Speaker 1: Real people, real celebrity real joined the Breakfast Morning. Everybody
Speaker 1: is DJ en Vy, Angela Ye Charlotte and the guy
Speaker 1: we are the Breakfast Club got a special guest without
Speaker 1: seeing them building this morning. These are legends, bro, Come
Speaker 1: on now, it's very exciting that Joey is here. We've
Speaker 1: been getting a lot of requests. People are like, when
Speaker 1: are y'all gonna have Jodycia got a new album as
Speaker 1: an eighties baby. Man, I grew up off your music
Speaker 1: and I'm still having sex to y'all music to this day.
Speaker 1: Straight up to now. We were just debating something here.
Speaker 1: All y'all from Charlotte. I know Kathy and Jordia from Charlotte,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't. We got talking to my guys. Is
Speaker 1: born in Hampton, Virginia. Okay, yeah, we're all raising Charlotte though,
Speaker 1: So it's Charlotte and Virginia and then New York. You
Speaker 1: guys are of everything, man, Morrow, North Carolina and Hampton, Virginia.
Speaker 1: U Joe started in Charlotte, and UM want out home
Speaker 1: boys right here? Absolutely? How I'll get back together as
Speaker 1: a group. What made you get back together? We never
Speaker 1: broke up? I mean that's just been like the thing.
Speaker 1: We never never broke up, you know, case and Joe
Speaker 1: went off to do the case and jell the thing,
Speaker 1: but WI constant staying in touch. We kept recording over
Speaker 1: the years. But you know, people just didn't se us
Speaker 1: together in public like that, and you know, recording together,
Speaker 1: so you know that they knew about So they just
Speaker 1: figured that, you know, jos he broke up, right, broke up.
Speaker 1: Let's let's get a young in some history like Casey
Speaker 1: and Joe your brothers, y'all blood brothers too, right? Yes?
Speaker 1: And is it true that Davante went to audition for
Speaker 1: Prince when he was young? He actually did. He ran
Speaker 1: away from home and drove the Paisley Park snap on
Speaker 1: the porch, didn't. Yeah, well, they let him in the
Speaker 1: lobby and he stayed there. You know, he met some
Speaker 1: of the bad meals from the revolution and he just
Speaker 1: couldn't know he didn't get the chance to meet Prince
Speaker 1: at the time. So they turned them down, Turn them down.
Speaker 1: Where is Davante? La heu? You know the everything just
Speaker 1: want crazy, just get developed as high anxiety from like
Speaker 1: just flying. So we went to ask me he had
Speaker 1: to take a two of us all the way to
Speaker 1: ask me. He just doesn't. He doesn't fly. You know,
Speaker 1: he wanted to, you know, be down, but he couldn't
Speaker 1: ride him and you know the bust of So how
Speaker 1: do y'all get him around when you're touring? He just
Speaker 1: gotta be bus what I mean, Prince my career, we
Speaker 1: used to fly like twice three times a week. Well,
Speaker 1: Jo Jody, see, you guys have always been known as
Speaker 1: the bad boys of R and B. Now I understood that,
Speaker 1: he said, You never understood that. Really, I think that
Speaker 1: that came because, you know, we just went against the
Speaker 1: grain of what R and B music was looked at
Speaker 1: and hurt how I was hurt. We had the Scullies
Speaker 1: on and you know, the black bulls and the Gene
Speaker 1: Secondeam so I think that's well, they just not the
Speaker 1: typical R and B. So they gotta be, you know,
Speaker 1: bad boys. And then you guys had like a death
Speaker 1: Row affiliation and all that we're gonna get to. But
Speaker 1: with with the with the scullies and the tims and stuff.
Speaker 1: Was that really all because everybody was saying that I
Speaker 1: was an image that Uptown creating, it really wasn't. It
Speaker 1: was just that, um, you know, they came to idea
Speaker 1: we didn't want to wear like the sequence suits and everything.
Speaker 1: We're like, well, that's not really us, and yeah, we
Speaker 1: just want to be like just some that on the
Speaker 1: street could just relate to, you know, not all shine
Speaker 1: and gus. We didn't have a big budget, you know
Speaker 1: where they care to go. We have, but but it
Speaker 1: was just like a thing that we you know, when
Speaker 1: Puff camera, it was like, we just want to be
Speaker 1: like just like four regular like four regular dudes on
Speaker 1: the speak corner singing to his homeboys, singing that the homeboys,
Speaker 1: you know, not the suit thing. And and then boys
Speaker 1: members coming out that time, and um that Puff did say.
Speaker 1: Puff did say that he told Dread looked dra it's
Speaker 1: a new group coming out to at the same time,
Speaker 1: called boys to men and they were in soups. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm putting. That's them, that new West suits, that's
Speaker 1: that new body then man, Yeah, Puff was like that
Speaker 1: from hard because you can see what you you could
Speaker 1: also see with Mary he put the locks and shiny shoots.
Speaker 1: Then that was later how much a relationship with Puff,
Speaker 1: It was good. It was always good. You guys are
Speaker 1: kind of the reason he got his whole label situation, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Puff the good thing about him he always
Speaker 1: saw the vision that we had and it was it
Speaker 1: was easy for him to go to undid like man no,
Speaker 1: and he fought for us all the time, like I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, if this don't work, you're getting fired. And
Speaker 1: Puff believe. He believed everything we try to do. And
Speaker 1: he just you know, yeah, he related to Andre and
Speaker 1: Uptown and he stuck with it. When y'all first got
Speaker 1: with Puffy, he was an intern. Did you ever think
Speaker 1: Uptown wasn't taking your serious because they put you with
Speaker 1: an intern at first? Well, I mean it wasn't that.
Speaker 1: He was just like we was from the South and
Speaker 1: they looked as being like four country boys. We ain't
Speaker 1: knowing about the city and they want us to give
Speaker 1: us the kind of vibe the city. And Puff just
Speaker 1: took us out, you know and showed us like, you know,
Speaker 1: just out here, you know what up high, you know
Speaker 1: all that you know just got so you know, he
Speaker 1: just he just kind of stuck with it. Was kind
Speaker 1: of like mentors of you know what the street life
Speaker 1: was we all out of church. But then you know,
Speaker 1: when you know down the funny thing is he uptown period. Man. Man,
Speaker 1: he had at us routing the trains stuff. Man, you
Speaker 1: know we didn't you know, you know what that Bronx
Speaker 1: Road avenue with roads and that thing you said you
Speaker 1: came from the church. Wasn't your music very secular to
Speaker 1: come from the church, because the church is singing about
Speaker 1: God is gospel. And then you come in and it's
Speaker 1: come and talk to me and y'all knocking on you.
Speaker 1: But you know the thing is though, and the thing
Speaker 1: is like in Charlotte, these are songs we used to
Speaker 1: right for o girlfriends in the neighborhood. You know what
Speaker 1: I well, I mean we got a fair share, but
Speaker 1: these are songs that we said, you know, and we
Speaker 1: just took that to the studio. You know, we got,
Speaker 1: you know, the same songs we used to be like
Speaker 1: this man and my mom used to be hearsting our basement,
Speaker 1: my mother basement. Man, Dvin, go get all the girls, man,
Speaker 1: he get like ten girls and we opened the door
Speaker 1: up and the bunch and then playing and Joe the
Speaker 1: singing or down on the drums or whatever, and you
Speaker 1: have an audience. Man. But he had to be gout
Speaker 1: by five o'clocks the time. Mama get out work, but
Speaker 1: that we were just preparing ourselves to do what we're
Speaker 1: doing now. Man, But like that with a bad boys,
Speaker 1: because the first joint was so you're having my baby.
Speaker 1: I'm not a singer that that's actually a low song,
Speaker 1: but having the baby. It was sixteen at the time. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean you know that that, I mean, that was
Speaker 1: the thing going on in North Carolina. You know, you
Speaker 1: people have baby at thirteen, fourteen years old, So that
Speaker 1: was just a common thing and it was just, you know,
Speaker 1: something that people can relate to. You know, now y'all
Speaker 1: really in the church. Y'all just happened to go on Sundays.
Speaker 1: We are guard cheering brothers. You know. My dad my
Speaker 1: mother were both the fastest they have a church got
Speaker 1: Our grandmother was a minister and grandfather so man churches.
Speaker 1: That was us man and steal us still us man.
Speaker 1: You know, um when we before we did this, before
Speaker 1: I went to New York, Like I said, my grandmother,
Speaker 1: my grandma was a pastor. Um before we were to
Speaker 1: New York. Man came up here to get our record.
Speaker 1: Deal man. My mother said it was cool, but she
Speaker 1: didn't like it right, And Daddy was like, yo, you
Speaker 1: know you gotta go to work to Mark. You know
Speaker 1: it's Casey so, but you're gonna do I said, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna York, Daddy, I gotta do this. You got these
Speaker 1: you do, don't come if you don't make it, don't
Speaker 1: come back. You can't come back when we made it,
Speaker 1: he said, cannot get that truck now. But nah, man,
Speaker 1: But my mother and father they didn't they didn't like it.
Speaker 1: But I went to my grandmother, said, Grandma, I gotta
Speaker 1: ask you first. Daddy and Mama, you know they and
Speaker 1: I'm ranted by them. I said, I don't want you
Speaker 1: to think of me and Jojo leaving church or anything
Speaker 1: like that. She's a baby. Just don't forget what you
Speaker 1: came from. Do you gotta do something you can? Now?
Speaker 1: Was there a period of time where you guys didn't
Speaker 1: get along. I'm sure because you guys have all very
Speaker 1: strong personalities. Oh man's every day every day enough that
Speaker 1: it was like, okay, this group is over every day
Speaker 1: to come here. Y'all got like the ultimate tag team.
Speaker 1: The you and Casey ever team up on Jojo Jo
Speaker 1: and you team up on yeah man, you now, man,
Speaker 1: this my boy right here, This is my brother right,
Speaker 1: but him and de Vonte Man and do and they
Speaker 1: alway getting on me and dial whok me and down
Speaker 1: had the big to be in the group number one
Speaker 1: group Man, the goople started with Jojo and Vonte. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they started Joe. I was in Maryland, Baltimore doing my
Speaker 1: gospel things. So Jojo called me on the phone and uh,
Speaker 1: let me hear something over the phone. Man. I was
Speaker 1: like what sixteen yeah, and um I said, Yo, Man,
Speaker 1: I want to be in the group. Jodan said nope, nope,
Speaker 1: w because he had a group, the gospel group, a
Speaker 1: little curic in the Haley Singers. So I was always
Speaker 1: in the shadow. And when Devonte I got came about
Speaker 1: with you know, let's start doing stuff, he was up
Speaker 1: trying to get his group back together. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I feel good, I'm doing something by myself. I didn't
Speaker 1: want him. I want to step outside of the shadow.
Speaker 1: And Devont like, bro, that's just you from one or
Speaker 1: two songs or whatever. That's crazy, and I up singing
Speaker 1: all once again. I'm back in the shadow, remember real man.
Speaker 1: So Jodan Devant had to come up with a deal.
Speaker 1: So um Den the one Dalwin in the group because
Speaker 1: Dalin was the one. Yeah, all the females and he
Speaker 1: was a party all the time. He's a rick Jame,
Speaker 1: But I would thinks I would think you want the
Speaker 1: guy to get all the girls in the din his ass.
Speaker 1: They made up agreement one to me and Jojo come
Speaker 1: down to be in a group too. That's how me
Speaker 1: and got I try to tell domin every meet and
Speaker 1: shut up when you hear them. Faith. Man, No, the
Speaker 1: name Jodi was that a fight too? No? Man, No,
Speaker 1: we just came up one night. Man, we're sitting in
Speaker 1: the mothers uh yard and we try to think of
Speaker 1: some names. Uh start out with brothers na that's on
Speaker 1: the corny right, Brothers didn't sound right, So we just
Speaker 1: came up with him to the j open Joe Joe
Speaker 1: D from Dalvin and I don't know his name ain't
Speaker 1: really in there. He got more sense and they buy
Speaker 1: a new group. Now, is it true? Um? You guys
Speaker 1: were y'all in Charlotte, y'all had the vision that y'all
Speaker 1: wanted to be on Uptown Records. Y'all knew that what
Speaker 1: y'all wanted to go actually, because you know, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was MCA Uptown at first. Okay, you know you knew
Speaker 1: it this and you had, uh god you all our
Speaker 1: favorite artists on it, heavy ding the boys, you know.
Speaker 1: So it was quickly because a fan thing. You were
Speaker 1: fans of body Okay, yeah, fan thing like the biggest groups.
Speaker 1: And y'all drove to New York and didn't know where
Speaker 1: it was that I would tell you the crazy thing is.
Speaker 1: But we had three hundred dollars right and uh, we've
Speaker 1: been having that coming up at Bond says that truck stock,
Speaker 1: So we got it. We didn't know where to go.
Speaker 1: Nobody never been in New York. So I remember listening
Speaker 1: to his first album and he have a song called
Speaker 1: Bristol Hotel on that and we were looking for the
Speaker 1: Bristow to tell you, ain't that funny? We was coming
Speaker 1: up with an image. Ain't handle damn record. But we
Speaker 1: found the first hotel. You remember the song where the
Speaker 1: hotel where Jamaica. Quick it was a prostitute. That's all
Speaker 1: the money we had left. Oh y'all need to come
Speaker 1: into America. Y'all just spent the spundent. We found the
Speaker 1: Bristol Hotel. So, I mean, you make the long story short,
Speaker 1: we didn't even have enough money. Instead, of Bristol. So
Speaker 1: the next morning we had to find uptown and they
Speaker 1: locked all closing the bristles. We couldn't pay for the room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all that stuff was in the Bristol glasses and everything, everything, everything.
Speaker 1: So we went to uptown and you know, I know
Speaker 1: the story. I don't know if y'all know, but like
Speaker 1: a long story show, you know, Heavy d went and
Speaker 1: they heard a sing Kirk Kirk really fell asleep on
Speaker 1: our demo tap toes We wasn't good enough go back home? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh on the way out, gee wish from Heavy
Speaker 1: and the boys like who was that singing? Was using?
Speaker 1: You know, blah blah blah. Any of the songs from
Speaker 1: that demo make it onto the first album? Yeah, demo,
Speaker 1: first first album. So I tookt two songs, uh and
Speaker 1: then um from there, you know, dre play for the Bristol,
Speaker 1: moved out the Bristol, got you out of Bristol to
Speaker 1: the best Western Yeah, it was better. We had fun though, man,
Speaker 1: ever since Jim Man, it's like, yeah, had too much fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had a lot of fun. And the funny thing
Speaker 1: about it is, man, I don't think people know this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we all from North Carolina. But New York is really
Speaker 1: you know, said the first ones that you know, knew
Speaker 1: about Jodi. New York adopted us stuff. Yeah, everybody, man,
Speaker 1: we love y'all. Man, we love y'all. And it's like
Speaker 1: this at home, man. And the crazy thing is Charlotte
Speaker 1: was like the last seat of the embrace us until
Speaker 1: this day. Until this day, they just know embracing Joda. See,
Speaker 1: like what we're supposed to get from. What about the
Speaker 1: other male R and B groups at the time, because
Speaker 1: you guys kind of set the trends for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. Did they like y'all? Did they embrace you guys?
Speaker 1: Did y'all get along or was it like any type
Speaker 1: of Now we had no problems to the day, Joe
Speaker 1: ain't wrung so pretty much like to ourselves, we in
Speaker 1: our own world. We could be sitting here, we we
Speaker 1: could say something. I could be talking about one of
Speaker 1: you guys. They wouldn't know, but y'all wouldn't And y'all
Speaker 1: be laughing at us, But we're really talking about y'all.
Speaker 1: Really say it over there, man, like whatable boys? The
Speaker 1: man you shot at the time. Yeah, yeah, all these groups,
Speaker 1: I mean they kind of fashioned after it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember seeing Jojo Jojo was on a video. He was
Speaker 1: cursing out somebody cursing out some R and B group.
Speaker 1: What it was. I forgot what group it was though.
Speaker 1: Now the uptime treat your family money wise, because I
Speaker 1: never heard y'all complaining about, you know, like how TLC
Speaker 1: went through it with the label hustle man. I think
Speaker 1: like when we came, it was more like we looked
Speaker 1: at it like family. So it wasn't really because we
Speaker 1: didn't get it for the money. We just thought. We
Speaker 1: didn't know about the mindtil like, and when we wasn't
Speaker 1: driving fancy cars and everybody was driving business and were
Speaker 1: still catching the training, they don't look right, you know.
Speaker 1: Then the questions started coming up. What was young? I
Speaker 1: was sixteen, jose came out, you know, so it was
Speaker 1: all kids, We're having fun. You know. It's like you know,
Speaker 1: at the time, whatever you want, you know, we all roll,
Speaker 1: We all start you know, teaming up in rooms while
Speaker 1: we sharing rooms, you know. But then the questions started
Speaker 1: rising when people start playing the season your head didn't
Speaker 1: I tell you what we had the life though, but
Speaker 1: can't you imagine before the age of twenty one, any
Speaker 1: girl you want, and your car you can drive. You
Speaker 1: can get any home you want to live in. Be
Speaker 1: four twenty one and no kids, and man, we live
Speaker 1: in the college life. They say that that alcohol played
Speaker 1: a big part because like you said, you were under
Speaker 1: twenty one. Yea party said party, party, party, alcohol, drugs
Speaker 1: every now not no drugs. I mean we yeah, you
Speaker 1: know I but not no hardcore. You know, like I said,
Speaker 1: before the age twenty one, you got all that in
Speaker 1: your you know what I'm saying, before you twenty one, Man,
Speaker 1: you gotta something gotta tempt you. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Females alcohol, We we didn't know we did that, but
Speaker 1: it was hard trying to be in a relationship knowing
Speaker 1: that you had so many women coming at you all
Speaker 1: the time. Down was knocking you was knocking down. Madonna
Speaker 1: at one point in a relationship Door well, I was
Speaker 1: signed to his artist. But I mean before that, you know,
Speaker 1: she went out, my brother hung out with him. Whatever
Speaker 1: they had was going on, that was them, that was me.
Speaker 1: And I ain't saying I wasn't mind, But Casey attempted
Speaker 1: to be in a relationship. But I guess that wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna happen for you that that was the first celebrity couple.
Speaker 1: I can't remember that that wasn't attempting. Man was ten
Speaker 1: twelve years relationship? Was that relationship because you guys were
Speaker 1: we had fun. We had fun. But um, it got
Speaker 1: to the point that at that time, back then, you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, it was young and I could careers
Speaker 1: are going like this, and then it just exploded and um,
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna lie. You know, I did some
Speaker 1: things done, you know, far I was in Josie, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, and so you know she couldn't
Speaker 1: take that, you know, take that heat. Girls grabbing on
Speaker 1: me while I'm on stage. That one night she actually, um,
Speaker 1: I remember in London, she stame on stage. Man came
Speaker 1: on stage and snatched the mic out of my hand.
Speaker 1: What was you singing? Know when I was doing the
Speaker 1: casey thing? Man? Thank oh yeah, yeah, got me hold
Speaker 1: house man anyway, she grabbed him. I got my hand
Speaker 1: and told his girl in the front row, she's a bitch.
Speaker 1: Never trust my man again. I was like, Wow, that's
Speaker 1: the New York. You know. You was a singer, always
Speaker 1: in the team, team, Thank you. I couldn't take that number. Man,
Speaker 1: you know that she was doing your thing too, do
Speaker 1: my thing? You gonna see him? Let me from the
Speaker 1: bad guy. Now, I'm just was so young, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's a difficult early twenties then now now
Speaker 1: we're an a forties. Imagine if Tims he was around
Speaker 1: back then Instagram back then. Every day you believe she said,
Speaker 1: you believe Mary was your soul mate. I was in
Speaker 1: love with Mary. Mary never did anything wrong to me.
Speaker 1: She never talked about me, you know, she always you know,
Speaker 1: gave me my props and everything. But he was responsible
Speaker 1: for my two great albums. Really used to break up
Speaker 1: my parties. Don't break up the house man days, Man
Speaker 1: uptown days? What parties? Party? Did the house? She would
Speaker 1: break up the hotels? Man, No remember, man, say I'm tired. Ridiculous. Man,
Speaker 1: got ridiculous. You couldn't even have a party without it
Speaker 1: was bad news. Man. We didn't want to s around. Man,
Speaker 1: Come on, don't be wiped up. Man, Get away from
Speaker 1: at the point what was on too? Then we wanted
Speaker 1: to stand different hotels and then married. Man, y'all still
Speaker 1: over there. Tr to be around people when they fight
Speaker 1: all the time those couples. You had your RMB thing too,
Speaker 1: though you had miss t Bobs saw that in the
Speaker 1: TLC movie. No, I love that movie was good. Now,
Speaker 1: don't talking about me and oh yeah, I mean, ain't man,
Speaker 1: you didn't get your character right. He was worse. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that was cool. That was cool. That was fun. Now
Speaker 1: take t Bosa. I'm not talking about t bos and
Speaker 1: man stories of y'all still apologizing for those like you
Speaker 1: see them and be like, hey, I'm sorry, that's this
Speaker 1: man up. Go ahead and I'm ahead and hit that baby.
Speaker 1: Now I was Joe if he changed in twenty four years. Now, well,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of a lot wiser man, very
Speaker 1: much a lot wiser, and things are a little more seriousness.
Speaker 1: It's like I was telling the other day, that's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's worked now, Like there was fun, fun, fun, fun,
Speaker 1: still fun, but it's it's it's more work. It's more.
Speaker 1: I'm married, grandfather proud, and you always was low, like
Speaker 1: you said, Yes, I'm low, but I'm high and sprung
Speaker 1: off my love. I have my wife and my grandkids.
Speaker 1: The life I have now now just look at it.
Speaker 1: It's a business and I'm gonna spread some of the joy.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, really spread the joy to the fans. People
Speaker 1: what you call friends, you know, I know what love
Speaker 1: us about that? Right? Instead of just singing lyrics, get
Speaker 1: out they're getting now for Casey and Georgia, you guys
Speaker 1: did do like a kind of a documented thing trying
Speaker 1: to get off drugs and just documenting that keep using
Speaker 1: drug addiction. Let's clean out the cold. Com claim was
Speaker 1: called com clean. So what was the real issue that
Speaker 1: you felt like just let people know when this got
Speaker 1: really tad like just light that we lived party, you
Speaker 1: know what, the true smoke out. We I really don't
Speaker 1: even like we ongot everybody don't snooping them coming at me.
Speaker 1: But I mean what you look at like this though,
Speaker 1: Like it's like, I mean, same thing of the Rolling Stones.
Speaker 1: I mean everybody in nine years old, they still make
Speaker 1: a twenty million dollars years so we all know that stuff.
Speaker 1: And what name uh Justin Bieber. I'm like, they're coming
Speaker 1: home and a little kid. He's just a kid and
Speaker 1: he got all his money. You know that. But was
Speaker 1: there anybody that ever told you guys, Okay, y'all gotta
Speaker 1: you know, chill out. It's affecting your business, parents, parents,
Speaker 1: a management and the hole. It's like Dave lawyers, but
Speaker 1: you can't white. I'm gonna grown at this point. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna grown. Man, it's my house. Don't come to my
Speaker 1: mouse tell me what I'm gonna doing. This is what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. If I throw a barb with you
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna have me some Hennessy and some bed
Speaker 1: over here and my crew smoking the week, don't come
Speaker 1: to my house and tell me that ain't cool. That's
Speaker 1: my house. I'm grown. People live, ain't Nobody in this
Speaker 1: room can say they have never tried something that's right
Speaker 1: right now. Watching some of your performances, you know there
Speaker 1: was one performance where you guys were performing Casey and
Speaker 1: Jojo Jojo passes out and you keep singing. You won't
Speaker 1: help your brother. Security walks over, takes the mic and walking.
Speaker 1: I'll just leaving. You won't help your brother. Right now,
Speaker 1: I can talk for this. No, I'm gonna defend myself
Speaker 1: because I got myself. Tell you what happened. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you what happens to Tube, and Joe can tell
Speaker 1: you you had an eighteen hour fight to Australia. Right, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: as soon as we get there, straight for the Apple
Speaker 1: where we had to go to sound check. No sleep,
Speaker 1: no nothing, ain't been drinking nothing and nothing like that,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So we gotta go straight
Speaker 1: to the venue and don't even go to the hotel
Speaker 1: and check in. We gotta get dressed at the venue
Speaker 1: at the eighteen hour flight, right, so we don't stay
Speaker 1: dead tired, dead tired. So when we go to take
Speaker 1: a little break, a little break that we take before
Speaker 1: we do all my life. I'm looking at Joe, Joe tired,
Speaker 1: ain't you because I know I'm beat down. You know
Speaker 1: that time man, time tired and uh he started crying like, man,
Speaker 1: you didn't let you down, No, no, you gotta we
Speaker 1: j I was damn but I remember that anyway. Anyway, anyway,
Speaker 1: I told Joe, I told Joe, man, you're with you,
Speaker 1: and he was like, tell you the truth. I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I don't want to let you. I can tell brothers
Speaker 1: that whole because I was tired. I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna lay this down, lay right there. I
Speaker 1: did my acting skilled. I'm thinking that somebody gonna be
Speaker 1: like helped me up, looking up and stepping over me. Damn,
Speaker 1: let me do it. Ain't working if you didn't see it.
Speaker 1: He lays on stage. Yeah, yeah, Michael walks over him
Speaker 1: and then walks back on stagel. So so so if
Speaker 1: you had just told everybody, look, I'm tired, I can't
Speaker 1: make it, y'all had to probably give up the deposit
Speaker 1: or something like that to get the money back. Now
Speaker 1: you have but one or something to do anyway. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: out there, didn't do that. You went you far? Yes,
Speaker 1: you lying? Maybe that was acting crying because you know
Speaker 1: script script. I've seen another performance where I seen it
Speaker 1: was a blurdy somebody jumps off the stage and lands
Speaker 1: on their back. Yeah, that looked like it hurt you
Speaker 1: was tired. No, I wasn't tired that. What happened was
Speaker 1: I take what happened. No, what happened was I didn't
Speaker 1: realize it's eighteen feet hot play. It's the top of
Speaker 1: the same line as the top of the NBA back
Speaker 1: ward right. We played that before, And I didn't know
Speaker 1: they raised the stage up like I couldn't really see
Speaker 1: because it was dark in the pit, and so and
Speaker 1: I was saying something that I went to jump off
Speaker 1: stage like always, and I I was falling like for
Speaker 1: like thirteen minutes when I had to ground and I
Speaker 1: got right back up. Didn't get right back up. You
Speaker 1: can't get back. There wasn't no way to get back up.
Speaker 1: There too hot all night. Now, all I'm hearing is
Speaker 1: a bunch of accidents. But you can see why people
Speaker 1: would think y'all had alcohol. Did you think when Beyonce
Speaker 1: tumbled down the stairs and she was drunk? Okay, I
Speaker 1: dank got the stage last week when she drunk. True,
Speaker 1: but you gotta be drunk, but nobody jun't just fall
Speaker 1: on your back. Yeah, I let him, I let my feet,
Speaker 1: but like I went straight down to my real serious
Speaker 1: looked like now y'all, y'all, y'all did have a Death
Speaker 1: Roll affiliation. As Angela said earlier, what was that about? Well, uh,
Speaker 1: my brother met you know, Matt shild night and uh
Speaker 1: he just he just you know, as they talked, he
Speaker 1: just noticed like the things wasn't right with you know, uptown,
Speaker 1: and he wanted to do some stuff with you know,
Speaker 1: with death Ro artists, so he wanted to come in.
Speaker 1: That song was popping. Help Help, fix the situation with
Speaker 1: what up town because he asked a bunch of questions
Speaker 1: about you know, the financial things, like it was mentioned
Speaker 1: earlier and he just came in. But we would never
Speaker 1: signed a death roll, signed a night as far as
Speaker 1: I'm sure did. He hated that though, because that was
Speaker 1: like during the whole East coast West coast thing kind
Speaker 1: of that's another whole story because I mean it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, we didn't choose like to get him between that,
Speaker 1: but it just kind of thought them because you know
Speaker 1: that she went puff and shill. But now what happened? Now,
Speaker 1: your brother's house got robbed in jurors and and people
Speaker 1: were saying that we know, yeah, we need to know
Speaker 1: sick y'all be digging for information and getting a bunch
Speaker 1: of bush find out who did that? Yeah, we find
Speaker 1: out who did that. You did find it. It was
Speaker 1: set up. It was a set up. Really, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: one of the guys that unfortunately he's dead. We have
Speaker 1: anything to do with it. But in one of the
Speaker 1: guys in prison for something totally different. Wow, Farmer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you get that life that eventually catches. But the
Speaker 1: two the two guys that actually robbed one of them
Speaker 1: killed each other and they were cousins. Yeah. Really one
Speaker 1: of them kill you like a yeah, everything about doing
Speaker 1: like a bio pick experience. Man, Yeah, good one. Though.
Speaker 1: We're blessed y'all got embraced by hip hop earlier on too.
Speaker 1: I was watching the video this morning, the Biggie singing. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was singing one of the Jordan's records. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: then of course pop got a great relationship. What the
Speaker 1: freaking you remix? Okay, we can't get that one of
Speaker 1: the that's one of my favorite time. Now. The crazy
Speaker 1: thing about it, there wasn't supposed to be uh, ghost
Speaker 1: Face and ray Kuana then supposed to be met the
Speaker 1: man on that remix. I'm glad it turned out the
Speaker 1: way it did. Ghost one of the best verses ever
Speaker 1: in the history of life. He did so Ray Kuan
Speaker 1: did too. Yeah. First almost didn't even make it on
Speaker 1: this come on man, because we recorded, like we recorded
Speaker 1: a song the remix like maybe ten minutes and ray
Speaker 1: Kuan came and did this and ghost Face couldn't get
Speaker 1: his verse. So I was like, and I went there
Speaker 1: out He's like, man, let me try one more time.
Speaker 1: So we just left it off. It was just like
Speaker 1: a blank space and the factory and he called me back.
Speaker 1: He said, man, let me, let me just try it
Speaker 1: one more time. Because he had never rapped with R
Speaker 1: and B before. That was the first time the collaboration
Speaker 1: came with him at R and B. And he's like
Speaker 1: trying on more time. He came just killed. He freestyle
Speaker 1: most of the verses. Yeah, but for the first couple
Speaker 1: of bars it was written. Then he's lead to stow
Speaker 1: the paper on the boot, so I was trying to
Speaker 1: imagine we had actually written down, but he just freestyle
Speaker 1: the rest of it. Wow, did you do you have
Speaker 1: a good relationship with poccles? That just business? No, no
Speaker 1: good relationships. It's good relationship man pop Man. Actually actually
Speaker 1: they did a video toss it up and then before
Speaker 1: he got shot and the top before the first time
Speaker 1: he got shot, dam and he had asked me, heyok,
Speaker 1: he just asked me, yo man go to Vegas with
Speaker 1: I'm sitting listen out and I'm glad I didn't go.
Speaker 1: But but Pop the relationship with pop Man, he was
Speaker 1: real man. You know, he had love for us and
Speaker 1: he loves its craft and he was just real man.
Speaker 1: He was just really let's talk about this new album.
Speaker 1: New album. What got guys got you excited to do
Speaker 1: new music this time? Time? Man? It was time actually
Speaker 1: album man, tish. Yeah, you guys been doing music together
Speaker 1: though for quite some time. YE finally said let's put out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: put this out. We've been in the vaut and say
Speaker 1: here we go. Did you like the R and B
Speaker 1: music that's out? Now, that's one reason why I came back.
Speaker 1: I figured that. I figured that. I mean, I can't
Speaker 1: listen to radio no more, man, but you know that,
Speaker 1: But that that had to be a phase in Army
Speaker 1: music for this music to come, because you know, those
Speaker 1: music is are revolving door just like fast, just like
Speaker 1: anything else. So at the time when we kind of
Speaker 1: because we left with number one records on the ready
Speaker 1: and we just didn't just fall off and be forced
Speaker 1: out the industry. You know, music was changing at the time,
Speaker 1: and we said, you know, let's just take a break
Speaker 1: and let the hip hop whole generation coming in. Now
Speaker 1: this you know, rapping, singing and auto tune, all that
Speaker 1: had to just transport. So instead of just like being
Speaker 1: forced out the industry, I think we just took our
Speaker 1: time away and now it's like the perfect time. That's
Speaker 1: difficult for you guys because it's kind of like you
Speaker 1: got to go through the new auto syndrome now because
Speaker 1: now you got to teach the young kids who Joe
Speaker 1: to see is now, you know, I mean before you know,
Speaker 1: it's like to go back to what you did when
Speaker 1: you first started doing interviews and clubs. And that's a
Speaker 1: good question, like are you trying to gain new fans
Speaker 1: or this album just for the day when Dan, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean hardcore fans. But but if you think about it,
Speaker 1: the new groups, you know what I'm saying, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure if mom wasn't daddn't know about So they try
Speaker 1: to tell them them, you know, that's what y'all need
Speaker 1: to be doing. Ain't here and we're doing this for
Speaker 1: our own fans. Man. But you know, like Jodas is
Speaker 1: a brand now, it's bigger than exactly. It's like most
Speaker 1: of the new fans they know the name, don't know
Speaker 1: the members, and a lot of them don't even know
Speaker 1: Caseing Joda's part of Joda. See you know what I say,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. So I mean like even when they see
Speaker 1: casing Jo Jodas, they only put the two together so
Speaker 1: I think that's what's exciting about this album as a
Speaker 1: new project. People that heard the name, heard the songs
Speaker 1: can go back and do the history and it makes
Speaker 1: it more exciting to do, like the walk up to
Speaker 1: what today is Jodac and go back. And because the
Speaker 1: songs are pretty much timeless, you know, like coming talk
Speaker 1: to Me, you can hit on the radio songs you
Speaker 1: put out last week freaking the same thing, so is
Speaker 1: like I am cut your off? Do they don't do
Speaker 1: it again? But anyways, this's the way I feel m
Speaker 1: because with that question, Jodas is more we do it
Speaker 1: because we love it. We didn't know who the effect
Speaker 1: that it's gonna yeah have on people, and automatically they
Speaker 1: love it. So we ain't trying to be nobody else.
Speaker 1: We ain't changing. We're gonna beat Jolosi. Younna love it
Speaker 1: or you don't. We love it and we're giving our
Speaker 1: own and that's the brand that that I was talking about. Well, well,
Speaker 1: let let the you and Casey form of y'all own group,
Speaker 1: like when y'all did the whole all My life thing,
Speaker 1: and you know what, be honest, Benji man, we was
Speaker 1: in a mother basement before we got a break the
Speaker 1: deal jodoci Now DeVante said, he's a yeo man, we
Speaker 1: blow up. Man, when we blow up? Everything was winning
Speaker 1: because you lay it was like it was playing is man,
Speaker 1: we blow up? Man. I think y'all should do a
Speaker 1: Haley Brothers album. I'm like, what you're saying, man, you
Speaker 1: quiting the group already. We didn't got a deal, he said.
Speaker 1: Now I'm just saying, man, when Jodosy blow up, man,
Speaker 1: I think y'all just break away and let me work
Speaker 1: on some more Jodosy stuff and uh Casey and jojout.
Speaker 1: Actually he wanted the offer three of us to do
Speaker 1: branch out from Dalvin didn't Metamorphous Yea and everything, and
Speaker 1: it was just like it was time to take a
Speaker 1: break and yeah and we just try something new. We
Speaker 1: really didn't even think that. We didn't know end like
Speaker 1: all my life, my life and stuff like that be
Speaker 1: amazing copy. We didn't know that. But every time every album,
Speaker 1: yeah man, that's an we're gonna do jo Nah, man
Speaker 1: ain't ready yet, man, do another case in Jojia album,
Speaker 1: we said, you just going up man. No man, Now
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, y'all ain't doing nothing. Setting up Jodas.
Speaker 1: It worked sa y'all the voices, it worked right. Another
Speaker 1: thing to say, Josie never left a voice, was still
Speaker 1: on the radio. You know. Has anybody post you guys
Speaker 1: about doing a buyo pick or anything like that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is it something you're considering when it's right, when the time.
Speaker 1: Don't let it be on lifetime. No, it can't be
Speaker 1: a lifetime None against lifetime, but we have something he
Speaker 1: could be on lifetime. They got that brand, they got
Speaker 1: that money. What are you like before, Jojo? Because you
Speaker 1: said you know your your grandfather. Now are you still
Speaker 1: like doing like the Phoenians and the freaking us that
Speaker 1: you prefer to all my life? Um, you know that
Speaker 1: was a good question. I've been asked that before. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm more into to tell me it's real to all
Speaker 1: my life and stuff the baby once you stayed lately,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm all up in there because the freaking you
Speaker 1: and stuff, Navin taking stage jobs and No, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: much like I said, I'm just pretty much laid back
Speaker 1: and I just like I'm a Luca van Dross listening
Speaker 1: baby face consumer. Um, I'm up in at kind of
Speaker 1: mellow guns roses ye Beatles and beat Us no soft
Speaker 1: for me. I love to beat us? But what would
Speaker 1: you now? What got your back with La Read? What
Speaker 1: got you with La reading Epic Records? What was that comment?
Speaker 1: It's the first time really, But you know La Read
Speaker 1: is he's a real musician. He understands real music. Like
Speaker 1: a lot of presidents and you know vps and music,
Speaker 1: they don't even know music. It's just thousands, you know,
Speaker 1: thousand sins to him. But he understood the music. Did
Speaker 1: he reached out to y'all y'all reached out to him?
Speaker 1: Or wasn't mutual? It was mutual. It was mutual. He
Speaker 1: understood what it was. He understood with the vision where
Speaker 1: you know Lewis Burrell and you know Brion, they was
Speaker 1: trying to go and they me they understood because a
Speaker 1: lot La was they didn't get it because they still
Speaker 1: stuck into that. You know, no disrespect about the Chris Browns,
Speaker 1: who I love Chris Browns artist, you know, but it's
Speaker 1: like like New R and B, which you know, what's
Speaker 1: people just hearing? And La Reid knows music because coming
Speaker 1: from the Deal and baby Face and now he knows music.
Speaker 1: Did anybody have any reservations about signing y'all because of
Speaker 1: all the stuff we see in the media. We thought
Speaker 1: you might have been a liability and anybody down ever,
Speaker 1: anybody dot they doubt us for day one. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. The first album I'm Born to Countortable
Speaker 1: and what the country boy was wow wow wow. So
Speaker 1: we've been hearing that like whatever, you know what I'm
Speaker 1: but we're just the truth. But you know, we just
Speaker 1: hung in that. Man. We stuck our heads together, man,
Speaker 1: and you know we're like, yo, We'll be all right.
Speaker 1: What's the dumbest thing you guys are bought? We're making
Speaker 1: all that money. Did you look back and be like, damn, man,
Speaker 1: she give you out a list time. Man. Want to know, man,
Speaker 1: put yourself on our shoe? Yeah, all right, and your
Speaker 1: teams yes for North Carolina moving to New York City.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't hit record with your own rules. I wish the
Speaker 1: Vaunte was here because I got questions for him. Everybody
Speaker 1: always thinks the Vaunte is crazy, but he seemed like
Speaker 1: the visionary of the whole situation. Joe is good down
Speaker 1: in four part I'm glad said that bunch of the brain.
Speaker 1: The album is the heart Joe does the mind? Can
Speaker 1: you see the soul? All right? I think we ended
Speaker 1: right there and there Joe to see is the new
Speaker 1: albums in? Yeah, right now, make sure you go get it.
Speaker 1: The past, the present, the future. Absolutely. We appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1: Thank you many on us today too, man. I see you, man,
Speaker 1: I know I going on all the people that deserve it.
Speaker 1: I rock with the legends than man. All right, it's
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, It's jealosye yes, yeah,