NECIO BBY: PSNT

Photos by Camerafino @camerafino

I'm trying to remember where exactly or how exactly I listened to the NECIO BBY EP or rather how I stumbled upon PSNT. I want to say that it was at the Sauce House show on Oct 7th. It was a benefit show with The Culture, S.K.A, The Hollow Heads, and PSNT. His music and energy really scratched an itch for me that I just became hooked to the NECIO BBY EP after that one show. There's a lot to feel and take in from this EP that you have to listen to it for yourself. Especially just having it on shuffle. To me it's to embrace and release a feeling. For someone like me who is soft to have a sound to portray how I feel about certain topics that we face or think about within our border community as well. Whether you fuck with it or take something away from this EP, just know that this is for the "BROWN BOARDER TOWN FOOS DONT HAVE A VOICE OR SOMEONE TO RELATE TO" With more to say about the album and themselves this is Jorge @PSNT956

Video Interview with PSNT

First off, can you tell me your name and what do you do? "My name is Jorge Marin. Stage name Peasant. People think it's PSNT (or say the letter individually) or that it stands for something but it doesn't stand for anything. I just like took the vowels off because it was cool. I also make angry music and get drunk and shit. That's all i do." Any shout-outs you like to give out?" Shout out the team Trish. Nelson. George Milo."

Okay, here we go. If you can describe your music to someone who hasn't listened to it, what would you say? "It's a lot of fucking like energy, i think. It's moving. I think it's one of the things i like about music, it moves you. So i think with my music, i for sure wanted it to be moving and some sort of way, whether it be a panicky anxious moving like, you know, or your threshold of fucking pain or anger. I think a lot of the subjects i talk about is just like, me being angry. So i think, for sure, a lot of that energy, but just because i don't put that energy in my person so the music's the best way to go about that energy you know. I'm too happy , the music has to be mean you know It's a yin yang thing. It works out for me"

Where did the name PSNT come from? Does it have a meeting or rather a personal meaning to you? "Yeah, peasant's cool, peasant. Check this out. It was peasant king, spelled out and then i dropped the vowels. PSNT KNG. I heard a song and think it was like, How can you call yourself? Royalty, when you're just a peasant. And i was like, all true, like, Can't be declaring myself as a king that's fucking corny. So i just like dropped the peasant but it stands for born a peasant die a king. In theory, that's my like, philosophy of Life, you know born a peasant, born in the bottom. Hopefully, i ended up top. Maybe. Maybe. But that's where that name came from."

So listening to you music that comes off aggressive with its lyrics and tonality. From the Necio BBY Ep, is that "a lot of brown bordertown foos don't have a voice or someone to relate to" could you expand on this? Also by giving an example by one of the tracks on the EP. "Yeah, pretty much just like I was going to shows and I'd hear artists and i just couldn't relate to them. I i didn't know what the fuck. I don't know what being mad at your mom feels like or being sad at the world. Like, you know, truly told I fucking love this. I love standing here. And And maybe i don't love everything in it, but that's why i make the music. To express that shit and uh Yeah, i think one of the most heart into, is called "muerte a todos." It's for my uncle, i wrote that song for him. He's been locked up since he was 23. He's uh, turning 40. That shit hits home. What happened is, they didn't give him a translator. So they fucking Didn't give him a chance in the fucking system because he's illegal. That shit just kind of fucking fuels me up. He doesn't have papers or he doesn't have rights here.

He got treated like no one and i think in that song you can hear it like I'm real pissed off at. I think it hits home. The border patrol agents, the cops really just law enforcement like the system as a whole, It's to like, bring out like, you know, people of color and shit. When i think like, Someone has to make some type of music that, you know, you can reflect to and shit. And i think there's a lot of people, especially here in the valley. I think there's a lot of people that can relate to that. Like family getting fucked up, whether it be like, immediate family, or even like cousins, I'm sure anyone here has like legal family. That's. had some type of problems, so I kinda make that shit for them. Yeah, yeah, i want to i want to put out for my for my people. Absolutely. Yeah. And then i made it a spanish just I guess he touched back to my roots and where i came from. That was my first language actually spanish for my first language. So It doesn't look like it. Yeah. And i love that shit. I like that. I don't look like i I'm supposed to know Spanish or I'm supposed to be screaming the Spanish. So It kind of offsets together being, uh, Deceptive. I like looking like a rapper and then not playing rap songs."

When it comes to your music, what is it that you would like to evoke out of the listener? It's interesting because of the times you perform, people have shouted along with you when it comes to the lyrics. "I think, uh, just show them that they have a voice or making them feel something that they're not used to feeling whether it be rage or, or sadness, or or any type of weird shit i think, uh, It's it's good to embrace that feeling if i make you feel some type of way, then i did my job as an artist if you wanted to scream along. Hopefully you show it to the next person who's also pissed and it goes on from there. This is the fucking domino effect from there. So i think. yeah, just really being true to yourself and being in touch with, with how you feel. You can like express yourself some other way, still be okay, still kicking"

What would you say are some of the messages you want to spread by releasing music with topics such as anti-police, freedom "being a fucking tiburon", justice, especially with the line and the intro "we are not the same." Which can be taken perspective by the listener. Especially "no me digas que me aplaque" because of the actions people take to raise for their communities. "Yeah, i think it's that like Yeah, people fucking being down for, whatever you stand for whether it be. Uh, you're trying to do a DIY space. There's no one that's gonna do the way you do it. There's no one gonna do the way you make a shirt or no one's going to be able to do your music for anything. It's good to, to be aware that you're one of one. I want to show people that , you know, you can fucking do it, do whatever the fuck you want. Like i hope this interview like the next person reads it and it's like true. I can make music too that I want people to relate to something else that this guy didn't touch on. So, i hope i did that. Well, just do you, do you."

Are you currently working on anything at the moment? It's so what could be expected. "Yeah, i got five tracks I'm sitting on I want to drop something for my birthday. June 19th. Gemini season. Yeah, i want to hopefully, i want to drop like something secret, like rather be on youtube or uh, Or apple music, i still not really sure where i want to go about it. But i do know i want to drop it on the 19th. Um, I think I'm gonna maybe tone down on the on the whole rage thing and i kind of went a little more vulnerable. Uh, kind of touching on some some feelings. I haven't really touched in awhile that I tried masking. I feel like the music always makes you, uh, loosen up and ruffle some feathers. And you kind of show some sides that you really forgot about or tend to forget that you have there. So i did ruffle some feathers and you're going to hear a little more sadder side maybe, uh, You know, eye opening side of me. Yeah, less hard-headed more mature."

At the gremlin show recently, how did y'all come together to do a full band set? That was great, could you also tell me the names of those who played and the instruments they played if possible. "Nelson, just brought it up to me. Like you have a full ep. You have fucking talented friends with uh, fucking music abilities and it just was stupid for me, not to say no to, you know. Seeing all my homies fucking slapped. Trish, they them pronouns, they're on the drums fucking chops for days. Nelson, of course he him. On the bass, talented as fuck. We performed one of his songs. One of his original songs, which is really fun. I think is one of the funnest songs we performed. George. He's my guitarist. He came from a band. I used to have with Jes from Glare. And really all what peasant really is . Is the evolved electric version of my old band because that's what we were doing like spanish punk music, valley shit. Anti-cop shit. Border town problems like that's that's where it came from really."

What sort of feedback have you received on your music? Anything specific that you remember that someone told you "like i said, i really like not looking the part. So i really like when people come up to me and tell me like, 'yo, I was not expecting that shit.' Even people that don't know, spanish and they want me to break down the the lyrics. I think, for me that's real important. Um, Because they, they understood that i was saying some crazy shit out there or they are so invested and they saw the people around invested that they want to know what the fuck was being said. that's what that's what's cool about music. You want to learn stuff. For instance, like i wanted to learn how to make music, so i had a fucking learn the language of making music. Uh, someone fucking wants to learn how to enjoy my music, they might go and learn spanish. I don't know, might be tight."

What does the song "Blind" touch up on, as it says "trying to find a place to hide. Trying to muster my insecurities in disguise", then the vocal pitch change at the end. I've had this one on, repeat trying to figure it out. "Yeah uh see that. That's why i don't play live. Because i feel like it's one of those songs i made, uh, I made when i was real fucking going through some shit. So, the song i think i wrote it in the the view of fucking 18 year old Jorgie, where he was just fucking really just trying to find himself. Trying to find himself and like i was just trying to find my foot into anything, really. Just trying to feel alive. I think i was just doing a lot of drugs at the time. And, I mean, we're good now. You don't do a lot of drugs anymore, but at the time, i went through the xandemic. There was a lot of xanax signs at the, a lot of xanic bars in that time. I was just self inducing myself and trying to Blind myself from what i was, a mess. So, yeah, i wrote that in that perspective but it was also because uh, I guess like i have a lot of homies that deal with like drug issues and me myself. I've dealt with a couple drug issues And i think it'd be lying. I'd be i'd be a liar if i didn't put something out like that. I gotta stay true to myself as well. I've had my my demons but it's good to write about them and like i said, it helps me. Because you've got to remember to forget ,you got to you got to be aware of what the fuck happened. You just can't dismiss it."

PSNT LIVE At The Gremlin, May 18th

What is it about yourself that's in the NECIO BBY EP? "I think honesty. Like, the sounds, i think the sounds that I made for that album. I don't know if they don't sound like palm tree jungle, it doesn't sound valley. As soon as you put the lyrics and that emotion, you can hear you're in the valley. Even if you don't know it's from the valley as soon as you find out, that's from the valley motherfucker. I made that sound for for what i think i vision the valley like which is just fucking Uh, just gritty. It's real fucking gritty here. So you got to make the most of it. I think that's what i did with that. With those sounds. I just made the grittiest sounds ever and i made them real polished. So it look nice but it really, it's not, it's real dusty ass shit."

Presented by Puro Tigers Blood

How could you describe the NECIO BBY EP?" Loud. For sure loud, fast, and alive, i think that EP speaks for itself. Truly if you go from the end to the beginning or Even if you shuffle it. There's still track out there for everyone even if it's small, there's, there's a lot to take and it's kind of hard to digest in one. I got that from. Tigers draw actually they don't like singing their courses. So i kind of did the same thing in some songs or it's like, oh why am i going to repeat certain shit? You want to listen to it, go listen. it works, sometimes it doesn't work for live performances, so i have to play the song twice. Because people are hyped on it. Sounds like oh fuck, let's run it again. Just to give it that last. Omph."

What are your thoughts on the local valley scene? "Now, i fucking love the way it's moving. I love these little kids, man. They put their heart into it. They're truly enjoying themselves in the crowd and they're really in paying for some entertainment. So, i think if as an entertainer as an artist, To put on shows for people that really give a fuck about what they're like, they're for. It makes it easier for me. Makes it easier and makes it real fun. Makes you look back and like, wow, i did something that someone gives a fuck about or Yeah, really, i think sure, one of the last times i went out some dude, came up to me and asked if i can, you could take a picture with me. I thought i was a coolest thing ever. I was like man this is my first time getting this shit told but yeah, let's take a picture. And he said he put his little brother on and shit. Like, that's i think that's that's who i really like want to make it for like people that You know, care.

That's what i do it for. Yeah."

Any final comments or anything else you want to say? "You know, there's so many fucking bands out here. Um, It's cool. Seeing the valley get up there along with the You know, S.K.A and Inconvenient Truth, Worst Behavior, Reinforced, and Realm Walker. All these bands, they put on, they put on heavy. Yeah, i like them. I like them. They're heavy singers. Hopefully one day, i'll be heavy swinger with them slugging that out there and shit. But yeah, i mean i love the scene. I love the valley Yeah, just love the valley. I think everyone from the valley should be appreciative of where they're from. Even if they left, you know, be appreciative. You know they care about it. I give a fuck about it. So, i put out for my people and it's just nice seeing that shit. But, uh, yeah, smoke more reggie. And drink more beers. That's all."