You know, I left as a different person when I went back home.
I went back home as, like, AP,
so you know, even for my family…
they didn't know what to expect either.
You know what I'm trying to say?
They didn't know there was going to be people
lining up outside my house.
They didn't expect none of that shit, right?
But this love that we got from our country…
it gave us a little boost, and a kick.
Like, work harder.
Like, when we started making the music,
it wasn't about getting fame.
We wanted to create something that stays for generations.
Now it's our chance to show, you know, this is what we are capable of.
I just want our people to be proud.
We're changing the world, right?
Yeah.
I'm almost ready to go back and get that hype.
Yeah.
I'm kind of ready for a tour again.
Yeah, yeah. No, but it's time to make music, too.
This is the work we have to go through to get to that level.
The last year, it's been, just like, super chaotic.
Now we have a tour coming in six weeks,
we have an EP that's supposed to drop soon,
we have a lot of work to do.
Yeah, we're making this tour happen,
in, like, a very small time frame,
you know, if you look at big artists that are putting together tours,
they usually have, like, a year of preparation.
So, we left India, we kind of decided to take a step back,
take a break and just be normal for a little bit.
I still had to kind of focus on planning this tour,
figuring out which partners we want to work with,
figuring out how to work with them.
It wasn't really apparent to me how quick the clock was ticking.
So when all that had finally been done
and I was like, "Okay, we actually have a tour
in, like, less than two months. "
And we were starting from scratch.
Welcome to our life.
Welcome to our life of spontaneous, like, non-stop work.
We're not some industry pros and we're not some big…
experienced people with mega teams
following any sort of textbook model.
All this work we gotta do, it's an opportunity for us now to grow.
It's more than just a business now, it's like,
you know, it's a cultural-defining moment.
The announcement will happen today that we're doing a North American tour
and now we have to officially make our post and do our part.
We need a caption. It should be one sentence.
Yeah it should be like "Seven years ago I came to Canada…"
You want him to write an essay?
Yeah, "Seven years ago I came to Canada, now we're going out of this world. "
"I've been waiting for this for so long.
Can't wait to take you guys out of this world. "
That's it, it's good.
It's posted.
Look at the video, though! Yo!
Five thousand likes in five minutes,
I'm thinking it's good, but…
we'll see how tickets sell, then we'll know how good it is.
All right.
We just posted that video, we announced the tour,
we don't have other shit organized right now, you know.
This morning, AP Dhillon
has sent social media into meltdown,
as he announced his first ever North America tour.
AP's gonna play to arenas of up to 20,000 people
on a multiple-city run.
Just like everything else we do, you know we love taking the risk.
We're all in, we bet on ourselves. And…
we just have to execute,
and give our fans what they want.
There are a lot of little puzzle pieces
to put together and make shit happen.
Basically, we have to figure out, like, everything.
Gotta figure out production and our crew
and techs and the layout, the setup, like, everything.
We're working with, now, people from outside our group.
We're about to do arena tours,
we're entering the big leagues,
this is like dealing with a lot of people.
Everything to do with this is crazy.
We're going full steam ahead
with no time, no preparation.
To program one song on lighting console
and laser consoles, this is about a week.
We have such a massive production.
There is very little room for error.
I wanted to bring some art into it, like choreography.
I was just trying to work myself out of comfort zone
to do stuff differently.
Not using the typical things that we are known for
in Punjabi music.
It's just good for our culture, like it's moving us forward.
So that's when he comes back on the stage on this track.
Okay.
But these tracks, they're going to play it live,
so the band's going to run this one live, right?
Oh, I see.
Like, what would be the look, individually standing like?
I'm worried about, like, actually making it happen
in, like, the time frame.
October 8th, Vancouver, October 9th, Calgary.
October 16th's Toronto.
Most important eight days that we've had.
The Canada shows are obviously the biggest shows.
There's going to be three people in a band,
that's like 30, 35 people that are rolling with us.
It's gonna be fun. Like pop, it's gonna be fun.
To be honest, in the beginning, when AP told me he wants a live band,
like, I didn't fully understand.
And I was like, "Okay, I don't know.
-Like, we have a lot of trap music. " -Yeah.
Like, as minimal, we can go with the trap,
-with the drum. -Okay.
Like, you know. But the drip was sounding hard.
It's tough to, like, step out of your comfort zone.
What if the drums are just the high hats?
But then during rehearsal,
when I saw the guys vibing out to the music
and like, adding their parts,
adding their keys, their strings and their drums…
it really kind of brought everything together
and it kind of just…
It felt like we're putting on a show.
You have to take risks to, like,
being able to do what you wanna do.
This is first rehearsal with the band, let's go!
It's last minute because we're trying to
put together a team that we don't have.
I'm just seeing a lot of work in front of me.
People don't realize you need everything,
from the look to the music, to management, to business.
You need everything right in order to make it.
What's good, bro?
Okay, is Mo here?
Mo, are you a superstar today?
-He is. -No, not me.
This guy that thinks he's cool is.
Oh, are you a superstar?
-No, I think I'm cool. -He has a tour coming up, so…
So…
Yeah. So do you have barbers for the tour?
No, you're coming.
What do you mean I'm coming? For what, the stadium one?
Yeah.
I like the shape of this beard.
More fade maybe.
Did you ever thought you would be cutting AP's hair?
Did you ever think you would become AP?
'Cause when I knew you,
you were just a regular guy. Lest we forget.
Two or three years down the road he's gonna be like,
"Yeah, it was an honor. "
He's gonna have my picture right there with my hairstyle.
Because I don't have to cut you anymore?
-Yeah. -Oh, thank God!
Five years ago? Quiet. Wasn't even cool.
Smart, though. Always smart.
There's AP and there's Amrit.
When I released my first song, I got my identity.
The AP, what you see on Instagram, TikTok…
and Amrit is like…
like, I'm just a regular human being, too.
I'm a normal human being, you know?
I like my name Amrit more.
Honestly, I like the way it's going now.
Nobody knows me, who I am.
Can I get a picture?
Yeah, sure.
-Sorry, buddy. -No worries.
We just bought tickets to your show today.
-Fire. -Yeah.
-Thanks, appreciate that. -Thank you, thank you!
Nice meeting you guys.
Let's do it.
I keep my personal things away from AP.
I fucking hate takin' pictures.
AP is a guy who wears multiple hats.
You're looking like a terminator!
He produces too, he mixes and masters too.
-Can we do red? -Red?
He runs the label side of it.
Overlooking the art…
and I'm trying to find the time to do the music.
Look Shinda.
It's just so hard to do music when you're trying to do business.
It does get stressful.
Hundred percent, it gets stressful.
No, no, no, no, no. Please, please, please, please. Please, please, please.
Just balancing days we can get into the studio,
we can get AP free,
you know, his mind is not flooded with other things,
and paperwork and stuff that he has to do.
I see. Okay.
But I think music is just, like, life to me, basically.
Like, all I have to this point is because of… music.
At this very moment, we don't have enough songs to complete our set-list,
so it's super important to complete this EP.
This next project is kind of like,
we're testing a new genre of music, you know?
But like, a little bit of a pause like…
-No, we have to do a pause. -Yeah, yeah.
The next track, there's no beat for that right now.
So we have the beat, but like, it's not done yet.
Final thoughts…
Originally, I made it on my beat,
and then it didn't really sound good.
It's 155.
I just wanted…
like, real music kind of thing.
Not just like all these gangster tracks.
Yo, how we can nicely switch from F minor to E minor?
Is there-- Is there a way we can do it?
We were rehearsing and this guy played some chords… Latch.
One, two, three, four…
Then we made him record those chords
and I just started performing on that.
We made a beat.
Final thoughts, it's the flow that doesn't exist
in our industry.
I'm just trying to always progress.
Yo, I kinda wanna…
Yo… Where is Shinda?
-Hello? -Where you at, Singhy?
Just leaving the house.
Where you at?
P's missing you
Where you at, yo?
Being in the process with AP and GG and everybody,
it's a situational basis.
When I write a song, it's majority on the situation you're going through
or something you saw and certainly wanna write a song about it.
Shinda is a singer, he's a songwriter.
He's a goddamn GOAT.
What do you think? Oh, shit.
Shinda is a legend.
Everything he does, he brings so much energy to the table.
How I think is, there's just two businesses in the world.
There is a business of hope and there is a business of fear.
Hope comes with everything, happiness and joyfulness.
And fear comes with sadness, you know,
all those dark emotions.
So when you have a track like "Bentley Bentayga",
it has that optimistic feeling to it.
And you want the people, when they listen to it, they're like,
"I want to have all the things that were said in the song. "
Their dynamic in the studio is unmatched.
It's a dream team, to tell you the honest truth.
I'm fucking excited, bro.
Sales have opened up, Ticketmaster's bumping,
the website's bumping, we're grinding right now.
Kevin's on the phone fuckin' all day long.
He's doing meetings in his sleep.
Yo.
By the way, we have a tour, with tickets on sale.
I'm not sure if you guys know.
People have already resold tickets for like six, seven times,
fucking asking price.
That's crazy.
So, the VIP tickets, meet-and-greet package?
Yeah, that yeah, yeah, they're getting a lanyard and…
Are those all sold out?
Like, they're already probably all gone, right?
-Yeah. -Okay.
So did you know this guy has to do 100 meet-and-greets per show?
-You're lying. -Fuck, Kevin, yo.
You're lying.
So there's ten shows?
Yeah. Yeah.
So there's thousand meet-and-greets sold out?
That's f… holy fuck!
It's gonna be quick, bro, don't worry.
Holy. A thousand meet-and-greets,
that's still… that's still processing right now.
It's a lot of pictures, yo.
You know, it's going to be just young people just so happy.
You're going to make their lives, you know, like,
this literally going to be the moment, the highlight of their lives, so…
look at the benefit of it, the positive aspect of it.
I know, you're right.
I know India… India's given us PTSD, that's what it is.
The whole moment, first time going back home,
it was nuts.
People were chasing the car, hotels were crazy.
It was not easy to deal with,
and I tried my best to be the AP Dhillon that people want.
From the moment I landed,
I started getting threats.
Herman started getting messages on his phone.
My hotel room numbers were getting leaked.
And my team members' numbers.
-Oh, they're still there. -Yeah.
They were
targeting specific people.
Sidhu and I were on tour at the same time.
It has been a long time. Let's meet up.
Absolutely.
When will you come?
Hey listen, when I come back to the village…
And they thought that us artists will start giving them money.
AP looked like a deer caught in the headlights.
It was kind of hard in the moment adjusting to that.
The show at Chandigarh was quite stressful…
There were a lot of security issues.
Guys, move, move, move!
There were so many threats.
But somehow we got through it.
Bro, I'm going to finish this EP…
-Yeah. -…a little bit.
I need time for that.
Still have a goal of trying to put out six to eight tracks before October eighth?
-What do you think? -Sixty-eight?
Six to eight.
I'm like, what the fuck is this guy? 68?
-The maximum. -Why not?
We'll be blessed, we'll be blessed. I'd be down. Fuck it, a track every day.
-It's gonna be five tracks coming. -Okay.
One is going to be trap and one is going to be acoustic.
The actual music itself is not the issue,
it's making the time to get this guy into the studio
with everybody else there at the same time,
we're kind of racing against the clock here
but we're trying to do everything we can, like,
to the best of our abilities.
And do, like, guitar.
You play it in different ways too, slow it down a little bit.
But, uh, what do you think about that?
-Yeah, that's three, four. -Just doing something on a show,
I was just thinking about the idea, you know?
Or shouldn't do something like this? What do you think? What's your idea?
-No, think it's super fire. -Yeah?
I think the song is fire, the melody's fire.
It has three verses. That's a nice amount of time.
Yeah.
I'm getting lost within myself
No one is there looking for me
Why do I wander around angry?
Because my eyes haven't cried yet
The time of the day isn't late
My night hasn't fully arrived yet
I didn't hide my mistake from anyone
The mistake of calling you mine
Love sways and changes
What do I do? I can't see the road
Someone show me the way
I kept calling you all night
You have no idea What my heart is going through
I can't take a rest
A breath of relief…
-Is there another verse? -Yeah, there is.
I only know the first two.
Am I the only one who stays awake?
Or are the lights Of the city alive, too?
I don't want the blowing winds
To destroy the palace of my love
The strings of love have Abandoned my hands
I am left with my hopes
I didn't stay close by you
All that's left are The earrings I gave you
All I go through now is pain
I wasn't patient I forced my heart…
The tour is coming and we're trying to
do this live recording.
The prep is going crazy.
Don't remind me of the tour, yo, you're stressing me out now!
Yo, I gotta drop EP this Friday and it hasn't got mixed yet.
We know the pressure's on,
It's a part of the hustle, bro, it's a part of the hustle.
Okay. Camera speeding.
Let's go.
One, two, three…
Cutting!
I was going to release this project in summer first, but then…
I didn't put it out because…
of what happened with Sidhu.
It didn't feel right.
We've got some breaking news that's coming in right now,
Punjabi singer Shubhdeep Sidhu Moose Wala
has been shot dead in Mansa.
Two cars can be seen in these images, cruising behind the singer's car,
and moments later the singer was shot dead with at least 24 of 30 bullets.
Sidhu Moose Wala was receiving
threats from these gangsters.
He's the greatest rapper on this Earth, yeah.
It impacted me a lot.
Because, bro, I literally talked to the guy two days before
that all happened.
We built a relation through "Brown Munde. "
He started putting music way before.
It's like "Oh, this is something different. "
It's not the traditional Punjabi music.
And, uh, he killed it, bro. He killed it.
For a while, I was just like, "Bro, I don't want to listen to music. "
Yeah, it was tough time, man.
Sometimes you think of giving up.
There's so many times I'll just drive
in my car in the middle of the night.
Sometimes I think, "Is it worth losing your peace?"
Is it worth staying away from family?
Then again, like seeing the smile on millions and millions of people.
Like, that just keeps me going.
People who leave legacies,
we need to promote that.
It's our responsibility to carry what this guy left,
you know what I'm trying to say? Keep it going.
We all are brown.
If we can't bring each other up, who else gonna do it?
The EP is out.
Yo, we have a surprise for you guys.
We're dropping an EP tonight. At 9:00.
We sold out arenas. And it was my first show. Yeah.
To me, that just like, it's crazy.
We're doing something different.
We're doing something new. I just wanna make it perfect.
Definitely the pressure is there.
Some of the greatest artists have performed at Rogers Arena…
Drake, Billie Eilish, Jay-Z…
Just talking to you, kind of…
I'm thinking about it. Oh, shit.
That's crazy.
Yeah. That's actually crazy.