Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2: Breakfast Club, Yep, it's the world no dangerous morning show
Speaker 2: to Breakfast Club. Charlamagea god yet hilarious DJ Envy. Envy
Speaker 2: is out today, but Lauren Lerosa is in and we
Speaker 2: got a special guest in the building.
Speaker 3: Man, y'all know who he is. Ladies, y'all know who
Speaker 3: he is.
Speaker 2: Mister Tyson back for his hair? What's up, my brother?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 4: You ain't aging at all, bro, I don't stress, so
Speaker 4: he ain't no reason for it.
Speaker 1: Mind your business and.
Speaker 4: You won't get you won't age and drink your water?
Speaker 1: How are you said?
Speaker 3: You know what?
Speaker 1: I was just saying that to your guy.
Speaker 4: I drank six bolls of water this morning. It's running
Speaker 4: through me already. I got up like five and worked out.
Speaker 3: Is that your way of telling us you have to peek?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: I went so, yeah, I constantly the first few hours
Speaker 4: of the morning.
Speaker 1: I'm constantly going, man.
Speaker 2: But you supposed to do that when you wake up
Speaker 2: the first are supposed to do it when you wake
Speaker 2: up and drink water.
Speaker 4: Exacting exactly, and that one only drink that every other day.
Speaker 1: Don't drink that.
Speaker 3: Every day essentially.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not good.
Speaker 5: You can't drink it it's too much.
Speaker 4: Uh, it is good for you, but not every single
Speaker 4: day though, you got you gotta switch it up. I'm
Speaker 4: just drinking regular spring water right now, you know. And
Speaker 4: then some days I drink that, but I don't drink
Speaker 4: it every day.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: One time I was drinking it like everyone else was
Speaker 4: doing it every day, and then I started feeling like
Speaker 4: really weird. And then doctor told me, yay, you ain't
Speaker 4: supposed to drink that every day.
Speaker 6: Like, wow, you know what we had Michael Rainey Jr.
Speaker 1: Up Here, I know, Michael, yes, and he actually.
Speaker 5: Told us, yes, he told us the same thing that
Speaker 5: it like charges your brain something to you don't have
Speaker 5: to do it ever too much.
Speaker 3: Can you make a sense?
Speaker 1: You sound like we just be careful, that's all.
Speaker 6: So you're here because of King's Court, the new reality
Speaker 6: dating show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let it be clear. I'm not desperate for uh
Speaker 1: for love. You know.
Speaker 4: It was just something that came across our table and
Speaker 4: we were just like, yo, let's try it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: It was different. I love the concept of it. And
Speaker 4: then the two kings I'm on with you gotta love them,
Speaker 4: so you know, it was fun. It was a lot
Speaker 4: of fun.
Speaker 6: You did say you wanted to put your playboy where
Speaker 6: he's behind you don't.
Speaker 4: Oh I've been did that, but you know for the show, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4: You know I put it out there that not a
Speaker 4: playboy like that anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't even go out anymore.
Speaker 2: Every guy in the house by six, every guy who's
Speaker 2: a bunch of women, always.
Speaker 1: Want from experience earlier.
Speaker 4: And you.
Speaker 3: On that Love Island by yourself, don't be down there retired.
Speaker 3: I wasn't playing. I don't know, but you typened back.
Speaker 1: But see that's the thing.
Speaker 4: They put that label on you, and you stuck with
Speaker 4: it because there's only two labels that hit you with.
Speaker 1: In the industry.
Speaker 4: One you're either gay, or two you're a playboy or
Speaker 4: what's the third one?
Speaker 1: Oh you just like white women. I dated three white
Speaker 1: women my whole life and then pull them. I'm stuck
Speaker 1: with this title.
Speaker 4: So another reason I got on the show was trying
Speaker 4: to kill all of that stuff right there.
Speaker 1: You know, she was not around no more, she's not
Speaker 1: on radio no more. But we know, yeah that one started.
Speaker 4: I don't know why she started that room on me,
Speaker 4: but you know what, Calma hits your ass.
Speaker 1: Good for you. I'm not no forgiven.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna try not to sweepy this week. You know
Speaker 4: that I don't give up at me and trust feel
Speaker 4: the same way her commerce come to her. You're just
Speaker 4: talking people business, making up stuff.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Why to get cloud radio?
Speaker 1: I stopped that.
Speaker 3: What's interesting?
Speaker 4: I called Kevin in the street one day, Yeah, Kevin,
Speaker 4: you don't want this? Yeah, and then he gonna call,
Speaker 4: like all my Jamaican crew and say, Yo, go done
Speaker 4: the boy.
Speaker 1: BECKI na, sir, we're bred.
Speaker 3: You're not what you call ant.
Speaker 4: Going back to the car wash in Jersey, Yeah, buddy.
Speaker 1: Had that glock on me.
Speaker 3: What what the hell going on?
Speaker 1: It was? I stayed with it. I got license for Jersey,
Speaker 1: New York, I got license everywhere. I got about six
Speaker 1: of them. So would you just stay with it?
Speaker 3: You just showed it?
Speaker 1: No, I had it. Was walking up on him like
Speaker 1: what's up? And then Jersey police came and was like
Speaker 1: A T T T come on now. But I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: he came at me, So what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 1: I'm defending myself for my life. This was a few
Speaker 1: years ago. This was a few years ago when I
Speaker 1: lived up here.
Speaker 3: What do you say to you?
Speaker 1: He just was, hey, Yo, I want you to come
Speaker 1: to my party. I said, really, bro, after all that
Speaker 1: y'all talk about me on the radio, y'all want to
Speaker 1: have me up there in your party. I said, Yo,
Speaker 1: my man, get away from me. He was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: who you think you is? Try to play tough with me.
Speaker 1: Everybody tries to play tough with Tyson, but they don't
Speaker 1: really know where Tyson come from. B X in the building.
Speaker 2: So you know, you know, I remember one time I
Speaker 2: was at a party with Wendy and you was in
Speaker 2: the party and she said, how you doing you?
Speaker 7: And you went, yeah, gonna give me a bill told
Speaker 7: us so that she uh, she wants to change.
Speaker 8: She would love you know, she wants to write some
Speaker 8: wrongs and stuff.
Speaker 2: She actually said, we was all she said. She said,
Speaker 2: based off what you just said about the karma thing.
Speaker 2: We went to dinner with her. There's probably a few
Speaker 2: months ago now. She said, I feel like I'm in
Speaker 2: the position I'm in because of how I used to talk.
Speaker 1: About And I said, is a mother.
Speaker 4: What cocaine is a very dangerous drug. They'll do things
Speaker 4: to you, make you do stupid things when you mixed
Speaker 4: the cocktails that her and him was mixing. Anyway, we
Speaker 4: an't come up here and talk about that.
Speaker 1: Just said, is.
Speaker 4: A show Sunday, No it's not. Yeah, lots of fun.
Speaker 4: But you know I'm cutting up on that too, So listen,
Speaker 4: you got to be you.
Speaker 3: I won't say that.
Speaker 2: I just wanted one thing about the karma thing. I
Speaker 2: do believe in karma. I don't know if karma works
Speaker 2: necessarily the way people think it works. Like you just
Speaker 2: put negative out it, negative comes back to you. Because
Speaker 2: there's a lot of good people that you know, don't
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 4: But like I said, we just were, We're just out here.
Speaker 4: This is an industry where we're just trying to feed
Speaker 4: our family. You know, do good, give people entertainment, have
Speaker 4: a good time, and you know, not be not getting
Speaker 4: in there anything, you know, because that's what gets that's
Speaker 4: what gets you to stress.
Speaker 3: I do struggle in therapy with when the therapy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I've been going right on, like but when to let
Speaker 3: go of things?
Speaker 2: Yes, meaning like I know somebody might be I know
Speaker 2: they might have did me wrong, But how long do
Speaker 2: I hold on to No?
Speaker 1: I can't, you can't live rent free in my house
Speaker 1: or in my head. No, I can't do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been letting go.
Speaker 4: But sometimes when I get a chance to clap. You know,
Speaker 4: it's like when I go to gun rage. If I
Speaker 4: put your post off, I'm letting off people's post up.
Speaker 1: When I don't say that, I don't say who pictures up?
Speaker 1: But I do put pictures up. You know, bad guys,
Speaker 1: bad guys. I love eggs. It's like to go off.
Speaker 3: Maybe he's a very serious person.
Speaker 5: He wants you to know listen I read him. I'm
Speaker 5: like star struggling. I'm like, I.
Speaker 1: Like, I don't know you that well.
Speaker 4: And then you know, nowadays you know people people. Oh
Speaker 4: he touched me inappropriately. So for me, when I meet
Speaker 4: women in the.
Speaker 1: Street and I'm taking pictures with them, I make sure
Speaker 1: you know it's a different time.
Speaker 4: Before you can hug somebody, say what you're doing. You
Speaker 4: just got to be careful because they're gonna hit you
Speaker 4: with me too.
Speaker 1: Oh he he rubbed my broad strap. Trouble TV mind
Speaker 1: business out of trouble.
Speaker 4: You know, it's funny you said you did kings Court
Speaker 4: because you wanted to try to change the narrative of yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: because you know, I'm very private, but how do you
Speaker 4: do that very private? I'm just having a good time
Speaker 4: on the show. I mean, you got to watch it
Speaker 4: and you see you watch it and.
Speaker 1: You be like, Yo, this dude is funny. He's you
Speaker 1: know is the first episode was a huge success. People
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 4: You know, I've been getting I haven't gotten I've maybe
Speaker 4: gotten like four six or six negative you know, people
Speaker 4: saying something, but the.
Speaker 1: Rest of it has always been good.
Speaker 4: And you know, the Bravo PR team will be like, yo,
Speaker 4: you really you really witting these people over, you know,
Speaker 4: because I'm being vulnerable. I cried a couple of times
Speaker 4: on the episode because you know, it's like sitting down
Speaker 4: with a therapist.
Speaker 1: You know, That's why I asked you you go. So,
Speaker 1: I mean I also.
Speaker 4: Have been a few times to a therapist, and you know,
Speaker 4: you just want to get certain things out there and
Speaker 4: let people know that, you know, I'm human, man, don't
Speaker 4: come at me calling me names, making you know, saying
Speaker 4: I'm this when I'm not.
Speaker 1: And you know it gets to a person, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 4: So, I mean there's people out there that we thought
Speaker 4: was cool and then you know they don't trial. And
Speaker 4: then you see, oh that was into that. You're like okay,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, yo, I've been a choir boy, but yes,
Speaker 4: still you put me down as I'm somebody who's doing
Speaker 4: something wrong, you know. So getting on King's Court was
Speaker 4: another reason for me to let the world see me.
Speaker 4: And then a lot of people don't get to see
Speaker 4: that I talk. And if you live in New York,
Speaker 4: you know me like, yo, that's tea.
Speaker 1: He cool, you know what I mean. He's down to earth.
Speaker 4: He's not like caught up in you know, and I
Speaker 4: don't get caught up in who I am or what
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I don't take myself too seriously.
Speaker 9: So yeah, the ex that you were talking about that
Speaker 9: page six, somebody was walking your.
Speaker 4: Dog from way back and you know, she came and
Speaker 4: she apologized to me and was like, yeah, I made
Speaker 4: the wrong choice.
Speaker 1: And you know we're friends to this day.
Speaker 9: So we've been trying to figure it out because you
Speaker 9: got famous, well not a lot of them.
Speaker 8: But you have.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, see that's the problem when you're in the
Speaker 1: public life. I'm like, people want to know your business.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm on the dating show, so there's more episodes
Speaker 4: that I talk about different things that happened to me,
Speaker 4: and it's just life experiences. I mean, what's so great
Speaker 4: about that story is so many men and women.
Speaker 1: Can relate to it. A lot of people was like, wow,
Speaker 1: even Tyson beckforgets his heartbroken. And it's true.
Speaker 4: I'm human just like you and we you know, we
Speaker 4: do the same thing. We want to find love.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm not saying that everybody should go
Speaker 1: on a show.
Speaker 4: You know, it's a fun experience, but you know it's
Speaker 4: not for everybody, you know, and I know I'm not
Speaker 4: for everybody, you know, So I'm not trying to win.
Speaker 1: The world over and like everybody love me. You know,
Speaker 1: it's all good if you do. If you don't, it's
Speaker 1: all good. You know.
Speaker 5: Now, you did say, you made it very clear you
Speaker 5: are not desperate for love, but to getting it.
Speaker 1: I'm open to all of that.
Speaker 4: I'm open to having more kids and all that. I'm
Speaker 4: the only one on the show is willing to do that.
Speaker 4: The other two guys are tapped out, so it kind
Speaker 4: of pushed a lot of traffic my way, but I
Speaker 4: enjoyed though. Yeah, if you watch the show, you see
Speaker 4: that I'm having fun. I'm cracking up, you know, me
Speaker 4: and the guys are. You know, I'm in there with
Speaker 4: two big giants, so I can't really argue with them
Speaker 4: too much. But you know, I tried my best and
Speaker 4: hold my ground and stand on business.
Speaker 2: Can you actually find love at this point in your
Speaker 2: life when you do have the trust issues that you have?
Speaker 4: But that's so another thing that I learned coming out
Speaker 4: of the show. I have let my trust issues down.
Speaker 4: I'm more, you know, I'm a better person by doing it.
Speaker 4: And like you said, it's like going to therapy. So
Speaker 4: every time I sat down with you know, to do
Speaker 4: confessions and stuff like that, I just.
Speaker 1: Say, you know what, what I gotta.
Speaker 4: Lose, I'm just going to keep it real and tell
Speaker 4: the truth. So that's what I did when I got
Speaker 4: on there, man, and I had such a good time,
Speaker 4: and it was like, you know, when you leave therapy,
Speaker 4: you feel so good, like you just had a great workout.
Speaker 4: And that's what I felt like every every episode of
Speaker 4: the show, you know.
Speaker 1: And then when we were letting girls go that didn't
Speaker 1: need to be there.
Speaker 4: That was that was that was painful for me because
Speaker 4: I became friends with those people and to see them
Speaker 4: go with sad on those days. But I knew we
Speaker 4: needed to move forward. And that's what we need to
Speaker 4: do in life. We constantly need to move forward.
Speaker 2: Did those trust issues come from you getting your heartbroken
Speaker 2: or because of all of that?
Speaker 4: All of that and then just you know, dating in
Speaker 4: New York. You know, I've been dating girls in New York.
Speaker 4: And then you got a party and you're like, where
Speaker 4: is she? That's that's my friend she hollering at Yeah. Well,
Speaker 4: I guess that's that's what they want, what they want.
Speaker 5: Spoke about the girls, some of the girls that went home.
Speaker 5: Did you ever have like the one ever go home
Speaker 5: that you're like, damn, yes, her.
Speaker 4: First episode, the girl that went home, she shouldn't have
Speaker 4: went home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there was another one that should have went home.
Speaker 6: Hey an she still there?
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she's still there.
Speaker 1: I don't know why she's still there, but I see
Speaker 1: the social media in the internet are clown and what
Speaker 1: you'd be wearing. But yeah, she's still there.
Speaker 3: Do you actually sleep with they need to winning.
Speaker 4: No, we're not allowed to have sex. We can only
Speaker 4: kiss and that's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, gotcha?
Speaker 8: How do they I mean?
Speaker 9: I guess the cameras are rolling always.
Speaker 1: From the minute.
Speaker 4: You got lights like this in your bedroom when you
Speaker 4: wake up, Yeah, but they don't turn them on until
Speaker 4: maybe nine ten o'clock in the morning. By that time,
Speaker 4: I don't I don't been up since six, went to
Speaker 4: the gym, came back and you know, I got mine
Speaker 4: door from high So I'm like, yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Know, how can you really find love if you ain't
Speaker 3: test drive the card?
Speaker 4: I know, but I mean, it's just it's just it's
Speaker 4: kind of like old fashioned what people used to do
Speaker 4: back in the day, used to court the lady before,
Speaker 4: and that's basically what we're doing, recording and giving them flowers,
Speaker 4: you know. But it's constantly many dates going on in
Speaker 4: the house. So one person be like, can I talk
Speaker 4: to you? So you go over and you start talking
Speaker 4: to them for a little while until somebody else comes
Speaker 4: and grabs you. But it is like, you know, the
Speaker 4: the girls are really fighting for your attention. So's it
Speaker 4: was like at first, it was like, damn, this is
Speaker 4: too much.
Speaker 1: I just came out the house.
Speaker 4: I'm not used to this, you know, because I went
Speaker 4: I went recluse for a while and for me to
Speaker 4: come out and then come out on this kind of
Speaker 4: show and be like outside and then hollering at girls.
Speaker 4: I was like, ah, but I watched a couple episodes
Speaker 4: and I think I did.
Speaker 3: Alright, why did you go recluse for what?
Speaker 1: Just you know what it is, it's just to rethink game.
Speaker 4: And then you know, I've been writing like scripts on
Speaker 4: the side, and then I wrote this script about my
Speaker 4: life called pretty Boy. So that was a nickname that
Speaker 4: I earned here in the streets of New York. So,
Speaker 4: you know, a lot of people don't know my back
Speaker 4: history or how I used to run with the Shower
Speaker 4: Posse and you know, you know, hang out with the
Speaker 4: sex money murder crew up. You know, a lot of
Speaker 4: people don't know my street life. So during those days
Speaker 4: with Ralph, you know, I was like, Yo. Everybody was like, Yo,
Speaker 4: you need to write a book. Your life is a movie,
Speaker 4: my ninja. And I was like, all right, So I
Speaker 4: did it, and we've been shopping it now. We just
Speaker 4: had a meeting with BT last week, but there's a
Speaker 4: lot of mergers going on up there with Paramount and everything,
Speaker 4: so you know, we're still out here shopping it.
Speaker 1: But I think I want to switch it to now a.
Speaker 4: Feature and then do the do the series later because
Speaker 4: my original plan was to do the series now, and
Speaker 4: I wanted to come back shoot here and you know,
Speaker 4: make it all about the nineties, nineties fashion and everything.
Speaker 1: Because again, you know, yes, I want to do that again.
Speaker 4: And then I want to put some you know, there
Speaker 4: were so many women that were in my life instrumentally,
Speaker 4: like my mom, whoever I was dating, you know, my manager,
Speaker 4: beth A Hartisan.
Speaker 3: So whoever you were dating, all in the well, I want.
Speaker 1: To put that in there, hide none of that. I
Speaker 1: don't want to keep it real.
Speaker 3: Did you? But were you dating a lot of women
Speaker 3: or was it just like no.
Speaker 4: Like when I first got in the industry, like you know,
Speaker 4: women were throwing themselves at me, and I was throwing
Speaker 4: myself back.
Speaker 1: You know, I have fun. I have fun, man, Let
Speaker 1: me tell you.
Speaker 4: I mean there's a scene in the script where like
Speaker 4: I go over to this known supermodel's house and we're
Speaker 4: supposed to be going on a date and she opened
Speaker 4: the doors, she's bucket naked, and she just takes advantage
Speaker 4: of me.
Speaker 1: And I loved every minute of it.
Speaker 4: There was no there was no furniture in the house.
Speaker 4: It was just a bed and it was just like,
Speaker 4: you know, the view of the city and yeah, bro,
Speaker 4: looking down.
Speaker 2: Did you Yeah, pressure to perform sexually because you know,
Speaker 2: when the ladies see you, it's.
Speaker 4: Like Jamaican man, come on, that's the old school Jamaicans.
Speaker 1: Man, stop that. Stop that if it's your woman. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now I young.
Speaker 4: And said, I'm done to that fire for your man. Yeah, man,
Speaker 4: go ahead with that.
Speaker 1: The old school Jamaican talking. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Man, it's so interesting because I think we need to
Speaker 3: bring it back.
Speaker 2: To the beginning just a little bit, because if you
Speaker 2: if you don't know what we're talking about. Tyson is
Speaker 2: credited as being the first black male supermodel.
Speaker 1: Mama, your grandma.
Speaker 2: Everybody had their posters up on his wall and they
Speaker 2: lock of at school.
Speaker 3: What did that title mean to you then? And how
Speaker 3: is it aged now?
Speaker 1: So for me, it was like I wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure that we looked good always. You know. That's why
Speaker 1: I never really got in no trouble.
Speaker 4: I never got caught up with nothing because it was
Speaker 4: such a title bestowed.
Speaker 1: On me, you know what I mean, working for Ralph Lauren.
Speaker 4: They were such nice people and you know, to this day,
Speaker 4: I'm still part of that family, and it's just important
Speaker 4: to always hold your head up and give young black
Speaker 4: kids somebody to look up to, because I remember growing
Speaker 4: up like I mean, I was looking up at people
Speaker 4: like Shaft Richard Rowntree. I had a chance to meet
Speaker 4: him and he was telling me his.
Speaker 1: Story how he started off as a model. Now he's
Speaker 1: an actor and you know.
Speaker 4: And I met Lawrence Fishburne one day on the street
Speaker 4: and he was like, brother, we're waiting for you. And
Speaker 4: not even a few years later, I was in Biker
Speaker 4: Boys with him, so you know. And then my first
Speaker 4: night on set, we were shooting nights, so we had
Speaker 4: a dinner break and I got to sit with him
Speaker 4: and talk and he was just like, yo, brother, we
Speaker 4: gotta you.
Speaker 1: Know, we had a scene together. He was like, yo,
Speaker 1: you gotta bring it, you know.
Speaker 4: And I was like, all right, well I'm here, you know,
Speaker 4: and he was like, yay, remember that day in New York.
Speaker 1: We talked about this. So it's like when you start.
Speaker 4: To get those things and those gifts, and you know,
Speaker 4: you work towards all that stuff and you get these auditions,
Speaker 4: and you know, it's important, man, because when I walk
Speaker 4: into you know, a fine hotel, you know, the staff
Speaker 4: looks at me and say, hey, mister Bedford, are you
Speaker 4: like this morning I was leaving the hotel and they
Speaker 4: were like, good morning.
Speaker 1: Mister Bedford. I was like, good morning, you guys have
Speaker 1: a great day, you know.
Speaker 4: And that's respect. That's like, oh yeah, we don't like
Speaker 4: that guy. It's none of that. It's always love. So
Speaker 4: I try to want to be the best I can
Speaker 4: be as a black man because there's so much pressure
Speaker 4: put on us, and you know, every time you turn
Speaker 4: on the news, one of us doing something that's not good.
Speaker 4: So every time I come on the TV, I want
Speaker 4: us to be something like, man, I'm proud of that brother.
Speaker 4: That brother's good.
Speaker 1: From where he came from and what he used to
Speaker 1: do and what he's doing now. It's a big difference. Man.
Speaker 4: So I thank God every day that I got this life,
Speaker 4: you know, and then you just gotta protect it. You
Speaker 4: gotta stay stay cool, stay away from the baby oil.
Speaker 4: But I do like baby you know, but yeah, you
Speaker 4: gotta stay away from Yeah, you gotta stay away from
Speaker 4: all that stuff because yeah, there's that temptation.
Speaker 1: You could have been invited to them baby oil parties, but.
Speaker 4: You said no, you know, you could have been on
Speaker 4: you know, I was invited to come to that thing
Speaker 4: that Epstein had in South in Africa.
Speaker 1: I didn't go.
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm good.
Speaker 1: I don't know him did.
Speaker 4: So, but yeah, no, I mean it's like sometimes I
Speaker 4: sit back and I see some of the stuff on
Speaker 4: the news.
Speaker 1: I was like, I know that mold try to get me,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: So it's like things that it's there, the opportunity for
Speaker 4: you to get in trouble, it's there. You just got
Speaker 4: to know, Like, now I'm gonna go home. Like I
Speaker 4: have this friend who's a model as well. His name
Speaker 4: is Corey, and Corey always say hey, and he's from Tennessee, said.
Speaker 1: He nothing good happened after two am, Toss and Bedford.
Speaker 1: I'm already in bed. I'm already in bed. I'm in
Speaker 1: the house by six.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't they don't need to be outside.
Speaker 4: There ain't nothing going on. If it ain't work, I
Speaker 4: ain't going.
Speaker 8: The baby or your hot And I know you didn't you.
Speaker 1: Use it on set, you know to get that shine.
Speaker 8: I know you're an idiot.
Speaker 1: Had Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I still want to tell the story
Speaker 4: about how we got into it.
Speaker 1: In the Street, and a lot of people don't know
Speaker 1: that story. But one day I'm gonna tell it.
Speaker 4: If you ever have a podcast, I sit down with
Speaker 4: you will tell you the podcast.
Speaker 1: But I don't got the time.
Speaker 4: It's a real it's a real street story because one
Speaker 4: day I was.
Speaker 1: Minding my business. I went to go get a tattoo
Speaker 1: on Fifth Avenue. I'm gonna make it real.
Speaker 4: Short, take a breath, No, you're yeah, okay, So let
Speaker 4: me tell you a story. So I was standing in
Speaker 4: front of the tattoo Paul talking to a friend of mine,
Speaker 4: which I thought was my friend.
Speaker 1: And Groovy Lou pulled up with some girl.
Speaker 4: Because you know that back then, bad Boy used to
Speaker 4: be round the corner from fifth and nineteenth or twentieth
Speaker 4: Street somewhere around there. So you know, I'm minding my business.
Speaker 4: He come up with this girl and say, yo, take
Speaker 4: a picture with my friend. And I say, yo, my man,
Speaker 4: I'm having a conversation. He was like what you mean
Speaker 4: and started getting tough for me. I said, Yo, Lou,
Speaker 4: don't talk to me like that. Come on, we boys,
Speaker 4: and he was like, nah, I talked to you ever whatever.
Speaker 4: I was like, Nah, bro, this ain't happening. So then
Speaker 4: he swung on me and I was yes, and I
Speaker 4: went back like this, I said, I looked at Oh,
Speaker 4: no he didn't. So we got the fight and I
Speaker 4: got to beating the brakes off that man, and then
Speaker 4: a NYPD officer came by on the motorcycle.
Speaker 1: And we stopped.
Speaker 4: And then by that time I had if you look,
Speaker 4: I got, I got a slice right here, so that's
Speaker 4: why I got that.
Speaker 1: I got six stitches in the top of.
Speaker 4: My head because I ran him into the wall and
Speaker 4: then my head also hit the wall, so bud's coming
Speaker 4: down my face. I have on a wife beating a
Speaker 4: tank top for those who don't know, So I put
Speaker 4: it on there, you know, the bleeding, you know, stopped
Speaker 4: the bleeding, and the cop says, what's going on? He knew,
Speaker 4: damn well what was going on, but he looked like
Speaker 4: he was about to go turn in the bike and
Speaker 4: go home.
Speaker 1: So we both were like, yeah, nothing.
Speaker 4: So he left and then I went to go after
Speaker 4: after Lou again.
Speaker 1: Lou ran around the corner. We know where he went.
Speaker 4: He went upstairs the bad boy and brought down Puff
Speaker 4: and some other goons, maybe about five six people. So
Speaker 4: my Homeboy West, which we're not friends anymore. He dipped
Speaker 4: on me, so they started coming at me. Puff started
Speaker 4: talking junk or whatever, and I'm backing up. I'm like, yo,
Speaker 4: my man, I don't want this, y'all don't want this.
Speaker 4: So my land Cruiser was on I think it was
Speaker 4: on sixth Avenue or something. This was before nine to eleven.
Speaker 4: I had a pistol grip Mosburg in the back, which
Speaker 4: you know, trust me, I know, I know why I
Speaker 4: needed it. So I went to the back, opened the
Speaker 4: land Cruiser, cocked it. I said, look, I only got
Speaker 4: five in here. Puffy, you gonna get it first, and
Speaker 4: big Man, you gonna get it first. The rest of y'all,
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna I'm gonna shower you with it. So
Speaker 4: that was, you know, the gist of the whole story.
Speaker 4: And then Puff went and called my manager and he.
Speaker 1: Was like, Yo, Ma, Yo, Ma, your boy. Wow. She said, Yo,
Speaker 1: he's Jamaican.
Speaker 3: Leave me alone.
Speaker 1: He will done you.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean, I could have saved the world
Speaker 4: a whole lot of trouble and took him out back then.
Speaker 1: But then we were not so y'all. I mean, we're cool.
Speaker 1: Our kids went to school.
Speaker 4: I'm not cool with him now, the man in years,
Speaker 4: but yeah, he know, you know, don't mess with me.
Speaker 4: That's how we came friends with some of the body
Speaker 4: guys that worked with him at the time.
Speaker 1: And then actually one of them, we're getting ready produce
Speaker 1: something too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did, we did.
Speaker 4: And then I don't know what ever happened to that
Speaker 4: that didn't something like, oh, we're going to give the
Speaker 4: money to the United Negro College for or something. So
Speaker 4: I didn't get the money win the lawsuit, yes, supposedly,
Speaker 4: but we didn't get no money. We didn't get paid
Speaker 4: for it. It was two year contract, you know. He
Speaker 4: gave me one year of the money and then didn't
Speaker 4: you know, he's you know again karma And this was
Speaker 4: after this is yeah, this is after we you know,
Speaker 4: we became cool again and whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, I just never we just was never.
Speaker 4: We could never be cool because just I was too
Speaker 4: straight for him and he was just on whatever he
Speaker 4: was on, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So you know, commerce where it's at.
Speaker 4: Know, we're here talking about this and he's where he at.
Speaker 9: I got one last question about it, though, because when
Speaker 9: the lawsuit was happening, you said that you you couldn't
Speaker 9: understand where it came from.
Speaker 4: I didn't understand where it came from. But over the years,
Speaker 4: I know where it came from, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Where we talked about that off the radio. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 4: tell you that she was after the radio.
Speaker 2: You know, you either do it now or write a book.
Speaker 1: Book. I'm writing the book.
Speaker 3: Really, the book.
Speaker 1: I'm doing the book. The book is being done.
Speaker 4: It's just that because I have this, uh this production
Speaker 4: deal for Pretty Boy, I can't you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but all that's gonna be in in Pretty Boy.
Speaker 4: There was another story, So I'm gonna put that that
Speaker 4: in there because that's a cold scene, you know, standing
Speaker 4: on sixth Avenue with a shotgun.
Speaker 3: That's wold.
Speaker 4: You know, since we talking about old shit, you you
Speaker 4: kind of bought some of this stuff up.
Speaker 3: You remember the room of Superhead used.
Speaker 4: To say, Yeah, I mean that's another one. Like, I mean,
Speaker 4: come on, girl, you can't.
Speaker 1: I never hung out with Tiger. I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: even know that ninja like that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I met him a couple of times at the hip
Speaker 4: hop event and that's it. But again, where is she?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Who is she it's.
Speaker 4: Nobody just out here trying to tell stories on She
Speaker 4: don't name how many of us, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: And it's like, girl, go sit down somewhere.
Speaker 1: How did it bother me?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: If I was you know one time? She so let
Speaker 1: me tell you how that rumor started.
Speaker 4: She called me one time talking about, oh, I need
Speaker 4: some money, I need a place to stay. So evidently
Speaker 4: we lived in Jersey together. I guess Tiger lived in
Speaker 4: Jersey too somewhere and he lived I lived in Fort
Speaker 4: Lee at the time, so he lived around somewhere in
Speaker 4: that area. And they got into some fight. So I
Speaker 4: don't know how she remembered my phone number and called me,
Speaker 4: and I was like who this. I was like, nah,
Speaker 4: I'm getting involved because I liked them my business, So.
Speaker 1: I denied her. And then the next and you know,
Speaker 1: that came about and I was like you petty, you petty?
Speaker 1: I mean, so again these people just hating and just mad.
Speaker 1: I don't know why people want to pick on.
Speaker 2: Me, but I think over time we've all learned like
Speaker 2: that kind of is powerful.
Speaker 3: The course, when.
Speaker 1: Whenever you when you ever, you run out, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell everybody busy but yeah, she was passed around.
Speaker 3: You know, No, I didn't mean that.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 3: People like people like oh yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and that's and you know, that's like it's
Speaker 4: childish because he's like, what can.
Speaker 1: I say to them? Get at him or get him mad.
Speaker 4: I'm the most masculine dude ever. I got gay friends. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but I have nothing, no problems with the gay community.
Speaker 4: And they always back me up and be like, no,
Speaker 4: he's not like that. He's you know, he's he's he's
Speaker 4: just one who looks out for us.
Speaker 1: And I don't believe in people picking on them for
Speaker 1: no reason. And yeah, I will fight you.
Speaker 4: If you if I see you messing with somebody because
Speaker 4: they're trans or they're gay, that's just that's not that's
Speaker 4: not right, you know what I mean. We're all human beings,
Speaker 4: we're all people of this world. You know, we're all
Speaker 4: God's kids. But why are you picking on somebody because
Speaker 4: of their sexual preference? What do you care what somebody
Speaker 4: doing in their house?
Speaker 1: That's not your business.
Speaker 4: So I believe that you know, people who throw that
Speaker 4: stigmatism on me or that that that you know, that
Speaker 4: name calling, it's just childish your.
Speaker 8: Money, because I know Kim Kardashian No never never.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she she learned her lesson too. You know.
Speaker 4: They they went after her, they got her, they got her,
Speaker 4: straighten her ass out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they just you know what it is. I've always
Speaker 1: supported them and everything that they do. They support me
Speaker 1: in fashion. I mean some of the people I work
Speaker 1: with are gay, by and trans, you know, so.
Speaker 4: It's it's like it's they're normal people to me. You know,
Speaker 4: when we're at work, we're at work. But if I
Speaker 4: see you doing something that's not right, I'm gonna say something.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna sit back. And like you know, in
Speaker 4: Jamaica they look down upon that. Even in jim I'm like, yo,
Speaker 4: leave the man alone. Why are you bother them. He
Speaker 4: didn't come over here trying to hit on you, So
Speaker 4: leave him alone. So you know, for me, I stand
Speaker 4: up for.
Speaker 1: All rights, you know, because it's a human thing and
Speaker 1: if you don't, you're not human.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: How do you think Tyson Beckford would have handled Instagram
Speaker 2: and TikTok back in the nineties because so toxic?
Speaker 1: Man, man, I don't think I would have came out
Speaker 1: of my house.
Speaker 4: Because I was just I was just everywhere doing all
Speaker 4: kinds of stuff. But you know what I mean, somebody
Speaker 4: would have stitched on me. Hey yo and MYPD over
Speaker 4: here with these dudes with these rags.
Speaker 1: No, stop it. Yeah, I don't think we were ready
Speaker 1: for it. You know. I'm you know, I'm on it,
Speaker 1: but I'm not really on it. You know.
Speaker 4: I try to post different things, you know, cars, bikes,
Speaker 4: you know, I just try to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I try to post.
Speaker 4: What little bit I know, but I'm not really savvy
Speaker 4: on it, like most people are making tiktoks and all
Speaker 4: of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't. I'm not good.
Speaker 2: Did you ever feel like you had to be the
Speaker 2: goon because you were labeled the pretty boy because they
Speaker 2: were throwing the game?
Speaker 1: No, I just was a goon, man. I couldn't help it.
Speaker 1: I'm just a goon. I was like, I mean, I
Speaker 1: was like you, I years old.
Speaker 4: I got caught up from FBI files with the with
Speaker 4: the shower posse and just.
Speaker 1: It was a goon. I just was around goons, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 4: And that necessarily didn't mean that I was going to
Speaker 4: do like they did all the time. I was a
Speaker 4: smart goon. I saw something else going on, Like I
Speaker 4: had this love for.
Speaker 1: Being a thespian. I wanted to be an actor from
Speaker 1: when I was.
Speaker 4: Six years old, and just being in the street was
Speaker 4: just you know, messing with the goons, having fun.
Speaker 1: And then when when the red lights red and blue.
Speaker 4: Lights came, I was like, yeah, I gotta go. You know,
Speaker 4: It's just I never wanted to get caught.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I always knew when to leave, and I just knew,
Speaker 4: and I just knew, like I got I got.
Speaker 1: Better things going on than this. I'm not gonna be
Speaker 1: no you know what I mean, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: be no cell. I was raised the crazy thing because.
Speaker 4: A friend of mine was like, yo, you should mardel bro,
Speaker 4: And I was like, really.
Speaker 3: Was he a goon? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He was a good yeah yeah. And even the goons
Speaker 1: wanted me out of the street. They was like, yo, bro,
Speaker 1: you you got too much to be out here doing this.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 1: And before my brother got killed, you know, rest in peace,
Speaker 1: he was. He was one who.
Speaker 4: Said, yo, put the gun down, man and get out
Speaker 4: of this business. You know, go into that entertainment. Because
Speaker 4: he saw me in the Source magazine and he was like, yo,
Speaker 4: that was that was nice, and all the goons seeing
Speaker 4: it up in the Bronx, and it.
Speaker 1: Was like, Yo, they would help me up in the street.
Speaker 11: You're coming to the Nah, I'm miss this one, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 11: I literally we used to We used to rob drug dealers.
Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, we used to rob drug.
Speaker 1: Dealers back in the day.
Speaker 4: They're gonna call the police on you. Just wanted to say,
Speaker 4: you know what, I'm gonna get in that in the record.
Speaker 1: This is thirty plus years ago.
Speaker 4: The cops is retired now them Feds is gone. You
Speaker 4: know they all sitting at home.
Speaker 5: Was that their way of celebrating the source magazine, Let's
Speaker 5: go do a round.
Speaker 3: No, it was just it was always planning.
Speaker 1: We used to call them jokes back in the day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're gonna go on to jokes. And we used
Speaker 4: to always have you always got this?
Speaker 3: You were just like you can't.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, smart man.
Speaker 1: Always keep a handkerchief. It's a handkerchief. By the way,
Speaker 1: NYPD getting task for us. It's a black handkerchief.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: He's neutral means nothing.
Speaker 2: List have the term male supermodel ever limited you more
Speaker 2: than it helped you?
Speaker 3: Especially?
Speaker 4: I think so Yeah when it comes to acting, I
Speaker 4: think they just think you're a pretty boy and you can't,
Speaker 4: you know. And then that's why I said, you know what,
Speaker 4: I really need to take this pretty boy title somewhere,
Speaker 4: and that's what it did with the script. So you know,
Speaker 4: we sitting, we waiting, so hopefully somebody want to pick
Speaker 4: us up.
Speaker 1: But we are in talks with a lot of different
Speaker 1: people though, so it's a good thing. I can't wait.
Speaker 3: Has there been any other male supermodels out the time?
Speaker 8: It is doing amazing right now.
Speaker 1: I love. Yeah.
Speaker 4: We got a chance to work together and that was amazing,
Speaker 4: and I try to encourage him every every time I want.
Speaker 4: I actually offered him a rolling pretty boy.
Speaker 8: Oh and he is, like everything about him is just yeah.
Speaker 1: He's just together. Pretty. Yeah.
Speaker 4: He's got a little brother that looks like him too,
Speaker 4: so yeah, I want to throw him in there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, I want to give back somehow.
Speaker 9: And happy to hear that though, because he gets a
Speaker 9: lot of first like he's walking runways for the first
Speaker 9: time as a black male model even now, and it's
Speaker 9: like we're here in twenty twenty five, so he probably
Speaker 9: needs the support sometimes.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, he definitely does. I support them all time.
Speaker 4: We send each other means and we laugh and we
Speaker 4: crack up.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: That's why my favorite thing about Instagram me DM and
Speaker 4: my boys and say, hey look at this right here,
Speaker 4: you see.
Speaker 1: This, and we're cracking up all day. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's the that's the thing that we got to
Speaker 1: do in the industry. We got to support each other.
Speaker 1: We can't be like, oh man, he's the next me.
Speaker 1: I'm never worried.
Speaker 4: You know, I did my thing, I had fun, and
Speaker 4: he just he's just a good soul. You know, when
Speaker 4: you meet him, he's a good soul.
Speaker 1: Yeah you are.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry. Also, Solange's son Jules, he also.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, his grandmother has reached out.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then we had Garcel yesterday brought her son by
Speaker 4: to the photo shoot.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So her son, Jade's he's modeling as well, and my
Speaker 4: son is doing the same thing.
Speaker 1: So anything that I can give them, because I'm the
Speaker 1: o G.
Speaker 4: You know, they all they call me Legen Leedge now
Speaker 4: the Ledge, So I try to help them out because
Speaker 4: it's such a it's such a great industry for us
Speaker 4: because it what's our images out there, and it lets
Speaker 4: people know when you get on the elevator, he's not
Speaker 4: gonna steal my purse. You know, he's he's a Calvin model.
Speaker 4: He's this such model, you know. So I think it's
Speaker 4: good for us to have a nice image out there
Speaker 4: of good looking young man doing positive things. You know,
Speaker 4: my son is twenty six, he'll be twenty.
Speaker 1: Seven in October. I don't put this business out there.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. If you look like you, yeah he does.
Speaker 1: He's looked like a Puerto Rican version of me though
Speaker 1: he got long hair. People be like he'd be like no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no, Like come on, man.
Speaker 4: You got to learn some Spanish because our grandfather is
Speaker 4: from Panama.
Speaker 1: So I do have Spanish in my blood. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So how did you become a star?
Speaker 2: I guess because when you name all of these other
Speaker 2: these male models, that's a big thank you.
Speaker 1: Charlam Man start.
Speaker 3: You like an eye coon?
Speaker 4: You are calls me that? Yeah, so I mean, and
Speaker 4: that's another thing. When you put that kind of thinking
Speaker 4: on somebody, the icon, you really have to start to
Speaker 4: try to live up to that.
Speaker 1: It'll be out on the street flagging and doing things.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: You know, everybody in New York know me and they
Speaker 4: know man, that's tice man. He's a nice kid and
Speaker 4: you know, we we've been here.
Speaker 1: We came to New York. We came to this.
Speaker 4: Country in the seventies, you know, and we was you know,
Speaker 4: people we just called the book people are here and coconuts,
Speaker 4: and you know, we got called all type of names,
Speaker 4: you know, as as as immigrants and stuff.
Speaker 1: You know. So it's it's tough out here, man.
Speaker 4: You know, shout outs to all the immigrants out here
Speaker 4: running from ice.
Speaker 1: They're dangerous. Man.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like the fashion industry has become more
Speaker 2: inclusive since your peak?
Speaker 3: Are is still like diversity optics.
Speaker 1: It's getting better. Like from the time that I've got
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 4: To now, it's getting really good. I'm seeing more diversity.
Speaker 4: I'm seeing I'm seeing Asian, I'm seeing Latino, I'm seeing
Speaker 4: You're seeing Gaye, seeing trans You're seeing all these people
Speaker 4: now in fashion.
Speaker 1: And the crazy thing is the people of the world
Speaker 1: are fashion.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: You go down the street and you like, take your outfit.
Speaker 4: For instance, that top is really nice, and then she's
Speaker 4: got her and he's chilling with the.
Speaker 1: Old school death throw shirt on.
Speaker 4: It's everyone always had some kind of fashion on, so
Speaker 4: we're always in fashion.
Speaker 1: You know, It's just does fashion.
Speaker 4: Fashion never let us in before, but now we're in, right,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, you think.
Speaker 1: About all these designers now you.
Speaker 9: Were when you were moving around with Rolf Lauren, Like
Speaker 9: I rest a story about Biggie stopping you and asking
Speaker 9: you about the shirt that you had.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: Me and Big used to kick it all the time
Speaker 4: because Big Big used to always wear Ralph Lauren, you know,
Speaker 4: I mean it was popular in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: You know, it's popular in Queens, Bronx everything.
Speaker 4: And you know, I am a low life if you
Speaker 4: know who those guys are, and you know Big Chios.
Speaker 1: To Thirst and how the third that is.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it was just something that we hip hop
Speaker 4: people took took on those some of these brands that
Speaker 4: we made these brands big, you know. I mean, now
Speaker 4: you look at fashion shows and they're playing hip hop.
Speaker 1: There's you know, I just walked into.
Speaker 4: D Square show back in February, and you know you
Speaker 4: have all these rappers you know that were in the
Speaker 4: show with us, and it's just that's that's what fashion is.
Speaker 4: Everybody wears it, you know. So it's cool man to
Speaker 4: see all this and it's back in the day when
Speaker 4: I was doing it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't any of that.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't You wasn't hearing rap music walking down the
Speaker 4: run ray of shows.
Speaker 1: You know, you weren't here playing on the sets. You know.
Speaker 1: Now you go on the set and they're like, yo,
Speaker 1: what do you want to hear? And like, oh really,
Speaker 1: you know, did.
Speaker 3: You have to feel pressure that represent something bigger than yourself?
Speaker 1: As? Oh? Yeah? Always?
Speaker 4: Always, And that's that's a lot of times when I
Speaker 4: step out to do certain things, I look at it
Speaker 4: this way, how is this going to benefit our people?
Speaker 4: So for me now it's not about the money. It's
Speaker 4: about how's this going to benefit our people? And it's
Speaker 4: going to make us look good? So anything I can do,
Speaker 4: you know for that? I mean when when you're an ambassador,
Speaker 4: you're just an ambassador. Whether it's for politics, fashion, movie, TV.
Speaker 1: You're just an ambassador.
Speaker 4: And that's what we we need to recognize and start
Speaker 4: doing as a people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna go back to the show, right, let's
Speaker 5: go right what you're here for? Okay, So you made
Speaker 5: a joke on the show right like that you would
Speaker 5: be a power couple with two of the ladies.
Speaker 1: Are or I'm not. I'm not shy of it. I
Speaker 1: had two girlfriends before. A couple of times I did
Speaker 1: that and it was it was it's tough. Did they
Speaker 1: know about each other? Yeah? They were, they were you know,
Speaker 1: all this was in the bed.
Speaker 9: Yeah, casually I had two girlfriends, a lot.
Speaker 4: Of there's a lot of guys out there in the
Speaker 4: industry now, I mean my comedian yes, yes, the right,
Speaker 4: you know that was we was before. Yeah, But again
Speaker 4: I just always kept it private.
Speaker 1: I got you, you know the world don't need to
Speaker 1: know that.
Speaker 6: What Okay, but what about it? It's hard, you said,
Speaker 6: it's hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard because.
Speaker 4: You're dealing with, as my mom always says, she's somebody's daughter.
Speaker 4: So you're dealing with two emotions. And if you can
Speaker 4: get them like on the same level, like how d
Speaker 4: Ray and Neil, because when.
Speaker 1: You look at it, you're like, man, they're all on
Speaker 1: the same wavelength. You know. Now Neil has all three
Speaker 1: of them, you know, pregnant.
Speaker 4: So I was like, okay, that's before. But if you
Speaker 4: can provide for them and take care of them, hey,
Speaker 4: who am I to tell you you can't do it?
Speaker 1: I mean I was there, you know them.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I got to take care of my ladies.
Speaker 1: You know, I can't leave them, send them on the
Speaker 1: street and not yum yummed up. You know. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to make some tea shirts.
Speaker 4: To you young young so you're still not opposed to know,
Speaker 4: I'm still not opposed to it.
Speaker 1: I was really trying on.
Speaker 5: The show, okay, because I'm like, i'mou oh man, gonna
Speaker 5: tell you you gotta.
Speaker 4: Watch and see Sunday nights at nine pm on Bravo
Speaker 4: watch what Happens. But yeah, it's I'm telling you, it's
Speaker 4: probably one of the coolest shows on Bravo. There's not
Speaker 4: a lot of drama. It's just it's more fun. And
Speaker 4: you're like, oh, well that is who's on the show
Speaker 4: with me. He calls me the the black Hugh Hefner.
Speaker 4: So there's a there's a couple of episodes where the
Speaker 4: boys are out and I'm home by myself with all
Speaker 4: the girls, and I got my cowboy hat on and
Speaker 4: my my HOUCHI daddy shorts on and I'm jumping in
Speaker 4: the cold tub.
Speaker 1: And then there's a point where I jump in the
Speaker 1: cold tub with two girls. So you know, ha fun.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's regular for me to get married at the
Speaker 9: end of all of this. Yeah, yeah, you would have
Speaker 9: two wives or you want to If I.
Speaker 1: Could have two wives and four or two ones, I
Speaker 1: would do it. Yeah. Why love is love? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta. I'm gonna start my own modeling agency.
Speaker 8: With your kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to do that.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I think that we are going to
Speaker 2: come to a point where polygamy is going to be
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's going to be normal.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: It's not for everybody. But if I can find one love,
Speaker 1: I'm happy with that too. You know. But if you
Speaker 1: want to love me, who am I to say? No?
Speaker 3: Have you been in real love?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah?
Speaker 4: I got my heart broken real So there's a lot
Speaker 4: of you see that sprinkled throughout the show where I'm
Speaker 4: just like, I don't know if I trust this one.
Speaker 4: But you know, it's gonna get spicy. It's gonna get harder.
Speaker 3: Than somebody that people know.
Speaker 1: Maybe they know them, yeah, we know them, made them
Speaker 1: know them.
Speaker 3: Maybe didn't know.
Speaker 8: That super.
Speaker 1: Over there over there looking computers. She got to live.
Speaker 9: I mean history, you got the name.
Speaker 8: I don't know people, So I know.
Speaker 1: Is this we will let's speak about Let's go. Let's
Speaker 1: so yeah.
Speaker 4: So the show is at nine pm Sunday night, So bro,
Speaker 4: watch what happens and then I'm on watch What Happens
Speaker 4: Live right after that.
Speaker 1: So I'm on there with Octavia? Is it Octavia?
Speaker 3: I'm on there with yeah, double Whammy. I can't wait
Speaker 3: to watch that, just to see how you act on right.
Speaker 4: And then I want you to get on the radio
Speaker 4: and talk smack and then I'm gonna give you my
Speaker 4: number you called me and we're gonna talk junk.
Speaker 3: Talk in front of them, know you. Hey, but they're
Speaker 3: not going to ask you the stuff we was asking.
Speaker 4: So sure, I think they do ask A lot of
Speaker 4: girls asked me a lot of the questions, you know.
Speaker 4: And then what I need to learn in life is
Speaker 4: to ask women more questions to know more about them.
Speaker 4: I think I'm so caught up with their beauty. I
Speaker 4: don't ask enough.
Speaker 1: Questions, especially on this show. I need to ask more questions.
Speaker 4: I'll be like, Hey, when is Charlavayne and Tyson doing
Speaker 4: that podcast?
Speaker 1: I do want to know the t I.
Speaker 2: Do want to know what's one insecurity you had at
Speaker 2: the height of your career that nobody would believe.
Speaker 1: I was very shy when I first started.
Speaker 4: I was very not outgoing, and then I didn't want
Speaker 4: people to know that.
Speaker 1: I always second guess myself, you know.
Speaker 4: And then somewhere out of maybe the first year of
Speaker 4: the Ralph Lauren contract, I started to gain this confidence.
Speaker 4: Like I looked in the mirror, didn't even recognize myself,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, yo, you should be the shy Jamaican
Speaker 4: kid who who would laugh and cover his gap. And
Speaker 4: now it's I'm not that kid anymore, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean. So, you know, a lot of times when
Speaker 4: I run into people from my pastor's like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: you're so You're so vibrant, You're so out and lively now,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, yeah, an impost syndrome.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it.
Speaker 4: Was, really, man, I really can't put a put a
Speaker 4: finger on what it was, but you know, it was
Speaker 4: just I guess being around like other confident people made
Speaker 4: me feel like I could be confident too.
Speaker 1: And I think that a lot.
Speaker 4: Of young people struggle with this, whether it's them trying
Speaker 4: to figure out their sexuality, what they like, and you know,
Speaker 4: high school is tough for people, you know, But like
Speaker 4: ninth grade.
Speaker 1: I struggled. Tenth grade, you know, I was, I was
Speaker 1: in the news.
Speaker 4: I kept changing schools, and then by tenth grade, I
Speaker 4: was just like, you know, I'm starting to come into
Speaker 4: my own.
Speaker 1: And then the summer after tenth grade, I.
Speaker 4: You know, I started hitting the waits, and then eleventh
Speaker 4: grade the women were like all over me.
Speaker 1: By that time, I was starting to build up more confidence,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I had I had a good time in
Speaker 4: high school, and you know, it was it was it
Speaker 4: was you know, coming of age for me, you know.
Speaker 5: At this point, like even on the show, right, because
Speaker 5: these people, these women are already coming and knowing Tyson Beckford, right.
Speaker 4: But they didn't know, they didn't know at the time
Speaker 4: who were the Kings on the show until they got there,
Speaker 4: until they came out, and then you revealed and they
Speaker 4: saw us.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of girls. If the camera catches
Speaker 1: his face, you'd be like.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, you know, yeah, yeah, you get that
Speaker 4: oh my god effect. And it was really it was cool,
Speaker 4: you know because they're probably thinking.
Speaker 1: That, why is he on a dating show? Right? And
Speaker 1: then everyone in.
Speaker 4: The world is thinking that, right, yeah you were you
Speaker 4: probably were like what are you doing? But it's like,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to get tender or none of that
Speaker 4: other stuff. I'm so old school. I'll beat there at
Speaker 4: the launch. Man, what's happening? You want to roller corders?
Speaker 2: So you know you just used to meet people out
Speaker 2: in about supermarket.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I met women at the supermarket.
Speaker 1: Fine. No, I'm in Miami, so it's public to me.
Speaker 1: So I met this fine lady at the bank one day.
Speaker 4: The Haitian lady. She was speaking to me and crew.
Speaker 4: I was like, La, I don't know what I was
Speaker 4: saying to her, but she was smiling though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, hey, hey, Charla made to God.
Speaker 4: So let me tell you brother, We're on Bravo at
Speaker 4: nine pm on Sunday and watch what Happens Lives right
Speaker 4: after that.
Speaker 1: I love it. Oh.
Speaker 3: I got a couple of questions.
Speaker 2: Have you ever felt like the industry was more in
Speaker 2: love with your image than you as a person.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think that because they didn't I didn't get to
Speaker 4: do interviews like this back then.
Speaker 1: I think they were more in love with what they
Speaker 1: saw and didn't know me.
Speaker 4: So then when a lot of people saw me and
Speaker 4: got to meet me, it was like, yo, he a
Speaker 4: little thug.
Speaker 1: But he all right though, you know, he's like sophisticated.
Speaker 4: Uh So, I think us being able to do these
Speaker 4: kind of things, and now with social media, people get
Speaker 4: a better understanding of who you are.
Speaker 3: Do you want to let people in?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Do you want to It's like it's like my shirt.
Speaker 1: My shirt says, come on.
Speaker 4: When I say you want to let people, do not
Speaker 4: turn around?
Speaker 1: Read the shirt.
Speaker 5: Let me keep your heart three keep your heart.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of him. So yeah, and that's
Speaker 4: like one of my favorite songs.
Speaker 3: So you think the typan Befo could exist in today's
Speaker 3: era of male models, Yeah, I think he could.
Speaker 1: He could run court with all of them. Yeah.
Speaker 3: They might say he's too alpha you know this generation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I am very alpha.
Speaker 4: So yeah, no, I think I think there's there's there's
Speaker 4: a there's a position for somebody like me.
Speaker 1: Who's who's you know, really out for like that, you know.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean a lot of the guys that
Speaker 4: I came up with in the nineties, that's how we were.
Speaker 1: We were the beefcake models.
Speaker 4: We worked out, we lift weights, you know, we we
Speaker 4: did push ups before shows, and you know, we're back
Speaker 4: there working out. I think that's gone now. You know,
Speaker 4: guys don't want to be buff like that no more.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean I got up this morning, did
Speaker 4: my three hundred crunches and my four hundred push ups,
Speaker 4: and you know I still still do it. Yeah. For me,
Speaker 4: it's mental, you know, So I need that. It gives
Speaker 4: me that get up and go in the morning, you know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, get ready for them to ladies. That's it, That's right, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna need that.
Speaker 3: Tyson Backford Ladies and Jenimen a pleasure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, bro, thank you for having me up here. I
Speaker 4: got a new address, new building. It's really nice and
Speaker 4: new people.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, don't be a strange It might be
Speaker 3: stuff you.
Speaker 1: Want to know what I mean? Yeah, I mean if
Speaker 1: you want me to come.
Speaker 4: I'm always dropped by brother, especially if I got something
Speaker 4: to talk to you about, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but if you ever do a podcast, call
Speaker 1: me and then I'll tell you everything.
Speaker 8: Podcast network.
Speaker 1: He didn't invite me on yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think you should write like me.
Speaker 4: And yeah, we're writing the book. But me and Fat
Speaker 4: Joe we got stories. By the way, check out.
Speaker 1: Rewind rewind the ten with Me and Fact everybody.
Speaker 3: What do you mean stories?
Speaker 1: We have stories.
Speaker 4: We were like Bronx kids, like you have you seen
Speaker 4: the podcast with Jada and yeah, we got stories.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be people that watch this to be like
Speaker 2: Tyson Capping and they be thinking he's sound.
Speaker 5: Like funny comical a lot of times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, he's for real.
Speaker 3: Joe.
Speaker 1: I remember Joe back in the days, and you know
Speaker 1: he was he was he was going.
Speaker 6: To go to high school together.
Speaker 4: No, we didn't go to high school together, but he
Speaker 4: was over there with them and I was over there
Speaker 4: with the other them.
Speaker 1: And and it was like we was real goons.
Speaker 4: We never ran into each other until like when Joe
Speaker 4: started coming out with the music and then like Joe
Speaker 4: biz a g and all of them because we were
Speaker 4: all Bronx kids and we all used to go to
Speaker 4: the Fever and all that stuff. So yeah, what story
Speaker 4: do you have A never ran No, I'm saying he
Speaker 4: has his set of stories.
Speaker 1: I have my set of stories as well. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: definitely was. We was definitely in the streets, you know.
Speaker 8: Yeah at.
Speaker 1: The hour I was there.
Speaker 8: On the tunnel and they mentioned you was there.
Speaker 4: Every night taking my off and getting searched and you know,
Speaker 4: we kept the clack clack in the car car. You know, outside,
Speaker 4: I was outside. I was really outside. And when I
Speaker 4: think about it now, I'm riding the train with U.
Speaker 4: Because you know, my street name was two Guns. At
Speaker 4: one point, I.
Speaker 3: Was just like two guns. At one point, I just.
Speaker 1: Lead the guns. I had to leave the guns in.
Speaker 3: Your name was not two guns out.
Speaker 1: Look it up? Look it up?
Speaker 3: Look it up?
Speaker 6: You know you podcast podcast.
Speaker 4: I hope to get on there them, Jeda, because I
Speaker 4: love them too. Why didn't I guess this is my
Speaker 4: last question. Why didn't things really work out in Hollywood?
Speaker 4: Was it a role you turned down?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: What? No, It's just that you know, they're the gatekeepers.
Speaker 1: Hollywood is a gatekeepers. They want to let who in
Speaker 1: when they want to let it.
Speaker 4: I mean I did at least twenty something movies like
Speaker 4: from Biker Boys, Zulander and all of that, But for me, I.
Speaker 1: Never getting Yeah, I'm I'm still looking for that script, man.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for that right script to really take that role.
Speaker 1: You know. And I remember the late Andre Herral used
Speaker 1: to always tell me you need to play some cycle
Speaker 1: sexy killer. Every time Andre would see me, he would
Speaker 1: hit me with that line.
Speaker 4: I'm like, Andre, you in Hollywood, you tell them, let's
Speaker 4: write the script.
Speaker 1: But it's I feel like Hollywood is gatekeeper.
Speaker 4: They'll they'll let who they wanted, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: Because I don't I don't. I don't hate on everybody
Speaker 4: that's out there now, But like I man, me and
Speaker 4: Indriest used to go to Suzanne who back in the day,
Speaker 4: you know, and then that's when Cardy and them was
Speaker 4: dancing and who else somebody else was dancing too, But yeah.
Speaker 2: We like back in the day, by the way, yeah,
Speaker 2: think about it, there was what two thousand and ninety
Speaker 2: nine somewhere back then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Cardy would have been like.
Speaker 1: She was then.
Speaker 4: But I'm just saying when we used to go to
Speaker 4: sus that's that's a while back.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know what's interesting, You bought a bandre he Rescue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I'm listening to you talk, and when I'm
Speaker 2: listening to you talking, reminds me of somebody that Andre
Speaker 2: used to tell me about.
Speaker 3: It was Christopher Williams.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Chris, Chris. Me and Chris did a couple
Speaker 4: of plays together. And Chris is talented, but Chris was
Speaker 4: a good Chris was Chris is a good Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know personally, but I'm sinking.
Speaker 4: And I think it's because he was light skinned, had
Speaker 4: the curly hair.
Speaker 1: You know, I was pretty boy.
Speaker 4: It's we're forced into that because people want to pick
Speaker 4: on us. So you've got to defend yourself. Like my
Speaker 4: mom dropped me off at martial arts from when I
Speaker 4: was little. So I've been beating ass for a long time,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. I've been in I can
Speaker 4: count my street fights. I've been in thirty eight street fights,
Speaker 4: no losses. And I'm not out there looking for fights.
Speaker 4: But then I went to Golden Gloves and then I
Speaker 4: did uh crawlmgrad and I did all of that stuff, man,
Speaker 4: And what it does for you, it just keeps you right.
Speaker 4: Like now, I trained with members of Seal Team six
Speaker 4: in Florida, and you know, I trained with Coast Guard
Speaker 4: and some Miami Dade PD and I'm now certified NRI
Speaker 4: Instructor for car being, shotgun and pistols, So you know,
Speaker 4: I know my way around because it's something that you
Speaker 4: might use in Hollywood. I mean, look at Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 4: You know he was you know, he was like doing
Speaker 4: the surfer movies and stuff, and then boom, looks where
Speaker 4: he's at Now he's John Wick, one the scariest man
Speaker 4: on the planet, and he'd be riding the train. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I like to do normal things, but you also got
Speaker 4: to be able to protect yourself at all times.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Hey, King's Court is cool. We need the Tyson Bafferty.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to tell Andy co Andy Cohen,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you on the own show.
Speaker 8: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3: Check it out man, nine pm on Sundays, King's Court. Tyson.
Speaker 2: It was a pleasure, brother, Yes, brother, always it's the
Speaker 2: Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.