WEBVTT - #526 - Davido 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:01.920 Yo, what up my peoples, your boy David Oh, make 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:04.080 sure you check me out on the Bootleg CAV podcast. 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:06.240 Keep it luck one love by this hey. 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:08.440 Before we start the episode, we're gonna remind everybody, man, 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:10.760 we got one of the biggest radio shows in the country, 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:14.720 syndicated in almost one hundred cities all over. Shout out 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.759 to iHeartRadio. All right, some of the latest cities that 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:19.600 we've been able to add. Man, We want to give 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:21.599 a shout out to ninety three point nine the Beat 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:25.040 in Honolulu. That's right, Hawaii, We over there going crazy. 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:27.200 I also want to give a shout out Hot ninety 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.960 eight three and Tucson. Shout out to Tucson going crazy. 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:31.760 Also want to give a shout out to Wild ninety 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.800 four one in Tampa going crazy. We just got Richmond. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.080 We also just got the good folks in Bakersfield at 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.320 Hot one O four to seven. So we're going crazy 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.240 on the radio with my partner James Andre Jefferson Junior 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:46.680 for the Bootleg CAV Show. So make sure you tune 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.280 in and you can listen anywhere on that iHeart Radio app. 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:55.840 That's right, let's get into the interview, all right, here 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.560 we go Bootleg cav show. We got my guy here 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.440 Man Global super Star. Just saw him at the iHeart 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.320 Awards on Monday, Sir David on the building. 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:06.040 Good to see how you're doing, Man, Good to see 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:06.319 you bro. 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:08.880 When I saw you, Man, it's so crazy because you know, 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:10.759 I never saw you live, and I had to tell 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.000 you last year I saw you at the BET Awards. Okay, 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.800 you had the BT experience, you had that thing turned up, bro, 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:17.600 shout out. 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:19.800 BT man, and the album is my last album just 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:20.560 came out that time. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.440 But it was just so crazy to see like all 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:25.960 of the live show, Like it was like a real 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.840 come to like a tour stop, you know, because that's 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:30.840 the thing. People go to the BT Experience and they're 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.319 like they're going for like maybe someone's there for sexy read, 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.040 maybe someone's there for you. So it was like a 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.479 mixed crowd of people, but they were fucking with you though. Yes, 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.000 that was amazing. Yeah it was dope, man. But how 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:40.520 is everything? 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:41.640 Man? Man is good? 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:41.880 Man? 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.160 Just fresh off turning into the album, you know what 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.720 it is, rolling? Rolling? It out comes out in about 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.280 three weeks, you know, just just been the vibe, got 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.400 married lest Dear congrat you know what I'm saying, So 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:54.520 just happy to get back to work, you know what 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.400 I'm saying about to be crazy, how do you know it's. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.680 Like finished the album? Like how do you like? What 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:02.200 is like the final thing? We're like, all right, it's finished. 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:04.960 I mean you never get to that and you just 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.080 you know what I'm saying, like I think I edited 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:11.079 a song to like last month or so, so you 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.520 never really get to the point where it's. 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:13.799 Like, so something got put in like right at the 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:14.359 finish line. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.200 Yeah. To me, it's more of because it's not a 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.560 period where we go in the studio and like we recorded. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.200 It's like I'm always in the studio. 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:22.399 Like this is your life. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.320 Yes, yeah, So when it's time for an album, all 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.520 I have to do is pick songs that I have record, 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.480 you know what I'm saying, Pick the vibe. And when 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.560 we're thinking about the album name and the the theme 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.239 and stuff like that, it was like, what time is 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.880 that already? I was like, you know what, my boys like, 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:40.919 it's name in five. I was like, you're right, it's 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.440 the fifth album, right, you know. Five is the symbol 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.520 of hope. You know what I'm saying, It's my favorite number, 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.320 my lucky number. It signifies, it signifies a lot of 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.640 other things, you know saying. So we're like, yo, it'll 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.560 be dope, you know what I'm saying. We could do 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.560 a nice rollout with it. So it was just about 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.600 you know, picking songs. But with this album, I was 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.400 you know, I used to be a producer. So with 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.280 this album, I really you know, focused on production. I 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:04.959 feel like that you were hands on. I feel like 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.680 all the nos. Yeah, a lot like into the production, 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.600 went into the production. But we excited, you know, about 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:13.520 to get back on the road again, and yeah we're 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:15.960 just out here in elation in the video. Yo. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.280 When like for you, like taking the approach to be 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.239 more hands on on the production with your background for 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.000 this album isn't like like you said, the fans will 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:26.480 be able to tell the difference, but for you, is 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:30.520 it like because I feel like so many of our 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.160 favorite artists are so multi talented, like j Cole came 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.000 in the game producing a lot of his own. 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.160 Shit, you know what I'm saying, Like my first single. 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:38.920 Producer, it's got to feel a lot more personal to 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:40.600 you to put a body of workout that you have 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.200 your fingerprints all the way in for real, you know 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:43.600 what I mean. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:47.800 Yeah, especially when you like, like I'm around a good 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.440 space now musically, Like I've met some real dope producers, 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.440 co producers as well writers, you know what I'm saying. 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.520 So I feel like with this album, it was a 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.000 lot of you know unity, right, you know that that 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.880 came into the process of making this album. Another thing 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:04.360 I like about it is that, you know what I'm saying, 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.080 we didn't rush. The album was actually meant to come 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.000 out last year. You know what I'm saying, We've been 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.120 done since last year. But my team and I were 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:13.840 just like, you know what, let's take our time. You 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.080 know what I'm saying. That's not rush, that's playing well. 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.520 You know what I'm saying. The music has always been there, 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.200 you know what I'm saying. So with this one, you know, 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.000 we took our time and I feel like, you know, 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.560 we selected the perfect set of songs. It's about to 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:26.839 hear that. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.960 Talk to me about getting married, because I got married 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.840 in twenty eighteen. It's a big step in life. Yes, 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.640 especially for somebody like yourself, who's you know you got, 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.480 you got so much going on, and I feel like, 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.920 especially for somebody who's got some sort of public notoriety 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.400 and a level of success. I'm sure it's a lot 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.800 more harder to like find that person through all the 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.120 shit that comes your way. What made you kind of, 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.000 you know, say this is my soulmate this time. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:57.840 I think I'm one of the lucky ones because like 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.920 me and my partner, like, we've been together for a 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.120 long time prior to so she's been rocking with you 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.120 for a month to get married, you know what I'm saying. 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.600 So we've been living together since we were like basically, 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.440 so she saw the glow up. Yes, you know what 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.240 I'm saying. I was a little bit you know what 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.160 I'm saying, And I met but I was young. I 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:17.840 was very young, you know what I'm saying. I was like, 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.480 well my third year in college or so. Yeah, and 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.120 that's what we met. Went to the same school. So 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:25.880 I think I was it was lucky enough, you know, 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.240 for us to move in together early, very early, like 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.280 I'm talking about like eight years before you know what 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.760 I'm saying. Even getting married, for sure, the transition from 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.240 it's still different. You know, getting married is still no joke, 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.320 like you said. But and you know we have you've 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.600 had three kids. So it's like the transition from you know, 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:46.240 living together, first of all, being good friends. I feel 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.680 like that's best, the number one thing that's very important, 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:53.560 and then transitioning to living together, which is a huge step. Yes, 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.440 living together. And throughout all the time we was living together, 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.960 I was touring on the Yeah, I was really on 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.080 the road like every like real, real busy. So I 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.040 feel like she's always she always understood, like, Yo, this 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.080 is what I gotta do to work, you know what 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.320 I'm saying. And she also knows that that's one of 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.200 the most happiest moments of my life is when I'm working. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.440 She knows I love you know, music, just like when 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.360 she's in the kitchen. She's a chef, you know what 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.320 I'm saying. I know she loves cooking. 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:25.080 Oh you got a chef, you're land. I bet you 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.119 your cribs cracking. I'm surprised you ain't fatter. 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:29.800 I've tried to watch you with my wife. Man. 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:31.520 When I first moved in with her, she's a hell 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.559 of a cook, and all I was eating was Mexican 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.760 food because she she's Mexican. I like, I put like 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.479 fifty pounds on in two years. Man, just fucking up 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.440 my wife's food. I had to slow down. 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.360 Crazy. Yeah, so that transition wasn't too crazy for me. 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:47.920 But I'll say this, you know what I'm saying, just 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:52.600 having to be you know, being such a you know, 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.040 I feel like a lot of popular people are real vulnerable, 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.160 you know what I'm saying. So just having to be 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:58.720 careful doing that. You know what I'm saying. Now, this 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.120 is bind the union for sure. What I'm saying. We 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.279 had a whole wedding. We've invited everybody from all across 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.160 the world to celebrate. Where was the wedding at and 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.400 Nigeria fire. It was on some crazies wounded ship like 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:15.040 some mad crazy like it was like a holiday, yeah ja, 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:16.880 like that was one of the best days in my life. 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.960 Anybody flowing from all over the world. So just even 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.640 looking at my kids, you know, my daughters again older, 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:24.880 they got to go to school. My daughters, both of 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.720 them have iPhones. You know what I'm saying on TikTok, 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:29.720 you know what I'm saying. So as we get older, 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.240 obviously having to be mindful of you know, things we 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:34.440 kind of do in the public eye. 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.040 Of course they could see it. 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.520 Yeah, as well as also you know, juggling the other 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.760 side of it being a superstar, right, and this is 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.320 what you actually love and this is what it's been 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.280 in the bucks and right as well. You know what 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.440 I'm saying, because when I get on stage, it's like 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.320 I'm married, but it's like, you know what I'm saying, 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.640 But you're an entertainer, yes, but she's always been around that. 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:55.760 Yeah, that's good. That's important. Man. 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:57.240 Like I said, I'm one of the lucky ones. 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:58.200 Yeah, you are, for sure. 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:02.320 Man. Some people meet females and then down the line 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.960 is like she's you know, females like yo, she didn't 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.760 know it was crazy like this. And for some people just. 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:09.960 Right, what's your what's her like? 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:10.440 Good? 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.040 What's your favorite dish she cooks for you? 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:18.320 So I love like just white rice. She makes this 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:22.440 killer stew, some stew. I love some nice pepper stew, 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.440 fish chicken fire. And then I also like she makes 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.920 a killer all craw seafood, all coral. Okay. With this 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.120 thing we called eba, it's like it's like flour. It's 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:36.520 kind of like mashed potato, bud. It's different, it's different. Yeah, 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.679 we use our hands to eat it, dip it. 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.040 But yeah, she's like any food you could eat, your 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:42.480 hands to eat. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:43.200 It's always fire. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.400 Love Indian food chucks to Indians. 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.520 They got figured out over there. I went to India 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:48.960 this year actually my first time. 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.280 Yeah, they got good food. Man that curry, man curry. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:58.760 Yeah that curry be hidden yo, something that's dope. Your 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.920 dad he open the power plan that gave three million 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:03.840 people power in Africa? 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:05.880 Was it through? I don't know exactly. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.600 I saw something like it. If the capabilities are up 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.800 to get like essentially helpteen percent helping three million people 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:13.239 have access to power. 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.720 Fifteen percent of the electricy that we build them one 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.480 more and when that is completed, I think we're going 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.040 to be supplying about if not more, I think the 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:23.199 number is like fifty percent. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:24.160 It's a big deal. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.720 Yeah, of like I think to West Africa, all Ninegeria. 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.640 I'm not sure about the number, but like, how cool 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:30.199 is that? Because like for people who don't know, I 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:31.960 mean a lot of your fans know about your pops. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:33.319 Your pops is very successful. 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:34.199 Yeah guy, you know. 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.400 But I think it's important to be able to highlight 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.319 like not only are you who you are, but your 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.319 family is also like helping a lot of people. 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:47.079 It's crazy, and I've seen them build that from just 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.640 being young. I remember him just having the idea. A 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.599 lot of people discouraged them from the idea because he 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.000 was a banker, right and that was going so well 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.880 for him already, so like they said, if it ain't broke. 0:09:58.720 --> 0:09:59.760 Them right, right right. 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:05.480 And then he just always believes in just a power generation, 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:11.040 which is electricity of course, et cetera. So yeah, he's 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:12.679 more working on this project. I remember him going to 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:16.240 China on trips to get like investors and stuff like that, 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.840 and then I remember the first one coming, the second one, 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:22.400 and then we just getting lit. 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:24.960 It's like, you know what I'm saying, Like quite literally 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:26.560 a lot of people are getting so. 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:33.079 And eventually they became something the country dependent on. You 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.200 know what I'm saying, Oh, let me just move. They 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.280 became you know, the power plans became something the country 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.959 eventually dependent on. You know what I'm saying. It's just 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:47.760 like right now, before all their electric cars all around America, 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.240 somebody had had had the idea to have a charging station, 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:53.000 but like nine. 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.240 Years ago, it wasn't it was it wasn't a thing. 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.280 Now but now it's no thing, you know, supplying their 0:10:59.320 --> 0:10:59.920 minds amazing. 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.800 So I saw him just blossom into that, you know, 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.800 an electricity tycoon that he is, and it's just amazing. 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.240 It's funny too, because you told the story last time 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.199 you were here about how you were kind of like 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.679 on the run, kind of from your parents when you 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.640 dipped out from school. Yeah, do you remember, because you're 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.040 because with your dad being who he is, like, at 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.720 what point in time did he fully say, Okay, son, 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:24.600 you're onto something with this shit. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.760 I mean I wasn't there like the exact time, but 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.520 everybody just had that feeling. I feel like it wasn't 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.079 even a feeling about him feeling that way. Yeah, I 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.959 think everybody felt that way. Yeah, like it's undeniable. It 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.719 was like it was like a mutual feeling, not only 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.040 in the country and my family, to my peers, everybody, 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.640 and you're like, yo, you know when you have something, 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:46.640 and everybody like they don't have to tell you, you 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.000 know what I'm saying. So it did get to that 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:52.120 point where he was like like I couldn't even really 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:52.640 be in school. 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.680 I was distracted because you could have worked for him 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.120 and kicked it easy, you know. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:57.480 What I'm saying. But this is what I love, like, 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.400 this is what gave me them, this is what gave 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.319 me energy. You know what I'm saying. You know, this 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:06.760 is what I was about music. So it was kind 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.400 of too late by the time, you know, he wanted 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.840 me to, you know, do something else. But I always 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.440 say that he was never really against me being an entertainer. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:23.920 He was just big on principally, big big on education, principled. 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.480 It's it's my family. You go to school, you finish 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.000 up on time, and there's an office waiting for you. 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:34.880 It's just this is how it goes. I'm the last 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.040 kid of five, you know what I'm saying. So for me, 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.120 it much happening. You have five kids. 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:43.079 The first kid they're they're following, they're following suits, and 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.040 the last kids like, Nope, I'm gonna go sing the 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:46.920 last one. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.240 You know what I'm saying. You know, I'm like, I'm 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:49.760 gonna go sing. 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:51.440 And then it worked out. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.160 Though it worked out, you know what I'm saying. He's very, 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.880 very active involved in my career at the moment, you 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.520 know what I'm saying. So that's been blessed to have 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:02.040 him in my life over the years. 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:03.640 Did he get the album first? 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:08.640 Of course, he's heard everything. What I do when I 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:10.640 get the link, Like when I finally decide, like, okay, 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:15.000 this is these other songs, Like the album is seventeen songs. 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.559 So I put a link of like forty songs and 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:18.959 I send it to my family. 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.760 Members, the crew, all the homies, Hey check it out. 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.480 So I'm gonna check it out there, you know. Yeah, 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.959 they'll tell me, y'all tell me your favorites. And I 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.280 use that kind of channel. What's a pick? And sometimes 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.040 I don't agree with it, but sometimes public opinion matters. 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:34.599 You'd be like, damn, like maybe I'll ck. Maybe I 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.160 didn't think that this was gonna make the album, but 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:37.360 maybe now it will make the album. 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.080 Yeah, stuff like that. Yo. 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.480 You and Chris Brown have like a pretty insane chemistry. Obviously, 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.520 you guys, you know, nominated for awards together. I mean, 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:50.240 Sensation was a huge record for Chris c bat ohb uh, 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:54.280 what what would you say? Is like the most cool 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.840 part about being in a studio with Chris Brown because 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.640 he is a workaholic. These are Michael Jackson. 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.679 You feel like every time I'm there, I just thank God. Like, 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.480 I'm just happy to have the opportunity to just witness this. 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.839 Yeah, and not only to witness this as a co artist, 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.079 but also to witnesses as his friend, as family. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:19.000 Chris amazing person. You know what I'm saying. It's like 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.760 you be talking to him one minute, this second minute 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.800 he's doing a badmint on stage. She's like, Yo, this 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:26.360 guy's crazy. You know what I'm saying. 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.640 It's just just to have that full package. He can 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.320 he can draw, he can he can paint, he can act, 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.760 he can pay, he can do it all right, you 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:38.160 know what I'm saying. Just to have that kind of 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.760 person around you. If that's not inspiration, I don't know 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:44.800 what is. I always say it's either Chris Brown or 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.160 Jamie Fox that are just like the most talented human 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.200 beings alive. Crazy because Jamie Fox is like an elite 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.720 stand up comedian, elite actor, e leite singer, and Chris 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.320 Brown is just elited everything, you. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.000 Know what I'm saying. So just having the opportunity to 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.480 just see it firsthand, and then and he goes on 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.960 tour and were performed together, just to see him do 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.280 his thing and how he just transforms into another person 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.360 once he just gets in that you know, gets in 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:10.960 that mode. Is just amazing to see. 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.360 Man, for sure, I saw you got the new record 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:15.440 with y G. Marley out. 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.680 Yeah, shout out to y G. Yeah, yesterday he was 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:19.320 he was. 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:20.480 He was out here too. We saw him. 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:22.200 He was out there. Yeah, he was there. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.000 Yeah. How cool was it being able to tap in 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.680 and uh, you know, do the thing with with Lauren 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.480 and and and pop out on stage. 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:29.840 Yeah. 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:31.760 Man, it was a moment. Yeah. 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:33.760 Shout out to y G. Marley. Man, Shout out to 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:35.880 the whole Marley family. Shout out to miss Lauren Hill, 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.520 a legend, the Queen. I met YG. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.960 About a year or two ago. I can't remember where. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.640 Oh yeah, I was on touring in Australia. So me 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.680 and his mom were headlining festival together. Crazy, you know 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.240 what I'm saying. So I think I got to the 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:53.840 hotel and I think me and my boy went to 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.600 get something by the ball to eat, and then I 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.880 think I see her band members. I think YG was 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.600 with him and he introduced, you know, introduced himself. Oh 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.320 mama here, He's like, yeah, she performed tonight, stuff like that, 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:08.840 and then we ended up, you know, shange your contacts. 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:10.760 And then I think I had the after party after 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.440 the festival, he pulled up and funny enough, I didn't 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.800 even know he was an artist at the time. He 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.760 was just on tour with his mom. And then months 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.760 go by and I'm on the radio. 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:25.000 You start hearing his record, And at first I didn't 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:25.560 put too on too. 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.800 I knew his name was YG, but I. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:29.800 Don't know there's another YG too. There's a G in 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:30.080 l A. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:31.560 You know what I'm saying. I didn't put you in 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.480 too that it was actually him until I think I 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:39.840 saw him a performance. I was like, bro, Bro, and 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.280 then I reached out to him. I was like, Yo, 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.200 congress on your record. I'm happy for you, you know, 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.360 just like you know a normal person would do. And 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:47.840 I was like, Yo, we gotta lock in. You know 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:52.040 what I like is the bringing together different cultures. I 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:57.880 felt like there's been a drift in between Africa and 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.720 the Caribbean, you know what I'm saying, And that's real. 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.480 I feel like back then, I think, because like you mentioned, 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.320 like like how how big is what you guys are 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:11.199 doing in like Jamaica huge? Because I was in Jamaica 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:12.359 and we were at a club and I was here 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.000 in Afro be huge. I just can't hear Santo. It's 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:16.200 all kind of the same bpm. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.879 So it's I just came from Trinidad Tobago. You know, 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.600 the music that's like Soca is different. But they playing 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:26.000 afrobeats out there. And then I've done trips. I have 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.240 big songs of popcorn, you know what I'm saying. So 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:32.120 I always loved that side of town. I love the Caribbean, 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.359 I love the people. Me and my wife take vacation 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.800