Parris Chariz Addresses His Name Change, Marriage, RMG, "THE WORLD IS WATCHING" (Full Interview)

Now, at this point, what genre of music do you consider yourself? I'm just an artist. I'm a hip-hop artist. I'm a clean artist. Some say faith-based, some say Christian rapper. I just consider myself an artist. No matter what people call me, I would make the same music I make. It's not predicated on the genres, just what I feel, what I hear. And it comes out with a sonics. Now, is there a difference between any of these entities? You mentioned clean artists, faith-based, Christian. Yeah. Yeah, I would say it's a difference. Just because you were clean artists don't mean you were a faith-based artist. I think for me, it just doesn't matter that the line isn't drawn based upon my religion, it's just based upon what I see fit best for my music. So I'll say that. And when it comes to these different categories, is this people trying to put you in one of these categories? Is this maybe you can't specify what category you're in or? Yeah, I think when I first started not really knowing that Christian hip-hop was an entire huge genre and it was a lucrative business and stuff like that, I kind of was just thrown into it and then I realized, oh, I'm inside a Christian hip-hop. For me, and my guys and the things we do, we were just rocking out how we normally do. It wasn't something we were trying to be put into. But for us again, it's just what we do. It's who we are. I mean, it comes out through the music. And speaking of religion and things of that nature, just for clarification, especially those in the audience here getting to know you for the very first time, do you follow religion at this point? Yeah, I'm a believer. I believe Jesus Christ my Lord is saving me. So just for further clarification with that fall under the umbrella of Christianity? Yep, Christianity. The faith. God changed my life. And does it get any more specific under that umbrella for you? So for example, I know sometimes there's denominations or branches. People consider themselves under Christianity like Roman Catholic or Protestant or Baptist or so on and so forth. Does it get any more specific for you, for example? I wouldn't say it gets more specific. I think the more specific thing would be how I just walk it out. Not necessarily. I would guess I'm non-denomination, I would say. I guess I would say that. I've been to Baptist churches. I've been to Pentecostal churches. I've been to seven day of vintage churches. But as far as what I choose to believe and how I choose to follow it, I would just say non-denomination. And as far as non-denominational, again, further clarification, was this something you chose on your own? Was this how you were raised perhaps so on and so forth? Both. My mom, I had a praying grandmother but my mom always gave me the choice if I wanted to go to church. When I found Christ as an adult, it was on my own. I think it was always there, especially being where I came from in Detroit, being around certain things and ways of life and not wanting to choose it and not understanding what that inkling in my soul was. And as I grew older, it just joined me closer to God. And as far as music is concerned, what does Paris mean to music at this point? What do I mean to music? At this point, nothing. I'm just the artist trying to share my story and hopefully have impact on people's lives through the music. I guess I do have some sort of following and people listen to me and I'm able to live off of my music solely. But I'm still up and come artists in my eyes. I'm still trying to get to another level. But I also understand I'm part of the 0.1% that live off strictly music without a job. So I'm blessed in that way as well. But it still levels the things that I want to get to. And speaking of that as well, before you got into music full-time as a career that pays the bills, so to speak, was it two feet in in that belief in a music career to get to that point? Or was it like one foot in some sort of nine to five, one foot in music? And when the music side of things was when you were able to fully stand on its own with that paying your bills, then you transitioned two feet into music. Is that how? Yo, I used to do it. I dropped out of college and I took a construction job where I got paid every week. And it allowed me to fund the music early on. Pay for studio time, pay for cover arts. Well, not cover arts. But pay for the things that I needed to get my music out there. And at the best quality. And eventually with the help of my friends, with the help of family, I was able to quit my job. And it's been about eight years full of time. And that comes with a lot of stipulations. It's not as easy as it sounds. But again, with the people around me that I started with, being the same ones that I created something when we built, it was easy to do that. Care to share and share some insight in the inner on those stipulations. Yeah, I mean my cousin, one of my best friends. I have a cousin that is a genius behind the mic and also with the structure of music and understanding how to make hits and how to make deep cuts. And then I have a person that is a genius with the cover arts. If anybody know, I'm in tune with the the visual aspect of my music just as well as the sonic aspect. So that's just important of some people don't like what they hear. They like what they see. So within that, I think I was blessed to how those people around me and we was able to build. And even more into that living with them. You know what I'm saying? Being able to cut rent down because I got two roommates and I'm not paying for cover art. And I've become friends with best friends with my sound engineer to this day. And him, me having to go from paying for studio time and paying for mixes and masters to not having to pay for nothing at all and building. And now because I make a good amount of money, I can't pay for my mixes for him. He don't got to do it for free. I mean, we're just going to build from there. And we'll pause here for one second. Grab that tissue box there and pass that to this side there. Well, on the music side of things at this point, right? As far as your discography, your previous projects, curious here, you did have a title of a project, possibly a series. We'll get that clarified here in a second called Super Splash Brothers 2. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, my brother Jerry. Was that an actual series? And are there any other series in your discography here? We got the first one. The first one was an EP, not an album. The second one was an album we wanted to give. The first one we did in 2018 was kind of like a taste. We just did four songs. And then the second one, we had so many people asking for another one that we just went ahead and did it. We actually did that way way faster than the way we did it faster even though it was double the amount of songs. But I think me and Jerry just had a chemistry at that time and we was able to just spit them out. Yes, sir, sir. But that's the only that's the only series so far in your discography. I'm not I'm not really into doing sequels. The best sequel all time is probably Rush Hour. So if it can be as good as Rush Hour 2, ain't no need to do it. Now you're obviously you're obviously comparing a movie series. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, a movie franchise with music. But so will volume 2 be the last installment in that series then? Yeah, that'd be good. That's about it. That's about it. I think no more than that. Is that a for sure or is that a for not a for certain for certain for sure and zooming out aside from that series just thinking about your previous projects as well. What's been your favorite so far out of the whole entire catalog? 2445 the whole thing even with the deluxe airwaves. I think for me that project was a serving of I feel like everything that I'm my capabilities from writing songs to choosing beats to choosing features. Yeah, I think that was the ultimate serving up until this point. I think the world is watching is my best project. It's out now go get that. But yeah, outside of that I would say 2445 the fully both both sides. It would probably be my only double disc. You know, the double disc is artists, the double disc is that's the legendary projects, you know, I'm saying. So that would be my legendary project, I would say. And as far as the world is watching. Yeah. And that title there for those in the audience getting to know you here for the first time, maybe hearing about this project for the first time, can you explain everything they need to know just about that in it of itself? Just the title? The title or the project? How do you want to take this? Nah, so the world is So watching this, it's a double meaning, obviously as a believer, we are as a believer, I guess we're held to a certain standard, so I understand that the world is watching us, but then on the flip side, my artist development team company is called World 45. So creatively, it's about us watching what y'all are doing, but on the flip side, it's about us understanding who we are and understanding that we got to walk a certain way and do a certain thing because we know people are watching us. So that was kind of like the creative flip on that. And it gets tricky because a lot of people with singers seem like, oh, I want to be perfect because the world is watching and really I want to expose myself because the world is watching to know. So people know that, man, I'm an actual human being, I'm not perfect, I'm going to make mistakes, I've lived a real life, I've not always been a believer, and I understand both sides of the fence, you know what I'm saying? And was this a title that you came up with or someone came up with for you? No, God gave it to me, He also gave me the other title in my weakness, my album 2018 and my weakness. Those are only two albums, I feel like God gave me the title because I was going to call it something else. Even in my weakness, I was going to call it air, HEIR, you know, to air to the throne, things like that. But over time as I crafted it, I remember what I was doing, I was playing 2K, listening to that album and it clicked to me like, don't call it that, call it in my weakness. Same thing for the world is watching. When I was towards the end of making 2045, I knew that I wanted to call an album in the world is watching, it's just what in time, and that's where you get. Super Smash Bros. 2, my project starter kit, and then take you to Paris, but now it's time for the world is watching. Now when it comes to the wrapping side of things, what is your opinion on ad-libs in a song? Vital, important, they can make or break, carry or fumble, you know what I'm saying. It's a vital part of the wrapping side. I will consider myself an ad-libologist, I don't know if that's the thing, it is now though, it is now. Be that as a may, do you have a strategy when it comes to your ad-libs at this point? Sometimes, I might have a strategy where my ad-libs is responding to what I'm saying in the line before, sometimes it's a space filler, yeah, yeah, I would say those are the main two things. Sometimes it just sounds good, sometimes it just sounds good. Now as an ad-libologist, you know, sometimes there's recording artists that will of course rhyme bars, one bar to another, but have you ever made, aside from the bars rhyming with one another? Have you ever made the ad-libs rhyme with one another? Absolutely, I can't point to the song, so please don't make me go to the songs or point with the layers, but yes, I can vividly remember doing that rhyming, maybe the two lines rhyme and the two ad-libs rhyme, I've done that plenty of times. Now, do you have a signature ad-lib at this point and ad-lib you're known for? Yeah, I would probably either say let me talk exactly, those are all, it's like two more, but those are the main two that come to my mind. Is there a meaning to either of these ad-libs whenever you implement them? Exactly, that's how we mean the guys, that's just how we talk. My cousin make a point out exactly, and we just implemented it into the music. The other one, I don't say let me talk on my daily, I think it's just, if I flew out my mouth one day and I just kept saying it, and then some of my supporters would just scream, like let me talk, they'd need to let you talk more, so I just kept with it, I just kept with it. And out of both of these ad-libs, which one do you do more than the other, unless it's equal the same? It's probably equal to saying I don't do, it's not too many times I use let me talk, let me talk, it's going into like probably like a lyrical song, and the exactly I have to have said something where it's like yeah, I'm stamping it with the exactly. And were you the first recording artist to do either of these signature ad-libs? Yeah, no, I've never heard another rapper say exactly, and not in the, because it's also the pitch I say it in in my voice, and the staccato of it, it's very like it sticks. I never heard nobody say let me talk either, before they start a verse, I never heard nobody say that, I'm a fan of doing stuff nobody does, so I'm going to say credit for that, I'm going to say credit for that. Now have you heard others copy or steal, either of these ad-libs since? I ain't never know, I think if somebody said let me talk before they verse and they spit a bunch of bars, I would have something to say to them, I would have something to say, but no, no, I haven't. And as much of an ad, excuse me, an ad-libologist as you are, have there been songs that you've created with no ad-libs at all? That's a good question. Maybe features, maybe features, I bet there's some features out there, but I don't think I got a song, MC, you think I got a song? I don't think I have one song without, at least one ad-lib, even if it's like before the verse, I don't think I have one song without it. And what I care to share who MCU is, off camera to the side of you. MC is my cousin, my best friend, my Annar, my top-file artist, top-file rapper, that I've ever heard, man, he's a big part of the reason why I'm able to sit right here, you know what I'm saying? I mean, staying, staying right on each other's hip and helping each other grow. And cousin on your mother's side or father's side? On God's side, that's my cousin on God's side. Now when it comes to features and collaborating with other recording artists, have you ever added your ad-libs to another artist's verse on the same song and not just merely like in the beginning, like you're introducing yourself on the track, but have you had yours sprinkled throughout another? Yep, I've done that. I've done that. My artist, I got an artist, Eli Montana, we got a song that's dropping in a few months. I did ad-libs. It's his song and I have a verse, but I did ad-libs on his verse as well. That's just recently, but I've done it before too. Is there a title to this song? Nobody. It's coming out soon. And how does that work? Is that something an artist, in that example, asks you to do, do you voluntarily do that on your own? I ask. Sometimes I'll just do it and ask for forgiveness later. In the case with Eli asked him first, he agreed with it. Once he heard it, he was like, okay, I see what you're trying to do. I went back and perfected it and I'm saying we're working on that and mixing that. And slight twist to this next question, but something similar. What are your thoughts on songs with another artist ad-libs, but no hook or verse from them, on that song is shes their ad-libs sprinkled? I think that's interesting. What do you say? He said, "Monish on the beach, Shabain." Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, I think that's genius. I think it's like adding parsley. It's like adding cilantro to the pasta. It adds something that you can't necessarily quantify. Yeah, I think it's just genius moved by any artist that I will allow it and do it, you know what I'm saying? And have you ever done this yourself or been asked to do this yourself or had someone do this for you on one of your? I had somebody do it for me for sure. I don't think nobody's asked me to just. No, actually, no, I do. My homeboy from Atlanta, one K-fu, I got a song. He has a song with "What Up RG" and "Foggy Raw" and I have like a singular ad-lib in a certain spot. And people know it's me because I say, "Let me talk" in there, you know what I'm saying? People know it's me, so. I think one of the only times somebody asks me to do that. And then what about vice versa? You've had another artist do ad-libs, but no hook or verse from them on a song of your own? Have I? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My cousin MC, Montouin Cornelius did ad-libs on Chrysler Cash, the road is watching you all hear the distinctness in the ad-libs. I got a couple in there, but he has no verse in there all the ad-libs, you know. I forgot the name, my bad. And, you know, he's not Mike Duppa can answer and chime in on this next question. And you can as well, this is kind of open to either one of you, but. Did either of you feel some type of way like, "Hey, you don't want my verse or hook on this song, you just want my ad-libs?" Nah, I know he didn't. It was lucky, honestly, his idea, right, man, let me do the ad-libs. his voice is so distinct just like mine so it was a great contrast when you hear the song you understand exactly why you did that I lose but he got a he has a verse on the album though. Now I know you've collaborated with one K on other songs but this particular song where it's just your ad libuse did you feel some type of way like no? Yeah I did feel some type of way I felt honored I feel blessed that my boy asked me to do it yeah so yeah I did feel the way I felt a good way but not a negative way like no I'm not gonna enough for a hooker a verse on this or me and me and me and a few been locked in since like 2016 before he was even one K few he was still future kid shout out DJ DB 405 the mapper's brand he connected us brought him out to Oklahoma City and we did a show together and him in peace and we've been locked in there since so shout out to the one K-Sam Wolf and anything else you want to mention here on the subject of ad libuse I know I asked you a variety of questions about them anything else you want to add on before we move on to another subject here no all of the ad libuse in the world is watching our phenomenal so go listen to the world is watching so you hear those phenomenal ad libuse as that ad libologist I would say that now let's break down some items of you personally here enough about music momentarily a starting with this stage name of yours now for those in the audience getting to know you here for the very first time what is the correct way to pronounce this stage name yeah pairs careers like charisma Greek word is cheris which means grace C-H-A-R-I-S I put a Z on it just to give it a little that's the little that's the partially the Z is the partially even the type of deposited on parishes my actual real name though the P-A-R-I-S is my God given birth name and when it comes to this stage name in its entirety do people mispronounce it all the time chains cheris cares cheris cheris I've got cheris it's cool though I think it's a it's a icebreaker I think it's a icebreaker it's a way to I could view it as a negative and look down on people for mispronounce in my name or I could correct them and then start a conversation with them and actually make them a supporter of them not even knowing how to pronounce my name I've done it before so I think it's a if you change your perspective on it it could be actually a icebreaker to gain a supporter and on the flip side do people misspell this stage name as well people don't well when they say chains they do misspell it but not not more than pairs you can vividly see that it's two R's in my name everywhere I put it and people that I've known for years call me pairs with one R they'll spell them in one R's but again I'm not the type of person to take stuff like that negative at one time I did and I realized that you don't get nowhere with it if they don't know they don't know so you got to teach them now which one do you notice people do more mispronounce or misspell this stage name of yours misspronounce misspronounce for sure and although people do both there was was there ever a thought on changing this stage name perhaps so this is my second stage name I went by completely I actually used to be embarrassed by my first name and I didn't want to use it because I in Detroit I used to get into a lot of fights simply because my name was pairs and people was trying to try me so I used to I used to try to shun my name the odor I got you know saying shout out to my wife but I started being more fond of my name because it it it was a starter with the ladies you know I'm saying once they realize your real name is pairs and I became more confident in it and then one of my good friends chas when I was trying to find a name he actually came up with the name careers for me while we was in the mall one day he told me I had a lot of charisma and I could use it and once I figured out what it meant and how we wrote out the time pairs careers I just ran within this been it's been that since about 2012 so there's music with the previous stage name as well yeah how good is it the current yep it's some it's some music as my name lavish I used to go by L.A. V.R. S. H. lavish what's that platform called revert nation I got some music out there if you go look go to your google's look up lavish on revert nation you'll find my some of my first music my real beginning the inception of it all so this was something you knew you wanted to do you knew you wanted to change your name just for clarification I wouldn't say I knew I wanted to I feel like it was inevitable I feel like I don't feel like I would have reached and I'm not saying I'm anywhere but I don't think I would even be here if my name was lavish to be real I think it's an interesting topic that my name is pairs and then people find out that's my actual name we keep going and then you add the careers to it and how you spell it and how you pronounce it the root of it my name alone is a icebreaker so yeah so just for further clarification this was a self-made change or okay yeah I had a little help from the friends but yeah self-made I needed to change it I felt that early you know even when I because even when I was going by lavish I was trying to hope I wasn't even trying to do music music music was like a side thing something that I just realized I was good at but as I got more serious I'm like man lavish is not a and it was an acronym that that's the funny part it's an acronym life after what life life after bowel imprisonment and hell I don't know where it was I was I was I was reaching I was reaching but pairs it flows so we hear now now sometimes name changes help or hurts brands it sounds like in this case it was helpful do you wish you would have changed it sooner than when you did or no I changed that the right turn I changed that the perfect time actually yeah and when it comes to this name of yours as well you know as short as it is relatively speaking do you accept any abbreviations of this stage name yeah PC if I'm not the realist PC then I bet you all your servers start glitching I'm the realist PC so it's like if you understand what the PC is that's that's probably it uh well non-line waves your pill waves are Jones the wave we keep going um what is it P oh yeah just simple P slick slick wave slick young slick I got about I got about 400 nicknames do you have a preference amongst all the nicknames waves or Jones waves your pill those my favorite two and not a true question here but may sound similar zooming out do you prefer people call you by either of these abbreviations or your stage name in full I prefer people call me by my first name Paris please call them I call myself waves your pill I don't need nobody else calling you that that's I think it gets weird it's funny but in real settings now I would enjoy if people just call me by my real name because I that's what I like to do for other people is it's a term of endearment if I know you by your first name and call you by it so I would like that in return and uh if I ask these questions already uh let me know but uh what do you what do you notice people do more mispronounce or miss spell our stage name yeah we talked about down sorry I uh got lost in my uh notes here different questions that I want to ask you I've been going back and forth from the bottom to the top of the game you got new questions though these these questions that I ain't talking about all day so it's good it's good now when it comes to uh social media yeah just in case there's some uh you know fraudulent profiles and pages out there scammy profiles and pages spammy profiles and pages uh for those in the audience getting to know you here for the very first time as well for them care to share the official handles on your most prominently used platforms on social media yeah all these pairs careers P-A-R-R-I-S careers C-H-R-I-Z um instagram tate talk youtube um threads x it's always uh pairs pairs careers all about to say take you to pairs my old twitter name was take you to pairs uh but it's now just pairs careers all of our handles across all platforms why did the screen name change as well uh I changed the the name from take you to pairs two pairs careers for um like branding purposes so whenever you search me it's the same exact thing I feel like I can probably change it back now but I feel like it's also too late because I feel like once I've changed it somebody took it I tried to change it on x maybe like a year ago and it wasn't available no more So I will admit. Now, when it comes to TikTok specifically and that bio there, you do have this phrase, the wave. Yeah. Care to share the meaning behind that phrase. Man, on the wave, it's water, it's the flow, it's never ending, you know what I'm saying? The stop, whether it be stylistically, whether it be with the clothes, whether it be with the ad lives, I try to, I think with my tonality of voice, everything is smooth, everything seems chill, even when I'm aggressive, it's still kind of calm, cool, and collected. So it's, I'm not into zodiacs, but then I understand what they are. So I'm a cancer, my birthday's in June, it's a water sign. I enjoy the water, my wife loves the water. So everything about me is just, in a sense, wavy, cool, chill, calm, collected. And was that something that you came up with on your own, or is that someone, or is that a phrase someone dubbed for you? Nice. I caught myself that first, and shout out, you asked earlier about the Super Splash Bros, my boy Jerry, he introduced me to the way, but I started calling myself the way, if you understand, and that's why we the Super Splash Bros, that's the, that's the coin there, because we both the way you understand, we the Super Splash Bros, yes sir, I'm one half of him. And who dubbed that phrase there for you too? The Super Splash Bros. I think one of our supporters did, you, I would have to call Jerry, I'm pretty sure he remembers, but I want to say either him, him, or one of our supporters, like, man, we got to, this is the name for us as a collective, we do stuff together. And it really was just about, because his, his voice is very distinct to him, very chill. When it's, when we was together, you know, I'm saying, it just sounded right. So for historical purposes, it was the way first, and then the Splash Bros. came after that. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Now, as far as your birth name, do you know the details behind that, which, who actually coined Paris, why, and why it's also spelled with two R's instead of one, instead of one? My mom gave me the name. I don't think she knew why, I think she just wanted to name me something different. If you ask her and then, it's actually pronounced Paris, if yours to also ask my mom, not Paris. But that's just, my mom being difficult, I love my mom, but it's Paris, it's not Paris. But yeah, not it. I think she was going to name me Josh, if she didn't name me Paris, I, I, I thank God, my mom named me Paris and not Josh, for sure. And my last topic for you today, and next time you come back, we'll do some other topics, but just to get the audience acclimated in your roots here, for those in the audience, getting to know you here for the very first time, care to share where you were actually born. Detroit, you see it, go Tigers, go Pistons, Detroit, man, seven mile west side. I lived everywhere, I lived on Dexter, and if you're from Detroit, you already know, I lived eight mile in Myers, I lived on seven mile, my dad stayed on six mile, I'm all west side, it's Detroit, my way of tossing. And to care to share where you reside these days? Tennessee, I say Nashville, it's not exact, but it's near that. I saw into a label reflection music group out there, not only myself, but my team as well, for the functionality. So we wanted to be right under the label, obviously for business, the best business purposes. So yeah, we out there, we moving the shaking out in Nashville right now. And care to share what age you were when you made that move in your life. Like 45, yeah, I was 45 and is at the current age you are at this point. Now speaking of ages, you had no problem sharing your age here. Yeah. You know, there's some recording artists that won't yeah, why no problem sharing your age here? Yeah, cause it's just who are you, I believe 45, you know what I'm saying, it's in my blood. So I don't have a problem sharing it cause it's everything, it's an embodiment of who are you? And I'm ripping to the day I die, so I don't have a problem sharing that at all. And just in case there's some misinformation online about you, care to share your birthday as well the month and the day perhaps. That's Friday, go get the album, Rose watching, it's dropping on my birthday, June 26. So you're about to be 46 and I'm about to be 45 again. I'm about to be 40, I ain't going to change from 45, I'm 45 to the day I die. Got it. You catch my drift? Yes. I like that, I like that. But how often do you go back to Detroit at this point? I haven't been in a few years. I'm actually going, I got a show out there August, wants to album drop. So this will be my first time going back in about three or four years with the music changes with the actual life changes again married and changing states. It's been a lot difficult, especially building a business as well, you know, as entrepreneurs, some of that money got to go back into the business and not for miscellaneous fun. So my family understands that but when we go back this time, we're going to have some fun. And because your name is Paris spelled with two R's, have you actually visited Paris spelled with one R? We on the way. Me and my wife, we booking it right now, out right now, but it's on the calendar, maybe about 2027, 28. So just curious. [BLANK_AUDIO]