Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning, the Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 2: Everybody is d J n V. Charlamagne and the guy.
Speaker 3: We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2: Our special guest host Chris Keeling his here.
Speaker 4: What's that?
Speaker 1: Have we got some special guests in the building. Our
Speaker 1: guy can in his hair. Yes, with a special guest
Speaker 1: Klondike Blonde.
Speaker 3: We got a future superstar in the building in the
Speaker 3: granted to you all. Yeah, but we've seen it.
Speaker 2: But he hasn't been here. But you're doing every damn
Speaker 2: thing out there.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm good man, I'm excited about you know,
Speaker 3: obviously here to talk about the new show that we
Speaker 3: launching on the u B t V H one.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: But just working man, you know how to go just
Speaker 3: the grinds, doing my morning show thing too. So that's
Speaker 3: probably why I really ain't been able to be up here.
Speaker 5: What future superstar speaking of you the superstars, how you
Speaker 5: feel about your son being a better rapper than you?
Speaker 2: Yes, we play what you think?
Speaker 3: You know? I go, I don't want none of my
Speaker 3: wax sauce to get on him. So I'm like he's
Speaker 3: doing that. I'm calling back now.
Speaker 2: Somebody said he over the ghost right for you?
Speaker 3: He should nah, My son is amazing man, and like
Speaker 3: seeing like that. You know, when I'm young, kids really
Speaker 3: got the natural swag, like he'd be putting me up
Speaker 3: on the new game and stuff. And the dope thing
Speaker 3: is he's a rapper, but he's also a producer too,
Speaker 3: so he's really into that space of like making beats
Speaker 3: and DJing and gaming and all that stuff. If he
Speaker 3: wants to do that, I see he really got it.
Speaker 3: He y'all see him rocking them stages doing it every
Speaker 3: now on tour with his mom.
Speaker 5: So that's pressure, all right, because he's Nick Cannon's damn right.
Speaker 3: There's no pressure of being Nick Cannon's You're still a superstar,
Speaker 3: but now being Mariah's daughter and singing yes true, that's
Speaker 3: the press. So that's why even with Monroe, we gotta
Speaker 3: doing things like I taught her how to play guitar.
Speaker 3: We still I want her to have other aspects. She
Speaker 3: really wants to be an actress too. She's talking about
Speaker 3: she wants to go to the Yell Drama School and
Speaker 3: make sure like if she really gets like she's taking
Speaker 3: it seriously. She's already talking about, you know, getting her
Speaker 3: her degree in theater at Yale, So like just trying to,
Speaker 3: you know, as a father, trying to really guide them
Speaker 3: in the direction. And we never pushed it on them,
Speaker 3: but the fact that now they're really starting to embrace
Speaker 3: it as they get into the teenage world, really want
Speaker 3: to cultivate it.
Speaker 2: So I'm proud of them, man, with everything that you're doing.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: We talked about some of the shows. When do you
Speaker 2: have time to do so many goddamn skits?
Speaker 5: Nick?
Speaker 2: I was watching one this morning show them It's like, Nick,
Speaker 2: just boy, this is boy.
Speaker 3: It's all part of the movement though, It's like, I mean,
Speaker 3: y'all know y'all do this every morning. It's like it's
Speaker 3: cameras always around, a lot of creative people around. So
Speaker 3: I just my team was like, yo, let's start doing it.
Speaker 3: We just do it. We probably do, like I drop
Speaker 3: like a skit or two every week, just some fly shit.
Speaker 2: They do it.
Speaker 1: Skip with one of your child's moms, yes, a lot.
Speaker 1: Any other child mom be like, why.
Speaker 2: Do you do so many skits with it?
Speaker 3: What's interesting? Because like, I mean, everybody kind of got
Speaker 3: they lane. So like on my morning show, The Daily Cannon,
Speaker 3: I have, you know, one of the mothers of my children.
Speaker 3: She's in radio. She dj Abby Daily Rosa, so that's
Speaker 3: kind of her space. So our social commentary and daily conversation,
Speaker 3: that's her lane. So Brie is on selling Sunset and
Speaker 3: like kind of like a social media gurgule and stuff,
Speaker 3: so that's her lane. So and everybody even behind the scenes,
Speaker 3: like you know, some of them have like foundations, and
Speaker 3: we do a lot of philanthropic work. You'll see that
Speaker 3: some are literally like doctors and writing op eds and thesis.
Speaker 3: So you'll be able Like the people that specifically the
Speaker 3: mothers and my children that I have in my life,
Speaker 3: I try to cultivate whatever it is that they're into,
Speaker 3: and even kind of goes all the way back to
Speaker 3: the business of like future superstars, Like I feel like
Speaker 3: I'm in that season. I'm in my era of just
Speaker 3: helping others and kind of amplifying whatever it is that
Speaker 3: they got going. And sometimes you just happened to be
Speaker 3: my baby mama. Yeah nah, I mean you too. Man.
Speaker 3: You don't get enough credit for all that you do,
Speaker 3: and you know, helping people and putting them on and
Speaker 3: allowing them to shine. So I feel like we're kind
Speaker 3: of those guys that get to say, all right, if
Speaker 3: we see something in somebody, we can kind of put
Speaker 3: the mechanisms around them and allow them to do their thing.
Speaker 5: All breazon to God. There it is now Klondike Blond,
Speaker 5: how are you, man?
Speaker 6: I'm doing goodreat how are you?
Speaker 5: I'm blessed? Black and hoighly favorite. Now, Now, where did
Speaker 5: the content of Future Superstars come from? Nick? And why
Speaker 5: Klondike Blond? Why did why her? Specifically?
Speaker 3: I mean, if she's to go, she her vibe is
Speaker 3: punk rock rap like and if you saw her episode
Speaker 3: that actually just aired, you know, uh, this week is
Speaker 3: really these people have compelling stories. If we remember what
Speaker 3: VH one was always about, was like we saw the
Speaker 3: behind the music and it was really like telling the
Speaker 3: story sometimes you know it was a retrospective story. But
Speaker 3: now it's like these are the origin stories. So this
Speaker 3: is like before the music. This is in her journey man.
Speaker 3: I mean everything that she's gone through in life from
Speaker 3: you know, there's a lot of tragedy, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of things to wear. How her music helps with their
Speaker 3: anxiety and to be able to kind of create your
Speaker 3: own genre. We went on this tour and I just
Speaker 3: wanted to highlight and tell the stories of these people
Speaker 3: that are just more than musicians, because we didn't we
Speaker 3: don't have that no more. We don't have other than
Speaker 3: platforms like y'all had. But we came up with v
Speaker 3: H one behind the Music, you know, uh one O
Speaker 3: six in Parking. So I feel like we can now
Speaker 3: still be those curators to help this next generation because
Speaker 3: I just got frustrated as somebody who has a label
Speaker 3: and has artists, and like, yo, what happened to that
Speaker 3: promo run? What happened to putting people on the road,
Speaker 3: coming into radio stations playing they song, meet and pds
Speaker 3: and shake your hands, kissing babies, all of that type
Speaker 3: of stuff. And we did that. I started the tour
Speaker 3: with Live Nation, and then I put the cameras on it,
Speaker 3: and you know, now we got you know, a tour,
Speaker 3: a TV show. They on the cover of Vibe magazine.
Speaker 3: It's like so now it's like this is like that
Speaker 3: that starter kit of like all right, the way double
Speaker 3: XL has the Freshman cover, But now we got the
Speaker 3: cover of the magazine, we got the tour, we got
Speaker 3: the TV show. So if you see one of these acts,
Speaker 3: they literally gonna become, you know, the next super what you.
Speaker 5: Just said is why I feel like it's hard to
Speaker 5: build superstars nowadays.
Speaker 3: Facts like there.
Speaker 5: Are no I don't think who's the last superstar. I'm
Speaker 5: talking a superstar.
Speaker 3: We've had facts now and then we had that conversation
Speaker 3: all the time because it's like one you don't everything.
Speaker 3: It's so microwaveable, you know what I mean. Everybody wanted,
Speaker 3: want it now, and then when they don't want it
Speaker 3: no more, they on to the next thing. But if
Speaker 3: you know someone's story, if you know what she went through,
Speaker 3: if you know you know her relationship, you know with
Speaker 3: her family and the things that you know how close
Speaker 3: she is with you know, her brother was one of
Speaker 3: her biggest fans and had a tragic accident and now
Speaker 3: she's doing it for her brother. If you know that
Speaker 3: the songs that you know Ray she has all the
Speaker 3: tattoos is connected to growing up in a trap house
Speaker 3: and a mom and dad being teenagers. Like when you
Speaker 3: know that about somebody, when you hear their music, you're like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm connected now. And I feel like this generation of kids,
Speaker 3: they they're figuring it out through their phones and social media,
Speaker 3: but it's never amplified. You never get to see it
Speaker 3: at a level where you know, hopefully we're doing with
Speaker 3: super future.
Speaker 7: Superstars are so like what you're being from Raleigh, North
Speaker 7: Carolina to South, How did you get discovered because it
Speaker 7: seems like no one really looks for us down.
Speaker 4: South exactly, especially in the Carolina right right.
Speaker 8: So the thing is, I didn't move to Cali when
Speaker 8: I was twelve, Okay, so, but this is in the
Speaker 8: Bay Area. Even in the Bay Area, I couldn't really
Speaker 8: like get my name out there like I wanted to.
Speaker 8: So sin as I turned eighteen, I moved to Atlanta
Speaker 8: because I knew, like growing up, I knew that was
Speaker 8: a spot like to be like to get discovered in
Speaker 8: to pop off your career.
Speaker 6: So that's really how I got discovered in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: What about the name Klondyke Blonde.
Speaker 8: Honestly, it came out of my ass one day I
Speaker 8: really nowhere, Like I had just cut my hair and
Speaker 8: bleached and blonde, and I was about to upload my
Speaker 8: first song. I'm looking in the mirror, high as hell,
Speaker 8: and I'm like, I'm not feel to upload this song
Speaker 8: under my government name.
Speaker 6: So I don't know, it just came to me. I
Speaker 6: was like Klondike Blonde.
Speaker 4: This is it?
Speaker 6: So I really I uploaded this song I put the
Speaker 6: name is Klondike Blonde, and it's just tell you stupid.
Speaker 5: One of our producers very it just has nothing to
Speaker 5: do with you at all. She goes, yeah, she's a lesbian,
Speaker 5: and I go, what sexuality got to.
Speaker 6: Do a lot.
Speaker 5: Then she comes back in the room and goes, cow
Speaker 5: is wrong. She's not let me.
Speaker 3: But did they want her to be one?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 3: I'm like, what does this?
Speaker 5: He said?
Speaker 2: I was like, oh wow, that makes sense. I'm like.
Speaker 8: When I be out and stuff, like at the club,
Speaker 8: for some reason, like I get so much female attention.
Speaker 3: Like.
Speaker 8: They don't even know my name yet they have my phone,
Speaker 8: putting the number my phone.
Speaker 4: I'm like, probably because of the tattoos.
Speaker 5: Maybe, but yeah, no, go ahead, Nick said, the tattoos
Speaker 5: tell the story. Yeah, you have a weapon of mass
Speaker 5: destruction on your neck as a.
Speaker 2: Forty seven.
Speaker 6: Everything out of there.
Speaker 5: Talk to me, where do we start the A K?
Speaker 6: Yes, so Bella and Katana or two of my little sisters.
Speaker 6: So the A plus the K together for me?
Speaker 4: Okay, what about the wolf?
Speaker 8: Not a wolf is my Doggiel family.
Speaker 2: You're right, in the triangle.
Speaker 6: Okay, so one of my best friends.
Speaker 8: I was like, oh no, I was a little sad
Speaker 8: one day and she said that this is supposed to
Speaker 8: like uplift you and like change your life and listen to.
Speaker 3: It try, and you know that's crazy.
Speaker 8: She told me like in the morning, and I went
Speaker 8: to go get it in the afternoon.
Speaker 6: So like that was kind.
Speaker 3: Of she's one of them. Sposed like her song right
Speaker 3: now is called tatted Up. That's her single, and she literally,
Speaker 3: I mean one of the biggest one is probably covered
Speaker 3: right now, but she got Blanco on my belly. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like Tupac Ship. So it was like she she really,
Speaker 3: what did you find?
Speaker 2: People?
Speaker 5: I don't know, I think, yeah, one.
Speaker 3: Of my what did you find? I mean, well, honestly,
Speaker 3: it's uh, you know, she's kind of truncating her story
Speaker 3: a little bit. But she was on the grind for
Speaker 3: a minute and actually had a song that went super viral.
Speaker 3: A lot of people already. Uh, her drip record went crazy,
Speaker 3: like twenty thirty million string and I heard like my
Speaker 3: kids were singing it off of TikTok, and I'm like
Speaker 3: one of them, annoying that I'm back on my I
Speaker 3: didn't know about it, like I see my kids singing it,
Speaker 3: like what is this damn song?
Speaker 5: And then like you got to make sure it's not
Speaker 5: something appropriate?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's like, oh, this is join is crazy.
Speaker 3: And then through our connection you know, uh, through Frisco
Speaker 3: Chuck in the Bay and everything. She they who runs
Speaker 3: incredible music, was like, Yo, this is this is that record?
Speaker 3: And then were we met her and knowing that she
Speaker 3: was already moving as I was like, Yo, this she's
Speaker 3: a superstar. Like when she walked in the room, that's
Speaker 3: a star right there. And then from then I was
Speaker 3: putting together the future Superstar tour and we're like, yo,
Speaker 3: we could probably make this work. And you know me,
Speaker 3: I'm always thinking TV shows, movies, products and all that.
Speaker 3: And she embodied everything that we were trying to put
Speaker 3: together with that that young energy fact that she already
Speaker 3: has something that was popping and really just wanted to cultivate,
Speaker 3: like yo, when you see somebody. I was like, all right,
Speaker 3: we're gonna tweak it like this. We're gonna take all
Speaker 3: that viral sensation and put something on And I was like, yo,
Speaker 3: she's a rock star. So we've been going with this
Speaker 3: punk rock rap movement that she created.
Speaker 5: Do you feel like you are because I see you're
Speaker 5: standing behind her, and you know, do you feel like
Speaker 5: you missed out because you didn't stand behind by Kilane
Speaker 5: like you should or maybe her you have to do
Speaker 5: with her to her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And a lot of people don't even know there's
Speaker 3: a connection between her and Carolina. It's just something something
Speaker 3: in the water in the Bay Area that really like
Speaker 3: it's just young stars up there, really really getting it
Speaker 3: popping in. I think one of the reasons why I
Speaker 3: actually bought Future Superstars t v H one is because
Speaker 3: a lot of people don't know me as the music
Speaker 3: executive or you know, the Actually we.
Speaker 5: Try not to think about you with music that.
Speaker 3: Because this is the starting between him, Carlos Miller, fucking
Speaker 3: everybody I employed on while it's out there, we created
Speaker 3: this narrative that I don't know music.
Speaker 4: You know, it's crazy.
Speaker 7: I was singing the words to Jiggelow and he was
Speaker 7: so upset that I knew the words to Jigo.
Speaker 1: My friend just shot I got a straight, straight shot
Speaker 1: today got no hits.
Speaker 3: That's not true this conversation. You do have a good
Speaker 3: eyes of music. Yeah, So, and I've been doing it.
Speaker 2: Quiety what happened?
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean it's still as an executive and
Speaker 3: even this process because what I don't like to be,
Speaker 3: and we can get a little deep in it. I
Speaker 3: don't like to be one of those those executives that
Speaker 3: take advantage of people. I don't want to be some
Speaker 3: I've never liked the vulture energy of just like, oh
Speaker 3: I'm gonna sign this probab, I'm gonna take credit. So
Speaker 3: what I do. I've helped a lot of artists and
Speaker 3: I just fall back and you could tell the world
Speaker 3: that I helped you or put you on or signed
Speaker 3: you if you want to, but I'm not. I don't
Speaker 3: force you to wear the incredible chain. I don't And
Speaker 3: because that's how the industry has been set up for
Speaker 3: so long, and now you hear all of these stories
Speaker 3: that people saying this person took my publisher and this person.
Speaker 3: I never got it. I've never wanted to be one
Speaker 3: because I was an artist. So I was like, when
Speaker 3: I get the opportunity to put people on, I'm not
Speaker 3: going to force my hand on anyone. So the beauty
Speaker 3: of future Superstars is I get to show the journey.
Speaker 3: I get to show all the hard work that I
Speaker 3: put in the artists without having to be like this
Speaker 3: more artists and this is this, and and now when
Speaker 3: I make those deals and get like, I'm just I
Speaker 3: don't want your money.
Speaker 2: I don't want you to be like Night with Sig
Speaker 2: Knight did the Sourcial World. If you don't want an executive,
Speaker 2: that's all in.
Speaker 3: The videos.
Speaker 10: Taking all your paper shit come on with incredible nah.
Speaker 3: But in the sense it's like, I just really want
Speaker 3: to be fair to people. And so that's the reason
Speaker 3: why you never heard about me, you know, helping a
Speaker 3: lot of these artists that are superstars now. But people
Speaker 3: are like, man, you got to take your credit. You
Speaker 3: got to show people what you do. And now because
Speaker 3: we keep cameras around stuff all the time, I can
Speaker 3: show people the process of this is how music executive
Speaker 3: really moves. And so my journey, my narrative on Future Superstars,
Speaker 3: you get to see me go from city to city
Speaker 3: really looking for superstars. Literally every city we went to,
Speaker 3: I gave out ten thousand dollars to an artist emerging
Speaker 3: artist that's usually as signing bonus for life. I was
Speaker 3: just get here's a ten thousand dollars grant. You had
Speaker 3: to sign the grant, talk tell me why you popping
Speaker 3: in your city. And we was literally handing out big
Speaker 3: checks in every city to and getting them ready for
Speaker 3: season two.
Speaker 5: So you're on mad Post. Don't nobody know nothing.
Speaker 3: I don't gave them money, Arlotte. They kept the publishing,
Speaker 3: but I just said, man, hey, I want to see
Speaker 3: you continue on. So it's one of those scenarios where
Speaker 3: I want to pay it forward and show people that
Speaker 3: you don't have to steal people from people. And I
Speaker 3: think because of someone who has a talent, who has
Speaker 3: a gift, you don't have to leach off of someone
Speaker 3: else's gift. You could just amplify their gift. And hopefully
Speaker 3: that's what future said.
Speaker 5: What about her, because I mean I saw the Kalina
Speaker 5: because I you know, I know you had Dolly doing
Speaker 5: like a lot of this. Yeah, I didn't see her.
Speaker 5: I never saw her.
Speaker 3: Well interesting enough if you go back and one of
Speaker 3: the things, because she was we kind of had them
Speaker 3: the same time. They kind of even grew up together. Uh.
Speaker 3: And I was real close h with with Gabby as
Speaker 3: we know as her like her father and stuff. We
Speaker 3: kind of grew up in the same you know, hood
Speaker 3: and and and so I I would always her dad
Speaker 3: actually was the one that told me that kay Lannie
Speaker 3: was not doing someone was homeless at the time when
Speaker 3: she was a teenager and was like, Yo, you should
Speaker 3: call that girl that you had on America's got talent,
Speaker 3: because we were already working with Gabby, who was nine
Speaker 3: or ten years old and like a phenom of playing
Speaker 3: like seven instruments or something.
Speaker 2: We did.
Speaker 5: Gavy was her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't know what to do with her at
Speaker 3: the time, and it's so funny when you're saying her
Speaker 3: because you don't know who I'm talking about Gabby. And
Speaker 3: then she would see we were working on kay Lannie
Speaker 3: and she was trying to find her identity as a kid,
Speaker 3: and she was like, yo, I wanted and I'm like, yo,
Speaker 3: you should. Let's forget about, you know, the artistry. Just
Speaker 3: work on the music and focus on that and we
Speaker 3: don't even have to put an image out there. And
Speaker 3: then that's eventually how she came up with cultivating like
Speaker 3: not showing her face and kind of just making about
Speaker 3: the music because her sound was so mature, like her
Speaker 3: voice is so amazing that a lot of people are like,
Speaker 3: that's a little girl like and we actually if you saw,
Speaker 3: if you go back and do the research, like we
Speaker 3: had Gabby. She was on you know those like emerging
Speaker 3: Artists on the BET Awards as Gabby Wilson and you
Speaker 3: see this little girl, this giant bass guitar, and you know,
Speaker 3: she was on the Today Show and like it was
Speaker 3: like more gimmicky. I put her in an if you look,
Speaker 3: like there's a Nickelodeon movie that I've wrote and directed
Speaker 3: called Schoolgirls that we put it was justin Bieber's first movie.
Speaker 3: It was a Soldier Boys. She was one of the
Speaker 3: little girls. And so you see the work that I
Speaker 3: put in with these artists over the years, and then
Speaker 3: you look up and you're like, oh damn, that was
Speaker 3: like people pay attention, know that we was doing it.
Speaker 3: And then by the time they become the stars that
Speaker 3: they are, you know, some some show love, some don't.
Speaker 3: But it's just like, yo, it's not my it's not
Speaker 3: my place to be, Like I'm the one that gave
Speaker 3: you your first sign. I don't want people to be
Speaker 3: signed to me. That's what I'm saying, Like I don't
Speaker 3: need that, Like again, like why if I can connect you,
Speaker 3: I don't want to be your middleman. I don't need
Speaker 3: none of your money. I don't need none of your publishing,
Speaker 3: and not every artist that I work with him like,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be good whether you're successful or not. You know,
Speaker 3: so if anything, let me be able to be a
Speaker 3: mentor and tell you this is what I think you
Speaker 3: should do as someone who just cares about you and
Speaker 3: wants to see you win. When you sign somebody that
Speaker 3: gets a little weird transaction, yeah, then it's I don't
Speaker 3: want to have ownership over nothing that God has blessed you.
Speaker 5: I'd rather partner. I'd rather either just do it because
Speaker 5: I want to do it. I'd rather just partner with exactly.
Speaker 3: And then in that partnership, I'm bringing something to the
Speaker 3: table other than connections and all that not, like, let's
Speaker 3: let's work on something together, and then in these things
Speaker 3: as partnerships, we can get money together. But I don't
Speaker 3: ever like even I think like I wouldn't want I
Speaker 3: don't want to know if if I ain't right part
Speaker 3: of the song on my part, I don't want nothing
Speaker 3: that Kaylani or her or Trade two three or any
Speaker 3: of these people that are great, amazing songwriters I don't.
Speaker 3: I wasn't a part of that, So why should I
Speaker 3: be Why should I be collecting on that?
Speaker 5: Is that pressure Klondike for you, pressure as far as
Speaker 5: because you know you hear about her story, the Kalina's story,
Speaker 5: the pressure for you to reach them.
Speaker 8: I mean it is, say it's pressure from that. I
Speaker 8: just have that desire to reset level of success regardless.
Speaker 6: No, I don't think it's pressured all.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like you had your I made it moment?
Speaker 8: Yet I feel like I accomplished everything I said I
Speaker 8: was gonna do as a kid. But being here and
Speaker 8: seeing that like I accomplished those things that I.
Speaker 6: Still see that I have way further to go.
Speaker 8: So I don't think in my head that like I'm
Speaker 8: where exactly where I need to be.
Speaker 4: But you're definitely gonna right track.
Speaker 6: But I'm on the right Yeah, you definitely be almost there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So why why did you just focus on music? Though?
Speaker 5: With future Superstars, I think we're.
Speaker 3: Gonna I mean that's just the first show that I
Speaker 3: rolled out. You'll see a lot more stuff. I mean
Speaker 3: obviously in the space of you know, comedy is where
Speaker 3: you know we get off really well and you know,
Speaker 3: platforms like wild'n Out has birthed so many stars, so
Speaker 3: I don't I have that place where I can implement
Speaker 3: social media stars and even comedians and actors because wild'n
Speaker 3: out is going to continue to go and do do
Speaker 3: what it needs to do. So I feel like I
Speaker 3: have that lane. And again, part of the music thing
Speaker 3: for me was people didn't know that I was. There's
Speaker 3: a lot of people like Nick Cannon does music. And
Speaker 3: then then so the fact that is like see this
Speaker 3: motherfucker over here, when even just the word music, like
Speaker 3: before I was rapper, music like this music is something
Speaker 3: every project, all of my successful projects Charlotte Mane have
Speaker 3: music in them, and I'm a.
Speaker 5: Musical gospel song with Kim Brell.
Speaker 3: I was lying.
Speaker 5: I just was like, you know what, I'm not gonna
Speaker 5: do them like that.
Speaker 10: And I'm not even talking about being I'm like, so
Speaker 10: like mass singer America's got talent absolutely all music based stuff.
Speaker 3: Wild'n out every like and I say this all the time.
Speaker 3: I make all the music on wild'n Out, But it's
Speaker 3: just like people just they see the aspect of like
Speaker 3: every drum line, like every like everything that I do
Speaker 3: has a musical vibration to it. It's just that, you know,
Speaker 3: for whatever reason, because the motherfucker's like this. The narrative
Speaker 3: is that I haven't been successful.
Speaker 5: Nothing to do with me.
Speaker 11: You, you're the corporate you.
Speaker 3: I only say rap. I don't feel just said music.
Speaker 3: You see how the fucking media, I'll take the rap
Speaker 3: ships back like but now it's like now I'm not
Speaker 3: Now I'm not successful in music like those things though,
Speaker 3: But that's why that's the whole purpose of Future Superstar
Speaker 3: in itself. Like we joking, we're friends and ship like that,
Speaker 3: but it really is educating people to the space of like, yo,
Speaker 3: I've been a music executive for over twenty years, but.
Speaker 2: Do you think you overworking? We know you had health
Speaker 2: issues before. Yeah, but you it don't seem like you
Speaker 2: slow down. It seemed like that made you work harderly.
Speaker 3: Gave me more. I mean, ship the clocks start taking
Speaker 3: faster like it gave me, like yo, I really had
Speaker 3: to get serious in that sense of like yo, all right,
Speaker 3: let's it's bandwidth more than anything. It's like, all right,
Speaker 3: I got a lot to do. You know, God ain't
Speaker 3: done with me. He's He's blessed me. With the opportunity
Speaker 3: to have gone through some real ship and now it's like,
Speaker 3: all right, now, let's get you health together. Let's lock
Speaker 3: in and really focus and make the most of your time.
Speaker 3: So every day that I wake up healthy and shit
Speaker 3: don't hurt, it's like I got to get to it.
Speaker 3: Like that's the blessing in itself.
Speaker 5: So do you really think like, I mean, we're all dying, right,
Speaker 5: you never know, but you really think like the.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, especially like during that time it got dark,
Speaker 3: like during like you know, twenty twelve to even like
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, cause I didn't know and I couldn't get
Speaker 3: the shit right. So every time I got one thing rightly,
Speaker 3: I get a blood clot here or a pulmonary embolism.
Speaker 3: I couldn't like my lungs.
Speaker 5: Like.
Speaker 3: So once I got to this space of like, all right,
Speaker 3: I figured out, you know, how to stay healthy and
Speaker 3: how to stay alive, then it's like that's the constant
Speaker 3: reminder of like you gotta do something with this. You
Speaker 3: got to turn your pain into purpose, And for me
Speaker 3: that became helping others, like and you know, you go
Speaker 3: through this this spiritual transition of like all the things
Speaker 3: that feed me are probably not the best for me.
Speaker 3: But when I'm feeding others, that's when I feel the healthiest,
Speaker 3: That's when I feel the drive to do so. Now
Speaker 3: I live in that space, I'm like, all right, what
Speaker 3: can I do to make the world a better place?
Speaker 3: What can I do to lend a hand to the
Speaker 3: next artist? And you know that's you know, that's that
Speaker 3: that's that healthy journey for me to where it gives
Speaker 3: me that drive because I don't feel like I'm busy.
Speaker 3: I don't feel like I'm doing too much. I feel like, yo,
Speaker 3: this is this is my calling. This is where I'm
Speaker 3: supposed to go with it. So, you know, hopefully, however
Speaker 3: many more years I got left I keep rocking.
Speaker 5: Was that the reason you started having so many kids?
Speaker 3: People say that I don't know, like if I if
Speaker 3: I took the spiritual.
Speaker 1: You might have said it in an interviewer, joked around.
Speaker 3: But if I'm being serious, it wasn't like I set
Speaker 3: out to do it. It probably got to that space
Speaker 3: of like, I value being a father, I value life,
Speaker 3: So I was I was never against the concept. And
Speaker 3: if we want to have deeper conversations about you know,
Speaker 3: like what I talk about in therapy and even as
Speaker 3: as men. It's like there are those times and we've
Speaker 3: been you know, I call it access to access. I
Speaker 3: have the ability to do my thing and pro and
Speaker 3: a lot of others. Probably I could I could have stopped,
Speaker 3: you know, and and or even not had the children,
Speaker 3: but I was welcoming the idea of it and was
Speaker 3: never against it. So you know, I've worked through a
Speaker 3: lot of that through therapy of like, yeah, I love
Speaker 3: being a father, I love the life that they give
Speaker 3: me life. But and I could have made some other decisions,
Speaker 3: you know, with the mothers of my children, but I
Speaker 3: was one of those things, like I want to have
Speaker 3: these kids and as many kids as I possibly can,
Speaker 3: because you know, I come from that mentality of like,
Speaker 3: as long as I could take care of my tribe
Speaker 3: and we can live in an abundant way, that's how
Speaker 3: I want to be there. And then you know, you
Speaker 3: we go through those you know, everybody has challenges, you know,
Speaker 3: and nobody it's I don't want everybody to feel like, oh,
Speaker 3: I got it all the way figured out and I'm
Speaker 3: just out here having babies and everybody's good, like, but
Speaker 3: every family goes through their process and you know whether
Speaker 3: you want to be from a judgmental standpoint or whatever,
Speaker 3: it's like you you cannot deny the love that goes
Speaker 3: on and how much I care for my family, and
Speaker 3: you know, hopefully you know at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: the only people that would be able to tell you
Speaker 3: if I was a good dad or not are my children.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that with people being so judgmental,
Speaker 1: you know, saying that you have so many kids, and
Speaker 1: how people possibly raise these kids and be at their
Speaker 1: games and be at their recitals and.
Speaker 3: Watch me do the work like there's I don't And
Speaker 3: that's what I said. At the end of the day,
Speaker 3: the only people that really matter, the only opinion is
Speaker 3: going to be my kids and I. Through therapy, It's
Speaker 3: like I've realized at some point, you know, I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna get it right every time. But as everybody knows
Speaker 3: that I'm doing my best and being the best father
Speaker 3: that I can possibly be considering the circumstances, then and
Speaker 3: I live that, I stick my chest out of it.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be sometimes I fall flat, like am I did?
Speaker 5: I did?
Speaker 3: I didn't do that one correctly. This is more challenging
Speaker 3: if I if I wasn't spread so thin, but it's
Speaker 3: all rooted in the space of like, I'm trying to
Speaker 3: give you my all and I'm trying to be my best.
Speaker 3: So regardless, you know, I say people say, people's opinions
Speaker 3: about me is none of my business. And and if anything,
Speaker 3: I take that that low frequency energy and shifted to
Speaker 3: where it's like I keep talking because I'm doing the work.
Speaker 3: How you? How are you?
Speaker 5: Is it low frequency energy? If people say, Nick, why
Speaker 5: don't you wear.
Speaker 3: Con Who told you? I don't wear condom?
Speaker 2: You use the kindom you need?
Speaker 3: Your first of all, Jesus, I could have had a
Speaker 3: lot more. Do you want more? But because of condoms?
Speaker 5: There is there if you don't win, No damn coms.
Speaker 5: Ain't nobody here crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't believe I don't believe you.
Speaker 3: I worked on the mind. Matter of fact, I not
Speaker 3: mind having more. You know, here is the way you.
Speaker 11: Question the question, the interview, the internet.
Speaker 2: But how do you Christmas?
Speaker 3: I mean I joked, I say all I'm Saint Nick
Speaker 3: and everything, but it's really structured in a way to
Speaker 3: where those you know, I kind of take that week
Speaker 3: and turn it into Christmas week, you know, And and
Speaker 3: there is because I'm traveling and flying like I'm trying
Speaker 3: to be every everybody. And even Thanksgiving was the same way.
Speaker 3: I was in five six different Thanksgivings at the time,
Speaker 3: because it's not it's my mom's, because my grandmother's.
Speaker 2: Say, twenty minutes, thirty minutes, I mean dinner.
Speaker 3: You got to hear that, y'all play spas. I'm out
Speaker 3: to the next time you eat. I mean, I'm taking everybody.
Speaker 3: You know, everybody looked different. So one thing, my white
Speaker 3: baby mom, I'm not really eating.
Speaker 9: But they got cancer rolls.
Speaker 3: It's differ between pumpkin pies.
Speaker 5: We take one of your baby mom's breef. She said,
Speaker 5: how you juggle your twelve kids for the holidays is
Speaker 5: your problem, and I don't.
Speaker 3: See it as a problem. I think she was saying,
Speaker 3: like that's it is, but it's I don't involve her,
Speaker 3: like sheel like.
Speaker 5: The baby mom's got to make it eaty for you too, right.
Speaker 3: They do. And that's what I like, I said, I
Speaker 3: give them credit to where like even in the process
Speaker 3: of like they say, this is what we want, and
Speaker 3: it's everything from Christmas pictures, the slid riding the pictures
Speaker 3: with saying that our experiences, like I make sure that
Speaker 3: every kid who wants to do something or we have
Speaker 3: certain things set up, we make time to go do it.
Speaker 3: So it's almost in that thing like, look, we want
Speaker 3: to do these six things for Christmas. They want to
Speaker 3: do these things. So I'm kind of again it's I'm
Speaker 3: all over the damn but it's fun. I mean, y'all
Speaker 3: see my ig you see me, Like I'm at I'm
Speaker 3: at the Grinch Smiths one day, I'm over here, you know,
Speaker 3: Candy Cane Lane the other day. And it's really like
Speaker 3: my kids are having an amazing time and it's and
Speaker 3: it's not to be performative. It's just like, yo, this
Speaker 3: is my life and we're fucking having a ball. Like nigga,
Speaker 3: you know much money I spend at Disneyland a year?
Speaker 3: Imagine nigga, I got six.
Speaker 2: So I comment.
Speaker 3: The crazy thing is because I used to hold Christmas
Speaker 3: Morning at Disneyland, and so I used to get that
Speaker 3: Disney bag like it was like and it was they
Speaker 3: were perks, so all of that stuff was free. It's
Speaker 3: no longer free. And I had two kids then, so
Speaker 3: like to be twelve and every birthday christ like I'm
Speaker 3: literally at Disneyland at least once a month, and to
Speaker 3: move around Disney like I probably I'm probably spending two
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: A year.
Speaker 2: Cause you got pack for the chaperone you got.
Speaker 3: Disneyland is expensive at the top, like if you're trying
Speaker 3: to stay in the hotel and now it's it's not
Speaker 3: how it used to be, Like you gotta make reservations
Speaker 3: and stuff. But so I spending two hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 3: a year at Disneyland.
Speaker 4: You need to give you like a membership or something.
Speaker 3: I used to be an employee. I'm like, Mickey, can't
Speaker 3: you look up? Can I get back in my job?
Speaker 5: What job?
Speaker 3: I need back?
Speaker 5: Thinking to man, And it's the last thing I'm gonna
Speaker 5: say about this. I think it is your duty because
Speaker 5: you are a man. That is the service. Yes, you
Speaker 5: should tell people what kind of condoms do you know?
Speaker 5: Nobody else? You should tell people choice.
Speaker 3: Again, First of all, I like the gold Rappers, that's
Speaker 3: where it is, and those work very well. I none
Speaker 3: of my children came from a condom mishap. They were
Speaker 3: purpose fault.
Speaker 4: They were playing went wrong on purpose.
Speaker 3: Yes, don't you go wrong on purpose? But I'm married. Yes,
Speaker 3: as you should know what I'm saying during those times
Speaker 3: you go wrong on purpose. I have never unprotected sex
Speaker 3: with someone that I didn't intend to view it right like,
Speaker 3: I know if I'm having unprotected sex that this person
Speaker 3: could get pregnant.
Speaker 5: Look like a jail bab.
Speaker 10: You conversation about talking to you really feel that way?
Speaker 3: I'm a I'm a fearless romantic. Just tag it on
Speaker 3: my shoulder.
Speaker 2: There's any woman that that you had a child with?
Speaker 1: Did they feel like they were gonna stop you from
Speaker 1: doing it and you were gonna be the one?
Speaker 3: Did y'all ever have just them? I mean, uh, it's
Speaker 3: funny like dreams. She's taking it off.
Speaker 2: Saying there one of them had to feel like they
Speaker 2: could change you would change it.
Speaker 3: Because the women in my life are so amazing that
Speaker 3: they are elevated in the sense that they never tried
Speaker 3: to change. They knew what it was and it wasn't
Speaker 3: like it was just a process because all of them
Speaker 3: started off as true companions and I look at them now,
Speaker 3: it's like those are the people I talk to, like
Speaker 3: in that sense of not on like some poly you
Speaker 3: know idea, but like those are the only that's my circle.
Speaker 3: That's who I That's who I go to when I'm
Speaker 3: having issues because the world a lot of times is
Speaker 3: against us, so like we gotta stick together in a
Speaker 3: sense of like they I gotta protect them and they
Speaker 3: got to protect me. Even not to generalize them as
Speaker 3: a group, but just individually, those are the people that
Speaker 3: I go to when I'm depressed, when I'm fucked up
Speaker 3: and I'm like, damn, I don't know how I'm how
Speaker 3: am I going to do it this month or what?
Speaker 3: And they take they see that I only got so
Speaker 3: much in me, you know what I mean. So when
Speaker 3: they see I'm a little depleted and I need to
Speaker 3: unplug for a second, those are the people that I rely.
Speaker 7: So what if it baby Mama's decided to start dating?
Speaker 7: Like is that an issue?
Speaker 3: Some of them are relationships and stuff like that. I
Speaker 3: don't know that. I don't run this like it's not
Speaker 3: like this is my kingdom, Like it's whoever you want
Speaker 3: to be, whatever makes you happy. I support it, and
Speaker 3: I guess maybe I'm I've kind of evolved to a
Speaker 3: place where I'm not driven by that. Now, obviously the
Speaker 3: interaction is going to be completely different because somebody I'm
Speaker 3: romantically involved with or intimate with, I'm gonna have a
Speaker 3: certain level of connection with them than I do with
Speaker 3: somebody I don't, and I just co parent with So
Speaker 3: even at you know, at the highest level, you know,
Speaker 3: the world has witnessed, you know, Mariah be in relationships
Speaker 3: and it's always been loved. That's somebody that I've always
Speaker 3: admired and considered one of my best friends for life.
Speaker 3: And there was never beef whether she's in a relationship
Speaker 3: or not. So I don't have a problem with I.
Speaker 3: And I go back to how I always talk when
Speaker 3: I was like I only I like who liked me?
Speaker 3: Like if you park with me, I'm fucking with you.
Speaker 3: If you how some someone else, then that's what the
Speaker 3: energy is. So I've never tried to push myself into
Speaker 3: a scenario that I'm not welcoming. Yeah, I mean, I mean,
Speaker 3: she's I've seen her do interviews about it. She it
Speaker 3: doesn't reach her, it doesn't penetrate her. Bubble got you,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? She got she got so
Speaker 3: much going on. That's the Queen of Christmas, right she
Speaker 3: She treats me like j Lo, like who I don't
Speaker 3: know him? Like, what are your.
Speaker 5: Thoughts on all of this? When you hear this, Yeah,
Speaker 5: what are your thoughts?
Speaker 4: She's like, I'm for the music.
Speaker 8: I mean I think if I was a dude, I
Speaker 8: might be living the same life.
Speaker 6: So it.
Speaker 8: Like and then you're talking about like they like your backbone,
Speaker 8: you depressed stuff like, that's a lot of support, that's fire,
Speaker 8: a lot of support. Right, I feel you name, But
Speaker 8: let's talk Nick.
Speaker 2: Want to get married? Do you look at you again?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? I mean because last time I got I used
Speaker 3: my words incorrectly. Last time we was having conversations, i'd
Speaker 3: be forgetting the mixes on and ship and I said
Speaker 3: it was a eurocentric concept with what I really meant
Speaker 3: is the colonial aspect of marriage. It's it's a business,
Speaker 3: and I've been in that business before. I don't want
Speaker 3: to be in that business no more. It's so much paperwork.
Speaker 3: I don't want the government to be involved with my
Speaker 3: love life. I shouldn't have to have a legal document
Speaker 3: or a contractor to let someone know how much I
Speaker 3: care for them. Now. I want to be their protector
Speaker 3: and that provider. It's kind of like the child support system.
Speaker 3: If you take care of your children, there's no need
Speaker 3: for paperwork because I want I want my kids to
Speaker 3: have everything that I own I want. I don't want
Speaker 3: them to go without at all. I want them to
Speaker 3: live an abundant life. So I don't need the government
Speaker 3: to tell me the minimum that I need to pay,
Speaker 3: because I'm gonna give them the maximum. So same thing
Speaker 3: with love and marriage. If I fuck with you for life,
Speaker 3: I don't need to be binded by a contract or
Speaker 3: a ring. And therefore that's in the way those contracts
Speaker 3: are designed. That's from a Roman Catholicism approach of how
Speaker 3: we do it. There's ways to have unions and covenants
Speaker 3: and marriages through so many other philosophies in life. Specifically,
Speaker 3: you know in our African community from the diaspora, they
Speaker 3: do it differently, and you know, I'm learning and understanding
Speaker 3: those processes, but I know you go over to the continent,
Speaker 3: it ain't about contracts, it ain't about paperwork and rings.
Speaker 3: It's like, nah, this is this is my wife. This
Speaker 3: is my wife, and however that moves around. So the
Speaker 3: concept of the American society marriage, I'll never do that again.
Speaker 3: But who's to say I can't find a life partner
Speaker 3: that I'm a rock with. I'm we an old like
Speaker 3: I'm were in that state where it's like, by the
Speaker 3: time I'm in my sixties, I want to be on
Speaker 3: an island or the top of a mountain in Tibet
Speaker 3: somewhere with somebody I could rock with forever.
Speaker 5: So I'm living like Kim Lyles actually told me a
Speaker 5: long time ago. He said, I can't tell you to
Speaker 5: get married, but I can tell you should always have
Speaker 5: somebody to share your experiences with. I fuck with that
Speaker 5: heavy like that.
Speaker 3: I can see myself doing that. And then the fact
Speaker 3: that people are like, oh, aren't you worried about getting lonely,
Speaker 3: Like I got twelve kids, ain't never gonna be moving
Speaker 3: somebody coming over, like But even with that, that's scary
Speaker 3: too though, right because something where it said you spend
Speaker 3: seventy percent of all the time you're ever gonna spend
Speaker 3: with your kids between one and eighteen, And.
Speaker 5: When you think about it, that's truly true. How many
Speaker 5: times you've probably seen your parents after you get it
Speaker 5: an become an adult and you're out in the world
Speaker 5: trying to pick things out.
Speaker 3: And then even when you think about like the time
Speaker 3: that they spend at school and sports and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: There's other people with your children throughout the day more
Speaker 3: than you are. And I'm learning that too, because I'm
Speaker 3: trying to be present at all of these games, and
Speaker 3: you know, I'm picking them up from school and knowing
Speaker 3: the teachers and spending time at the recitals, and it's like,
Speaker 3: I want them to at least see my presence there
Speaker 3: because I know there's gonna be a time where I'm
Speaker 3: on a film set for two months, There's gonna be
Speaker 3: time where I'm on tour over here. So I want
Speaker 3: them to see me every free time that I can.
Speaker 3: Because when you think about the person with the average
Speaker 3: person with a nine to five from eight am to
Speaker 3: three of them, they are under the supervision of a
Speaker 3: completely different adult. And then even by the time you
Speaker 3: get get to where you tired, they tired. You might
Speaker 3: get to see your kids what from six to eight
Speaker 3: and then y'all sleep and then again like so like
Speaker 3: the average because with my with my therapist, we've done
Speaker 3: the math on it. The average time that a parent
Speaker 3: spends with their kids a day's less than three hours.
Speaker 3: And then when you think about it, like that's why
Speaker 3: weekends are so important, that's why vacations are so important
Speaker 3: because that's when they really get to know you, and
Speaker 3: that's when you really get to it's all. It's about
Speaker 3: the qualitative approach, and it's really about creating as many
Speaker 3: core memories in that amount of time that you possibly.
Speaker 5: Your therapist talks about average parent, you ain't talking about your.
Speaker 3: No because clearly, but that's what to me. I'm trying
Speaker 3: to go above and beyond when it comes to that
Speaker 3: that parenting aspect because I'm trying to create the best
Speaker 3: core memories as possible, because core memories can be in
Speaker 3: a positive light or in a negative light. So you know,
Speaker 3: I don't ever and that that's all about keeping your word.
Speaker 3: That's all about managing expectations because if I tell my
Speaker 3: kids something, I'm gonna make sure I do it. And
Speaker 3: and you know, obviously I have a strong support team
Speaker 3: that helped me accomplish a lot of that. But again,
Speaker 3: you know, is as important as it is to sit
Speaker 3: back and analyze these things through therapy. And I mean
Speaker 3: you know this very well. It's like you're constantly trying
Speaker 3: to grow. You're constantly trying to figure out how can
Speaker 3: I be a better dad? And considering the circumstance.
Speaker 2: We'll put you in therapy. Was it that dark time
Speaker 2: or a.
Speaker 3: Lot of it? I mean I started growing to therapy
Speaker 3: early on with like church, you know, and you and
Speaker 3: that that's not I don't say that's not real therapy,
Speaker 3: but that's like your entry, you know, way to be like, oh,
Speaker 3: I can sit and talk with a pastor social groups
Speaker 3: that kind of understand what we're going through. And then
Speaker 3: I start going to facilities of incarceration prisons when I
Speaker 3: was about I think it's two thousand and seven. We
Speaker 3: started doing a lot of group therapy through that process,
Speaker 3: and then I saw how these you know, young brothers
Speaker 3: and sisters were really growing, and I was like, I'm
Speaker 3: getting so much out of this and even watching this experience.
Speaker 3: And then through relationship, like I started doing that probably
Speaker 3: maybe five years after that, started working through it. And
Speaker 3: then you know, once my health really sorry, I really
Speaker 3: needed somebody to talk to because I ain't know if
Speaker 3: I was gonna be living or dying and all that stuff,
Speaker 3: and so I really really started taking a series like
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, and I mean, I know you're a huge
Speaker 3: advocate for it. We got a new we got a
Speaker 3: new platform that we're launching at the top of the year.
Speaker 3: That's specifically about men in therapy and being vulnerable and
Speaker 3: talking about you know, these processes.
Speaker 5: But I was it like an apple or something.
Speaker 3: It's an app, but it's also it's a new sho.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna come back and talk about that one. That
Speaker 3: one too, But it's it's it's something that where it's
Speaker 3: it's something that you and I share pretty pretty deeply.
Speaker 3: But man, I'm in therapy probably I probably go four
Speaker 3: times a week. Wow, Yeah, I got one therapist I go.
Speaker 3: I see on Tuesday, what is it Tuesdays and Fridays.
Speaker 3: Tuesdays and Fridays is my my personal I'm talking and
Speaker 3: downloading in. There's you know, I do family therapy, you
Speaker 3: know where I bring my children in in certain aspects.
Speaker 3: And then even you know, there's a holistic approach. I
Speaker 3: talk to a lot of you know, Shamans and things
Speaker 3: that just getting different perspectives and you know, those conversations
Speaker 3: that you have with pastors. And then this new project
Speaker 3: that I'm talking about, it's kind of I mean, I'll
Speaker 3: kind of give you a little bit of it, but
Speaker 3: it's a it's a table, it's a setting a mend
Speaker 3: with professionals. So I have a lot of doctors and
Speaker 3: psychologists that are you know, and clinicians that are actually
Speaker 3: speaking to issues that men are doing.
Speaker 5: So I have got to let me recommend you a
Speaker 5: couple of names. Yeah, I know a couple of psychiatrists
Speaker 5: that you should definitely have on come on, man, that's
Speaker 5: absolutely yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And there's people that we all both know, like
Speaker 3: like the doctor issues of the world and things like that.
Speaker 3: So he was a part of He was the psychiatrist
Speaker 3: I used for my books exactly. So he's one of
Speaker 3: my co hosts on that show and stuff. So well,
Speaker 3: we'll bring all of that to the table. But the importance, man,
Speaker 3: that's why I applaud you. And and you know, you've
Speaker 3: kind of been living your life out loud and showing
Speaker 3: your growth and your process and with you know how
Speaker 3: important mental health is, and and you've I'm sure you've
Speaker 3: helped so many men and just people in general. Just
Speaker 3: we're all going through something. We all got challenges. And
Speaker 3: then when you can actually just be like I can't
Speaker 3: handle it today, you know what I mean, and like
Speaker 3: that those pressures and we've all actually lost people who
Speaker 3: are very quiet and then we said, Damn, I wish
Speaker 3: I would have known her. Damn I wish I could
Speaker 3: he And that's even you know, taking it back to
Speaker 3: klon Dake Blond. If you watch her episode of Future Superstars' likes,
Speaker 3: it's cute, it's fun, and you see her sitting there
Speaker 3: with you know, her her dog as she calls her son,
Speaker 3: and she's like, this is my emotional but it's legitimately
Speaker 3: her emotional support animal because of all that she's gone
Speaker 3: through in her life. And you see like, through the
Speaker 3: love of that animal, through her music, she's been able
Speaker 3: to stay alive. And it's like that process because I
Speaker 3: have had artists that I've worked with that have taken
Speaker 3: their lives and I had no idea it got to
Speaker 3: that level. I had artists that were on that point
Speaker 3: and right because someone intervened or because they actually said,
Speaker 3: oh you should check on that person. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: I wasn't trying to get too deep into who the
Speaker 3: person was. But even the person that you look up
Speaker 3: to that you admire, the people's music you love, they
Speaker 3: going through it. And we got to create this community
Speaker 3: that we can be there for one another. And it's
Speaker 3: not soft to do it or it's not like, oh man,
Speaker 3: I was busy and I didn't get a chance to
Speaker 3: and then we now have this deep hurt, in this
Speaker 3: deep regret because we could have made the phone call,
Speaker 3: or we could have been a little gentler when in
Speaker 3: the process of like, damn, you really going through.
Speaker 4: It and it costs nothing to be kind to people.
Speaker 5: There it is. I saw the Maskutty Murphy too to
Speaker 5: give you some advice, did you see that?
Speaker 3: I love it. I was waiting for their advice.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, not.
Speaker 3: Eddie quick too, because he was I look up to
Speaker 3: the Eddie Murphy's, to the Bob Marley's, to the Muhammad Ali's,
Speaker 3: to all, to the Doctor Saves, to all these people
Speaker 3: who have giant families and providing for them all in
Speaker 3: all of their When you talk to anybody in Muhammad
Speaker 3: Ali's camp, anybody in the Marley family, anybody, they love
Speaker 3: their father so much and they like, man, my father
Speaker 3: was amazing like that. I hope and pray people look
Speaker 3: at me the way or my children look at me,
Speaker 3: the way that Eddie's children look at him. I hope
Speaker 3: and pray that you know the way that people admire
Speaker 3: Muhammad Ali is the father that he was like, that's
Speaker 3: hopefully you know, ten fifteen years from now, my children
Speaker 3: are saying those type of things about me.
Speaker 5: Do you do you consult with other men who have
Speaker 5: multiple kids? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Not at that level. I'm not, like I said, I
Speaker 3: haven't talked to Eddie, you know what I mean, other
Speaker 3: than like him keep going, you know what I mean
Speaker 3: as it, But like I haven't. I haven't had the
Speaker 3: opportunity yet. But I you know, I've had conversations with
Speaker 3: men who have multiple children. Who's saying, like, man, I
Speaker 3: understand what you're going through. And you know there's people
Speaker 3: that have come Dick Gregory with somebody, I mean, who
Speaker 3: I believe I think he had, like I think I
Speaker 3: had nine kids and stuff, but I was able to
Speaker 3: with all his children are amazing, all you know, older
Speaker 3: than me and people that you know, I look up to.
Speaker 3: But just his process and being a father to multiple people.
Speaker 3: And then there's an areas like you know mine is
Speaker 3: like the reason why I was so shocked to me
Speaker 3: like at thirty, I didn't have no kids, you know,
Speaker 3: but now sitting here, I got twelve. So yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: so yeah, so so they happened, you know, quickly, and
Speaker 3: at the same time, it wasn't all with the same woman,
Speaker 3: so you know, it's a little unique in my setting,
Speaker 3: but trying to figure it out.
Speaker 5: Wow. Two more questions. What jokes do you get tired of?
Speaker 5: More jokes about your music or jokes about Mariah?
Speaker 3: I don't, honestly, only comfort those are old jokes. The
Speaker 3: new ones is like probably more. Now it's all about
Speaker 3: the kid jokes like Bill Maher and all of them
Speaker 3: on every late night show. Like it's the multiple kid jokes.
Speaker 3: So I ain't tired of those yet. But I got
Speaker 3: to keep giving my wild outcast some more material. So
Speaker 3: we got a.
Speaker 1: Producer that works here. Charlamage says he's the president of
Speaker 1: the Fat Live Matter movement. Yes, he says, out of
Speaker 1: all of the overweight media male cast members you've had
Speaker 1: on this show, who is your favorite?
Speaker 2: They gotta be fat mat fat Man, fat Man.
Speaker 3: That's I told.
Speaker 11: Him, there's a better name than big Mac.
Speaker 5: You don't want them to be fat fever.
Speaker 3: We don't. We got we got it, but and that
Speaker 3: we we gotta pay for his surgery.
Speaker 5: If you can get a week, that's the thing.
Speaker 3: But when you lose your fat, you lose your funny.
Speaker 4: Do you think so, because something like the Big.
Speaker 3: There's a bunch of fat, and I'm not telling you
Speaker 3: to be to be unhealthy because you could be fat,
Speaker 3: hilarious fat.
Speaker 5: Nobody's lost as big as it used to be.
Speaker 3: All right, you want Bruce up here too. We did
Speaker 3: a movie, we did that the Holiday Movie for v
Speaker 3: H one, and he was in it. So he's still
Speaker 3: big Bruce, Bruce.
Speaker 4: It's almost like the debate with Skinny Luthor and Big Luther,
Speaker 4: like Big.
Speaker 3: I want Big. I want Big Mac to be as
Speaker 3: healthy as as possibly count and we get him in
Speaker 3: the gym and all that stuff, but we don't want
Speaker 3: him to be skinny Matt.
Speaker 7: But he came in with a sprite zero yesterday so.
Speaker 2: That the morning.
Speaker 3: We're gonna make sure Max stays healthy. We got a
Speaker 3: new he got a show that and stuff that we're
Speaker 3: working on to specifically in that space, and.
Speaker 5: We want him to be here to do the show.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yes, because you don't see no old big people.
Speaker 5: No. Eventually it all catches up. Absolutely, that's right.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you for joining us. Nick Cannon and Klondyke.
Speaker 5: Blonde Clondyke Blonde next door, Like what is it project dropping,
Speaker 5: Like what is it?
Speaker 8: We are working on a lot of records right now
Speaker 8: within the punk rock rap little genre.
Speaker 3: She and that vibe, that that little uzzy, that juice
Speaker 3: world that she's like that whole festival vibe. So she
Speaker 3: you know, you're gonna see her do a lot a
Speaker 3: lot of shows and like, yeah, she got the tatted
Speaker 3: Up record out right now, that's streaming going crazy. You know,
Speaker 3: the tattoo world is a real world that she's embraced
Speaker 3: and living and like her punk rock rap music is
Speaker 3: gonna is gonna go up. So she's one of those
Speaker 3: artists that stream. Like again, I was one of the
Speaker 3: issue why I created Like you heard the song, you
Speaker 3: heard the song on TikTok and you know it, but
Speaker 3: you never see the person. Now we're gonna turn her
Speaker 3: into the superstar that she needs to be and you know,
Speaker 3: allow her fans to kind of touch her in the
Speaker 3: way that you know, hopefully we take it to that.
Speaker 5: Level with one incredible I know, just Valentine.
Speaker 3: Hitman holler, yeah, those are I mean, there's a plethora
Speaker 3: of acts that we're working with. And again I don't
Speaker 3: like to be like, oh you're signed to incredible, but
Speaker 3: these are the people from the artists that you see
Speaker 3: on you know, even people like DC. Young Fly is
Speaker 3: amazing artist. It's just that we gotta line it up
Speaker 3: for when it's time to focus on his music because
Speaker 3: he's doing so many other things. So the artists that
Speaker 3: we're focusing on at the moment is Klondyke, hit Man,
Speaker 3: and Justine are the ones that you're gonna see in
Speaker 3: the like within the next sixty days dropping And you know,
Speaker 3: we got a lot of Season two of Future Superstars
Speaker 3: is gonna be a whole nother run.
Speaker 4: He's until you got to come to Charleston.
Speaker 3: We do have some talent onred percent. I meant you.
Speaker 4: Can hear some awesome things.
Speaker 3: You know, we we we all care Liner right here,
Speaker 3: Carolina squad over here. I'm gonna be there tomorrow. My
Speaker 3: grandmother just turned hunting at four. Yeah, shouts out to
Speaker 3: Kareem Cannon. Happy birthday. So while I'm spending on my
Speaker 3: great grand absolutely in Annapolis, North Carolina, Connapolis, what's that
Speaker 3: next to Concord, Charlotte.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well it's the Breakfast Club. Is Nick Cannon,
Speaker 2: Klonbag Blinde. Thank y'all, let's
Speaker 3: Come y'all wake that ass up in the morning breakfast
Speaker 3: club