REY on making music in Tucson & dying empty | E.T. EP01

El Tucsonan kicks off with REY — Tucson rapper, organizer, visual artist, and co-founder of the 1202 collective. We talk about coming up in the local music scene, what it actually takes to navigate venues and bad business in a city like Tucson, and why he's been going through his hard drives trying to die empty. We also get into the AI copyright problem eating the music industry, why "Everything Is a Remix" should be required watching, the 1202 house and what it meant to the community, pinta art and ballpoint pen as a creative practice, and what's coming — including his most personal project yet, Shut up Mijo, dropping this fall. (Note: we lost about 15–20 minutes of footage to a technical issue mid-episode. We recap what we can. It won't happen again.) — FIND REY @shutupmijo on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/@shutupmijo 1202 → https://twelvotwo.com/rey FIND EL TUCSONAN Website → https://eltucsonan.com Become a member → https://eltucsonan.com/supporters/sign_in Sponsor the show → https://eltucsonan.com/pages/sponsor — CLIPS USED IN THIS VIDEO "Everything Is a Remix" by @KirbyFerguson → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc Anderson .Paak on Club Shay Shay with Shannon Sharpe (@ClubShayShay) → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZRAvYVn-FU — El Tucsonan is a production of Self Media Productions LLC.