Bazzi talks about opening for Camila Cabello at MTELUS, his Ellen Show appearance, and getting back to live shows after four years away. He plays a $10,000 music challenge where he names artists and songs in sixty seconds, and discusses his new single "Mine."
What's going on everybody? Adam Greenberg here from Montreal's number one hit music station Virgin Radio. We got Bazzy in the house.
What's good? What's good?
Opening for Camila Cabello tonight at MTELUS. Excited? How's the tour been going?
Man, it's been really, really good. It's just nice to be in front of people performing and, you know, doing what I love in front of a lot of people. You know, this is my first time performing in almost 4 years.
Wow, that's crazy.
So it's just beautiful practice and it's a lot of fun and it's It's been great.
Awesome. And how was performing on The Ellen Show?
Performing on The Ellen Show was really cool. Um, it's funny, I don't really get nervous. I don't— like, in performing in front of a big crowd, it's like they want to have fun. It's like, that's my mentality. But being on Ellen, I was like, whoa, like, this is a little crazy. Yeah, you grow up watching it.
Of course. Plus she's like the ultimate cosign.
Exactly. You know, I'm performing and you look at Ellen and she's up front like kind of bobbing. It's crazy, but it was still a really cool experience.
That's awesome, man. Well, we're gonna give you another cool experience right now. We've been playing this game called the $10,000 Music Challenge where basically you're gonna have 1 minute to guess as many song clips as possible.
All right, let's do it.
And, uh, right now the top in the city is 20.
20 in a minute.
20 in a minute.
All right, let's see.
So we're gonna see how you could do.
All right, all right, let's do it.
3, 2, 1, here we go.
Britney Spears. She Say Do You Love Me. Great Gospel. That's you. M. Uh, uh, Uptown Funk. Rihanna. Beyoncé. Starboy. Weekend. Just the artist.
Tupac?
Nope.
Biggie?
Biggie? Dominus? Just the artist? Uh, Taylor Swift? Katy Perry? Eminem? Kesha? Selena Gomez? Oh wow, wait, how many did I—
yo, that was That's crazy.
If I would have known it was just the artist, you would have been flying through, right?
Yo, that was crazy though.
I would have shattered that record.
Hang on one second. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 with— and at the beginning you were going with song. Yo, that's crazy.
Should we run that back? Can we run that back?
You want to try it again?
Let's try it again because I just want to shatter that record.
Okay, let's try it again.
I was doing songs.
Yeah, that was crazy. Yo, you shattered it though. That's crazy. Okay, okay, okay, let me set up, let me set up another thing. Wait right there. All right, we got to set up for round 2 because you did— it was my fault, that was on me. I didn't tell you you could do song title or artist.
Or artist.
Yeah, so now we've got you lined up with a whole new list and we're gonna see how you could do.
You ready?
All right, let's get it. So we're gonna start in 3, 2, 1, let's get it.
Uh, DMX? No.
Yeah, skip it.
Skip.
Can't skip.
You can't skip.
Can't skip.
Selena Gomez. Britney Spears. Justin Bieber.
Happy.
Adam Levine, Maroon 5.
That's it.
What'd I get?
What'd I get? That's it. Hang on, I'm gonna have to count it up, but I'm also probably gonna have to go back to the tape because I got caught up in the million things. But let me count it up. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Oh my God, yo, you got caught up on Fat Joe and Ashanti hard.
Yo, I wouldn't have— I wouldn't have got that. I wouldn't have got that.
It was Fat Joe Ashanti, and then you, you ended up getting it, but Enrique caught you up too.
Tripped me out, bro.
Yeah. So listen, that is Bazzi. He is going to be at MTELUS tonight with Camila Cabello. His new song is playing all over Virgin Radio. It's called Mine. Follow him on all social medias at Bazzi, at Bazzi everywhere, at Adam Greenberg 1, and at Virgin Radio Montreal. Thanks for watching.
Peace.
