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Speaker 1: R and B Money.

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Speaker 2: We are.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, take the child. We are the authority on all

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Speaker 1: things R and B.

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Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen. My name is Tank Town. This is

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Speaker 3: the R and B Money Podcast, the authority on all

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Speaker 3: things R and B.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it is the Army Money podcast. What it is

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Speaker 1: you ful m? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: We tap into the new generation. Yeah, the new sign

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Speaker 3: a real way, the new gifts, new excellence.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you might have dreadlocks or something.

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Speaker 4: You just see what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: I mean, die you tips.

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Speaker 3: Like like what the brother we got on here now

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Speaker 3: has been a superstar since he was.

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Speaker 1: A childress man, it's been victorious. He's been victorious as

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Speaker 1: a childster.

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Speaker 4: You understand what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: Now he's an adult child, yes, the children and now

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Speaker 3: he's an adult yeh.

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Speaker 1: He kicking everybody else makes some doors with and so

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Speaker 1: what's so?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was an amazing intro. By the way, thank

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Speaker 5: you man.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate your next album.

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Speaker 5: I mean, if you can't.

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Speaker 1: Listen, bro, First of all, thank you, thank you for

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Speaker 1: your time. You know what I mean.

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Speaker 6: We know you are working man, that's what we do

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Speaker 6: know man, But thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 6: I've actually been watching the podcast. It's so fucking funny.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you, brother, and and you're we commend you, brother,

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Speaker 3: because you know, this is a tough place to grow

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Speaker 3: up in, absolutely a very tough place to grow up in.

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Speaker 3: And and from the first time we've crossed paths, like

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Speaker 3: you can tell that you were raised well.

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Speaker 5: Shout out to my mama.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I mean, I just came from a

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Speaker 6: really amazing musical tribe that just surrounded me with and support.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's funny.

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Speaker 6: I'm around a lot of artists and and and to

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Speaker 6: hear that sometimes that parents weren't supportive early on, you know,

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Speaker 6: it's kind of crazy to me because I don't know

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Speaker 6: a world that that that isn't that. And I feel

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Speaker 6: like really having God in my life too has really

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Speaker 6: helped just keeping smooth.

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Speaker 1: You know, with with with with that in that parental space. Right.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I think of it like this.

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Speaker 3: As as most of us may bee, I know, our

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Speaker 3: first generation to this place, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 3: And so our parents when you start talking about dreaming

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Speaker 3: of this kind of life, right, they're like, what are

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Speaker 3: you talking about. Walgreens has some openings right now, Walmart,

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Speaker 3: they're stalking boxes right now for twenty two dollars an hour.

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Speaker 2: There's no openings and artists, no artist, yeah, guarante opening.

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Speaker 2: There's an opening to be a superstar.

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Speaker 1: It just doesn't. And so we're pulling this out of

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Speaker 1: the air by big first generation. That dream sounds so.

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Speaker 3: In a real life crazy right to most people, you

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Speaker 3: know what I mean. And the parents that you know

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Speaker 3: haveven lived the crazy lifestyle, they just don't get it

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Speaker 3: until they see it. And thank god, you know, you

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Speaker 3: were surrounded with parents and people who at least had

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Speaker 3: the music. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, to nurture

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Speaker 3: you and get you prepared. As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 3: let's start there. Let's go back to the beginning.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's crazy.

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Speaker 6: My grandfather just flew out yesterday and we were talking

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Speaker 6: about just this whole journey in music, and he started

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Speaker 6: naming names of people that he was around. He was

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Speaker 6: talking about cab Calalle, he was talking about Miles Davis,

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Speaker 6: you know, he was talking about Leonard Bernstein. You know,

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Speaker 6: I mean this guy, he was an amazing opera singer

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Speaker 6: in the nineteen sixties.

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Speaker 5: And to be black and to be.

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Speaker 6: Your grandfather, yeah, to be in that place he wasn't

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Speaker 6: in that place. Yeah, I was very special around that time,

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Speaker 6: John Anthony. Yeah. So, I mean every time he comes

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Speaker 6: you know, I spend most of my time just asking questions.

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Speaker 6: I mean, how did he stay saying through all of

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Speaker 6: and and and genuinely having to kind of keep a

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Speaker 6: just a wild climate at that time, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, yeah, because your reaction could at that time get

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Speaker 3: It could get you straight killed. Yeah, So he was, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he was in a place where I mean, of course

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Speaker 3: working with the Poor People's March. And he was telling

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Speaker 3: me a story yesterday about how James Brown came through

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Speaker 3: to do a free concert in this tenth that they

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Speaker 3: in the day, like you know, at his this because

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Speaker 3: I mean whenever he comes through and he's in my car,

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Speaker 3: I always like to play like some old school funky

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Speaker 1: Of vibe out.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, so so let's go back to the beginning

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Speaker 3: to where you know, you as all things that you are, right,

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Speaker 3: somebody was like, man, boy right them, I'm telling you, right, dad,

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Speaker 3: if it's gonna be something, or even when you said

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Speaker 3: to yourself, I think I think I got something special.

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Speaker 6: Well it it's a pretty crazy story because I was

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Speaker 6: ten years old and my mom, she's also a singer

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Speaker 6: as well, and you know, she was doing a really

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Speaker 6: cool show and took me to a rehearsal and her

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Speaker 6: friend was like, you should audition for the Lion King,

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Speaker 6: And that was my first ever audition. I went in

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Speaker 6: and you know, you should audition for the like well,

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Speaker 6: I mean I was just a charismatic kid, you know,

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Speaker 6: and you know, I ended up doing the audition, got

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Speaker 6: the first audition, and ended up doing Bray at ten

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Speaker 6: being a regular kid to like, you know, starring on

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Speaker 5: That was the moment where I knew. I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 6: I was doing at that time four but I did

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Speaker 6: three Broadway plays in three years, so the other ones

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Speaker 6: I was doing, I was doing like eight shows a week,

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Speaker 6: and you know, once I kind of got into the

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Speaker 5: Shout out to Linda Twine.

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Speaker 6: She was a musical director for a lot of the

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Speaker 6: big plays at that time, and she went way back

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Speaker 6: with my grandfather too, so there was like a bit

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Speaker 6: of a family aspect to it. So it kind of

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Speaker 6: felt like fun. It was like a playground for me.

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Speaker 6: But Broadway is no joke. You got to you gotta

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Speaker 6: show up. You got to show out.

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Speaker 1: As well at this time or not.

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Speaker 5: You know, I'm going to school, I'm waking up. I'm

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Speaker 6: Uh you know, I do my homework in the afternoon

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Speaker 6: and I'm you know, going backstage and I'm doing the show.

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Speaker 6: I'm waking up and doing it all over again. Sometimes

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Speaker 6: I would have a mattenee on Wednesday. I would get

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Speaker 6: a half day, got to do homework backstage. It was

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Speaker 5: I should have been homeschooled at that time, but I

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Speaker 5: was still in public school, just doing me.

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Speaker 1: So, so how is how is I mean I was

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Speaker 1: never in school and famous, So how is it being

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Speaker 3: Your kids know that yeast.

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Speaker 1: In that age group was fourth fifth grade? Yeah, do

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Speaker 1: they even know what Broadway is?

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Speaker 6: They don't, So, like, you know, for the younger years,

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Speaker 6: I'll say, like middle school, it was kind of just

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Speaker 6: like whatever. It wasn't until I started doing like movies.

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Speaker 6: I did a film with Robin Williams called August Rush

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Speaker 6: and whould you do the film with Robin Williams? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 6: gen Terrence Howard was in that film to man, yeah,

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Speaker 6: was telling my friends like, yea, you're gonna see me

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Speaker 6: see you no, you know, so it's still that element.

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Speaker 6: And you know, being in Brooklyn too, you know, it

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Speaker 6: was just such a grounded situation. You know, I was

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Speaker 6: going to a very public school, Like it wasn't one

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Speaker 6: I really got a lot of balancing. My friends were

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Speaker 6: always very supportive, and I think once the Nickelodeon stuff

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Speaker 6: going to school and people treat me different than they.

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Speaker 1: Did before on Nickelodeon and still taking the train to

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Speaker 5: The whole man.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I'm not going.

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Speaker 4: I thought I was about to get robbed.

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Speaker 5: Who is what you got on?

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Speaker 7: You?

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Speaker 1: Some checks ain't come in?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, bro, just trying to make you know what

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Speaker 5: you got on be What's that.

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Speaker 3: Did? Bro?

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Speaker 1: Like the first couple of.

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Speaker 6: Times I got recognized, I really thought I was about

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Speaker 6: to get ribbed, but it was all love and that

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Speaker 6: was a cool thing I felt.

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Speaker 2: Started realizing that the thugs watching Nickelodeon, Yeah, they.

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Speaker 5: Really watch Nickelodeon. Man.

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Speaker 3: At this point, I'm definitely getting to like, guys don't

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Speaker 3: necessary necessarily hot know how to soften up to show love.

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Speaker 3: So it's aggression either way, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: It all feels the same robbing or salute. You're getting pressed.

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Speaker 1: I have to learn that early, right, Dudes would be

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Speaker 1: looking at me and I'm like, what did you looking

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Speaker 1: at it? Nigga? I love your music, nigga.

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, well thank you man too. Maybe I deserved Nigga.

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Speaker 3: That's some good ship nigga.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe a small brother, something like just a little.

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Speaker 3: So it took me a while just to get used

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Speaker 3: to that and to be more welcoming. You know what

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Speaker 3: I'm saying, Somebody looking.

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Speaker 1: Like this, what the brother? How you doing that?

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Speaker 5: I definitely took time. I'm really from Brooklyn.

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Speaker 1: My daughters. My daughters grew up in New York. They

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Speaker 1: came up in Harlem and so my my oldest went

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Speaker 5: S Oh yeah, yeah, very school.

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Speaker 1: She went to Harlem School of the Yards. She was

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Speaker 1: on the Metropolitan Opera. Wow, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: So they was catching the train early. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I was like, so where are you going? We're on

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Speaker 1: the train. You're barely a teenager.

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Speaker 5: I mean it's just you know, how you get around.

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Speaker 1: I've never been on the train in New York. Really

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Speaker 1: he said that's what the ninja turtles were. He was

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Speaker 5: I mean it.

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Speaker 1: Is a little that's funny.

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Speaker 2: We're probably not gonna see him. We go see a

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Speaker 1: With green handy holds.

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Speaker 5: Get different, No, it's definitely different.

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Speaker 1: What is that about you as you are in New Yorker?

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Speaker 3: What is it about the train that makes niggas get

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Speaker 1: What is that about?

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Speaker 3: Well, first off, there's like six million people smacked into

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Speaker 1: To do It's always there. That's the that's the meetings

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Speaker 2: You've done whatever you've done in your job all day

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Speaker 1: You get on the enough.

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Speaker 5: That's really what it is. You're tired and you're dealing

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Speaker 1: Man, yeah, it got enough. I just don't I just

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Speaker 6: That crack off and that crack off plenty of fights

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Speaker 5: Word, but you ain't going nowhere.

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Speaker 1: You go into the next stop.

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Speaker 3: I want to make this Listen. I'm the epitome of

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Speaker 1: You heard you. I'm getting off this train. I'm gonna try.

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Speaker 1: You just had like a limb. I possess a certain

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Speaker 3: I'm just prepared just in case. I know, I got

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Speaker 1: So, so how is Nickelodeon for you? How is that experience?

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Speaker 6: It kind of felt like the corporate swoop up, you

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Speaker 5: The writers strike happened.

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Speaker 6: I had three years where I couldn't do anything, no movies,

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Speaker 5: Strikers, Yeah, the Strikers for three years.

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Speaker 6: I got to work with a young Ariana Grande and

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Speaker 5: So I was like I needed my family, like, we

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Speaker 3: Years old, some money in my Yeah, I was about

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Speaker 3: definitely have a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: Out of you get these you have this three picture deal? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you got this TV show? What do you buy? Did

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Speaker 5: I'll be completely honest with you. I was a very

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Speaker 6: The way that I looked at it was, you know,

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Speaker 6: So my mom really put their business on hold.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 6: I decided I was like, you know, anything that came

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Speaker 6: Let me just take a fifteen percent, you know, mark

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Speaker 6: I want to just kind of live below my means,

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Speaker 6: you know, because I just saw a lot of my

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Speaker 6: I was just like I I saw them also fall

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Speaker 3: Wowright, bro, Wow what I'm.

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Speaker 2: Clack for that, because that's amazing for you to have

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Speaker 2: that type of foresight to see, like, you know, I'm

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Speaker 5: And this is yeah, see what turn that route exactly?

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like I'll end up you know,

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Speaker 6: Absolutely me, absolutely so you know at that time, you know,

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Speaker 6: You know, I was trying to see how we could

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Speaker 6: even for me, you know, saving money for my artist

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Speaker 6: like Bob Power and Oak and Toby Gadd and like

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Speaker 5: So a lot of my money went towards like gear

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Speaker 6: Just to kind of like have something that kind of vibe,

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Speaker 5: And yeah, that's really really.

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Speaker 1: That this is truly a marathon.

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Speaker 5: It is a marriage, and I'm yeah, I have to

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Speaker 6: I've seen so much, man, And I mean I've also

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Speaker 6: I mean, me and Keiky we started at the same time.

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Speaker 6: We were some of the only like young black faces

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Speaker 6: but like we were in similar situations where we were

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, that's great. That's great, bro. It's just like

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Speaker 1: I'm a perfect example of what not to do. I'm perfect.

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Speaker 1: I am God? So what did you do?

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Speaker 5: What's going on?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 3: The first thing I did is you know with strip club? Okay,

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Speaker 3: first thing I did. I'm mad at you.

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Speaker 1: No, I became a member.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, So I would I would, you know, help

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Speaker 3: the girls pick out out fits before the club even open.

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Speaker 1: He thought he was down a bill Okay, he thought

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Speaker 5: I was like, god right, I was sought after exactly.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't got me a car, are all right?

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Speaker 8: Then?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: No, Lexus three hundred platinum Edition, the Black on Black

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Speaker 3: Bubba Lia and I bought me a gun.

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Speaker 5: That makes sense. The strip club a lot. I feel you, brother,

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Speaker 5: I ain't. That's literally where my boy just got robbed.

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Speaker 6: Man.

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Speaker 4: Strip clubs are dangerous.

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Speaker 1: I say, no, you got cash? Yeah, you know, just

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Speaker 1: I don't know, not that long.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 3: The good thing, the good thing I had done is

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Speaker 3: Virginia Wine and Leah, I paid off all my bills.

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Speaker 1: I love that.

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Speaker 3: So that was the first thing. My mama made me

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Speaker 3: my you know, record deal advance and my publishing deal advance.

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Speaker 1: That's that. That's when it went left.

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Speaker 3: That's what Frank the tank came out the tank, I

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Speaker 5: Tell you real you get no record out, huh, with

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Speaker 5: no record.

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Speaker 1: No record? No I was, I was. I was a

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Speaker 3: Was a thousand air back with a record deal with

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Speaker 3: a record listen I had, I had what I had,

444
00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,000
Speaker 3: like like about two fifty on me.

445
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:35,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, in ninety eight. He realized that I

446
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,160
Speaker 1: didn't know how want everything.

447
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,640
Speaker 3: Exactly, so I like, you know that, And then moving

448
00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:47,639
Speaker 3: to l A, you know, with I think at that

449
00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,480
Speaker 3: point I kind of blew the money. And yeah, I

450
00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,399
Speaker 3: had a thousand dollars when I first moved to LA

451
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,000
Speaker 3: and the same car. I still had the car. I

452
00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,560
Speaker 3: didn't bring the gun. That's a good thing, and no,

453
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:04,120
Speaker 3: and I was like, you know what, I'm gonna figure

454
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 3: this out. And I came with my NPC and my

455
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 3: XP eighty keyboard, my rolling and I figured it out.

456
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:17,080
Speaker 3: Listen said, so when you say investing in that gear, yeah,

457
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,880
Speaker 3: that's one thing I did do. I said, I'm gonna

458
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,120
Speaker 3: buy this NPC, I'm gonna buy this Mackie mixer. I'm

459
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:27,000
Speaker 3: gonna buy these and I'm just gonna I'm gonna work

460
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:27,959
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna figure this out.

461
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 1: Don't know where these songs are gonna go.

462
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,840
Speaker 3: I gonna come out exactly, but I'm gonna know how

463
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 3: to do this so that when the time comes, I'm

464
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,640
Speaker 3: gonna be able to feed somebody m hopefully yourself, hopefully myself.

465
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 1: Absolutely.

466
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,119
Speaker 2: When you so you mentioned when you first did the

467
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:49,679
Speaker 2: Nickelodeon deal, they also gave you a record deal.

468
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 1: What label?

469
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,399
Speaker 5: I was at a Columbia, Columbia record So.

470
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:55,960
Speaker 1: They had a partnership with Nickelodeon.

471
00:22:56,359 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 6: They had a really good collaboration with them, and they

472
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 6: had signed a bunch of people from like Glee and stuff.

473
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 6: So I mean there was like an element of like

474
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 6: kind of trying to figure out how to convert a

475
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 6: lot of the actors from some of their big, you

476
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 6: know shows into stars and music. And it was an

477
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 6: interesting journey, you know, because it was their first run

478
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,680
Speaker 6: with this partnership Colombia Nickelodeon, So I was definitely kind

479
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:21,159
Speaker 6: of like it.

480
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 5: It was very experimental, but you.

481
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:24,440
Speaker 1: Know, we it was.

482
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 6: It was really cool because I was able to do

483
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:27,639
Speaker 6: a couple of songs that actually ended up on the

484
00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:39,840
Speaker 6: show that I wrote when I was like fourteen. It

485
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 6: just taught me the process of writing a song and

486
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 6: like that, that that feeling of people singing something back

487
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 6: that I helped write and co produce was like special. Yeah,

488
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 6: I was performing those songs on the show and we

489
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:53,200
Speaker 6: were doing like big.

490
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 1: Big shows too. Well.

491
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:56,120
Speaker 5: That's the thing.

492
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 6: As as a cast, we didn't all want to tour

493
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 6: because we were around the time when the song started becoming,

494
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 6: you know, really successful.

495
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 5: We were like seventeen, you know, eighteen listening to Frank

496
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 5: Ocean this and that, and it's like stuff for kids.

497
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 6: And it started to feel like, Okay, if we start

498
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 6: touring now, we're setting ourselves up to be doing this

499
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 6: for the next two and a half years and specifically

500
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,879
Speaker 6: in this one market. And you know, Arianna and I

501
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 6: and and even a couple of the other actors on

502
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,640
Speaker 6: the show all knew that. Afterwards, we were definitely trying

503
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 6: to like take a stab at this music stuff in

504
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 6: a very real way, and we knew brand was a

505
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,200
Speaker 6: big part of it. Mind you, we missed out on

506
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 6: millions of dollars, but we also made millions of dollars

507
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,440
Speaker 6: after the fact by having a brand that was true

508
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:44,719
Speaker 6: to us.

509
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 1: So was there a Disney and Nickelodeon beef? Not at all.

510
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 6: We all actually used to kick it on Disney niggas. Nah,

511
00:24:54,320 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 6: everybody was like kicking it, yo. Everybody was just vibing.

512
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,880
Speaker 6: I mean, we were all young, and this was essentially

513
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,240
Speaker 6: like our high school. You know, all of us were

514
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 6: homeschooled at that point because we had full time jobs,

515
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 6: to the point where our schedules were insane, so.

516
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: It was really yeah, understood each other.

517
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, those were the kids who got us, who kind

518
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 6: of understood what we were going through with that too.

519
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: Sure.

520
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 3: You know, so now is your movie TV, all of

521
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 3: this is landed? What is your progression musically that gets

522
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 3: you into this? You know, seventeen eighteen year old? I

523
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 3: mean for you, it's like grown space where you're like,

524
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 3: I don't want to chase the Disney sound or the

525
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 3: Disney thing Nickelodeon apologies, right, we're chasing that. I need

526
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 3: to you know, as you're listening to Frank Ocean, these

527
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 3: guys like I need some of that. What is that

528
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,680
Speaker 3: progression like? And are you still with Columbia?

529
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm still with Columbia at that point, and they

530
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,199
Speaker 6: set me up with a life change in session.

531
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 5: They sat me down with Babyface and growing up, like

532
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:09,159
Speaker 5: listening to Babyface was everything, Like my dad's a huge.

533
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 6: Fan all so like, and I was a huge fan,

534
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 6: so like. To even just just to be in a

535
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 6: studio with him was like such a blessing. And he

536
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 6: really took a liking to, you know, what I was

537
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 6: doing as an artist, and you know, really opened his doors.

538
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 6: He did something that I don't think I've ever seen

539
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 6: any other big producer do for me, which was open

540
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 6: his doors and say you can use this twenty four

541
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 6: hours a day, just like keep making great music and

542
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 6: you're good to go, and gave me a room that

543
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 6: I could just kind of vibe out with. There was

544
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 6: younger producers there that I ended up working with a lot.

545
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 6: There's a producer Chris Riddick times that I started a

546
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 6: production duo with called the Rascals, And I mean I

547
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 6: went from going there like once every couple of months

548
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 6: to like being there every day and being around the

549
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 6: elements of R and B that really made me even

550
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 6: want to make music, like seeing like a line of

551
00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 6: Richie Walking or Stevie Wonder do a Christmas record. You know,

552
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 6: just like just to be around legends and giants, you know,

553
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 6: to always feel humbled and know that like there's there's

554
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 6: there's more to it. I didn't go to the school

555
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 6: for music, so that was the closest thing to like class.

556
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 3: You know, your face is like a it's like a godfather,

557
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 3: yeah to so many people, absolutely, you know what I mean.

558
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 3: And he has he has the space and the infrastructure

559
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 3: and the information you know what I mean, And he

560
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 3: does not mind paying it forward by studios. Like after

561
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 3: I played for him, he just called me out of

562
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 3: the blue one day and had me play for him

563
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 3: on a Christmas thing. But this Christmas thing he was

564
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 3: doing for these people, rich people in the hills that

565
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 3: they do every year, and he performs and he's like,

566
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 3: I want you to sing a couple of songs as well. Fine,

567
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 3: and so you know, by the time, I kind of

568
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 3: over exaggerate anytime I talk about Babyface. So by the

569
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 3: time the message got back to my parents, I was like, yeah,

570
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 3: Babyface called me. He said, most amazing singer's ever heard

571
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 3: his fife. He said, there's no way he could do

572
00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 3: this Christmas thing without me. I played the very beethoven Ish.

573
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 3: He thinks my fingers are magic. But you know, he's

574
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 3: he's that. He's that guy that you would you would

575
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 3: love and approval from that you would love, uh, some

576
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 3: encouragement from, and that's gonna fuel you to just do whatever.

577
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 5: Absolutely man.

578
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 6: I mean knowing that the underdogs came from under his

579
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 6: wing as well. And it was like some of the

580
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 6: first guys that I actually worked with when I started

581
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 6: doing R and B. Just kind of let me know that,

582
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 6: like I had a lot to learn from the source

583
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 6: of like where they even learned a lot of what

584
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 6: they do from and and and he really genuinely taught

585
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 6: me a lot. And at that time, you know, I

586
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 6: was really close with Arianna. I'm still close with her

587
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 6: to this day. But she was working on her first

588
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 6: album and I had thrown like a little party at

589
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 6: the studio, you know, just real chill and played her

590
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 6: some records. And next thing we knew, we were doing

591
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 6: like half of her first album. And I pulled baby

592
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 6: Face in because I knew she was kind of doing

593
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 6: like a nineties theme, and it just.

594
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 5: Really worked out.

595
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 6: It just became like a really cool Eventually we did

596
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 6: like four or five songs on that on that first album,

597
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 6: and it went really well.

598
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: She yes was facing and.

599
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 6: Tony Dixon, Yeah, and I mean Tony Honestly, I spent

600
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 6: a lot of time working with Tony Dixon. Man. I

601
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 6: really got to give him his flowers because he's like

602
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 6: just an amazing producer and a good human. And he

603
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 6: would always talk about the cautionary tales of being in

604
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 6: R and B and all of the things that he's seen,

605
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 6: and I mean just kind of learning from from the

606
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 6: experiences that he's been around, kind of helped me steer

607
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 6: away from a lot of things that he was in

608
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 6: the trenches with us.

609
00:29:54,680 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's funny you said that because he's he gave

610
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 2: you his example of what he's been around. Because Tony

611
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 2: is a guy who kind of stands back. He watched

612
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 2: everything going on exactly. So like Tony just wasn't the

613
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 2: guy who was jumping in it, exactly. He's just that's

614
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:13,479
Speaker 2: not that, it's not his thing.

615
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: He'd be like, get out of here. Don't get out

616
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: of here, guys, you know what I mean.

617
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 2: Like and but he's been able to move in his

618
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 2: business without being caught up. Absolutely, I mean in whatever situations,

619
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 2: because there are a lot of them.

620
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 5: He should do this really cool thing.

621
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 6: I mean I only participated once or twice, but he

622
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 6: have like like once, I want to say, every couple

623
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 6: of months he would he would do like a suit

624
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 6: day when we would coming to the studio, everybody being

625
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 6: suits making music.

626
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 5: I thought that was so cool.

627
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: Also a photographer. Now that's where the money has taken you.

628
00:30:53,640 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: It was tight. I love also putting the young fellas

629
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: onto something.

630
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, you used to go to these events. You

631
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. I'm definitely a big street with you.

632
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. So it was fun to,

633
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 5: you know, switch it up.

634
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 3: Because he didn't invite us to suit that he didn't

635
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 3: invite us to suit that he know I got them suits.

636
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: Come on, you know I got that gassed haveing Steve Harvey,

637
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: the original Steve Harvey. Though Steve Harvey suits were awesome.

638
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, what absolutely no, I definitely agree.

639
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: You know what's funny.

640
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 5: You know there's this old picture. It was my color purple.

641
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 6: They did the big premiere for the Broadway play, and

642
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 6: I told my mom I wanted color.

643
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, color color purple.

644
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: But but.

645
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 5: I wanted I wanted to be in a zoop suit man.

646
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 5: But the closest thing I could find was Steve Harvey.

647
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 5: So there's a picture of me.

648
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: I got it.

649
00:31:55,640 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 5: Please pull it up to the Steve Harvey purple pinstripe

650
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 5: suit like it was bad.

651
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:05,959
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something.

652
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 4: It was a bad look for me.

653
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 3: But the Steve Harveys was a great's day was listen,

654
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 3: Eve fly.

655
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: No trash back then, it was it was not I'm

656
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: not gonna let you do this to Steve. I'm not

657
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: gonna let you do this right now. Steve ben had

658
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: it super fly ball head.

659
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 5: Steve is fly, but I mean hair.

660
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: Steve was.

661
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 3: He had his own line, Jay, he had his own

662
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 3: his own line. That's how holded he was. I walked

663
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 3: into a warehouse nothing but Steve suits I picked out,

664
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 3: like six up.

665
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,479
Speaker 1: This is personal? Really is personal?

666
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 5: What's up?

667
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 2: Because those were the part of the closet that I

668
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 2: told him he had to burn When I started what

669
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 2: the sick Steve Harvey suss In there said, let him go.

670
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: You didn't have to tell him that. See this thing.

671
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 3: I held onto the suits a little too long. It's okay,

672
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 3: it's okay. You know, appreciation for they had sentimental value.

673
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it.

674
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 3: Steve told me personally, right these suits are for you

675
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 3: and you could have fit a twenty inch rim into

676
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 3: one of them pants legs.

677
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: Man, that's how we was waiting.

678
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 3: It's a lot going on. I don't like the disappointment

679
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 3: on some of your faces, like this is this is

680
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 3: how we was trapping back then.

681
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 1: Absolutely, man, Like you could definitely have an A K

682
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: forty seven.

683
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 5: The definitely trapping.

684
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 3: They said you just started listing credits, man, that they

685
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 3: first got out of control, you know, just starting with

686
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 3: the Ariana Grande. You know, of course, you know, a

687
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 3: good friend of ours, Harmony Samuels, sharing company with.

688
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 5: He's a great He's a legend.

689
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: I would I would like.

690
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,919
Speaker 3: For you too, if you don't mind, Yeah, just start

691
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 3: listing some of some of the credits if you don't work.

692
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, started with Arianna and then I think,

693
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 6: you know, we really went through a nice R and

694
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 6: B moment. So then I think from there it was

695
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 6: like l m A you know, Chris Brown, uh, and

696
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 6: then you know, Drake has been a really big one tie.

697
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 5: Dollars something.

698
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,320
Speaker 1: Because we have multiple records.

699
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 6: Drake has definitely been been an amazing addition. Yeah, gold Roses,

700
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 6: I did pipe down in the Bible, yeah, man, certified, Yeah, certified, certified.

701
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: What is your What did y'all record that? Y'all like

702
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: the Bahamas or so?

703
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, So that whole story was interesting, man, because all right,

704
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 6: so love All, which is one of the records I

705
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 6: didn't name, was one of the first songs that that

706
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 6: we did forgot so many, but that was one of

707
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 6: the joints we did.

708
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: A while ago.

709
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 5: It was like it was like the first song, I'm.

710
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: Sorry, let me start you back at the beginning, how

711
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 1: do you get to drink? Boy?

712
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 5: I got a shout out to my boy Wonder.

713
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 6: Boy Wonder is definitely easily one of my you know,

714
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 6: biggest mentors right now, especially because you know, I'm working

715
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 6: with him very closely on a lot of big projects.

716
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 5: And boy Wondered just kind of he just took a

717
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 5: liking to christ and I. He's so nice.

718
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 1: He's one of the nicest humans on the planet.

719
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 5: And he just you know, started working with us.

720
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 6: And you know, he was working on a management situation

721
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 6: around that time called Island Management, and you know, shout

722
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 6: out to Simon and and e K. They came in

723
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,359
Speaker 6: and offered us a deal to start working with them,

724
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 6: and they're very connected to Drake and his whole team.

725
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 6: And you know, that was after we did Gold Roses

726
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 6: kind of naturally just vibing with some of their producers, yea,

727
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 6: And over time, you know, things were being sent around

728
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 6: to Drake's team and Love All was one of the

729
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,760
Speaker 6: first songs that came out of it from the Certified

730
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 6: lover Boy album and the whole album it leaked at first,

731
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 6: so that was a part of the first batch of records.

732
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 6: But he loved that song so much and it had

733
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 6: gotten so much love online from the league, he decided

734
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 6: to keep it and you know, flew me out to

735
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 6: Bahamas to to kind of start cooking up some more

736
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 6: stuff and you know, to really kind of be around

737
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 6: him and kind of absorb his energy and like who

738
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 6: he is as a human being.

739
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: Made it really.

740
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 6: Possible to then go back to La and like start

741
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 6: really crafting records that kind of matched his vibe, you know,

742
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 6: And it was such a blessing. But a lot of

743
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 6: it all happened in La but Bahamas was like more

744
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 6: so research me than anything else we.

745
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 5: Made to music.

746
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,439
Speaker 1: And had you ever been before, No, it's my first time.

747
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: You know.

748
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 6: I don't really travel for fun a lot. I'm a

749
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 6: bit of a workaholic and if I am traveling, it's

750
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 6: usually for work. So but that was one of those

751
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 6: situations where I was working, but we were also vibing,

752
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 6: you know. And it was like during COVID too, so

753
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 6: I was a little afraid of like doing too much,

754
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 6: but we're definitely just chilling by the beach, kicking it.

755
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:21,959
Speaker 1: So that's cool.

756
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 3: Then you started to mention another you know, another certified homie,

757
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,399
Speaker 3: super gifted tid dollar you'd use but you're about to say,

758
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 3: tie dollar.

759
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 5: Sign to dollar Sign. Yeah, Ty Dollar.

760
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 6: I mean he's like my monster, my brother, you know

761
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. He's really held it down. And I

762
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 6: started playing some of my music. Yeah, yeah, I started

763
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 6: playing some of my music early on when he was

764
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 6: working on his album featuring Ti dollar Sign. I was

765
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 6: doing some stuff on that and he just really took

766
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 6: a liking to the music and always spoke so much

767
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 6: power into what I was doing as an artist. And

768
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 6: that was a really cool moment for me, because a

769
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 6: lot of artists, when you know, they know that you're

770
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 6: a producer songwriter, kind of liked it keep you in

771
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 6: that place.

772
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 5: But he always like, let me know, he.

773
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,439
Speaker 1: Thought he thought cold.

774
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 5: So I was really cool, and and I was.

775
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 6: I was about to put my project out independently, you know,

776
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 6: and you know, I met with Sean Barron to see

777
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 6: if he knew any like A and RS and maybe

778
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 6: I could hire for a little bit just to kind

779
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 6: of get some things together and like put a good

780
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 6: marketing team around what I was doing independently. And he

781
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 6: was like, listen, we got a venture we're doing right now.

782
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 6: And you know, at that time, Baby Keem and Kendrick

783
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 6: were like just dropping their stuff together, and I was like.

784
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 5: We've never seen that in R and P.

785
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: That's a good dude.

786
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 6: What if that kind of happened where you kind of

787
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 6: cross pollinating, you know, both worlds and and kind of

788
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 6: like creating a platform and a bit of a co

789
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 6: sign essentially in the space. And I mean it's it's

790
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 6: you know, proving to be pretty successful, man. And I'm

791
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 6: excited to keep putting these records out because it definitely

792
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 6: means a lot to me. Being on stage is such

793
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,760
Speaker 6: a big part of what I do, coming from Broadway,

794
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 6: so like, I'm definitely excited to get out the studio.

795
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: A bit and get back on the stage. I want

796
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 1: to see.

797
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 5: I'm excited.

798
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: Man. Would you rather have.

799
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 2: If you had to choose, which you don't because you're

800
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 2: talented in all these spaces, which one would mean the

801
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 2: most to you? A number one record, a number one movie,

802
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 2: or I number one TV show?

803
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 3: I think a number one record, yeah, because yeah, I've

804
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 3: been on a number one TV show before. I think

805
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 3: a number one record would be special because of just

806
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 3: how much work I've put into it, you know, like

807
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 3: I was signed my first deal at thirteen, you know,

808
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 3: twenty nine now, you know, it's been a long time

809
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 3: of like cooking up records and stopping and starting and

810
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 3: trying to figure it out and surviving through production and

811
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 3: songwriting and finally getting my shot right now just really

812
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 3: means a lot to me. And knowing that I have

813
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 3: fans who have literally grown up with me, you know,

814
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 3: I want to do that for them just as much

815
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 3: as I want to do it for me, because know

816
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,439
Speaker 3: they've been rooting from the sidelines and wondering, like what's

817
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 3: going on, you know, Like, so I'm really hoping for that.

818
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 3: I'm gonna work hard for it.

819
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: I love. Yeah. No, that number one record is just

820
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: because there's so many more things that are connected to that.

821
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:16,800
Speaker 5: It's just different and it's your story.

822
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a writer, you know, it's the direct

823
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: connection to you.

824
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 5: It's yeah, it's not.

825
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 3: A character, it's not a it's not it's not an

826
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 3: ensemble cast. It's exactly any of that.

827
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 1: It's a direct line to you, my soul, Yeah, in

828
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 1: your true artistry and individuality. Exactly.

829
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 2: Yes, it's to the music that's it's really the only

830
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 2: way you can do that absolutely and have that is

831
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 2: to you know, go to the artist route with it.

832
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 2: I just always wonder, you know, when you know we

833
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 2: have triple threats on the show, you know, Twisted.

834
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 6: I definitely want to keep acting, and I mean this

835
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 6: is the year where I'm like definitely getting back to it.

836
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 6: I've just been like I wanted to approaching on this

837
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 6: next run with more tools, like learning Meisner, like like

838
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 6: just like really studying and like coming back with the

839
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 6: ability to.

840
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 5: Cry on command and and just do different things.

841
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 1: You know.

842
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 6: Meisner is a technique in acting. It's like a cousin

843
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 6: to method acting. And I think it's important now for

844
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 6: me to really step into a space that's that's all encompassing.

845
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 6: You know, like when you see Denzel play a character,

846
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 6: you forget it's Denzel, you know, Robert Downie Junior specifically,

847
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 6: you forget it's Roberts sometimes, you know. And and I

848
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 6: want that ability to kind of dive into characters.

849
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: And that's my deeper level.

850
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 6: I don't know exactly what they study, but I just

851
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 6: know that it's just a style of acting that that

852
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 6: I'm just because.

853
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: The method acting is literally you coming as that character.

854
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 6: You're coming in and it's it is Now, it's not that,

855
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 6: but it's just it's just the art of being, you know.

856
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 6: It's it's it's it's the art of being because I

857
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 6: think there's so much thinking that goes into acting, and

858
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 6: and I feel like just kind of listening more is

859
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,800
Speaker 6: like a big thing that I've always struggle within acting

860
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 6: because I'm so line focused and worried about my faces

861
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 6: and what my body language is doing and things like that.

862
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 6: So I think now it's just like being, you know,

863
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 6: and genuinely being in that scene and and just not

864
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 6: being afraid to fuck up and just have more fun.

865
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 7: You know.

866
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 6: But Misner is pretty pretty next level. So I'm still learning,

867
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 6: you know, still getting it locked in. But that's one

868
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 6: of the things I've been trying to just kind of

869
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 6: like put in my pocket so I can come through

870
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 6: it and go crazy.

871
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: And she studied, crush, you studied. I have not study.

872
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: I have a lot of book away.

873
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 7: You have.

874
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: The book is going to kill me. You know.

875
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 3: I have a lot of great methods that I used

876
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 3: to approach my acting. You know, he's amazing. You've seen Okay,

877
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:54,959
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I mean.

878
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: You talk about TV one BT you know what I'm saying,

879
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 1: v H one and the didn't tell.

880
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 3: You know, but I mean, I just finished the movie

881
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 3: which was a really really cool movie and it was

882
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 3: it was the cool It was directed by Robin Gibbons,

883
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 3: which was really cool because she's an act guitar absolutely

884
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 3: like that's that's despion, Like her choices are infinite, you

885
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 3: know what I mean. And so we have been in

886
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 3: a play together uh many moons back, but this was

887
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 3: different because she was actually you know, it's it's hard

888
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 3: to know if a great actor can can lead actors

889
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 3: into great acting, you know what I mean, because every

890
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 3: great player ain't a great coach, you know what I'm saying.

891
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 3: They don't necessarily have the gift of distributing information and

892
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 3: not correctly anyway, you know what I'm saying. And that

893
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 3: journey was crazy because it's like, as I'm dancing and

894
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:11,399
Speaker 3: into different choices and here comes this other really cool

895
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,320
Speaker 3: perspective like, oh, I didn't think about that, but you

896
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,359
Speaker 3: have a director who understands like it can also show

897
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 3: you an example and I was getting there and can

898
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 3: show you like what do you think about here?

899
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 1: What do you think about being right here, and I'm like, oh,

900
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: that's nice. Let's do that exactly. You know what I'm saying.

901
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 5: Now, let's play like now you haven't pun that was

902
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 5: a vacation. Yeah, we having a good time.

903
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: You know.

904
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,359
Speaker 3: I'm looking at you, You're looking at my piano. It's

905
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 3: just unlimited, man, It's unlimited how you can make music now,

906
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 3: you know. And since it's so unlimited, we understand you

907
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 3: got some understanding of where a lot of this music has.

908
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: Comfortable come from.

909
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 8: And absolutely you got artists that you love and you

910
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 8: grew up on and protect producers and I let you know, Leon,

911
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:12,280
Speaker 8: we just want to know your.

912
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 7: Top five, your top five? What we want to know

913
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 7: top five? Leon's top five R and B autists? Oh wow,

914
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 7: R and B songs?

915
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 4: Who are they? Who are the top five?

916
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 5: Leon? Come on, brother, that was beautiful.

917
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 3: Man.

918
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: I think you drew it a little bit.

919
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 7: Man.

920
00:45:58,239 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: Damn.

921
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 6: All right, so my top that's pretty easy. That's that's

922
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,360
Speaker 6: that's super easy. Stevie Wonder if it's.

923
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 5: Magic just the artist, just the artist, like yeah, like

924
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 5: this man here we go.

925
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, cool, So Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Prince

926
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 6: Michael Jackson, Damn, and then I'm gonna I'm gonna try

927
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 6: to find a new school D'Angelo.

928
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 5: Yes, that's my top five straight. I'm just basing it

929
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 5: off of what I listened to you.

930
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 3: You ain't no way you not making good music, Ain't

931
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 3: no way. Now with that top five, you have no choice.

932
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 3: Absolutely ship, impeccable taste, impeccable taste.

933
00:46:57,560 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: Parlor of the gods.

934
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 5: Man, appreciate at you.

935
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:02,839
Speaker 1: What about your song? What about your song?

936
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 5: See the songs. I'm gonna do some deep cuts.

937
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 7: Now.

938
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 6: If it's Magic by Stevie Wonder. It's just one of

939
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 6: those records that I just started going back to. It's

940
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 6: very simple, it's just him and a harp, just vibe now.

941
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 6: But it's just so dope, like how he wrote that,

942
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 6: and we have so many songs about about love, and

943
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 6: this was about life.

944
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 5: I thought that was really tight, you know what I'm saying.

945
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,280
Speaker 5: Marvin Gaye, what's going on? Once again?

946
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 6: A record that like talked about life like things that

947
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 6: were going on at his time. I thought that was

948
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 6: really special. Sam Cook, Change is Gonna Come? I felt

949
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 6: like that once again was like talking about something like

950
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 6: really like taking us there, you know, a studied man.

951
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 6: And then this is a is off the cuff one.

952
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 6: But Prince he has this album called Dirty Mind of course,

953
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 6: and like record head Head.

954
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,760
Speaker 5: Is one of my favorite Prince records because it's just nasty.

955
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,720
Speaker 1: You could tell Prince was up there just viving.

956
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 6: I feel like he was just at the crib going

957
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 6: crazy or wherever he was, but at the crib just five,

958
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 6: and I thought that was really dope. And then.

959
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 5: Michael Jackson human nature.

960
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,800
Speaker 3: Listen, let me tell you something that human nature timeless.

961
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 3: It's you can't get away from it.

962
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 1: You really can't.

963
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:32,360
Speaker 3: Human nature has been in the top five for countless

964
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 3: people who've come on the army, you know.

965
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 6: Quincy says, you know, we're always chasing chills, you know.

966
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:40,760
Speaker 6: And that's one of those records.

967
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 5: Man, Like the first time you hear it, like bro,

968
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:46,760
Speaker 5: like yeah, always get.

969
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: G man. Okay, all right, you've dazzled with me, young man.

970
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: Is that great feeling games planning?

971
00:48:58,640 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 5: I think it might be he was.

972
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 1: I put nothing past Greg feeling games.

973
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:06,319
Speaker 5: Greg is actually a really good friend of Babyfaces. How

974
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 5: we know, Bro. He would come out of studio and

975
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 5: just like tell the stories, like guy, the stories Man.

976
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 1: Were the coolest guy. You know. He thought that Juvenile

977
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: was saying Greg filling games.

978
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm no, lie, I'm I'm eighteen years old and

979
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 2: I'm in the studio with Babyface in Greg feeling Games.

980
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 2: And he thought that they were saying his name or

981
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 2: back then up and I said, no, sir, no, sir,

982
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 2: he yo, I don't I don't know, sir, juvenile.

983
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 1: But.

984
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:57,240
Speaker 5: There's no way. Yeah, my boy was a wilent.

985
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:08,759
Speaker 1: Y'all would never listen to that record the same again next, Yeah, Greg,

986
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:16,400
Speaker 1: you gotta stop this year. Now, that's crazy. This is

987
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: out of control, I promise the guys saying Greg feeling gangs.

988
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 1: Yeah on the record. I just never forgot that. That's

989
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: buddy we gotta have on the podcast when he comes.

990
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 3: Absolutely, there's a rumor going on that Jason started, that's great.

991
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 1: Okay, alright, le okay, you think you you think you

992
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 1: got all your ship together? What's up? We going? We're

993
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 1: gonna do an R and B voltron. I don't know

994
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 1: what that is, but let's go.

995
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,360
Speaker 5: Okay. Oh like if we could get a bit like

996
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 5: a band together.

997
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 1: That's no, it's not a band, that's all right. I

998
00:50:56,280 --> 00:51:01,240
Speaker 1: don't know, man, okay, young man, young.

999
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:12,760
Speaker 4: Man, vault it was transformers, No, it's it was five lions.

1000
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 3: Oh okay, five machine lions got red, black, blue, yellow, and.

1001
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 1: I said black, black, blue, yellow, red, and white. It

1002
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 1: was a white green green and they all were on

1003
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 1: their own lion machines and everybody. And there were five

1004
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: people that operated the lions, and they would go and

1005
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 1: fight evil all throughout the universe. And then when they

1006
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: came against the big monster, they would form a big

1007
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:43,879
Speaker 1: line the big person that looked like a human being.

1008
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 1: All the lions. Two lines with the arms, got another

1009
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: two lines was it was defeat, and the middle line

1010
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:55,800
Speaker 1: was the body. It's not that those I know in

1011
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 1: the middle lines. The middle line was the body and

1012
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: they had a sword drop.

1013
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 3: Anyway, word the Vultron is you putting your superhero r

1014
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 3: and b artists together where you're getting the vocal from,

1015
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 3: the performance style, the styling, and the passion.

1016
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: Here we go. Who are you getting the vocal from

1017
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: for your Vultron transformer?

1018
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 6: The vocal from, I would say Jasmine Sullivan right now, yeah, yeah, okay.

1019
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 3: Okay, yep, yep, yep, all right, I'll see what you're doing.

1020
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 3: Performance style, performance style, on that stage. I would have

1021
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 3: to say Prince for sure, absolutely, because he takes from everybody.

1022
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 3: FREDI stare James Brown and he's also playing all those instruments. Yeah,

1023
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:57,479
Speaker 3: if I could get that with the James Jasmine Sullivan voice.

1024
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:03,280
Speaker 1: What else? All right? What else? How you feel styling?

1025
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:04,240
Speaker 5: Styling?

1026
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:10,440
Speaker 1: Steve drip? Huh, disrespect the drip, Steve? I love you.

1027
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 6: That's interesting. His R and B has went through some

1028
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:16,800
Speaker 6: waves styling wise. I'm trying to think, who's really been consistent,

1029
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 6: you know what I say, somebody who's been consistent through

1030
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 6: multiple generations. Beyonce, let's go. I really feel like I'm

1031
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 6: trying to just build build a real strong move here,

1032
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:29,800
Speaker 6: let's go.

1033
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:35,800
Speaker 1: I like, I like, let's go, let's go. Okay, alright, alright,

1034
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 1: watch yourself now, all right? Okay.

1035
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:38,359
Speaker 2: Uh.

1036
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: The passion of the artists, part of the artists.

1037
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:48,840
Speaker 5: Passion mm hmm hm hmm. Yeah, that's James Brown.

1038
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:54,240
Speaker 1: Passion.

1039
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 5: So passion because half the time we didn't even know what.

1040
00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 1: He was talking about, bro, and we didn't care.

1041
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 5: We give a fun because of the passion we really

1042
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 5: cared about, Like how he delivered it.

1043
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 1: He said chicken change.

1044
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 5: Ticket DAGs what, no idea what it means? But like

1045
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 5: yo and felt gun, don't do no damn squealing. No

1046
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 5: you heard him, you heard it, but you heard him.

1047
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: Rappers heard him.

1048
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 5: You rappers heard him, And.

1049
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 1: No damn squealing. I ain't saying no names. I ain't

1050
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 1: saying no names. I ain't saying no names. I ain't

1051
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: saying no name. Where you was?

1052
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:35,240
Speaker 5: Who was weird?

1053
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 3: What you did?

1054
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 1: Don't say? She ain't sharing.

1055
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:52,359
Speaker 5: No, you're saying, of course that's beautiful. Man.

1056
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:56,319
Speaker 1: So this segment, what's it's called? I ain't saying, can

1057
00:54:56,360 --> 00:55:00,320
Speaker 1: you tell us a story? Funny? Fun up? Okay, funny

1058
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: and fucked up? All right? The only rule is Leon Thomas.

1059
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:08,960
Speaker 2: I cannot say no names. And I just said both

1060
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 2: of your names. You got two first names? Or is

1061
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 2: that two last names?

1062
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:16,280
Speaker 1: What you got? Because you could be Thomas Leon too, Thomas.

1063
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 3: You could be Thomas Leon Leon, Thomas Leon came through here.

1064
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 3: Man shook this the whole thing.

1065
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:27,479
Speaker 1: Man, she got crazy. You know your first and last,

1066
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 1: your last and first either one? Just don't say theirs?

1067
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 5: Okay, got you?

1068
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 1: So this is all that? Are you ready?

1069
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 5: I'm ready yet?

1070
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 1: This is Leon Thomas Leon Leon the Victorious man himself,

1071
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 1: the Lion King himself show up as the color of purple.

1072
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 3: Go on.

1073
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: Now I ain't saying no names.

1074
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:57,400
Speaker 6: Okay, So this was my first ever production session with

1075
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:00,760
Speaker 6: a really huge artist. And they get to the studio

1076
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 6: and we're working hard on the record. We finally get

1077
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 6: to the point where they're about to record and while

1078
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:14,480
Speaker 6: they're singing, they'll stop and all I hear is they

1079
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:16,719
Speaker 6: start doing push ups in between every take.

1080
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: Dang.

1081
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:22,439
Speaker 6: I was like, man, this is this is something else,

1082
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:25,479
Speaker 6: but I'm talking about like intense push ups.

1083
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:29,800
Speaker 5: Man. Throughout the entire session, we had to cut like

1084
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:33,280
Speaker 5: breathing out of some of some of the lines.

1085
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 6: But yeah, just really just like going going, And I

1086
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,320
Speaker 6: was like wow, And it was my first time ever, like,

1087
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 6: you know, producing you know, a big artist, and it

1088
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 6: was definitely different for me, to be honest with you, Yeah,

1089
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:48,880
Speaker 6: but it was kind of cool because the show.

1090
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:50,800
Speaker 5: Is I mean that finished journey. Yeah it matters you

1091
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:52,399
Speaker 5: feel me. Might take some hints.

1092
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 1: I like that, of course you do.

1093
00:56:57,600 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 6: Like that.

1094
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 3: Take some hits show because I was I was intense

1095
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 3: and listen because after about you know, you have to

1096
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:04,560
Speaker 3: get to twenty five thirty.

1097
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, whatever you got to do after that. And

1098
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 1: but the crazy thing is it actually opens up the

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Speaker 1: vocal course too. Though.

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Speaker 2: It opens up when you're doing your push ups and

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00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,480
Speaker 2: ship it opens up your voice, you know what I mean,

1102
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 2: because you're pushing, You're pushing through.

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00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:19,040
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's exercise. I was just

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00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:21,000
Speaker 1: doing it to make sure. I just want to be

1105
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 1: this nigga here, just want to You can take your

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00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:28,680
Speaker 1: shirt that's from a Testavie, right, got you listening? Everybody

1107
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:30,600
Speaker 1: not taking their shirt off at the show man?

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00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 5: You know why not?

1109
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 3: We're gonna sell something on man, tell you on that

1110
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 3: to tell you that melody is a titty you you go,

1111
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 3: you don't enjoy one of them.

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00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 1: You understand what I'm saying. Come on, I love it.

1113
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 5: I love it.

1114
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: Mockers for real.

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Speaker 5: Leon something my brother.

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00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:59,440
Speaker 3: Thank you man, Thank you bro, Thank you for for

1117
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 3: represent man. You know what I'm saying. Thank you for

1118
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:06,200
Speaker 3: just like you know, everything about you is solid.

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Speaker 7: Man.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I appreciate it.

1121
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Speaker 2: And you could have taken your music in a whole

1122
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 2: bunch of different directions, but you stayed true to this

1123
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 2: R and B thing. Man, You know what I mean,

1124
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 2: because you had You've had the opportunity to go to

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00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 2: other genres of music because of what you what you

1126
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 2: worked for and were afforded by being in that space. Absolutely,

1127
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:26,120
Speaker 2: you could have clearly been like, yeah, yeah, I'm about

1128
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 2: to go do and took this immense and amazing talent

1129
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 2: that you had and took it somewhere else, but you

1130
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 2: stayed true to R and B.

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00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: Bro Man, and we commend you for that, man.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 6: I mean, it's a genre that I love, I grew

1134
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 6: up in, you know, and it's a it's really the

1135
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:48,640
Speaker 6: art of storytelling, you know. So I genuinely want to

1136
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 6: continue to do R and B and find new ways

1137
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 6: to add some of the elements that I've taken from

1138
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 6: some of the other genres I've worked in and mix

1139
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 6: them in.

1140
00:58:55,480 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 5: But yeah, R and B is always going to be

1141
00:58:57,720 --> 00:58:58,520
Speaker 5: be home base for me.

1142
00:58:59,000 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: Thank you for that.

1143
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 3: And thank you Army Money. Army Money podcast is always

1144
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 3: home for you, that love.

1145
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:06,920
Speaker 5: Man, Thank you so much for sharing your platform you

1146
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:07,560
Speaker 5: need from us.

1147
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 1: We show up. I love it, we show up and.

1148
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 5: We cheer for real man, Thank for it.

1149
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 1: Thanks likewise, Yeah, it's it's about it.

1150
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 3: It's about continuing to to to establish maintain that bridge

1151
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, Like, it's important that we

1152
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:26,680
Speaker 3: are all connected.

1153
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's important that.

1154
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, that the things we've learned

1155
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 3: and whatever fuel we have to feed into you to

1156
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:36,200
Speaker 3: keep this thing going at a level that we do

1157
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 3: that it is important for us to do that.

1158
00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 5: I really appreciate it.

1159
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously, I've been a fan of y'all for

1160
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 6: a long time, you know, so, I mean just even

1161
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 6: being here and kicking it. I mean, we've met a

1162
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 6: bunch of you know, a bunch of times in the past,

1163
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:50,640
Speaker 6: but you know, this really means a lot to me.

1164
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:52,520
Speaker 1: So thank you, man. I appreciate bro.

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00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:53,680
Speaker 5: I like, it's love.

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Speaker 1: That's a young man right there. Your grandmam say, do

1167
00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 1: you know that nice young man? You should be more

1168
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,520
Speaker 1: like him. That's who you should be like with your

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01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 1: raggedy ass ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 5: Name is.

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Speaker 3: And this is the R and B Money podcast, the

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01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 3: authority on all things R and B. His name is

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01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 3: Leon Thomas. His name is Leon Thomas. His name is

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01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 3: Leon Thomas.

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Speaker 1: And he's a superstar. Thank you, Thank you, appreciate you.

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01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 3: R and B Money.

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Speaker 1: R and B Money is a production of the Black

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01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 1: Effect Podcast Network. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your

1180
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:42,320
Speaker 1: favorite shows.

1181
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 2: Don't forget to subscribe to and Radar Show and you

1182
01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 2: can connect with us on social media at Jay Valentine

1183
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 2: and at the Real Tank.

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01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:55,760
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