WEBVTT - Adrian Marcel 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:11.480 R and B Money. We are Jake Valati. We are 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:16.200 the authority on all R and B. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:19.520 Ladies and gentlemen. My name is Tank. 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:26.320 This the R and B Money. We're gonna call this 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:27.880 Bay Area Audition. 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:33.080 Yeah you know you don't you know, listen in honor 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:33.680 of the R and B. 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:35.400 You know, I moved my call around a little bit. 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:35.879 You know what I say. 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:38.960 I want this to be an authentic You know what 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:40.680 I'm saying. 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.120 You know, I'm finna pass it over, you know, for 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.280 the first time. My brother, you know, know, the Silky 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:47.080 one himself. 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:48.080 You know what I'm saying. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:53.240 It's the lovender himself, Jake Valentine, the Valentine you do. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.640 Today we got somebody really special. We got a young 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.000 fellow that's really from the claw. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:01.960 Yeah, late night, late night, you fella. 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.440 You know I mean not that that that past midnight, 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:11.240 that that not that one am, but that he's come 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.000 to bless us with his presence today, you know what 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.120 I mean? And in all his you know they said 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:17.600 I'm light skinned. He a different type of las. 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:19.960 Yeah, you know what I mean. You know, he got 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.280 he got it laid down. 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:29.480 He can take it out and show you the Lord Jesus. Yeah, 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:35.000 hell to have straight from Oakland, California, Adria and Mars. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:45.360 Yeah the podcast having me baby that you're having me. Man, 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.360 you're saying I'm the light skinned one. But bro, you 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.120 still look like you'll go to Filmo, put a wig 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:51.280 on a pig and make a gig though. 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.960 You know what I'm talking about is that how we started. 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.200 Yes to edition. 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.480 We have to see your collar can't be a pop 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:01.520 right now because it's always up. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:12.359 If if be Nod would tell you anything what I'm saying, cool, 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.919 I'll tell you send them in Milwaukee. It's Milwaukee. It's 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:17.520 finest brother. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:18.640 Thank you, man, thank you. 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.760 I mean, we know we have a good time off caramel, 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:25.440 so you know we skip all the formalities. Man, just 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.760 get right to men. We appreciate you brother for being 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.560 here with us, for being family and just you know, 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.080 we just wanted to make sure you get an opportunity, 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.440 you know, to talk your talk and tell your story 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:42.919 because you know, for us it's all necessary, all of it. 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:43.960 You know what I'm saying. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.880 And the gift that you have to have a place, yeah, 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.239 to dwell and be comfortable and come and express themselves. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:51.880 And that's what this place is. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:52.920 I feel real R and B. 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:57.679 No. The extra level to that is just taking the 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.320 shirt off and just having a vest. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:00.680 There you go, you know what I'm saying. 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:02.680 And then that's when you get to your Joe to see. 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:07.480 I'm talking about. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.000 Yeah, listen, it's gonna be a lot of pivot this episode. 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:12.360 I don't notice it. 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.000 You know, it's gonna be a whole lot of a 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:15.760 lot of goal. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:18.760 Keep game. 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:24.320 You know, we always you know, we always like to 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.400 go to the beginning, you know what I mean, because 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.639 you know, so many people, so many people want to 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.880 get started. Yeah, you know, so many people have the talent, 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.880 so many people, you know, have all of these all 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.080 of the things that come along with what you're born 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:40.680 with and what's in you, but don't know how to 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:45.960 get there. Right, Let's start with when you found out 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.160 you was born with it, when you knew you had it, 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:51.760 or when somebody told you that. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.040 I mean, that was that was young man, you know, 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.720 that was I was like before middle school, real knee high, 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.800 you know what I mean. I mean once I once 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:01.880 I hit a note and the and the chicks start, 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.800 you feel me acting up. It was like, oh, this 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:06.560 is a thing, you know, what I mean this is, 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:08.440 this is a feeling. And then after that, man, I 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:09.880 think it was it had to be Bro one hundred 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.120 percent genuine Bro dropped And at that point, you know 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:18.440 what I'm saying, Drip had to drop. You feel me? 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.479 Excuse me, but you feel me. That's that's kind of 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:21.920 like what set the tone because I'm like, oh, this 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.200 nigga looked like me. You know what I'm saying, like 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:24.880 you feel this. 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.719 He's the class. 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.359 Way, but you feel me. 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.400 But it was it was at that point, man like 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.000 in the way it was affecting people because it went 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.040 from the girls my age to the teachers, you know 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.320 what I'm saying, and then and and the adults and ship. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.560 That's that's like, man, they pulling me out of out 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:46.520 of class and ship to come you know what I mean, 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:48.920 singing or whatever, you know. And my mom got pissed 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:49.400 me one time. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:49.600 Man. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:50.960 It was a p t A meeting. 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:51.120 Man. 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:52.920 I got up there and you know what I mean, 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.080 saying some jodousy you know what I'm saying, A yeah, 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.200 I was singing at the PTA meetings, bro, you know, 0:04:58.320 --> 0:04:59.360 for the for the parents. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.080 You know, it's a lot of cases, right, there's a 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.719 lot of cases right now coming on me. There's another 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:10.080 we don't just saying. You know, you know, sometimes the 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:11.280 teachers can't help themselves. 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.160 It'd be like that, it'd be like that, you know 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:26.160 what I'm kids, man, But no, man, it was uh 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:27.960 at that point, man, it was just the way I 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:29.880 felt though, the way I felt like doing it. You 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.239 know what I'm saying. How you affect you know, affect people, 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.120 I mean, change their moods, you know what i mean, 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.840 change they change attitudes and stuff like that. So, I 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:39.479 mean that's when I knew young, you know. And I 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.800 think my mom she she peeped at early too, that 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.320 it was something that was that was in my flesh, 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.600 you know what I mean, that it was gonna happen 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:49.560 one way or another. So she jumped on it. 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:49.760 Man. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:51.880 She kept me in so many programs and ship to 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.120 where it's like at this point now so versatile, you know, 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.839 and and it's not just R and B for me, 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.000 you know what I'm saying, like training classical and jazz 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.560 and all these other genres and shit. And I think 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:04.800 at that point it was it was something not I know, 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:06.440 I just had to take it serious, man, you know 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.480 what I mean, I wanted to be a true representation. 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.720 You know. It started out for the family, but then 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:13.200 you know, a group of like the Bay you. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:13.880 Know what I'm saying. 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.039 Yeah, So in her in her support of view, Yeah, 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:21.359 did did she have any avenues or new people in 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.159 terms of trying to get you to that space? Or 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:24.040 was just like it was. 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:25.800 All about figuring out, figuring it out, you know what 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:27.960 I'm saying. Like she was she was at a space 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:29.680 where you know what I mean, She's in the newspapers, 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.160 she's you know, looking up shit, you know, trying to 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.039 figure out. She was really just trying to do anything 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:35.640 that would keep me off the streets, you know what 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:36.839 I mean, because you know how it is in the 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.080 town Oakland, Brough. It's easy to get distracted, It's easy 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.760 to fall into the shit, you know. So she just 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:42.719 wanted to keep me busy. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:44.120 So she did her own research. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.960 Yeah, Yeah, And I went to What changed it all 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:48.960 was when I went to Oakland School for the Arts 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.560 that's in downtown, you know what I mean. And at 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.600 that point they had just had their first year, so 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.960 it was only ninth and tenth grade, you know, so 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.200 when I came, it was only two years there, man, 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.360 so I had time to be noticed and be and 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:03.280 really honed in. You know what I'm saying. You had 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.279 all these all these people from around the world that 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:09.600 was coming in, whether it was acting, vocal, h illustrations, 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.880 whatever it is, like they was coming in and really 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.920 going in with us. You know. So man, for four years, 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.600 five eight to five thirty, every day you feel me 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.400 music and vocal and. 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.120 Oh so when you so when you first went there, 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:23.240 it was nineteen tenth, but you. 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.360 But by every year it's stocked on. Yeah. So even 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.600 like you know, uh, the Klanis and Zendayas and stuff 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:33.400 started to come in as they started to build their 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.480 their network and everything like their network. So every year 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.520 we stacked on another grade, you know what I'm saying, 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.560 And until it got once they got twelfth grade, then 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.520 they started to bring in middle school and all that. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:44.840 You know. So I mean, like I said, it was 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.200 right in the heart of downtown man. You know, like 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.160 we was in the We was in the parking lot 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.280 of the Fox, you know what I mean, rocking like that. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:52.600 Man. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.840 So that was where it all kicked off for me, 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:59.160 like her keeping me in the realm of just artistry, 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:03.680 just all day round, artists all day, whether it was dancers, singers, actors. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.920 You feel me. Like if I went to Skyline, Brad, 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:07.800 I had like eight kids. You know what I'm saying 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.360 about eleven braid. You feel me. It's it just it 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:11.200 would have been too much. 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.480 You can know the Skyline. But I've been up to Skyline. 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.600 I've been up to Skyland. You know I got into 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.040 enough trouble going up to Skyline. You feel me. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:19.480 But what Skyline give me? 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.640 To give me the it's the place in Oakland where 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.600 and I'm from San Francisco, so it was a whole 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.840 nother travel for me. Like, it's the place in Oakland 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:28.880 where you will find what you're looking. When you're looking 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.040 for everything, you will find with you everything. 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:31.960 They are there. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.240 You want problems, go there, you want a bad one, 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:36.719 you want go there. 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:37.080 There. 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:39.719 It's that school. You know what I mean? 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:40.520 That's school. 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.120 Yeah, sure, and that's what it would have been at 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.760 You feel me. But you know she she made sure man, 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.240 she kept me focused. Man I was. I was in 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.480 so many Young Musicians programs at U see Berkeley's and 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.440 things like that. Bro I didnd no time to really 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.880 kick it. So a lot of my early years was 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.960 all about if this is what you're gonna do, you're 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:00.079 gonna do it twenty four to seven. You no, No, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.840 I'm the youngest though, you know, so you figure, you know, 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.880 you to focus. Yeah, the focus was able to be 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.600 directly on me, like everybody was gone doing their thing, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.839 you feel me. So it was like, okay, we want 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:12.559 to we need to see something out of you. You 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.920 know what I'm saying. Any mistakes that was made early on, 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:16.640 it's like I'm getting the butt of at Like you 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:20.280 can't go hang out because we know what happens when 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:21.800 when when you know what I'm saying, we let our 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.600 kids go hang out, you feel me. So it just 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.559 kept me focused. Man. So now when I when I 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.880 think about it, doing this, having this career, man, and 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:33.000 being in this field, it's always say, man, it's perfect 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:34.800 for me, you know what I mean. Like it's the 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.319 long hours you foree me, the early mornings, late nights, 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.559 you feel me, the instant travel, the changes, the audibles, 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.440 all of that, Like it's all it's all part of 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.400 what I grew up doing. And really this school prepared 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.920 you for absolutely. I'll never I'll never shit on them 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:50.640 for that, man, always say. It was probably like the 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.720 beginning of it all, Like you know, we get to school, man, 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:55.240 you think you finna go. You know what I'm saying, 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.680 regular ass day man, they're like, hey, check it out. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.120 You you, you, you, and you y'all. Come on, we 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:01.800 got to go to LA. We got to go get 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.440 this money. You know what I'm saying, because it was 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.640 it wasn't like tuition base. It wasn't tuition based. It 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.120 wasn't like you're paying to go there's a charter school. 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.040 So they got to get their money out of the city. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:12.160 You know what I'm saying. They got to get their 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:17.280 money off of like donations and sponsorships. So we got 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.640 to go over here. We gotta sell it. So you 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:22.160 and you come on. 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.000 What I'm saying for these people today, yeah you feel me. 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:26.920 And next thing you know, you come out and they 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.120 got a bag and we ain't have to do no 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.880 homework and forget that test. Don't worry you passed. You 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:32.400 know what I'm saying. 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:38.720 That said he early music, business, business, football scholarship. 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:42.160 To me learned I learned early on. I learned early on, bro, 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.000 it is how much you're worth. You know what I'm saying, 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:46.920 what how much? How much can you show out like 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:48.719 when the show turned, when the light come on, like 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:50.760 what you about to do? You know what I'm saying. 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.760 And when you show out that time and they see 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.360 all we can depend on it, it's like we calling 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.520 your number every time, you know what I'm saying. So 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.520 I went from the newbie there that was like you know, 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.760 you ain't getting no solos because it Yordy and ship 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.360 like that. It's like, nah, put him in you know, 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.559 it's all these singers and in me because he had 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.000 he had value value to it, you know what I'm saying, 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:09.800 Because I gave I gave it ship, bro, you know 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:11.120 what I'm saying. It was like I wanted to be 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.040 the best. I wanted to be up there with the 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.280 best you feel me doing me? So that's always been 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.480 the goal for me, Ship even today. You know what 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:19.920 I'm saying. I want to be the best version of 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.080 me you feel me in this game. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:27.520 It's just about being like having some sort of early 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.920 upbringing in this kind of thought process in order to 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:32.079 truly truly be. 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.520 Prepared for for it not to be a shock. 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.079 For sure, when you get thrown into that fire, you know, 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.800 what I'm saying, because that's a lot of what happens 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:44.680 to artists, you know, when when when they when they when. 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:45.640 They take a real hit. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:50.400 They aren't prepared for any of that because the ship 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:54.200 looks cool on the outside, but the ship that's really 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:58.760 going on on the undercurrent like nasty, like the music 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:02.280 and all the ship that you actually see. Yeah, that's 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:07.559 that's fifteen percent of it. That other eighty. 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.679 Five let me tell you. 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:11.640 Just trying to get to the state. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.120 Yeah, yeah, for sure. You gotta love this shit, man. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.320 You you have no clo you have no choice. 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:17.560 You have to love it. And if you don't, you 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.400 either you're either gonna love it or you're gonna are 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:19.959 you gonna regret? 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.320 It has to be an obsession, yeah, period. It has 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:23.600 to be an obsession. 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:27.640 For sure, because there there are there's nothing pre set. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.280 Yeah, yes, nothing guaranteed at all. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.600 There's no there's no yeah, nothing. 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.959 That obsession has to get you over that heel most 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.000 of the time, not even something you people are like, oh, 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.200 you know some of the time, you just gotta go no, no, no, no, no, no, 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.480 all of the time, all the time, because you have 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:50.200 to be able to meet those those moments. Yeah, when 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.040 it's your moment, like you said you want, you were 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:53.520 like I need it for I need it? 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.880 Yeah, I want it. I want It's like you know, 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.360 you you're playing ball, like, don't get a niggave rock 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.120 who don't want the ball the last shot? 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.720 So were they setting y'all up? Obviously they were preparing 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:05.800 you guys creatively? 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.719 Yeah, but were they also Are there business classes at 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:10.320 this school too? 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:10.600 No? 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.319 At this point, it was pure creation. It was pure 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.600 creative space. You know what I'm saying. I think that 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:18.960 that was the only thing that was lacking. So for 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.720 me coming into this business, this this this industry. For me, 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.720 that was college for me. I didn't go to college, 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:27.160 you know what I'm saying. I looked at it like, 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.240 you know, I got I got accepted to Berkeley College 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.200 of Music, Boston, you know what I'm saying, UCLA, all 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.880 these dope as schools and shit. You know, I auditioned 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.200 for that in eleventh grade and got accepted so at 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.120 a scholarship. But for me, it was like Mom, if 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:42.320 I go there, it's gonna be ugly, Like you're finna 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.400 let me out on my own after all these years 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:50.080 of like straight booked up, busy all day, every day, weekends, 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:51.160 all of that. You know what I'm saying, Like I'm 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:55.400 gonna let loose, you know. But coming into this industry, though, man, 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:59.480 that's when you know, I found out the real shit, 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:01.480 you know what I'm saying. And I told myself, Like 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.080 when I was about to sign my first deal, like, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.800 you know, there was you know, usually you know, you 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.120 had that voice, that voice of God or whatever that 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:09.800 is for you that you know what I'm saying, you're 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.440 listening to, like hold on, don't do that. You know, wait, 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:13.959 hold on, you know what I'm saying. When it was 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:15.959 trying to sign that deal, bro, it was silent, you 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.480 know what I mean. So it was just me and 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.320 my thoughts and my feeling. And I remember telling myself, bro, look, 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.360 if I want to be a doctor, I'm gonna spend 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.280 twelve years in school. If I want to be a lawyer, 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.160 i'ma spend twelve years in school. I'm like, look this contract, 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.720 say five years, it's college. Whatever I learned at this 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:32.800 point is what I learned. Whether it worked, whether whether 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:34.840 I win or lose on this, it's gonna be a 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:36.920 lesson and I'm gonna keep going anyway, you know what 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.240 I'm saying. So I signed it, you know, and I 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.280 look at myself today like, man, that's the best thing 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.760 I could have did was go through that shit, you 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:45.600 know what I mean, have a record and find out 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:47.640 what it means to not be on the publishing of it, 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:49.480 you know what I'm saying. To find out what it 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.040 means to not make royalties on that one, you know 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.200 what I'm saying, Like to find out like that show 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.080 money you feel me, the difference between that and that 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:58.960 long back end money and all that. You know what 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.040 I'm saying, Like the networking, you feel me, allow too 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:03.520 many people to do it for you, you know what 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.280 I'm saying. So going through that and experiencing it man, 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.840 and being able to be here like and still be 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:11.640 able to push man, still be able to work, man, 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.240 and still hold the weight. You know what I'm saying. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.600 It's like, Yeah, I did exactly what I was supposed 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.080 to do, and I went through that ship and learn 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:18.640 what I needed to so I can come back now 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:20.000 on my p's and q's. 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.120 You know, was your first deal a major deal or 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:22.520 did you do? 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.480 Yeah, so you didn't go through the production deal the 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.920 indie deals. No, straight to a major straight Yeah, that 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.040 was a Universe Republican L seven. 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.280 Wow, first deal, first deal, straight to it. 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.680 So what's so that process for you? How did that go? 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.680 Because it's like you just you just yeah, how did 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:42.280 you get there? 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.560 So Yancey Richardson you feel me, you'll know your friend 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:51.960 of our Yeah, you feel you feel me. He had 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.520 a group at the time, Hamilton Park. Yeah, Park and 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.080 my boys, you know what I mean. And uh, I 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.640 was seeing them because because they're one of the producers 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.360 beat Rock, who was from from the Bay, he went 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:04.800 out there to work on a lot of their music. 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.200 So we were hearing a lot of this Hamilton Park thing. 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.520 And then that a Bee got her deal with Yance. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:14.320 So now both of those deals were at Atlantic in Atlantic. 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.640 So now in my position, you know what I'm saying, 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.520 being from the band looking at this and seeing Nedda 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.520 and all that, like, oh ship, like I ain't I 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.360 ain't heard it of like this, like she going in, 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.600 she killing, like's going crazy, like it's moving. So when 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.560 I got the call, it's like, man, young young man, 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.880 we want to bring you out here and work on 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.640 some music. So I'm like, say less, I didn't even 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.840 tell my parents till it was like the day before. 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:36.320 I leave this one. 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.760 She had to be like twenty two Oka, you know 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:41.440 what I mean. So I'm like, I'm out. You know 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.960 what I'm saying. I got a flight in six hours. 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:57.440 So you get it out, get it out. 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.280 Gone, think about playing, Think about what y'all told me 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:55.800 on the playe. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:17:04.159 Yeah, yeah, exactly, gotta go, you feel me? And yeah, man, 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.200 I flew out and I remember my pops telling me, like, man, 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.160 stop telling people that you that you're going out there 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:09.560 for thirty days. You might go out there and come 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.280 back tomorrow. It might be all bad. I'm like, man, 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:16.119 you not you understand even if it's all bad, I 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.399 ain't coming back. I ain't coming back. Claire. 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.280 So you were Atlanta or Atlanta? Yeah? 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.480 So y yans flew me out. Man to Atlanta, he 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.359 was in I was in the basement for like I 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.280 got out there. Man, it was supposed to be thirty days. 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:32.320 We work on a record a day, you know, we 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.280 get a demo and we go, you know, shoot it 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:38.040 to some labels, you know, the usual. Man, that shit 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.000 turned into five years that I lived in Atlanta. You 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:42.679 know what I'm saying, and through that time, Bro, I 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.280 remember it was times. You know, I respect Yance for 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.800 his his motives, like how he how he would work 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.639 because you know, you could tell men you're in the basement. Man, 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.359 you're not seeing daylight. You know what I'm saying. All 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.280 you doing is recording and all day long you feel me. 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.399 It was like boot camp. You feel me and for 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.040 you it's like you're not seeing nothing. So you're gonna 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.480 get weird. You You're finla be like, man, I'm not 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.560 doing this. I'm ready to go, you know. And then 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:06.359 he'll be like, man, come come take a ride, and 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.240 then we'll go pull up the tree sound and Tank 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.800 will come outside and get in the car and listen 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.600 to some music. You know, is this Tank sitting up 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:17.120 here in the front seat listening and shit like, wow, 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.240 all right, we can go a little longer, keep going. 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:21.480 Let's keep going, you. 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.600 Know what I'm saying. So but we we did. We 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.399 did a bunch of records. Man, Jane Hancock. We had 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:30.560 Jane come out, man and super crazy, right, Jane came 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.600 out man. The crazy part is we had other writers 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:36.680 that he had originally that were known wrote for Chris Brown, 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.239 writing for Trey Soon's righting for all these people. We 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.960 couldn't find the sound though, We couldn't find the blend 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:44.359 you feel me. But when Jane came out, that's when 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:46.720 it locked because it was like, yeah, you're talking about 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:48.679 this Bay area. You know what I'm saying. It's like 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.120 it has to be with them. Yeah, me and Jane 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.000 was righting there, you know what I'm saying. So that's 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.560 what kind of that's what threw everybody off, Like, oh shit. 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.560 So at that point, man, we just was doing records 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:02.919 all day long, every day, man. And and then we 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:04.760 went to when we were ready, we went to uh 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:08.159 to Republic. We hollowed that couch K coach K stepped 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:11.520 in man, pulled some strings, pulled some plays, man, and 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.320 and made a shape. You know what I'm saying. We 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:15.479 walked up there, man, I'm thinking we got to go 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:16.800 sell it to the Universal. 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:16.959 Man. 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:22.160 They're like, no, no, no, no, we want you off. No, 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.639 you know what I'm saying. So we get up there, man, 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.520 and they're like, no, it's good. I'm ready to jump up. 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.159 And I'm ready to get to the table. 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.440 Yeah exactly. She's like, you know, Wendy Ghostly, sit down, 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:41.439 It's all good. You know. They threw the deal at 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.520 us man, and from there bro like you know, we 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:46.000 did the seven days a week, you know, we did 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:47.919 the way we had waiting out man, and that that 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.440 kind of kicked it off and opened up a fan base, 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:53.760 especially in the Bay Area because I was gone, hadn't 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:57.120 been back in like three years. So we started dropping 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:00.720 and then they pulled ultimate play with that two Am. 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:02.880 You know what I mean that that came our way. Man. 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:04.560 It took me forever to record it because I didn't 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:05.919 I didn't like it. You know what I'm saying. It 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.520 was so outside of what I felt. I was on 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:10.800 like the same you know what I'm saying, I'm trying 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.120 to I'm trying to, like, really do this. I'm like again, 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:15.200 I'm listening to the tank and and all that. I'm like, 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:16.800 I'm trying to do no two Am. I'm trying to 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.840 sing you feel me. But you know, they convinced me 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:21.920 to finally do it, man, and I think you did it, 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:28.200 Uh Krishan, Uh Kyle and my boy aunt Franks. Yeah, 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:30.400 so they all they all pinned that, and they pulled 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:31.879 up on me in Atlanta because I was I was 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.280 avoiding it every time I was out here Dan avoiding. 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:38.359 We get to the studio, I'm like, we're done. Times up, 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:40.000 you know what I'm saying. We can't do that one. 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.800 With that song, with that song, you're running from it. 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:45.800 I'm running down me. And finally I get a call 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:47.920 like at like one in the morning from Yeah. It's 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:49.640 like I need you to you know the usual ship, 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:51.520 I need you to come to studio right now record 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:55.600 we record this record, like we record the record by 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.560 like come on. So we drive from from Panola Road 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:01.240 all the way to Snellville. You know, I'm saying, pull up. 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:03.440 These niggas are standing outside like in a line like 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:06.800 I'm finna get jumped, like, look, you got to record 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:10.160 this record, like we need you to record this record. 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:14.520 So I did it, man and ship bro it might 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:16.280 had to be like two three weeks. Man, that shit 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:18.520 was out, Like I don't even remember the process. 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:19.960 Was it out with Sage on it? 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:22.840 No, So at first it came out by itself, and 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:24.760 then they pulled the play to get Sage on it. 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.840 And then when Sage jumped on it, it just took 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:30.000 that way like you feel me, it was gone. So 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:32.040 I mean at that point, it was like, shit, whether 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:35.439 I like it or not, let's go singing rest of 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:38.080 my life. You know, that ship just just you know 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:40.000 what I'm saying. We just put up a live just 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:41.639 do a live performance thing out that I did. Man, 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.159 shit went viral and shit, I'm like the song is 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:45.840 what it is. Man, you know what I'm saying. It 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:47.359 might not have been my cup of tea because I 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:50.679 felt like you had Tie Dollar signed paranoid out, you 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:54.960 had Chris Brown. These holes ain't loyal like a Marion 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:57.000 supposed to be, like this is the sound. 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:00.119 They were trying to make you fit into that outfitting of. 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:01.440 The algorithm exactly. 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:03.800 And that's a tough and that's a tough that's a 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:05.600 tough space for an artists. 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:07.640 For pure especially artists. 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:10.040 Yeah, you know what I mean. That's that's it really is. 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:12.640 It's a tough space where you have to ask yourself, 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:15.439 do I want this ship to take care of me? 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:17.560 Yeah, for sure? Or do I just want to be 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:19.359 you know, in this. 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:27.320 Creative nigga walking around with the motherfucking wisdom things in sense? Yeah, 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:32.439 saving rooms Listen, I know some very talented yeah niggas 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:33.120 walking around. 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:35.680 Saving room for surell. 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:42.480 Yeah, they got they used they use black soap. 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:47.480 Yeah, okay, they held up on all the earth niggas 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:55.040 been before the Panoramic. 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:09.920 Two AM came out twenty fourteen. I got dropped twenty sixteen. 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:13.800 So yes, you put out seven days a week and 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:15.120 that's the only project you put out. 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:17.720 I put out seven days a week twenty thirteen, and 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:21.760 it led to that led to the deal, and then 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:25.359 with that because we used those records to get the deal, okay, 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:30.399 and then from there it went to two AM. But 0:23:31.600 --> 0:23:33.960 with seven days a week, they had to go back 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:35.600 because they didn't believe in seven days a week. There 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:38.040 was like, we don't focus on the waiting and all 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:39.919 of that. So we put it again. We put it 0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:41.720 out in the streets. We started in the bay and 0:23:41.760 --> 0:23:44.320 then we started flooding Atlanta and all that. And then 0:23:44.359 --> 0:23:46.439 at that that point the label had to go back 0:23:47.080 --> 0:23:50.639 and get everything cleared because we were I mean, we 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:52.200 was putting it together. 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:52.359 Bro. 0:23:52.400 --> 0:23:55.480 We had Ross verses from other songs a capella that 0:23:55.520 --> 0:23:57.480 we was putting on there, so people was thinking that 0:23:57.920 --> 0:24:02.440 Ross had jumped on the record, and really, you feel me, yeah, 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:05.840 I mean, I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're saying the 0:24:05.840 --> 0:24:08.800 finesse like it was finessing. So I mean it was 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:10.680 an ultimate play for people to be like, okay, cool. 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:12.600 So when we had to go back and revamp, it 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:14.119 was like you can only we only were able to 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:16.280 take three or four of those records and actually put 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:18.680 them out, you know, and put them up. So that's 0:24:18.720 --> 0:24:21.040 when they went back and started, you know, fucking with us. 0:24:21.280 --> 0:24:24.200 And then we did Week after Next in between two Am. 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:26.760 So to us, that was how we keep We kept 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:29.320 ourselves afloat and I'm not going to depend on the 0:24:29.359 --> 0:24:31.359 label because They're not going to push this. So they 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:33.199 didn't like Week after Next either, And to me, that 0:24:33.320 --> 0:24:36.119 changed a lot of music. That changed the sound because 0:24:36.240 --> 0:24:38.439 right before that was right before bryceon Tiler and the 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:40.240 Tory Lanez and all them started coming out, it was 0:24:40.280 --> 0:24:42.160 a lot of that type of music that we were doing. 0:24:42.200 --> 0:24:44.520 We were underground doing that, you know what I'm saying. 0:24:44.560 --> 0:24:48.040 So to hear we were calling it, we were calling 0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:52.040 it ratchet soul, you know what I'm saying. Like, we 0:24:52.160 --> 0:24:54.760 kept saying Ratchett, so this is ratchets, so ratches so 0:24:55.520 --> 0:24:59.000 and next thing I know, it trapsoul drops and. 0:24:58.880 --> 0:25:02.520 It's that it's that. It's that and you could either 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:06.879 like be hella mad or be like all right on 0:25:06.960 --> 0:25:09.040 to the next I guess shit, you know. 0:25:09.600 --> 0:25:11.960 And that's just kind of like throughout that throughout all 0:25:12.000 --> 0:25:15.359 that period of time between twenty thirteen to twenty seventeen 0:25:16.080 --> 0:25:20.600 was a hard a hard look at what the business 0:25:20.720 --> 0:25:24.480 is and experience what that really was. And that was 0:25:24.520 --> 0:25:26.080 the time where you figure out, Man, is this am 0:25:26.119 --> 0:25:28.240 I really finna do this? Like is this for me? 0:25:28.480 --> 0:25:30.159 Or you know what I'm saying, do I need to 0:25:30.160 --> 0:25:31.640 go get a nine to five? And I'm like, yeah, 0:25:31.680 --> 0:25:33.720 fuck that, I ain't clocking in on nobody time, Like 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:35.680 I'm gonna just figure this out, you know what i mean. 0:25:35.720 --> 0:25:38.680 So from there, just like a lot of independent projects 0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:41.479 like GMFU, you know what I'm saying. And then you know, 0:25:41.800 --> 0:25:43.520 at that point, for me, I needed to take an 0:25:43.560 --> 0:25:45.720 extra step back, man, because I started to feel like 0:25:45.720 --> 0:25:48.080 I'm depending on too many people, you know what I'm saying, 0:25:48.080 --> 0:25:50.240 Like I'm depending on other people to talk for me. 0:25:50.240 --> 0:25:52.159 I'm depending on other people to come in here and 0:25:52.560 --> 0:25:55.040 pin records that will keep you in the algorithm or 0:25:55.359 --> 0:25:57.840 you know, produce or whatever. And again you're falling into 0:25:57.880 --> 0:26:00.479 that play where it's like I'm getting records, but he 0:26:00.560 --> 0:26:02.679 has this record, she got this record, he got this 0:26:02.720 --> 0:26:04.320 I'm sick of this shit. I'm sick of like, you 0:26:04.359 --> 0:26:05.800 know what I'm saying, don't give me nothing that you 0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:09.600 didn't give a thousand other people. So for me, I 0:26:09.600 --> 0:26:11.040 had to take a step back from everything. So I 0:26:11.080 --> 0:26:12.840 took a step back from management, took a step back 0:26:12.840 --> 0:26:16.400 from just the business itself, you know what I mean, 0:26:16.480 --> 0:26:18.359 to like go into my own realm and be like, 0:26:18.359 --> 0:26:21.120 what is publishing? What is what is? What is these mechanicals? 0:26:21.160 --> 0:26:21.480 What is? 0:26:21.920 --> 0:26:22.080 Like? 0:26:22.160 --> 0:26:24.399 How how many? How many ways can I get paid 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:27.160 off my music? Because I've only been getting paid off 0:26:27.200 --> 0:26:29.440 one way, you know what I'm saying, Like I've only 0:26:29.440 --> 0:26:32.920 been getting that show money. But when your record slows down, 0:26:34.280 --> 0:26:36.679 that slows down completely, you know what I'm saying. So 0:26:36.880 --> 0:26:38.840 there's no back end that's coming in. You know what 0:26:38.840 --> 0:26:41.159 I mean, There's no because again you're a newbie, so 0:26:41.200 --> 0:26:43.320 you kind of like just think, hey man, I'm just 0:26:43.359 --> 0:26:45.679 trying to get it. So whatever y'all need to take, 0:26:45.760 --> 0:26:48.600 y'all take that, and we're gonna we're gonna coast off that. 0:26:48.640 --> 0:26:50.600 We're gonna take that and build off of that. You know. 0:26:51.000 --> 0:26:52.520 I mean, it's a catch twenty two because at the 0:26:52.560 --> 0:26:54.800 same time you learn the hard way. But shit, I 0:26:54.840 --> 0:26:57.400 have success based around those you know what I mean, 0:26:57.440 --> 0:27:00.200 That that whole play two am you know whatever. Where 0:27:00.200 --> 0:27:02.639 it's like today, I can still walk in someplace and 0:27:02.640 --> 0:27:05.240 they're like, oh, yeah, that's mister Twem. That's put that 0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:06.960 shit on right now, that's him, you know what I mean. 0:27:07.000 --> 0:27:09.040 So you I was able to build a fan base 0:27:09.080 --> 0:27:10.600 off of this time with the label, and again, like 0:27:10.640 --> 0:27:12.840 I said when I first started, it's gonna be college, 0:27:13.320 --> 0:27:14.840 you know what I mean? And once I go through it, 0:27:14.880 --> 0:27:16.120 you know what I mean, I need to come out smarter, 0:27:16.160 --> 0:27:18.120 I need to come out better, you know. So that's 0:27:18.119 --> 0:27:20.760 when the direction changed. I took I took my time, 0:27:20.840 --> 0:27:23.600 and ended up meeting my boy sonny Bee, you know 0:27:23.640 --> 0:27:25.720 what I'm saying. And from there that's where shit really 0:27:25.760 --> 0:27:29.160 got got crazy because I was able to take those 0:27:29.240 --> 0:27:33.320 experiences and also take the time of stepping back and 0:27:33.359 --> 0:27:35.720 clearing my head and figuring out, like, all right, man, 0:27:36.119 --> 0:27:38.560 everything that I was taught that you know, this machine 0:27:38.600 --> 0:27:40.439 teaches you how you have to run and how you 0:27:40.480 --> 0:27:42.080 have to move. I got to get out of that. 0:27:42.160 --> 0:27:44.080 I gotta I gotta throw all that shit away and 0:27:44.080 --> 0:27:44.520 create this. 0:27:44.640 --> 0:27:45.840 Then you also did some acting. 0:27:46.240 --> 0:27:48.639 Yeah, yeah too in between that been blessed to do it. 0:27:48.680 --> 0:27:49.720 You know what I'm saying. We did the Bobby the 0:27:49.760 --> 0:27:51.840 Bar story. You know, I got to you know what 0:27:51.840 --> 0:27:58.640 I'm saying, lace front. 0:27:55.920 --> 0:27:56.640 Player to yah. 0:27:56.720 --> 0:27:59.600 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had yeah, you know what I'm saying. 0:28:00.240 --> 0:28:02.040 So it was it was real cool. We met James 0:28:02.240 --> 0:28:05.959 years ago, you know what you feel me? They all was, 0:28:06.040 --> 0:28:08.040 they all was on that ship, you know. But it 0:28:08.119 --> 0:28:09.960 was cool, man. It was something that we was talking 0:28:09.960 --> 0:28:12.520 about for a lot a long time. Actually, Like I 0:28:12.560 --> 0:28:15.280 had the script three years before it came out, and 0:28:15.400 --> 0:28:17.880 at first it was a different director. They were going in, 0:28:18.320 --> 0:28:21.040 they was, they was talking about it all. You know, 0:28:21.280 --> 0:28:22.920 I'm talking about I'm on a plane in New York 0:28:23.119 --> 0:28:27.600 and by the end of the script, I'm up ship. 0:28:27.720 --> 0:28:31.000 Like through the script though, Wow, this is crazy. And 0:28:31.040 --> 0:28:33.040 then I think that, you know, because it was TV one, 0:28:33.160 --> 0:28:35.119 is like, we got to scale this back. We can't, 0:28:35.480 --> 0:28:36.960 we can't show all of this. We got to figure 0:28:37.000 --> 0:28:39.680 out a way how do we present this, you know 0:28:39.800 --> 0:28:43.240 for the masses to the lifetime. Yeah, you know what 0:28:43.240 --> 0:28:46.120 I'm saying. So we you know, we we you know, 0:28:46.240 --> 0:28:48.160 switched up some things and ship. But at the same time, 0:28:48.200 --> 0:28:50.960 brother to be able to go into that, man, I remember, like, 0:28:51.000 --> 0:28:52.840 you know, my pops is an actor, you know what 0:28:52.840 --> 0:28:55.200 I'm saying. Yeah, my pops came up with Denzel, with 0:28:55.400 --> 0:28:58.440 del Roy and all of them like great friends with 0:28:58.440 --> 0:28:59.840 with a lot of them, you know what I'm saying, 0:29:00.400 --> 0:29:02.160 and went to act, you know what i mean, one 0:29:02.160 --> 0:29:03.760 of the only it was only about three or four 0:29:05.080 --> 0:29:08.080 black actors that were able to be in the school 0:29:08.120 --> 0:29:09.920 at that time, because just in that time, it was 0:29:10.000 --> 0:29:11.880 like that, like you feel me, you know, a lot 0:29:11.880 --> 0:29:13.800 of them weren't actually in the school. They were a 0:29:13.840 --> 0:29:16.240 part of the side program that had to do it. 0:29:16.280 --> 0:29:20.640 But you know, like Denzel, my Popsdale Roy, like like that, 0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:24.440 they were a part of the actual program. So he 0:29:24.480 --> 0:29:26.240 was an actor, man, But he had hell the kids 0:29:26.680 --> 0:29:29.080 from the bay, you know, from the town, and a 0:29:29.080 --> 0:29:31.200 lot of kids, you feel me. So he had to 0:29:31.240 --> 0:29:34.880 make a decision, man, like either I'm going to push 0:29:35.040 --> 0:29:37.600 and probably lose the family and have some wild kids 0:29:37.680 --> 0:29:41.160 running out here going crazy, or I'm I'm gonna sit 0:29:41.160 --> 0:29:43.440 this down. I'm gonna do something else, you know, and 0:29:43.520 --> 0:29:45.560 still very successful, was able to start his own business. 0:29:45.600 --> 0:29:47.160 Man put a lot of people in position, give a 0:29:47.200 --> 0:29:48.560 lot of jobs to a lot of black people, you 0:29:48.560 --> 0:29:52.560 know what I'm saying. But because of that, Man, I 0:29:52.600 --> 0:29:53.840 went to him. I was like, Man, I got this 0:29:53.880 --> 0:29:56.040 opportunity for this role. I need you to work with me. 0:29:56.200 --> 0:29:58.760 You know, started working with a man and my dad 0:29:58.840 --> 0:30:02.120 is tough like so he's like, you sure you want 0:30:02.120 --> 0:30:04.000 to do this because you're not really You're not really 0:30:04.000 --> 0:30:07.240 that good right now. Like I'm not feeling that about 0:30:07.240 --> 0:30:08.640 to embarrass it. I'm not feeling this. 0:30:09.600 --> 0:30:10.200 What do you do. 0:30:13.360 --> 0:30:15.920 Right I don't know what you're going on, you know 0:30:15.920 --> 0:30:16.360 what I'm saying. 0:30:16.400 --> 0:30:21.600 They got anything from me? Man, I can make shine. 0:30:22.600 --> 0:30:24.920 I think I could put the family on you know 0:30:24.960 --> 0:30:25.440 what I'm saying. 0:30:25.800 --> 0:30:28.080 You know, but but he worked for me, Man. He 0:30:28.120 --> 0:30:29.400 gave me you know what I mean, he did. He 0:30:29.440 --> 0:30:32.080 did you know that experience? Man put it in on me. Man, 0:30:32.120 --> 0:30:33.600 and we worked for like a couple of hours. 0:30:33.600 --> 0:30:33.760 Man. 0:30:33.800 --> 0:30:35.680 I remember, I'm trying to like, you know, I got it. 0:30:35.760 --> 0:30:37.440 I got a tough scene, Like I got a scene 0:30:37.440 --> 0:30:39.560 where it's like the climax of the movie, you know 0:30:39.600 --> 0:30:41.360 what I'm saying, where you find out what was really 0:30:41.400 --> 0:30:44.480 going on, you know, And for me, I'm thinking, you know, 0:30:44.520 --> 0:30:45.880 I gotta be crying. So I'm in the I'm in 0:30:45.880 --> 0:30:48.600 the bathroom trying to method act minds off, you know 0:30:48.600 --> 0:30:50.520 what I'm saying, And finally I'm tearing up. I'm running 0:30:50.560 --> 0:30:52.800 upstairs like look, look, look I got the tears. 0:30:52.800 --> 0:30:53.240 It's time. 0:30:53.520 --> 0:30:54.000 It's tough. 0:30:54.600 --> 0:30:55.200 First time. 0:30:56.240 --> 0:30:56.440 Do it. 0:30:56.520 --> 0:31:01.400 Now he's doing. Now, He's like like, man, wipe your face, 0:31:03.480 --> 0:31:09.760 just back up like he like man. But he started 0:31:09.760 --> 0:31:11.680 breaking it down to me. He started, he started really 0:31:11.720 --> 0:31:13.800 explaining to me these these you know what I mean, Like, 0:31:14.280 --> 0:31:16.239 you're not supposed to be acting like you know what I mean. 0:31:16.400 --> 0:31:18.280 Put me in, Put me in. He put me in 0:31:18.320 --> 0:31:21.080 a position to realize, like, Okay, you got an older brother. 0:31:21.520 --> 0:31:23.120 Think about a time where you you know what I'm saying. 0:31:23.160 --> 0:31:24.720 I was pissed at your brother. You know what I'm saying, 0:31:24.720 --> 0:31:26.440 And yeah, yeah, you didn't go through what this nigga 0:31:26.480 --> 0:31:29.240 went through. But you still didn't been through a time 0:31:29.240 --> 0:31:31.040 where you can we looked at your brother, somebody you 0:31:31.080 --> 0:31:34.880 look up to Liken, you know what I'm saying. So 0:31:34.920 --> 0:31:37.760 you had to find the relatability of it, relate to it, 0:31:37.800 --> 0:31:39.800 you know what I'm saying, and not act but react. 0:31:39.920 --> 0:31:42.280 So man, we started working it, man, And that's one 0:31:42.280 --> 0:31:44.120 thing about my pops, Like he's tough as ship, but 0:31:45.160 --> 0:31:47.200 when he says it's good, I'm like, oh, I'm good. 0:31:47.360 --> 0:31:49.680 I'm been there, you know. And I remember my mom 0:31:49.760 --> 0:31:51.640 was there and she was reading and she just I'm 0:31:51.680 --> 0:31:53.360 just not feeling him. He's not doing it, you know, 0:31:53.360 --> 0:31:55.560 he's not pushing it. So we finally figured it out 0:31:55.560 --> 0:31:56.840 and we ran, and we ran. It was actually a 0:31:56.840 --> 0:31:59.600 blooperd because Moms was reading the part for us too, 0:32:00.560 --> 0:32:02.920 and she's over here crying. She can't even you know 0:32:02.920 --> 0:32:04.880 what I'm saying. She can't even finish the line because 0:32:04.920 --> 0:32:07.880 she's like, I'm sorry, it's just you know. So we 0:32:08.000 --> 0:32:09.680 was like, we got I said, we're gonna send them that, 0:32:10.000 --> 0:32:11.760 We're gonna send them the blue Bird, you know what 0:32:11.760 --> 0:32:14.160 I mean. And two days later, man, they hit me 0:32:14.200 --> 0:32:16.280 back like we yeah, you got you the part? You 0:32:16.360 --> 0:32:20.200 got so yeah, man, So that was the start of Hi, Man, 0:32:20.200 --> 0:32:22.120 I got the I got the whole bug for for 0:32:22.240 --> 0:32:24.920 acting at that point, man, you know, and just just 0:32:24.920 --> 0:32:27.280 seeing set life and seeing the difference. Man, I mean 0:32:27.360 --> 0:32:29.120 even with acting to that money come a lot faster. 0:32:29.240 --> 0:32:29.760 Man, it's. 0:32:31.400 --> 0:32:34.520 Once you get it. Yeah, you feel like nine. You 0:32:34.520 --> 0:32:40.640 feel like like you like a wire right right. Here's 0:32:40.640 --> 0:32:42.640 your money. See you tomorrow. 0:32:42.600 --> 0:32:44.640 See tomorrow, and we'll do this all over again. We'll 0:32:44.680 --> 0:32:45.480 just we'll do this. 0:32:45.480 --> 0:32:48.480 All over again. Your side are here grooming. They're waiting 0:32:48.480 --> 0:32:53.760 on you. And there breakfast, breakfast, bring you. We'll bring 0:32:53.800 --> 0:32:54.040 it to you. 0:32:54.120 --> 0:32:56.160 We gotta trailer. 0:32:56.440 --> 0:32:59.000 Uh wardrobe is coming over. They're just gonna do a 0:32:59.080 --> 0:33:01.160 quick fitting for some things you put on the other door. 0:33:01.280 --> 0:33:03.680 Out here fighting over motherfucker fruit basket. 0:33:04.680 --> 0:33:09.280 I'm trying where my water feling is that I'm not 0:33:09.400 --> 0:33:10.120 going to promote. 0:33:10.360 --> 0:33:15.800 You won't see water on the rider. You don't see it. 0:33:15.280 --> 0:33:21.080 I flew three thousand miles this my motherfucking watermelon. 0:33:21.200 --> 0:33:23.200 Stopped playing with me, man, stop ship. 0:33:23.720 --> 0:33:29.160 Yeah, and I don't like when where the blue cheese at? 0:33:31.040 --> 0:33:34.800 What the blue all red eminem stuff like it's going on, 0:33:35.840 --> 0:33:37.120 no green eminems. 0:33:37.760 --> 0:33:43.560 Listen once once I've seen it. Once an artist moves 0:33:43.560 --> 0:33:46.040 over to the acting sign, it's hard. 0:33:45.840 --> 0:33:46.840 To get him to come back. 0:33:47.280 --> 0:33:49.080 I'll be even foxing about like Fox. I'm telling you 0:33:49.080 --> 0:33:50.560 we need to get this one. He says, No, I 0:33:50.600 --> 0:33:52.760 feel you we should get it. I'm gonna call you back. 0:33:52.800 --> 0:33:55.080 I'm gonna call you back down exactly. 0:33:55.360 --> 0:33:58.320 Hey, Jamie Fox starting a new film over New Zealand, 0:33:59.480 --> 0:33:59.960 just gonna come. 0:34:02.200 --> 0:34:05.000 They said the thing the wire. 0:34:05.640 --> 0:34:07.640 I'm sorry for real. 0:34:07.960 --> 0:34:10.720 Money, real I said, no problem. 0:34:10.800 --> 0:34:11.920 You know what it is, though, it's like. 0:34:14.040 --> 0:34:17.120 You know, and in everything that you're saying, man, you 0:34:17.160 --> 0:34:20.799 know what I mean, It's like, I don't. I've never 0:34:20.920 --> 0:34:25.359 believed in the play. I've never had a plan baby period. Yeah, yeah, 0:34:26.120 --> 0:34:28.479 there's not. There's nothing. I can't think of one other 0:34:28.600 --> 0:34:32.520 thing that I was as good at as I was 0:34:32.960 --> 0:34:33.600 doing music. 0:34:35.640 --> 0:34:40.640 But you're here, you're here. 0:34:41.080 --> 0:34:43.120 She got something about she got caught in the mail, 0:34:43.280 --> 0:34:49.880 something about that you didn't exactly, you haven't let the 0:34:49.880 --> 0:34:54.200 package caught the mail before. 0:34:55.520 --> 0:34:57.319 Nice clothes, nice clothes. 0:34:59.560 --> 0:35:02.279 You I want to go with nice clothes off. 0:35:02.440 --> 0:35:05.680 Yeah, but I mean, like anything I did, honestly, you know, 0:35:05.680 --> 0:35:06.960 I tried. I tried all kind of shit. 0:35:07.040 --> 0:35:07.120 Man. 0:35:07.160 --> 0:35:08.640 I wanted to hoop, you know what I'm saying. I 0:35:08.640 --> 0:35:10.800 wanted to I wanted to run track. I was fast, 0:35:10.880 --> 0:35:13.600 all kind of ship but every time I tried to 0:35:13.640 --> 0:35:17.440 do something, man, it was like God kept leading it 0:35:17.440 --> 0:35:19.799 back there. And I mean like abruptly, like up your 0:35:19.840 --> 0:35:22.160 hamstrings fucked up. You can't do that no more. You 0:35:22.200 --> 0:35:23.600 know what I'm saying. Or you know what I'm saying, 0:35:23.680 --> 0:35:25.719 Up you done broke your female ain't no more basketball, bro. 0:35:26.080 --> 0:35:28.279 I would go from I would think I'm getting ready 0:35:28.360 --> 0:35:31.120 to you know, really go somewhere. You know in this 0:35:31.239 --> 0:35:34.960 basketball term, I go up for a full dump bang out. Yeah. Yeah, 0:35:35.000 --> 0:35:37.760 I come down, step on somebody footing twists. 0:35:39.480 --> 0:35:42.120 Yeah, I'm like I'll be quiet ver. 0:35:42.200 --> 0:35:46.040 So yeah, I'll be back every times that quick, every time, 0:35:46.320 --> 0:35:46.759 every time. 0:35:46.800 --> 0:35:47.000 Bruh. 0:35:47.080 --> 0:35:49.799 So it was like for me, I always said that like, man, 0:35:49.840 --> 0:35:52.400 I put too many Man, how many hours did I not? 0:35:52.960 --> 0:35:55.520 I'm watching my peers, my homies and ship. They kicking it. 0:35:55.520 --> 0:35:57.520 They chilling, you know what I'm saying. They calling me like, bro, 0:35:57.560 --> 0:36:01.040 we're kicking it this weekend. No, I'm I have two 0:36:01.719 --> 0:36:04.759 recitals to do today. I gotta go do this. I 0:36:04.800 --> 0:36:07.400 got that. I'm in this. I'm building the house with 0:36:07.440 --> 0:36:10.240 my pop. Like they're not letting me leave. So unless 0:36:10.320 --> 0:36:11.719 y'all want to come hang out with me and do 0:36:11.760 --> 0:36:13.279 what I have to do. You know what I'm saying, 0:36:13.280 --> 0:36:15.440 pick up a hammer or some shit. Then that's the 0:36:15.440 --> 0:36:17.719 only way we kicking it. So for me, it was like, bro, 0:36:17.840 --> 0:36:20.319 I did not sacrifice all of these years and all 0:36:20.360 --> 0:36:23.000 of this time to not do it, to not see 0:36:23.000 --> 0:36:25.240 it through you feel me. So even in my family, 0:36:25.239 --> 0:36:27.880 you know, I see I've seen it before, Like moments 0:36:28.000 --> 0:36:30.040 was like, you know, the people that love you, that 0:36:30.080 --> 0:36:33.040 are that are that are supporting you, but they're not 0:36:33.120 --> 0:36:35.440 in the field. They don't see the little winds that 0:36:35.520 --> 0:36:39.480 tell you keep going, indicators like, they don't see that. 0:36:39.880 --> 0:36:43.279 They only see what comes out. So they're like, how 0:36:43.320 --> 0:36:44.880 are you? So these are the same people who were 0:36:44.880 --> 0:36:47.800 putting me in these programs, same people who was making 0:36:47.840 --> 0:36:49.560 me do you know what I'm saying, keeping me out 0:36:49.600 --> 0:36:51.960 the streets doing this, that are now that are at 0:36:51.960 --> 0:36:54.520 that point saying you don't want to get a nine 0:36:54.600 --> 0:36:56.640 to five Like you don't want to not because that's 0:36:56.640 --> 0:36:58.960 not what you that's not the setup you gave me. 0:36:59.239 --> 0:37:02.759 The setup you gave me was this is it. This 0:37:02.800 --> 0:37:04.239 is what I'm going to be doing for the rest 0:37:04.239 --> 0:37:05.759 of my Even a commercial came out one time, but 0:37:05.840 --> 0:37:07.920 I swear. I said that, like, what if everything you've 0:37:07.920 --> 0:37:10.200 been through, everything you've done in your life led you 0:37:10.280 --> 0:37:12.200 up to what you do today. And when I heard that, 0:37:12.280 --> 0:37:14.080 I'm like, that's that has to be me, that has 0:37:14.160 --> 0:37:16.360 to be my life. You feel me? And for me 0:37:16.440 --> 0:37:18.959 it was like, no, it wasn't about no time frame. 0:37:19.000 --> 0:37:21.920 A lot of motherfuckers start to think that the date 0:37:22.040 --> 0:37:25.520 put the date is bigger than the destination. You feel me, 0:37:25.560 --> 0:37:28.040 and it's really about the destination. It don't matter when 0:37:28.040 --> 0:37:30.239 you get there, your me or how you got there. 0:37:30.600 --> 0:37:32.359 You got there, get there, you know what I'm saying. 0:37:32.440 --> 0:37:33.759 You just got to get there. And for me, that 0:37:33.920 --> 0:37:36.120 that was That's what it was man. And today now 0:37:36.160 --> 0:37:39.760 I'm in a position where you know, I was always 0:37:39.840 --> 0:37:42.759 so scared to claim independency, Like I was like, no, 0:37:42.800 --> 0:37:45.280 you got to be on a label, because that's what again, 0:37:45.360 --> 0:37:48.640 the machine convinces you, like if you talk about independent, 0:37:48.680 --> 0:37:50.160 all people ain't gonna want to fuck with you. Man, 0:37:50.200 --> 0:37:52.799 You ain't you ain't you keep that Universal Republic name 0:37:52.880 --> 0:37:56.359 up there as long as you can. Like no, Man, 0:37:56.640 --> 0:38:00.279 today it's like I'm we independent, my whole team, the brodies, Man, 0:38:00.320 --> 0:38:03.040 we we do everything. You know what I'm saying, film, 0:38:03.080 --> 0:38:06.560 our own videos, concepts. You know what I'm saying, songwriting 0:38:06.680 --> 0:38:09.920 and producing, and there is no more Ever, somebody has 0:38:09.920 --> 0:38:12.879 a record that I recorded that never happened again. That's done. 0:38:13.120 --> 0:38:15.160 You know what I'm saying, because it's it's all. It's 0:38:15.239 --> 0:38:16.719 it's us putting it all into it. You know what 0:38:16.719 --> 0:38:20.280 I'm saying. It's like you'll never hear agent is signed 0:38:20.280 --> 0:38:20.760 to someone. 0:38:20.960 --> 0:38:26.120 What's the name of the label? Now Broody that's in it. 0:38:26.440 --> 0:38:26.680 Yeah. 0:38:26.719 --> 0:38:29.360 We got Sonny Bee. We got Sonny you know what 0:38:29.400 --> 0:38:31.839 I'm saying, crazy songwriter, singer. You know what I'm saying. 0:38:31.840 --> 0:38:34.359 We got my boy momo director. We got my man 0:38:34.440 --> 0:38:36.880 hell of Frames, Carl. We call him special K. You 0:38:36.920 --> 0:38:38.759 know what I'm saying, because this man is a He's 0:38:38.800 --> 0:38:41.000 a beast. You know what I'm saying with that camera man. 0:38:41.400 --> 0:38:43.759 You know, we got Sharene being supreme. She here. You 0:38:43.800 --> 0:38:45.600 know what I'm saying. With all our finances and all 0:38:45.640 --> 0:38:49.399 of that, you feel you know what I'm talking about. 0:38:49.440 --> 0:38:50.959 You know you got mister. You know what I'm saying. 0:38:51.000 --> 0:38:53.600 By life, you feel me. You know what I'm talking about. 0:38:53.800 --> 0:38:59.120 You know what I'm saying. So you know it's and 0:38:59.120 --> 0:39:01.880 and again it's there's there's more as that that have 0:39:02.000 --> 0:39:04.239 been stacking on, man, but it's just us building that 0:39:04.320 --> 0:39:07.319 network or coming together. Like, Man, it's really a group 0:39:07.320 --> 0:39:09.520 of creatives, men that have all been through their own 0:39:09.640 --> 0:39:12.719 level of shit in the industry, you know, but it 0:39:12.760 --> 0:39:14.719 didn't kill them, It didn't knock them, you know what 0:39:14.719 --> 0:39:16.120 I'm saying. It was like, no, you just got to 0:39:16.160 --> 0:39:18.320 be around the right situation, the right people that believe 0:39:18.440 --> 0:39:21.160 you know what I'm saying. And for the past two years, man, 0:39:21.239 --> 0:39:24.279 we didn't. Probably we took a step back, man and 0:39:24.320 --> 0:39:28.560 just did nothing but recording, writing, recording, producing. Like it's 0:39:28.600 --> 0:39:30.200 a lot of music that has come out since then, 0:39:30.400 --> 0:39:32.879 since twenty twenty. It's a lot of music and we're 0:39:32.920 --> 0:39:35.600 listening to it and it's like, okay, keep doing what 0:39:35.640 --> 0:39:38.000 we're doing. I mean, we were all about cultivating this 0:39:38.160 --> 0:39:40.880 R and BA sound. I mean that it was about 0:39:40.960 --> 0:39:44.680 taking a step away from R and B. Like I 0:39:45.320 --> 0:39:48.480 love Mario you feel Me, I love Eric Bellinger, I 0:39:48.480 --> 0:39:51.080 love I love I love all of these artists that 0:39:51.120 --> 0:39:53.400 are R and B artists, you know what I'm saying. 0:39:53.600 --> 0:39:55.200 And I'm taking my step away from that, Like now 0:39:55.200 --> 0:39:57.319 I'm gonna do something that you guys can't do. You 0:39:57.360 --> 0:39:59.160 guys can't be R and B A. You know what 0:39:59.160 --> 0:40:01.240 I'm saying, You're not from the Bay. It's just facts, 0:40:01.640 --> 0:40:03.120 you know what I'm saying. So everything in the so 0:40:03.239 --> 0:40:04.880 how we talk on these lyrics and you know what 0:40:04.920 --> 0:40:06.920 I'm saying. We say like watch out for you just 0:40:07.120 --> 0:40:09.160 missing you know what I'm saying, Like you said, this 0:40:09.239 --> 0:40:11.040 is bib City, you know what I'm saying. So it's 0:40:11.040 --> 0:40:15.719 like we're bringing these concepts that are from our hometown. 0:40:15.800 --> 0:40:18.200 You know what I'm saying. We we and records talking 0:40:18.239 --> 0:40:21.080 about going Stewie on an R and B level. Though 0:40:21.120 --> 0:40:22.880 you know what I'm saying, you're taking high feet productions 0:40:22.920 --> 0:40:25.200 and you putting this Bay Area lyricism on it. But 0:40:25.280 --> 0:40:28.640 at the same time, you're using these melody driven you 0:40:28.680 --> 0:40:31.640 know what I'm saying, You're making it about the melodies 0:40:31.680 --> 0:40:33.640 that is R and B. You know what I'm saying, 0:40:33.920 --> 0:40:35.920 That a tank can still sing it, you feel me. 0:40:36.160 --> 0:40:37.480 But at the same time, you know what I'm saying, 0:40:37.480 --> 0:40:39.480 because we're the only place in the world brand you notice, 0:40:39.680 --> 0:40:42.440 like in the Bay you you got DJs that was 0:40:42.440 --> 0:40:46.160 blending Keep the Sneak forty two short. You know what 0:40:46.160 --> 0:40:49.160 I'm saying, Like I'm in the building and I'm feeling myself. 0:40:49.280 --> 0:40:53.960 You feel me, and then all of a sudden, m 0:40:53.960 --> 0:40:57.160 Mario coming on. You still still, You're still going dumb 0:40:57.200 --> 0:40:59.279 You feel me? Like it was the only place in 0:40:59.320 --> 0:41:02.200 the world where they were blending music like that. This 0:41:02.360 --> 0:41:04.600 music is a product of that. This music is a 0:41:04.640 --> 0:41:07.359 product of the hiphi era. And just at that time, 0:41:07.400 --> 0:41:10.080 all we're doing is we're putting uh, we're putting a 0:41:10.160 --> 0:41:12.719 name on it. You r and bab bro. What I'm saying, 0:41:12.800 --> 0:41:18.080 she ruf the trouble, y'all, she ride on. You feel. 0:41:20.040 --> 0:41:20.200 Young. 0:41:21.600 --> 0:41:23.600 Now we're coming and now we're coming in, and let's 0:41:23.640 --> 0:41:24.880 take that and let's build off of that. 0:41:25.239 --> 0:41:26.400 Absolutely, you know what I'm saying. 0:41:26.280 --> 0:41:28.880 Let's build off that you're saying, go dumb dog. 0:41:29.120 --> 0:41:33.279 And at the end of the day, it was and 0:41:33.320 --> 0:41:37.319 you and I had this conversation some years back. To 0:41:37.440 --> 0:41:40.959 a certain degree, we live on our own island. Yeah, 0:41:41.040 --> 0:41:45.040 for sure, we always have. And it's something that the 0:41:45.160 --> 0:41:49.840 industry as a whole just kind of comes and picks from, 0:41:49.840 --> 0:41:51.080 you know, take pieces. 0:41:50.760 --> 0:41:53.080 Of it, you know, move it and run around with it. 0:41:53.200 --> 0:41:55.879 And it's and you know that's fine because we've allowed that. 0:41:56.000 --> 0:42:01.480 Yeah, but standing in front of it, you're going to 0:42:01.560 --> 0:42:05.040 take a different type of chance, especially if you're going 0:42:05.080 --> 0:42:07.440 to do it through a major label. And that was 0:42:07.480 --> 0:42:09.160 the conversation I have with you when you were still 0:42:09.200 --> 0:42:13.520 on Republic. I'm like, listen, I went through this. They 0:42:13.520 --> 0:42:18.080 don't get it. They'll never get it because they're not 0:42:18.760 --> 0:42:21.879 they're not there, and because we're so. 0:42:25.480 --> 0:42:26.319 Like, we're so. 0:42:28.719 --> 0:42:32.520 Hardcore about what's the bay and what ain't the bay 0:42:33.400 --> 0:42:37.640 that we don't fully let people in. So they come, 0:42:37.840 --> 0:42:40.080 they get a piece, and they get the fuck on 0:42:40.760 --> 0:42:43.600 because at some point it's going to be somebody that 0:42:43.680 --> 0:42:45.360 be like that nigga ain't from here. 0:42:45.440 --> 0:42:47.200 Let's get it. 0:42:47.360 --> 0:42:51.000 And instead of fully embracing, you know people that you know, 0:42:51.080 --> 0:42:53.240 like listen, when Drake came and did. 0:42:55.280 --> 0:42:57.200 He showed nothing beloved. 0:42:57.760 --> 0:43:00.520 But there were people there that felt the way for sure, 0:43:00.560 --> 0:43:03.719 instead of fully embracing I remember what Fab had to 0:43:03.760 --> 0:43:06.839 go through by fucking with Drake and people be like. 0:43:06.800 --> 0:43:08.040 Fab, why are you in? 0:43:08.200 --> 0:43:08.439 Fab? 0:43:08.440 --> 0:43:10.520 It's like, bro, like this is help and what. 0:43:10.440 --> 0:43:13.440 We're doing it's just putting a light on on on 0:43:13.640 --> 0:43:16.239 exactly on our region and what we do like we 0:43:16.280 --> 0:43:17.520 should embrace. 0:43:17.160 --> 0:43:18.640 This well, I mean on top of that, you know, 0:43:18.800 --> 0:43:21.440 we're one of those places where it's like man, everybody 0:43:21.560 --> 0:43:24.879 is is trying to be the man themselves individually. It's like, man, 0:43:25.120 --> 0:43:27.960 I gotta you winning man again, winning man. My shit 0:43:28.000 --> 0:43:29.520 harder than his, you know what I'm saying, Rather than 0:43:29.520 --> 0:43:31.919 everybody coming together. You go to Atlanta, how I learned 0:43:31.960 --> 0:43:34.160 it like you go to one studio bro with You're 0:43:34.160 --> 0:43:37.360 going there with Jazzy faith Bright and is going to 0:43:37.400 --> 0:43:40.040 walk in there and and fucking around, you know what 0:43:40.080 --> 0:43:42.440 I'm saying. But out here in the Bay, it was 0:43:42.480 --> 0:43:45.919 always like to each his own, Yeah, to each his own. 0:43:46.000 --> 0:43:47.880 So for us, it was about to me, it was 0:43:47.880 --> 0:43:50.840 like looking at what you the foundation like that you 0:43:50.960 --> 0:43:53.319 laid out and people that before us laid out with 0:43:53.400 --> 0:43:54.960 this R and BA shit. It was more about like 0:43:55.480 --> 0:43:58.360 it's not about am coming back after two years and 0:43:58.800 --> 0:44:00.799 dropping music. We got a hundred us new records that 0:44:00.840 --> 0:44:03.560 we didne worked on just in silence, like we're not 0:44:03.600 --> 0:44:06.120 putting nothing out until we got a hundred records that 0:44:06.160 --> 0:44:09.160 we love. That's like this hundred, this hundred one is 0:44:09.360 --> 0:44:11.600 so much better than this first one. It's crazy and 0:44:11.640 --> 0:44:13.320 the first one. We love it, you know what I'm saying. 0:44:13.360 --> 0:44:15.359 But you know, we looked at it like it had 0:44:15.360 --> 0:44:17.640 to be bigger than me, than me coming back out 0:44:17.680 --> 0:44:19.400 like I'm back or I'm trying to do you know. No, 0:44:19.880 --> 0:44:21.719 it's a Bay movement. This is about us bringing the 0:44:21.760 --> 0:44:24.560 Bay together. So we're going and where we're saying, nah, 0:44:24.600 --> 0:44:26.759 like let's stop all that shit. It ain't about stock 0:44:26.840 --> 0:44:28.880 That ain't the Bay or this man, come on, like 0:44:29.040 --> 0:44:32.000 all of us put in on this this movement. When 0:44:32.080 --> 0:44:34.120 is the last time that R and B that we 0:44:34.200 --> 0:44:36.239 had a seat at the R and B table in 0:44:36.280 --> 0:44:38.920 the Bay area? And that's what that was the conversation 0:44:39.000 --> 0:44:41.360 that me and Sonny B had kicking it off, was 0:44:41.360 --> 0:44:45.040 that what is not happening right now? Like what's not 0:44:45.120 --> 0:44:47.160 out right now? Like, wh when is the last time 0:44:47.239 --> 0:44:48.640 that we were able to say R and B had 0:44:48.640 --> 0:44:50.360 a seat, that we had a seat at the R 0:44:50.360 --> 0:44:52.360 and B table in the Bay area, You know what 0:44:52.360 --> 0:44:54.560 I'm saying. And that was us saying, this next two 0:44:54.640 --> 0:44:58.400 years is the answer. This next two years is saying, oh, 0:44:58.600 --> 0:45:02.279 they doing it right now. Because we've always been innovative. 0:45:02.040 --> 0:45:03.960 We've always been a part of the business, but we 0:45:04.080 --> 0:45:07.080 never even even like I was gonna say, Tony Tony 0:45:07.320 --> 0:45:09.759 Tony Tony Tony InVogue where they you know, they were 0:45:09.800 --> 0:45:12.320 really and then obviously you move into the keaches of 0:45:12.360 --> 0:45:18.239 Kailine's her. But still we don't have as you would say, 0:45:18.280 --> 0:45:21.480 a seat. A seat is something different a see it 0:45:21.560 --> 0:45:24.600 is when a seat is when you're when it's multiple 0:45:24.719 --> 0:45:27.680 artists coming through it like you guys are doing. It's 0:45:27.760 --> 0:45:32.120 exactly a true collaborative process. 0:45:32.120 --> 0:45:34.560 A machine and a machine, you know what I mean. 0:45:34.440 --> 0:45:36.960 Like Atlanta has their seat and it's had their seat 0:45:37.040 --> 0:45:39.920 because it's so many of them have come through it. 0:45:40.560 --> 0:45:42.480 Detroit, you know what I mean. 0:45:42.480 --> 0:45:44.120 Like you know, we can go down the line and 0:45:44.480 --> 0:45:47.239 talk about different places and even La you know what 0:45:47.280 --> 0:45:51.000 I mean, where you talk about Brandy and Immature and 0:45:51.120 --> 0:45:53.200 shit ray J and you know what I mean, and 0:45:53.560 --> 0:45:55.960 Ti Dollar Sign and it's just so many of them 0:45:55.960 --> 0:45:59.080 and you look up and you know and you say, damn, 0:45:59.120 --> 0:46:02.000 a lot of them came from the same same. 0:46:01.840 --> 0:46:03.120 Thing, you know. 0:46:03.480 --> 0:46:05.920 And with the Bay, we've we've never been able to 0:46:06.000 --> 0:46:09.240 have that. It's always been just you know, individuals every 0:46:09.239 --> 0:46:11.400 couple of years, you know what I mean, Like what 0:46:11.960 --> 0:46:15.080 it was when It was me early on when I 0:46:15.120 --> 0:46:18.200 was just putting out the records, there was no one 0:46:18.280 --> 0:46:23.719 for me to truly collaborate with because everybody was doing rap. 0:46:23.880 --> 0:46:26.759 Everybody was rapping, and everybody was off doing their own thing, 0:46:27.200 --> 0:46:30.040 and there was it was just no way to truly 0:46:30.080 --> 0:46:30.800 bring it together. 0:46:31.239 --> 0:46:34.000 And I think that with all of the with all 0:46:34.000 --> 0:46:36.720 of that tension and term what's going on between artists 0:46:36.760 --> 0:46:39.640 trying to fight to get to the spotlight that's out there, 0:46:40.239 --> 0:46:42.480 you leave room for motherfuckers to come in and take shit. 0:46:42.800 --> 0:46:44.520 You know what I'm saying. It's like we're so distracted 0:46:44.560 --> 0:46:46.560 fighting each other that motherfucker's coming in like, oh well 0:46:46.600 --> 0:46:50.080 I'll take that. I'm gonna take that. And now and 0:46:50.200 --> 0:46:52.040 now all of a sudden, Hella You don't know that 0:46:52.120 --> 0:46:54.400 Hella can started in the bay. You don't know. Now 0:46:54.440 --> 0:46:57.280 all of a sudden, now you're saying that food slaps 0:46:57.640 --> 0:46:59.919 it doesn't you know what I'm saying, Like, stop taking 0:47:00.080 --> 0:47:01.120 that ship, stop saying that. 0:47:01.320 --> 0:47:12.120 We just listen, We just let me say that broad 0:47:12.400 --> 0:47:15.840 he understands the difference between smack and Okay, there you go. 0:47:16.400 --> 0:47:19.239 It was just funny because we was literally having this conversation. 0:47:19.400 --> 0:47:22.400 Yeah, so it's like it's it's like people coming in 0:47:22.400 --> 0:47:23.799 and they able to take that the push and pe 0:47:24.000 --> 0:47:26.040 thing like I don't know what that I don't even 0:47:26.040 --> 0:47:28.080 know what that is like pushing p No, I'm keeping 0:47:28.120 --> 0:47:30.200 it pee, you know what I'm saying, Like the the 0:47:30.360 --> 0:47:32.920 the lingos that we have and how we are, how 0:47:33.000 --> 0:47:35.680 we love, how we fight, how we feel, how we deal, 0:47:35.760 --> 0:47:38.000 you know what I'm saying. Like it's always like you said, 0:47:38.080 --> 0:47:41.120 been on his own island. But for me now, our mission, 0:47:41.560 --> 0:47:43.279 you know, me and the Brody's has always been about 0:47:43.360 --> 0:47:45.800 man at this point. Now bring everybody in on this 0:47:45.880 --> 0:47:48.920 hand for you to rock with us, to rock with us, 0:47:49.320 --> 0:47:50.239 it's got to be on back. 0:48:02.880 --> 0:48:03.560 A lot of information. 0:48:03.640 --> 0:48:04.200 My brother. 0:48:06.760 --> 0:48:09.600 Warming up, he's warming up ship. 0:48:10.800 --> 0:48:12.080 You got a lot of information, a lot of R 0:48:12.120 --> 0:48:26.160 and B information, And it's R n B thing is 0:48:26.520 --> 0:48:34.840 it's it's it's spans generation, spans now, universe. Right now. 0:48:37.080 --> 0:48:39.480 We'd have to figure out am. 0:48:41.440 --> 0:48:42.480 Top F. 0:48:45.960 --> 0:48:50.880 Your top five, my top fire, top F. 0:48:54.320 --> 0:48:55.239 Your top five. 0:48:59.560 --> 0:49:06.920 Else you'll talk. 0:49:16.400 --> 0:49:31.280 You yes, yeah, take your time, your time, top five five? 0:49:37.000 --> 0:49:41.480 Who oh, Adrian Marseilles. 0:49:42.680 --> 0:49:45.239 So we're talking top of R and bay. Okay, well 0:49:45.239 --> 0:49:46.000 we're talking talking. 0:49:47.440 --> 0:49:53.080 Okay, R and Bay represent represent R and B. Lello 0:49:55.680 --> 0:50:00.760 your top five R and B singers the it or Live. 0:50:00.719 --> 0:50:04.719 Okay to five R and B singers. I'm gonna go 0:50:04.880 --> 0:50:10.520 with I'm gonna go with Mike, Mike, m J start writer. 0:50:10.680 --> 0:50:12.040 You know what I'm saying. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. 0:50:12.440 --> 0:50:15.879 We got m J, got Prince. You know what I'm saying. 0:50:15.920 --> 0:50:17.080 Because you know what I'm saying. You can call it 0:50:17.120 --> 0:50:19.040 what you want to call it. That's that's R and B. 0:50:19.239 --> 0:50:20.880 I'm saying, we're going to call it. 0:50:24.880 --> 0:50:25.319 Let's see. 0:50:25.520 --> 0:50:25.640 Uh. 0:50:26.160 --> 0:50:28.480 I gotta say for me again, I gotta say g Bro, 0:50:28.880 --> 0:50:30.200 you want Bro, that's. 0:50:30.360 --> 0:50:38.399 Listen, that's his. You know what else? 0:50:38.640 --> 0:50:38.960 That's his? 0:50:40.000 --> 0:50:40.759 Do your something? 0:50:41.200 --> 0:50:42.200 My pony? 0:50:47.000 --> 0:50:47.720 Can baby? 0:50:48.360 --> 0:50:48.640 Baby? 0:50:50.080 --> 0:50:50.799 Gotta say g. 0:50:52.920 --> 0:50:56.080 He asked the question, didn't answer the questions himself to yes, 0:50:56.280 --> 0:50:57.520 Do you want to ride the pony? 0:50:58.000 --> 0:50:58.720 Can I baby? 0:50:59.520 --> 0:50:59.759 Baby? 0:51:00.280 --> 0:51:00.480 Yeah? 0:51:00.840 --> 0:51:01.000 Yeah? 0:51:01.920 --> 0:51:10.880 Oh yeah, we say oh yeah, Oh gotta say. Gotta 0:51:10.920 --> 0:51:11.520 say stokely. 0:51:11.760 --> 0:51:14.680 You gotta gotta say stokely, Bro, You gotta say stoke. 0:51:14.440 --> 0:51:15.320 You gotta say stokely. 0:51:15.400 --> 0:51:15.480 Bro. 0:51:15.920 --> 0:51:18.080 Come on the condition you have the. 0:51:18.080 --> 0:51:20.120 Clock, you better you better know something about some stokely 0:51:20.160 --> 0:51:20.440 If you have. 0:51:21.000 --> 0:51:22.600 We said, we said, we got Stokely, got g we 0:51:22.719 --> 0:51:27.600 got got my Prince, and I think baby face, Bro, 0:51:28.440 --> 0:51:30.239 say baby face because I mean, bro, this this is 0:51:30.320 --> 0:51:32.759 the birthed a lot of this ship out here. You 0:51:32.800 --> 0:51:35.239 know what I'm saying, Like all these songs, you know 0:51:35.320 --> 0:51:39.560 what I mean, We're not here, We're not here with exactly. 0:51:39.960 --> 0:51:41.040 That's definitely my top five. 0:51:41.440 --> 0:51:43.840 It's the feeling of the texture. 0:51:44.120 --> 0:51:47.719 Yeah, King, Yeah, Yeah, I like you. 0:51:47.840 --> 0:51:48.719 I like your attitude. 0:51:49.040 --> 0:51:53.720 Okay, your top five R and B songs. 0:51:54.840 --> 0:51:56.560 Okay, so anxious. 0:51:57.600 --> 0:52:01.160 Listen you know you talking to g wis background. 0:52:01.440 --> 0:52:05.760 Yeah, I started YouTube. 0:52:05.800 --> 0:52:06.320 I do all that. 0:52:06.400 --> 0:52:12.360 I'm gonna say where I want to be, what will be? 0:52:13.000 --> 0:52:16.960 That's that's what a master. A master that album from 0:52:17.000 --> 0:52:20.600 top to bottom, the master. That's that top to bottom 0:52:20.640 --> 0:52:25.880 where I want to be. Oh, diamonds and diamonds and. 0:52:25.920 --> 0:52:27.920 Pearls for sure, bro, Yeah. 0:52:29.560 --> 0:52:33.120 You feel me? Come on, diamonds and pros. And if 0:52:33.160 --> 0:52:35.759 I say diamonds and pros, I gotta say butterflies. Got 0:52:35.880 --> 0:52:41.080 to say butterflies, m J. You feel me? Pretty brown 0:52:41.120 --> 0:52:41.600 eyes bro? 0:52:42.560 --> 0:52:47.040 Because Stokely Yeah really then yeah, listen, I love how 0:52:47.120 --> 0:52:50.279 the top five they connect, they connect they connect with 0:52:50.360 --> 0:52:51.960 the artist, and it's just you know. 0:52:51.920 --> 0:52:55.920 What it is, bro, it's music that really raised us. 0:52:56.040 --> 0:53:01.680 Bro for real, man, for they really raise Like when 0:53:01.680 --> 0:53:04.080 we have Stokely here, I'm looking at him like, and 0:53:04.160 --> 0:53:07.360 I've messed Stokely many times and always give him flowers. 0:53:07.400 --> 0:53:10.120 But every time I see him, I'm like, Bro, you're stokely. 0:53:10.680 --> 0:53:12.320 Still still. 0:53:16.000 --> 0:53:16.359 For real? 0:53:16.920 --> 0:53:20.040 I mean, thank I got I got you. Go on 0:53:20.120 --> 0:53:21.719 YouTube right now. I'm gonna tell you how to find it. 0:53:21.760 --> 0:53:26.000 You know what I'm saying. I tell you how to 0:53:26.080 --> 0:53:27.640 find You know what I'm saying because it was it was, 0:53:27.800 --> 0:53:30.320 you know, back in the day. But we got some baby, 0:53:30.440 --> 0:53:35.959 it's been a while. Yeah, sleep around like we're singing all. 0:53:35.920 --> 0:53:38.000 That because I don't sleep around because. 0:53:37.719 --> 0:53:38.400 I don't see. 0:53:40.000 --> 0:53:43.080 I love to stop playing with flying motherfucker on that. 0:53:46.080 --> 0:53:46.840 Value to be. 0:53:53.520 --> 0:53:54.000 Exactly. 0:53:54.400 --> 0:53:57.080 Come on now, mo, man, everybody can't get this. 0:53:57.520 --> 0:53:58.080 You know what I mean. 0:53:59.600 --> 0:54:04.200 I'm saying, Bru raised on this, raised on this, bro, raised. 0:54:03.920 --> 0:54:06.719 On it all. Right, here we go your R and 0:54:06.800 --> 0:54:13.960 b voul try all right. So like artists, Okay, there's 0:54:14.320 --> 0:54:18.440 the vocal of the artists, the styling of the artists, 0:54:19.360 --> 0:54:22.680 the performance style of the artists and the heart of 0:54:22.719 --> 0:54:23.320 the artists. 0:54:23.400 --> 0:54:25.040 Out of all the artists that you. 0:54:25.200 --> 0:54:28.600 Love, who were you going to take the vocal from 0:54:28.760 --> 0:54:30.720 to make your perfect R and b artists? 0:54:32.080 --> 0:54:35.319 Why not put it out there If you haven't heard, 0:54:37.120 --> 0:54:38.320 Welcome to the MIT Factory. 0:54:40.120 --> 0:54:41.799 You feel me straight up and down? 0:54:42.520 --> 0:54:49.799 You all right? Who are you getting the performance style from? 0:54:51.280 --> 0:54:55.279 I gotta split it up, so I gotta go MJ 0:54:56.080 --> 0:54:59.640 and Bobby Brown. Bro you gotta go MJ and Bobby Brown. 0:55:00.320 --> 0:55:09.800 Michael, yeah, now, And Michael was already savage though on 0:55:09.960 --> 0:55:13.840 some hean you Mike on the Hennessy. 0:55:14.040 --> 0:55:19.560 Yeah, no, Chaser, you're gonna have Mike humping the stay exactly. 0:55:20.040 --> 0:55:22.200 Come on, and you ain't never seen Mike. He gonna 0:55:22.200 --> 0:55:25.200 have a different Michael. It ain't gonna be a hip. 0:55:25.760 --> 0:55:28.600 No, that's gonna be full boull. 0:55:28.120 --> 0:55:32.840 Body gonnav leve take before you do it. 0:55:32.960 --> 0:55:37.560 Come on, come on, man, come on, walk, come on. 0:55:38.680 --> 0:55:44.680 You exactly exactly Michael and Bobby that's mean. 0:55:45.320 --> 0:55:48.360 Yeah. The styling of the artists, what they're putting on? 0:55:48.680 --> 0:55:49.200 Who got that? 0:55:49.520 --> 0:55:54.280 Mm hmm. Styling though, I say, we're talking about styling. 0:55:54.440 --> 0:55:58.640 I say usher, clean, yeah, clean, you know what I'm saying, 0:55:58.880 --> 0:55:59.120 like to. 0:55:59.239 --> 0:55:59.759 It, right to it. 0:55:59.840 --> 0:56:03.320 But but but a chameleon like Usher can go fashionable, 0:56:03.360 --> 0:56:04.600 he can, he can go Nigga with it. 0:56:04.680 --> 0:56:05.200 You know what I'm saying. 0:56:05.560 --> 0:56:08.799 He didn't. He's invented himself so many, so many times 0:56:08.840 --> 0:56:10.800 and so many cases throughout his his album. 0:56:11.520 --> 0:56:11.880 He hasn't. 0:56:11.960 --> 0:56:14.720 He hasn't limited himself to any type of expectations exactly. 0:56:14.800 --> 0:56:17.880 You know, he's really broadened his space to where it's like, oh, 0:56:17.960 --> 0:56:20.279 that's no matter where you're. 0:56:20.160 --> 0:56:22.360 Seeing him exactly. And if if not Usher, then I 0:56:22.400 --> 0:56:24.799 had to say Prince, you know what I'm saying, because 0:56:24.840 --> 0:56:27.359 Prince wasn't afraid to just kind of go all out. Man. 0:56:27.360 --> 0:56:29.680 You know what I'm saying, Horse, you know what I'm saying, 0:56:30.840 --> 0:56:34.120 Like I was gonna say, I can't, I can't do it. 0:56:34.360 --> 0:56:37.439 You feel me? That ain't my bast but is thick 0:56:37.800 --> 0:56:40.839 thick you know small? You know what I'm saying. 0:56:41.120 --> 0:56:43.400 That's like, yeah, give me. 0:56:43.480 --> 0:56:48.279 Up, let me go, let me go, let me do, 0:56:49.440 --> 0:56:51.480 let me let me out, let me. 0:56:51.520 --> 0:56:58.880 Out and no, let it get the bucking man, sh 0:56:59.760 --> 0:56:59.920 let it. 0:57:00.840 --> 0:57:01.080 Damn. 0:57:02.160 --> 0:57:02.840 Is he gonna stay on? 0:57:03.800 --> 0:57:04.279 I hope he. 0:57:08.000 --> 0:57:10.320 I want to believe he would get off at the point. 0:57:11.120 --> 0:57:12.680 That's what I believe about. 0:57:12.480 --> 0:57:14.479 My feel like Princeville just hopping to be on his feet. 0:57:14.640 --> 0:57:18.439 I feel like you just get off. Enough is enough? 0:57:19.440 --> 0:57:24.400 Yeah, somebody get me down. Somebody come getting me down 0:57:24.480 --> 0:57:25.760 on this motherfucker now. 0:57:27.480 --> 0:57:28.720 Get off his nag. 0:57:31.240 --> 0:57:32.080 That's hell funny. 0:57:32.840 --> 0:57:33.880 The heart of the artists. 0:57:35.760 --> 0:57:38.040 You face, you face man. 0:57:38.120 --> 0:57:40.320 You know what I'm saying, ain't what how how how much? 0:57:41.080 --> 0:57:44.600 How much more heart do you need? Like he he yeah, 0:57:44.640 --> 0:57:45.680 he pumped it into music. 0:57:45.720 --> 0:57:50.840 You know what I'm saying, r and Bay, you're doing 0:57:50.880 --> 0:57:51.240 the brother. 0:57:51.440 --> 0:57:55.200 I appreciate that. Okay, We're not We're not done. 0:57:55.640 --> 0:57:56.800 You ain't getting out of here without it. 0:58:02.200 --> 0:58:09.560 Fine, Fine, Fine, I. 0:58:09.520 --> 0:58:12.880 Ain't saying no niggs. Ain't saying no names. I ain't 0:58:12.920 --> 0:58:15.320 saying no names, saying no niggas. 0:58:15.320 --> 0:58:24.240 Where you was what you did? I ain't saying no. 0:58:30.920 --> 0:58:32.960 Wow, yeah wow. 0:58:33.160 --> 0:58:35.560 We got a very very very important segment of this show. 0:58:36.160 --> 0:58:37.960 And that's what you know. We close this thing out with, 0:58:38.760 --> 0:58:39.240 and it's. 0:58:39.120 --> 0:58:42.760 Called I ain't saying on that where Adrian Marcel tell 0:58:42.840 --> 0:58:46.440 us a story it's funny or fucked up, A funny 0:58:46.520 --> 0:58:50.280 and fucked up. The only rule is you can't say 0:58:50.320 --> 0:58:53.120 the name, got it. You can say your name because 0:58:53.120 --> 0:58:54.240 you're him and you you got it. 0:58:54.560 --> 0:58:55.280 It's your story. 0:58:55.480 --> 0:58:57.720 I can't so I can't say the name of who 0:58:57.840 --> 0:58:59.160 it is. But can I say the names of the 0:58:59.240 --> 0:59:00.439 people of other people? 0:59:00.880 --> 0:59:00.920 No? 0:59:01.400 --> 0:59:03.840 No, yeah, you can't. Nobody. 0:59:03.920 --> 0:59:04.400 So it's just me. 0:59:04.840 --> 0:59:08.880 Yeah, okay, okay, scot no no, yes, ma'am's and no 0:59:09.040 --> 0:59:12.840 man here, got it? Okay, no names, I got you, 0:59:13.680 --> 0:59:18.040 So we don't okay. Right now, Right now, my young 0:59:18.120 --> 0:59:22.640 player partner keeping his r and big thing alive, Adrian 0:59:22.800 --> 0:59:26.920 Marcel is gonna tell y'all story without saying no no names. 0:59:28.200 --> 0:59:28.520 Mm hm. 0:59:30.280 --> 0:59:33.760 So I'm in Atlanta. Yeah, I like when I find 0:59:33.800 --> 0:59:37.120 that strict. So I'm in Atlanta. I'm in Atlanta one one, 0:59:37.160 --> 0:59:40.080 one fine day, man, you know, and uh we're going 0:59:40.160 --> 0:59:43.240 to this person's house, you know who's staying in Atlanta 0:59:43.240 --> 0:59:46.200 at this time. They have a fat, fat crib, you know, 0:59:47.000 --> 0:59:49.120 and uh so I get them. I'm supposed to work 0:59:49.160 --> 0:59:50.120 with them for about a week. 0:59:50.640 --> 0:59:50.840 You know. 0:59:51.000 --> 0:59:52.920 It's actually good that I don't get to say this name. 0:59:53.520 --> 0:59:55.280 Uh So, get to work with them for about a week. 0:59:55.320 --> 0:59:55.440 Man. 0:59:55.480 --> 0:59:57.400 I go up in the studio. Man, I'm waiting there 0:59:57.440 --> 0:59:59.160 and they're telling me. They're like, look, you know, they'll 0:59:59.200 --> 1:00:01.040 be up here in a minute, but right now they're 1:00:01.040 --> 1:00:03.760 playing basketball, and they're gonna be playing basketball for the 1:00:03.840 --> 1:00:11.440 next four hours. Let them wait, let them So, so, 1:00:11.640 --> 1:00:14.040 you know, I'm in I'm in here, right and it's 1:00:14.160 --> 1:00:17.000 me a couple of management stuff like that, and some 1:00:17.160 --> 1:00:20.560 reps of theirs, and uh, they're playing me some records 1:00:20.960 --> 1:00:25.280 that were supposedly put together for me, you know, for 1:00:25.400 --> 1:00:29.760 these sessions' time. Yeah, exactly, So they're playing these records 1:00:29.840 --> 1:00:31.760 for me, you know, and this and the guy he 1:00:31.880 --> 1:00:34.320 keeps doing this one dance he keeps you know. 1:00:34.400 --> 1:00:37.360 And the lights, the lights he keeps name through the 1:00:37.480 --> 1:00:39.760 whole through the whole time he's in front of me. 1:00:39.760 --> 1:00:43.920 He's like you feel that, No, he's hitting it like 1:00:44.280 --> 1:00:45.840 he's in it too, like Knees has been. 1:00:46.080 --> 1:00:48.280 You know what I'm saying. He's in it, you know 1:00:48.320 --> 1:00:52.680 what I'm saying, you know, And and the lights are dim. 1:00:53.120 --> 1:00:54.560 So for me, it's sucking me up because it's like, 1:00:54.640 --> 1:00:56.200 hold on, it's a lot of guys in here, you 1:00:56.240 --> 1:00:57.920 know what I'm saying. It's like a sausage fast going 1:00:57.960 --> 1:01:00.720 on right now. And you're doing the Nayna in front 1:01:00.760 --> 1:01:03.160 of me, so let me hop up and turn these 1:01:03.240 --> 1:01:05.200 lights on first. You know what I'm saying, Let's let's 1:01:05.240 --> 1:01:07.040 let's get let's get some light in here. You know 1:01:07.040 --> 1:01:09.000 what I'm saying, Let's see who's Let's see. 1:01:08.880 --> 1:01:13.959 Whee, who's where? 1:01:15.560 --> 1:01:18.880 Yes, let's see where the hell all of y'all are 1:01:18.920 --> 1:01:23.720 at number one, so you know they're planning. They're playing 1:01:23.720 --> 1:01:26.600 the records for me, and I'm listening to it. I'm like, 1:01:26.720 --> 1:01:29.080 I can't sing this. I can't. I can't sing this, 1:01:29.320 --> 1:01:31.960 like you know, number one, This this song is about 1:01:32.320 --> 1:01:36.200 You're talking about being naked on one and just it's 1:01:36.240 --> 1:01:40.320 not really like a metaphor, it's just being naked. I'm like, 1:01:40.400 --> 1:01:41.919 I don't want to talk about that. And then there's 1:01:41.960 --> 1:01:44.040 another record they're talking about some certain things. I'm like, 1:01:44.080 --> 1:01:45.360 I can't say that because if I go back to 1:01:45.440 --> 1:01:47.080 my hood, they're gonna eat me up for that. They're 1:01:47.080 --> 1:01:48.920 gonna tear me up. I can't do it. So I 1:01:48.960 --> 1:01:51.240 can see it's pissing them off. Like the nay name 1:01:51.440 --> 1:01:54.480 wasn't working, so you know, it can't sell me with 1:01:54.600 --> 1:01:56.680 the nay names. So usually I guess that works. That's 1:01:56.800 --> 1:01:59.840 like top tier. Yeah, And so I'm like, well, look 1:01:59.840 --> 1:02:01.560 how about we take a break, you know what I'm saying, 1:02:01.600 --> 1:02:04.560 And let's go down and go see the basketball game. 1:02:04.960 --> 1:02:06.640 You know what I'm saying, Like, let's go find out. 1:02:07.200 --> 1:02:10.920 I like basketball. Let's get out of here, Let's get out, 1:02:11.600 --> 1:02:14.760 Let's get up. Let's get out of here though, right, 1:02:15.000 --> 1:02:17.840 So we go down to the court, man, and you know, 1:02:18.080 --> 1:02:20.120 this is cussing everybody out. 1:02:20.200 --> 1:02:23.760 Pass me the fucking ball, bitch, Like, like, who's this 1:02:23.800 --> 1:02:24.880 stitch ass nigga shooting? 1:02:24.880 --> 1:02:26.200 As soon as you get this as soon as I 1:02:26.280 --> 1:02:30.440 get down there, he's cussing everyone out. Pass me the 1:02:30.480 --> 1:02:32.840 fucking ball. He got to shoot. If anybody shoot, who's 1:02:32.840 --> 1:02:33.640 the light skinned nigga? 1:02:33.720 --> 1:02:34.360 Just shot the ball? 1:02:34.760 --> 1:02:36.440 Get him off the court. So, I mean, he cussing 1:02:36.480 --> 1:02:39.080 everybody else. You look up, you're trying to play. Hell no, 1:02:39.320 --> 1:02:41.040 I don't want to play this game with you, like, 1:02:41.200 --> 1:02:42.480 you know what I'm saying. I don't play like that, 1:02:42.760 --> 1:02:45.040 you know. So I'm sitting there and I'm watching this 1:02:45.080 --> 1:02:48.240 whole thing, and in the midst of all of this, 1:02:48.480 --> 1:02:51.200 you know, I get a moment to have a conversation 1:02:51.280 --> 1:02:54.480 with this person. Now I opened for this person, uh, 1:02:54.800 --> 1:02:57.439 maybe a month ago, a month earlier. But they don't 1:02:57.520 --> 1:03:02.240 they don't realize that I didn't forget what happened during 1:03:02.320 --> 1:03:06.400 that show. They came probably about an hour late, so 1:03:06.520 --> 1:03:09.000 they didn't see the show, you know. And then when 1:03:09.040 --> 1:03:10.520 they were there, they didn't want to do a meet 1:03:10.560 --> 1:03:13.080 and greet, so I did. And when everybody still came 1:03:13.120 --> 1:03:14.960 for the meet and greet, they came and bombarded me 1:03:15.040 --> 1:03:18.320 out the section to to you know what I'm saying, 1:03:18.840 --> 1:03:20.560 to come to the meeting. You know what I'm saying, 1:03:20.600 --> 1:03:23.280 Like the security guards bumping me out the way, like 1:03:23.360 --> 1:03:24.520 you know what I'm saying, Like I'm trying to get 1:03:24.520 --> 1:03:25.960 a picture with the nigga. I'm like, no, I'm trying 1:03:25.960 --> 1:03:29.360 to finish the pictures that but I'm supposed to be doing, 1:03:29.480 --> 1:03:31.680 you know, but I'm gonna give it to you, bruh. 1:03:31.720 --> 1:03:34.000 You know what I'm saying. It's all you. So fast 1:03:34.040 --> 1:03:35.920 forward to this time. He's sitting here talking, you know, 1:03:36.040 --> 1:03:37.520 and the guy told me before, you know, when you 1:03:37.600 --> 1:03:39.280 meet him, you just make sure you tell him how 1:03:39.320 --> 1:03:41.080 much you love his music. You know, make sure you 1:03:41.160 --> 1:03:44.440 tell him like how great they are, and you know, 1:03:44.640 --> 1:03:47.520 really sell it, really sell it. So you know, I'm like, hey, 1:03:48.720 --> 1:03:52.800 love your music for years, you know, and a big 1:03:52.880 --> 1:03:56.240 fan opened up. Yeah yeah, yeah, I seen you seen 1:03:56.280 --> 1:03:57.720 you opened up for me. I've seen the show. 1:03:57.800 --> 1:03:59.400 It was good. It's good. 1:04:02.040 --> 1:04:04.720 You're a lie motherfucker you you know that. But I'm 1:04:04.720 --> 1:04:08.360 sitting there like, yeah, fish out, you know what I'm saying. 1:04:08.920 --> 1:04:11.720 So he tells me, yeah, yea, we're gonna get upstairs. 1:04:11.760 --> 1:04:12.880 We gonna do some work. You know what I'm saying. 1:04:12.880 --> 1:04:13.800 I'll be up there in a minute. 1:04:13.840 --> 1:04:13.960 You know. 1:04:14.120 --> 1:04:17.720 Boom, So go ahead back up there and wait, you know, 1:04:18.800 --> 1:04:21.600 we get back up there. Needless to say, that was Monday. 1:04:21.840 --> 1:04:26.080 I didn't see him again throughout that rest of that 1:04:26.120 --> 1:04:28.320 whole time. So I just recorded a bunch of music 1:04:28.480 --> 1:04:31.640 that had nothing to do with him or anybody else 1:04:32.040 --> 1:04:34.000 in his studio though in his studio, I used his 1:04:34.120 --> 1:04:36.320 engineers and his studio to go ahead and record. 1:04:36.560 --> 1:04:39.240 He never showed up. He never came from the basketball court. 1:04:39.320 --> 1:04:42.760 Came from the basketball court never. And there were people there. 1:04:42.760 --> 1:04:45.720 There were kids. There was like, like, uh like basketball 1:04:45.760 --> 1:04:49.040 players there, and they were like, I mean, he was 1:04:49.080 --> 1:04:51.520 almost looking like they were trying to try out for 1:04:51.880 --> 1:04:52.280 the team. 1:04:52.760 --> 1:04:52.960 You know what. 1:04:53.000 --> 1:04:56.760 I'm saying, like, people, already what you got? All right, 1:04:56.840 --> 1:04:58.520 we'll see what you got. We're gonna work on that. Jay, 1:04:59.400 --> 1:05:02.680 Like the fuck is going on here? All right, we're done. 1:05:02.760 --> 1:05:04.040 Let me get up out of here, you know what 1:05:04.040 --> 1:05:08.240 I'm saying. So it was definitely a time meeting someone 1:05:08.280 --> 1:05:10.880 that I looked up to and getting to know them 1:05:10.960 --> 1:05:14.240 for real, for real and uh yeah, lesson learned. 1:05:14.280 --> 1:05:14.400 Man. 1:05:14.680 --> 1:05:19.680 After that, I stopped idolizing and just like, hey, niggas 1:05:19.680 --> 1:05:20.440 is niggas. 1:05:20.160 --> 1:05:23.880 Man, what's the same to make your heroes? 1:05:24.440 --> 1:05:25.760 You not to meet your heroes? 1:05:25.800 --> 1:05:25.920 Man? 1:05:26.040 --> 1:05:26.240 Yeah. 1:05:26.480 --> 1:05:29.600 So and then some other ship happened since then, so yeah, 1:05:29.640 --> 1:05:30.160 it makes sense. 1:05:31.240 --> 1:05:36.520 You know what, We're not gonna try to put that. 1:05:44.120 --> 1:05:44.320 Ship. 1:05:46.760 --> 1:05:48.080 Don't even fit, don't even fit me. 1:05:48.600 --> 1:05:49.120 I've tried. 1:05:52.760 --> 1:05:55.240 I felt like the right time, the right time. 1:05:55.320 --> 1:05:59.880 Everybody else was doing sometime. My arms so long, Yeah, 1:06:00.800 --> 1:06:01.240 than just. 1:06:01.280 --> 1:06:03.160 Do ship to make his kids uncomfortable? 1:06:03.920 --> 1:06:07.920 Stop stop, there you go, you're so corny. 1:06:08.120 --> 1:06:08.520 There you go. 1:06:09.480 --> 1:06:16.440 You that's like you know, you know about it? Ask 1:06:16.560 --> 1:06:16.880 about me? 1:06:17.520 --> 1:06:20.280 Google how you get in it? 1:06:22.800 --> 1:06:27.520 Bro? You you you're you're building Yeah, and and and 1:06:28.320 --> 1:06:32.600 and that's the right thing. And it's beautiful that you know, 1:06:32.760 --> 1:06:35.800 like we said, these valleys, you know we we It's 1:06:35.880 --> 1:06:41.040 it's it's easy to you know, to desire to press 1:06:41.160 --> 1:06:44.680 on and to have the have the fire burning and 1:06:44.760 --> 1:06:48.000 all these things when you out the mountaintop right. But 1:06:48.160 --> 1:06:50.800 it's but but it's when the light is not so lit. 1:06:51.360 --> 1:06:53.200 You understand what I'm saying. It's when you say, man, 1:06:53.480 --> 1:06:55.760 we got drop what were about to do? It's at 1:06:55.840 --> 1:07:00.880 those moments that you figure out what you are, you 1:07:00.920 --> 1:07:02.600 know what I'm saying, and what's really in you? 1:07:03.600 --> 1:07:04.080 Straight up? 1:07:04.640 --> 1:07:06.640 You really gotta. 1:07:06.800 --> 1:07:07.840 Love this ship. 1:07:08.640 --> 1:07:10.600 To do what you're doing, to do what you all 1:07:10.640 --> 1:07:13.200 are trying to do well, to do what you all 1:07:13.200 --> 1:07:16.200 are doing and going to do more of, you gotta 1:07:16.520 --> 1:07:22.200 love this ship. And that's what That's the gem that 1:07:22.320 --> 1:07:26.680 I hope everybody takes from from this, is that you 1:07:26.880 --> 1:07:31.320 love it so much that you're willing to carve out 1:07:33.280 --> 1:07:38.800 the piece that is yours and build that motherfucker from 1:07:38.840 --> 1:07:40.840 the ground up. If you want to come see me, 1:07:41.520 --> 1:07:42.680 we'll be right over here. 1:07:44.000 --> 1:07:45.400 Right over here, period. 1:07:45.800 --> 1:07:46.680 Come on see me. Man. 1:07:47.240 --> 1:07:53.920 We ain't bother nobody, just a little ruta. 1:07:51.800 --> 1:07:52.440 Where it ain't. 1:07:54.360 --> 1:07:56.280 I tell you, at this episode. 1:07:57.440 --> 1:08:01.880 Where they can figure it out. 1:08:03.520 --> 1:08:06.840 Yeah, we so you brother, your family, you always like 1:08:06.920 --> 1:08:09.240 you know, you always got a home, you always got brothers, 1:08:09.280 --> 1:08:10.920 you always got support over here. You know that. 1:08:11.000 --> 1:08:12.120 Appreciate that real ship. 1:08:12.160 --> 1:08:14.560 But you want to reiterate that, make sure they know that. Yeah, 1:08:14.640 --> 1:08:16.879 you know you got family, you got you have structure, 1:08:16.920 --> 1:08:19.560 you got foundation, you got fucker's riding for you and 1:08:19.600 --> 1:08:20.080 around with you. 1:08:20.960 --> 1:08:22.640 Come on, you know what I'm saying, And I mean 1:08:22.680 --> 1:08:24.680 a lot though coming from grapes man, y'all, y'all some 1:08:24.800 --> 1:08:27.479 great whites out here. Man, for real, For what y'all? 1:08:27.640 --> 1:08:29.160 Did you know what I'm saying? We following none of that. 1:08:29.680 --> 1:08:32.000 I'm like I said, going back to the YouTube days. Man, 1:08:32.040 --> 1:08:38.240 you know what I'm saying, going back on seeing don't 1:08:38.280 --> 1:08:39.680 you do it? Don't you. 1:08:42.000 --> 1:08:42.599 Leave it alone? 1:08:43.400 --> 1:08:44.040 Leave it alone? 1:08:44.320 --> 1:08:44.479 Man? 1:08:45.280 --> 1:08:46.880 Just know what you know what I'm saying. But yeah, bro, 1:08:47.040 --> 1:08:49.599 Like I said, man, just you know even even how 1:08:49.640 --> 1:08:52.080 you how you how you've done your thing. Man, you 1:08:52.120 --> 1:08:53.960 know what I'm saying, like from top to bottom, being 1:08:54.000 --> 1:08:56.240 able to watch that. You know what I'm saying, being 1:08:56.320 --> 1:08:58.559 from the same soil, bro, Like you know what I mean, 1:08:58.640 --> 1:09:01.320 that's that's that's kind of like being the motto for 1:09:01.400 --> 1:09:02.840 a lot of this. You know what I mean is 1:09:02.880 --> 1:09:04.559 the ones before us. You know what I'm saying, y'all 1:09:04.640 --> 1:09:06.960 laid foundations out man, you know what I mean. And 1:09:07.080 --> 1:09:09.720 like I said, we were coming in now just giving it, 1:09:10.040 --> 1:09:12.160 giving it our version. You know what I mean of it. 1:09:13.520 --> 1:09:15.720 I appreciate that because we there is no there is 1:09:15.800 --> 1:09:17.160 no this without without that. 1:09:17.400 --> 1:09:21.000 Yeah, you got our appreciation. Like you said, you made 1:09:21.040 --> 1:09:21.599 that phone call. 1:09:21.760 --> 1:09:24.880 Yeah, it made this work exactly absolutely in the instant too. 1:09:24.960 --> 1:09:26.479 You know what I'm saying. That's when you know, because 1:09:26.800 --> 1:09:28.680 like you said, man, going through that, going through the 1:09:28.800 --> 1:09:31.120 valleys where you know you had them times where nobody 1:09:31.200 --> 1:09:34.240 answering the phone, Bro, nobody's picking up, nobody's calling you. 1:09:34.360 --> 1:09:36.519 You know, they asking you for your ID at the door. 1:09:37.040 --> 1:09:39.400 You know what I'm saying again, you feel me like 1:09:39.760 --> 1:09:42.320 two a m what nigga? What was your ID? You 1:09:42.439 --> 1:09:42.760 feel me? 1:09:43.960 --> 1:09:44.480 Security? 1:09:44.560 --> 1:09:45.200 That worked for me? 1:09:45.560 --> 1:09:46.000 You feel me? 1:09:48.360 --> 1:09:50.840 Wait a minute, we don't have to go find him, man, 1:09:50.960 --> 1:09:52.040 so he can apologize. 1:09:52.080 --> 1:09:58.320 Once we started together. To every other episode, I bring 1:09:58.400 --> 1:10:01.800 it there there you go. Yeah, I'm gonna say, we 1:10:01.920 --> 1:10:02.760 gotta find bro. 1:10:03.880 --> 1:10:04.479 Just go ahead back. 1:10:04.520 --> 1:10:07.240 You know what, that's my nigga to I was just 1:10:07.320 --> 1:10:07.920 doing my job. 1:10:09.520 --> 1:10:09.920 The head. 1:10:10.400 --> 1:10:12.000 Yeah, he made me wait for Jamie to get to 1:10:12.040 --> 1:10:12.400 the club. 1:10:12.720 --> 1:10:16.000 Oh oh my god. But see it beat them things 1:10:16.040 --> 1:10:18.600 and then moments where you see you feel me. Let 1:10:18.600 --> 1:10:20.240 me keep working, Let me keep doing what I'm doing 1:10:20.320 --> 1:10:26.920 that he ain't feeling that. He ain't feeling that, Nigga. 1:10:28.640 --> 1:10:34.680 When I say it was dry dry, I live in 1:10:34.720 --> 1:10:35.840 a rancho google manga. 1:10:36.520 --> 1:10:37.599 Listen, that's the ship is about. 1:10:38.080 --> 1:10:45.440 I tell everybody it's all this is par for the course, nigga, repossessions, foreclosure, 1:10:46.120 --> 1:10:48.640 straight you know what I'm saying. All this is par 1:10:48.880 --> 1:10:49.599 for the course. 1:10:49.760 --> 1:10:55.200 If you love this ship, the sacrifice is immense straight up. 1:10:55.520 --> 1:10:55.720 Yeah. 1:10:56.520 --> 1:11:00.479 Things suffer on the account of greatness. 1:11:01.520 --> 1:11:06.800 They have to. It's an greatness is an imbalance, say 1:11:06.880 --> 1:11:08.840 that as he says, obsession. 1:11:09.840 --> 1:11:10.920 It's an imbalance. 1:11:11.000 --> 1:11:14.080 It's not natural, which is why most people can't understand it, 1:11:14.120 --> 1:11:15.720 which is why a lot of people hate it. 1:11:17.280 --> 1:11:20.680 Hate lebron Lebronry, just. 1:11:22.240 --> 1:11:22.759 Hate Floyd. 1:11:24.560 --> 1:11:28.200 How do you how do you hate great mm hmm 1:11:29.520 --> 1:11:32.000 when your mission on your on your quest to be great, 1:11:33.120 --> 1:11:34.519 enjoy the imbalance. 1:11:34.280 --> 1:11:35.519 Straight up, straight up. 1:11:35.600 --> 1:11:36.240 Talk to that man. 1:11:40.680 --> 1:11:41.280 You gotta. 1:11:44.680 --> 1:11:50.160 Yeah, I'm stealing that that that fire. 1:11:51.280 --> 1:11:52.080 Thank you again. Brother. 1:11:52.160 --> 1:11:54.840 We can't thank you enough. Man. You know we love y'all. 1:11:54.880 --> 1:11:57.560 We we we we're glad we hear you. 1:11:58.360 --> 1:11:58.840 Celebrate this. 1:11:59.000 --> 1:11:59.599 Ladies and gentlemen. 1:11:59.600 --> 1:12:01.320 My name is I'm Jay Valentine. 1:12:01.800 --> 1:12:05.720 This has been the R and B Money Podcast, the 1:12:05.800 --> 1:12:08.760 authority of R and B. As you brought it in, 1:12:08.840 --> 1:12:09.479 you close it out. 1:12:11.080 --> 1:12:16.480 This thing right here, special moments. Man, this is the reintroduction, 1:12:17.520 --> 1:12:21.040 like this is the music business. Don't get confused. 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