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PJ Vegas
6/13/2019 | 26m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Features Native R&B artist and rock & roll royalty, PJ VEGAS.
Features Native R&B artist and rock & roll royalty, PJ VEGAS, son of Redbone basist Pat Vegas.
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PJ Vegas
6/13/2019 | 26m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Features Native R&B artist and rock & roll royalty, PJ VEGAS, son of Redbone basist Pat Vegas.
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♪ [electricity buzzing] VO: Los Angeles changes Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day.
Trump was obliterated by the mainstream media a few weeks back when he sp oke out against the decision- PJ: Yeah, yeah, yeah!
VO: confederate statutes all around the country while people... [voice warps].
His comments, his point, was that the logical conclusion of the Left's crusade was the complete destruction of over- PJ: Yeah!
VO: 500 years' worth of history since the first Europeans arrived in the New World.
Los Angeles Times points out that today, the city of Los Angeles has officially decided to scrap Columbus Day.
♪ ♪ We never could've planned this.
♪ ♪ These things happen on their own.
♪ ♪ Took a shot like a bandit.
♪ ♪ With one bag, I left my home.
♪ ♪ I couldn't understand it ♪ ♪ why every door to me seemed closed.
♪ ♪ Still grateful for the handful ♪ ♪ of people that pulled up to my shows.
♪ ♪ But now we livin high like ♪ ♪ every day's another highlight.
♪ ♪ Saged up, got my mind right.
♪ ♪ I came up, that's in hindsight.
Ahh, yeah.
♪ ♪ We never could've planned this.
♪ ♪ These things happen on their own.
♪ ♪ We never could've planned this.
♪ ♪ These things happen on their own.
♪ ♪ We never could've planned this.
♪ ♪ These things happen on their own.
♪ ♪ We never could've planned this.
♪ ♪ These things happen on their own.
♪ ♪ We never could've planned this.
♪ ♪ Careful the message you're hitting your fans with.
♪ ♪ Let them know how real it can get ♪ ♪ when they strip you from your culture and your language.
♪ ♪ Was it the man or the Klansman?
♪ ♪ I don't know, it's just another wolf and lamb skin.
♪ ♪ Can't believe how long it has been.
♪ ♪ Still no reparations for the ones they found here.
♪ ♪ Fist up!
Can you see us?
♪ ♪ We're standing here at your front door.
♪ ♪ Fist up!
I know you see us.
♪ ♪ All my people they waged war.
♪ ♪ We never could've planned this.
♪ ♪ These things happen on their own.
♪ ♪ We never could've planned this.
♪ ♪ These things happen on their own.
♪ ♪ We never could've planned this.
♪ ♪ These things happen on their own.
♪ ♪ We never could've planned this.
♪ ♪ These things happen on their own.
♪ ♪ (vocalizes) ♪ ♪ Let me slow it down.
Here's a message for the masses.
♪ ♪ Don't misinform the youth, teach our history in classes.
♪ ♪ If I can have a wish I would wish to cure the madness.
♪ ♪ No cars or the mansions or diamonds on me dancing.
♪ ♪ Folks in the slammer, kids get abandoned.
♪ ♪ It's a vicious cycle.
Really, I don't understand it.
♪ ♪ We never could've planned it but we're the living proof.
♪ ♪ We could change our circumstances.
♪ ♪ It all starts with you.
♪ ♪ Let's go!
♪ We never could've planned this.
♪ ♪ These things happen on their own.
♪ ♪ We never could've planned this.
♪ ♪ These things happen on their own.
♪ ♪ We never could've planned this.
♪ ♪ These things happen on their own.
♪ ♪ We never could've planned this.
♪ ♪ These things happen on their own.
♪ ♪ (vocalizes) ♪ VO: Los Angeles Times points out that today, the city of Los Angeles has officially decided to PJ: scrap Columbus Day.
♪ ♪ [calm string music] ♪ PJ: My name is PJ Vegas.
I'm a singer/songwriter from Los Angeles, California.
I represent the Yaqui, Shoshone nations.
Musically, I say that I draw my inspiration from a bunch of different genres.
So, I'd say right now my biggest musical influence is '90s R & B and early 2000s rock, with a little bit of hip-hop in there.
Music is really prevalent in my family since Day One.
My pops, my uncle?
They're kind of like pioneers in Indian Country for breaking into the mainstream.
They're in the band, Redbone.
My uncle, Lolly, rest in peace was the lead guitarist.
My father, Pat Vegas, was the lead bassist.
So, this next song that I'm gonna do is Come and Get Your Love, my family's legacy.
It's a song that gave Natives a platform to be who they are, and do what they do in the way that they felt that they should do it.
It's just a blessing to be able to be here and perform this song all these years later and have my dad's blessing, and have the people's blessing and to be able to do it justice.
Because, this is seriously something that will outlast the test of time.
It'll be something that's here forever.
[traditional vocals/drumming] (drumming/traditional vocals) ♪ [traditional vocals/drumming] ♪ ♪ ♪ [funky soul beat] PJ: Come on!
♪ ♪ Yeah!
♪ ♪ ♪ Hail (hail) ♪ ♪ What's the matter with your hail?
♪ ♪ Oh yeah.
♪ ♪ ♪ Hail (hail) ♪ ♪ What's the matter with your mind?
♪ ♪ And your sign and a- oh, oh, oh.
♪ ♪ Hail (hail) ♪ ♪ Nothing's the matter with your head, baby.
♪ ♪ Find it, come on and find it.
♪ ♪ Hail ♪ ♪ with it baby 'cause you're fine ♪ ♪ and you're mine ♪ ♪ and ya look so divine.
♪ ♪ Come and get your love!
♪ ♪ ♪ Come and get your love!
Oh!
♪ ♪ ♪ Come and get your love.
♪ ♪ ♪ Come and get your love.
♪ ♪ ♪ Hail (hail) ♪ ♪ What's the matter with your feel right?
♪ ♪ Don't you feel right, baby?
♪ ♪ Hail, oh yeah.
♪ ♪ Get it from the main vine.
♪ ♪ Ahh right.
♪ ♪ I said a find it, find it.
♪ ♪ Come on and love it if ya like it.
♪ ♪ Yeah!
♪ ♪ ♪ Hail (hail) ♪ ♪ It's ya business.
♪ ♪ If you want some, take some.
♪ ♪ Get it together, baby.
(Come on) ♪ ♪ Come and get your love.
♪ ♪ ♪ Come and get your love!
♪ ♪ ♪ Come and get your love.
♪ ♪ ♪ Come and get your love!
♪ ♪ ♪ From the hill they see youth overseizing the troops ♪ ♪ and the ones on the front line to me and to you.
♪ ♪ The water's what makes us survive through the drought.
♪ ♪ We say no to pipelines.
We kicked in the mouth.
♪ ♪ The land that they stand on is sacred and true, ♪ ♪ but all that they see is a place to recoup the wealth, ♪ ♪ but the health is way more important to me and to you.
♪ ♪ Come and get your love.
Come and get your love.
♪ ♪ Come and get your love now.
♪ ♪ ♪ Come and get your love.
Come and get your love.
♪ ♪ Come and get your love now.
♪ ♪ ♪ Come and get your love.
Come and get your love.
♪ ♪ Come and get your love now.
♪ ♪ ♪ Come and get your love.
Come and get your love.
♪ ♪ Come and get your love now.
♪ ♪ ♪ Come and get your love.
♪ ♪ ♪ Come and get your love!
♪ ♪ ♪ Come and get your love.
♪ ♪ ♪ Come and get your love!
♪ ♪ ♪ Thank you!
PJ: This next song that we're gonna do is called My Version of Love.
Growing up, I realized there's many different versions of love.
Every person's different.
When I wrote this song it was like my version of love.
♪ (mellow keyboards/ soft percussion) Ahh, yeah.
♪ ♪ ♪ Ahh, yeah.
♪ ♪ Yeah!
♪ ♪ This is my version of love.
♪ ♪ ♪ Yes, this is- uh!
♪ ♪ Wake me up with the smoke no coffee.
♪ ♪ Last night nearly put me in a coffin.
♪ ♪ Approach little mama with caution, she knows ♪ ♪ what I want and I know what she's offering.
♪ ♪ I don't understand the reason why ♪ ♪ I changed up like the seasons.
♪ ♪ Might I be blinded by my demons?
♪ ♪ Just another reason why I stay fly him and die high.
♪ ♪ Shorty bad, she get oochii Wally gaga.
♪ ♪ Came through with the cheetah print thigh highs (damn) ♪ ♪ just to put me in the right mind.
♪ ♪ We come alive in the night time.
♪ ♪ ♪ This is my version of love.
♪ ♪ Come on!
♪ This is my version of love.
♪ ♪ ♪ This is my... ♪ ♪ This is my version of love.
♪ ♪ This is my... ♪ ♪ This is my version of love.
♪ ♪ We had our chance, ♪ ♪ we let it slip away.
♪ ♪ I know you understand ♪ ♪ I just need time for me to grow.
♪ ♪ You know my plans, take over the world ♪ ♪ and girl, I won't ever forget what you told me.
♪ ♪ ♪ My love, sick and sadistic.
♪ ♪ Quicker you'll miss it, love like prescriptions.
♪ ♪ I can't stand all this texting from long distance.
♪ ♪ I'd rather smother you with kisses.
Come on!
Uh!
♪ ♪ ♪ This is my version of love.
♪ ♪ This is my... ♪ ♪ This is my version of love.
♪ ♪ ♪ This is my... ♪ ♪ This is my version of love.
♪ ♪ ♪ This is my... ♪ ♪ This is my version of love.
♪ ♪ I know you know ♪ ♪ this is my version of love.
♪ ♪ When I go you go, ♪ ♪ this is my version of love.
♪ ♪ We live to grow, ♪ ♪ this is my version of love.
♪ ♪ I know you know, ♪ ♪ this is my version of love.
♪ ♪ ♪ Oh!
This is my version of love.
♪ ♪ ♪ This is my... ♪ ♪ This is my version of love.
♪ ♪ ♪ This is my... ♪ ♪ This is my version of love.
♪ ♪ ♪ This is my... ♪ ♪ This is my version of love.
♪ PJ: The next song I'm gonna do is Tears.
The whole concept behind this song was kind of speaking on the missing and murdered indigenous women.
There's thousands of women that lose their lives every year, the high percentage of them being indigenous.
Most of these cases are never solved or even looked into my local law enforcement.
So, they kind of just get swept under the rug.
I actually had a horrific tragedy happen in my family.
One of my cousins was actually missing and murdered in the Salinas Valley area of northern California.
And when that happened, I was figuring out a way to channel that energy in a positive way.
I really didn't know what to do or how to go about expressing this type of heartache and this type of confusion within the family.
So, I kind of just turned to music.
And, the song Tears is really like how I express that and try to channel it.
♪ [mellow R & B beat] ♪ ♪ I live a complicated lifestyle.
♪ ♪ I'm doing good but I'm wild.
♪ ♪ I don't think you hear me.
♪ ♪ Beggin' me to slow down.
♪ ♪ They don't know I'm coming for the crown.
♪ ♪ ♪ There's no way that I would stop now ♪ ♪ and you know ♪ ♪ I won't.
♪ ♪ Something we all adore, ♪ ♪ something worth dying for, ♪ ♪ stuck in this game nothing but pain.
♪ ♪ ♪ Something we all adore, ♪ ♪ something worth dying for, ♪ ♪ stuck in this game nothing but pain.
♪ ♪ ♪ Tears have been falling.
♪ ♪ ♪ Tears have been falling.
♪ ♪ ♪ Did you know, ♪ ♪ did you know ♪ ♪ my tears have been falling?
♪ ♪ ♪ I'm paying close attention to the things they say.
♪ ♪ It seems their point of view is changing every day.
♪ ♪ They don't think we hear them.
♪ ♪ We don't got the time to waste.
♪ ♪ Our people dying out here every day.
♪ ♪ This is life is what they try to say.
♪ ♪ But I know ♪ ♪ what they want.
♪ ♪ Something we all adore, ♪ ♪ something worth dying for, ♪ ♪ stuck in this game nothing but pain.
♪ ♪ ♪ Something we all adore, ♪ ♪ something worth dying for, ♪ ♪ stuck in this game nothing but pain.
♪ ♪ ♪ Tears have been falling.
♪ ♪ ♪ Tears have been falling.
♪ ♪ ♪ Did you know, ♪ ♪ did you know ♪ ♪ my tears have been falling?
♪ ♪ Come on!
♪ ♪ Something we all adore, ♪ ♪ something worth dying for, ♪ ♪ stuck in this game nothing but pain.
♪ ♪ ♪ Something we all adore, ♪ ♪ something worth dying for, ♪ ♪ stuck in this game and nothing but pain.
♪ ♪ ♪ Tears have been falling.
♪ ♪ (softer music) ♪ ♪ Tears have been falling.
♪ ♪ ♪ Did you know?
♪ ♪ PJ: So, this next song that we're about to do is called I Love You.
And, this song I wrote in a time of my life where I really felt loved by the people that were surrounding me, my circle.
They really were looking out for me in major ways during the times of controversy in my life, just when I was kind of headed down a dark path in my past.
That song was kind of a way to pay homage to them, but then also my significant other who has been there for me since Day One, as well.
And, put up with a lot of crazy stuff that I put her through coming up.
And just the fact that she held me down for all these years, and she really gave me a platform to be a better man.
So, that was kind of like my 'thank you' song to her.
♪ [ethereal keyboards] ♪ Aw, yeah!
♪ ♪ [smooth groove] ♪ Yeah!
♪ ♪ Yes, it's true.
♪ ♪ ♪ I love you.
(I do) ♪ ♪ Can't nobody ♪ ♪ do it like you do.
(do it like you do) ♪ ♪ 'Cause you're so fine, ♪ ♪ you really blow my mind.
(really blow my mind) ♪ ♪ and I won't waste, ♪ ♪ I won't waste my time ♪ ♪ 'cause I love you.
♪ ♪ ♪ So, come on home.
♪ ♪ No more time to roam.
♪ ♪ ♪ You won't spend ♪ ♪ another night alone, (another night alone) ♪ ♪ 'cause I love you ('cause I love you) ♪ ♪ and you love me too.
♪ ♪ ♪ So tonight, baby, ♪ ♪ we gon' do what we do.
♪ ♪ ♪ I love you.
♪ ♪ ♪ 'Cause I love you.
♪ ♪ ♪ So tonight, baby, we gon' do what we do.
♪ ♪ ♪ I love you.
♪ ♪ ♪ [smooth groove] ♪ ♪ So put away your phone.
♪ ♪ It's time to get in our zone.
(get in our zone) ♪ ♪ But when the morning comes, you're on your own.
♪ ♪ Ima put the lights down (down) ♪ ♪ and put you in my trance.
♪ ♪ ♪ Get up, get up, get up!
♪ ♪ Let me see ya dance.
♪ Oh!
♪ 'Cause I love you.
♪ ♪ ♪ I love you.
♪ ♪ So tonight, baby, we gon' do what we do.
♪ ♪ ♪ I love you.
♪ ♪ ♪ I love you.
♪ ♪ ♪ So tonight, baby, we gon' do what we do.
♪ ♪ ♪ I love you.
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I love you.
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I love you.
♪ PJ: On My Way was one of the songs that I released on my last EP titled "On My Way".
It was the self-titled single for my latest EP.
Everyone was asking me for so long, 'when are you going to release some new music?'
'Cause I was working on this for a while!
And, I'm like 'it's on its way.
Don't worry.
It's on its way.'
So then, it was only right when I came out with the mix that it was like 'on my way'!
♪ ♪ ["2001 Space Odyssey" music plays] VO: Basically, our music is for- it speaks for itself.
It's for the neuro-physical intelligent person.
Like before there was a myth that either you had brawn, muscles, or you had brains which is totally a myth.
Because it is perfectly capable to have both muscles and brains, and I think that the people that our music appeals to have both of these qualities.
They have the physical as well as the intellectual.
♪ ["2001 Space Odyssey" music plays] Yeah!
(smack)!
VO: Astronauts report it feels good.
T-minus 25 seconds.
♪ VO: 20 seconds and counting.
♪ VO: T-minus 15 seconds.
Guidance is internal.
♪ VO: 12, 11, 10, 9.
♪ VO: 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, zero.
All engine running.
♪ ♪ (sings) I'm on my way, I'm taking off.
♪ ♪ I'm on my way, I'm taking off.
(T-minus 25 seconds) ♪ ♪ I'm on my way, I'm taking off.
♪ ♪ I'm on my way, I'm taking off.
♪ ♪ They wasn't with me from the start.
♪ ♪ Now they wanna play their part.
♪ ♪ But I don't wanna get involved ♪ ♪ 'cause they didn't have to bear these scars.
♪ ♪ I'm on my way, I'm taking off.
♪ ♪ [percussion] ♪ Who's gonna catch me if I fall?
♪ ♪ ♪ If I'm aiming past the stars ♪ ♪ and I've never ever been this far.
♪ ♪ Come on!
♪ ♪ I'm on my way I'm taking off.
♪ ♪ (raps) Damn, didn't know it had to be like this.
♪ ♪ Late night earning stripes tryna see them chips.
♪ ♪ Heard'em say I'm out of order clear I don't fit in but hey ♪ ♪ it's cool 'cause I'm on my way and they're ♪ ♪ all temporary but I'm here to stay.
♪ ♪ Rolling in my two-seater on a solo ride ♪ ♪ because they all switched up like the Verizon guy, but damn!
♪ That's just how it goes.
♪ ♪ If not me then who better to know?
♪ ♪ They left me in the dirt, I'm ready to grow.
♪ ♪ I had to lose it all to know fo' sure.
♪ ♪ Uh!
Yeah!
Grand opening, grand closing.
♪ ♪ Man, I got up sick to see your boy at it again.
♪ ♪ Instead of hating your situation ♪ ♪ look at this and try to gain some inspiration.
♪ ♪ Let's go.
♪ ♪ ♪ I'm on my way, I'm taking off.
♪ ♪ [percussion] ♪ ♪ I'm on my way, I'm taking off.
♪ ♪ And I've never ever been this far.
♪ ♪ Come on!
I'm on my way, I'm taking off.
♪ ♪ I'm on my way, I'm taking off.
♪ ♪ I'm on my way, I'm taking off.
♪ ♪ And I've never ever been this far.
♪ ♪ Come on!
I'm on my way, I'm on my way!
♪ ♪ ♪ Voice (distorted): I'm on my way, and I never ever- ♪ ♪ PJ: been this far.
♪ ♪ Come on!
♪ VO: Lift off!
We have a lift off.
♪ ♪ I'm on my way, I'm on my way!
♪ ♪ Voice (distorted): I'm on my way, and I never ever- ♪ ♪ PJ: been this far.
Come on!
♪ ♪ ♪ I'm on my way, I'm on my way!
♪ ♪ Voice (distorted): I'm on my way, and I never ever- ♪ ♪ PJ: been this far.
Come on!
♪ ♪ ♪ VO: I'm on my way.
PJ: I'm on my way.
♪ ♪ ♪ VO: I'm on my way, I'm on my way!
♪ ♪ PJ: I really have a big love for music.
I have a big love for my family and representing them in a positive way, and I feel like my dad and my uncle since Day One have held themselves with such poise and respect for the community, and spreading the message of love for over 40 years.
So, the next 40 years are on me.
♪ ♪ [acoustic guitar] ♪ ♪


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