WEBVTT - R&B Money: K-Ci Hailey 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:05.000 R and B Money. 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:06.120 We are. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:10.360 Thanks take valotility. 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:15.640 We are the authority on all things R. 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:18.759 And B ladies and gentlemen. 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:23.480 My name is Tank Valentine, and this what is it. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:30.680 It's the R and B Money Podcast, the authority. 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:29.960 On all things. 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.800 Who yeah one more time? 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:35.800 Who yeah? 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:37.320 Yeah? 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:43.320 See see you wasn't desperate, you know, in your spirit, 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:47.640 in your tongue, right, You wasn't in the middle of 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:55.160 a desert with lother on your body, sweating your balls 0:00:55.240 --> 0:01:00.320 off to prove a point. Not only was your eyes ryan, 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:05.160 but your skin on your whole body. It's clearing tears. 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.560 You ain't never done that. You ain't never put on 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:14.319 boots with a two piece shots at and turned the 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:15.120 rain off. 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:17.759 On your feet. 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:24.960 What you've never done it? You ain't never did it. 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:29.440 You don't sit on the mouth rushmore. It's a godfather, 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:36.160 this ship right here, it's one man. It's one man, 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:44.480 and that Maine is here. The God. No, yes, sir, 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.640 not God, the God, the God. 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:53.160 Created in his image Casey Haley, my god. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:58.080 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.000 Himself, mister Huliah himself. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:01.240 Yeah man, what's going on? 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.960 What made what made you do? Oh yeah, let's start 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.160 with this right there. 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.640 Okay, we can do that. That's real easy. I was. 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.519 They used to call me like that, a little king, 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:13.920 but the guys did like you, I go and I 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.480 go into booth man just start singing, and I get 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.720 and I got tired of saying what iut the words 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.720 of the song and stuff. I just I just put 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:26.359 them in. Ooh yeah, it's a feeling. You gotta have that, 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:30.000 oh yeah, feeling you could sing. Mary had a little lamb. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:42.120 Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb. Oh yeah, man. 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:43.920 Man, they do say it's casey jojo right yeah, that's 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.240 that's like the Holy Trinity. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:47.320 Bro. 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.200 I just I mean, listen, I just got to say this. 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:52.720 And I tell you this all the time, but I 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:57.679 can never tell you enough. Thank you man, Thank you man. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.880 You have to like like I want you to like 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:02.800 to day is the day. You know, I know you humble, 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.960 you know I know your godfaring man. You give it 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.520 all back to the Creator. You understand what I'm saying. 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.520 But when he gives us those gifts, it is up 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.920 to us to be good stewards over those gifts. It 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.400 is up for us to develop and nurture and work 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.679 hard to bring their gifts to their fullness. And you 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.480 did just that, and in doing so, you created. 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:29.080 Us for surecire sure sure appreciate. 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:30.639 No R and B money without you. There's no R 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.000 and B money without your, not even closer. 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:35.320 We tried no, no, no, no, no, no no. 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:41.800 Today today today can't see you get the pump your ship. 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.600 This is flowers, this is celebration. 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.840 K C Day right now. 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:55.800 Okay, we did that ship. We did that, Yes, you did. 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:59.480 It was on a mission, Oh my god. And number 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.680 two understood the assignment. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:02.120 Yeah. 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:03.520 When we first when we. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.880 First got together, we always said, we said that we 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.240 made a pack. We made a vow that we was 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:13.200 gonna be the baddest, baddest group that ever came out. Wow, 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.280 you know what I'm saying. I made a vow like 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:20.279 I'm gonna be the most aggressive lead singer that's out there. 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:22.400 My age. You know what I'm saying. 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:26.640 My era and uh ay Man and I guess, like 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:28.240 I said, we did that ship. 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.000 You damn right, you did it. Let's go back to 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.960 the beginning case, go ahead. I want to go back 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:40.600 to me being a kid in a church somewhere in Wisconsin. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.880 I want to say race sing, We'll sing Wisconsin, and 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.120 we went to see Little Cedric and the Haley singer. 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:55.159 Yes man, and I watched y'all run down the middle aisle. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.520 You didn't walk down the middle aisle. Oh yeah, for 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.400 those of y'all who know anything about church, church folk, 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:08.760 you don't go down the middle aisle. That is, that's forbidden. 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.720 You don't walk down the middle church. Been going on 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:13.039 the side. 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.000 Next time I go to church, remember that. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.719 So the usher say, you know, sure you're seeing the 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:21.479 ball like he does instructions for the middle hour. Not 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.520 only did they come down the middle aisle, they ran 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:29.800 down the middle aisle to assault the injury Jojo had 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.320 a ball head and ear rings. 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:38.000 We said, what in the worldly? What in the fleshy 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:38.760 business is. 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:39.480 Going on there? 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.719 And y'all proceeded, for lack of a better term to 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.320 talk about gospel music kick ass. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.680 Yeah man, we had to do that too, man, we 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.719 did that. So how did that start? Give me Casey 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.800 and the Hally say, go take me back to the beginning, 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:59.039 at the beginning like this, Well, those you don't know 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.640 it started out and Alltimore and Maryland our professional singing 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.760 career study in Baltimore, and Maryland. My mom had a group, 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.680 my dad had a group, and me and Joji would 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:11.760 be around house singing all the time. They had a 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.640 back in those days, they had a Friday night spade parties. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.760 Mama and the man had the spade party. I know 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.200 y'all know about that. But anyway, when our uncles and 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.520 non they'd be playing spades and all that, me and 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.480 Jojo will be in the bed sleep with it. Used 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.120 they thought we were, but we can hear everything that's 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:33.600 going on there. But one or two every Friday night 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.800 and my uncles and they are juiced up now, you 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.440 know what I'm saying, So they want to hit the 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:42.359 little boys sing. So Mama would wake us up, like 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.760 it'd be like one sometimes two in the morning, wake 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.360 us up, turn our favorite gospel group on, which was 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:52.160 the Gospel Keynotes at the time. You and me and 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.599 Joe Joja would be Paul Beasley. I would be the 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:59.279 lead singer, Willy Neil so and Willy Neil was the one, 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.800 like the the aggressive one, the lead singer. So they 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.359 would ask us to make us sing those songs. I 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.720 remember one night I got bull headed, you know what 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.880 I'm saying. I got bullheaded and it wont to sing. Man, 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.040 So believe it or not, my mother, my mother a 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.840 lover for doing this. Some people these days might ridicule 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.920 her for doing it. But my mother she went upstairs, 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:27.280 got her leather belt, leather belt, and man, that belt 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:34.080 kept me singing today. She said, boy, if you don't 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.880 go downstairs and sing them songs, but them people want 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.520 you to sing and mine now they was giving me 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.360 a jojo fifty cents to sing. She said, if you 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.960 don't get your tail downstairs, she took that belt. Man, 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.840 she used that belt to this day. I never been 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.520 shame or shy to open my mouth to sing for nobody. 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.320 So fast forward, like I said, my mother had a 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:00.120 group from Baltimore Female group, and my father had had 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:04.760 a male group in Baltimore Quartet. And my mama told 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.720 my daddy, she said, I think you need to put 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.920 centric in that group. That boy ready, That boy ain't ready, 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:12.880 she said, he ready? 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:14.280 She said, he ready. 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.120 So she asked me, if you want to be in 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:16.880 your daddy group. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:19.040 Man, yeah, I want to. 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:23.800 Be in the group at eleven years old. Who wouldn't, yeah, 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.800 eleven years old? Then, so my daddy let me in 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.320 the group. I went to the couple of rehearsals and 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.240 we did that first gospel you know back in the 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.200 day call him programs. You know, we did a program. 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.960 So when I did that, man and my uncle, which 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.400 was the manager of my dad group, his uncle, so 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.920 he told my daddy, oh, yeah, that's gonna be our 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.880 little showstopper. Yeah, we're gonna keep him. So by that time, 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:53.679 like I said, my mama had a group. She had 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.400 to kill a band. So my mama told my daddy, look, 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:02.000 I want to take him out your group and I'm 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.599 gonna get my band because there was more contemporary you know, 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.320 all that players, young guys. She said, I want to 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.959 take them out your group, and I'm gonna get rid 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:15.720 of my band and let them play for Cedric. Mm hm. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.240 So dadd was like, we see how it is. I 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.360 think the group my daddy group kind of figured what 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.600 was going on. Cause for me, Daddy and Jojo got 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.959 to rehearsal, believe it or our tank man, they had 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.520 our papers waiting on us saying we fired. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:32.520 Oh y'all was getting kicked out. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.800 Yeah, we got kicked out when they found out that, 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.760 you know, little Cedric and the Haley things was about. 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:39.720 But did they kick you and George? They kick your 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.680 daddy out here, and yeah, hold on you and your son, Yeah. 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.400 You and your sons out the group just because of that. 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.600 So my DAD'SID, okay, cool, we got this. They handed 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.160 you papers. They handles papers a rehearsal when we walked in. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:54.400 That's crazy, you know. 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.520 I cried like a baby man. Look eleven years old 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.920 getting fired. Come on now, when something I love to 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.080 you want to do. But though it was God's playing, 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.880 of course it wasn't their plans. Because at the next day, 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:11.000 here we are, my mom and dad telling me one 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.760 of it. We got my Mama said Timmy. Then Timmy 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:15.959 them gonna play for you now. So I'm like half 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.640 because Timmy, though they was young, they was funky, you know, 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.400 so I'm like cool. That was the birth a Little 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:27.320 Cedric and the Haley Singers signed a gospel record label, 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:31.040 which is Air Records. Now, so I got that deal 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:36.800 twelve years old. Did our recording man and Little Cedric 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.160 and Haley Singers blew up? I mean we blew up 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.000 in the court TP Field man. I would like to 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:49.320 they would call me the Michael Jackson of gospel and 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:53.199 during that time. Yeah, and during that time, my rival 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:59.800 was a little boy from Washington, d C. He had 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:05.640 his group from DC. So Baltimore had they little boy 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.839 which is a little Cedric and that little boy I'm 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.440 talking about. I mean we went next to neck, neck 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:12.120 to the neck. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:12.400 Man. 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.920 One night was his night. Next night was not my night, 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.640 that little boy it was Johnny Gill. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.960 Oh I didn't know. 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.280 That, yeah, man. Man and Johnny talked about it all 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.200 the time. We talked about the all the time. Johnny 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.880 will come to Baltimore. He'll try to make it hard 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:36.240 for me in my Town's okay, all right, I gotta 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:37.400 go to I gotta go to d C. 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:42.839 Yeah, come see you. 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.040 So this is like twelve thirteen for so he's been 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:46.120 browling for a long time. 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.440 Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, man, Johnny, we've been 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.480 in the game together, in the game a long time, man, 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:58.240 a long time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Man. Johnny was way back, man, 0:11:58.360 --> 0:11:59.640 forty some years ago. 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.880 So was your father in and haleying Halle sing. 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.199 Yeah, he came. He got him some songs off til Too, 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:06.240 off the albums too. 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:07.559 You know what I'm saying. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.520 You know, well, and then Jojo Jojo was like this. 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.400 He's still like this to this day. He don't let 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:18.160 y'all see it. We had to beg Jojo to sing 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.480 m We had to beg Jojo to then they had 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.000 to do it. Now you know what I'm saying. 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:24.440 But one of the coldest vocals whoever. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.960 Yeah, and then Jojo then he got into it, man, 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.960 And he had this couple of songs on the albums 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.760 and all that, but Jojo always knew he would tell 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.640 them and then I'm gonna do that, man. That's that's 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:40.120 cedgic man. Jojo. Jojo was more like he was a 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.719 rough He was a rough neck. Joja wanted to go 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.960 outside and play football while I'm in rehearsal ten hours 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:49.040 a day in the bass hot basement right after school. 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.000 Got to go down to the basement and rehearse for 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.920 the album. And so Jojo outside playing and if he 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.240 got a song, he'll come in and do his little song, 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.319 go right back outside and play. I'm still in there 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.960 because I'm so I'm I'm hungry at the age of twelve, 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.200 I'm hungry, man. But it all worked out good. So 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:07.800 that's how the Haley Singers started. 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.120 Man, it was your first song that took out, took. 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:14.200 Off, Uh, Jesus saved and then born again with the 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:21.160 second cold. That's it. That was it right there. I 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.520 was like, we used to call it in we call 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:30.080 it drive. That was what was your cross? Yeah? 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:30.400 That was that? 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:34.280 That was our drive, right And then from then on, man, 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:39.439 it's just we did those. We did three albums under 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.880 the Little c the Haley Singers, and then the family 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.760 moved back to North Carolina. 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:46.800 And then what made you guys move? 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:51.520 Well, what made us move is really I think I 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.079 think my mom and parents was ready to move back 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.520 down south because we had lived in Baltimore for what wow, 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:01.040 we lived in Baltimore for like thirteen years, you know 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.720 what I'm saying. So, but they wanted to move back 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.679 down south, and of course they took the kids with us. 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.720 So we went down there, and still we still had 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.800 the Hailee Singers going. We still was traveling. The group 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.839 had busted up, but we still you know, hire some 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:21.520 new new musicians and backup singers and everything for Little Cedric, 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:26.760 so we're still going. So and then and and and 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.880 it was God, man, it was God, because I. 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:30.600 Was I was. 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:35.920 I left North Carolina and went to Baltimore. I was 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.680 gonna do a reunion with Little Cedric and the Haley 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:47.560 Singers with the original all original members. This is a 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:54.960 seventeen It's like just like seventeen eighteen, one of them. 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.640 So while I'm while I'm in Baltimore, Jokeren didn't go 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:02.480 with me. So while I'm in Baltimo, more Jojo plays 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:07.000 a song for me over the phone. By this time, Jojo, 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:08.880 you know he didn't go back to Baltimore with me. 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:13.840 So I'm listening on the phone. I'm like, Jojo, who 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:18.680 is that? It's yo, man, It's just it's this guy. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.640 Ain't done man, we've been doing music together. Man, you 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.000 can't be in this group. Nah. Now this is just 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.760 me and done this, Me and done su this, me 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:31.640 and done. So. So then I go back to now 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.760 I go. I meant, before I go to Baltimore, I'm 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:38.360 in I rehearsal hard with Let's at the Canale Singers. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.600 So some girls they came over to visit us. Just 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:43.960 before I went to the boy, I skipped all that, but 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:48.040 some girls brought some guys. 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:48.440 To our studio. 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:50.400 I was dating one of the girl, but calling myself 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:54.880 dating and Jojo was talking to one of them. So 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:56.680 they brought out They said, well, we want to meet 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:00.440 y'all some We want y'all to meet some brothers. You know, 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.440 they got their own church and and and they doing 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.320 their thing. They tight on the music. Man, they good, 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.440 y'all need to meet on y'all. Who are they? So 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.000 when they walked in and they brought the guys in, 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.280 so all that first thing I see is my girlfriend 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:24.920 and got these guys behind her. So immediately I'm not 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.280 feeling I'm not feeling it. So and I see one 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:32.520 of them going to the studio what the recording part 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.200 was at the studio we had, and I hear a 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.760 piano play. Now by this time, me and this guy 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.360 that Joe was in the room with. Man, his brother 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.480 is about to go at it. I mean guns down, 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:48.880 really guns down. So anyway, were like, he's like, yo, 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.360 what's going on? Man? Like y'all you're telling me what's 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:51.600 going on? 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:51.880 Y'all? 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.600 Walking with my girl? Man, I mean, who are y'all? 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:59.320 Who are y'all? So then I hear it. I hear 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:04.240 keep it up. A keyboard playing and I hear my 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:09.000 brother singing. I'm like, oh, I have my voice. I 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.120 have my brother voice, but who is that. 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.760 Plan that keyboard? 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.919 And his brother said, that's what I was trying to 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:23.160 tell you. We're the guys that they wanted to introduce 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.560 us to. Y'all. I was like, who who are you'all? 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:35.040 I'm Dalving and that's my brother. Yeah, he said, I'm 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:36.520 Dalving and that's my brother. 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:37.120 Done. 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:43.240 I said, y'all are the great boys? Like yeah, yo, man. 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:47.360 We dismissed the girl, like, want to see what's going on? 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:47.600 Now? 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:49.240 Work God? 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:49.800 Where? 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:50.080 God? 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.800 I said, I see you moving. So by that time, 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:55.720 you know that we met each other and met each other, 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:57.720 hung out a little bit, and then like I said, 0:17:57.760 --> 0:17:59.800 now I can go back to Baltimore because I thought 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:01.800 that I was gonna work out, like that's gonna flu 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:03.720 So I go to Baltimore. I'm trying to get my 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:08.240 group back together. Jojo caused me, and and he's playing 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.000 something on the on the on the phone. I said, Yo, 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:13.040 that's how good was that? He said, Yo, that's being done? Man? 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.880 I said, for real, y'all did that? He said yeah? 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.040 I said, yeah, Man, it's tight. I said, man, that's 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.600 that's I like that, bro. If I don't even think 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:26.160 about it, stay in Baltimore, get your hatey singings together. Yeah, 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:35.159 I got my yeah, so I said, nah, Man, So 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:40.280 immediately immediately I called my mom, I call my daddy. 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.280 That so ready to come home. I'm ready to come home. 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:47.680 I told her. Haley singers, Hey, look y'all, I'm going 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:48.480 back to Charlotte. 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:52.840 I can't tell you why. 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.679 I can't tell you about it, but you're here about it. 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:57.879 But you're here about it. And by that time I 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.840 got home, man, and by that time, Jojo jojo heed it, 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:04.600 jojo heed it, and then all you started yelling. So 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.920 then we Jojo really didn't want you in the group. No, 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:09.639 and Davante didn't want Dalvin. 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.679 I love this, Yeah, this is great. 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.840 I didn't want Davin, so Jojo made it. But Jojo 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:22.720 wanted Dalvin, Dvante wanted me. So Jojo was like this 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:27.680 now Jojo Jojo playing that card. If you want my brother, 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:28.639 Lee saying. 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:35.359 You got your brother and the group yeah yeah yeahs. 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:41.440 And vice versa. So if you want Dalvin in, you know, yeah, 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:45.920 I need Yeah. So we got together, man, talked about 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.240 it that you go we do. We started doing demos, Man. 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.680 We were demo at at the church. Man. We would 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.560 do demos at the church, like time we share those 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:59.120 songs like that and like the chords, like the chords Davante. 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:02.199 A lot of that stuff was written in church at 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:07.880 Dvante's dad church man. So against Davante's dad got tired 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:09.879 of it, you know, he got tired all that secular 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:12.240 music been played at the church. So what we did, 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:14.520 we didn't tell me and Jose didn't tell our parents. 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:18.240 We had a basement, right and this thing, you know, Divante, 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:22.400 my dad and my mother they see Dvanute loading there 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:27.119 in like fifteen ten or fifteen keyboards, hooking everything up 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:29.400 in their basement, you get, you know what I'm saying. 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:31.520 By that time, they didn't know what. They knew we 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:33.560 was doing music, but they didn't know what he was 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.040 doing it for. Because my daddy that I don't know 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:39.479 what that boy doing down there. But all out here 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:40.080 is a lot of. 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:42.320 That sound. 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:45.840 You know, that sound is slapping on the keyboards, but 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:49.320 he had his headphones on. By that Vante was doing 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.359 Joess's demo. He did that. We did that for like 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:54.240 a year. We got our son, we got. 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:57.120 Like jodas he yet though or what like when did 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:58.119 when do you guys. 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.320 When we find out we were Jodasy. When we when 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.280 we well, we knew that we had something, and we 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:05.160 were standing in our we were sitting in our mother 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.320 our parents yard, man, and and we're like, what name 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:08.679 can we? 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:09.680 We need a name? 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:09.920 Man. 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:12.000 Now it's all four but we're good. Now we're tight. 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:12.880 Man. 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.160 You know, we need a name, man, we need a name. 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:20.359 So I came up with brothers, and I think Darvin 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:24.400 came up with some things. And then and then Davante 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:29.040 was like, hey, man, when we just put our name together, man, 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:39.040 Jojo Divonte Jarvin. 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:40.560 Case. 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:48.960 Yeah, we just put Joe d and see mm hmm, 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:55.560 Jodasy man Jodasy joseh. I guess, said Josy Jodasy, Jodasy Jodasy. 0:21:56.600 --> 0:22:02.119 I don't know, man, that sounds too biblical. But but 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:03.840 at the end of the day, we had a vote. 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:20.800 We had a vote with Jodas it is. Then we 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:23.399 got on sound, man, We got on sound. Won't be 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:27.399 no producers, none of that. So I'm telling y'all the 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:30.440 boss man like, just get your boss. So when it 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:34.120