Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2: Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 1: Everybody is Steve j Envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy
Speaker 1: we are the Breakfast Club. He got some special guests
Speaker 1: in the building. Yes, indeed, they got a new album
Speaker 1: out right now called Day Ones, Ladies and Gentlemen, Day
Speaker 1: twenty six. Yo, yo, man, blessed good, good, good good.
Speaker 3: How y'all brothers doing man? Y'all come up here just
Speaker 3: to talk about Diddy? Did you not?
Speaker 4: We don't want to talk about him.
Speaker 3: That's what a lot of former bad boy artist for doing. Now, Okay,
Speaker 3: new album Day one?
Speaker 4: Yeah about twenty six?
Speaker 1: How did y'all say together so long? Where you hear this?
Speaker 1: This industry, every almost every group breaks up. There's a problem.
Speaker 1: It's a situation. But you guys have been pretty strong
Speaker 1: for a while.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, than god, man, I mean one thing like, I
Speaker 1: was talking to Gline the other day and he was like, man, like,
Speaker 1: I really like respect y'all like so much because you
Speaker 1: guys have been able to steal keep going. He was like,
Speaker 1: I wish my group and I would have been able
Speaker 1: to do that, said his name three times.
Speaker 6: I'm just a piggybag on for that we got some
Speaker 6: of the best fans in the world. So no matter
Speaker 6: what throughout this time, like they've been really keeping supporting us,
Speaker 6: whether it's big or little, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: And they just support us no matter what. So it
Speaker 6: helped us stay together. And you know, he was working
Speaker 6: and all that too. So shout out to the greatest
Speaker 6: fans in the world.
Speaker 2: One, what's kept you all together all of these years
Speaker 2: just as a collect.
Speaker 7: I would say, like the grind that you saw and
Speaker 7: making the band of us even being created as a
Speaker 7: group like that was serious. Like we really walked to
Speaker 7: get cheese scaped, We really stood outside in the cold
Speaker 7: and put our all into this. So we take that
Speaker 7: serious everywhere we go, you know, and.
Speaker 8: Then you'll never thought about like we just walking home,
Speaker 8: you know, but I can say I really really wanted it.
Speaker 9: But like nobody ever said, like tell you.
Speaker 10: Then they group members fell off and came back and
Speaker 10: things of that, and so we had, you know, we
Speaker 10: had the heels and the valleys of groups. But at
Speaker 10: the same time, I think the passion behind us and
Speaker 10: the other thing that we're really trying to accomplish out
Speaker 10: here is is what keeps us going and we really
Speaker 10: like to be in front of the fans. We like to, uh,
Speaker 10: you know, just create the new music and be in
Speaker 10: fun of him all the time.
Speaker 2: I don't remember him making y'all walk for remember the band?
Speaker 6: We walked the band they only had to go to
Speaker 6: They only had to go to Brooklyn, Brooklyn. We had
Speaker 6: to walk off all of across George Washington Bridge.
Speaker 2: And I don't remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it was crazy. It was bull.
Speaker 11: Never should have happened. Yeah.
Speaker 3: When when do you think that that show really was
Speaker 3: trying to set you all off for success or it's
Speaker 3: just for TV?
Speaker 1: I think it's more honestly, that show was kind of
Speaker 1: in my opinion, it is.
Speaker 12: My TV TV.
Speaker 1: It was TV, you know what I'm saying. It definitely
Speaker 1: wasn't set up for the artists to to to to
Speaker 1: succeed after definitely wasn't.
Speaker 4: But he didn't know what it was doing, you know
Speaker 4: what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Only by the grades of God that like we were
Speaker 1: able to still maintain and still be here and still
Speaker 1: do music and not just do music, but do like
Speaker 1: still do amazing music. Y'all heard?
Speaker 9: No, just cool?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: R and B.
Speaker 8: I'm telling you, yes, I am here. I'm going to
Speaker 8: listen you have today.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Yes, I've heard from regular and I heard one in
Speaker 3: the bathroom just now when I walked in the bathroom
Speaker 3: somebody was playing in.
Speaker 12: The music while.
Speaker 1: But you said, you said that you feel like TV
Speaker 1: was made for you guys, not to succeed. Why do
Speaker 1: you feel that way? I mean, just to show I
Speaker 1: should say, I mean just just the way the whole
Speaker 1: thing was like set up, like even from the contracts,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, the way it was structured
Speaker 1: to like when the cameras were gone, he was like,
Speaker 1: all right, guys, it was nice knowing you.
Speaker 13: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: We had we had to really go in and fight
Speaker 6: for our next fight for our next deal, like we
Speaker 6: wasn't already signed, you know what I'm saying. We literally
Speaker 6: had to have people like Beacocks and that really cared
Speaker 6: about us and what was the name that we need?
Speaker 6: Tell it took people like that to go to the label,
Speaker 6: like what are y'all doing? Bro, y'all got the hottest
Speaker 6: R and B group in the world here, and y'all
Speaker 6: won't do nothing with them, you know, And so that's
Speaker 6: what it took for us to even get in the
Speaker 6: door to do another project.
Speaker 4: They wasn't worried about us like that. It was for
Speaker 4: what it was for.
Speaker 11: They thought about it for it like that.
Speaker 10: But you got people who've been grinding their whole life
Speaker 10: at certain things. It wasn't just a start at a
Speaker 10: TV show exactly. It was things that you know, I
Speaker 10: was ten years in right and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: Right, I was signed to Wild Left at the time,
Speaker 6: you know, and I was a music world you know what,
Speaker 6: father for years.
Speaker 4: So we was already in the game.
Speaker 6: It was created to make it look like he gave
Speaker 6: us to like put us learn. We learned everything we
Speaker 6: knew from this situation, every thing, but it were venting
Speaker 6: the game. We had to get brought out of our contract,
Speaker 6: some of us.
Speaker 4: How would y'all do some of the.
Speaker 1: Things, because if y'all were already in the industry, right,
Speaker 1: I understand for people that was this was their first
Speaker 1: time signing, and why would y'all do some of the
Speaker 1: things that they made y'all do. If y'all were there,
Speaker 1: like you were signed, you were signed before y'all already
Speaker 1: your foot was in the door, Why would y'all do
Speaker 1: some of the stuff that I feel was like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say degrading, but little degraded, like walk
Speaker 1: five boroughs across the George Washington Bridge, go get cheesecake,
Speaker 1: like and y'all know, it wasn't part of the industry.
Speaker 1: That was just part of the show.
Speaker 10: I think at that point, it's just you know, you
Speaker 10: got your foot in, but you ain't all the way
Speaker 10: where you want to go. And you see somebody who's
Speaker 10: a musical mogul and who can possibly take this thing
Speaker 10: and take it somewhere else, so you'd be like, yeah,
Speaker 10: all right, cool, I'll go and take that chance.
Speaker 11: I think that was more of a chance, and we
Speaker 11: just took it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: And then for some of us, like me, I always
Speaker 6: wanted to be signed a bad Boy, so that was
Speaker 6: a that was a big thing for me, Like eat,
Speaker 6: No matter the deals that I had before that or
Speaker 6: the deal I was currently in, that's a position that
Speaker 6: I always wanted to be in. I didn't know what
Speaker 6: it was before I got into it, but that's where
Speaker 6: when I moved to the United States. Bad Boy was
Speaker 6: the first R and B hip hop that I even
Speaker 6: knew or heard of, so it had that kind of influence.
Speaker 6: And when you got that kind of influence on somebody,
Speaker 6: especially at a young age, you.
Speaker 4: Know what I'm saying, Like, where did you move from?
Speaker 6: Germany? I grew up in Augsburg, German. My dad's in military,
Speaker 6: so I'll travel around a lot. But once I came
Speaker 6: back here, I wasn't allowed to listen to R and
Speaker 6: B music like that because my dad is a bishop,
Speaker 6: he's a pastor. So when I came here, it was
Speaker 6: with my mom and I got to experience R and B.
Speaker 6: Bad Boy was the first thing that I really gravitated to,
Speaker 6: So it was something I really really wanted. So it's
Speaker 6: like going after something that you've been going after all
Speaker 6: your life and it being right there, you might do
Speaker 6: some things that you wouldn't normally.
Speaker 8: Do where y'all seeing like the previous season, like you know,
Speaker 8: were y'all close with any of the other people like
Speaker 8: child you know that.
Speaker 4: Came after.
Speaker 6: Nobody gave us heads up, I mean came, but they
Speaker 6: were still doing They were still very well in the
Speaker 6: middle of their situation too, so they wouldn't given us
Speaker 6: that many jewels to really to make us understand what
Speaker 6: the situation was. But they did try to tell us
Speaker 6: a few things, and the big sisters to us and
Speaker 6: you know, help us out or whatever, prior to us
Speaker 6: finding out for ourselves.
Speaker 3: I wonder did people take y'all serious because y'all had
Speaker 3: talent that was obviously. There was also the antics to
Speaker 3: the TV show, And I always think about that one
Speaker 3: scene where.
Speaker 2: Y'all was singing y'all last was like, yeah, but y'all
Speaker 2: gotta get naked.
Speaker 4: There's a million things that did he say at that
Speaker 4: time that.
Speaker 3: Now we didn't age well, we went back to watch
Speaker 3: the clip and you forget how hard y'all was singing?
Speaker 9: What and how good?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 11: Damn you remember the neked part.
Speaker 2: But I'm like, yo, they actually.
Speaker 8: Sounded really and ain't nobody singing like that now? Like
Speaker 8: that's what also makes it so viral too, Like you
Speaker 8: damn y'all niggas that y'all wasn't no studio, It wasn't
Speaker 8: no nothing, no touches on your voice, y'all really fucking
Speaker 8: singing like boys them in and told you.
Speaker 6: To your place was so funny when.
Speaker 10: I didn't get it, But I mean, I'm thinking he
Speaker 10: was meaning, like.
Speaker 11: You know what I'm saying. You gotta be vulnerable while
Speaker 11: I'm singing. But it wrong. It's how they That's the
Speaker 11: only way I was going to continue.
Speaker 1: Because if you watch.
Speaker 8: The people thing, he explained it a little bit before.
Speaker 8: Like the video that's going around now they cut out
Speaker 8: the mole. He did explain it like he wants he
Speaker 8: wants you to be open, like emotionally open, and that's
Speaker 8: how you get.
Speaker 1: The explained making.
Speaker 11: He did explained it.
Speaker 8: But the video that's going Viraus just they were just singing.
Speaker 1: He's like, all right, that's that makes really need to
Speaker 1: make It's just not aging.
Speaker 13: Well let's just put.
Speaker 4: Us especially with the new allegations or whatever things are.
Speaker 2: But did that make people take y'all less serious?
Speaker 4: Definitely.
Speaker 6: We we had a hard time breaking into radio because
Speaker 6: people really thought it was just a giveing for TV.
Speaker 6: And we had the number one album in the country
Speaker 6: and couldn't get radio plays because it couldn't get radio
Speaker 6: play because people was literally like, oh, we didn't think
Speaker 6: y'all need that, Like y'all you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 10: And it was crazy because the people people really didn't
Speaker 10: give us the chance for as musically because of it.
Speaker 10: They was like, yo, y'all come into places and people
Speaker 10: coming to see y'all and y'all selling things out, but
Speaker 10: y'all didn't have a y'all don't have a record.
Speaker 11: That was pushing it was.
Speaker 10: It was more from the TV success that DJ's and
Speaker 10: nobody would really give us that full play like yo,
Speaker 10: now it's real dope stuff, you know, But we just
Speaker 10: wouldn't getting it just because of the TV show and
Speaker 10: what they thought we already had, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: And then even then going from you know, because Willie
Speaker 8: you went from uh making a band to.
Speaker 2: Love and hip hop?
Speaker 9: He did more. Really, how did that help or hurt?
Speaker 9: Did that help career?
Speaker 10: I mean just steady and steady on the grind of things, man.
Speaker 10: I don't think that it, you know, helped much.
Speaker 11: But at the same time, it was visibility.
Speaker 8: Yeah for sure, because then we started looking at you
Speaker 8: as I get it right, But you.
Speaker 10: Know anything, but the best thing about the best thing
Speaker 10: about it is I'm seventeen years married now to this day.
Speaker 11: Ye, So you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 10: No matter if we mess up or the things, as
Speaker 10: long as we grow and we mature from those things
Speaker 10: and were able to correct our rooms. I feel like
Speaker 10: we get to a better stage, I think, and that's
Speaker 10: why I am now how.
Speaker 2: Much of that is in the new album, Like what
Speaker 2: songs reflected?
Speaker 1: Every Man, Every record on that album is somebody's story
Speaker 1: at one point or another. Every single Like it's seventeen
Speaker 1: of the hardest R and B records you'll ever hear.
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying example a member of the group,
Speaker 1: but this is one of the dopest R and B
Speaker 1: albums in a long long time.
Speaker 10: And to answer your question, one of the songs that
Speaker 10: I think the touch on for me is a record
Speaker 10: called In or Out. I think it's really big for
Speaker 10: a lot of relationships now a days. You know how
Speaker 10: we go in and sometimes we feel like we hear
Speaker 10: we nodded, and we may be in a position to
Speaker 10: almost lose our girl, but we're fighting back and we
Speaker 10: don't understand the arguments and things to say, those type
Speaker 10: of things. I think all that stuff comes down to
Speaker 10: that one record, In or Out.
Speaker 11: I think it's really really dope.
Speaker 6: Shout out to the exclusive to produce, Yeah, and they
Speaker 6: and they really did extensive research on each of us
Speaker 6: before they went in and produced the records. Like they
Speaker 6: knew about our situations. They knew about me being newly married,
Speaker 6: they knew about some of the things they went through personally,
Speaker 6: and so they really worked hard to incorporate it into
Speaker 6: the record, to make it personal and make it, you know, make.
Speaker 8: It congratulations, you're newly married, you are three years Okay,
Speaker 8: well at the time we.
Speaker 6: Did it, I was only one.
Speaker 4: I just hit three years. But I think that's still
Speaker 4: kind of.
Speaker 9: Congratulations.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I like what you said about the inner out thing
Speaker 3: because I feel like anything that you care about and
Speaker 3: have cared about for a law long time, you can
Speaker 3: always go in and out of I don't want to
Speaker 3: say love, but just in and out of a feeling
Speaker 3: that you have for it.
Speaker 2: Like sometimes it feels very intense. Sometimes it's like yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, not for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of things in life like yeah,
Speaker 1: I was about to say that, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things like that in life. It is just period,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You just got to be
Speaker 1: you know, you got you got to be strong enough
Speaker 1: to kind of you know, ten toes down and stick
Speaker 1: through it.
Speaker 2: I'm sure y'all feel like that is a group a
Speaker 2: million times.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not for sure, We're come example of it. We fight,
Speaker 1: we fussed, we cuse we we do it all.
Speaker 6: Man, we don't even be we don't We're not even
Speaker 6: around each other on an everyday basis to be able
Speaker 6: to build that you know, chemistry that most groups have
Speaker 6: and they from the same place, like one twelve and
Speaker 6: like boys to men and people like that, when they
Speaker 6: able to build that ground, they all from one place.
Speaker 6: They able to see each other every time they want.
Speaker 6: We all live in five different places across the United States.
Speaker 6: We even to just get a rehearsal for a show,
Speaker 6: take take.
Speaker 3: Flights, just didn't have a rehearsal for a show, you know.
Speaker 4: So like that, we've been fighting through that by ourselves
Speaker 4: this whole time.
Speaker 1: Group. So everything is super dup extend somebody.
Speaker 2: So I wanted to know when is too big? By
Speaker 2: the way, I just want to say that, I.
Speaker 1: Wanted to know when did he said R and B
Speaker 1: was dead back then a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 1: he had y'all.
Speaker 13: Was signed to him.
Speaker 8: How did you?
Speaker 1: How did that make y'all feel? Because y'all, I don't
Speaker 1: know what he said. I mean the bad boy one,
Speaker 1: I mean, man, I feel like people like that I mean,
Speaker 1: especially with him having like a huge like platform and
Speaker 1: then having a huge partner putting us together. Obviously, it's
Speaker 1: almost like I don't want nobody else to love you
Speaker 1: if I can't have you type type situation, so I
Speaker 1: want everybody like.
Speaker 2: You, like you, not.
Speaker 3: You know what, nobody else, nobody.
Speaker 4: I don't think.
Speaker 6: I don't think it really affected us like that because
Speaker 6: I've heard did he say hisself, like, I work with
Speaker 6: everybody from one twelve to that, and I've heard everybody
Speaker 6: from Joasy he was and he's basically like Day twenty
Speaker 6: six is the best group I've ever in my life
Speaker 6: work with bocally, So I've heard him. We've heard him
Speaker 6: say those things as well, so we work with him
Speaker 6: at the time.
Speaker 2: Did you believe him when he said that he believe.
Speaker 4: He knows that we are.
Speaker 6: I believe what he said too, and I believe he
Speaker 6: really believed that he knows.
Speaker 4: That's what.
Speaker 6: I don't think he would care if we weren't, if
Speaker 6: we didn't weren't capable of doing.
Speaker 2: Y'all better vocally than Jodasy he did.
Speaker 6: That's what he said. I didn't say that. I'm just saying, yeah,
Speaker 6: he's a lie. I like y'all, but no.
Speaker 11: Singing that Josey is great man, and so I'm not
Speaker 11: gonna say, Okay.
Speaker 3: I can see that if you're saying it like that,
Speaker 3: Kat and Jojo the lead singer and then when one
Speaker 3: twelve is usually slim with all of y'all can sing.
Speaker 8: But but let's just be honest. Though some people do
Speaker 8: skate off of sex appeal and and and them good
Speaker 8: hits though, like I'm not I'm not sitting here discredit
Speaker 8: in Judas, like yeah, we know them for them hits,
Speaker 8: you know, but then you got vocalists like motherfuckers that
Speaker 8: can like sing a cappella and make you feel the
Speaker 8: same way.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's why it's the big voice to men because
Speaker 6: they both embodied.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, it's both of them vibe two things
Speaker 8: at the same time.
Speaker 9: Both of y'all vibe.
Speaker 8: But it's like vocally, like if you can hear somebody
Speaker 8: saying a cappella and make you get that that feeling
Speaker 8: of jodasy when you you look like but then you
Speaker 8: need to beat, you need everything with that, it's like
Speaker 8: a vibe. I really feel vocally they are a strong group.
Speaker 2: But what you said is true.
Speaker 3: It's like Casey and Jojo would the singers, but all
Speaker 3: five of y'all, can I get it?
Speaker 1: So what happened to the bad Boy deal? And so
Speaker 1: because you were still, like you said, still having number
Speaker 1: one records and everything, So why did.
Speaker 6: They so did he went through some stuff I guess
Speaker 6: with with with Atlantic and we were joint venture between
Speaker 6: Atlantic and Bad Boy and whatever they went through at
Speaker 6: the time Atlantic took us from bad Atlanta kept y'all,
Speaker 6: yeah exactly, we were going to move forward whatever that
Speaker 6: situation was with Bad Boy because we we had to
Speaker 6: stay with Atlantic. And when y'all Atlantic did, they believe
Speaker 6: like they should have, they believed and we worked and
Speaker 6: then Brian decided to, uh, you know, do some things
Speaker 6: that made us lose.
Speaker 1: Situation like they Look, I'm telling you, we like to
Speaker 1: tell the truth.
Speaker 4: Y'all like to fabricate a whole lot.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be real with y'all. Man, Like, look, Brian
Speaker 1: is the bad guy, and I'm cool with that. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. If stuff ain't right to me, man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna point it out, and I'm gonna pointed out
Speaker 1: and pointing out. And if if nothing is being done
Speaker 1: about it. I'm just gonna remove myself from that situation.
Speaker 1: So what happened, Brian and I had to step away
Speaker 1: because it just wasn't it wasn't rising right, just you know,
Speaker 1: just some some business you should have worn the crew.
Speaker 1: That's not that's not necessarily true. I did not leave
Speaker 1: no talk record, Okay, allow me to talk Okay, No, basically,
Speaker 1: man like, I wasn't exactly pleased with the management at
Speaker 1: the time, and I just sent a letter of direction
Speaker 1: to the company, our record company at the time, Atlantic
Speaker 1: mm hmm, okay, I don't want to go ahead basically anyways,
Speaker 1: I basically like let them know, Hey, I had new management.
Speaker 1: So if there's any business as far as they concern,
Speaker 1: please direct any business as far as Brian is concerned
Speaker 1: to this person, which is Michael moose Wings. And I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened after that.
Speaker 4: Artist solo artists on a one records, that's what I saw.
Speaker 1: No no, no no, I got a solo deal with
Speaker 1: with at the time he won, mm hmm. But I wasn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I was still going to be a member
Speaker 1: of the group. I just got to deal as a solo.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with that the rest of the group.
Speaker 1: Did you tell the label that you.
Speaker 13: Just knew I was working?
Speaker 4: We didn't know, Jesus.
Speaker 10: The thing is Q had already left the group, so
Speaker 10: we had went down the four bay time. He was
Speaker 10: with Atlantic, so it was already four of us so different,
Speaker 10: so they wasn't gonna go through it again with him doing.
Speaker 10: He was pulling the same exact thing. He pulled, like
Speaker 10: the same letter everything.
Speaker 11: He wrote it.
Speaker 4: But you tell you very transparent.
Speaker 10: She started tripping at the gate, different vehicles and everything.
Speaker 13: Just because I wasn't messing with management exactly thing.
Speaker 1: I got my own men group.
Speaker 2: That's why did you should have never told you I
Speaker 2: was better than.
Speaker 4: Y'all.
Speaker 1: Got a promo to you doing show up.
Speaker 10: We dropped, We had dropped the record made Love Lately,
Speaker 10: which is our first single without Q was in the video,
Speaker 10: you know, getting busy and everything was getting ready to
Speaker 10: go on our radio radio.
Speaker 11: Radio promo too.
Speaker 10: He was number one most added before let me finish,
Speaker 10: go ahead and then like I think we're supposed were
Speaker 10: supposed to leave on like that Monday to start in
Speaker 10: Detroit in Ohio, Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker 2: Boom.
Speaker 11: He got it, remember, yeah, because it was real. I
Speaker 11: had my backspack.
Speaker 10: That's I'm like, y'all, y'all sitting now.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Atlanta just dropped y'all.
Speaker 13: Like that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you why, Brian. You know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you why somebody had to be the bad guy always.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell exactly why Atlantic ended up signing T
Speaker 1: G T mm hmmm. And it was a situation where
Speaker 1: two groups are the same. I mean, I mean they're
Speaker 1: pretty much the same type of group.
Speaker 13: Not really, not at all.
Speaker 11: It was it was all you, Brian. It was nothing.
Speaker 5: About there's a lot of happening, man, just a minute
Speaker 5: at the time.
Speaker 4: We was going through some things.
Speaker 1: And you know, I wanted different management.
Speaker 6: No, no, this was like what eleven I think eleven eleven.
Speaker 8: But that's what happens when it's a group like you
Speaker 8: feel me because you can't make decision because you're making
Speaker 8: decisions for yourself, but the whole time it's for other
Speaker 8: people for an account.
Speaker 2: And when you bring somebody like a T. G.
Speaker 3: T and they're gonna say, were given all especially back
Speaker 3: then we're gonna give all our resources.
Speaker 2: These more established artists.
Speaker 8: Who have made an individually come together and that's exactly
Speaker 8: what happened.
Speaker 1: But obviously they want to put off from me. So
Speaker 1: you know what, guys, I'll take that bound. So who
Speaker 1: called Brian after because I know one of y'all called him.
Speaker 4: Like talk talk too long time? I was that was
Speaker 4: at the time.
Speaker 6: That was thing back back in after we thought the
Speaker 6: label wasn't paying attention.
Speaker 13: We then went to.
Speaker 6: Atlanta and recorded this bomb album and we're just ready
Speaker 6: to kick the door in a way that wasn't for
Speaker 6: making the band. You know, people could take us serious.
Speaker 6: We were finally in that position.
Speaker 3: Don't let me, don't let me.
Speaker 2: Fight for you, fight for your credibility.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, Why would I shoot a music video?
Speaker 1: Why would I go to one O six in Parking
Speaker 1: premiere the video with guys and everything and not playing
Speaker 1: on being a member.
Speaker 11: Because you didn't know what your actions was gonna lead to. Bro,
Speaker 11: he just did something.
Speaker 13: So basically just.
Speaker 2: Intentional. You didn't mean to do it.
Speaker 1: I just wanted my business handle.
Speaker 13: There we go.
Speaker 9: Bro, are you the youngest, you're the baby?
Speaker 2: Are you the nigga? Why did you believe what was?
Speaker 2: Why did you leave initially?
Speaker 7: Well, if you watched making the band for like the
Speaker 7: last season you saw that.
Speaker 13: I was like tripping about management.
Speaker 2: I remember that business.
Speaker 7: So that's why when we went to Atlantic, I was like,
Speaker 7: oh he's still involved.
Speaker 2: No who the manager at the time? Okay with the manager,
Speaker 2: I remember.
Speaker 12: Yeah, old.
Speaker 1: So when I went into your business, how did y'all
Speaker 1: eat during that time? I know you jumped hip because
Speaker 1: it was like the bags was there, this was out,
Speaker 1: this was my life. So how did y'all eat from that?
Speaker 1: You just get dropped. Brian's not effort with y'all, You're
Speaker 1: not talking to him. So how did y'all eat? Because
Speaker 1: y'all group, I.
Speaker 6: Mean, God is good because we had a lot of
Speaker 6: exposure at that point where we could do we could
Speaker 6: find money in the same industry doing everything like for instance,
Speaker 6: even still now work for the Board of Education in
Speaker 6: New York for black New York black arts that do
Speaker 6: off off broad off Broadway for all the schools in
Speaker 6: in the area that you know, children can't pay all
Speaker 6: those money for Broadway tickets, so we bring Broadway to
Speaker 6: the schools and stuff like that. So I got into
Speaker 6: I got involved in that more that end of things.
Speaker 6: And still you know, producing and writing for people people
Speaker 6: always once they see you on TV your music things,
Speaker 6: people always gonna come. And you know you're always gonna
Speaker 6: be able to have a bag. If you know how
Speaker 6: to work, he'll work, you'll craft.
Speaker 7: What about you of not being in the group, Michael, Ye,
Speaker 7: to be honest, it was a very hard time about
Speaker 7: It was a very hard time for me. This is
Speaker 7: a time where I went through mental health and I'm
Speaker 7: hell now, but that's I went through so much of
Speaker 7: not being in a group and.
Speaker 13: Some other stuff too. Uh. It's just was a time
Speaker 13: of kind of like me trying to recover.
Speaker 2: Did you yes, good job me too?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: I wanted to ask because you said something Mary, You
Speaker 3: said that did he didn't really know what he was doing,
Speaker 3: which is shocking because you know of all the success
Speaker 3: he's had with R and B groups like before y'all
Speaker 3: it was the Jodys was the one twelve.
Speaker 2: What you mean when he said you didn't know what
Speaker 2: he's doing?
Speaker 6: Well, I just think it was more. I think it
Speaker 6: was more divine. I think God had more to do
Speaker 6: with it. I believe he knows good talent, he know
Speaker 6: how to put it together. I just don't think he
Speaker 6: thought he was putting together this five Well, I meant
Speaker 6: that all these years later, whether he's involved or not,
Speaker 6: no matter how much we've been kicked down or that,
Speaker 6: we're still gonna overcome, you know, from these five different
Speaker 6: places in the in the world that already put a
Speaker 6: big wedge but between us to be able to be successful,
Speaker 6: to be able to get rehearsals in and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: So I just don't think he really knew. I don't
Speaker 6: think he was really in control. That's just my spiritual opinion.
Speaker 6: You know, I think you know what I hate you, guys.
Speaker 7: I hate a passionate person that doesn't have a good
Speaker 7: work ethic. And I think we're all passionate and to
Speaker 7: have great work ethic, and I think that keep us
Speaker 7: together too.
Speaker 3: Did he don't have a good work up because you're
Speaker 3: saying no, I think other groups and people that can't
Speaker 3: keep it together.
Speaker 7: And like artists got you, sometimes they have the passion,
Speaker 7: but they don't know how to put the work in
Speaker 7: behind it.
Speaker 13: They don't want to get.
Speaker 7: Up early in the morning, or I don't know, they
Speaker 7: just don't want to put the work in behind it.
Speaker 3: But what did y'all learn from bad Boy in those days?
Speaker 3: That y'all are still able to apply to now.
Speaker 1: Man, there's always somebody, always somebody trying to take I'll
Speaker 1: never forget that. I always remember that somebody always trying
Speaker 1: to take your spot, like somebody else is working harder,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like so like, I think
Speaker 1: that's that plays a huge part in us still being
Speaker 1: a group as well. The sad thing is what you
Speaker 1: said something earlier that because it was a reality show
Speaker 1: on TV show, I don't think people took y'all as
Speaker 1: serious as they should have, right. I think we did
Speaker 1: that with everybody. I think we did that with Deity Cane.
Speaker 1: I think we did that with the making of the
Speaker 1: band Crew with even on the crossover, Ruben studied and Fantasia.
Speaker 1: Fantasia is kind of the only one that we really
Speaker 1: accepted to. But Ruben, I don't love them.
Speaker 2: I disagree.
Speaker 1: I just heard an album like working a new album
Speaker 1: now phenomenal.
Speaker 3: The reason I disagree with the analogy he's making because
Speaker 3: they didn't make people on American Idol do the things
Speaker 3: that they made. American Idol was always treated as this
Speaker 3: is gonna be the next superstar, It's gonna be America's
Speaker 3: next top superstar.
Speaker 2: They didn't have him walking to Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: Like a degrading type thing was you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 10: And at the time it's crazy because at the time
Speaker 10: you don't see it that way. And man, you just
Speaker 10: sent a fight and you like, you know, the competitive
Speaker 10: nature and you was like, now I'm just gonna win you.
Speaker 13: I mean, no matter what, make.
Speaker 6: You when you're competing and make it like that too,
Speaker 6: Like when you're competing to Geinst somebody else, it's not
Speaker 6: really thinking about what you're doing.
Speaker 4: It's just thinking about beating you know what I mean?
Speaker 11: What it is he ain't gonna beat me.
Speaker 1: For the first album too. When the group was picked,
Speaker 1: y'all still in the competition.
Speaker 4: Not me.
Speaker 3: If when when Brian left the group, did y'all did
Speaker 3: they Well, you didn't even have the option, but did
Speaker 3: you think about replacing them?
Speaker 4: You know our fans wouldn't have that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's what we felt.
Speaker 10: We just felt like with them watching us grow on
Speaker 10: TV and come together and it's just been hard to
Speaker 10: be like, yeah, here's.
Speaker 13: This new guy.
Speaker 4: Can't get no cheesecake.
Speaker 14: I feel like that wasted a lot of other groups
Speaker 14: tried it and it failed.
Speaker 1: No, audition did great with it when they put Johnny in.
Speaker 13: Yeah, That'sohn.
Speaker 6: Somebody somebody didn't lose nobody to add them.
Speaker 4: They just added an addition to they didn't get rid of.
Speaker 13: We watched a lot of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah that.
Speaker 13: Different things.
Speaker 3: Goes back to the point like all of y'all are vocalists,
Speaker 3: you can do that and definitely child because no disrespect.
Speaker 3: You know they want sing but La saying they weren't,
Speaker 3: they weren't considered the lead singers. Yeah, right right, Mike,
Speaker 3: What was your take when Brian left? Because everybody saying
Speaker 3: it was completely Brian. They got dropped from.
Speaker 14: Atlantic and it was it was it was his fault,
Speaker 14: it was it was something.
Speaker 1: Somebody always got to be the bad That's okay, that
Speaker 1: was you, That's okay, except that.
Speaker 3: So I was gonna ask who was the biggest uh
Speaker 3: you know, diva of the group back in the day.
Speaker 2: But I think we've got that answer.
Speaker 1: No, no, I mean what did you?
Speaker 4: What is what is the definition of of that diva? Late? Oh,
Speaker 4: I'm never late.
Speaker 2: Never bo I.
Speaker 1: Gotta stay at the five star, I gotta.
Speaker 11: Fly first class.
Speaker 1: That type person who are looking at who are looking
Speaker 1: at Brian who is that person?
Speaker 4: I don't know. At that time, I don't know. I
Speaker 4: don't think we had that.
Speaker 1: Look Day twenty six new album, Day ones available right now.
Speaker 1: It's available right now, y'all.
Speaker 3: I do want to talk to you all about when
Speaker 3: I know, when the bad Boy reunion to it happened,
Speaker 3: y'all weren't there, But then y'all did y'all y'all own thing?
Speaker 2: Did they even invite y'all?
Speaker 13: Yeah, no, yep, yes we did.
Speaker 14: You Brian we got invited was on the radio and
Speaker 14: said something to Puff and man, I.
Speaker 1: Just basically was like, yo, like I just find it
Speaker 1: kind of weird. I don't know anything about that, but
Speaker 1: I just.
Speaker 12: Pause.
Speaker 1: No, like I absolutely know nothing about that. I just
Speaker 1: felt like it was weird that, like, yo, you got
Speaker 1: a whole bad Boy to come like going on, Like
Speaker 1: it wasn't like in the beginning stages or talks or
Speaker 1: anything like that. Nobody reached out to us before did anything.
Speaker 1: The tour was on, so nobody reached out to us,
Speaker 1: And I felt that was kind of weird because like, yo,
Speaker 1: like I felt like we played a huge part and
Speaker 1: you know, I mean especially in like the you know,
Speaker 1: the so all was.
Speaker 11: When he didn't know, he didn't reach out.
Speaker 12: It was the nation.
Speaker 14: Okay, he didn't transparency buff He had us on like
Speaker 14: certain dates so like all the major markets, he want
Speaker 14: us to come in and fill in on those. But
Speaker 14: then once he was putting it together because we was
Speaker 14: doing like the big autograph signing and things and sending
Speaker 14: that in for the the merch and once like a
Speaker 14: week later, Brian need an interview and saying, you know,
Speaker 14: we need to be on there.
Speaker 13: On there, and then he took off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was like.
Speaker 6: Peer called me personally and was like Peer called me personally,
Speaker 6: was like, hey, man, tell your boy Brian to shut up.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I'm like, well, he's like, we already got you on tour,
Speaker 6: but puff don't put you all on there no more
Speaker 6: because he heard him, because he heard what he said
Speaker 6: or whatever.
Speaker 11: And to shut up, man, load of the back.
Speaker 12: Guy.
Speaker 13: I don't understand why.
Speaker 3: I don't understand the miscommunication because that's just a conversation.
Speaker 1: Now now he said all that, right, that's my first
Speaker 1: time hearing about all that.
Speaker 4: No, it's not bro, I did.
Speaker 11: You see what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Like, y'all you always want Okay, cool.
Speaker 15: You know you got the Beast accountability who definitely said
Speaker 15: after the fact.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying before nobody knew about any of this,
Speaker 1: any of this, they was thinking there was no communication,
Speaker 1: there was no transparency. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. Do you
Speaker 1: think it would have happened had I known all this information?
Speaker 1: Like That's why I'm saying, like communication is key to everything,
Speaker 1: every relationship, every business, every everything. Communication is key to everything.
Speaker 1: And there was no communication being brought to Brian.
Speaker 9: So if somebody knew and with tell.
Speaker 2: You, I didn't know, that was management. Okay, management, brothers,
Speaker 2: forget the management.
Speaker 11: No management told us not to tell Brian.
Speaker 1: I got left out of it.
Speaker 14: Because again, this was weeks of him telling us this,
Speaker 14: and we were in the process, like we're in the
Speaker 14: last phase of like doing the autograph signing to be
Speaker 14: a part of the tour. So I don't understand how
Speaker 14: he slipped through the cracks and everybody else didn't.
Speaker 3: But right, every every executive bad Boy is lying if
Speaker 3: they act like that band era of bad Boy didn't matter.
Speaker 3: Like general, all of what we grew up on it
Speaker 3: from the band to danity came today twenty six.
Speaker 11: That's that's what I felt.
Speaker 10: So even with that era, being watchedtreating from that tour
Speaker 10: was like what you're doing, Like it kind of put
Speaker 10: us back in the mentally to think like, okay, cool,
Speaker 10: we already knew he's coming from a television show, but
Speaker 10: he even kind of stamped that more for us at
Speaker 10: that moment, like damn, you really thought of it just
Speaker 10: like a TV show. And the rest of his music
Speaker 10: is what you're doing. But you know, you're just trying
Speaker 10: to erase what we what we brought, you know. And
Speaker 10: so that's why it's really strong that we're still here,
Speaker 10: you know, because it's it's without no extras, you know.
Speaker 10: It is because we're really passionate about what we're doing.
Speaker 10: Is because we really believe, and it's because the fans
Speaker 10: really receive us and and they come out.
Speaker 4: And we've been people try to stop us too.
Speaker 6: We didn't have some roadblocks along the way, like some
Speaker 6: big opportunities that kind of just like kind of fell.
Speaker 4: Through and we don't know why, you know, So that
Speaker 4: kind of adversity too.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, I mean, deals't really I
Speaker 6: don't know if I.
Speaker 10: Should really, I mean, but basically basically deals that that
Speaker 10: we had that you know that we know that we
Speaker 10: would actually and that you know, just magically.
Speaker 3: Like labels, endorsements, contracts already signed and everything.
Speaker 11: After after the.
Speaker 10: Bad Boy, after Atlantic, we had more opportunities because people
Speaker 10: saw it and they believe, like yo, y' ain't got
Speaker 10: to deal. So we started having so many conversations. We
Speaker 10: had situations, we was we had us situation was actually
Speaker 10: signed to another major and as.
Speaker 11: We did like a press release to let the world
Speaker 11: know the next day, the next day we have a deal.
Speaker 1: No more.
Speaker 9: Yeah, label that I remember that, I mean, I mean
Speaker 9: we can't speak.
Speaker 1: Look up, you feel that everything is happening happening with
Speaker 1: right now? Is Calma for some of the stuff he did,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't.
Speaker 10: Play about me man, so I mean I I don't know.
Speaker 10: It's a lot of things that he's done. I mean,
Speaker 10: I don't know what he really did and didn't do.
Speaker 4: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I do got to ask a question though, earlier today
Speaker 1: we heard a guy say that did he like to
Speaker 1: record in the shower? Like he set up equipment?
Speaker 4: Have you lovers.
Speaker 1: I ever recorded the shower.
Speaker 8: Bathroom about that's.
Speaker 13: Crazy a lot.
Speaker 4: Mann. I would do about half of the stuff they said.
Speaker 6: I never experienced it myself because I feel like, as
Speaker 6: a grown ass man, some of the stuff you just
Speaker 6: shouldn't experience anyway. And I'm a grown man. There's only
Speaker 6: so much so far you can influence or push me
Speaker 6: or direction.
Speaker 4: I don't want to go.
Speaker 9: I was from about to shoot.
Speaker 1: And every day they said, they set up all the
Speaker 1: equipment like show like, I think you're making this up.
Speaker 2: Something.
Speaker 4: Did he watched it?
Speaker 1: I said, you said you got to show what he's
Speaker 1: say happened in the shower.
Speaker 13: I watched it.
Speaker 1: What he said, I don't remember.
Speaker 13: I did.
Speaker 6: Just watch what you're talking about with Sarah Stokes and
Speaker 6: all the mon that one just came.
Speaker 9: Of them, but the one that just came out a
Speaker 9: couple of nights ago.
Speaker 4: I did that when it just came out.
Speaker 1: Well, but he said recorded and did he wanted to
Speaker 1: record in the shower because he said he got it
Speaker 1: was a vibe in the shower.
Speaker 11: That's what I'm gonna be honest recording music. Oh, I mean, I.
Speaker 7: Just want to say to be very transparent with y'all,
Speaker 7: like I've been through so much trauma with this guy
Speaker 7: man and the whole situation, and I just want to say,
Speaker 7: I think he needs a lot of prayer and he
Speaker 7: needs mental health, like the things that that we can
Speaker 7: relate to, you know, absolutely, I think that's what's going
Speaker 7: to save him or help him nothing else. I don't
Speaker 7: think we should talk about him. I don't think we
Speaker 7: should make fun of him.
Speaker 9: It's like real A lot of the stuff is funny, though, I'm.
Speaker 2: With you onred. But the just point is it is
Speaker 2: a lot of comedy, a lot of trauma.
Speaker 9: You can really do laugh, just just.
Speaker 4: Not all of it, all the thousands a baby, it's funny.
Speaker 3: But like a lot of times, man, you see people
Speaker 3: a lot of times when we talk about people's trauma,
Speaker 3: it makes it feel like we're making excuses for him,
Speaker 3: but it really is that really probably is the root
Speaker 3: of all of this, you know, like hurt people, hurt people, man, But.
Speaker 8: No, you you're definitely want something like you know, just
Speaker 8: inform because obviously the latest documentary, which is why we
Speaker 8: was asking you all about it, it actually dives into
Speaker 8: his childhood and how he may have gotten to the
Speaker 8: state of where he is or where he was it
Speaker 8: of a bad boything like my man know, yeah, that's what.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: Show like you know, it's past with his mom and
Speaker 8: how things that he was preview to at such a
Speaker 8: young age and how it how it may have a
Speaker 8: lot to do with conversations.
Speaker 2: You don't got to answer how did how did he
Speaker 2: traumatize you? Personally?
Speaker 13: I can't talk about it right now, but you find
Speaker 13: out soon.
Speaker 1: The reason I said I do like these conversations is
Speaker 1: there's a lot of young people that's trying to get
Speaker 1: into the industry and a lot of times if we
Speaker 1: don't tell these stories. Whether you know, people are gonna joke,
Speaker 1: it's regardless, but a lot of times if we don't
Speaker 1: tell these stories, people don't see it right because from
Speaker 1: the outside, you know, we see Diddy on television a
Speaker 1: lot and a lot of it it seems for TV,
Speaker 1: but you guys have been traumatized by you know, and
Speaker 1: his other members have been traumatizing if we don't a
Speaker 1: lot of times we don't tell those stories, the next
Speaker 1: generation of artists that's coming up have no idea why.
Speaker 6: I got so much respect for the new the new
Speaker 6: generation of artists because they found the way to not
Speaker 6: need labels and do these things.
Speaker 4: They become famous on their own.
Speaker 6: Right now, bro, I guarantee you nobody can get on
Speaker 6: TV and doing making the band because these little kids
Speaker 6: are whoopio ass you get on there telling to go
Speaker 6: get some cheesecake or talking to them the way did
Speaker 6: he was talking to us and stuff like that. I'm
Speaker 6: not taking nothing away from ourselves. We just had respect
Speaker 6: for our It was different era. These kids ain't letting
Speaker 6: that happen.
Speaker 8: And to the point of where Amy was saying, like, yeah,
Speaker 8: it's good to tell these stories. I understand it's hard
Speaker 8: for you to tell you is right now, but it's
Speaker 8: good to tell him because what did you say. You
Speaker 8: said you came from Germany when you got to the States.
Speaker 8: That was the you wanted to be son with bad
Speaker 8: because you didn't know about all that other stuff. All
Speaker 8: you knew was this guy. He made this person, this person,
Speaker 8: he produced this record, and he had Biggie and he
Speaker 8: had you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So I went to you as the bad boy.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 9: That's also why these things are important.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and is it hard right? Like you know, cut
Speaker 2: it out? You had you had trauma from that.
Speaker 3: Dude way before any of these allegations, right, so when
Speaker 3: you got to do interviews and you know, these questions
Speaker 3: are going to come up to the trigger things.
Speaker 13: Honest, and he used to.
Speaker 7: And my documents that I have from my mental health,
Speaker 7: I have his name mentioned in there. But it used
Speaker 7: to traumatize me a lot to where everybody thought something
Speaker 7: was really wrong with me stuff. But I just don't
Speaker 7: blame him. I'm blame people around him too, because they
Speaker 7: ain't innocent either. So it's it's allowed.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 1: That's the thing, like you said, enables people around him,
Speaker 1: who are you know, whatever whatever happened, we don't know
Speaker 1: because he's not found guilty or anything like that, but
Speaker 1: the people around him, that's allowing it to happen. A
Speaker 1: lot of times those people are just as guilty. You've
Speaker 1: seen something and never said say something. Now I've seen it, Well,
Speaker 1: how come you to say it? Then you could save
Speaker 1: that person, help that person. So when we see things
Speaker 1: like that, that's why I always feel like it's good
Speaker 1: to talk about things where people understand, because a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't understand the industry. They just see the
Speaker 1: gold and the glisten of the cars, the mansions, the jewelry,
Speaker 1: the clothes. They'll be like, this is what I want.
Speaker 1: But a lot of times they don't know how that happened,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: So when you hear the all real days and the
Speaker 3: you know, the d Woods talking, how did that make
Speaker 3: y'all feel?
Speaker 6: I mean for me, I just said, and I really
Speaker 6: didn't know, you know what I'm saying. For us to
Speaker 6: be so close with them, for us to be so
Speaker 6: close with them and experience so much with them, to
Speaker 6: not know that they was experiencing those kind of things,
Speaker 6: that kind of that was weird to me because I
Speaker 6: had literally never heard nothing like that about any of
Speaker 6: them while we were there. Now, we experienced some of
Speaker 6: the stuff with him, you know, firing them and all
Speaker 6: of that stuff, but as far as like you know,
Speaker 6: the stuff that that the Woods and then we're talking
Speaker 6: about like body shaming and that other things like with
Speaker 6: Sarah talking about talk about it was to me, everybody,
Speaker 6: that's what I'm talking about, anybody, But it was further.
Speaker 6: It was further than that, like she went, like Sia
Speaker 6: Stokes was talking about how he touched her in appropriately.
Speaker 4: You those kind of things like that.
Speaker 6: I never really experienced those and I've never seen them
Speaker 6: act that kind of way.
Speaker 4: But that could be their mask or their shield.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying it, but I'm just saying, as they brothers,
Speaker 6: they never they never disclosed those kind of things with.
Speaker 2: Us, and the sad thing when men, but you kN
Speaker 2: y'all brother was going through something.
Speaker 4: Not at that time.
Speaker 10: So when when he ended up coming back to the group,
Speaker 10: and that's when we started to understand things was different
Speaker 10: and seeing a different walk and.
Speaker 2: Understand I let it.
Speaker 13: I want to sing background for Dirty Month right he was.
Speaker 11: On stage with them on the news at time.
Speaker 6: I was like, I was looking at the news, like,
Speaker 6: why is my group remember singing backgrounds?
Speaker 10: Yeah, so he stuck around a little bit longer inside
Speaker 10: of that that that formula versus us leaving and doing
Speaker 10: atlantic thing and trying to figure that out. So when
Speaker 10: he got back, we did notice different things or whatever.
Speaker 10: But yeah, he's a lot better right now, a lot better.
Speaker 1: I would say things are changed because when men deal
Speaker 1: with things, it's usually funny at firs, right, no matter
Speaker 1: what it is, like, you know, I'm not putting you
Speaker 1: stuff out there. But Charlomage talks about the time when
Speaker 1: he was a kid. That's something happened to him. And
Speaker 1: the first reaction when he tells that story, people laugh.
Speaker 2: Sorry about you. And when Clo first taught you how
Speaker 2: to d J, I laugh about that too.
Speaker 1: There's nothing there.
Speaker 3: When first thought about the DJ, he was standing at
Speaker 3: the bus stop sucking on a lot of Popca.
Speaker 11: In a nice car, and you was like, damn nothing
Speaker 11: nice car.
Speaker 9: And when you was little, he was around your sisters
Speaker 9: in the room.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and a new audition popped up on the TV
Speaker 8: and showing me was like.
Speaker 9: Michael, is that nigga cute?
Speaker 12: And about.
Speaker 3: Sitting on Wendy Williams Black teaching you how the DJ
Speaker 3: came up behind you.
Speaker 2: This is a good segue to ask you all about
Speaker 2: freak off.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna be honest, never I think the only time,
Speaker 6: the only time we've got the door to a couple.
Speaker 6: But we're blessed to be warned about a lot of
Speaker 6: this stuff before we before we were ever an opportunity
Speaker 6: off camera to be involved in it, so we already
Speaker 6: knew what not to do where, you know, whatever the
Speaker 6: case may be. I don't know what was exactly going
Speaker 6: on in those things, but we were definitely warned not
Speaker 6: to go a lot of people on the game.
Speaker 11: Some man, it's a little birdie from the show from
Speaker 11: back show and Jennifer.
Speaker 4: A couple of as told.
Speaker 11: Us a dancer it was like, stay away from the
Speaker 11: red door.
Speaker 4: To us to stay away from the red door. So
Speaker 4: that's yeah.
Speaker 2: I would not want to go through what y'all went through.
Speaker 4: Bro like that.
Speaker 9: Who gave y'all the name day twenty six Who was that?
Speaker 4: We did? We did?
Speaker 8: Okay, So y'all okay, I thought that was like that
Speaker 8: he's saying, like, man, he tried to take.
Speaker 4: It the day we came up with.
Speaker 6: He tried to take it from us and change it
Speaker 6: to twenty six day, and were like, nah.
Speaker 1: Okay August.
Speaker 10: No, the name came from us being selected on August
Speaker 10: twenty six. So we just took that through the years,
Speaker 10: you know. Yeah, we heard like okay, Yeah, it didn't
Speaker 10: age well at some points because people were like, you know,
Speaker 10: it does great now, but I'm saying, but at some
Speaker 10: point we had people like, yeah, you've been.
Speaker 11: Around for twenty sixth day, you know it a little bit.
Speaker 10: Yeah, At the same time, it came from August twenty
Speaker 10: sixth or somebody liked.
Speaker 1: The day that changed our lives. It's a day that
Speaker 1: we will always.
Speaker 2: Remember, whether it a blessing, our crystal blessing.
Speaker 1: Honestly, man, man, I won't I won't even put put
Speaker 1: nothing like negative on this man like, because I mean,
Speaker 1: God still he's still working on this.
Speaker 10: And it was it was like a Curtains day because like,
Speaker 10: you know, a lot of you know, we got a
Speaker 10: lot of money with the blood, a lot of money,
Speaker 10: you know, but at the same time, we still got
Speaker 10: our passion, we still got our voices, we still got
Speaker 10: our fans, we still got our uh to do for
Speaker 10: our families. We're here, we're making a statement, so all
Speaker 10: those things still matter, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 10: that's why I would saying throughout all the curses that
Speaker 10: could have been throughout the years, we ended in a
Speaker 10: blessing for sure.
Speaker 8: My last question, okay, so you got this album out now,
Speaker 8: will y'all be touring?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 9: And does did he recoup anything? Are no more not?
Speaker 4: Technically?
Speaker 13: Did we talk about like our publisher.
Speaker 11: Well, he still got our publishing from from those.
Speaker 1: He gives, didn't we got.
Speaker 11: And he can give it to us now, you know,
Speaker 11: you know, make the cause of it.
Speaker 1: But we do all the other money? How much?
Speaker 4: Right now? His kids got all that money. His kids
Speaker 4: name is mama.
Speaker 11: Every time I say month, I'd be like man to.
Speaker 1: The public, to the publisher and his kids and mom.
Speaker 1: But at that time when he said I was giving
Speaker 1: all my artists back there publishing.
Speaker 9: He sat right here and said that we did.
Speaker 11: Everybody bang, Yeah, he probably did something.
Speaker 10: Then I was talking to Aurey during the time, and
Speaker 10: she was telling me a lot of things. I guess
Speaker 10: she had got off of the situation, and she was
Speaker 10: saying how it wasn't worth it anyway.
Speaker 2: She signed scientif.
Speaker 9: She got all day got thirty three dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how much you think it's owned out of everything?
Speaker 1: Because I know young you guys figured it out with
Speaker 1: accounts and all that.
Speaker 13: How much you did?
Speaker 11: You know what the thing is?
Speaker 10: Even off the show alone, they made millions of had
Speaker 10: to be like, you know, seventy the hundred.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 11: It was just it was a lot of money. We
Speaker 11: just I mean, I don't know the exactly.
Speaker 2: We just is fifteen million.
Speaker 14: Oh that's what that's what they told us.
Speaker 13: Yeah, the first album we got.
Speaker 11: We got first album.
Speaker 12: That's yeah.
Speaker 11: I got to say what you talking? I think, yeah,
Speaker 11: you what you're saying. No, that's not correct.
Speaker 1: It made fourteen million, that's I'm I'm like fourteen million.
Speaker 3: Fourteen We didn't go you know, did You would say
Speaker 3: we spent so much money on them, We put so
Speaker 3: much into them, and we didn't.
Speaker 2: Recoup back when we put in.
Speaker 6: But I would disagree because our situation was tied with
Speaker 6: MTV that was paying for so much stuff and for
Speaker 6: the on their end anyway like that. It took so
Speaker 6: much cost off a bad Boy in Atlantic that didn't
Speaker 6: make no sense. So that makes no sense. That didn't
Speaker 6: have Yes, they were, they weren't spending NOD As a
Speaker 6: matter of fact, they were getting their budget from having
Speaker 6: us own Bad Boy the sub label, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying. So that's impossible for that to even be
Speaker 6: business wise, y'all know business they don't go like so.
Speaker 3: Many people had their hand in the pot that probably
Speaker 3: you didn't get no money in talking about MTV bad
Speaker 3: Boy in the scope Atlantic Atlantic.
Speaker 14: Like everybody, the writers there, like everybody that signed up,
Speaker 14: like they got they rich right now, Yeah, he might
Speaker 14: have owned somebody to favor of something. They got theirs
Speaker 14: out of you know, whatever it was. But we knew
Speaker 14: what it was signing into, at least I did, and
Speaker 14: we had to sign.
Speaker 1: So what did he change the publisher? Because it wasn't
Speaker 1: in his kids name at first?
Speaker 11: Right, No, it was always that was it from the jump.
Speaker 1: From the jump. It was from the so he already
Speaker 1: knew what which I mean, I get it.
Speaker 10: He a father and he got kids because but at
Speaker 10: the same time, don't erase money.
Speaker 1: I'm a father and I got.
Speaker 12: And that's why it comes down because I'm.
Speaker 10: A father and a kid and now we want to,
Speaker 10: you know, be able to do for children the same way,
Speaker 10: you know.
Speaker 4: What I mean.
Speaker 11: So give me my money.
Speaker 6: That's all I care about with the whole Diddy thing. Man,
Speaker 6: I just want my money, bro, I just want my
Speaker 6: mon I want what I'm worth, the albums that we
Speaker 6: sold and the way I should be living. And I
Speaker 6: don't want to see your kids rolling around the car
Speaker 6: better than mine.
Speaker 11: I mean.
Speaker 4: All my stuff.
Speaker 13: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: That's just weird. Have you even had that conversation and
Speaker 4: justify that with somebody? They're just weird?
Speaker 8: You know, You're coming a whole different way like that.
Speaker 9: So day once he gets nothing from day.
Speaker 1: One is a lettable right now, all streaming platforms to
Speaker 1: Mirror and the exclusives. Man, they put this album together
Speaker 1: a Mirrors. That's my cousin back there.
Speaker 10: And I think the biggest thing about this album is
Speaker 10: the first album he was able to do with just
Speaker 10: one writer, one producer.
Speaker 11: You know, that whole type of nucleus was just us.
Speaker 10: You know It's other albums always had different producers, you know,
Speaker 10: different writers, including us, but this is right here was
Speaker 10: just one body of work, you know, one produce that
Speaker 10: whole type of feel, and it means real R and B.
Speaker 10: I think everybody will enjoy it. People have called it
Speaker 10: a classic, you know, so I'm hoping that everybody you
Speaker 10: know go check it out.
Speaker 2: Is my last question?
Speaker 3: Is the industry really worth your peace of mind? And
Speaker 3: if you could do it all over again, would you
Speaker 3: have taking the rock y'all took?
Speaker 7: I would say, it's not the industry, it's the people
Speaker 7: in the industry, man. So I love the industry and
Speaker 7: the work that is provided, making my dreams come true,
Speaker 7: making me join with the group and the experience. All
Speaker 7: that's great, but it's some wicked people.
Speaker 13: Out here, man.
Speaker 7: And that's everywhere you're talented. They would try and they
Speaker 7: would try to come in and just distract you and
Speaker 7: destroy whatever it is that God has for your purpose, man,
Speaker 7: and you just got to watch out for them people
Speaker 7: and don't compromise.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, definitely support Day twenty six. I know
Speaker 1: y'all got to show me.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Show is sold out tonight, Yeah, I mean tonight, first
Speaker 1: show sold out. You know what I'm saying. Second show
Speaker 1: is almost there, so get your tickets right The merch,
Speaker 1: you know I'm saying, the Day twenty six merchs y'all
Speaker 1: see that? Yeah, hoodies, we got hats, we got crop tops,
Speaker 1: we got crop hood we got sweats, we got all socks.
Speaker 1: What else we got? Uh shout out to.
Speaker 13: Mark and Aaron.
Speaker 1: We got varsity jackets as well.
Speaker 13: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I see the quality is amazing.
Speaker 9: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah good.
Speaker 3: I'm just happy to see y'all working man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we appreciate you all from joining us. Let's get
Speaker 1: into a record which I want to hear single over
Speaker 1: you off our new album. Let's get it on right now.
Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club is Day twenty six.
Speaker 13: Yeah, wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club