Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 2: Everybody's the j n V. Charlamagne the God. We are
Speaker 2: the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3: We got Laura La Rosa hanging out with us this morning,
Speaker 3: our special guest co host, and we.
Speaker 2: Got the Icon on the line right now, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4: Ussha, Hey, are you feeling brother man, I'm feeling up
Speaker 4: right now, feeling blessed, Feeling blessed.
Speaker 5: Congratulations super Bowl halftime show. I feel like the culture
Speaker 5: collectively was calling for this.
Speaker 1: Yep. I feel like we've been saying this for months.
Speaker 4: Thank you, man, affirmations do come true, right, Thank you
Speaker 4: guys for wanting it for me. Thanks for each and
Speaker 4: every person that prayed. You know what I'm saying, and
Speaker 4: so too, you know, just talked about it. Maybe it
Speaker 4: was just putting it in the air that you know,
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl would decide to come to Vegas because
Speaker 4: I was there.
Speaker 6: I'm sure.
Speaker 4: For real, man, I have you know, have heard, you know,
Speaker 4: the conversations and the idea that you know I would
Speaker 4: be able to play the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6: So now it's the reality.
Speaker 4: Crazy jay Z calls me at what six o'clock in
Speaker 4: the morning, I'm barely just waking up, just the first
Speaker 4: news I get of the day. He's like, Yo, this
Speaker 4: is your Michael moment, this is your magic moment.
Speaker 6: I'm like, are you serious? He's like yeah. So I
Speaker 6: look over at Jim. I'm like, yo, it's Jay's telling
Speaker 6: me I got it no way. And in the background
Speaker 6: you hear way it was. It was so gangster. You
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, How.
Speaker 5: Long have you known this is going to happen? Because
Speaker 5: you said so? Ja just called you or you knew
Speaker 5: this is in the air.
Speaker 6: J call. When I first got the news, I was
Speaker 6: in Atlanta.
Speaker 4: Yo, the craziest part man, trying to oldest you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, and not tell my kids.
Speaker 6: Who were also too on me, like Dad, you should
Speaker 6: play the super Bowl. I'm telling you who I need
Speaker 6: to call? You know what I mean? They online asking
Speaker 6: or talking to you. I'm like, hey, man, just maybe
Speaker 6: pray about it.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like if you put it,
Speaker 4: put it in the eighth you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: Maybe to come back. I'm knowing, but I can't tell them,
Speaker 4: you know. So it was about a week and I
Speaker 4: have of just holding that secret. It felt like I
Speaker 4: felt like, you know, like I was having a conversation
Speaker 4: in the war room and you can't tell the rest
Speaker 4: of the world what's.
Speaker 2: Going on now. That was on your bucket list, you said.
Speaker 6: It has always been on my bucket list.
Speaker 5: Yeah, since Michael, I bet you, since you saw Michael
Speaker 5: Jackson do it back in the day.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, He's the one who, Yo, by the way, Michael
Speaker 4: wa has you know, paved the way for all of us,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: To be able to see what he did with this moment.
Speaker 4: Starts it and then to understand what Prince did with
Speaker 4: this moment ignites it.
Speaker 6: To notice. So many legendary artists.
Speaker 4: Have been in that position, from you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: you Two, Coldplay, you know, Beyonce Brunoma. So many incredible
Speaker 4: artists have been able to service that moment, you know.
Speaker 4: And I really do feel like I'm built for this.
Speaker 4: I feel like the music catalog that I've been able
Speaker 4: to build obviously speaks to it. But the entertainer that
Speaker 4: I am for that moment, and the fact that I'm
Speaker 4: in my new home, you know what I'm saying, like
Speaker 4: not my Vegas residency, but also two Lovers and Friends festival,
Speaker 4: and it's like, why not having a crescendo?
Speaker 6: I think it was. It was perfectly time. I'm a
Speaker 6: praying man, you know, I mean, and I actually I
Speaker 6: put this up in the air.
Speaker 4: I prayed about it, and if it was intended to happen,
Speaker 4: then it would.
Speaker 6: Find its way to me. And it did.
Speaker 4: And I'm not going to disappoint I'll.
Speaker 6: Tell you that much.
Speaker 7: Did you go to Vegas starting with Lovers and Friends
Speaker 7: and then going into the residency saying like, Okay, if
Speaker 7: we do all this now that it's here, the super
Speaker 7: Bowl is going to be next? Like was that like
Speaker 7: a like you kind of you put that out there
Speaker 7: knowing that this would come concept type of thing. Not
Speaker 7: that you needed it, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no affirmations like literally deciding that.
Speaker 4: I was going to move in a certain way to
Speaker 4: take like some sense of ownership of a space. You know,
Speaker 4: I feel like in the past being able to do
Speaker 4: that in Atlanta, Like, yeah, I'm originally from Chattan, New
Speaker 4: lu Tennessee, but I was raised in Atlanta. Atlanta raised
Speaker 4: the artist that I am Atlanta raised, the man that
Speaker 4: I am Atlanta raised, the person and the creative that
Speaker 4: I am, and.
Speaker 6: I was able to do that in Las Vegas.
Speaker 4: So I started with a residency, opening a show when
Speaker 4: we were just coming out of the pandemic, the first
Speaker 4: show to open in the world, not just the United
Speaker 4: States of America, but Yo, we were coming out of
Speaker 4: a pandemic and people were afraid.
Speaker 6: YO.
Speaker 4: Bringing that energy back in that started it, and then
Speaker 4: staying in Las Vegas a long long enough for them
Speaker 4: to decide, Okay, We're going to have the Super Bowl
Speaker 4: in Las Vegas. So I'm like, I'm staying here.
Speaker 6: I brought my festival, you know, Lovers and Ferns to Vegas.
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm staying here. I'm gonna put my
Speaker 4: flag down here. This is my new space, this is
Speaker 4: my home. I feel like I get to do all
Speaker 4: of the things that I've always wanted to do and
Speaker 4: progress and just be creative. And since then, there's just
Speaker 4: been more and more things that have just really work
Speaker 4: to my benefit.
Speaker 6: But again, I'm a praying man, and.
Speaker 4: I appreciate the fact that God has allowed this to happen.
Speaker 4: I appreciate each and every person that I know said
Speaker 4: a prayer for me. I can tell you my grandmother
Speaker 4: before she passed, she said a prayer. And this is
Speaker 4: a very strong praying woman. So I know that my grandmother,
Speaker 4: she's in heaven.
Speaker 6: She gonna have the best seat in the house, being
Speaker 6: able to look down and see this happen.
Speaker 4: My nanny gonna they're gonna be up there, My Grandpapa's
Speaker 4: gonna be up there looking at this and join it.
Speaker 6: They got the best seats in the house.
Speaker 3: Now you got the difficult task. Now, because now this's
Speaker 3: the difficult task. You got two things. Now, you got
Speaker 3: to bring Atlanta to the super Bowl. So do you
Speaker 3: bring roller skates? Do you bring strip club? Do you
Speaker 3: bring cars? And then you got so many records into
Speaker 3: thirteen minutes?
Speaker 7: Are you bringing the stripper from the Vegas the one
Speaker 7: that comes down in like claps and I don't know
Speaker 7: her name the show?
Speaker 1: Are you bringing her a s I might walk for.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you something. You know what I do
Speaker 4: in Vegas, So listen. It ain't nothing with the lights, baby,
Speaker 4: And that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna bring the lights.
Speaker 4: We're gonna bring the lights out. I can't give you
Speaker 4: too much. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 6: The ideas that are swarming.
Speaker 4: You know, you obviously know all the people that I
Speaker 4: work with in my life and my career musically, you
Speaker 4: know the people that I respect and have collaborated with.
Speaker 6: I'm thinking of all of that.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking of making certain that the world understands the
Speaker 4: legacy that is my career, not just the moment, but
Speaker 4: the legacy, the connection, the ideas, and the nuance.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. If it is a little
Speaker 6: bit of what Atlanta is.
Speaker 4: If it's a lot of bit of what my life
Speaker 4: has been in terms of my experience, but I'm playing
Speaker 4: the hits and I'm gonna definitely bring something that's gonna
Speaker 4: leave you.
Speaker 6: It's gonna leave you shocked.
Speaker 4: You're gonna remember this moment, remember for the positivity.
Speaker 6: You're gonna remember this moment for the idea and the history.
Speaker 4: You're gonna remember this moment for all of the people
Speaker 4: that I feel like I stand on the shoulders off.
Speaker 4: You're gonna remember this moment for the fact that it
Speaker 4: inspired me to see them have their moment and now
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have mine.
Speaker 5: Tell us, tell us the meaning of the commercial lecture
Speaker 5: and why it was important for you to tap into
Speaker 5: your younger self like that.
Speaker 6: Younger, Yeah, what what you're talking about? Man, I'm still here.
Speaker 5: You definitely not you definitely not agent. But that was
Speaker 5: that was that was the younger version of us.
Speaker 4: Now you'll have to so by the way, you know,
Speaker 4: we went around and around about how we would approach it.
Speaker 4: Another really great benefit is the twentieth anniversary and celebration
Speaker 4: of Confessions, So it would be a great opportunity to
Speaker 4: take a little bit of something that people would instantly
Speaker 4: identify with and play with it.
Speaker 6: And I felt like.
Speaker 4: The social engagement because it really, it really was fun
Speaker 4: after something that I saw my.
Speaker 6: Fans engage using, you know, using it for me, and.
Speaker 4: I'm like, Yo, this is something that I think is
Speaker 4: going to activate the world, and also to it to
Speaker 4: continue to engage them because I want other people to
Speaker 4: do it as well, you know, I want other people
Speaker 4: to do their own versions of that conversation.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying why Dionne and Kim.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think that you know, the dynamic of
Speaker 6: who I am and what I have offered is span wide.
Speaker 4: I think that you know Dione and what he represents
Speaker 4: as a story that has continuously continued to dig himself
Speaker 4: from where.
Speaker 6: He is being.
Speaker 4: Rather it was health, or rather it was life, or
Speaker 4: rather it was the pivot of being an amazing athlete.
Speaker 6: And then becoming a coach.
Speaker 4: I felt like there was a story there to be
Speaker 4: told and I wanted to support that, and I wanted
Speaker 4: him to do it. I had to ask if he
Speaker 4: would do it, and he volunteered and say, yeah, I
Speaker 4: would love to be a part of that.
Speaker 6: I felt like it was for the culture in that way.
Speaker 4: Kim Kim is a good friend, and I felt like
Speaker 4: it would definitely be fun. Marshawn Lynch was just once
Speaker 4: again another fun moment for the culture, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. And O'dale Beckham, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: It was just a matter of just continuing to keep
Speaker 4: the right energy and all the right people. There were
Speaker 4: a ton of things that I've talked about and a
Speaker 4: ton of things that are gonna happen any given Sunday
Speaker 4: that leads up to the actual big Sunday performance.
Speaker 6: So it ain't done. You're gonna see more. I actually,
Speaker 6: you know, pre ordered and put on pre order my album.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of a lot of levels to
Speaker 4: what I'm doing with this entire moment.
Speaker 6: Between now and February.
Speaker 7: Eleventh, right now, there were the dating rumors with you
Speaker 7: and Kim Kardashian because she came to the show so
Speaker 7: many times, and people were like, what the heck is
Speaker 7: going on? You weren't afraid to lean into that. You know,
Speaker 7: I got it, I mean because when I saw it,
Speaker 7: I said, oh, this is smart, Like I thought you
Speaker 7: were playing into that whole. Like people were like, how
Speaker 7: did this friendship even come about? Why does she keep
Speaker 7: going to the show.
Speaker 4: Well, if you listen to it, basically she told you
Speaker 4: I've seen the show two times and that's why she
Speaker 4: could give the news because she actually knows. But nah,
Speaker 4: it's a great show man. Vegas has brought out a
Speaker 4: lot of people, not just Kim. Shit were talking about
Speaker 4: Halle Barry, you know what I'm saying. We're talking about Zendia,
Speaker 4: We're talking about you know, Gabrielle Union, who was in
Speaker 4: the house last night here in Paris.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. This thing is about good energy.
Speaker 6: This thing is about.
Speaker 4: Making certain that people celebrate that legacy every night. And
Speaker 4: I'm happy, you know that our friendship allowed her to
Speaker 4: be a part of it and that.
Speaker 6: We do something fun and social. You know.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you heard, but you know, Charlemagne
Speaker 3: and I actually going out to Vegas to see your
Speaker 3: show now coming in October, not to Cather, but we're
Speaker 3: going to see it. And we joked on the air
Speaker 3: that says, if you sing to our women, we're gonna
Speaker 3: grab the other hand.
Speaker 2: We all singing together, all of.
Speaker 4: Us, all we would come to five heart beats, the
Speaker 4: three heart beats, that's what we're going for.
Speaker 6: Let's go on three one. So I got nothing, but.
Speaker 5: You know, brings up a good pointments to steal your girl.
Speaker 5: You're not gonna be able to steal anybody's girl from
Speaker 5: the super Bowl stage.
Speaker 1: You don't know that because you won't be that close
Speaker 1: to the crowd.
Speaker 5: So how do you plan to terrorize people's relationship to
Speaker 5: the Super Bowl's.
Speaker 6: I think you gave me the phrase the domestic terrorists.
Speaker 6: I think you did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so who coined the phrase? Oh my god, you
Speaker 4: you're crazy man.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be a night.
Speaker 4: By the way, my Vegas residency is specifically what it is,
Speaker 4: and my performance at the super Bowl was specific.
Speaker 2: Be what it is.
Speaker 6: But I will tell you I'm not missus still your girl.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. That's Trae songs. I'm the
Speaker 4: guy who tells you don't leave.
Speaker 1: You don't leave your girl around me.
Speaker 6: You should come with your girl. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: There's no guilt.
Speaker 5: You don't.
Speaker 1: You don't.
Speaker 7: You don't feel bad at all when you see like
Speaker 7: the Keky Palmer situations unfold. Like, there's no guilt whatsoever.
Speaker 6: What would the guilty that I actually had a great show.
Speaker 1: It's fun, but like it just casts so well.
Speaker 6: You haven't seen my show yet, Okay, No, actually I
Speaker 6: did first.
Speaker 2: I was there.
Speaker 7: I think it was the second show you did. Shout
Speaker 7: out to your team.
Speaker 6: I said it was a different experience.
Speaker 7: I said it was an amazing experience. I tell everybody
Speaker 7: that your show is amazing. I know it's all fun,
Speaker 7: but I'm just saying there's so much that stemmed from that.
Speaker 7: Once it happened with Kiki, I'm like, dang, Like does
Speaker 7: she get like, hey you good call? After like what happens?
Speaker 4: No, I mean not only did we get a good
Speaker 4: good call, we shot a video too in that idea
Speaker 4: with good attention.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was it was.
Speaker 4: It was to bring good attention to it, good intention
Speaker 4: and attention. I think that we live in a sensational time.
Speaker 4: We live very two D. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Life is one D, two D, three D, and I
Speaker 6: think we live in a two D space. So the
Speaker 6: idea of what.
Speaker 4: This is man was just about fun and just enjoying
Speaker 4: you know, that moment and not missing it because you.
Speaker 5: Gotta stop, you gotta stop. They did a whole Boondocks
Speaker 5: episode about you. Okay, don't you know.
Speaker 6: They did that way before I was in Vegas, Just so.
Speaker 1: Clear a reputation you've been doing this.
Speaker 4: It's a it's a good thing. Though it's good, it's good.
Speaker 4: You don't want to keep huge relationships live.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. You gotta do your part.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, do your parts?
Speaker 3: Fro think that's why we grabbing your hand when you
Speaker 3: start singing. When we get out there, I'm too.
Speaker 6: Thank you for telling me. I now know exactly who
Speaker 6: I'm singing to.
Speaker 7: Now they're gonna come with just then too.
Speaker 3: In a circle, Diddy and JD is supposed to do
Speaker 3: this versus right now.
Speaker 2: You work with Diddy, You work with JD. How do
Speaker 2: you stand on that? And are we ever gonna get
Speaker 2: an usher versus?
Speaker 6: It is not?
Speaker 5: You know what, I've said this a million times. There's
Speaker 5: only like two maybe three people's catalogs you can't do
Speaker 5: nothing with, and Usher is one of them.
Speaker 1: Russia got nuclear weapons.
Speaker 5: You brushed by it earlier when you were just like,
Speaker 5: oh my musical catalog. Nah, bro, your catalog is different.
Speaker 5: You got nuclear weapons, can't. There's only one person I
Speaker 5: think could even stand there with you.
Speaker 1: Mary J.
Speaker 2: Blinde.
Speaker 1: And that's it. That's it, that's it, that's.
Speaker 6: It, shopman. I appreciate your votive confidence. Bro, I do Yeah,
Speaker 6: I got words. Let me just say and Diddy my brothers,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And I think that entire the whole process is about
Speaker 4: the celebration of legacy. We got two of men together
Speaker 4: who have contributed something incredible to my life as an artist.
Speaker 4: So I'm celebrating both of them. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I don't have a dog in the fight. I just
Speaker 4: know you got two dogs getting ready to fight.
Speaker 6: That's what I know.
Speaker 1: You know you said you said something.
Speaker 5: We introduced you at the iHeart Living Black Thing, yep,
Speaker 5: And we introduced you, and you was like, yo, man,
Speaker 5: I kind of want y'all to do that over because
Speaker 5: y'all introduced me and said I worked with a lot
Speaker 5: of icons, and you was like, but I am an icon,
Speaker 5: And I said.
Speaker 1: To myself, Yo, he's right, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 5: And I remember having a conversation with Dream and me
Speaker 5: and Dream were just talking about how we got to
Speaker 5: preserve certain people's legacies.
Speaker 1: How as an.
Speaker 5: Icon, because you are you're a musical icon, undisputed, how
Speaker 5: do we preserve legacies like yourself while y'all are still active.
Speaker 5: I don't want to wait until you pass and then
Speaker 5: everybody's celebrating you, Like, how do we do that while
Speaker 5: you're still here?
Speaker 4: This might come off biasedly, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: But I'm gonna try to do it without thinking of myself.
Speaker 4: I think that we have to celebrate. I think there's
Speaker 4: something about you know, R and B artists. It's just
Speaker 4: rock artists versus even hip hop artists that is easily disregarded.
Speaker 4: When you think about Chuck Berry, you think about you know,
Speaker 4: Little Richard, you think of our Domino Fast, think about
Speaker 4: Paul Robison. You don't even know these names. Some people
Speaker 4: may not even but they pay bay for every bit
Speaker 4: of what we're clebrating in these new means saying rather
Speaker 4: entertainment based, because it was James Brown or Bobby Brown
Speaker 4: or Michael Jackson. These are the legacy artists that the
Speaker 4: architects of what we are lebrating, and you can't forget.
Speaker 4: You have to find very crafty ways to keep them
Speaker 4: in the conversation because we so easily disregard it's just
Speaker 4: specifically R and B artist. I don't know if you
Speaker 4: noticed that, but country artists don't go that member Hank
Speaker 4: Aaron or.
Speaker 6: I got it all wrong. But William Hank Williams, we
Speaker 6: remember Patsy Klein. We remember these significant artists for what
Speaker 6: they contributed.
Speaker 4: But how easily you could just disregard or Winn and
Speaker 4: Fire or either an amazing b artists who really paved
Speaker 4: the way, by the way for all genres of music,
Speaker 4: because before was popping.
Speaker 6: R and B was really the leader.
Speaker 4: Rhythm and blues was absolutely the dictator for how all
Speaker 4: of those arres are set up that might be real sophisticated.
Speaker 6: So the short of it is, YO, don't forget.
Speaker 4: People who put the weights and don't want to compare
Speaker 4: oh to new, because the new is only inspired by
Speaker 4: has done before did it? Who did was R and
Speaker 4: B artists who did it? So you preserved it concern
Speaker 4: that you don't create comparisons by getting the R and
Speaker 4: B artists that paved the way. Then make certain that
Speaker 4: people listen your music is not linear.
Speaker 6: It's there's so many different levels.
Speaker 4: I ain't gonna ever woke up this morning so le
Speaker 4: breaking the Angelo bro I wrome up this morning celebrating phillies.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, beyond.
Speaker 4: Worried, like listening to a levels of music and making
Speaker 4: certain that our young most what I'm saying girls, they understand.
Speaker 4: So this is where it came from. Like doing this
Speaker 4: you know on how it's flipped. It actually explains to
Speaker 4: where the song came from. And the TikTok the other
Speaker 4: day due to the.
Speaker 6: Carl girl and she lived to what is the song and.
Speaker 4: He getting ready for you know the original that right
Speaker 4: here is the reality of where we live. And if
Speaker 4: we don't have that dialogue with the kids to help
Speaker 4: them understand, like, yo, ain't no comparison, the people who
Speaker 4: pay pay is that is what it is. You're walking
Speaker 4: in the shadows and the steps of the people who
Speaker 4: paved the way. So don't don't get to that place
Speaker 4: where you can easily disart this art because they might
Speaker 4: not necessarily be as relevant.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: By the way, we don't sell records no more bread,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Like check yours. You know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Look at what they were who sold
Speaker 4: records like Michael.
Speaker 1: Jackson, nobody, nobody stream shit.
Speaker 4: That's cool, But who stole records? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And and being able to sell physical copies like that,
Speaker 4: especially in this genre, it don't happen.
Speaker 1: Who's a record like Confessions?
Speaker 5: Hey, that's a diamond album.
Speaker 1: Who's saw a record black professionals?
Speaker 6: Now? But I'm not here to pop my call. I'm
Speaker 6: just talking about for real, legacy needs to be preserved.
Speaker 4: Everybody, by the way, in R and B is always
Speaker 4: trying to, you know, really figure out who's the king.
Speaker 4: But I focused my my focus is really on a kingdom,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, and making certain that we
Speaker 4: remember R and B artists the same way that hip
Speaker 4: hop is remembered and hip hop is preserved, not just
Speaker 4: because of the songs that were created but also to
Speaker 4: the fashion.
Speaker 6: Look at what a Mary is doing. Just you know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: With with hip hop, you see most death and taylib quality.
Speaker 6: You're like, yo, who that if you were a kid, Yo,
Speaker 6: they're giving you culture.
Speaker 4: They speaking through the clothes, Kanye and them, Sean Puffy
Speaker 4: Khan creating you know that culture fat form, which is
Speaker 4: you know Russell Simmons. It became something more than just
Speaker 4: the music. It became a culture. Fuck being a king,
Speaker 4: I want a kingdom, you know what I'm saying. It's
Speaker 4: time for us to be able to lift.
Speaker 6: That R and B movement up just as much.
Speaker 4: That's why you come to Vegas and that sophistication is
Speaker 4: out there, That skate is there, that entertainment is there
Speaker 4: because that's R and B, and you don't get that
Speaker 4: every day. That ain't gonna be something that everybody gets,
Speaker 4: but it creates a conversation that I think is odd.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying When I hear that comparison,
Speaker 4: it's funny, especially for people who.
Speaker 6: Have done things that nobody else has done.
Speaker 4: But it's also to misinform me because the new kids,
Speaker 4: they actually think, oh yeah, if I.
Speaker 6: Have this amount of streams or this amount.
Speaker 4: Of like looks and likes love that that was a
Speaker 4: part of building that legacy.
Speaker 6: Don't matter. Them likes and that love. It don't equate,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So that's why I don't like it. And it's no
Speaker 5: disrespect that these guys are great. You can't compare a
Speaker 5: Weekend to a Michael Jackson, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: You can't compare Chris Brown to an Usher.
Speaker 1: They're great. Don't get me wrong. Those guys are great.
Speaker 5: They do what they do with y'all just came up
Speaker 5: in a whole different era. People had to actually go
Speaker 5: to the record store, but they buy albums.
Speaker 7: The craftsman shit. Like when I came to your show
Speaker 7: in Vegas and I've seen you before this, but I
Speaker 7: remember when I left the show, I was just thinking,
Speaker 7: like I don't know if I've ever been to a
Speaker 7: show of any artists in my time right now that
Speaker 7: I left feeling the way that I did, like the
Speaker 7: detail that you take with like the performance, the song,
Speaker 7: the serenading the crowd, like even before that went viral,
Speaker 7: Like I was just like, I don't know if people,
Speaker 7: if artists do like my artists that I know are
Speaker 7: our R and B artists take that time like it
Speaker 7: made you feel good. That's a different type of feeling
Speaker 7: and that matters.
Speaker 4: Well, thank god that me and La Red just decided
Speaker 4: to start a label. Mega is gonna make some new ones.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: You look at what he and Baby Face did with
Speaker 4: the Face Records, and obviously what you know he and
Speaker 4: I even did with artists like Justin Justin Bieber. So
Speaker 4: it's like, all right, we coming together and that artist development.
Speaker 4: It does matter to be able to understand and make
Speaker 4: certain that people remember that entertainment matters.
Speaker 6: It's always been the most important part of who I am.
Speaker 4: But I think that, you know, there is a way
Speaker 4: to bridge the gap because I ain't gonna discredit the
Speaker 4: artists who are you killing it?
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, because they have a following.
Speaker 4: But we just do things in a different time and
Speaker 4: it doesn't it's not fair to discredit those amazing artists
Speaker 4: Philip Bailey, those amazing singers, you know, amazing jazz and
Speaker 4: all of these different levels of music. It might seem
Speaker 4: odd to slow down and listen to these songs, but
Speaker 4: it's really up to y'all as the curators to get
Speaker 4: them to pay attention to it.
Speaker 6: Maybe you come up with the factor of the day.
Speaker 4: Maybe y'all start saying, yo, call in callers and tell
Speaker 4: me what this sample is. And then before you know it,
Speaker 4: people are being informed. You create new connection to preserve
Speaker 4: our legacies, not mine, but the legacy of the things
Speaker 4: that have assisted us.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Babies were born to these songs, me story moments that
Speaker 4: we've had, to these records. You know how many amazing
Speaker 4: things that track our lives in these songs.
Speaker 6: How easily we can just throw them away and move
Speaker 6: to the next chapter.
Speaker 4: Na, man, you gotta you gotta keep it in, keep
Speaker 4: it inform your audience.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm.
Speaker 4: Saying, sensationalize it.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. We got to have a
Speaker 6: little bit of thirst trap there.
Speaker 4: But I'm just saying, for real, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: Let's let's let's let's let's be real here.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I agree with everything you're saying. And that's why, you know,
Speaker 5: we got to be intentional to about celebrating. I think
Speaker 5: a lot of times, especially as men, you're like, oh man,
Speaker 5: you dick riding. It's easy to make jokes, it's easy
Speaker 5: to even critique something when you don't like it, but
Speaker 5: it's it's for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: It's hard to be like, nah, that's that dude, right there?
Speaker 4: An intimate intimate conversations are intended for intimate spaces where
Speaker 4: you have a broadcasting space.
Speaker 6: What you say becomes the law.
Speaker 4: Right, There's many conversations of debate of who's the illis
Speaker 4: MC or the best rapper or the best dancer and
Speaker 4: the barbershop or even in the private confines of your house,
Speaker 4: but not everybody understands how to process that, and it
Speaker 4: just then instigates conversation and things that are not really
Speaker 4: about preserving real work and real artistry.
Speaker 3: Man, now we're talking to us. He's over in Paris
Speaker 3: doing his residency in Paris. I was gonna ask, so,
Speaker 3: this is your first album where it's almost you're not
Speaker 3: on a major label, it's almost like you're part of it.
Speaker 3: This is like almost you're independent where you're putting everything
Speaker 3: behind this one.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, Gamma, Larry Jackson's effort, you know, it far
Speaker 4: exceeds just me. There's many other artists that are going
Speaker 4: to come but me in La We started a label
Speaker 4: under Gamma called Mega and it's the beginning of, you know,
Speaker 4: the continuation of our legacy, the beginning of the continuation
Speaker 4: of our legacy.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: And it's called Coming Home the next album. Why coming Home?
Speaker 6: Why the name coming Home?
Speaker 4: I mean, there's ultimately been several things that make me
Speaker 4: feel like I'm coming home, not even a place, but
Speaker 4: just a feeling, me reconnecting with La me coming home
Speaker 4: into a space of comfort. Rather it's Las Vegas, or
Speaker 4: rather it's just the home that is Atlanta and the.
Speaker 6: Home that I'm building there.
Speaker 4: The coming home of becoming a better man, a better
Speaker 4: man to my woman, a better man to my family,
Speaker 4: a better man to you know, the world, and the
Speaker 4: story that I choose to tell that don't make me perfect.
Speaker 4: And I'm not getting ready to you know, you know,
Speaker 4: just change the narrative. I'm going to be honest about
Speaker 4: some of the things that I've gone through to create
Speaker 4: these songs, which I always have kept it honest in
Speaker 4: my music, rather you understood it or not. But coming home,
Speaker 4: even to the culture of where I come from, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean. I don't know if you saw me,
Speaker 4: if you go to my ig. You'll see me, you know,
Speaker 4: doing festival things over in Ghana.
Speaker 6: When I spent time in Ghana and I.
Speaker 4: Went to the original spaces where slaves were brought.
Speaker 6: In off the ships.
Speaker 4: Something about that made me reignite coming home to our
Speaker 4: original home, the motherland, And all of those things started
Speaker 4: to sneak their way into my music. Or rather it
Speaker 4: was the algorithms of the song, or the rhythm and
Speaker 4: beat of what was going on with you know, I'm
Speaker 4: a piano and and afro beats. All of those things
Speaker 4: begin to instigate my creativity. So I'm coming home in
Speaker 4: all of those ways.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, ladies and gentlemen, Usher, we.
Speaker 5: Look forward to see icon, the icon known as Usher.
Speaker 5: That's right, okay, who should always be celebrated.
Speaker 1: That's right, all right.
Speaker 5: And it's a beautiful thing to see you at your
Speaker 5: Las Vegas residency.
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be a beautiful thing to see you
Speaker 1: at the.
Speaker 5: Super Bowl halftime show, reminding people why you are indeed,
Speaker 5: Usher ring.
Speaker 7: I can't wait to see the skates at the super Bowl.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be dope. I just want to tell charloaee
Speaker 3: one thing. The Cowboys are not gonna be in the
Speaker 3: super Bowl. So I just want to just clear that
Speaker 3: right now, Just clear that right now.
Speaker 1: Well I don't know if they are now, but Usher
Speaker 1: will be that.
Speaker 2: She will be. Ladies and gentlemen, I know Usher will
Speaker 2: be there. That's right. We appreciate you for joining us.
Speaker 1: Thank you, my brother.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, I'm so happy that I was able to give
Speaker 6: y'all this news.
Speaker 4: First, I want you to know I selected y'all because
Speaker 4: I fuck with y'all.
Speaker 6: Okay, just know that we appreciate your, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 6: love back to you.
Speaker 2: Sure it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Wake that ass
Speaker 2: up in the morning.
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club.
Speaker 6: Mhm.