, but his daughters, beautiful young black queens, living the American dream while our daughters are on the other side of the fence getting pregnant in their teens and I do not blame our President for sh**. I blame the government for trying to ease the black man since our existence.
This fight has been fixed it is a trap, yeah it is a trap black man, set up so we can never be as rich as Bruce Wayne that only leaves us with Batman, a character in a mask that has to hide his identity. Do all the work for police killing minorities saving them time and a whole lot of energy and we got enemies, we got a lot of enemies government want to see us all in the penitentiary trying to put the slave black in a n*****. You know they’ll murder us. Look how they did John Kennedy. So black man please put the blunt down, the lean and the Hennessy. It’s time to father our future so our existence is more than just a memory.
We need more figures of Game’s stature to do things like this and make a difference. Kudos.
Snapchat King and super producer DJ Khaled chopped it up with J Cruz about his Snapchat game, his favorite verses off of his hit tracks, plus hints at a new track with Kendrick Lamar.
K Dot stopped by #TheCruzShow on Power 106, he talked about the success of ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’, how it’s different from g.o.o.d kid m.A.A.d city, touched on why producer ‘LoveDragon’ wants to remain anonymous, and what he did when he went to Dr. Dre’s house.
TY Dolla $ign went on Power 106’s morning show #TheCruzShow, and played a round of “Are You Down?”, he asked his manager to see if he is down to let him use $20,000 so he can pay off a one night stand and more.
Kid Ink sat down with J Cruz and Justin Credible backstage at Cali Christmas, and chopped it about his success with his song “Body Language”, and more.
K Dot stopped by the #LIFTOFF with J Cruz and Justin Credible, and chopped it about his new song “i”, the powerful lyrics, relating to his fans, the best advice Pharrell gave him, and much more!