WEBVTT - Usher Reveals Plans For Super Bowl Halftime Show, Talks Reputation, Preserving Legacy + More 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:05.320 Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club Morning. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.640 Everybody's the j n V. Charlamagne the God. We are 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:09.520 the Breakfast Club. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:11.400 We got Laura La Rosa hanging out with us this morning, 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:13.240 our special guest co host, and we. 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:17.200 Got the Icon on the line right now, ladies and gentlemen. 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:23.320 Ussha, Hey, are you feeling brother man, I'm feeling up 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:25.920 right now, feeling blessed, Feeling blessed. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.520 Congratulations super Bowl halftime show. I feel like the culture 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:31.800 collectively was calling for this. 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.080 Yep. I feel like we've been saying this for months. 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:37.559 Thank you, man, affirmations do come true, right, Thank you 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.400 guys for wanting it for me. Thanks for each and 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.040 every person that prayed. You know what I'm saying, and 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.320 so too, you know, just talked about it. Maybe it 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.199 was just putting it in the air that you know, 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:49.520 the Super Bowl would decide to come to Vegas because 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:49.960 I was there. 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:50.920 I'm sure. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:57.080 For real, man, I have you know, have heard, you know, 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:00.760 the conversations and the idea that you know I would 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.800 be able to play the Super Bowl. 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:04.400 So now it's the reality. 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.440 Crazy jay Z calls me at what six o'clock in 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.959 the morning, I'm barely just waking up, just the first 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.480 news I get of the day. He's like, Yo, this 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:14.400 is your Michael moment, this is your magic moment. 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.080 I'm like, are you serious? He's like yeah. So I 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:22.360 look over at Jim. I'm like, yo, it's Jay's telling 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.560 me I got it no way. And in the background 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.040 you hear way it was. It was so gangster. You 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:28.839 know what I'm saying, How. 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:30.160 Long have you known this is going to happen? Because 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.039 you said so? Ja just called you or you knew 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:32.600 this is in the air. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.280 J call. When I first got the news, I was 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:36.880 in Atlanta. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.800 Yo, the craziest part man, trying to oldest you know 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.520 what I'm saying, and not tell my kids. 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.680 Who were also too on me, like Dad, you should 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:46.640 play the super Bowl. I'm telling you who I need 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.720 to call? You know what I mean? They online asking 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:50.960 or talking to you. I'm like, hey, man, just maybe 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:51.560 pray about it. 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:52.880 You know what I'm saying, Like if you put it, 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:54.560 put it in the eighth you know what I'm saying, 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.440 Maybe to come back. I'm knowing, but I can't tell them, 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.560 you know. So it was about a week and I 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:04.600 have of just holding that secret. It felt like I 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.280 felt like, you know, like I was having a conversation 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.160 in the war room and you can't tell the rest 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:10.200 of the world what's. 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:13.040 Going on now. That was on your bucket list, you said. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:15.119 It has always been on my bucket list. 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.800 Yeah, since Michael, I bet you, since you saw Michael 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.200 Jackson do it back in the day. 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.520 Absolutely, He's the one who, Yo, by the way, Michael 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.600 wa has you know, paved the way for all of us, 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:27.440 you know what I'm saying. 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.119 To be able to see what he did with this moment. 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.640 Starts it and then to understand what Prince did with 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.240 this moment ignites it. 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.840 To notice. So many legendary artists. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.200 Have been in that position, from you know what I'm saying, 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:46.480 you Two, Coldplay, you know, Beyonce Brunoma. So many incredible 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:50.040 artists have been able to service that moment, you know. 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.920 And I really do feel like I'm built for this. 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.720 I feel like the music catalog that I've been able 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.720 to build obviously speaks to it. But the entertainer that 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.040 I am for that moment, and the fact that I'm 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.160 in my new home, you know what I'm saying, like 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.360 not my Vegas residency, but also two Lovers and Friends festival, 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.079 and it's like, why not having a crescendo? 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.280 I think it was. It was perfectly time. I'm a 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.480 praying man, you know, I mean, and I actually I 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:16.639 put this up in the air. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.120 I prayed about it, and if it was intended to happen, 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:20.720 then it would. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:22.360 Find its way to me. And it did. 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.280 And I'm not going to disappoint I'll. 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:25.840 Tell you that much. 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.440 Did you go to Vegas starting with Lovers and Friends 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.000 and then going into the residency saying like, Okay, if 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.000 we do all this now that it's here, the super 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:35.720 Bowl is going to be next? Like was that like 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.520 a like you kind of you put that out there 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:42.000 knowing that this would come concept type of thing. Not 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:43.440 that you needed it, but you know what I mean. 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.520 Yeah, no affirmations like literally deciding that. 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.160 I was going to move in a certain way to 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.640 take like some sense of ownership of a space. You know, 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.160 I feel like in the past being able to do 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.960 that in Atlanta, Like, yeah, I'm originally from Chattan, New 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.000 lu Tennessee, but I was raised in Atlanta. Atlanta raised 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.200 the artist that I am Atlanta raised, the man that 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.040 I am Atlanta raised, the person and the creative that 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:07.200 I am, and. 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.200 I was able to do that in Las Vegas. 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.280 So I started with a residency, opening a show when 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.320 we were just coming out of the pandemic, the first 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:18.279 show to open in the world, not just the United 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.680 States of America, but Yo, we were coming out of 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.440 a pandemic and people were afraid. 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:23.160 YO. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.080 Bringing that energy back in that started it, and then 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.040 staying in Las Vegas a long long enough for them 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.039 to decide, Okay, We're going to have the Super Bowl 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.440 in Las Vegas. So I'm like, I'm staying here. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.880 I brought my festival, you know, Lovers and Ferns to Vegas. 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:40.400 I was like, I'm staying here. I'm gonna put my 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.960 flag down here. This is my new space, this is 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.320 my home. I feel like I get to do all 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.839 of the things that I've always wanted to do and 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:52.200 progress and just be creative. And since then, there's just 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.960 been more and more things that have just really work 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:56.719 to my benefit. 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.360 But again, I'm a praying man, and. 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.760 I appreciate the fact that God has allowed this to happen. 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.479 I appreciate each and every person that I know said 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.480 a prayer for me. I can tell you my grandmother 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.839 before she passed, she said a prayer. And this is 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.840 a very strong praying woman. So I know that my grandmother, 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:13.960 she's in heaven. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.080 She gonna have the best seat in the house, being 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:17.520 able to look down and see this happen. 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.480 My nanny gonna they're gonna be up there, My Grandpapa's 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.600 gonna be up there looking at this and join it. 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:24.960 They got the best seats in the house. 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.160 Now you got the difficult task. Now, because now this's 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:28.919 the difficult task. You got two things. Now, you got 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.880 to bring Atlanta to the super Bowl. So do you 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.039 bring roller skates? Do you bring strip club? Do you 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:39.159 bring cars? And then you got so many records into 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:40.040 thirteen minutes? 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.240 Are you bringing the stripper from the Vegas the one 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.359 that comes down in like claps and I don't know 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.200 her name the show? 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.600 Are you bringing her a s I might walk for. 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.000 Let me tell you something. You know what I do 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.440 in Vegas, So listen. It ain't nothing with the lights, baby, 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.120 And that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna bring the lights. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:05:59.839 We're gonna bring the lights out. I can't give you 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:00.919 too much. I'll tell you this. 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:02.640 The ideas that are swarming. 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:04.760 You know, you obviously know all the people that I 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.719 work with in my life and my career musically, you 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.520 know the people that I respect and have collaborated with. 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:11.760 I'm thinking of all of that. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.680 I'm thinking of making certain that the world understands the 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.040 legacy that is my career, not just the moment, but 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:23.120 the legacy, the connection, the ideas, and the nuance. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:24.880 You know what I'm saying. If it is a little 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:26.360 bit of what Atlanta is. 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:27.960 If it's a lot of bit of what my life 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.279 has been in terms of my experience, but I'm playing 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.400 the hits and I'm gonna definitely bring something that's gonna 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:33.880 leave you. 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:36.279 It's gonna leave you shocked. 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:40.560 You're gonna remember this moment, remember for the positivity. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.039 You're gonna remember this moment for the idea and the history. 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:44.920 You're gonna remember this moment for all of the people 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:46.760 that I feel like I stand on the shoulders off. 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.960 You're gonna remember this moment for the fact that it 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.680 inspired me to see them have their moment and now 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:52.440 I'm gonna have mine. 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.719 Tell us, tell us the meaning of the commercial lecture 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.920 and why it was important for you to tap into 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:58.040 your younger self like that. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.000 Younger, Yeah, what what you're talking about? Man, I'm still here. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:07.440 You definitely not you definitely not agent. But that was 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.240 that was that was the younger version of us. 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.400 Now you'll have to so by the way, you know, 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.680 we went around and around about how we would approach it. 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:21.880 Another really great benefit is the twentieth anniversary and celebration 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.880 of Confessions, So it would be a great opportunity to 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.360 take a little bit of something that people would instantly 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.640 identify with and play with it. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:30.400 And I felt like. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.240 The social engagement because it really, it really was fun 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.000 after something that I saw my. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.120 Fans engage using, you know, using it for me, and. 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:39.720 I'm like, Yo, this is something that I think is 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.840 going to activate the world, and also to it to 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.040 continue to engage them because I want other people to 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.080 do it as well, you know, I want other people 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.120 to do their own versions of that conversation. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.800 You know what I'm saying why Dionne and Kim. 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:56.080 I mean, I think that you know, the dynamic of 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.600 who I am and what I have offered is span wide. 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.760 I think that you know Dione and what he represents 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.240 as a story that has continuously continued to dig himself 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:07.400 from where. 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:07.840 He is being. 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.240 Rather it was health, or rather it was life, or 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.200 rather it was the pivot of being an amazing athlete. 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:14.000 And then becoming a coach. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:15.880 I felt like there was a story there to be 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:17.760 told and I wanted to support that, and I wanted 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:19.720 him to do it. I had to ask if he 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.440 would do it, and he volunteered and say, yeah, I 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:23.560 would love to be a part of that. 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.200 I felt like it was for the culture in that way. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.360 Kim Kim is a good friend, and I felt like 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:33.680 it would definitely be fun. Marshawn Lynch was just once 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.319 again another fun moment for the culture, you know what 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.960 I'm saying. And O'dale Beckham, you know what I'm saying. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.319 It was just a matter of just continuing to keep 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.320 the right energy and all the right people. There were 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.000 a ton of things that I've talked about and a 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.199 ton of things that are gonna happen any given Sunday 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.000 that leads up to the actual big Sunday performance. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.360 So it ain't done. You're gonna see more. I actually, 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:57.120 you know, pre ordered and put on pre order my album. 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.520 So there's a lot of a lot of levels to 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.439 what I'm doing with this entire moment. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.640 Between now and February. 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.440 Eleventh, right now, there were the dating rumors with you 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.320 and Kim Kardashian because she came to the show so 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.120 many times, and people were like, what the heck is 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:13.520 going on? You weren't afraid to lean into that. You know, 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.800 I got it, I mean because when I saw it, 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:18.680 I said, oh, this is smart, Like I thought you 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.240 were playing into that whole. Like people were like, how 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.280 did this friendship even come about? Why does she keep 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:24.040 going to the show. 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.480 Well, if you listen to it, basically she told you 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.200 I've seen the show two times and that's why she 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:34.560 could give the news because she actually knows. But nah, 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.199 it's a great show man. Vegas has brought out a 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.440 lot of people, not just Kim. Shit were talking about 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.080 Halle Barry, you know what I'm saying. We're talking about Zendia, 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.240 We're talking about you know, Gabrielle Union, who was in 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:46.640 the house last night here in Paris. 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.040 You know what I'm saying. This thing is about good energy. 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:50.400 This thing is about. 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:54.040 Making certain that people celebrate that legacy every night. And 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.160 I'm happy, you know that our friendship allowed her to 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.800 be a part of it and that. 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.120 We do something fun and social. You know. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.520 I don't know if you heard, but you know, Charlemagne 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.280 and I actually going out to Vegas to see your 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.360 show now coming in October, not to Cather, but we're 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.480 going to see it. And we joked on the air 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.480 that says, if you sing to our women, we're gonna 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:14.200 grab the other hand. 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.320 We all singing together, all of. 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.079 Us, all we would come to five heart beats, the 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.040 three heart beats, that's what we're going for. 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.920 Let's go on three one. So I got nothing, but. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.120 You know, brings up a good pointments to steal your girl. 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.160 You're not gonna be able to steal anybody's girl from 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:35.160 the super Bowl stage. 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:36.760 You don't know that because you won't be that close 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:37.200 to the crowd. 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.280 So how do you plan to terrorize people's relationship to 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:40.560 the Super Bowl's. 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.480 I think you gave me the phrase the domestic terrorists. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:44.040 I think you did. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:49.160 Yeah, so who coined the phrase? Oh my god, you 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.160 you're crazy man. 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:52.280 It's gonna be a night. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.600 By the way, my Vegas residency is specifically what it is, 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.480 and my performance at the super Bowl was specific. 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:01.439 Be what it is. 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.320 But I will tell you I'm not missus still your girl. 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.240 You know what I'm saying. That's Trae songs. I'm the 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:08.520 guy who tells you don't leave. 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:09.600 You don't leave your girl around me. 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.040 You should come with your girl. You know what I'm saying. 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.280 There's no guilt. 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:17.520 You don't. 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:17.800 You don't. 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:19.719 You don't feel bad at all when you see like 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.880 the Keky Palmer situations unfold. Like, there's no guilt whatsoever. 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.559 What would the guilty that I actually had a great show. 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.040 It's fun, but like it just casts so well. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.520 You haven't seen my show yet, Okay, No, actually I 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:33.720 did first. 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:37.439 I was there. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:38.920 I think it was the second show you did. Shout 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:39.560 out to your team. 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:40.960 I said it was a different experience. 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.040 I said it was an amazing experience. I tell everybody 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.960 that your show is amazing. I know it's all fun, 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.960 but I'm just saying there's so much that stemmed from that. 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.160 Once it happened with Kiki, I'm like, dang, Like does 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.880 she get like, hey you good call? After like what happens? 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.719 No, I mean not only did we get a good 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.080 good call, we shot a video too in that idea 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:00.840 with good attention. 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:01.720 Yeah, it was it was. 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.040 It was to bring good attention to it, good intention 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.640 and attention. I think that we live in a sensational time. 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.520 We live very two D. You know what I'm saying. 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:11.640 Life is one D, two D, three D, and I 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.880 think we live in a two D space. So the 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:15.000 idea of what. 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.280 This is man was just about fun and just enjoying 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.960 you know, that moment and not missing it because you. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.959 Gotta stop, you gotta stop. They did a whole Boondocks 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.480 episode about you. Okay, don't you know. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.160 They did that way before I was in Vegas, Just so. 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.280 Clear a reputation you've been doing this. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.280 It's a it's a good thing. Though it's good, it's good. 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.160 You don't want to keep huge relationships live. 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:42.760 You know what I'm saying. You gotta do your part. 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.040 You know what I'm saying, do your parts? 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.760 Fro think that's why we grabbing your hand when you 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.960 start singing. When we get out there, I'm too. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.679 Thank you for telling me. I now know exactly who 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:52.360 I'm singing to. 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.080 Now they're gonna come with just then too. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.320 In a circle, Diddy and JD is supposed to do 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:03.520 this versus right now. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.640 You work with Diddy, You work with JD. How do 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.720 you stand on that? And are we ever gonna get 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:08.360 an usher versus? 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:08.680 It is not? 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.520 You know what, I've said this a million times. There's 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:16.360 only like two maybe three people's catalogs you can't do 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.560 nothing with, and Usher is one of them. 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:20.080 Russia got nuclear weapons. 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.560 You brushed by it earlier when you were just like, 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:26.360 oh my musical catalog. Nah, bro, your catalog is different. 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.760 You got nuclear weapons, can't. There's only one person I 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:31.600 think could even stand there with you. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:31.800 Mary J. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:32.200 Blinde. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:36.480 And that's it. That's it, that's it, that's. 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:41.640 It, shopman. I appreciate your votive confidence. Bro, I do Yeah, 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:48.920 I got words. Let me just say and Diddy my brothers, 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:49.720 you know what I'm saying. 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.960 And I think that entire the whole process is about 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:56.120 the celebration of legacy. We got two of men together 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.800 who have contributed something incredible to my life as an artist. 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.160 So I'm celebrating both of them. You know what I'm saying. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.560 I don't have a dog in the fight. I just 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:06.520 know you got two dogs getting ready to fight. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:07.200 That's what I know. 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.160 You know you said you said something. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.680 We introduced you at the iHeart Living Black Thing, yep, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.240 And we introduced you, and you was like, yo, man, 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:18.720 I kind of want y'all to do that over because 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.640 y'all introduced me and said I worked with a lot 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.160 of icons, and you was like, but I am an icon, 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:23.760 And I said. 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:25.720 To myself, Yo, he's right, Yeah, absolutely. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.600 And I remember having a conversation with Dream and me 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.120 and Dream were just talking about how we got to 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:30.920 preserve certain people's legacies. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:33.080 How as an. 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.880 Icon, because you are you're a musical icon, undisputed, how 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.880 do we preserve legacies like yourself while y'all are still active. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:42.800 I don't want to wait until you pass and then 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.360 everybody's celebrating you, Like, how do we do that while 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:46.000 you're still here? 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:49.640 This might come off biasedly, you know what I'm saying, 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.360 But I'm gonna try to do it without thinking of myself. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.640 I think that we have to celebrate. I think there's 0:14:56.640 --> 0:15:00.320 something about you know, R and B artists. It's just 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:06.280 rock artists versus even hip hop artists that is easily disregarded. 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.360 When you think about Chuck Berry, you think about you know, 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.040 Little Richard, you think of our Domino Fast, think about 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.640 Paul Robison. You don't even know these names. Some people 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:21.760 may not even but they pay bay for every bit 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.600 of what we're clebrating in these new means saying rather 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:30.200 entertainment based, because it was James Brown or Bobby Brown 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:35.240 or Michael Jackson. These are the legacy artists that the 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:39.680 architects of what we are lebrating, and you can't forget. 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.280 You have to find very crafty ways to keep them 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:47.440 in the conversation because we so easily disregard it's just 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.960 specifically R and B artist. I don't know if you 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:55.200 noticed that, but country artists don't go that member Hank 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:55.760 Aaron or. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:01.520 I got it all wrong. But William Hank Williams, we 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:06.360 remember Patsy Klein. We remember these significant artists for what 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:07.200 they contributed. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.520 But how easily you could just disregard or Winn and 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:14.960 Fire or either an amazing b artists who really paved 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.000 the way, by the way for all genres of music, 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.120 because before was popping. 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:20.640 R and B was really the leader. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.840 Rhythm and blues was absolutely the dictator for how all 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:29.200 of those arres are set up that might be real sophisticated. 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:32.320 So the short of it is, YO, don't forget. 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.280 People who put the weights and don't want to compare 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.440 oh to new, because the new is only inspired by 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.320 has done before did it? Who did was R and 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.560 B artists who did it? So you preserved it concern 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:49.640 that you don't create comparisons by getting the R and 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:53.280 B artists that paved the way. Then make certain that 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.200 people listen your music is not linear. 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:57.840 It's there's so many different levels. 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.160 I ain't gonna ever woke up this morning so le 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.320 breaking the Angelo bro I wrome up this morning celebrating phillies. 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:06.360 You know what I'm saying, beyond. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:10.520 Worried, like listening to a levels of music and making 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:14.560 certain that our young most what I'm saying girls, they understand. 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.880 So this is where it came from. Like doing this 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:22.000 you know on how it's flipped. It actually explains to 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.640