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Studio Stories with Danny Wolf

September 4, 2024
Producer Danny Wolf joins us to share his journey through the music industry and his plans for el futuro.
Show transcript
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From starting on a school laptop at 16 to collaborating with big
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names like Fuerza, Rega Anita Juice World and Lil Pump.
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Today, we're thrilled to have music producer Danny Wolf with us
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How's it going?
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It's going great. How are you?
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Good, good. Chilling.
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Ok. So your name is Danny Wolf?
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Is there a story behind your name?
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Yeah, my name is Danny Wolf but Lane,
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my name is really Miguel but there's already a Miguel.
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So I was like shit,
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I was, I was watching this movie.
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It was like this horror movie,
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I was with this little shorty and the director's name was Danny
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Wolf and I was like,
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that's my name, right.
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That is a, that's funny.
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What movie was it?
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I don't really remember.
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I hate watching horror movies.
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Like it makes my soul ache but I was like,
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dang, that's a cool ass name.
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So I was like that and then I tweeted it out.
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I was like, everybody started calling me Danny Wolf.
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They're like, this guy is crazy.
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He's like, fuck Miguel.
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I'm Danny Wolf now,
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Danny. So you've been a producer in the industry for all
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the artists for a minute.
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Now, what made you want to make your own music
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Honestly, I just have so much music inside of
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me, I'll be in Atlanta,
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like writing stuff and I was just,
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I really was just making so many songs and,
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really my team and my label and my managers
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were like, you,
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you need to drop this.
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I was like, ah,
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that's dope. Yeah,
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cause I just kept recording so much stuff.
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I got this one song called Magic City.
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It sounds like a crowd and it's like some performance shit.
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And in my head,
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I was just making a song to,
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you know, make a song.
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Like I just got so much music inside me and the engineer
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was like, nah,
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bro, you need to drop this shit.
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And I was like,
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nah, that's too betraying to the art.
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Like I don't want any artist to think that I was holding
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back on beats for myself because I was just never the scenario
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Then everybody just kept calling.
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They were like, nah,
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you need to drop this and I was like,
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fuck it. Like,
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so, so you've worked with a ton of dope artists like
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we mentioned before. Anita Freida Justin Bieber.
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And probably much more.
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What's the craziest thing that has happened while producing?
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If you don't mind sharing that,
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you don't have to drop names.
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Like give me a,
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give me a little story real quick.
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I had a session with an artist and these two girls
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were with him and they had ski masks on and they
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asked me to come to the studio and I was just like
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yeah, like how it would be cool to work with
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and ID him up like,
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what's good? He's like,
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oh, it was good.
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I start playing him beats and he goes into another room
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the girls come up to me and they're like
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he said, play the next beat and I was just
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like, what? And I play the next beat and they
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just, and these girls have a ski mask on,
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right? And I was just like,
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what's going on? The dude's not even in the,
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like, he's not even listening to the beats.
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He's in another room finally picks a beat and he just kicks
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all of us out and then he like,
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kicks the girls in the ski mask out and then I just
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never talk to him again.
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It's like, it's kind of weird.
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It's just like, interesting but it's,
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and then there's crazier stuff with like in Atlanta shit just gets
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crazy as hell. But is this a prank?
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Where's the cameras and who's one of the artists that you've produced
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for that you'd like to have on one of your future songs
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now? For sure,
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Justin Bieber. I feel like he sings like an Angel JB
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Music to my ears.
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JB got the songs Taylor Swift.
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I've never worked with Taylor but I wish I could make a
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song Taylor, like Taylor,
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like triple platinum. Yeah,
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I think Taylor and Billie Eilish.
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Oh, ok. See the range.
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Yeah, the range.
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I love that. So,
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Danny, you actually moved,
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here from Mexico City to Atlanta and now you're based
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in Miami. How has living in different places impacted your music
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I think I just feel more comfortable being in Miami because
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I can speak in Spanish and everyone here speaks Spanish.
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You could go anywhere I can play music or I'll test out
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songs in the Uber and they're like,
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ah, can I just that way?
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I'm like, they pass you the link in the Bluetooth to
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the phone. Let's go a little,
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there's more people that I can relate to out here that like
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went through what I went through,
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like crossing the border and I com bro.
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I know the food is,
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oh, yeah, the food is.
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So it's really like Latin America.
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Why is it important for you to represent your culture and your
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music? I don't know.
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I feel like it's just like a Mexican thing to just rep
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it so heavy. It's like,
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it's like 1/6 sense,
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you know, like I'm just,
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I feel like it's just a part of me and also it's
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just a lot of pride like crossing the board.
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I used to be here illegally and I was like,
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till I was like 1819.
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So the mo and I was just you know,
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like to do what I do now and to be in certain
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rooms I can get into,
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it's like, I don't know,
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it's just a lot of pride because I know people that come
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from where I come from,
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you know, in the statistics and I'm also a DACA recipient
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So it's like we were just told you can't do this
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you know what I mean?
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So you're like the perfect example for like,
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you know, immigrants are what makes America great.
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Yeah, that's a quick question.
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Which of the best Latinas in Miami?
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Let's go. Let's go.
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I know what you're gonna say.
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I have a feeling I know what he's gonna say because I
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have my, I have,
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you know, like top five that are alive in Miami or
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just overall overall because there's only in Miami overall,
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you could do top three,
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top three. It has to be number one has to be
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Mexican. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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All right. What about the other one lately?
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I've been messing with a lot of Venezuelans.
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Like they've been putting me on to like,
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I don't know if I could say this but they've been saying
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like they've been teaching me what's the word of like,
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you know, like a lady's private part?
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So I don't know if I'm allowed to say that,
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but it's OK. We're in a safe space.
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Venezuelans are like, they definitely teach me a lot of lingo
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but top three they're actually not Latinas,
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but they are in Latin America.
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I would say Brazilian groups.
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That's the code. I'm a Colombian kind of Colombian kind of
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I know. I know you are.
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You've mentioned it many times.
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Oh, well, thank you so much,
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Danny. We appreciate having you on the show and we're so
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excited to see what you're coming up with next.
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And Oh yeah, where can we find you on social media
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Where can people listen to your music?
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Danny Wolf, Dany Wolf,
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like the animal Como Lo Vito and it's on all platforms.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you so much,
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Danny. Thank you.
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Thank you. You have a good one.