WEBVTT - Common Interview 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:07.920 I'm real people, real celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning. Everybody 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:10.920 is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Scharlaman the guy. We are 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:13.880 the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest joining us 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.640 this morning. Us right the legendary comment comments in the 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:18.880 build the morning sir Peace Peace, what's up? Yea not 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:21.160 comment before you walked in and said, man comments one 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:32.839 of those people. I'm scared of his eyes crazyfidence. I 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.040 think by the said comment is one of those individuals 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:37.360 you don't play with. He has that eye that that like, 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:39.479 I'm from Chicago and now you can die to night, 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.000 I said. I interviewed a lot of people comment has 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:51.600 that eye music soul child got that. That's a different 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.160 But welcome to the show, sir Man, Thank you. I'm 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:56.960 glad to be here. What's up? Man? Or he just 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.040 saw the interview off like this? Before the people shot 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.760 in Chicago this past weekend fourth of July, it was 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:03.520 like seventy shot. What the hell is going on in 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.960 your city? Man? Man, it's just tough out there. Man, 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.000 it's been like guns is everywhere. That's the way cast 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.440 think that that's the way they think they should handle it. 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:13.679 Is like man, I'm got to pop this cat. That's 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:15.920 that's just the way the youngest's been raised. Now, that's 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.200 what they know. So you know, we on a mission 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.679 to stop that. That's what I'm on. Like, that's my 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:24.400 whole mission for now to forever. I'm on that. How 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:27.800 I mean, it just seems so violent out there. Man, 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:29.720 it's gonna it's it's gonna take a thing. It's gonna 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.640 take a lot. Man. I ain't got all the answers, 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.959 but I know for sure like giving short these jobs 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.000 because I'd be around like some of the youngest and 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.920 they like, man, we gotta get money. And you know 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.319 when they get jobs, they're like, okay, man, maybe I 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:43.959 ain't got to go out here and do no hustling. 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:45.920 I ain't gotta be on the street. So that's one 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.080 thing to help me. And Kanye did this something with 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.640 our foundations where we helped get twenty thousand jobs for 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.240 kids in Chicago. But then this program. You know, think 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.120 about when we were being raised, we had stuff to do. Man, 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:00.600 we could play ball, go whatever, play baseball, do something. Man. 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.000 You just gotta have something for them to do this productive. 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:04.760 I like, did you acknowledge it's a problem because a 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:06.280 lot of people in Chicago you talk to them and 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.480 they'd be like, it ain't that bad here. Stop believing 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.440 everything you see on the news. Nah, man, I just 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:14.000 left there yesterday and it was like, man, a little 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.160 eleven year old girl just got killed. You having to 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.919 sleepover now, it's a problem. Gee, Like when you got 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.600 just innocent people getting shot. People thinking like man, everybody 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.359 rolling around with guns. It's like, no, that's a problem, man. 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.640 You can't ain't can't nobody be proud of that. And 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.080 I said, when you go in the neighborhoods and you 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.239 see this a lot of houses that are abandoned or 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:32.880 burnt down, it's like, when are they gonna fix up 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.639 the neighborhood too? Yeah, man, it's it's I ain't a lie. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.840 When I go home sometimes be like it's sad to me. 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.760 I ride around my old neighborhood and it's like, man, man, 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.120 this is how it is. But you know, like like 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.120 I said, we're making moves. I always try to look 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.360 at the positive, be like, man, we're about to change this, 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.680 you know. So that's what it is that you know, 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.120 I'm teaming up with people that's that's in the field 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.440 because there's people out there doing that work every day, 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.639 you know, so I'm teaming up with them too. Yeah, 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.520 we got superintendents from Chicago want us to come talking 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.280 to school. I'm scared, man. No, man, we need y'all 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:06.680 to come talk. You think about my eyes looking crazy 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.360 when you see what I'm showing, like yo, I mean, 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.040 but really, when you get around some people, you kind 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.679 of see, you know, people stop, they'd be happy to see. 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:16.800 They'd be happy to see y'all man. And when and 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.639 when they see people like yourself or you know, like 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:21.760 they feel like they can do something because that's all 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.359 it is. Sometimes it's just something that they're seeing somebody 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.200 that made it, man, because think about it. There they 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.239 ain't around nobody that's it's doing nothing. But they got brocked. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:35.760 They got that's very true. But they don't see that 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.720 all the time. And sometimes it's just like man, they 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.000 think you so distanced. I remember I did this song 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.600 with this girl Drezy from from the Crib and she 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:45.600 on the album and stuff. But um, and when I 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.560 did it, like some some some people call me like man, 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:50.080 I feel like, I mean, they call it really something 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:51.400 of my guys, And I was like man, I feel 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.680 like we can make it your boy comment messing with Drezy. 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.840 It's just like sometimes you think they think Oprah is 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.240 just a distance, you know, like a president. Yeah she 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:09.080 is party op Yeah, bro, we just did I don't know, 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:14.280 I don't know about this, but she might have. Yeah. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.320 So the name the album is Nobody's Smiling. Is that 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.680 anything to do with Chicago? Yeah, that's what That's what 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.280 that's for. That's it's really talking about the situation in Chicago. 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.480 And uh, like I said, it's a call to action 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.039 more than just being like, hey, we're gonna stay like this. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.520 Of course that came from that rock Himp thought, you know, 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.680 from the ghetto and he said Nobody Smiling. But you know, 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:36.440 it was just it was just me and no idea 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.920 discussing what we could do to give back because I 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:43.080 feel like I've always represented Chicago, but I could do more. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.320 You know, I got my foundation, I got different things. 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.240 But it's like when you see what's going on, you 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.400 feel like, man, I gotta do more. You know. You 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.760 did a lot of collaborations with artists from Chicago as 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.560 well a lot of the upcoming artists from Chicago. So 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.040 that's a great thing. Yeah, like Little Herb and Treesy 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.200 and um you know, I got Bibby and Audience and 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.760 like who else g count and just dude k D. 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.600 I got all them on my cover on my album covers, 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.320 like I did different versions just saying hey, man, y'all 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.320 because you know, one thing was like they were looking 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.480 at me like, oh man, you know you know you're acting, 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.000 you're doing this. I'm like, man, I'm here with y'all. 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.080 Like I mean, I ain't. I ain't every day in Chicago, 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.159 but I'm I'm here. I'm gonna do what I could 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.359 do to help y'all. So that's what That's what I 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:23.880 was going to ask that, you know what, you're doing 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.560 so much acting and your movies are successful, why do 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.680 you continue to do music like it's it's it's no 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:32.359 money in the music industry no more. That's no money. 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.839 It's it's harder to make money in the music industry now. 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.440 It's not like before we you know, you could go 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.360 into and make a couple hundred grand. It's just well, 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.840 it's money. When your man becomes the executive vice president 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.880 of the depth jam, let me cut this check for 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:50.599 you for you know, yeah, you know what's what's good 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.479 though with no id Man Like obviously I grew up 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.880 with him since fourth grade and now we you know, 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.160 we kind of went our separate ways for a second 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.360 after three albums and then we got back to together 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.359 after he's working with YA. But Man, one thing about 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.960 him being executive at the label, it's kind of I 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.640 work smarter because before you know, you being a studio 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.560 recording using up your budget. But now you know, like 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.640 you got somebody that knows how record companies work, and 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.120 it's a lot of good insight that you get from 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.720 having somebody. Plus man, they care about hip hop, him 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.760 and hip hop. They them dudes like care about the culture. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.080 So that made me like be like, man, I definitely 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:26.880 want to be on Deaf Jam. It's it's like a 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:31.240 great place for me. If he wasn't the executive, it 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.159 just depends on who was a person that was that 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.880 was signing me really more than anything. But you know, 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:37.560 as soon as it because at first he was like 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.240 we was talking about it and he was like, Manna, 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.120 I might you know be the executive And I was like, 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.280 all right, we'll let me know because I was just 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.919 really for me you and you was asking why I 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:48.919 make music. You gotta have a purpose for me. I 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.960 gotta have like, like, what motivated me to do this 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.240 album was I was like, man, this is a chance 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.360 for me to give back for real and really talk 0:06:56.400 --> 0:07:00.640 about what's what's going on from a different perspective. You know, 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.480 y'all here, You know, you got we got the Chief Keys, 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:07.119 we got Little Reefs, we got Dirk, we got Baby Chance. 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.680 It's a lot of people just talking about Chicago. But 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:11.680 you know, I'm gonna give a different perspective just because 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:13.680 of what I've seen. Was there a period of time 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:15.640 when you thought you and no Id wouldn't ever work 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.400 together again, because y'all really had like a major you know, 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.720 I think he felt slighted, like he wanted you to 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.480 call on him to work and you just weren't. And yeah, 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.760 I mean no, it was definitely for a while we 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.640 weren't you know, we weren't cool point blank. And uh, 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:30.840 I ain't know when we was going hook back up. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:32.640 But it was luck, you know, it was just like, man, 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.320 he was working with ya in the studio and we 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.320 just started getting back cool. It's like somebody you know 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.000 him since fourth grade. You could always one thing when 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.000 I'm working with him, he could always go back to, like, 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.800 come on, man, you that south Side. You know you 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.400 that a guy from the crib. Man like he reminds 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.200 he reminds me of what we what we did this 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.400 for him? What were doing for you know, you still 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.800 work coosely with Kanye. Yeah, we didn't worked together in 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.440 a long time. But you know, that's my guy. But 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:00.680 it's like for me, I like work when ye when 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.280 he in that zone and want to work, like, I'm like, yeah, 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.920 if he you know, because he gotta be motivated. Yeah, 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:07.960 is that type of person that's gotta like he's been 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.560 working on his music. But you know, if he like, man, 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.800 come on, Rosch, let's do this, let's do this, then 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:14.320 I you know, then I'm with it. But if not, 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.280 then I'm just like, man, we're good, we're friends. We 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.200 ain't gotta work. You know, who do you think about 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:19.760 his ranch and stuff? You ever put them to the 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.800 side to give him some some og wisdom? Yeah, you know. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.480 I didn't talk to him, not about not ring, because 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.679 I like the fact that you know, he's speaking his mind. 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.560 I'm like, y'all, man, speak your mind. I think it's 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.640 I think for me. It's like showing a certain courage 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.560 to go out there and just say what you're feeling. Man, 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.360 And that's what it is. He always been like that too, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.520 So I ain't never I don't never be like man, 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:42.720 don't do you because he'd been he'd been like that 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.720 since I know him. He come to my basement saying 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.640 not saying some of the exact same things, but he 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.599 had just say it's whatever's on his mind. So and 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.040 my homies would be ready to box him, they'd be 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.240 ready to move up on you know. That's just but 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.959 but anyway, it's like I talked to him about this 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.000 stuff that's going on in life, and then you know, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.480 he might gather some information, but the same token, I'll 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.440 be learning from him too. You know, did you go 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.520 to the winding? Yeah? I went to the wedding. It 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.280 was good man, man, it was real top man. It 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.319 was like simple, it felt real family. It seems simple 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:17.079 and all. It seemed simple. Look, you know how you 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.600 could buy something real nice, but you ain't gotta like, 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:21.760 you ain't gotta ball it out like you know, like 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.480 you could get a dope car you ain't gotta put on. 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.600 It was that type of sample Okay, you're influence Italy. 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.880 You're looking at this beautiful place. Well, you ain't got 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.480 to do a whole lot. They had like just simple stuff, nice, 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.440 nice wine, champagne and all that, and then you know, 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.760 just good music man. And it felt family. Man. Everybody 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.840 was having fun. Castle was wrapping, you know, at the wedding. 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.200 So that's why I'm saying it just felt simple. Went 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.600 like I was thinking, you know, I ain't know what 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.480 I ain't know what to expect to be honest, right, 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.800 but it was real cool. Man. I went, my mother 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:57.720 went with me and we just we just kicked it. 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.240 You think you ever get married? I don't know, man, 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.959 I was I was thinking about that last night talking 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.120 to one of my friends as lady friend. I'm like, 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.079 I don't know if if I'm marriage material maybe maybe 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:12.120 one day this before after you hit it. This is before. 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.040 Why would you say you're not marriage material? I mean, 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.640 I'm just like, man, I'll be focused on on my 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.640 music a lot, and and work a lot acting in 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:26.040 different things. So sometimes it's hard to balance with a relationship. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.480 You know, likes kind of guy. I do like relationships, 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.920 But I'm saying a lot of times I've been in 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.680 relationships I make I mean, I don't make my best albums, 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.959 and like sometimes it's like, you know, when you're in 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.319 a relationship, put it this way, you got to find it. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.240 I would have to find the right relationship or something. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.360 She could produce the album. No, no, no, But I'm 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.480 just saying, a woman that understand the time you got 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.640 to give to your work, you know what I mean, 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:55.600 that's really more than anything, because I mean, ain't like 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.880 I'm just only doing music. It's like I'm working to 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.000 do other things. And a person got to really understand that. 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:02.600 I think I saw somewhere where you said you were 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.800 done with industry checks, like you wanted like to day 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.559 to teach your journalists or something. It was done, he said. 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:11.079 I say, I'm saying I ain't. You know, I was 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.920 kind of over for a second for show, Like second, 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:19.000 I don't want to be peeping on songs. So then 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.720 so so for me now it's like who you know, 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.280 if the right woman coming, if she a teacher or 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:28.080 or actor, actress, I'm with it. You know, I'm just 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.160 gonna look at the person more than anything. You have 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:34.679 a nice little roster industry chickens. Yeah, Serena Williams. That's 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:51.640 that's about Washington. Ain't scandals easy easy? She married that 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.000 you admitted the combat Jack. I think it was that 0:11:55.280 --> 0:12:00.040 everybody really does got that that good good like to 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.240 know what it is. I mean, Erica got something with us, 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.920 She got something special, mankind and twisted for a little bit. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:08.319 She hit you about that, like, why are you talking 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.840 about my box on on interviews? Noah, she just read 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.080 she just retweeted some good stuff, like, you know, Erica 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.319 raw girl. Man, she got a lot to us. So 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:18.720 she from the hood, point blank. She just one of 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:23.359 those people from the hood that's artsy, artistic and spiritual 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.160 and all this shit. You know, she got a lot 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:26.440 to us. But you can't be man when it guys 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:30.600 it's positive things about your box. Yea, girls, tips, she said, 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:34.520 drink raw cranberry juice. How you get that about? She said, 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.800 I saw a lot of veggies green juices. Yeah. Now 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.600 I also read somewhere that you were thinking about investing 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.160 in Broadway plays and and things like that. Yeah, that's 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.040 something you're considering, because I heard it's pretty rough. Yeah, No, 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.240 I want I want to do Broadway. I'm gonna do Broadway. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.600 As an actor. But also I'm looking, you know at 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.679 producing some some Broadway plays because I'm getting into that 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.760 as far as my live performance, making it more the 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:01.959 tore like, you know, because it's just, man, I've been 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.480 rocking shows for a long time, so I want to 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.400 bring something new to the table for the audience too. 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:11.800 But pay needs you right now. Just ended Sunday and 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:13.680 everybody's seeing the play is pretty good, but it just 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.160 you know, I don't I don't think it's Financially they 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.280 said it, they said financially it was just really rough. 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.480 They didn't know all the things they had to pay for. 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:22.640 And you know, as far as getting the audience to 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.120 half a million dollars a week, hip hop on Broadway 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.160 is tough for audience. Yeah, I mean I think you gotta, 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.400 you know, bring something that's gonna have it. It's gonna 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.320 be real true. But at the Saint Token Universal, I 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:35.800 don't know, you know, I didn't get to see the play, 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:37.720 so I can't say how that play was. But I 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:39.920 do check out theater and that's why I want to, 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.360 you know, do some theater myself. What would you recommend 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.320 to go see your play? For? Well, all the guys 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:45.920 out there looking to take somebody on a date. I 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.880 go to brower all the time. What's some of your favorites. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.200 The last thing I saw was Rocky on Broadway. I 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.480 believe how was that? It was good? I didn't like 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.720 it as a musical. I want to see Motown to musical. 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.000 I'm taking my mom to see that. My mother. I 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.439 went with my mother and my grandmother to see that. 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.400 That was a good play. I mean, a good musical. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.400 But I like stuff to drama, like like, oh this 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.559 this is this play called Death of a Salesman. It's 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:11.199 like an old classic play and Philip seymo Hoffman was 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.679 in that. Before you pass I went and seeing Seeing 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.560 Now I'm going to see I'm going to see this 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.240 one called Cabaret. This lady named Michel Ways. You know, 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.400 I'll be into the different things because as an actor, 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.720 I gotta keep learning too and keep growing. So that's 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.880 why I'll be checking out everything. As you as you 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.800 get older, do you look for other ways to perform 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.440 as an artist? Because I always saying you're one of 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.520 the artists that as you grow, you're not gonna look 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.240 stupid performing the songs you got. Yeah you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.200 I feel you on that. Uh. I actually have been 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.800 like I've been growing with my performance because I used 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.560 I used to just like jump, just feel the energy 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.440 and jump up. But now like lately, I've been understanding 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.720 that the presentation go like you give it that drama 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:51.720 and stuff, you know, and that's part of that is 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.280 coming from me just understanding what the story is. And 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.360 so now my live performance sometimes I'm just like, man, 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.360 you know, I might do a song sitting on the 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.560 stool for second and then just come out and then 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.080 just get live on another turn up on another song 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.120 then you know. So yeah, my performance is definitely growing. 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.560 And it's like you said, I want to make music 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.920 that like when I'm sixty years old, I could be like, man, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.040 this song was cold, and I'm still could rocket. I 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:16.880 was surprised when I seen you perform, and I'm surprised 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:18.640 a lot of people don't talk about your performance because 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:20.720 you go from, like you said, sitting on the stool 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.160 to break dancing in the middle of the set, and 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:27.560 I'm like, you ain't gonna be doing that when you're six. Yeah, 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.120 but I mean, but you know, that's I feel like 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.200 a show. I've seen seen people doing great shows like 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.280 you know, I used to see Big Daddy Kane and 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.280 care Us one and shoot, I've seen the Jackson five 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.320 when I was a short. That was my first concert. 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.560 So it was like, Man, I think about shows and 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.280 they I really, you know, want to perform. And one 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.040 thing I know I gotta do is like in performances, 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.080 some some songs. Sometimes I'm doing shows, ain't like the 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.240 crowd know all my songs. Sometimes they do, but when 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.560 they don't, you gotta you gotta win them over. So 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.120 it's got to be in the performance. Then then just 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.120 like you know, if I had all just all hits, 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.280 it would be a different thing. But but I still 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.200 want to give a performance just because of where I 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.080 come from. You know. Now you reacted to Marvel Comics 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.360 andnown seen that there's a black Captain America. You said 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.640 you thought it was a great thing. And I remember 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.840 at one point you were supposed to play a green 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:20.320 lantern before. Yeah, man, yeah, I was. I was a 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.200 green lantern for a minute because we was doing the 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.960 movie Justice League or you had the gig. Yeah, I 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.840 had a gig I had. We went down to Australia 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.200 and man, I had to suit on and everything it 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:36.200 was like I was ready, man, but I mean, you know, 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.160 I was gig because I was like man at that time, 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.680 this was two thousand and eight. I was like, man, 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.760 it ain't really black superheroes out there. And this dude 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.040 that was it was a Latino brother too, that was 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.240 playing He was playing Superman. And at the time we 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.800 was like, man, black and Latino kids go see us 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.120 and be like, damn, I could be a superhero because 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.800 you think about a lot of superheroes ain't seeing it's 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.560 just only white. So anyway, it was one of those 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.400 things that it didn't the movie didn't go after a minute. 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.440 But if it come back around, hopefully I'll do. You know, well, no, 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.240 it's coming out. They're doing it. They starting with the 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.040 Batman versus Superman, introducing a lot of the Justice League 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:11.639 and that they supposed to do the movie in like 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.359 twenty sixteen or so. I'm just hoping they used the 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:19.960 black green landish Yeah, Superman, that would be That would 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:21.960 be dope. But now they already got that Superman, so 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.280 they probably gonna use that Superman. They gotta have some 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.600 Spanish cast in it somewhere. Man, how did they tell 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:27.880 you that, Joe, You're just you're not gonna be green 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.280 Landing no more. Now. Now, what happened was the movie 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.400 just didn't then it fell apart with where it just 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.520 didn't golf because it was a writer strike at the time, 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.240 and they was like, nah, but but really the truth 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.080 I heard that, you know, the people that were doing 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.760 behind Batman was like, we don't want to have no 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.120 Justice League come out before we finished the Batman trilogy. So, 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.040 I mean, I understand that he's ruining that whole franchise. Man, 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.000 he sucks. Yeah, they I mean, I'm a Marvel guy. Yeah, 0:17:54.040 --> 0:18:05.400 your mother green chattered on his own. Absolutely, mane that's 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.920 your favorite. Absolutely. You hate that you have that tattoo. 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.280 I do because I mean it means something to me. 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:12.440 But I don't want to walk around with the water. 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.080 Ain't my daughter six and she's asking me about why 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.280 do you have that on y'all having no real explanation 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.359 for it. Man, that's the only that's the reason why 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.440 I ain't really getting no task, And I'll be changing 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.120 my mind too much. I'd be like, man, I wouldn't 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.200 like it maybe three three months later, you know what 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.600 I mean? You ever thought about getting one? Though? I 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:30.840 mean sometimes I thought about it quick, but I ain't 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.840