Today we’d like to introduce you to Corey Roney (a.k.a Mac Roni).
Corey, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
I started recording at 12 when my Dad saw that I took a liking writing rhymes and free styling with my brothers and cousins. After the first time being in the studio I was HOOKED! My mother heard some of my songs and demanded my dad to stop me from going to the studio immediately. So, I found a friend of mine Cameron who loved music just as much as I did, we downloaded FL Studio 1 and Acid pro and began to produce write and record our own music. Though we never released any of our music we enjoyed just listening to it with friends and family until we graduated Hs. After HS, I began to Record with a local group named 214 Militia who had a song named “Big Booty Judy” that caught a buzz in the metroplex and spreader a little bit regionally. Around that time, a few of my classmates from HS were making songs that cracked billboard charts like Trai D with Gutta Chick, I was on the set of that video chillin, smokin and having a good time. Party Boyz came out with Flex and “Daddy stroke.” I threw my first College Concert in Athens, Texas featuring T-Real with “do the boot” it was a good time at that moment. For me, to start releasing more music and collaborating on shows but unfortunately, my mother got ill and passed from cancer that same year, so the passion for everything, especially with music, left. I was in depression and wasn’t creating at all.
And I would be in that place mentally for years until I found that passion again through a childhood friend/neighbor Eduardo Posas or “Eddie V.” I never knew Eddie do music. We would always play “throw up tackle” outside or play street fighter but it turned out he was UTA w/ his homie Meka Jackson performing at shows and producing music, so I came over there, listened to some tracks and just was blown away by what I heard, it was a sound that was refreshing and I would stop over there to see what new beats he was working on periodically. I felt I was slowly being lead back to my passion and when he invited to a concert that they did opening up for Space Ghost Purp or Chief Keef, that did it for me. I had so much fun that night, I knew that it was something that I wanted to keep doing so we would work on music and promote for these shows to open up for the headliner so we would open for The Migos or Curren$y and we would sell 75-100 tickets but we couldn’t profit any of it, so we sat the Dojo one day which is Eddie’s Mixed Martial Arts Gym and we said that man, we should promote our own shows except make it wear. The artist can sell tickets and profit off of it because we weren’t making any money from the $30 tickets we were selling, opening for Curren$y or Spaceghost anyone.
Our next step was finding to go by and recently, I had an assumed name under “Modern Dah Hippie” the “hippie” part of the name put us in a box so we took at off now we go by “Modern Day” in 2014 we started The Modern Day Art & Music Festival Featuring C. Ray Art, Ant Blue Jr., Jayson Lyric, CHilldren Of Indigo, Loudeine and was hosted By Meka Jackson & Jessie Porter. Look those names up please and tell me we weren’t on to something then. C Ray is a famous Painter, Ant Blue is a famous artist (Dj, Photographer, musician) CHilldren of Indigo is the dopest band in Dallas, Loudeine is now with Wacka Flocka. Brands like Royal Hemps, Co Sign magazine would have vendor booths set up at our shows. We were published in newspapers across 48 cities in the DFW metroplex. We would start with a fashion show with designers like De’fur, Last Tribe and other brands, spoken word, live paintings, live body paintings.
Took a break in 2017 and at the end of 2018, we came back with CLTRFEST, we featured artists like Kaash Paige who now has top 100 songs on Apple Music, we’re featured on K104s website in the ICYM (in case you missed) section, we’ve performed in LA, Austin, NC, Corpus with Meka and FUBUPALOOZA and now, we have CLTR CON November 23rd featuring Big Tuck, Lil D from 97.9 Lindsay with Hot 93.3 CLTR CON is a convention hosting some of the most predominant Music Artists, Visual Artists, Designers, Brands, and Businesses in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area! We will be hosting 40+ local brands along with local visual and music artists, models, and public figures. Our goal is to highlight the food, music, art, style and vibes of Dallas’ very own! We will have filmmakers, Lil D will be presenting her new book which has a foreword from Charlegmane The God. We’re gonna have the Dopest creatives in Dallas their that night, Meka Jackson will be hosting alongside us and Sydney Escada who has directed videos for Megan Thee Stallion & Asian Doll as well as countless of other celebrities. And I just released my album BLK GLD that has reached over 5,000 plays on Apple Music over 10,000 streams in all. So far, it’s been out two months.
This will be the first Dope underground Local Convention in Dallas and I’m excited to present it with my Bro Eddie, we’ve come a long way and we feel like our place is in taking Dallas CLTR to the next level.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc. – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
It definitely hasn’t been a smooth ride and a lot of the obstacles involved the ones that we placed in front of ourselves through negative thinking or laziness.
We’d love to hear more about your business.
Modern Day is a Lifestyle Brand. We’re involved in Film, Music, Events and retail. We are trailblazers, we tend to do things early on before most people think about it, we push the envelope.
What were you like growing up?
I was always smiling and having a good time. Very athletic in HS and I also could spit rhymes so we would be freestyle battling in the locker rooms after watching Reed Dollaz it Loaded Lux battle, lol!
Contact Info:
- Website: http://smarturl.it/blkgld
- Phone: 214-459-7560
- Email: cltrfest@gmail.com
- Instagram: @theyearwas89 @wearemodernday @cltrfest
- Facebook: Mac Roni
- Twitter: @wearemodernday
Image Credit:
Johnny B The Shooter, Russell in Motion, caperure photography, Joi Bowers
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