I'm definitely not a Mozart type, but I do have ideas that are interesting to me and
curiosities that move me forward.
Harrison Bauer Rodriguez.
Bauer is my middle name.
In German it means farmer or peasant.
I started making music when I was 13 years old.
It started to go good.
Towards the second time I dropped out,
it was City College of New York which is in Harlem.
I remember being in class when the guy from Mad Desons,
Paul Devereaux,
hit me back about Harlem Shake and another track.
It's kind of like a time capsule of my life over the past few years.
The oldest track may be like three years old and the newest from just a couple months ago.
Most of these artists are people that I was just in awe of sonically.
Sometimes I think I may be more interested in how something is said than what is said.
Colbert performance tomorrow is something I'm nervous but excited about.
You know, the good kind of nervous.
I've never played on TV before.
And after seeing 47 today, rehearsing,
I feel really great because she just has an amazing life presence.
She killed me.
Here tonight, announcing his debut album, AA, with the premiere of the song, Day Ones,
Please welcome, Bauer, with Latale 47.
Yo, yo.
What's up, bro?
What's up?
How you doing?
All right.
You're going to perform right now.
What's good?
It's a hard to go last night.
I was just watching.
It's cool, man.
So now, like, Davos is going to make it into town?
He's going to make it into town.
So does she like add an extra verse or something?
No, it's just her two.
17 lives ago, I was a bartender at a sake bar.
I was fairly well known for getting about 60 to 70 people in a bar that fit about 20 to 30 people.
And Bauer worked for our friend, Drop the Lime.
And we were just looking the corner and there'd be Bauer just...
Well, he wasn't Bauer back then, actually.
This is a very relevant piece of info.
That was Harry.
And he was smiling in the corner, getting fucked up.
Because I'm pretty sure he was under 21.
In 2012, Foster Domus was playing down the street with Bauer at this club called Drom.
I went to the show and Harry walked on stage and I was like, yo, who's that?
Someone's like, that's Bauer.
And I started cheering because, like, I'd seen this motherfucker work so hard and put in work.
And I didn't know the Harlem Shake was Harry until I put those moments together.
Like, maybe a couple years later, we were finishing up the rap monument.
And Bauer called me and asked me to appear part of his album journey and shit.
Musically, I think I developed a sort of confidence in my chaos.
I find that with each record, I'm closer and closer to expressing what I intend to.
Yeah, of course he's changed. We all change.
I've just seen him evolve as being a fearless creator.
I would try to keep it real, especially after the Harlem Shake thing.
I feel like I had a choice to go big to try to, like, you know, make more massive songs,
which might have been more lucrative, but would not have been me.
