WEBVTT - Elijah Blake 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:05.000 R and B Money. 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:06.080 We are. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:13.960 Thanks, take about the child. We are the authority on 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:19.239 all things R and B. Ladies and gentlemen. My name 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.000 is Tank, Get down time. This is the R and 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:24.520 B Money Podcast. How am I talking about the authority? 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:25.680 Yeah? 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:30.479 On all things who R and B and talent? Man, 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.919 I'm talking about talent. Tell him tell them what else 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:38.960 was gonna say? A song? Right? Song writing? Sanging? Sanging? Yeah, yeah, 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.000 yeah yeah? Is your dress twisted? Right? Is your dress 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:47.360 tis right? What about your pontalonis yeah? 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:49.600 Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got you got to let the 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.560 joints on, you know what I mean, some of the prens. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:59.240 Joints sell velvet be What is this. 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:06.200 Man out here with my bros? 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:11.720 Man? Man, listen, we we we had a brief you know, 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.720 I had a brief moment for b E T. And 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:16.679 we thank you for you know, stopping by and just 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:18.160 giving us a little bit of your time. You know. 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.040 He was on the move, shaking hands and kissing babies 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.880 and an honor man placing new records. You know what 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.280 I'm saying. We saw you moving around. People wanted to 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:27.320 talk to you. Man. 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:28.319 I saw y'all. 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:32.080 It came running over bro, like y'all are my favorite, 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.679 like this and maybe like two other ones I don't 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.360 I always was amazed when people watch podcasts. 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:40.000 I'm like, y'all could just sit there because I got ADHD. 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.440 And but don't have eighty HDAR. There's no such thing 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:50.640 as ADHD diagnosed. How you gonna tell him? There is 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:58.080 no such thing ASHD? He got c D the making 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:06.480 up ship medicine. Don't take it. You may have focus issues, 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:11.920 for sure, but that can be fixed if you want 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:22.080 it fixed, fix it right now. But listen. If you 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:26.640 are okay within your operating system, if it is working 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.600 for you, then there's no need to change. It is 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:30.240 working for me. 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.959 And this podcast it may be like one other one 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.240 I could sit through. And so when I saw y'all, 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.360 I came running over. It was like, oh, this's a lie. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.200 I almost knocked Josh Levi over, is it? 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:40.959 LEVI love. 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:46.200 Knocked him over to get to y'all. 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:55.960 Not intentionally, you know, But it's a war room in 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:57.600 that thing, you know what. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.399 We I don't even think we were be even paying 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.919 a idea to what was going on. We had no idea. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.400 We were just was lou Louba was there and they 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.560 was just and they were just coordinating it. And so 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:09.960 we were just sitting there and people would just come 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.280 in and we just you know, do the do the thing. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.840 And then afterwards he was like, do you know, do 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:17.680 you have any interviewers today? I was like, Hey, we'd 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.600 about about what fifteen about ten fifties? Are you kidding me? 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:22.359 Maybe they were like twenty. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.120 Eight something crazy and it was there were people which 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.960 we found out later couldn't yah, yeah, that couldn't give 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.799 to us. And we had no idea because we kind 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.680 of That's the other thing too, we didn't really look up. 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.640 We just kind of just stayed locked in. 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:37.680 We didn't really walk around much, so we didn't really 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.560 know what was going on as far as the media 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.720 house thing went. And that was our first time doing it, 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:43.920 so we're just thinking, oh, they just have stuff set 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:44.400 up for us. 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:48.280 We didn't know that there was like lines for me. Yeah, 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.800 because one of the one of the around the whole thing, one. 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.600 Of the ladies from from BT came up to me 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.200 at the at the basketball the next basketball game the 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:55.600 next day. 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.160 She was like, do you realize. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:02.800 That people were waiting for you guys to uh to 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:03.320 interview them? 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:05.440 I was like hell no. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.080 I was like, it was like, you know, there's a 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.080 bunch of with all due respect, it was a lot 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.400 of really really dope platforms that were there. 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:14.680 I was like no. She was like no. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.360 People were like, okay, yeah, we'll get to them, but 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.719 we're gonna stay here and are they almost done so 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.799 you know we can do our R and B money, 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.480 And I was like, that's authority. 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:26.440 For And it was was irritating. Was it was rappers 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:26.880 in line. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:31.400 Yeah, I can't go on to Joe but. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.000 To Joe, but you can Joe loves. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.880 Actually, somebody came up to me after I got done 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:42.200 with y'all. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.200 He was like, Hey, your name is on the whiteboard 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:44.840 for Joe, but. 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.599 You absolutely Joe. 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.080 I'll be feeling the way because R and B. I 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.040 just feel like we get the short end of the stick. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:53.320 Bro. 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:55.320 They sample us for hip hop. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.960 Okay, they mimic us for pop, very true, but then 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.120 they put us down here. But we don't get the opportunities. 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.520 They get all the benefits without the responsibility that we have. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:07.080 We got to go to church, we learn how to 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.760 sing in church, We care about chors, we learn about progressions, 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.839 we're doing harmonies and everything, and they get to do 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.920 it bare minimum and get the like. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.360 You were saying, when you have fifteen hundred dollars in 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:16.919 your account. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:18.720 They get the lives, they get the cars, they get 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:20.280 to take care of their families are certain time, they 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.280 get the accolades, and they celebrate us in the shadows, 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:25.760 and that bothers me a lot. 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:27.960 I think for us, and this is my opinion. I 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:33.880 think for us, it's more so about. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:34.159 I feel like R and B. 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.480 And I've said this before, we have jazz moments, we 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:40.560 have this. You know, a lot of people in R 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:44.920 and B that are really good at it have this elitist, 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.440 you know, vibe about R and B. And they don't 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:53.200 make it as digestible to the world, and they're not 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:57.400 willing sometimes to do all of the things. You know, 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.960 as far as making a certain type of record, doing 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.880 certain type of collaborations, you know what I mean, performing 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:06.640 at you know, different places that will open up, you 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:10.520 know what I mean. As far as how I said, 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:16.080 as far as them being embraced on a major scale, 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.479 you know what I mean. Because the other part is, 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.560 for a long time there hasn't been a great return 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.200 for R and B. Right because it was really expensive 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.880 to make at one point, and then the return on 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:32.640 it wasn't crazy. So a lot of the machines that 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:36.359 make the rap music, that make the pop music were like, 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.200 I don't know how much. So we had a lot 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.200 of know how much since it makes So we had 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:43.800 a lot of R and B artists that were just 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.200 kind of falling to the backside and instead of pushing 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.560 forward and pushing harder, niggas kind of just kind of 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:54.599 like fell into their space, right And I feel like 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.880 Tank is a testament to all of that, because he 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.600 was receiving a lot of the things that a lot 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.080 of R and B artists get, like, oh, yeah, he's cool, 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.479 you know the quote unquote underrated thing. He's really talented. 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:12.559 But but but and then me and him had time, 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.440 I mean multiple meetings about like, Okay, how do we 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:17.280 how do we figure this thing out? 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.640 I saw when the shift happened, you know what I mean. 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.560 But there has to be a shift. Yeah, there has 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:26.000 to be a shift. You have to put yourself on 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:31.120 different platforms. You have to you gotta go do corporate events, 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.560 you know what I mean. You can't sometimes you gotta 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.520 take less. You might be a guy that charges fifty 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.600 one hundred thousand show. But there may be some things 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.680 that you tried at some you know for you know 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.000 that would be greater later for you. Oh, I'm gonna 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.480 take fifteen to night. But there are a lot of 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.560 people that's like, ah my fee and I got But hey, 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.720 that room that you're gonna perform in now has sponsors, 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.280 has brand partnerships. Now you're looking at it from a 0:07:58.320 --> 0:07:59.880 different thing. And I feel like in R and B, 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.640 guys get so caught up guys, And. 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.800 I actually just say, guys, because the girls, well, the 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.160 girls are able to live free. They get into it. 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:09.520 Where can they live free? 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:14.240 Because it's okay to be emotional as a woman still, 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:18.760 and women share that, like they share that emotion universally, 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:20.800 like dudes don't really share a whole lot with dudes 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:23.560 like they're cool, Like they don't really they don't really 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:27.800 embrace it or unless it's true gangster shit, then they'll 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.440 be like, Okay, I'm fucking with it. But women have 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:35.120 always been champions of each other in one way or another, 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:36.760 you know what I'm saying. He asked you, like, do 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:42.400 you think that's changing? I don't know. I think it's 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.400 working for some and not working for others. I think 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.520 I think a guy named Bennie Madeenas told me, he said, 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:49.400 if you want to make a big record, you can 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.600 make a big record. So you have all the tools 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.040 to make a big record. You're just making the record 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.200 you want to make. You're just living in the space 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.720 you want to live in. We're all, like he said, 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.600 we all because we do this in a certain way. 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.800 We all turn our backs to the audience on some 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.480 Miles Davis shit and just play our trumpet. We do 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:20.440 it all the time because because we're fulfilled by by 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:25.079 honoring the gift at its height, exactly, we are fulfilled. 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.319 No one cares what's the story. 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.800 But at a certain point we gotta we gotta move 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:39.160 right past that word music and get to the business 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.959 right as I'm making as I'm as I'm venturing into 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:50.000 music business. How do I sell some fucking records? How 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:54.920 do I get on mainstream radio? How? Because it's there's 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.000 there's a how. You know that, there's a fucking how. 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.319 You've got the other people in on the fucking platform? 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:03.040 No you preaching? 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.000 I was in a relationship, man, And then I remember 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.880 one time Sam Smith DMed me and there was a 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:09.520 song I had. It wasn't like doing well, but it 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.160 was I loved the song and he was like, man, 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:11.960 ill off. 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:13.840 This record and I'm listening to it in my guarden. 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.400 And I showed it to her because she loved Sam 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.360 Smith so much. So I'm thinking, like, you know, like 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.400 this is crazy, like at lista and she was like, 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.640 when are you going to get tired of being my 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:28.160 favorite singer's favorite singer shit and be the world's favorite 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:29.480 artist and that. 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.960 Like I like that hurt me so bad. 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.600 But I had to realize, like, yeah, like that don't 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:36.480 matter at all. 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:37.560 What is the story? 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.439 If eighty thousand records come out of day, why are 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:41.679 people going to care about me? 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:42.800 And that's what with this album. 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.440 I just was like I wanted to quit, and I 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.000 was just like, tell your story if it's your last chance, 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:49.360 you know, like when you're about to get fired from 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:49.680 the job. 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:50.960 I don't like y'all. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.640 Anyway, this is what this album was for me, cause 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.800 it's like and I said, you know what, I came 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.480 in with something to prove. I wanted to like do 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:01.400 the runs and do all these things because I wanted 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:02.600 to say I could sing, because I felt like we 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.160 were in a climate where nobody was singing. And I 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.840 loved buying your albums. I love buying boys to Men 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:09.960 as a kid and just hearing it. I have to 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:11.440 know what the album was about, what the single was. 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.040 I used to buy albums because of the singers. 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.360 But I was like, maybe nobody cares no more. 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.280 So I said, let me challenge myself to just do 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:23.280 no runs and just do tone and the story and 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.360 every inflection is because of a pain or emotion I'm 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.480 trying to invoke in the listener. And bro, I ain't 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:32.000 never even gone top one hundred anything, and now today 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:33.480 we're number two and number three. 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:36.320 Number you. 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:39.480 Shot out? 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:50.360 My god, but you a is it gonna start writing? 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:59.480 I start plubing. Yeah, that's what. That's what I come back. 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:12.240 What Yeah, it's it's in listening to it, you're you're 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:16.560 making your I hear your argument and the whole spill 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.080 that you gave was great. But your album says something different. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:25.559 Your album says that you are you are very conscious 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:30.800 in making a statement, a broader statement. That's what it 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.720 feels like to me, Like it feels like it feels 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.160 like R and B. But it feels like something different 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:42.719 than you. It feels like something that everybody's going to 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.560 be able to move to. Everybody's going to be able 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.360 to pick out their favorite melody, everybody's going to be 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:53.200 able to digest their favorite hook. And that's what that's 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:58.240 really what it's all about. We have to we have 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:02.040 to get out. So we gotta get it out of ourselves. 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:07.280 We gotta stop singing in the mirror. We gotta stop, 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:12.240 and we gotta figure out how what we do can 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:16.520 affect the When did you first start loving music? When 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.920 it hit you? How can we get to the next 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.640 six year old right, because we got to attract them 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:29.680 with something. See how Michael Jackson always works, always, Michael 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:36.320 Jackson always works. My son wasn't around for none of it, 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:42.000 not even close. Michael had passed, and this little boy 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.720 was it trying in this room with a hat on 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:50.200 a glove and watching Michael Jackson on his iPad doing 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:54.000 Michael Jackson moves. Now, ask me how many runs Michael 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.360 Jackson did, not very many. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:01.400 He left him from he left him at childhood. Yeah, yeah, 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:06.920 did you see in the Olympics the sync and ized swimmers, Yes. 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:08.040 I just saw that this morning. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:12.360 They're still performing to Michael Jackson records. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:16.400 And that's transcending race culture because that's Olympics. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.520 And when you say this all the time, and we 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.840 stand on this, Michael Jackson is an R and B singer. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.600 Yes, I don't care what they know. 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:26.160 And that's how we got to mix up. 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.360 Because what is pop. Pop is a derivative of popular culture. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.239 Of course you do anything well enough, it will be popular. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.440 Yeah, so you think, so you have to figure And 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:41.840 what Michael did was conscious, right, it was deliberate, well studied. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:46.240 What is that. I want to be the biggest in 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:50.400 everything in the world. So I'm gonna rehearse like this, 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:55.040 I'm gonna sing like this, I'm going to talk like this. Right, 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:59.720 I'm going to dress like this. Did it all on purpose? 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:05.600 We do so much in our feelings mm hm that 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.600 we're so let down because it's our feelings. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:11.040 Man. 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:17.560 Music is almost one of the only things that the 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:22.800 creator of the music does for themselves. When you're making 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:27.960 a product, you make products for people, right, I have 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.480 a candle line, now, come on, candle Now, I like 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:37.400 my candles, but there were I was asking people, what, oh, 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.200 you know when you buy the candle, you know the weight, 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.240 does it feel more expensive? So I'm like, okay, well 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.280 I gotta I gotta go. I gotta go source out 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:49.320 marbles the heaviest weight. Oh, I don't like that I 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.320 have to throw my you know, the candle away. I 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.400 would rather, you know, have it as a piece of 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:59.080 almost a piece of art in the house. So I'm like, 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.400 I'm paying attention. We don't do that with our music 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.680 though we play niggas music on something, I don't care 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:05.480 if you like it or not. 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.480 What what are you talking about? 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:10.960 That's exactly what we were thinking about when we did 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:11.400 the vinyl. 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.840 I was like, let's make the vinyl translucent red, just 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:16.000 because I ain't never seen. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.360 A translucent red before. But I know, like if I 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:18.960 pulled it. 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:23.280 Out, wow, you're going to get a reaction. 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.880 Yeah, we sold more vinyls than we did digital already. 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:31.200 We have to make music collectors are people and ourselves right, like, 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.080 we're gonna it's your music, but we got it to me. 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.400 I think we got to get out of the space 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:40.000 of I love it so I don't care what nobody 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:43.640 else think. Well, then you're gonna be somewhere complaining about 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.400 nobody supporting it and. 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.080 That's a harsh reality that a lot of people don't 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:48.560 talk about. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.560 That's the other side of it. They complain about it. 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.920 Don't complain about it if you just made it for yourself. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.800 I used to complain and then I was like me complaining, 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.480 did sell no more records? So you did? You? You 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:07.359 stopped complaining and just made better records. Was this around, 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.879 please don't go sex life? No? This was no, this 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:14.520 was this was what now? Whenever? This is how I 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.120 feel kind of space I was. It wasn't it wasn't far. 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.600 Back, so you still felt underappreciated during Like no, I 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:22.800 just I just I just, for some my reason, felt 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.240 like highlighting the disadvantages of something that I signed up for. 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.399 I know what I signed up for, I knew what 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:30.800 I knew what I was getting into, and I signed 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.560 up for and I still went in. And then I 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.199 started to complain about it, and this thing callsed me 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:41.280 like what are you doing? I was like I'm mad, 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:46.639 I'm man, and he was like who cares who? And 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.560 then first like I said, who are you talking to? 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:58.480 I'm talking to everybody? Yeah, mockers, And you're really not 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.760 talking to nobody, and you're definitely not talking to anybody 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:08.359 who understands does matter? Do fucking better? Ye, do better, 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:12.199 Just do better. This one didn't work, Let's do another one. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.120 And that's the cool thing about where we are now 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:16.440 is that you can just keep doing them. 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.720 You just keep doing keeping until they like one, until 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.639 they like one, or like two or like ten. But 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:26.520 the ones that they didn't like, it's not this, Oh 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.439 you on the shelf, no more, Oh. 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.760 This label gave up on you. You can put out 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:32.800 more music like it. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:37.680 She got to it, gotten to it was a nasty girl. 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:41.400 Right back, better than she will ever right back. 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:47.520 I was like this, my dad said, music is like 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.399 the music business like slot machines. Do you want to 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.200 be the person who sat who sits down in Vegas, 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:54.119 puts a quarter in for nine hours and then you 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.000 say it's never gonna happen you get up in somebody, 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:57.320 or you want to be the person that comes up 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:59.800 behind you, puts that quarter in and gets the jackpot. 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:05.399 I'll be both every day. I keep going, just keeping listen, 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.160 I said, those slot machines for a very long time 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.640 at the wind shout out to the wind who well, 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.119 thank you to get my Marcus from Thank you so 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:18.600 much a nice free rooms. You want to get the 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:22.600 rooms in the top of suite. You're not that free gamble, 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:27.520 but whatever, they feel free because you're going at a different. 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.560 Times with the studio inside of it. 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:34.200 That's the pump which shout out to the pal shout 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:37.480 out to the tour at the pond, the tour at 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:41.840 the pearl with screen take care of us. 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:46.480 What's the next one? Were asked him. 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:49.680 So, so I asked you a question earlier, and I said, 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:51.159 when did you fall in love with music? And you 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.720 said six years old? What was going on at six 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:57.359 years old? What was being played at six years old? 0:19:57.680 --> 0:19:59.760 So this is the crazy story. This is why my 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:01.880 face think God is so strong. My mom is a nurse. 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.800 She's from a third world country. We came here from 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.320 the dr when I was like six years old and 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:09.160 she didn't speak English. 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:09.679 But she became a. 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:12.120 Nurse at the Breaker's Hotel, which is like people don't 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:13.760 know that West Palm at one time like had like 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:16.280 sixty percent of the world's billionaires like living in West Palm. 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:16.920 Oh wow. 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:19.320 And the Breaker's Hotels like where Oprah goes to have 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:21.080 runs and Trump and all of them go over there. 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.119 So She came from a third world country and was 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.000 immediately exposed to extreme wealth. And one day it was 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:27.600 taking her child to work day, and she worked for 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:29.920 this She was a nurse for this old woman who 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.680 traveled the world and loved music. She collected music from 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:40.160 Ace of Bass to Prince to SWV to the delfonas everything. 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:43.679 And she brought me to work with her and I 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:46.359 was like just humming something and she was like you singing, 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:47.679 and I was like, no, but I want to be 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:50.320 a singer. One day and when she died, in her will, 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.640 she left me her whole music collection. What So as 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:57.400 a kid, I was immediately exposed to Stevie Wonder where 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:00.200 everybody else was like listening to, like, you know, don't 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.399 know what, but I wasn't listening to what's on the radio, 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:03.359 because I did. 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:04.720 Going through this collection. 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:06.879 I was just being introduced to American culture. I was 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:09.120 learning how to speak English. But I was also exposed 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:12.320 to like this woman who loved music so deeply, and 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:15.159 she just didn't want to leave her you know, just 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:17.720 let it go to auctions or something. She left it 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:19.840