1 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 1: R and B Money. We are Jake Valati. We are 2 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: the authority on all R and B. 3 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. My name is Tank. 4 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 1: This the R and B Money. We're gonna call this 5 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: Bay Area Audition. 6 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 3: Yeah you know you don't you know, listen in honor 7 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 3: of the R and B. 8 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: You know, I moved my call around a little bit. 9 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:35,879 Speaker 1: You know what I say. 10 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 2: I want this to be an authentic You know what 11 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 2: I'm saying. 12 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: You know, I'm finna pass it over, you know, for 13 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: the first time. My brother, you know, know, the Silky 14 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: one himself. 15 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 16 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 1: It's the lovender himself, Jake Valentine, the Valentine you do. 17 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 4: Today we got somebody really special. We got a young 18 00:00:57,680 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 4: fellow that's really from the claw. 19 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, late night, late night, you fella. 20 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 4: You know I mean not that that that past midnight, 21 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 4: that that not that one am, but that he's come 22 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 4: to bless us with his presence today, you know what 23 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 4: I mean? And in all his you know they said 24 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 4: I'm light skinned. He a different type of las. 25 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:19,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean. You know, he got 26 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 2: he got it laid down. 27 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 6: He can take it out and show you the Lord Jesus. Yeah, 28 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 6: hell to have straight from Oakland, California, Adria and Mars. 29 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 7: Yeah the podcast having me baby that you're having me. Man, 30 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 7: you're saying I'm the light skinned one. But bro, you 31 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 7: still look like you'll go to Filmo, put a wig 32 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 7: on a pig and make a gig though. 33 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about is that how we started. 34 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 7: Yes to edition. 35 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 4: We have to see your collar can't be a pop 36 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 4: right now because it's always up. 37 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:12,359 Speaker 1: If if be Nod would tell you anything what I'm saying, cool, 38 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 1: I'll tell you send them in Milwaukee. It's Milwaukee. It's 39 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 1: finest brother. 40 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 2: Thank you, man, thank you. 41 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: I mean, we know we have a good time off caramel, 42 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: so you know we skip all the formalities. Man, just 43 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: get right to men. We appreciate you brother for being 44 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: here with us, for being family and just you know, 45 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 1: we just wanted to make sure you get an opportunity, 46 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: you know, to talk your talk and tell your story 47 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 1: because you know, for us it's all necessary, all of it. 48 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 49 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: And the gift that you have to have a place, yeah, 50 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,239 Speaker 1: to dwell and be comfortable and come and express themselves. 51 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 2: And that's what this place is. 52 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:52,920 Speaker 7: I feel real R and B. 53 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:57,679 Speaker 1: No. The extra level to that is just taking the 54 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: shirt off and just having a vest. 55 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 7: There you go, you know what I'm saying. 56 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: And then that's when you get to your Joe to see. 57 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 7: I'm talking about. 58 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, it's gonna be a lot of pivot this episode. 59 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 7: I don't notice it. 60 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 2: You know, it's gonna be a whole lot of a 61 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 2: lot of goal. 62 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 7: Keep game. 63 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: You know, we always you know, we always like to 64 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: go to the beginning, you know what I mean, because 65 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 1: you know, so many people, so many people want to 66 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: get started. Yeah, you know, so many people have the talent, 67 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: so many people, you know, have all of these all 68 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: of the things that come along with what you're born 69 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: with and what's in you, but don't know how to 70 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 1: get there. Right, Let's start with when you found out 71 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: you was born with it, when you knew you had it, 72 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: or when somebody told you that. 73 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 7: I mean, that was that was young man, you know, 74 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 7: that was I was like before middle school, real knee high, 75 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 7: you know what I mean. I mean once I once 76 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 7: I hit a note and the and the chicks start, 77 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 7: you feel me acting up. It was like, oh, this 78 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 7: is a thing, you know, what I mean this is, 79 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 7: this is a feeling. And then after that, man, I 80 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 7: think it was it had to be Bro one hundred 81 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 7: percent genuine Bro dropped And at that point, you know 82 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 7: what I'm saying, Drip had to drop. You feel me? 83 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:20,479 Speaker 7: Excuse me, but you feel me. That's that's kind of 84 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 7: like what set the tone because I'm like, oh, this 85 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 7: nigga looked like me. You know what I'm saying, like 86 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 7: you feel this. 87 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 2: He's the class. 88 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 5: Way, but you feel me. 89 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 7: But it was it was at that point, man like 90 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 7: in the way it was affecting people because it went 91 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 7: from the girls my age to the teachers, you know 92 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 7: what I'm saying, and then and and the adults and ship. 93 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 7: That's that's like, man, they pulling me out of out 94 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 7: of class and ship to come you know what I mean, 95 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 7: singing or whatever, you know. And my mom got pissed 96 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 7: me one time. 97 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 5: Man. 98 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 7: It was a p t A meeting. 99 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 5: Man. 100 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 7: I got up there and you know what I mean, 101 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 7: saying some jodousy you know what I'm saying, A yeah, 102 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 7: I was singing at the PTA meetings, bro, you know, 103 00:04:58,320 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 7: for the for the parents. 104 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: You know, it's a lot of cases, right, there's a 105 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 1: lot of cases right now coming on me. There's another 106 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: we don't just saying. You know, you know, sometimes the 107 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 1: teachers can't help themselves. 108 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 7: It'd be like that, it'd be like that, you know 109 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:26,160 Speaker 7: what I'm kids, man, But no, man, it was uh 110 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 7: at that point, man, it was just the way I 111 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 7: felt though, the way I felt like doing it. You 112 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:33,239 Speaker 7: know what I'm saying. How you affect you know, affect people, 113 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 7: I mean, change their moods, you know what i mean, 114 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:37,840 Speaker 7: change they change attitudes and stuff like that. So, I 115 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 7: mean that's when I knew young, you know. And I 116 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 7: think my mom she she peeped at early too, that 117 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 7: it was something that was that was in my flesh, 118 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 7: you know what I mean, that it was gonna happen 119 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 7: one way or another. So she jumped on it. 120 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 5: Man. 121 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 7: She kept me in so many programs and ship to 122 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 7: where it's like at this point now so versatile, you know, 123 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 7: and and it's not just R and B for me, 124 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, like training classical and jazz 125 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 7: and all these other genres and shit. And I think 126 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 7: at that point it was it was something not I know, 127 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 7: I just had to take it serious, man, you know 128 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 7: what I mean, I wanted to be a true representation. 129 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,720 Speaker 7: You know. It started out for the family, but then 130 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 7: you know, a group of like the Bay you. 131 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 5: Know what I'm saying. 132 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 1: Yeah, So in her in her support of view, Yeah, 133 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 1: did did she have any avenues or new people in 134 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,159 Speaker 1: terms of trying to get you to that space? Or 135 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 1: was just like it was. 136 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 7: All about figuring out, figuring it out, you know what 137 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 7: I'm saying. Like she was she was at a space 138 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 7: where you know what I mean, She's in the newspapers, 139 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 7: she's you know, looking up shit, you know, trying to 140 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 7: figure out. She was really just trying to do anything 141 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 7: that would keep me off the streets, you know what 142 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 7: I mean, because you know how it is in the 143 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 7: town Oakland, Brough. It's easy to get distracted, It's easy 144 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 7: to fall into the shit, you know. So she just 145 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 7: wanted to keep me busy. 146 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 5: So she did her own research. 147 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, And I went to What changed it all 148 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 7: was when I went to Oakland School for the Arts 149 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 7: that's in downtown, you know what I mean. And at 150 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 7: that point they had just had their first year, so 151 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 7: it was only ninth and tenth grade, you know, so 152 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 7: when I came, it was only two years there, man, 153 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 7: so I had time to be noticed and be and 154 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:03,280 Speaker 7: really honed in. You know what I'm saying. You had 155 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 7: all these all these people from around the world that 156 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 7: was coming in, whether it was acting, vocal, h illustrations, 157 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 7: whatever it is, like they was coming in and really 158 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 7: going in with us. You know. So man, for four years, 159 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 7: five eight to five thirty, every day you feel me 160 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 7: music and vocal and. 161 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 5: Oh so when you so when you first went there, 162 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 5: it was nineteen tenth, but you. 163 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 7: But by every year it's stocked on. Yeah. So even 164 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 7: like you know, uh, the Klanis and Zendayas and stuff 165 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 7: started to come in as they started to build their 166 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 7: their network and everything like their network. So every year 167 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 7: we stacked on another grade, you know what I'm saying, 168 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 7: And until it got once they got twelfth grade, then 169 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 7: they started to bring in middle school and all that. 170 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 7: You know. So I mean, like I said, it was 171 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 7: right in the heart of downtown man. You know, like 172 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 7: we was in the We was in the parking lot 173 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 7: of the Fox, you know what I mean, rocking like that. 174 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 5: Man. 175 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 7: So that was where it all kicked off for me, 176 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 7: like her keeping me in the realm of just artistry, 177 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 7: just all day round, artists all day, whether it was dancers, singers, actors. 178 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 7: You feel me. Like if I went to Skyline, Brad, 179 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 7: I had like eight kids. You know what I'm saying 180 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 7: about eleven braid. You feel me. It's it just it 181 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 7: would have been too much. 182 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 5: You can know the Skyline. But I've been up to Skyline. 183 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 7: I've been up to Skyland. You know I got into 184 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 7: enough trouble going up to Skyline. You feel me. 185 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 2: But what Skyline give me? 186 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 4: To give me the it's the place in Oakland where 187 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 4: and I'm from San Francisco, so it was a whole 188 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 4: nother travel for me. Like, it's the place in Oakland 189 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 4: where you will find what you're looking. When you're looking 190 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 4: for everything, you will find with you everything. 191 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 5: They are there. 192 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 7: You want problems, go there, you want a bad one, 193 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:36,719 Speaker 7: you want go there. 194 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 1: There. 195 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:39,719 Speaker 5: It's that school. You know what I mean? 196 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: That's school. 197 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 7: Yeah, sure, and that's what it would have been at 198 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 7: You feel me. But you know she she made sure man, 199 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 7: she kept me focused. Man I was. I was in 200 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 7: so many Young Musicians programs at U see Berkeley's and 201 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 7: things like that. Bro I didnd no time to really 202 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 7: kick it. So a lot of my early years was 203 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 7: all about if this is what you're gonna do, you're 204 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:00,079 Speaker 7: gonna do it twenty four to seven. You no, No, 205 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 7: I'm the youngest though, you know, so you figure, you know, 206 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 7: you to focus. Yeah, the focus was able to be 207 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 7: directly on me, like everybody was gone doing their thing, 208 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:10,839 Speaker 7: you feel me. So it was like, okay, we want 209 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:12,559 Speaker 7: to we need to see something out of you. You 210 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 7: know what I'm saying. Any mistakes that was made early on, 211 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 7: it's like I'm getting the butt of at Like you 212 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 7: can't go hang out because we know what happens when 213 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 7: when when you know what I'm saying, we let our 214 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 7: kids go hang out, you feel me. So it just 215 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:26,559 Speaker 7: kept me focused. Man. So now when I when I 216 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 7: think about it, doing this, having this career, man, and 217 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 7: being in this field, it's always say, man, it's perfect 218 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 7: for me, you know what I mean. Like it's the 219 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,319 Speaker 7: long hours you foree me, the early mornings, late nights, 220 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:40,559 Speaker 7: you feel me, the instant travel, the changes, the audibles, 221 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 7: all of that, Like it's all it's all part of 222 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 7: what I grew up doing. And really this school prepared 223 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 7: you for absolutely. I'll never I'll never shit on them 224 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 7: for that, man, always say. It was probably like the 225 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 7: beginning of it all, Like you know, we get to school, man, 226 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 7: you think you finna go. You know what I'm saying, 227 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:57,680 Speaker 7: regular ass day man, they're like, hey, check it out. 228 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 7: You you, you, you, and you y'all. Come on, we 229 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 7: got to go to LA. We got to go get 230 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 7: this money. You know what I'm saying, because it was 231 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 7: it wasn't like tuition base. It wasn't tuition based. It 232 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 7: wasn't like you're paying to go there's a charter school. 233 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 7: So they got to get their money out of the city. 234 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. They got to get their 235 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 7: money off of like donations and sponsorships. So we got 236 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 7: to go over here. We gotta sell it. So you 237 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 7: and you come on. 238 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 5: What I'm saying for these people today, yeah you feel me. 239 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 7: And next thing you know, you come out and they 240 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 7: got a bag and we ain't have to do no 241 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 7: homework and forget that test. Don't worry you passed. You 242 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 7: know what I'm saying. 243 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: That said he early music, business, business, football scholarship. 244 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 7: To me learned I learned early on. I learned early on, bro, 245 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 7: it is how much you're worth. You know what I'm saying, 246 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 7: what how much? How much can you show out like 247 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:48,719 Speaker 7: when the show turned, when the light come on, like 248 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 7: what you about to do? You know what I'm saying. 249 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 7: And when you show out that time and they see 250 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 7: all we can depend on it, it's like we calling 251 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 7: your number every time, you know what I'm saying. So 252 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 7: I went from the newbie there that was like you know, 253 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 7: you ain't getting no solos because it Yordy and ship 254 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 7: like that. It's like, nah, put him in you know, 255 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,559 Speaker 7: it's all these singers and in me because he had 256 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 7: he had value value to it, you know what I'm saying, 257 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 7: Because I gave I gave it ship, bro, you know 258 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 7: what I'm saying. It was like I wanted to be 259 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 7: the best. I wanted to be up there with the 260 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 7: best you feel me doing me? So that's always been 261 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 7: the goal for me, Ship even today. You know what 262 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 7: I'm saying. I want to be the best version of 263 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 7: me you feel me in this game. 264 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: It's just about being like having some sort of early 265 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: upbringing in this kind of thought process in order to 266 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:32,079 Speaker 1: truly truly be. 267 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 2: Prepared for for it not to be a shock. 268 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,079 Speaker 1: For sure, when you get thrown into that fire, you know, 269 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, because that's a lot of what happens 270 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:44,680 Speaker 1: to artists, you know, when when when they when they when. 271 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 2: They take a real hit. 272 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: They aren't prepared for any of that because the ship 273 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 1: looks cool on the outside, but the ship that's really 274 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: going on on the undercurrent like nasty, like the music 275 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: and all the ship that you actually see. Yeah, that's 276 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:07,559 Speaker 1: that's fifteen percent of it. That other eighty. 277 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,679 Speaker 7: Five let me tell you. 278 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 2: Just trying to get to the state. 279 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, for sure. You gotta love this shit, man. 280 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 2: You you have no clo you have no choice. 281 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 7: You have to love it. And if you don't, you 282 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 7: either you're either gonna love it or you're gonna are 283 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:19,959 Speaker 7: you gonna regret? 284 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 5: It has to be an obsession, yeah, period. It has 285 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 5: to be an obsession. 286 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 4: For sure, because there there are there's nothing pre set. 287 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, nothing guaranteed at all. 288 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 7: There's no there's no yeah, nothing. 289 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 4: That obsession has to get you over that heel most 290 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 4: of the time, not even something you people are like, oh, 291 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 4: you know some of the time, you just gotta go no, no, no, no, no, no, 292 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 4: all of the time, all the time, because you have 293 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 4: to be able to meet those those moments. Yeah, when 294 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 4: it's your moment, like you said you want, you were 295 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 4: like I need it for I need it? 296 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 7: Yeah, I want it. I want It's like you know, 297 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 7: you you're playing ball, like, don't get a niggave rock 298 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 7: who don't want the ball the last shot? 299 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 5: So were they setting y'all up? Obviously they were preparing 300 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 5: you guys creatively? 301 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:09,719 Speaker 4: Yeah, but were they also Are there business classes at 302 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 4: this school too? 303 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: No? 304 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:14,319 Speaker 7: At this point, it was pure creation. It was pure 305 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 7: creative space. You know what I'm saying. I think that 306 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:18,960 Speaker 7: that was the only thing that was lacking. So for 307 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 7: me coming into this business, this this this industry. For me, 308 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 7: that was college for me. I didn't go to college, 309 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. I looked at it like, 310 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 7: you know, I got I got accepted to Berkeley College 311 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:31,200 Speaker 7: of Music, Boston, you know what I'm saying, UCLA, all 312 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 7: these dope as schools and shit. You know, I auditioned 313 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:36,200 Speaker 7: for that in eleventh grade and got accepted so at 314 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 7: a scholarship. But for me, it was like Mom, if 315 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 7: I go there, it's gonna be ugly, Like you're finna 316 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 7: let me out on my own after all these years 317 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 7: of like straight booked up, busy all day, every day, weekends, 318 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 7: all of that. You know what I'm saying, Like I'm 319 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 7: gonna let loose, you know. But coming into this industry, though, man, 320 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 7: that's when you know, I found out the real shit, 321 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. And I told myself, Like 322 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 7: when I was about to sign my first deal, like, 323 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 7: you know, there was you know, usually you know, you 324 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 7: had that voice, that voice of God or whatever that 325 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 7: is for you that you know what I'm saying, you're 326 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 7: listening to, like hold on, don't do that. You know, wait, 327 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:13,959 Speaker 7: hold on, you know what I'm saying. When it was 328 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:15,959 Speaker 7: trying to sign that deal, bro, it was silent, you 329 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 7: know what I mean. So it was just me and 330 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 7: my thoughts and my feeling. And I remember telling myself, bro, look, 331 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 7: if I want to be a doctor, I'm gonna spend 332 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 7: twelve years in school. If I want to be a lawyer, 333 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 7: i'ma spend twelve years in school. I'm like, look this contract, 334 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 7: say five years, it's college. Whatever I learned at this 335 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 7: point is what I learned. Whether it worked, whether whether 336 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 7: I win or lose on this, it's gonna be a 337 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 7: lesson and I'm gonna keep going anyway, you know what 338 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 7: I'm saying. So I signed it, you know, and I 339 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 7: look at myself today like, man, that's the best thing 340 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 7: I could have did was go through that shit, you 341 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 7: know what I mean, have a record and find out 342 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 7: what it means to not be on the publishing of it, 343 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. To find out what it 344 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 7: means to not make royalties on that one, you know 345 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 7: what I'm saying, Like to find out like that show 346 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 7: money you feel me, the difference between that and that 347 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 7: long back end money and all that. You know what 348 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 7: I'm saying, Like the networking, you feel me, allow too 349 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 7: many people to do it for you, you know what 350 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 7: I'm saying. So going through that and experiencing it man, 351 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 7: and being able to be here like and still be 352 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 7: able to push man, still be able to work, man, 353 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 7: and still hold the weight. You know what I'm saying. 354 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 7: It's like, Yeah, I did exactly what I was supposed 355 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 7: to do, and I went through that ship and learn 356 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 7: what I needed to so I can come back now 357 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 7: on my p's and q's. 358 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 5: You know, was your first deal a major deal or 359 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 5: did you do? 360 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, so you didn't go through the production deal the 361 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 4: indie deals. No, straight to a major straight Yeah, that 362 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 4: was a Universe Republican L seven. 363 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 7: Wow, first deal, first deal, straight to it. 364 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 5: So what's so that process for you? How did that go? 365 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 4: Because it's like you just you just yeah, how did 366 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 4: you get there? 367 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 7: So Yancey Richardson you feel me, you'll know your friend 368 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 7: of our Yeah, you feel you feel me. He had 369 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 7: a group at the time, Hamilton Park. Yeah, Park and 370 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 7: my boys, you know what I mean. And uh, I 371 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 7: was seeing them because because they're one of the producers 372 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 7: beat Rock, who was from from the Bay, he went 373 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 7: out there to work on a lot of their music. 374 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 7: So we were hearing a lot of this Hamilton Park thing. 375 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 7: And then that a Bee got her deal with Yance. 376 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 7: So now both of those deals were at Atlantic in Atlantic. 377 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 7: So now in my position, you know what I'm saying, 378 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 7: being from the band looking at this and seeing Nedda 379 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 7: and all that, like, oh ship, like I ain't I 380 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 7: ain't heard it of like this, like she going in, 381 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 7: she killing, like's going crazy, like it's moving. So when 382 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 7: I got the call, it's like, man, young young man, 383 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 7: we want to bring you out here and work on 384 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 7: some music. So I'm like, say less, I didn't even 385 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 7: tell my parents till it was like the day before. 386 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 5: I leave this one. 387 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 7: She had to be like twenty two Oka, you know 388 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 7: what I mean. So I'm like, I'm out. You know 389 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 7: what I'm saying. I got a flight in six hours. 390 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 8: So you get it out, get it out. 391 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 5: Gone, think about playing, Think about what y'all told me 392 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 5: on the playe. 393 00:16:55,880 --> 00:17:04,159 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, exactly, gotta go, you feel me? And yeah, man, 394 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 7: I flew out and I remember my pops telling me, like, man, 395 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 7: stop telling people that you that you're going out there 396 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 7: for thirty days. You might go out there and come 397 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 7: back tomorrow. It might be all bad. I'm like, man, 398 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 7: you not you understand even if it's all bad, I 399 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 7: ain't coming back. I ain't coming back. Claire. 400 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 5: So you were Atlanta or Atlanta? Yeah? 401 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 7: So y yans flew me out. Man to Atlanta, he 402 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 7: was in I was in the basement for like I 403 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 7: got out there. Man, it was supposed to be thirty days. 404 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 7: We work on a record a day, you know, we 405 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 7: get a demo and we go, you know, shoot it 406 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 7: to some labels, you know, the usual. Man, that shit 407 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 7: turned into five years that I lived in Atlanta. You 408 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:42,679 Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, and through that time, Bro, I 409 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 7: remember it was times. You know, I respect Yance for 410 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 7: his his motives, like how he how he would work 411 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 7: because you know, you could tell men you're in the basement. Man, 412 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 7: you're not seeing daylight. You know what I'm saying. All 413 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 7: you doing is recording and all day long you feel me. 414 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:57,399 Speaker 7: It was like boot camp. You feel me and for 415 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 7: you it's like you're not seeing nothing. So you're gonna 416 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 7: get weird. You You're finla be like, man, I'm not 417 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 7: doing this. I'm ready to go, you know. And then 418 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 7: he'll be like, man, come come take a ride, and 419 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 7: then we'll go pull up the tree sound and Tank 420 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 7: will come outside and get in the car and listen 421 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 7: to some music. You know, is this Tank sitting up 422 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,120 Speaker 7: here in the front seat listening and shit like, wow, 423 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 7: all right, we can go a little longer, keep going. 424 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 5: Let's keep going, you. 425 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 7: Know what I'm saying. So but we we did. We 426 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,399 Speaker 7: did a bunch of records. Man, Jane Hancock. We had 427 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 7: Jane come out, man and super crazy, right, Jane came 428 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 7: out man. The crazy part is we had other writers 429 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 7: that he had originally that were known wrote for Chris Brown, 430 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:39,239 Speaker 7: writing for Trey Soon's righting for all these people. We 431 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 7: couldn't find the sound though, We couldn't find the blend 432 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:44,359 Speaker 7: you feel me. But when Jane came out, that's when 433 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 7: it locked because it was like, yeah, you're talking about 434 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:48,679 Speaker 7: this Bay area. You know what I'm saying. It's like 435 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,120 Speaker 7: it has to be with them. Yeah, me and Jane 436 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 7: was righting there, you know what I'm saying. So that's 437 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 7: what kind of that's what threw everybody off, Like, oh shit. 438 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 7: So at that point, man, we just was doing records 439 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:02,919 Speaker 7: all day long, every day, man. And and then we 440 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 7: went to when we were ready, we went to uh 441 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,159 Speaker 7: to Republic. We hollowed that couch K coach K stepped 442 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 7: in man, pulled some strings, pulled some plays, man, and 443 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 7: and made a shape. You know what I'm saying. We 444 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:15,479 Speaker 7: walked up there, man, I'm thinking we got to go 445 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 7: sell it to the Universal. 446 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:16,959 Speaker 1: Man. 447 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:22,160 Speaker 7: They're like, no, no, no, no, we want you off. No, 448 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. So we get up there, man, 449 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 7: and they're like, no, it's good. I'm ready to jump up. 450 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,159 Speaker 1: And I'm ready to get to the table. 451 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:38,440 Speaker 7: Yeah exactly. She's like, you know, Wendy Ghostly, sit down, 452 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 7: It's all good. You know. They threw the deal at 453 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 7: us man, and from there bro like you know, we 454 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 7: did the seven days a week, you know, we did 455 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:47,919 Speaker 7: the way we had waiting out man, and that that 456 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,440 Speaker 7: kind of kicked it off and opened up a fan base, 457 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 7: especially in the Bay Area because I was gone, hadn't 458 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,120 Speaker 7: been back in like three years. So we started dropping 459 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 7: and then they pulled ultimate play with that two Am. 460 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:02,880 Speaker 7: You know what I mean that that came our way. Man. 461 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 7: It took me forever to record it because I didn't 462 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:05,919 Speaker 7: I didn't like it. You know what I'm saying. It 463 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 7: was so outside of what I felt. I was on 464 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 7: like the same you know what I'm saying, I'm trying 465 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,120 Speaker 7: to I'm trying to, like, really do this. I'm like again, 466 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 7: I'm listening to the tank and and all that. I'm like, 467 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 7: I'm trying to do no two Am. I'm trying to 468 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 7: sing you feel me. But you know, they convinced me 469 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 7: to finally do it, man, and I think you did it, 470 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:28,200 Speaker 7: Uh Krishan, Uh Kyle and my boy aunt Franks. Yeah, 471 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,400 Speaker 7: so they all they all pinned that, and they pulled 472 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 7: up on me in Atlanta because I was I was 473 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 7: avoiding it every time I was out here Dan avoiding. 474 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,359 Speaker 7: We get to the studio, I'm like, we're done. Times up, 475 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. We can't do that one. 476 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 5: With that song, with that song, you're running from it. 477 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 7: I'm running down me. And finally I get a call 478 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 7: like at like one in the morning from Yeah. It's 479 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:49,640 Speaker 7: like I need you to you know the usual ship, 480 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 7: I need you to come to studio right now record 481 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 7: we record this record, like we record the record by 482 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 7: like come on. So we drive from from Panola Road 483 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 7: all the way to Snellville. You know, I'm saying, pull up. 484 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 7: These niggas are standing outside like in a line like 485 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 7: I'm finna get jumped, like, look, you got to record 486 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,160 Speaker 7: this record, like we need you to record this record. 487 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 7: So I did it, man and ship bro it might 488 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 7: had to be like two three weeks. Man, that shit 489 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 7: was out, Like I don't even remember the process. 490 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 5: Was it out with Sage on it? 491 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 7: No, So at first it came out by itself, and 492 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 7: then they pulled the play to get Sage on it. 493 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 7: And then when Sage jumped on it, it just took 494 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 7: that way like you feel me, it was gone. So 495 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 7: I mean at that point, it was like, shit, whether 496 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,439 Speaker 7: I like it or not, let's go singing rest of 497 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 7: my life. You know, that ship just just you know 498 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 7: what I'm saying. We just put up a live just 499 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 7: do a live performance thing out that I did. Man, 500 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,159 Speaker 7: shit went viral and shit, I'm like the song is 501 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 7: what it is. Man, you know what I'm saying. It 502 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 7: might not have been my cup of tea because I 503 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,679 Speaker 7: felt like you had Tie Dollar signed paranoid out, you 504 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 7: had Chris Brown. These holes ain't loyal like a Marion 505 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 7: supposed to be, like this is the sound. 506 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,119 Speaker 5: They were trying to make you fit into that outfitting of. 507 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 7: The algorithm exactly. 508 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 4: And that's a tough and that's a tough that's a 509 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 4: tough space for an artists. 510 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,640 Speaker 2: For pure especially artists. 511 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what I mean. That's that's it really is. 512 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,640 Speaker 4: It's a tough space where you have to ask yourself, 513 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:15,439 Speaker 4: do I want this ship to take care of me? 514 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure? Or do I just want to be 515 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 5: you know, in this. 516 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 4: Creative nigga walking around with the motherfucking wisdom things in sense? Yeah, 517 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:32,439 Speaker 4: saving rooms Listen, I know some very talented yeah niggas 518 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:33,120 Speaker 4: walking around. 519 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 5: Saving room for surell. 520 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, they got they used they use black soap. 521 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, they held up on all the earth niggas 522 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 1: been before the Panoramic. 523 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,920 Speaker 7: Two AM came out twenty fourteen. I got dropped twenty sixteen. 524 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 4: So yes, you put out seven days a week and 525 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:15,120 Speaker 4: that's the only project you put out. 526 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,720 Speaker 7: I put out seven days a week twenty thirteen, and 527 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 7: it led to that led to the deal, and then 528 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 7: with that because we used those records to get the deal, okay, 529 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:30,399 Speaker 7: and then from there it went to two AM. But 530 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 7: with seven days a week, they had to go back 531 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 7: because they didn't believe in seven days a week. There 532 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 7: was like, we don't focus on the waiting and all 533 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:39,919 Speaker 7: of that. So we put it again. We put it 534 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 7: out in the streets. We started in the bay and 535 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 7: then we started flooding Atlanta and all that. And then 536 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,439 Speaker 7: at that that point the label had to go back 537 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 7: and get everything cleared because we were I mean, we 538 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 7: was putting it together. 539 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 1: Bro. 540 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 7: We had Ross verses from other songs a capella that 541 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 7: we was putting on there, so people was thinking that 542 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 7: Ross had jumped on the record, and really, you feel me, yeah, 543 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 7: I mean, I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're saying the 544 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 7: finesse like it was finessing. So I mean it was 545 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 7: an ultimate play for people to be like, okay, cool. 546 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 7: So when we had to go back and revamp, it 547 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 7: was like you can only we only were able to 548 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 7: take three or four of those records and actually put 549 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,680 Speaker 7: them out, you know, and put them up. So that's 550 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 7: when they went back and started, you know, fucking with us. 551 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 7: And then we did Week after Next in between two Am. 552 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 7: So to us, that was how we keep We kept 553 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 7: ourselves afloat and I'm not going to depend on the 554 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,359 Speaker 7: label because They're not going to push this. So they 555 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,199 Speaker 7: didn't like Week after Next either, And to me, that 556 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 7: changed a lot of music. That changed the sound because 557 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,439 Speaker 7: right before that was right before bryceon Tiler and the 558 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 7: Tory Lanez and all them started coming out, it was 559 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,160 Speaker 7: a lot of that type of music that we were doing. 560 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 7: We were underground doing that, you know what I'm saying. 561 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 7: So to hear we were calling it, we were calling 562 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 7: it ratchet soul, you know what I'm saying. Like, we 563 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 7: kept saying Ratchett, so this is ratchets, so ratches so 564 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 7: and next thing I know, it trapsoul drops and. 565 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 9: It's that it's that. It's that and you could either 566 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,879 Speaker 9: like be hella mad or be like all right on 567 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 9: to the next I guess shit, you know. 568 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 7: And that's just kind of like throughout that throughout all 569 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 7: that period of time between twenty thirteen to twenty seventeen 570 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 7: was a hard a hard look at what the business 571 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,480 Speaker 7: is and experience what that really was. And that was 572 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 7: the time where you figure out, Man, is this am 573 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 7: I really finna do this? Like is this for me? 574 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,159 Speaker 7: Or you know what I'm saying, do I need to 575 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 7: go get a nine to five? And I'm like, yeah, 576 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 7: fuck that, I ain't clocking in on nobody time, Like 577 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,680 Speaker 7: I'm gonna just figure this out, you know what i mean. 578 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 7: So from there, just like a lot of independent projects 579 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,479 Speaker 7: like GMFU, you know what I'm saying. And then you know, 580 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 7: at that point, for me, I needed to take an 581 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 7: extra step back, man, because I started to feel like 582 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 7: I'm depending on too many people, you know what I'm saying, 583 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 7: Like I'm depending on other people to talk for me. 584 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 7: I'm depending on other people to come in here and 585 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 7: pin records that will keep you in the algorithm or 586 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 7: you know, produce or whatever. And again you're falling into 587 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,479 Speaker 7: that play where it's like I'm getting records, but he 588 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,679 Speaker 7: has this record, she got this record, he got this 589 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 7: I'm sick of this shit. I'm sick of like, you 590 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, don't give me nothing that you 591 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 7: didn't give a thousand other people. So for me, I 592 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 7: had to take a step back from everything. So I 593 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 7: took a step back from management, took a step back 594 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,400 Speaker 7: from just the business itself, you know what I mean, 595 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 7: to like go into my own realm and be like, 596 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,120 Speaker 7: what is publishing? What is what is? What is these mechanicals? 597 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 7: What is? 598 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: Like? 599 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 7: How how many? How many ways can I get paid 600 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,160 Speaker 7: off my music? Because I've only been getting paid off 601 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 7: one way, you know what I'm saying, Like I've only 602 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,920 Speaker 7: been getting that show money. But when your record slows down, 603 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,679 Speaker 7: that slows down completely, you know what I'm saying. So 604 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 7: there's no back end that's coming in. You know what 605 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,159 Speaker 7: I mean, There's no because again you're a newbie, so 606 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 7: you kind of like just think, hey man, I'm just 607 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,679 Speaker 7: trying to get it. So whatever y'all need to take, 608 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 7: y'all take that, and we're gonna we're gonna coast off that. 609 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 7: We're gonna take that and build off of that. You know. 610 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 7: I mean, it's a catch twenty two because at the 611 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 7: same time you learn the hard way. But shit, I 612 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,400 Speaker 7: have success based around those you know what I mean, 613 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,200 Speaker 7: That that whole play two am you know whatever. Where 614 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,639 Speaker 7: it's like today, I can still walk in someplace and 615 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,240 Speaker 7: they're like, oh, yeah, that's mister Twem. That's put that 616 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 7: shit on right now, that's him, you know what I mean. 617 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 7: So you I was able to build a fan base 618 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 7: off of this time with the label, and again, like 619 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 7: I said when I first started, it's gonna be college, 620 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 7: you know what I mean? And once I go through it, 621 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:16,120 Speaker 7: you know what I mean, I need to come out smarter, 622 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,120 Speaker 7: I need to come out better, you know. So that's 623 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 7: when the direction changed. I took I took my time, 624 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 7: and ended up meeting my boy sonny Bee, you know 625 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 7: what I'm saying. And from there that's where shit really 626 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:29,160 Speaker 7: got got crazy because I was able to take those 627 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 7: experiences and also take the time of stepping back and 628 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,720 Speaker 7: clearing my head and figuring out, like, all right, man, 629 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 7: everything that I was taught that you know, this machine 630 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,439 Speaker 7: teaches you how you have to run and how you 631 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 7: have to move. I got to get out of that. 632 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 7: I gotta I gotta throw all that shit away and 633 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 7: create this. 634 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 5: Then you also did some acting. 635 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah too in between that been blessed to do it. 636 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. We did the Bobby the 637 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 7: Bar story. You know, I got to you know what 638 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:58,640 Speaker 7: I'm saying, lace front. 639 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:56,640 Speaker 1: Player to yah. 640 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had yeah, you know what I'm saying. 641 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 7: So it was it was real cool. We met James 642 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,959 Speaker 7: years ago, you know what you feel me? They all was, 643 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 7: they all was on that ship, you know. But it 644 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 7: was cool, man. It was something that we was talking 645 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 7: about for a lot a long time. Actually, Like I 646 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 7: had the script three years before it came out, and 647 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,880 Speaker 7: at first it was a different director. They were going in, 648 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 7: they was, they was talking about it all. You know, 649 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:22,920 Speaker 7: I'm talking about I'm on a plane in New York 650 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 7: and by the end of the script, I'm up ship. 651 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 7: Like through the script though, Wow, this is crazy. And 652 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 7: then I think that, you know, because it was TV one, 653 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,119 Speaker 7: is like, we got to scale this back. We can't, 654 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 7: we can't show all of this. We got to figure 655 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 7: out a way how do we present this, you know 656 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 7: for the masses to the lifetime. Yeah, you know what 657 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 7: I'm saying. So we you know, we we you know, 658 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 7: switched up some things and ship. But at the same time, 659 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 7: brother to be able to go into that, man, I remember, like, 660 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 7: you know, my pops is an actor, you know what 661 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 7: I'm saying. Yeah, my pops came up with Denzel, with 662 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 7: del Roy and all of them like great friends with 663 00:28:58,440 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 7: with a lot of them, you know what I'm saying, 664 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 7: and went to act, you know what i mean, one 665 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 7: of the only it was only about three or four 666 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 7: black actors that were able to be in the school 667 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 7: at that time, because just in that time, it was 668 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 7: like that, like you feel me, you know, a lot 669 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 7: of them weren't actually in the school. They were a 670 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 7: part of the side program that had to do it. 671 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 7: But you know, like Denzel, my Popsdale Roy, like like that, 672 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 7: they were a part of the actual program. So he 673 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 7: was an actor, man, But he had hell the kids 674 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 7: from the bay, you know, from the town, and a 675 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 7: lot of kids, you feel me. So he had to 676 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 7: make a decision, man, like either I'm going to push 677 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 7: and probably lose the family and have some wild kids 678 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 7: running out here going crazy, or I'm I'm gonna sit 679 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 7: this down. I'm gonna do something else, you know, and 680 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 7: still very successful, was able to start his own business. 681 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 7: Man put a lot of people in position, give a 682 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 7: lot of jobs to a lot of black people, you 683 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 7: know what I'm saying. But because of that, Man, I 684 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 7: went to him. I was like, Man, I got this 685 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 7: opportunity for this role. I need you to work with me. 686 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 7: You know, started working with a man and my dad 687 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 7: is tough like so he's like, you sure you want 688 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 7: to do this because you're not really You're not really 689 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 7: that good right now. Like I'm not feeling that about 690 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 7: to embarrass it. I'm not feeling this. 691 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:10,200 Speaker 2: What do you do. 692 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 7: Right I don't know what you're going on, you know 693 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 7: what I'm saying. 694 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 1: They got anything from me? Man, I can make shine. 695 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: I think I could put the family on you know 696 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. 697 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,080 Speaker 7: You know, but but he worked for me, Man. He 698 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 7: gave me you know what I mean, he did. He 699 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 7: did you know that experience? Man put it in on me. Man, 700 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 7: and we worked for like a couple of hours. 701 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:33,760 Speaker 1: Man. 702 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 7: I remember, I'm trying to like, you know, I got it. 703 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 7: I got a tough scene, Like I got a scene 704 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 7: where it's like the climax of the movie, you know 705 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 7: what I'm saying, where you find out what was really 706 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 7: going on, you know, And for me, I'm thinking, you know, 707 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 7: I gotta be crying. So I'm in the I'm in 708 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 7: the bathroom trying to method act minds off, you know 709 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 7: what I'm saying, And finally I'm tearing up. I'm running 710 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 7: upstairs like look, look, look I got the tears. 711 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 2: It's time. 712 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 10: It's tough. 713 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 7: First time. 714 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 1: Do it. 715 00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 7: Now he's doing. Now, He's like like, man, wipe your face, 716 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 7: just back up like he like man. But he started 717 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 7: breaking it down to me. He started, he started really 718 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 7: explaining to me these these you know what I mean, Like, 719 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,239 Speaker 7: you're not supposed to be acting like you know what I mean. 720 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 7: Put me in, Put me in. He put me in 721 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 7: a position to realize, like, Okay, you got an older brother. 722 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 7: Think about a time where you you know what I'm saying. 723 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 7: I was pissed at your brother. You know what I'm saying, 724 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 7: And yeah, yeah, you didn't go through what this nigga 725 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 7: went through. But you still didn't been through a time 726 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 7: where you can we looked at your brother, somebody you 727 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 7: look up to Liken, you know what I'm saying. So 728 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 7: you had to find the relatability of it, relate to it, 729 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, and not act but react. 730 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 7: So man, we started working it, man, And that's one 731 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 7: thing about my pops, Like he's tough as ship, but 732 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 7: when he says it's good, I'm like, oh, I'm good. 733 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 7: I'm been there, you know. And I remember my mom 734 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 7: was there and she was reading and she just I'm 735 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 7: just not feeling him. He's not doing it, you know, 736 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 7: he's not pushing it. So we finally figured it out 737 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 7: and we ran, and we ran. It was actually a 738 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 7: blooperd because Moms was reading the part for us too, 739 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 7: and she's over here crying. She can't even you know 740 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 7: what I'm saying. She can't even finish the line because 741 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,880 Speaker 7: she's like, I'm sorry, it's just you know. So we 742 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 7: was like, we got I said, we're gonna send them that, 743 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 7: We're gonna send them the blue Bird, you know what 744 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 7: I mean. And two days later, man, they hit me 745 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 7: back like we yeah, you got you the part? You 746 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 7: got so yeah, man, So that was the start of Hi, Man, 747 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,120 Speaker 7: I got the I got the whole bug for for 748 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 7: acting at that point, man, you know, and just just 749 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 7: seeing set life and seeing the difference. Man, I mean 750 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 7: even with acting to that money come a lot faster. 751 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 5: Man, it's. 752 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 1: Once you get it. Yeah, you feel like nine. You 753 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: feel like like you like a wire right right. Here's 754 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,640 Speaker 1: your money. See you tomorrow. 755 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,640 Speaker 7: See tomorrow, and we'll do this all over again. We'll 756 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:45,480 Speaker 7: just we'll do this. 757 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 1: All over again. Your side are here grooming. They're waiting 758 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 1: on you. And there breakfast, breakfast, bring you. We'll bring 759 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 1: it to you. 760 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 7: We gotta trailer. 761 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 1: Uh wardrobe is coming over. They're just gonna do a 762 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: quick fitting for some things you put on the other door. 763 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 5: Out here fighting over motherfucker fruit basket. 764 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 1: I'm trying where my water feling is that I'm not 765 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: going to promote. 766 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 2: You won't see water on the rider. You don't see it. 767 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 1: I flew three thousand miles this my motherfucking watermelon. 768 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,200 Speaker 7: Stopped playing with me, man, stop ship. 769 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:29,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't like when where the blue cheese at? 770 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:34,800 Speaker 3: What the blue all red eminem stuff like it's going on, 771 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:37,120 Speaker 3: no green eminems. 772 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 4: Listen once once I've seen it. Once an artist moves 773 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,040 Speaker 4: over to the acting sign, it's hard. 774 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 2: To get him to come back. 775 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,080 Speaker 1: I'll be even foxing about like Fox. I'm telling you 776 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 1: we need to get this one. He says, No, I 777 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,760 Speaker 1: feel you we should get it. I'm gonna call you back. 778 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,080 Speaker 7: I'm gonna call you back down exactly. 779 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,320 Speaker 1: Hey, Jamie Fox starting a new film over New Zealand, 780 00:33:59,480 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 1: just gonna come. 781 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,000 Speaker 2: They said the thing the wire. 782 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 7: I'm sorry for real. 783 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,720 Speaker 1: Money, real I said, no problem. 784 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 2: You know what it is, though, it's like. 785 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 1: You know, and in everything that you're saying, man, you 786 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,799 Speaker 1: know what I mean, It's like, I don't. I've never 787 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:25,359 Speaker 1: believed in the play. I've never had a plan baby period. Yeah, yeah, 788 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,479 Speaker 1: there's not. There's nothing. I can't think of one other 789 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,520 Speaker 1: thing that I was as good at as I was 790 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 1: doing music. 791 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:40,640 Speaker 7: But you're here, you're here. 792 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 3: She got something about she got caught in the mail, 793 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:49,880 Speaker 3: something about that you didn't exactly, you haven't let the 794 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:54,200 Speaker 3: package caught the mail before. 795 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,319 Speaker 7: Nice clothes, nice clothes. 796 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,279 Speaker 2: You I want to go with nice clothes off. 797 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,680 Speaker 7: Yeah, but I mean, like anything I did, honestly, you know, 798 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 7: I tried. I tried all kind of shit. 799 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 1: Man. 800 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 7: I wanted to hoop, you know what I'm saying. I 801 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,800 Speaker 7: wanted to I wanted to run track. I was fast, 802 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,600 Speaker 7: all kind of ship but every time I tried to 803 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,440 Speaker 7: do something, man, it was like God kept leading it 804 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,799 Speaker 7: back there. And I mean like abruptly, like up your 805 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,160 Speaker 7: hamstrings fucked up. You can't do that no more. You 806 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 7: know what I'm saying. Or you know what I'm saying, 807 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,719 Speaker 7: Up you done broke your female ain't no more basketball, bro. 808 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,279 Speaker 1: I would go from I would think I'm getting ready 809 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 1: to you know, really go somewhere. You know in this 810 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:34,960 Speaker 1: basketball term, I go up for a full dump bang out. Yeah. Yeah, 811 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,760 Speaker 1: I come down, step on somebody footing twists. 812 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like I'll be quiet ver. 813 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 7: So yeah, I'll be back every times that quick, every time, 814 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:46,759 Speaker 7: every time. 815 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 1: Bruh. 816 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,799 Speaker 7: So it was like for me, I always said that like, man, 817 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,400 Speaker 7: I put too many Man, how many hours did I not? 818 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,520 Speaker 7: I'm watching my peers, my homies and ship. They kicking it. 819 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,520 Speaker 7: They chilling, you know what I'm saying. They calling me like, bro, 820 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:01,040 Speaker 7: we're kicking it this weekend. No, I'm I have two 821 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,759 Speaker 7: recitals to do today. I gotta go do this. I 822 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,400 Speaker 7: got that. I'm in this. I'm building the house with 823 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,240 Speaker 7: my pop. Like they're not letting me leave. So unless 824 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:11,719 Speaker 7: y'all want to come hang out with me and do 825 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,279 Speaker 7: what I have to do. You know what I'm saying, 826 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,440 Speaker 7: pick up a hammer or some shit. Then that's the 827 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,719 Speaker 7: only way we kicking it. So for me, it was like, bro, 828 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,319 Speaker 7: I did not sacrifice all of these years and all 829 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,000 Speaker 7: of this time to not do it, to not see 830 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,240 Speaker 7: it through you feel me. So even in my family, 831 00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,880 Speaker 7: you know, I see I've seen it before, Like moments 832 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,040 Speaker 7: was like, you know, the people that love you, that 833 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,040 Speaker 7: are that are that are supporting you, but they're not 834 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,440 Speaker 7: in the field. They don't see the little winds that 835 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:39,480 Speaker 7: tell you keep going, indicators like, they don't see that. 836 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:43,279 Speaker 7: They only see what comes out. So they're like, how 837 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:44,880 Speaker 7: are you? So these are the same people who were 838 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,800 Speaker 7: putting me in these programs, same people who was making 839 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,560 Speaker 7: me do you know what I'm saying, keeping me out 840 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,960 Speaker 7: the streets doing this, that are now that are at 841 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,520 Speaker 7: that point saying you don't want to get a nine 842 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 7: to five Like you don't want to not because that's 843 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 7: not what you that's not the setup you gave me. 844 00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,759 Speaker 7: The setup you gave me was this is it. This 845 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,239 Speaker 7: is what I'm going to be doing for the rest 846 00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:05,759 Speaker 7: of my Even a commercial came out one time, but 847 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,920 Speaker 7: I swear. I said that, like, what if everything you've 848 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,200 Speaker 7: been through, everything you've done in your life led you 849 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,200 Speaker 7: up to what you do today. And when I heard that, 850 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,080 Speaker 7: I'm like, that's that has to be me, that has 851 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,360 Speaker 7: to be my life. You feel me? And for me 852 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,959 Speaker 7: it was like, no, it wasn't about no time frame. 853 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,920 Speaker 7: A lot of motherfuckers start to think that the date 854 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,520 Speaker 7: put the date is bigger than the destination. You feel me, 855 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,040 Speaker 7: and it's really about the destination. It don't matter when 856 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 7: you get there, your me or how you got there. 857 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,359 Speaker 7: You got there, get there, you know what I'm saying. 858 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:33,759 Speaker 7: You just got to get there. And for me, that 859 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,120 Speaker 7: that was That's what it was man. And today now 860 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,760 Speaker 7: I'm in a position where you know, I was always 861 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,759 Speaker 7: so scared to claim independency, Like I was like, no, 862 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,280 Speaker 7: you got to be on a label, because that's what again, 863 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,640 Speaker 7: the machine convinces you, like if you talk about independent, 864 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,160 Speaker 7: all people ain't gonna want to fuck with you. Man, 865 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,799 Speaker 7: You ain't you ain't you keep that Universal Republic name 866 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:56,359 Speaker 7: up there as long as you can. Like no, Man, 867 00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:00,279 Speaker 7: today it's like I'm we independent, my whole team, the brodies, Man, 868 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,040 Speaker 7: we we do everything. You know what I'm saying, film, 869 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:06,560 Speaker 7: our own videos, concepts. You know what I'm saying, songwriting 870 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,920 Speaker 7: and producing, and there is no more Ever, somebody has 871 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,879 Speaker 7: a record that I recorded that never happened again. That's done. 872 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,160 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, because it's it's all. It's 873 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:16,719 Speaker 7: it's us putting it all into it. You know what 874 00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:20,280 Speaker 7: I'm saying. It's like you'll never hear agent is signed 875 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:20,760 Speaker 7: to someone. 876 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:26,120 Speaker 4: What's the name of the label? Now Broody that's in it. 877 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:26,680 Speaker 1: Yeah. 878 00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,360 Speaker 7: We got Sonny Bee. We got Sonny you know what 879 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,839 Speaker 7: I'm saying, crazy songwriter, singer. You know what I'm saying. 880 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,359 Speaker 7: We got my boy momo director. We got my man 881 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,880 Speaker 7: hell of Frames, Carl. We call him special K. You 882 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:38,759 Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, because this man is a He's 883 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,000 Speaker 7: a beast. You know what I'm saying with that camera man. 884 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,759 Speaker 7: You know, we got Sharene being supreme. She here. You 885 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:45,600 Speaker 7: know what I'm saying. With all our finances and all 886 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,399 Speaker 7: of that, you feel you know what I'm talking about. 887 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:50,959 Speaker 7: You know you got mister. You know what I'm saying. 888 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,600 Speaker 7: By life, you feel me. You know what I'm talking about. 889 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:59,120 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. So you know it's and 890 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,880 Speaker 7: and again it's there's there's more as that that have 891 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,239 Speaker 7: been stacking on, man, but it's just us building that 892 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,319 Speaker 7: network or coming together. Like, Man, it's really a group 893 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,520 Speaker 7: of creatives, men that have all been through their own 894 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,719 Speaker 7: level of shit in the industry, you know, but it 895 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,719 Speaker 7: didn't kill them, It didn't knock them, you know what 896 00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:16,120 Speaker 7: I'm saying. It was like, no, you just got to 897 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,320 Speaker 7: be around the right situation, the right people that believe 898 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,160 Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. And for the past two years, man, 899 00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:24,279 Speaker 7: we didn't. Probably we took a step back, man and 900 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:28,560 Speaker 7: just did nothing but recording, writing, recording, producing. Like it's 901 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,200 Speaker 7: a lot of music that has come out since then, 902 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,879 Speaker 7: since twenty twenty. It's a lot of music and we're 903 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,600 Speaker 7: listening to it and it's like, okay, keep doing what 904 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,000 Speaker 7: we're doing. I mean, we were all about cultivating this 905 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,880 Speaker 7: R and BA sound. I mean that it was about 906 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:44,680 Speaker 7: taking a step away from R and B. Like I 907 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,480 Speaker 7: love Mario you feel Me, I love Eric Bellinger, I 908 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,080 Speaker 7: love I love I love all of these artists that 909 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,400 Speaker 7: are R and B artists, you know what I'm saying. 910 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,200 Speaker 7: And I'm taking my step away from that, Like now 911 00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,319 Speaker 7: I'm gonna do something that you guys can't do. You 912 00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,160 Speaker 7: guys can't be R and B A. You know what 913 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,240 Speaker 7: I'm saying, You're not from the Bay. It's just facts, 914 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,120 Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. So everything in the so 915 00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:04,880 Speaker 7: how we talk on these lyrics and you know what 916 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:06,920 Speaker 7: I'm saying. We say like watch out for you just 917 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,160 Speaker 7: missing you know what I'm saying, Like you said, this 918 00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,040 Speaker 7: is bib City, you know what I'm saying. So it's 919 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:15,719 Speaker 7: like we're bringing these concepts that are from our hometown. 920 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,200 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. We we and records talking 921 00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:21,080 Speaker 7: about going Stewie on an R and B level. Though 922 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,880 Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, you're taking high feet productions 923 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,200 Speaker 7: and you putting this Bay Area lyricism on it. But 924 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,640 Speaker 7: at the same time, you're using these melody driven you 925 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,640 Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, You're making it about the melodies 926 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:33,640 Speaker 7: that is R and B. You know what I'm saying, 927 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:35,920 Speaker 7: That a tank can still sing it, you feel me. 928 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:37,480 Speaker 7: But at the same time, you know what I'm saying, 929 00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,480 Speaker 7: because we're the only place in the world brand you notice, 930 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,440 Speaker 7: like in the Bay you you got DJs that was 931 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:46,160 Speaker 7: blending Keep the Sneak forty two short. You know what 932 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,160 Speaker 7: I'm saying, Like I'm in the building and I'm feeling myself. 933 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:53,960 Speaker 7: You feel me, and then all of a sudden, m 934 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,160 Speaker 7: Mario coming on. You still still, You're still going dumb 935 00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,279 Speaker 7: You feel me? Like it was the only place in 936 00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,200 Speaker 7: the world where they were blending music like that. This 937 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,600 Speaker 7: music is a product of that. This music is a 938 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,359 Speaker 7: product of the hiphi era. And just at that time, 939 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,080 Speaker 7: all we're doing is we're putting uh, we're putting a 940 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,719 Speaker 7: name on it. You r and bab bro. What I'm saying, 941 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:18,080 Speaker 7: she ruf the trouble, y'all, she ride on. You feel. 942 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:20,200 Speaker 1: Young. 943 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,600 Speaker 7: Now we're coming and now we're coming in, and let's 944 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:24,880 Speaker 7: take that and let's build off of that. 945 00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:26,400 Speaker 5: Absolutely, you know what I'm saying. 946 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,880 Speaker 7: Let's build off that you're saying, go dumb dog. 947 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:33,279 Speaker 4: And at the end of the day, it was and 948 00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:37,319 Speaker 4: you and I had this conversation some years back. To 949 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,959 Speaker 4: a certain degree, we live on our own island. Yeah, 950 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:45,040 Speaker 4: for sure, we always have. And it's something that the 951 00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:49,840 Speaker 4: industry as a whole just kind of comes and picks from, 952 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,080 Speaker 4: you know, take pieces. 953 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,080 Speaker 5: Of it, you know, move it and run around with it. 954 00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,879 Speaker 5: And it's and you know that's fine because we've allowed that. 955 00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:01,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, but standing in front of it, you're going to 956 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:05,040 Speaker 4: take a different type of chance, especially if you're going 957 00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,440 Speaker 4: to do it through a major label. And that was 958 00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,160 Speaker 4: the conversation I have with you when you were still 959 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:13,520 Speaker 4: on Republic. I'm like, listen, I went through this. They 960 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:18,080 Speaker 4: don't get it. They'll never get it because they're not 961 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,879 Speaker 4: they're not there, and because we're so. 962 00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:26,319 Speaker 5: Like, we're so. 963 00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:32,520 Speaker 4: Hardcore about what's the bay and what ain't the bay 964 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:37,640 Speaker 4: that we don't fully let people in. So they come, 965 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,080 Speaker 4: they get a piece, and they get the fuck on 966 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,600 Speaker 4: because at some point it's going to be somebody that 967 00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,360 Speaker 4: be like that nigga ain't from here. 968 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,200 Speaker 7: Let's get it. 969 00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:51,000 Speaker 4: And instead of fully embracing, you know people that you know, 970 00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,240 Speaker 4: like listen, when Drake came and did. 971 00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,200 Speaker 5: He showed nothing beloved. 972 00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,520 Speaker 4: But there were people there that felt the way for sure, 973 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,719 Speaker 4: instead of fully embracing I remember what Fab had to 974 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,839 Speaker 4: go through by fucking with Drake and people be like. 975 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,040 Speaker 5: Fab, why are you in? 976 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:08,439 Speaker 2: Fab? 977 00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,520 Speaker 5: It's like, bro, like this is help and what. 978 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,440 Speaker 4: We're doing it's just putting a light on on on 979 00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,239 Speaker 4: exactly on our region and what we do like we 980 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:17,520 Speaker 4: should embrace. 981 00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:18,640 Speaker 7: This well, I mean on top of that, you know, 982 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,440 Speaker 7: we're one of those places where it's like man, everybody 983 00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,879 Speaker 7: is is trying to be the man themselves individually. It's like, man, 984 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,960 Speaker 7: I gotta you winning man again, winning man. My shit 985 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:29,520 Speaker 7: harder than his, you know what I'm saying, Rather than 986 00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,919 Speaker 7: everybody coming together. You go to Atlanta, how I learned 987 00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,160 Speaker 7: it like you go to one studio bro with You're 988 00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:37,360 Speaker 7: going there with Jazzy faith Bright and is going to 989 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,040 Speaker 7: walk in there and and fucking around, you know what 990 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,440 Speaker 7: I'm saying. But out here in the Bay, it was 991 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,919 Speaker 7: always like to each his own, Yeah, to each his own. 992 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:47,880 Speaker 7: So for us, it was about to me, it was 993 00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,840 Speaker 7: like looking at what you the foundation like that you 994 00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,319 Speaker 7: laid out and people that before us laid out with 995 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:54,960 Speaker 7: this R and BA shit. It was more about like 996 00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,360 Speaker 7: it's not about am coming back after two years and 997 00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:00,799 Speaker 7: dropping music. We got a hundred us new records that 998 00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,560 Speaker 7: we didne worked on just in silence, like we're not 999 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:06,120 Speaker 7: putting nothing out until we got a hundred records that 1000 00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:09,160 Speaker 7: we love. That's like this hundred, this hundred one is 1001 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,600 Speaker 7: so much better than this first one. It's crazy and 1002 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,320 Speaker 7: the first one. We love it, you know what I'm saying. 1003 00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,359 Speaker 7: But you know, we looked at it like it had 1004 00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,640 Speaker 7: to be bigger than me, than me coming back out 1005 00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,400 Speaker 7: like I'm back or I'm trying to do you know. No, 1006 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:21,719 Speaker 7: it's a Bay movement. This is about us bringing the 1007 00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,560 Speaker 7: Bay together. So we're going and where we're saying, nah, 1008 00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,759 Speaker 7: like let's stop all that shit. It ain't about stock 1009 00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:28,880 Speaker 7: That ain't the Bay or this man, come on, like 1010 00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:32,000 Speaker 7: all of us put in on this this movement. When 1011 00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,120 Speaker 7: is the last time that R and B that we 1012 00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,239 Speaker 7: had a seat at the R and B table in 1013 00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,920 Speaker 7: the Bay area? And that's what that was the conversation 1014 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,360 Speaker 7: that me and Sonny B had kicking it off, was 1015 00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:45,040 Speaker 7: that what is not happening right now? Like what's not 1016 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,160 Speaker 7: out right now? Like, wh when is the last time 1017 00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:48,640 Speaker 7: that we were able to say R and B had 1018 00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:50,360 Speaker 7: a seat, that we had a seat at the R 1019 00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,360 Speaker 7: and B table in the Bay area, You know what 1020 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,560 Speaker 7: I'm saying. And that was us saying, this next two 1021 00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:58,400 Speaker 7: years is the answer. This next two years is saying, oh, 1022 00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:02,279 Speaker 7: they doing it right now. Because we've always been innovative. 1023 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:03,960 Speaker 4: We've always been a part of the business, but we 1024 00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,080 Speaker 4: never even even like I was gonna say, Tony Tony 1025 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,759 Speaker 4: Tony Tony Tony InVogue where they you know, they were 1026 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:12,320 Speaker 4: really and then obviously you move into the keaches of 1027 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:18,239 Speaker 4: Kailine's her. But still we don't have as you would say, 1028 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,480 Speaker 4: a seat. A seat is something different a see it 1029 00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,600 Speaker 4: is when a seat is when you're when it's multiple 1030 00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,680 Speaker 4: artists coming through it like you guys are doing. It's 1031 00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:32,120 Speaker 4: exactly a true collaborative process. 1032 00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,560 Speaker 1: A machine and a machine, you know what I mean. 1033 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,960 Speaker 4: Like Atlanta has their seat and it's had their seat 1034 00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,920 Speaker 4: because it's so many of them have come through it. 1035 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,480 Speaker 5: Detroit, you know what I mean. 1036 00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,120 Speaker 4: Like you know, we can go down the line and 1037 00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,239 Speaker 4: talk about different places and even La you know what 1038 00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:51,000 Speaker 4: I mean, where you talk about Brandy and Immature and 1039 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,200 Speaker 4: shit ray J and you know what I mean, and 1040 00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,960 Speaker 4: Ti Dollar Sign and it's just so many of them 1041 00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:59,080 Speaker 4: and you look up and you know and you say, damn, 1042 00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:02,000 Speaker 4: a lot of them came from the same same. 1043 00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:03,120 Speaker 5: Thing, you know. 1044 00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,920 Speaker 4: And with the Bay, we've we've never been able to 1045 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,240 Speaker 4: have that. It's always been just you know, individuals every 1046 00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:11,400 Speaker 4: couple of years, you know what I mean, Like what 1047 00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:15,080 Speaker 4: it was when It was me early on when I 1048 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,200 Speaker 4: was just putting out the records, there was no one 1049 00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:23,719 Speaker 4: for me to truly collaborate with because everybody was doing rap. 1050 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,759 Speaker 4: Everybody was rapping, and everybody was off doing their own thing, 1051 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:30,040 Speaker 4: and there was it was just no way to truly 1052 00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:30,800 Speaker 4: bring it together. 1053 00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:34,000 Speaker 7: And I think that with all of the with all 1054 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,720 Speaker 7: of that tension and term what's going on between artists 1055 00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,640 Speaker 7: trying to fight to get to the spotlight that's out there, 1056 00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,480 Speaker 7: you leave room for motherfuckers to come in and take shit. 1057 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:44,520 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. It's like we're so distracted 1058 00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:46,560 Speaker 7: fighting each other that motherfucker's coming in like, oh well 1059 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:50,080 Speaker 7: I'll take that. I'm gonna take that. And now and 1060 00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,040 Speaker 7: now all of a sudden, Hella You don't know that 1061 00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,400 Speaker 7: Hella can started in the bay. You don't know. Now 1062 00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:57,280 Speaker 7: all of a sudden, now you're saying that food slaps 1063 00:46:57,640 --> 00:46:59,919 Speaker 7: it doesn't you know what I'm saying, Like, stop taking 1064 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:01,120 Speaker 7: that ship, stop saying that. 1065 00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:12,120 Speaker 11: We just listen, We just let me say that broad 1066 00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,840 Speaker 11: he understands the difference between smack and Okay, there you go. 1067 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,239 Speaker 5: It was just funny because we was literally having this conversation. 1068 00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,400 Speaker 7: Yeah, so it's like it's it's like people coming in 1069 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:23,799 Speaker 7: and they able to take that the push and pe 1070 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,040 Speaker 7: thing like I don't know what that I don't even 1071 00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,080 Speaker 7: know what that is like pushing p No, I'm keeping 1072 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,200 Speaker 7: it pee, you know what I'm saying, Like the the 1073 00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,920 Speaker 7: the lingos that we have and how we are, how 1074 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:35,680 Speaker 7: we love, how we fight, how we feel, how we deal, 1075 00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,000 Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. Like it's always like you said, 1076 00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:41,120 Speaker 7: been on his own island. But for me now, our mission, 1077 00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:43,279 Speaker 7: you know, me and the Brody's has always been about 1078 00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:45,800 Speaker 7: man at this point. Now bring everybody in on this 1079 00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,920 Speaker 7: hand for you to rock with us, to rock with us, 1080 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:50,239 Speaker 7: it's got to be on back. 1081 00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:03,560 Speaker 2: A lot of information. 1082 00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:04,200 Speaker 1: My brother. 1083 00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,600 Speaker 5: Warming up, he's warming up ship. 1084 00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:12,080 Speaker 1: You got a lot of information, a lot of R 1085 00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:26,160 Speaker 1: and B information, And it's R n B thing is 1086 00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:34,840 Speaker 1: it's it's it's spans generation, spans now, universe. Right now. 1087 00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,480 Speaker 2: We'd have to figure out am. 1088 00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:42,480 Speaker 1: Top F. 1089 00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:50,880 Speaker 2: Your top five, my top fire, top F. 1090 00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:55,239 Speaker 1: Your top five. 1091 00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:06,920 Speaker 5: Else you'll talk. 1092 00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:31,280 Speaker 10: You yes, yeah, take your time, your time, top five five? 1093 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:41,480 Speaker 2: Who oh, Adrian Marseilles. 1094 00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,239 Speaker 7: So we're talking top of R and bay. Okay, well 1095 00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:46,000 Speaker 7: we're talking talking. 1096 00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:53,080 Speaker 1: Okay, R and Bay represent represent R and B. Lello 1097 00:49:55,680 --> 00:50:00,760 Speaker 1: your top five R and B singers the it or Live. 1098 00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:04,719 Speaker 7: Okay to five R and B singers. I'm gonna go 1099 00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:10,520 Speaker 7: with I'm gonna go with Mike, Mike, m J start writer. 1100 00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:12,040 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. 1101 00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,879 Speaker 7: We got m J, got Prince. You know what I'm saying. 1102 00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:17,080 Speaker 7: Because you know what I'm saying. You can call it 1103 00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:19,040 Speaker 7: what you want to call it. That's that's R and B. 1104 00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:20,880 Speaker 1: I'm saying, we're going to call it. 1105 00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:25,319 Speaker 7: Let's see. 1106 00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:25,640 Speaker 5: Uh. 1107 00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:28,480 Speaker 7: I gotta say for me again, I gotta say g Bro, 1108 00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:30,200 Speaker 7: you want Bro, that's. 1109 00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:38,399 Speaker 2: Listen, that's his. You know what else? 1110 00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:38,960 Speaker 5: That's his? 1111 00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:40,759 Speaker 7: Do your something? 1112 00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:42,200 Speaker 2: My pony? 1113 00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:47,720 Speaker 1: Can baby? 1114 00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:48,640 Speaker 7: Baby? 1115 00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:50,799 Speaker 2: Gotta say g. 1116 00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:56,080 Speaker 4: He asked the question, didn't answer the questions himself to yes, 1117 00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:57,520 Speaker 4: Do you want to ride the pony? 1118 00:50:58,000 --> 00:50:58,720 Speaker 5: Can I baby? 1119 00:50:59,520 --> 00:50:59,759 Speaker 7: Baby? 1120 00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:00,480 Speaker 2: Yeah? 1121 00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:01,000 Speaker 5: Yeah? 1122 00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:10,880 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, we say oh yeah, Oh gotta say. Gotta 1123 00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:11,520 Speaker 7: say stokely. 1124 00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,680 Speaker 2: You gotta gotta say stokely, Bro, You gotta say stoke. 1125 00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:15,320 Speaker 7: You gotta say stokely. 1126 00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:15,480 Speaker 1: Bro. 1127 00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,080 Speaker 5: Come on the condition you have the. 1128 00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:20,120 Speaker 1: Clock, you better you better know something about some stokely 1129 00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:20,440 Speaker 1: If you have. 1130 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:22,600 Speaker 7: We said, we said, we got Stokely, got g we 1131 00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:27,600 Speaker 7: got got my Prince, and I think baby face, Bro, 1132 00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:30,239 Speaker 7: say baby face because I mean, bro, this this is 1133 00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,759 Speaker 7: the birthed a lot of this ship out here. You 1134 00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:35,239 Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, Like all these songs, you know 1135 00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:39,560 Speaker 7: what I mean, We're not here, We're not here with exactly. 1136 00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:41,040 Speaker 7: That's definitely my top five. 1137 00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:43,840 Speaker 2: It's the feeling of the texture. 1138 00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:47,719 Speaker 7: Yeah, King, Yeah, Yeah, I like you. 1139 00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:48,719 Speaker 2: I like your attitude. 1140 00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:53,720 Speaker 1: Okay, your top five R and B songs. 1141 00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:56,560 Speaker 7: Okay, so anxious. 1142 00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:01,160 Speaker 5: Listen you know you talking to g wis background. 1143 00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:05,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, I started YouTube. 1144 00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:06,320 Speaker 1: I do all that. 1145 00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:12,360 Speaker 7: I'm gonna say where I want to be, what will be? 1146 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,960 Speaker 7: That's that's what a master. A master that album from 1147 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,600 Speaker 7: top to bottom, the master. That's that top to bottom 1148 00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:25,880 Speaker 7: where I want to be. Oh, diamonds and diamonds and. 1149 00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:27,920 Speaker 2: Pearls for sure, bro, Yeah. 1150 00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:33,120 Speaker 7: You feel me? Come on, diamonds and pros. And if 1151 00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,759 Speaker 7: I say diamonds and pros, I gotta say butterflies. Got 1152 00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:41,080 Speaker 7: to say butterflies, m J. You feel me? Pretty brown 1153 00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:41,600 Speaker 7: eyes bro? 1154 00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:47,040 Speaker 4: Because Stokely Yeah really then yeah, listen, I love how 1155 00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:50,279 Speaker 4: the top five they connect, they connect they connect with 1156 00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:51,960 Speaker 4: the artist, and it's just you know. 1157 00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:55,920 Speaker 1: What it is, bro, it's music that really raised us. 1158 00:52:56,040 --> 00:53:01,680 Speaker 1: Bro for real, man, for they really raise Like when 1159 00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:04,080 Speaker 1: we have Stokely here, I'm looking at him like, and 1160 00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:07,360 Speaker 1: I've messed Stokely many times and always give him flowers. 1161 00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,120 Speaker 1: But every time I see him, I'm like, Bro, you're stokely. 1162 00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:12,320 Speaker 7: Still still. 1163 00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:16,359 Speaker 1: For real? 1164 00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:20,040 Speaker 7: I mean, thank I got I got you. Go on 1165 00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:21,719 Speaker 7: YouTube right now. I'm gonna tell you how to find it. 1166 00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:26,000 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. I tell you how to 1167 00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:27,640 Speaker 7: find You know what I'm saying because it was it was, 1168 00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,320 Speaker 7: you know, back in the day. But we got some baby, 1169 00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:35,959 Speaker 7: it's been a while. Yeah, sleep around like we're singing all. 1170 00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:38,000 Speaker 2: That because I don't sleep around because. 1171 00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:38,400 Speaker 7: I don't see. 1172 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:43,080 Speaker 5: I love to stop playing with flying motherfucker on that. 1173 00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:46,840 Speaker 2: Value to be. 1174 00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:54,000 Speaker 7: Exactly. 1175 00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:57,080 Speaker 2: Come on now, mo, man, everybody can't get this. 1176 00:53:57,520 --> 00:53:58,080 Speaker 5: You know what I mean. 1177 00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:04,200 Speaker 7: I'm saying, Bru raised on this, raised on this, bro, raised. 1178 00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,719 Speaker 1: On it all. Right, here we go your R and 1179 00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:13,960 Speaker 1: b voul try all right. So like artists, Okay, there's 1180 00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:18,440 Speaker 1: the vocal of the artists, the styling of the artists, 1181 00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:22,680 Speaker 1: the performance style of the artists and the heart of 1182 00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:23,320 Speaker 1: the artists. 1183 00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,040 Speaker 2: Out of all the artists that you. 1184 00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:28,600 Speaker 1: Love, who were you going to take the vocal from 1185 00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:30,720 Speaker 1: to make your perfect R and b artists? 1186 00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:35,319 Speaker 2: Why not put it out there If you haven't heard, 1187 00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:38,320 Speaker 2: Welcome to the MIT Factory. 1188 00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:41,799 Speaker 7: You feel me straight up and down? 1189 00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:49,799 Speaker 2: You all right? Who are you getting the performance style from? 1190 00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:55,279 Speaker 7: I gotta split it up, so I gotta go MJ 1191 00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:59,640 Speaker 7: and Bobby Brown. Bro you gotta go MJ and Bobby Brown. 1192 00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:09,800 Speaker 12: Michael, yeah, now, And Michael was already savage though on 1193 00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:13,840 Speaker 12: some hean you Mike on the Hennessy. 1194 00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:19,560 Speaker 7: Yeah, no, Chaser, you're gonna have Mike humping the stay exactly. 1195 00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:22,200 Speaker 7: Come on, and you ain't never seen Mike. He gonna 1196 00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:25,200 Speaker 7: have a different Michael. It ain't gonna be a hip. 1197 00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,600 Speaker 2: No, that's gonna be full boull. 1198 00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:32,840 Speaker 10: Body gonnav leve take before you do it. 1199 00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:37,560 Speaker 7: Come on, come on, man, come on, walk, come on. 1200 00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:44,680 Speaker 1: You exactly exactly Michael and Bobby that's mean. 1201 00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:48,360 Speaker 2: Yeah. The styling of the artists, what they're putting on? 1202 00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:49,200 Speaker 2: Who got that? 1203 00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:54,280 Speaker 7: Mm hmm. Styling though, I say, we're talking about styling. 1204 00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:58,640 Speaker 7: I say usher, clean, yeah, clean, you know what I'm saying, 1205 00:55:58,880 --> 00:55:59,120 Speaker 7: like to. 1206 00:55:59,239 --> 00:55:59,759 Speaker 1: It, right to it. 1207 00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:03,320 Speaker 7: But but but a chameleon like Usher can go fashionable, 1208 00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:04,600 Speaker 7: he can, he can go Nigga with it. 1209 00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:05,200 Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. 1210 00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:08,799 Speaker 7: He didn't. He's invented himself so many, so many times 1211 00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:10,800 Speaker 7: and so many cases throughout his his album. 1212 00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:11,880 Speaker 2: He hasn't. 1213 00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:14,720 Speaker 1: He hasn't limited himself to any type of expectations exactly. 1214 00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,880 Speaker 1: You know, he's really broadened his space to where it's like, oh, 1215 00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:20,279 Speaker 1: that's no matter where you're. 1216 00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:22,360 Speaker 7: Seeing him exactly. And if if not Usher, then I 1217 00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:24,799 Speaker 7: had to say Prince, you know what I'm saying, because 1218 00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,359 Speaker 7: Prince wasn't afraid to just kind of go all out. Man. 1219 00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:29,680 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, Horse, you know what I'm saying, 1220 00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:34,120 Speaker 7: Like I was gonna say, I can't, I can't do it. 1221 00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,439 Speaker 7: You feel me? That ain't my bast but is thick 1222 00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:40,839 Speaker 7: thick you know small? You know what I'm saying. 1223 00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,400 Speaker 1: That's like, yeah, give me. 1224 00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:48,279 Speaker 7: Up, let me go, let me go, let me do, 1225 00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,480 Speaker 7: let me let me out, let me. 1226 00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:58,880 Speaker 1: Out and no, let it get the bucking man, sh 1227 00:56:59,760 --> 00:56:59,920 Speaker 1: let it. 1228 00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:01,080 Speaker 2: Damn. 1229 00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:02,840 Speaker 7: Is he gonna stay on? 1230 00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:04,279 Speaker 1: I hope he. 1231 00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,320 Speaker 2: I want to believe he would get off at the point. 1232 00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:12,680 Speaker 1: That's what I believe about. 1233 00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:14,479 Speaker 7: My feel like Princeville just hopping to be on his feet. 1234 00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:18,439 Speaker 1: I feel like you just get off. Enough is enough? 1235 00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:24,400 Speaker 7: Yeah, somebody get me down. Somebody come getting me down 1236 00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:25,760 Speaker 7: on this motherfucker now. 1237 00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:28,720 Speaker 2: Get off his nag. 1238 00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:32,080 Speaker 5: That's hell funny. 1239 00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:33,880 Speaker 2: The heart of the artists. 1240 00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:38,040 Speaker 5: You face, you face man. 1241 00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:40,320 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, ain't what how how how much? 1242 00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:44,600 Speaker 7: How much more heart do you need? Like he he yeah, 1243 00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:45,680 Speaker 7: he pumped it into music. 1244 00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:50,840 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, r and Bay, you're doing 1245 00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:51,240 Speaker 2: the brother. 1246 00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:55,200 Speaker 7: I appreciate that. Okay, We're not We're not done. 1247 00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:56,800 Speaker 5: You ain't getting out of here without it. 1248 00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:09,560 Speaker 1: Fine, Fine, Fine, I. 1249 00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,880 Speaker 2: Ain't saying no niggs. Ain't saying no names. I ain't 1250 00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,320 Speaker 2: saying no names, saying no niggas. 1251 00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:24,240 Speaker 1: Where you was what you did? I ain't saying no. 1252 00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:32,960 Speaker 7: Wow, yeah wow. 1253 00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:35,560 Speaker 5: We got a very very very important segment of this show. 1254 00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:37,960 Speaker 5: And that's what you know. We close this thing out with, 1255 00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:39,240 Speaker 5: and it's. 1256 00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:42,760 Speaker 4: Called I ain't saying on that where Adrian Marcel tell 1257 00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:46,440 Speaker 4: us a story it's funny or fucked up, A funny 1258 00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:50,280 Speaker 4: and fucked up. The only rule is you can't say 1259 00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:53,120 Speaker 4: the name, got it. You can say your name because 1260 00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:54,240 Speaker 4: you're him and you you got it. 1261 00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:55,280 Speaker 5: It's your story. 1262 00:58:55,480 --> 00:58:57,720 Speaker 7: I can't so I can't say the name of who 1263 00:58:57,840 --> 00:58:59,160 Speaker 7: it is. But can I say the names of the 1264 00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:00,439 Speaker 7: people of other people? 1265 00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:00,920 Speaker 1: No? 1266 00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:03,840 Speaker 5: No, yeah, you can't. Nobody. 1267 00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:04,400 Speaker 7: So it's just me. 1268 00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:08,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, okay, scot no no, yes, ma'am's and no 1269 00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:12,840 Speaker 4: man here, got it? Okay, no names, I got you, 1270 00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:18,040 Speaker 4: So we don't okay. Right now, Right now, my young 1271 00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:22,640 Speaker 4: player partner keeping his r and big thing alive, Adrian 1272 00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:26,920 Speaker 4: Marcel is gonna tell y'all story without saying no no names. 1273 00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:28,520 Speaker 2: Mm hm. 1274 00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:33,760 Speaker 7: So I'm in Atlanta. Yeah, I like when I find 1275 00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:37,120 Speaker 7: that strict. So I'm in Atlanta. I'm in Atlanta one one, 1276 00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:40,080 Speaker 7: one fine day, man, you know, and uh we're going 1277 00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:43,240 Speaker 7: to this person's house, you know who's staying in Atlanta 1278 00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:46,200 Speaker 7: at this time. They have a fat, fat crib, you know, 1279 00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:49,120 Speaker 7: and uh so I get them. I'm supposed to work 1280 00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:50,120 Speaker 7: with them for about a week. 1281 00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:50,840 Speaker 1: You know. 1282 00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:52,920 Speaker 7: It's actually good that I don't get to say this name. 1283 00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:55,280 Speaker 7: Uh So, get to work with them for about a week. 1284 00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:55,440 Speaker 5: Man. 1285 00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:57,400 Speaker 7: I go up in the studio. Man, I'm waiting there 1286 00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:59,160 Speaker 7: and they're telling me. They're like, look, you know, they'll 1287 00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:01,040 Speaker 7: be up here in a minute, but right now they're 1288 01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:03,760 Speaker 7: playing basketball, and they're gonna be playing basketball for the 1289 01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:11,440 Speaker 7: next four hours. Let them wait, let them So, so, 1290 01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:14,040 Speaker 7: you know, I'm in I'm in here, right and it's 1291 01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:17,000 Speaker 7: me a couple of management stuff like that, and some 1292 01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:20,560 Speaker 7: reps of theirs, and uh, they're playing me some records 1293 01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:25,280 Speaker 7: that were supposedly put together for me, you know, for 1294 01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:29,760 Speaker 7: these sessions' time. Yeah, exactly, So they're playing these records 1295 01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:31,760 Speaker 7: for me, you know, and this and the guy he 1296 01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:34,320 Speaker 7: keeps doing this one dance he keeps you know. 1297 01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:37,360 Speaker 8: And the lights, the lights he keeps name through the 1298 01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:39,760 Speaker 8: whole through the whole time he's in front of me. 1299 01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:43,920 Speaker 8: He's like you feel that, No, he's hitting it like 1300 01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:45,840 Speaker 8: he's in it too, like Knees has been. 1301 01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:48,280 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. He's in it, you know 1302 01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:52,680 Speaker 7: what I'm saying, you know, And and the lights are dim. 1303 01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:54,560 Speaker 7: So for me, it's sucking me up because it's like, 1304 01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:56,200 Speaker 7: hold on, it's a lot of guys in here, you 1305 01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:57,920 Speaker 7: know what I'm saying. It's like a sausage fast going 1306 01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:00,720 Speaker 7: on right now. And you're doing the Nayna in front 1307 01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,160 Speaker 7: of me, so let me hop up and turn these 1308 01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:05,200 Speaker 7: lights on first. You know what I'm saying, Let's let's 1309 01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:07,040 Speaker 7: let's get let's get some light in here. You know 1310 01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:09,000 Speaker 7: what I'm saying, Let's see who's Let's see. 1311 01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:13,959 Speaker 5: Whee, who's where? 1312 01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:18,880 Speaker 7: Yes, let's see where the hell all of y'all are 1313 01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:23,720 Speaker 7: at number one, so you know they're planning. They're playing 1314 01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:26,600 Speaker 7: the records for me, and I'm listening to it. I'm like, 1315 01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:29,080 Speaker 7: I can't sing this. I can't. I can't sing this, 1316 01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:31,960 Speaker 7: like you know, number one, This this song is about 1317 01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:36,200 Speaker 7: You're talking about being naked on one and just it's 1318 01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:40,320 Speaker 7: not really like a metaphor, it's just being naked. I'm like, 1319 01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:41,919 Speaker 7: I don't want to talk about that. And then there's 1320 01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:44,040 Speaker 7: another record they're talking about some certain things. I'm like, 1321 01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:45,360 Speaker 7: I can't say that because if I go back to 1322 01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:47,080 Speaker 7: my hood, they're gonna eat me up for that. They're 1323 01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:48,920 Speaker 7: gonna tear me up. I can't do it. So I 1324 01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:51,240 Speaker 7: can see it's pissing them off. Like the nay name 1325 01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:54,480 Speaker 7: wasn't working, so you know, it can't sell me with 1326 01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:56,680 Speaker 7: the nay names. So usually I guess that works. That's 1327 01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:59,840 Speaker 7: like top tier. Yeah, And so I'm like, well, look 1328 01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:01,560 Speaker 7: how about we take a break, you know what I'm saying, 1329 01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:04,560 Speaker 7: And let's go down and go see the basketball game. 1330 01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:06,640 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, Like, let's go find out. 1331 01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:10,920 Speaker 7: I like basketball. Let's get out of here, Let's get out, 1332 01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:14,760 Speaker 7: Let's get up. Let's get out of here though, right, 1333 01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:17,840 Speaker 7: So we go down to the court, man, and you know, 1334 01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:20,120 Speaker 7: this is cussing everybody out. 1335 01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:23,760 Speaker 8: Pass me the fucking ball, bitch, Like, like, who's this 1336 01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:24,880 Speaker 8: stitch ass nigga shooting? 1337 01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:26,200 Speaker 7: As soon as you get this as soon as I 1338 01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:30,440 Speaker 7: get down there, he's cussing everyone out. Pass me the 1339 01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:32,840 Speaker 7: fucking ball. He got to shoot. If anybody shoot, who's 1340 01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:33,640 Speaker 7: the light skinned nigga? 1341 01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:34,360 Speaker 2: Just shot the ball? 1342 01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:36,440 Speaker 7: Get him off the court. So, I mean, he cussing 1343 01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:39,080 Speaker 7: everybody else. You look up, you're trying to play. Hell no, 1344 01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:41,040 Speaker 7: I don't want to play this game with you, like, 1345 01:02:41,200 --> 01:02:42,480 Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. I don't play like that, 1346 01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:45,040 Speaker 7: you know. So I'm sitting there and I'm watching this 1347 01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:48,240 Speaker 7: whole thing, and in the midst of all of this, 1348 01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:51,200 Speaker 7: you know, I get a moment to have a conversation 1349 01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:54,480 Speaker 7: with this person. Now I opened for this person, uh, 1350 01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:57,439 Speaker 7: maybe a month ago, a month earlier. But they don't 1351 01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:02,240 Speaker 7: they don't realize that I didn't forget what happened during 1352 01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:06,400 Speaker 7: that show. They came probably about an hour late, so 1353 01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:09,000 Speaker 7: they didn't see the show, you know. And then when 1354 01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:10,520 Speaker 7: they were there, they didn't want to do a meet 1355 01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:13,080 Speaker 7: and greet, so I did. And when everybody still came 1356 01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:14,960 Speaker 7: for the meet and greet, they came and bombarded me 1357 01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:18,320 Speaker 7: out the section to to you know what I'm saying, 1358 01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:20,560 Speaker 7: to come to the meeting. You know what I'm saying, 1359 01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:23,280 Speaker 7: Like the security guards bumping me out the way, like 1360 01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:24,520 Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, Like I'm trying to get 1361 01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:25,960 Speaker 7: a picture with the nigga. I'm like, no, I'm trying 1362 01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:29,360 Speaker 7: to finish the pictures that but I'm supposed to be doing, 1363 01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:31,680 Speaker 7: you know, but I'm gonna give it to you, bruh. 1364 01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:34,000 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. It's all you. So fast 1365 01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:35,920 Speaker 7: forward to this time. He's sitting here talking, you know, 1366 01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:37,520 Speaker 7: and the guy told me before, you know, when you 1367 01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:39,280 Speaker 7: meet him, you just make sure you tell him how 1368 01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:41,080 Speaker 7: much you love his music. You know, make sure you 1369 01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:44,440 Speaker 7: tell him like how great they are, and you know, 1370 01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:47,520 Speaker 7: really sell it, really sell it. So you know, I'm like, hey, 1371 01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:52,800 Speaker 7: love your music for years, you know, and a big 1372 01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:56,240 Speaker 7: fan opened up. Yeah yeah, yeah, I seen you seen 1373 01:03:56,280 --> 01:03:57,720 Speaker 7: you opened up for me. I've seen the show. 1374 01:03:57,800 --> 01:03:59,400 Speaker 1: It was good. It's good. 1375 01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:04,720 Speaker 7: You're a lie motherfucker you you know that. But I'm 1376 01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:08,360 Speaker 7: sitting there like, yeah, fish out, you know what I'm saying. 1377 01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:11,720 Speaker 7: So he tells me, yeah, yea, we're gonna get upstairs. 1378 01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:12,880 Speaker 7: We gonna do some work. You know what I'm saying. 1379 01:04:12,880 --> 01:04:13,800 Speaker 7: I'll be up there in a minute. 1380 01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:13,960 Speaker 1: You know. 1381 01:04:14,120 --> 01:04:17,720 Speaker 7: Boom, So go ahead back up there and wait, you know, 1382 01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:21,600 Speaker 7: we get back up there. Needless to say, that was Monday. 1383 01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:26,080 Speaker 7: I didn't see him again throughout that rest of that 1384 01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:28,320 Speaker 7: whole time. So I just recorded a bunch of music 1385 01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:31,640 Speaker 7: that had nothing to do with him or anybody else 1386 01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:34,000 Speaker 7: in his studio though in his studio, I used his 1387 01:04:34,120 --> 01:04:36,320 Speaker 7: engineers and his studio to go ahead and record. 1388 01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:39,240 Speaker 5: He never showed up. He never came from the basketball court. 1389 01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:42,760 Speaker 7: Came from the basketball court never. And there were people there. 1390 01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:45,720 Speaker 7: There were kids. There was like, like, uh like basketball 1391 01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:49,040 Speaker 7: players there, and they were like, I mean, he was 1392 01:04:49,080 --> 01:04:51,520 Speaker 7: almost looking like they were trying to try out for 1393 01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:52,280 Speaker 7: the team. 1394 01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:52,960 Speaker 2: You know what. 1395 01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:56,760 Speaker 7: I'm saying, like, people, already what you got? All right, 1396 01:04:56,840 --> 01:04:58,520 Speaker 7: we'll see what you got. We're gonna work on that. Jay, 1397 01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:02,680 Speaker 7: Like the fuck is going on here? All right, we're done. 1398 01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:04,040 Speaker 7: Let me get up out of here, you know what 1399 01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:08,240 Speaker 7: I'm saying. So it was definitely a time meeting someone 1400 01:05:08,280 --> 01:05:10,880 Speaker 7: that I looked up to and getting to know them 1401 01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:14,240 Speaker 7: for real, for real and uh yeah, lesson learned. 1402 01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:14,400 Speaker 2: Man. 1403 01:05:14,680 --> 01:05:19,680 Speaker 7: After that, I stopped idolizing and just like, hey, niggas 1404 01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:20,440 Speaker 7: is niggas. 1405 01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:23,880 Speaker 5: Man, what's the same to make your heroes? 1406 01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:25,760 Speaker 7: You not to meet your heroes? 1407 01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:25,920 Speaker 5: Man? 1408 01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:26,240 Speaker 1: Yeah. 1409 01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:29,600 Speaker 7: So and then some other ship happened since then, so yeah, 1410 01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:30,160 Speaker 7: it makes sense. 1411 01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:36,520 Speaker 2: You know what, We're not gonna try to put that. 1412 01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:44,320 Speaker 5: Ship. 1413 01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:48,080 Speaker 7: Don't even fit, don't even fit me. 1414 01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:49,120 Speaker 2: I've tried. 1415 01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:55,240 Speaker 7: I felt like the right time, the right time. 1416 01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:59,880 Speaker 2: Everybody else was doing sometime. My arms so long, Yeah, 1417 01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:01,240 Speaker 2: than just. 1418 01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:03,160 Speaker 5: Do ship to make his kids uncomfortable? 1419 01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:07,920 Speaker 4: Stop stop, there you go, you're so corny. 1420 01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:08,520 Speaker 1: There you go. 1421 01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:16,440 Speaker 7: You that's like you know, you know about it? Ask 1422 01:06:16,560 --> 01:06:16,880 Speaker 7: about me? 1423 01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:20,280 Speaker 2: Google how you get in it? 1424 01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:27,520 Speaker 1: Bro? You you you're you're building Yeah, and and and 1425 01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:32,600 Speaker 1: and that's the right thing. And it's beautiful that you know, 1426 01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:35,800 Speaker 1: like we said, these valleys, you know we we It's 1427 01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:41,040 Speaker 1: it's it's easy to you know, to desire to press 1428 01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:44,680 Speaker 1: on and to have the have the fire burning and 1429 01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:48,000 Speaker 1: all these things when you out the mountaintop right. But 1430 01:06:48,160 --> 01:06:50,800 Speaker 1: it's but but it's when the light is not so lit. 1431 01:06:51,360 --> 01:06:53,200 Speaker 1: You understand what I'm saying. It's when you say, man, 1432 01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:55,760 Speaker 1: we got drop what were about to do? It's at 1433 01:06:55,840 --> 01:07:00,880 Speaker 1: those moments that you figure out what you are, you 1434 01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:02,600 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, and what's really in you? 1435 01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:04,080 Speaker 2: Straight up? 1436 01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:06,640 Speaker 1: You really gotta. 1437 01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:07,840 Speaker 2: Love this ship. 1438 01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:10,600 Speaker 1: To do what you're doing, to do what you all 1439 01:07:10,640 --> 01:07:13,200 Speaker 1: are trying to do well, to do what you all 1440 01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:16,200 Speaker 1: are doing and going to do more of, you gotta 1441 01:07:16,520 --> 01:07:22,200 Speaker 1: love this ship. And that's what That's the gem that 1442 01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:26,680 Speaker 1: I hope everybody takes from from this, is that you 1443 01:07:26,880 --> 01:07:31,320 Speaker 1: love it so much that you're willing to carve out 1444 01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:38,800 Speaker 1: the piece that is yours and build that motherfucker from 1445 01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:40,840 Speaker 1: the ground up. If you want to come see me, 1446 01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:42,680 Speaker 1: we'll be right over here. 1447 01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:45,400 Speaker 5: Right over here, period. 1448 01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:46,680 Speaker 2: Come on see me. Man. 1449 01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:53,920 Speaker 1: We ain't bother nobody, just a little ruta. 1450 01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:52,440 Speaker 7: Where it ain't. 1451 01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:56,280 Speaker 2: I tell you, at this episode. 1452 01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:01,880 Speaker 7: Where they can figure it out. 1453 01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:06,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, we so you brother, your family, you always like 1454 01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:09,240 Speaker 1: you know, you always got a home, you always got brothers, 1455 01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:10,920 Speaker 1: you always got support over here. You know that. 1456 01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:12,120 Speaker 7: Appreciate that real ship. 1457 01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:14,560 Speaker 1: But you want to reiterate that, make sure they know that. Yeah, 1458 01:08:14,640 --> 01:08:16,879 Speaker 1: you know you got family, you got you have structure, 1459 01:08:16,920 --> 01:08:19,560 Speaker 1: you got foundation, you got fucker's riding for you and 1460 01:08:19,600 --> 01:08:20,080 Speaker 1: around with you. 1461 01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:22,640 Speaker 7: Come on, you know what I'm saying, And I mean 1462 01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:24,680 Speaker 7: a lot though coming from grapes man, y'all, y'all some 1463 01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:27,479 Speaker 7: great whites out here. Man, for real, For what y'all? 1464 01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:29,160 Speaker 7: Did you know what I'm saying? We following none of that. 1465 01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:32,000 Speaker 7: I'm like I said, going back to the YouTube days. Man, 1466 01:08:32,040 --> 01:08:38,240 Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, going back on seeing don't 1467 01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:39,680 Speaker 7: you do it? Don't you. 1468 01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:42,599 Speaker 1: Leave it alone? 1469 01:08:43,400 --> 01:08:44,040 Speaker 2: Leave it alone? 1470 01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:44,479 Speaker 1: Man? 1471 01:08:45,280 --> 01:08:46,880 Speaker 7: Just know what you know what I'm saying. But yeah, bro, 1472 01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:49,599 Speaker 7: Like I said, man, just you know even even how 1473 01:08:49,640 --> 01:08:52,080 Speaker 7: you how you how you've done your thing. Man, you 1474 01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:53,960 Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, like from top to bottom, being 1475 01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:56,240 Speaker 7: able to watch that. You know what I'm saying, being 1476 01:08:56,320 --> 01:08:58,559 Speaker 7: from the same soil, bro, Like you know what I mean, 1477 01:08:58,640 --> 01:09:01,320 Speaker 7: that's that's that's kind of like being the motto for 1478 01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:02,840 Speaker 7: a lot of this. You know what I mean is 1479 01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:04,559 Speaker 7: the ones before us. You know what I'm saying, y'all 1480 01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:06,960 Speaker 7: laid foundations out man, you know what I mean. And 1481 01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:09,720 Speaker 7: like I said, we were coming in now just giving it, 1482 01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:12,160 Speaker 7: giving it our version. You know what I mean of it. 1483 01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:15,720 Speaker 7: I appreciate that because we there is no there is 1484 01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:17,160 Speaker 7: no this without without that. 1485 01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:21,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, you got our appreciation. Like you said, you made 1486 01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:21,599 Speaker 5: that phone call. 1487 01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:24,880 Speaker 7: Yeah, it made this work exactly absolutely in the instant too. 1488 01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:26,479 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. That's when you know, because 1489 01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:28,680 Speaker 7: like you said, man, going through that, going through the 1490 01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:31,120 Speaker 7: valleys where you know you had them times where nobody 1491 01:09:31,200 --> 01:09:34,240 Speaker 7: answering the phone, Bro, nobody's picking up, nobody's calling you. 1492 01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:36,519 Speaker 7: You know, they asking you for your ID at the door. 1493 01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:39,400 Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying again, you feel me like 1494 01:09:39,760 --> 01:09:42,320 Speaker 7: two a m what nigga? What was your ID? You 1495 01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:42,760 Speaker 7: feel me? 1496 01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:44,480 Speaker 1: Security? 1497 01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:45,200 Speaker 2: That worked for me? 1498 01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:46,000 Speaker 7: You feel me? 1499 01:09:48,360 --> 01:09:50,840 Speaker 5: Wait a minute, we don't have to go find him, man, 1500 01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:52,040 Speaker 5: so he can apologize. 1501 01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:58,320 Speaker 1: Once we started together. To every other episode, I bring 1502 01:09:58,400 --> 01:10:01,800 Speaker 1: it there there you go. Yeah, I'm gonna say, we 1503 01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:02,760 Speaker 1: gotta find bro. 1504 01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:04,479 Speaker 5: Just go ahead back. 1505 01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:07,240 Speaker 7: You know what, that's my nigga to I was just 1506 01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:07,920 Speaker 7: doing my job. 1507 01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:09,920 Speaker 5: The head. 1508 01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:12,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, he made me wait for Jamie to get to 1509 01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:12,400 Speaker 1: the club. 1510 01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:16,000 Speaker 7: Oh oh my god. But see it beat them things 1511 01:10:16,040 --> 01:10:18,600 Speaker 7: and then moments where you see you feel me. Let 1512 01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:20,240 Speaker 7: me keep working, Let me keep doing what I'm doing 1513 01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:26,920 Speaker 7: that he ain't feeling that. He ain't feeling that, Nigga. 1514 01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:34,680 Speaker 1: When I say it was dry dry, I live in 1515 01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:35,840 Speaker 1: a rancho google manga. 1516 01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:37,599 Speaker 5: Listen, that's the ship is about. 1517 01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:45,440 Speaker 1: I tell everybody it's all this is par for the course, nigga, repossessions, foreclosure, 1518 01:10:46,120 --> 01:10:48,640 Speaker 1: straight you know what I'm saying. All this is par 1519 01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:49,599 Speaker 1: for the course. 1520 01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:55,200 Speaker 2: If you love this ship, the sacrifice is immense straight up. 1521 01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:55,720 Speaker 1: Yeah. 1522 01:10:56,520 --> 01:11:00,479 Speaker 2: Things suffer on the account of greatness. 1523 01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:06,800 Speaker 1: They have to. It's an greatness is an imbalance, say 1524 01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:08,840 Speaker 1: that as he says, obsession. 1525 01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:10,920 Speaker 2: It's an imbalance. 1526 01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:14,080 Speaker 1: It's not natural, which is why most people can't understand it, 1527 01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:15,720 Speaker 1: which is why a lot of people hate it. 1528 01:11:17,280 --> 01:11:20,680 Speaker 7: Hate lebron Lebronry, just. 1529 01:11:22,240 --> 01:11:22,759 Speaker 2: Hate Floyd. 1530 01:11:24,560 --> 01:11:28,200 Speaker 1: How do you how do you hate great mm hmm 1531 01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:32,000 Speaker 1: when your mission on your on your quest to be great, 1532 01:11:33,120 --> 01:11:34,519 Speaker 1: enjoy the imbalance. 1533 01:11:34,280 --> 01:11:35,519 Speaker 7: Straight up, straight up. 1534 01:11:35,600 --> 01:11:36,240 Speaker 5: Talk to that man. 1535 01:11:40,680 --> 01:11:41,280 Speaker 7: You gotta. 1536 01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:50,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm stealing that that that fire. 1537 01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:52,080 Speaker 1: Thank you again. Brother. 1538 01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:54,840 Speaker 2: We can't thank you enough. Man. You know we love y'all. 1539 01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:57,560 Speaker 2: We we we we're glad we hear you. 1540 01:11:58,360 --> 01:11:58,840 Speaker 1: Celebrate this. 1541 01:11:59,000 --> 01:11:59,599 Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. 1542 01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:01,320 Speaker 5: My name is I'm Jay Valentine. 1543 01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:05,720 Speaker 1: This has been the R and B Money Podcast, the 1544 01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:08,760 Speaker 1: authority of R and B. As you brought it in, 1545 01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:09,479 Speaker 1: you close it out. 1546 01:12:11,080 --> 01:12:16,480 Speaker 4: This thing right here, special moments. Man, this is the reintroduction, 1547 01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:21,040 Speaker 4: like this is the music business. Don't get confused. You 1548 01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:24,439 Speaker 4: see people one day, you will see us again because 1549 01:12:24,479 --> 01:12:26,320 Speaker 4: we keep going, We keep this thing rocking. 1550 01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:28,479 Speaker 5: We bring this thing to life. 1551 01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:31,639 Speaker 4: Music is something that you cannot just put your hands 1552 01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:33,960 Speaker 4: on and tell somebody that it's one thing. 1553 01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:35,280 Speaker 2: It's all things. 1554 01:12:36,439 --> 01:12:38,960 Speaker 5: But find your way in this shit, find your way 1555 01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:42,120 Speaker 5: to make your mark. 1556 01:12:42,960 --> 01:12:45,880 Speaker 4: Our young brother then came here and he didn't gave 1557 01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:50,519 Speaker 4: y'all real independent gang, real independent game. Where we're really 1558 01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:52,960 Speaker 4: taking this R and B thing now, shout out to 1559 01:12:53,080 --> 01:12:58,759 Speaker 4: all the artists, pay attention, watch this path. I promise 1560 01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:01,559 Speaker 4: you you will see this in a whole nother space 1561 01:13:01,680 --> 01:13:04,640 Speaker 4: in a couple of years, whole nother space, and. 1562 01:13:04,640 --> 01:13:06,880 Speaker 5: You be damn you watched them going to R and 1563 01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:09,640 Speaker 5: B Money podcasts straight up. Now you're talking about this 1564 01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:14,080 Speaker 5: catalog is worth what this thing is really about? Man, 1565 01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:15,920 Speaker 5: That's what this R and B thing and this R 1566 01:13:15,960 --> 01:13:18,040 Speaker 5: and B thing. It's me and my young brother are 1567 01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:20,720 Speaker 5: both from the stayer from home. We have stood in 1568 01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:22,880 Speaker 5: front of them. We're gonna continue to stand in rot 1569 01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:25,840 Speaker 5: and play up. So I'm gonna need y'all to put. 1570 01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:35,479 Speaker 2: You'all hands together, A yeah, yeah, R and B Money. 1571 01:13:36,640 --> 01:13:38,400 Speaker 4: R and B Money is a production of the Black 1572 01:13:38,439 --> 01:13:43,160 Speaker 4: Effect podcast Network. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the 1573 01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:47,120 Speaker 4: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your 1574 01:13:47,160 --> 01:13:51,040 Speaker 4: favorite shows. Don't forget to subscribe to and rate our show, 1575 01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:54,000 Speaker 4: and you can connect with us on social media at 1576 01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:58,280 Speaker 4: Jay Valentine and at the Real Tank. 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