Jon Batiste on Creating New Album ‘World Music Radio,’ Potentially Becoming an EGOT & More | Billboard News

Jon Batiste talks about his creative process for his new album World Music Radio, potentially becoming an EGOT winner during his career and more!

Jon Batiste:
Everything will fall into place for you. So that’s a message to everybody you know, whatever you doing whatever you creating, there’s no pressure. Just be you, walk your path. Hello, I’m Jon Batiste, and this is Billboard News.

Carl Lamarre:
Mr. Batiste, my brother.

Jon Batiste:
Yes.

Carl Lamarre:
How are you feeling?

Jon Batiste:
I feel great. Glad to be here with you, glad to be living.

Carl Lamarre:
We were just talking ahead of the cameras about your new record “Drink Water.” I told you when I first heard it. You know, it felt like a mantra like you said. I was like, “You must have been in the argument. You know, the missues was like, ‘You know, Jon, I don’t like how you’re doing this.’”

Jon Batiste:
Right? Calm down!

Water is the theme in the album. There’s many different themes that recur, and we didn’t even really realize when we were making it — some of the things was subliminal. And you know, I was working with the great Jon Bellion, Long Island — shoutout to Long Island — the great John Bellion had this thing that he had for his son, just in terms of living life and the world’s crazy, and just the idea of self-care and being in the world living your life. Sometimes you got to take a pause. And relating to that in my life and the things we’ve been through and all the stuff that we’ve tried to create in this album is a mantra.

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