187: with Elena Leona, musician & humorist
Description
Elena Leona Carbajal is the emcee, singer, and bandleader of The Elena Leona Project. I have known for years how much talent and jovial spirit she brings to Eugene's hip-hop scene, but I was especially hype to see her rocket up past 15,000 followers on TikTok recently. There, she brings joy to viewers with silly takes on current trends, and with open verse duets over popular beats. This episode also features a rare appearance from veteran Eugene emcee, Metri¢.
We discuss vaccinations (0:41 ), buffalo chicken rollers and other 7-11 "food" (7:15 ), being a bad Mexican (8:36 ), her TikTok surge (14:53 ), performing, improving, being Jack Black (19:32 ), Metri¢ joins us via phone! (25:19 ), an EXCLUSIVE upcoming Metri¢ song (33:20 ), remembering Taylor Hawkins (35:58 ), her origin story (41:38 ), the ICP show that I left early (44:04 ), and violent images from Ukraine (46:45 ).
SONG: "I'm the Boss" by Elena Leona (50:37 ).
The discussion is on video at https://youtu.be/y6PCqoUBfTA.
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