WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Nick Cannon & Klondike Blonde 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.760 Wake that ass up in the morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:07.560 Everybody is d J n V. Charlamagne and the guy. 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:08.840 We are the Breakfast Club. 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:10.760 Our special guest host Chris Keeling his here. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:11.240 What's that? 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:13.400 Have we got some special guests in the building. Our 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:16.600 guy can in his hair. Yes, with a special guest 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:17.959 Klondike Blonde. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.200 We got a future superstar in the building in the 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.000 granted to you all. Yeah, but we've seen it. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:25.960 But he hasn't been here. But you're doing every damn 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:26.480 thing out there. 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:29.720 I mean, I'm good man, I'm excited about you know, 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:31.720 obviously here to talk about the new show that we 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.400 launching on the u B t V H one. 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:35.160 Uh. 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.720 But just working man, you know how to go just 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.319 the grinds, doing my morning show thing too. So that's 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.400 probably why I really ain't been able to be up here. 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:44.720 What future superstar speaking of you the superstars, how you 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.400 feel about your son being a better rapper than you? 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:55.880 Yes, we play what you think? 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:57.840 You know? I go, I don't want none of my 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.880 wax sauce to get on him. So I'm like he's 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:02.680 doing that. I'm calling back now. 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:04.720 Somebody said he over the ghost right for you? 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.600 He should nah, My son is amazing man, and like 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:09.960 seeing like that. You know, when I'm young, kids really 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.480 got the natural swag, like he'd be putting me up 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.759 on the new game and stuff. And the dope thing 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:16.840 is he's a rapper, but he's also a producer too, 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.000 so he's really into that space of like making beats 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.319 and DJing and gaming and all that stuff. If he 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:24.440 wants to do that, I see he really got it. 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.800 He y'all see him rocking them stages doing it every 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:27.840 now on tour with his mom. 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.880 So that's pressure, all right, because he's Nick Cannon's damn right. 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:35.440 There's no pressure of being Nick Cannon's You're still a superstar, 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:41.039 but now being Mariah's daughter and singing yes true, that's 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.160 the press. So that's why even with Monroe, we gotta 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.440 doing things like I taught her how to play guitar. 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.800 We still I want her to have other aspects. She 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:49.720 really wants to be an actress too. She's talking about 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:54.600 she wants to go to the Yell Drama School and 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.440 make sure like if she really gets like she's taking 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.800 it seriously. She's already talking about, you know, getting her 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:04.080 her degree in theater at Yale, So like just trying to, 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.040 you know, as a father, trying to really guide them 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.320 in the direction. And we never pushed it on them, 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.079 but the fact that now they're really starting to embrace 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.680 it as they get into the teenage world, really want 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:14.360 to cultivate it. 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.160 So I'm proud of them, man, with everything that you're doing. 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:17.400 Right. 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.680 We talked about some of the shows. When do you 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.799 have time to do so many goddamn skits? 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:22.120 Nick? 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.000 I was watching one this morning show them It's like, Nick, 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:26.160 just boy, this is boy. 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.200 It's all part of the movement though, It's like, I mean, 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.000 y'all know y'all do this every morning. It's like it's 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.080 cameras always around, a lot of creative people around. So 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.640 I just my team was like, yo, let's start doing it. 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.200 We just do it. We probably do, like I drop 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.239 like a skit or two every week, just some fly shit. 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:42.000 They do it. 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.239 Skip with one of your child's moms, yes, a lot. 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:47.120 Any other child mom be like, why. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:47.880 Do you do so many skits with it? 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.359 What's interesting? Because like, I mean, everybody kind of got 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:54.560 they lane. So like on my morning show, The Daily Cannon, 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:56.880 I have, you know, one of the mothers of my children. 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.400 She's in radio. She dj Abby Daily Rosa, so that's 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:04.160 kind of her space. So our social commentary and daily conversation, 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:08.000 that's her lane. So Brie is on selling Sunset and 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.320 like kind of like a social media gurgule and stuff, 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.680 so that's her lane. So and everybody even behind the scenes, 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:17.120 like you know, some of them have like foundations, and 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.079 we do a lot of philanthropic work. You'll see that 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:23.440 some are literally like doctors and writing op eds and thesis. 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.720 So you'll be able Like the people that specifically the 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.720 mothers and my children that I have in my life, 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.080 I try to cultivate whatever it is that they're into, 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:31.960 and even kind of goes all the way back to 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.200 the business of like future superstars, Like I feel like 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.160 I'm in that season. I'm in my era of just 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.920 helping others and kind of amplifying whatever it is that 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.080 they got going. And sometimes you just happened to be 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:45.360 my baby mama. Yeah nah, I mean you too. Man. 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.960 You don't get enough credit for all that you do, 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:49.920 and you know, helping people and putting them on and 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.440 allowing them to shine. So I feel like we're kind 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.000 of those guys that get to say, all right, if 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.280 we see something in somebody, we can kind of put 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.680 the mechanisms around them and allow them to do their thing. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.760 All breazon to God. There it is now Klondike Blond, 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:03.520 how are you, man? 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:05.120 I'm doing goodreat how are you? 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.120 I'm blessed? Black and hoighly favorite. Now, Now, where did 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.600 the content of Future Superstars come from? Nick? And why 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.640 Klondike Blond? Why did why her? Specifically? 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.280 I mean, if she's to go, she her vibe is 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.360 punk rock rap like and if you saw her episode 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.520 that actually just aired, you know, uh, this week is 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.760 really these people have compelling stories. If we remember what 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.160 VH one was always about, was like we saw the 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.560 behind the music and it was really like telling the 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:33.320 story sometimes you know it was a retrospective story. But 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.400 now it's like these are the origin stories. So this 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.840 is like before the music. This is in her journey man. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:42.279 I mean everything that she's gone through in life from 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.720 you know, there's a lot of tragedy, there's a lot 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:46.560 of things to wear. How her music helps with their 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.880 anxiety and to be able to kind of create your 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.359 own genre. We went on this tour and I just 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.800 wanted to highlight and tell the stories of these people 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.680 that are just more than musicians, because we didn't we 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.560 don't have that no more. We don't have other than 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:02.840 platforms like y'all had. But we came up with v 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.880 H one behind the Music, you know, uh one O 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.080 six in Parking. So I feel like we can now 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.799 still be those curators to help this next generation because 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.919 I just got frustrated as somebody who has a label 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.040 and has artists, and like, yo, what happened to that 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.719 promo run? What happened to putting people on the road, 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.640 coming into radio stations playing they song, meet and pds 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.920 and shake your hands, kissing babies, all of that type 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.680 of stuff. And we did that. I started the tour 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.039 with Live Nation, and then I put the cameras on it, 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.200 and you know, now we got you know, a tour, 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.400 a TV show. They on the cover of Vibe magazine. 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.600 It's like so now it's like this is like that 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.279 that starter kit of like all right, the way double 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.000 XL has the Freshman cover, But now we got the 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:41.719 cover of the magazine, we got the tour, we got 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.200 the TV show. So if you see one of these acts, 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.800 they literally gonna become, you know, the next super what you. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:48.600 Just said is why I feel like it's hard to 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.200 build superstars nowadays. 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:51.120 Facts like there. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.520 Are no I don't think who's the last superstar. I'm 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:54.320 talking a superstar. 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.560 We've had facts now and then we had that conversation 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.799 all the time because it's like one you don't everything. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.960 It's so microwaveable, you know what I mean. Everybody wanted, 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:04.240 want it now, and then when they don't want it 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.080 no more, they on to the next thing. But if 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.320 you know someone's story, if you know what she went through, 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.320 if you know you know her relationship, you know with 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.160 her family and the things that you know how close 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.159 she is with you know, her brother was one of 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.520 her biggest fans and had a tragic accident and now 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.279 she's doing it for her brother. If you know that 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.320 the songs that you know Ray she has all the 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.119 tattoos is connected to growing up in a trap house 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.440 and a mom and dad being teenagers. Like when you 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.200 know that about somebody, when you hear their music, you're like, Okay, 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.320 I'm connected now. And I feel like this generation of kids, 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.279 they they're figuring it out through their phones and social media, 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.000 but it's never amplified. You never get to see it 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.520 at a level where you know, hopefully we're doing with 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:44.479 super future. 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.920 Superstars are so like what you're being from Raleigh, North 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.200 Carolina to South, How did you get discovered because it 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.000 seems like no one really looks for us down. 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.560 South exactly, especially in the Carolina right right. 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.640 So the thing is, I didn't move to Cali when 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.440 I was twelve, Okay, so, but this is in the 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.480 Bay Area. Even in the Bay Area, I couldn't really 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.320 like get my name out there like I wanted to. 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.599 So sin as I turned eighteen, I moved to Atlanta 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.760 because I knew, like growing up, I knew that was 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:09.840 a spot like to be like to get discovered in 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:10.920 to pop off your career. 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.240 So that's really how I got discovered in Atlanta. 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.360 What about the name Klondyke Blonde. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.120 Honestly, it came out of my ass one day I 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:29.360 really nowhere, Like I had just cut my hair and 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.600 bleached and blonde, and I was about to upload my 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.000 first song. I'm looking in the mirror, high as hell, 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:35.720 and I'm like, I'm not feel to upload this song 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:36.800 under my government name. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:38.680 So I don't know, it just came to me. I 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:39.880 was like Klondike Blonde. 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:40.440 This is it? 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.480 So I really I uploaded this song I put the 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.360 name is Klondike Blonde, and it's just tell you stupid. 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:49.000 One of our producers very it just has nothing to 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.040 do with you at all. She goes, yeah, she's a lesbian, 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.040 and I go, what sexuality got to. 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:53.880 Do a lot. 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.200 Then she comes back in the room and goes, cow 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:01.120 is wrong. She's not let me. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.280 But did they want her to be one? 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:04.720 You know? 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:06.280 I'm like, what does this? 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:07.200 He said? 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.320 I was like, oh wow, that makes sense. I'm like. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:14.720 When I be out and stuff, like at the club, 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.600 for some reason, like I get so much female attention. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:17.680 Like. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.680 They don't even know my name yet they have my phone, 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:22.680 putting the number my phone. 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.440 I'm like, probably because of the tattoos. 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:31.440 Maybe, but yeah, no, go ahead, Nick said, the tattoos 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.360 tell the story. Yeah, you have a weapon of mass 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.440 destruction on your neck as a. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:37.840 Forty seven. 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:39.360 Everything out of there. 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.920 Talk to me, where do we start the A K? 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.000 Yes, so Bella and Katana or two of my little sisters. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.400 So the A plus the K together for me? 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.440 Okay, what about the wolf? 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:56.160 Not a wolf is my Doggiel family. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.800 You're right, in the triangle. 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.640 Okay, so one of my best friends. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.320 I was like, oh no, I was a little sad 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.200 one day and she said that this is supposed to 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.319 like uplift you and like change your life and listen to. 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.840 It try, and you know that's crazy. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:13.679 She told me like in the morning, and I went 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:14.920 to go get it in the afternoon. 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:16.720 So like that was kind. 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.920 Of she's one of them. Sposed like her song right 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.400 now is called tatted Up. That's her single, and she literally, 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.080 I mean one of the biggest one is probably covered 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:27.720 right now, but she got Blanco on my belly. Yeah, 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.120 like Tupac Ship. So it was like she she really, 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:31.160 what did you find? 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:31.600 People? 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:36.520 I don't know, I think, yeah, one. 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:41.720 Of my what did you find? I mean, well, honestly, 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.880 it's uh, you know, she's kind of truncating her story 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.480 a little bit. But she was on the grind for 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.720 a minute and actually had a song that went super viral. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:53.280 A lot of people already. Uh, her drip record went crazy, 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:55.760 like twenty thirty million string and I heard like my 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.360 kids were singing it off of TikTok, and I'm like 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:03.439 one of them, annoying that I'm back on my I 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.600 didn't know about it, like I see my kids singing it, 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:09.000 like what is this damn song? 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:10.440 And then like you got to make sure it's not 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:11.200 something appropriate? 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.920 Yeah, and it's like, oh, this is join is crazy. 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.480 And then through our connection you know, uh, through Frisco 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.760 Chuck in the Bay and everything. She they who runs 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.120 incredible music, was like, Yo, this is this is that record? 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.600 And then were we met her and knowing that she 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.000 was already moving as I was like, Yo, this she's 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.439 a superstar. Like when she walked in the room, that's 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.680 a star right there. And then from then I was 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.439 putting together the future Superstar tour and we're like, yo, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.000 we could probably make this work. And you know me, 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.760 I'm always thinking TV shows, movies, products and all that. 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.200 And she embodied everything that we were trying to put 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.160 together with that that young energy fact that she already 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.439 has something that was popping and really just wanted to cultivate, 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.360 like yo, when you see somebody. I was like, all right, 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:55.760 we're gonna tweak it like this. We're gonna take all 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.560 that viral sensation and put something on And I was like, yo, 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.400 she's a rock star. So we've been going with this 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.520 punk rock rap movement that she created. 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:04.760 Do you feel like you are because I see you're 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:06.600 standing behind her, and you know, do you feel like 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.680 you missed out because you didn't stand behind by Kilane 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.319 like you should or maybe her you have to do 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:12.800 with her to her. 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:14.520 Yeah, And a lot of people don't even know there's 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.760 a connection between her and Carolina. It's just something something 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:18.280 in the water in the Bay Area that really like 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.800 it's just young stars up there, really really getting it 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.640 popping in. I think one of the reasons why I 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.600 actually bought Future Superstars t v H one is because 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.120 a lot of people don't know me as the music 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.000 executive or you know, the Actually we. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:36.160 Try not to think about you with music that. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:42.079 Because this is the starting between him, Carlos Miller, fucking 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:46.400 everybody I employed on while it's out there, we created 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.200 this narrative that I don't know music. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:48.880 You know, it's crazy. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:50.400 I was singing the words to Jiggelow and he was 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:51.920 so upset that I knew the words to Jigo. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.800 My friend just shot I got a straight, straight shot 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.839 today got no hits. 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:13.920 That's not true this conversation. You do have a good 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.040 eyes of music. Yeah, So, and I've been doing it. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:17.480 Quiety what happened? 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.240 I mean, I mean it's still as an executive and 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.040 even this process because what I don't like to be, 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:23.640 and we can get a little deep in it. I 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.560 don't like to be one of those those executives that 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.920 take advantage of people. I don't want to be some 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.679 I've never liked the vulture energy of just like, oh 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.600 I'm gonna sign this probab, I'm gonna take credit. So 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:35.880 what I do. I've helped a lot of artists and 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.120 I just fall back and you could tell the world 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.600 that I helped you or put you on or signed 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.520 you if you want to, but I'm not. I don't 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.679 force you to wear the incredible chain. I don't And 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.360 because that's how the industry has been set up for 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.360 so long, and now you hear all of these stories 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.360 that people saying this person took my publisher and this person. 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.360 I never got it. I've never wanted to be one 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:56.800 because I was an artist. So I was like, when 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:58.920 I get the opportunity to put people on, I'm not 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.840 going to force my hand on anyone. So the beauty 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.120 of future Superstars is I get to show the journey. 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:05.520 I get to show all the hard work that I 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.880 put in the artists without having to be like this 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.079 more artists and this is this, and and now when 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.920 I make those deals and get like, I'm just I 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:14.959 don't want your money. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:16.719 I don't want you to be like Night with Sig 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:18.840 Knight did the Sourcial World. If you don't want an executive, 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:19.679 that's all in. 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:20.920 The videos. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.920 Taking all your paper shit come on with incredible nah. 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:28.880 But in the sense it's like, I just really want 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:30.760 to be fair to people. And so that's the reason 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.199 why you never heard about me, you know, helping a 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.840 lot of these artists that are superstars now. But people 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:37.160 are like, man, you got to take your credit. You 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.520 got to show people what you do. And now because 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.200 we keep cameras around stuff all the time, I can 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.880 show people the process of this is how music executive 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.599 really moves. And so my journey, my narrative on Future Superstars, 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.760 you get to see me go from city to city 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.920 really looking for superstars. Literally every city we went to, 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.200 I gave out ten thousand dollars to an artist emerging 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.199 artist that's usually as signing bonus for life. I was 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:01.960 just get here's a ten thousand dollars grant. You had 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:03.920 to sign the grant, talk tell me why you popping 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.280 in your city. And we was literally handing out big 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.840 checks in every city to and getting them ready for 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:09.360 season two. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.880 So you're on mad Post. Don't nobody know nothing. 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:16.040 I don't gave them money, Arlotte. They kept the publishing, 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.080 but I just said, man, hey, I want to see 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.400 you continue on. So it's one of those scenarios where 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.760 I want to pay it forward and show people that 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.040 you don't have to steal people from people. And I 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.440 think because of someone who has a talent, who has 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.240 a gift, you don't have to leach off of someone 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.960 else's gift. You could just amplify their gift. And hopefully 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:35.720 that's what future said. 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.360 What about her, because I mean I saw the Kalina 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.160 because I you know, I know you had Dolly doing 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.960 like a lot of this. Yeah, I didn't see her. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:42.560 I never saw her. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.280 Well interesting enough if you go back and one of 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.440 the things, because she was we kind of had them 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.320 the same time. They kind of even grew up together. Uh. 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:54.560 And I was real close h with with Gabby as 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:56.560 we know as her like her father and stuff. We 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.680 kind of grew up in the same you know, hood 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:02.120 and and and so I I would always her dad 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.200 actually was the one that told me that kay Lannie 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.280 was not doing someone was homeless at the time when 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:08.680 she was a teenager and was like, Yo, you should 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.640 call that girl that you had on America's got talent, 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:15.320 because we were already working with Gabby, who was nine 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.440 or ten years old and like a phenom of playing 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:19.720 like seven instruments or something. 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:19.920 We did. 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:20.600 Gavy was her. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:22.600 Yeah, we didn't know what to do with her at 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.680 the time, and it's so funny when you're saying her 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:32.080 because you don't know who I'm talking about Gabby. And 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:36.760 then she would see we were working on kay Lannie 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:38.800 and she was trying to find her identity as a kid, 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:40.880 and she was like, yo, I wanted and I'm like, yo, 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.760 you should. Let's forget about, you know, the artistry. Just 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.520 work on the music and focus on that and we 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.520 don't even have to put an image out there. And 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.240 then that's eventually how she came up with cultivating like 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.760 not showing her face and kind of just making about 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:57.000 the music because her sound was so mature, like her 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.760 voice is so amazing that a lot of people are like, 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.920 that's a little girl like and we actually if you saw, 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:03.720 if you go back and do the research, like we 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.040 had Gabby. She was on you know those like emerging 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.800 Artists on the BET Awards as Gabby Wilson and you 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.560 see this little girl, this giant bass guitar, and you know, 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:15.600 she was on the Today Show and like it was 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.160 like more gimmicky. I put her in an if you look, 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.480 like there's a Nickelodeon movie that I've wrote and directed 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:24.320 called Schoolgirls that we put it was justin Bieber's first movie. 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.200 It was a Soldier Boys. She was one of the 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.640 little girls. And so you see the work that I 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:30.720 put in with these artists over the years, and then 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:32.840 you look up and you're like, oh damn, that was 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.560 like people pay attention, know that we was doing it. 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.480 And then by the time they become the stars that 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.200 they are, you know, some some show love, some don't. 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.560 But it's just like, yo, it's not my it's not 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:43.960 my place to be, Like I'm the one that gave 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:47.920 you your first sign. I don't want people to be 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.240 signed to me. That's what I'm saying, Like I don't 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.600 need that, Like again, like why if I can connect you, 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:55.320 I don't want to be your middleman. I don't need 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.360