WEBVTT - Common Interview 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:08.000 Real, for real celebrity joined the breast morning. Everybody is 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.879 DJ en Vy Angela, ye Sholamin the guy. We all 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:15.080 the breakfast club special guests in the building. Oscar went up, 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:17.920 his birthday is this Friday? Yeah? Yeah, it's the coming 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:25.960 grass they now watch you leave open Hagen with the 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:28.520 high five. Man, Man, that's trying to give me back. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.000 Trying to give me back. Man, you know what I 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.320 thought she was about to get. I thought she was 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:35.239 giving a high five to John. So I was like 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.800 saving myself. I don't want to I didn't want to 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.239 get caught out there. So anyway, that's my girl now 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.159 she cool? Man? Did you call it? Apologize afterwards? Yeo. 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.200 I talked to her the next day. She was like, yo, 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.960 she was just like, dang man, y'all really killed that performance. 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.120 He was feeling that joint. You probably even realize you 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:53.800 left open hanging. You probably saw the next day on 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:55.840 vine or something. I don't know that's exactly what happened. 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.880 He was like, she could take back and do it 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:01.840 over again. Oh man, I definitely wanted to do I 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:03.360 ain't an I wanted to do it over because I 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:07.119 was like, I saw they showing on vine leave it openhead, 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.520 it's over. Now. Did you think that you were going 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.920 to win the Oscar? I mean I was feeling confident. 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.320 We were feeling confident. But until they say your name, 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.560 you just don't know because it was like they were 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.240 talking about other some of the other nominees, and you know, 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.400 it's different people voting. So we were just like sitting 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.000 there like I ain't gonna. I was nervous, but I 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:27.880 was still like, okay, man, we could do this. When 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.880 I heard them they said John Stevens and Lonnie Lynn, 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:35.840 I was like, man, we wanted we got an oscar. 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.720 Yeah yeah, but around in a in a in an 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:43.960 audience thing. No, they were looking around like what's up 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.160 that man didn't win? Hello? Until we jumped up. But 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:51.600 my mother jumped up, like first yeah she was, she 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.400 was geeg man. But now it's everybody's saying that you 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:57.160 and Serena Williams got back together. Why did you say that? 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.400 Because she was holding my oscar? You know the morning 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.800 you did anybody hold yeah crazy? She was holding yours 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.080 to the picku of y'all to that night but deleted it. 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.240 Yeah yeah, yeah, but you know that's my girl. Man. Shoot, 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.360 I give her love all the time. We just saw 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:17.679 we saw. I saw it at the party, and you know, 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:19.440 I'm gonna give her that respect. She can hold the 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:25.560 Oscars a better way to celebrate exactly. She hold you 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:33.280 later because you're like golden ball, like the golden like 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.359 the Golden Boy. I read in People's magazine and you 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:40.639 said more people know you now after Selma. Yeah for sure. Man. 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.639 It's like different different people from walks of life. From 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.160 ten year old kids, yeah, white people, black people, like 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.560 old agent, like different people coming up to me being like, man, 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.519 we really feel Sama, we feel glory, or like man, 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.040 we loved y'all at the Oscars. Older people too. I'll 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.760 be like, wow, man. It's a good feeling though, because 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.079 I felt like we were present, like hip hop culture 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.560 represent black people represent a lot of different things that 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.239 just you know people, the people that you know, I'll 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:09.799 be on the people. So I felt like we would 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.400 representing that and to have people coming up saying, yo, 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:14.800 we honor that. It's good. You go out there for 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.840 the march with President Brock Romama. Did you go out there? No? No, 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.919 I didn't get to go there. Yeah, I was here 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.239 promoting this movie Run all night. Then we got coming out, 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:25.720 so I had to be here for that comes on 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.120 your birthday to Yeah it's on one birthday. Yeah with 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.200 Liam Neeson. Yeah it's good, it's good. I'm on Pisces. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.520 You know, I always wondering what does that mean? I mean, 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.080 we just were cool. We we we always tell the 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.200 truth and we you know, we we opened and speaking 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:44.840 our minds. If you want now comment, I don't know 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:49.040 that you've always told the truth. I mean memoirs. He 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.680 talks about certain situations where he would fake things like 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.160 what I mean, I gotta you gotta maneuver through you 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.040 gotta maneuver through life sometimes, but you know, overall, tell 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.880 the truth. Women say that you're honest. Yeah, for sure. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.520 That's the one thing a woman go get get from me. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.080 I read something that I said, you used to used 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.720 to fuck when you was twelve to get girls attention. Yeah, 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:09.640 you know that was you know, when you're short of 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:11.840 you're trying all type of things. Man. You know, I 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:21.120 around a girl to get you. I know, but I was, 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.080 you know, I was like being a little class clown 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.800 or something. That's the right kind of I know it 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:27.919 ain't the it ain't, but I mean the girls. I 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.120 still was getting girls in so it works somewhere. You 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.040 don't do that now, No, No, I don't know. You 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:38.040 know I always tell men when they fought around other men, 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.560 I say, that's a form of flirting, So I guess 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:41.880 it's kind of the same thing. Yeah, I mean, would 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.880 you want to a man to know what you askmell like, well, 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:49.679 I don't. I don't be thinking about that man that. Seriously, 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:50.960 you have to be with a female the fart in 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.640 front of her. I mean, you gotta be uh yeah, 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.800 you gotta know where you gotta You ain't gonna do 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.000 that in the first like a couple of months, a 0:04:58.040 --> 0:04:59.680 month or two. You know what I'm saying. You gotta 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:01.440 you to be cool. What a bad for her to 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.320 do that in front of you? Is that something that 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.279 you're like? I mean, eventually if she if she if 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.919 she like, we really cool, but then I'm with it. 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:18.719 But at first she ain't gonna be doing it. People, 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:27.560 something happened the good people. I always wondered about Glory. 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.560 When did y'all write that record because it seems so 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:33.160 timely with everything that's going on with police brutality. Yeah, 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:34.839 you know, just the way we need to seem like 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.400 we needed that record as the people. When when did 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.280 you write that record? Um? We wrote it like it 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:43.719 was like October because Ava Douvna, who directed the movie, 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:45.720 she was talking to me about doing the song, but 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.720 they was busy editing. So I was like, Okay, one day, 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:50.640 I just like, man, let me call John Legend. We 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.240 just get started on the song and he started it up. 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.600 I told him the title Glory was one of them, 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.560 and he sent me to the music like he sent 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.640 me the piano, him singing, I just out of working 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:02.680 on that joint. We wrote that joint quick though. It 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.240 was in the height of everything. Yeah, he gave it 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.680 a really powerful speech at the Oscars. But some people, 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:09.880 for whatever reason, we're upset about it. Like I saw 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.400 people saying, oh, you know, how dare he say these things? 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.039 I couldn't understand that. Yeah, I mean, you know, you 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.400 know you can't keep everybody happy. I've been having more 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.520 people come up to me and like, you know, be like, man, 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:23.760 that speech meant something to me. You know. I've had 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.200 people saying they they was crying about it. So it's 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:27.880 like at the end of the day, I know you 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:29.760 ain't gonna please everybody. I said it because that's what 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.000 it was on my mind, and I think John John 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.600 had something important to say too, So we just took 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.560 that moment to be like. We didn't even give no 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.960 shouts out of no thank you. We were just like, look, 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.240 we're gonna say something that. Yeah, you also said I 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.360 saw the People magazine that you're being known for the 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.600 thing you want to be known for, Like exactly what 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.400 is that thing? Now? Yeah, I mean just like standing 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.840 for something and represent hip hop in a certain way 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.400 and really, man, shoot, I'm a person of guy, so 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.159 I'm gonna reflect that and just being known for like 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.680 standing up, speaking up for certain things, and being, you know, 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.680 a person that's trying to bring people together. Really. Now, 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.680 Jay congratulated you on social media. Did you ever speak 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.240 to him after that? Yeah? I told him. I told him, man. 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.200 I was like, I said, man, you know, we got 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.000 that golden glowed. And then they said right after we 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.400 got the stage, you know, they told us they was like, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.640 Jay just tweeted glory. And then I told Jay, I 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.080 was like, man, when I see now, I was like, 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:28.960 we made it, like Jay tweeted us, we made it right. 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:30.840 I was you know I was geek man because he 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.920 was real. He was real supportive. He was like when 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.840 I saw him the night after the Oscar, He's like, man, 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.800 don't put that Oscar down. Man, you did this for us. 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.280 Like he was like he was overjoyed about me winning, 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.800 and I was like, Man, I appreciate it, you know 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:46.880 the love. Yeah, yeah, ever worked with each other? Do 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.360 a record? Man? I want to Man, that's that dude 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.320 obviously one of the greatest, and he like for me, Man, 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.280 he's still be snapping on the raps, like absolutely, So 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.480 I would love a rocket hole. Is that what you meant? 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.360 A fan asked you or what's on your bucket list 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:00.960 that you haven't done? Yeah, hip hop and you said, 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.880 jay Z, yeah, I love a rock song and we 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.720 never did nothing, so yeah, that'd be right. I'm I'm 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.520 supposed to work with YEA two on some stuff. We've 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.600 been talking about getting getting up on some more music. Yeah, 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.080 back right, I said, you know, I wanted Jesus to 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.440 be like his Electric Circus. Yeah. Didn't he come back 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.480 with the b Yeah, he coming back. And see three 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.440 for three right now, the Only One and the All 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.320 Day and the Wolves. Man that that All Day I 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.960 love that and wolves, and I like how you know 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.600 he's giving it up for like Vic Mensa, Like, you 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.160 know some of the youngest from from Chicago, it's just 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:38.000 it's dope. Man. You embraced chance to wrap him as well. Yeah, 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.400 told us I think your grandmother cooled. Yeah, our grandmother's cool, 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.200 so I you know, our grandmother was like, man, you 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.360 know it's this it's this kid. You know, my friend 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.880 got her grandson rapped. Can you just say something to him? 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.959 So I hit him up and he wasn't a chance 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:53.600 to wrap it him. Maybe that was his name, but 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.160 I just hit him up and just gave him a 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.280 little inspiration. But he dope too, man. Chance that you 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.520 probably get a lot of that in Chicago though, commence 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:06.880 this rapper. Yeah, for sure, I definitely get it, you know, 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.560 but I feel like it's my duty to be able 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.240 to give it give it up for some of the 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.120 for some of the new generation coming up as far 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.120 as just in hip hop, especially coming from Chicago. I 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.720 feel like, man, we didn't open some doors. It's up 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.520 to us. That's why I'm honoring like what they're doing, 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.440 whether it's a little baby, whether it's little herb or 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:30.440 Dirk or or Chance and Vic Misson. Also this this 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.080 Friday's your birthday. So what are you doing with you 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.000 on your birthday? And who are you doing it with? Man? 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.760 We gonna I'm really just gonna kick it with my team, man, 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:38.960 because we are. We've been in like a lot of 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.880 celebratory modes since things ain't popping, So I ain't gonna 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.080 do too much. Yeah, yeah, I am going to movies 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.440 to see Run all night. Yeah. I think that would 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.440 be a great idea to go on your birthday. Surprise 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.840 people show up. Man, y'all gotta see me in this movie. 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:58.320 I'm like a crazy, like hit man, like crazy, it's dope, 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.240 and I'm going like go at it with Liam Neeson 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.880 like we we we go toe to toe. It's dope. Man, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.839 Like that's a scratch, Like you're not from Chicago. I 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:12.000 ain't never seeing you slap somebody down bringing up up, 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.800 remember when that's common sense? Cannot do you know? I 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.560 saw him slap somebody a little bit. Always bring things 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.200 that common is done. And you want to talk about 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:28.040 him slapping some time it inspires, It doesn't inspire it all. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.600 Somebody come from that and tell the story for somebody 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:35.360 who hasn't heard it, slap somebody the dude heckling him 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:39.360 in you started freestyling, and then mister the freestyle you smacked, Like, wow, 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.640 it didn't stop freestyle. Is there anything that anybody could 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.240 do now that could make you want to smack them? 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.520 I ain't. I ain't. I ain't even try to get it. 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.160 Ain't worked it, you know what I mean? Unless you 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.640 was doing something my daughter or something that's goed like 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.520 it's offending my family like that. Then otherwise it's like, man, 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.800 come like people will be saying certain things, and I 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.199 mean a lot of people don't say nothing too crazy, 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.880 but if they say something i'd be a cool they'll 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:05.160 never say a dear faith. So it just be on 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.200 social media. See it in the wall show with your 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:08.800 daughter and say something slick did. But they're not gonna 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:14.520 that's true. Now, why didn't y'all let lettice sing, take 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.560 my hand, pressure, let me let me say, let me 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.760 say no, let me tell you, like, first of all, 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.840 it was like the Grammys put together the performance and 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:25.719 they choose, you know who they want. I don't think 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.120 the idea. The idea wasn't even um. I don't think 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.480 the idea was like lettuces or idea. That wasn't the idea. 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.640 I think it was the Grammys about how they would 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.440 place what they wanted Beyonce to do it. That was 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.000 between them that and they just said, yo, we're gonna 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.000 tie this in with the whole Glory and the Selma 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.760 were given a tribute to Semmer. So, you know, Lettucee 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.240 did a thing and Beyonce did her thing too. Man, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.280 I was like, she she she does. She never a 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.880 choice like Okay, look, you know we want to sing 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.000 this song. Lettucey did it in the movie, we want 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.319 to Beyonce to do it. Yeah. No, that wasn't the idea. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.640 The idea was more that came from the Grammys and 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.800 and some maybe somebody in Beyonce's camp. So it was 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.320 never like a choice, got you. Yeah. Now, I feel 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.000 like there's so many artists out here that are like 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.360 flash in the pan. You know, they might have a 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.480 big single right now and not have the longevity that 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.000 somebody like Common has had. You know, what are some 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:17.720 advice that you could give people so that they can 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.240 just keep on evolving, because you definitely have evolved from 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.880 the beginning of your career. People considered you like, you know, 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:26.880 an underground rapper to being somebody that just has evolved 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:34.719 into you know, to give some free advice now, some 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.760 advice to some of these up and coming artists so 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:38.200 that they can know what do they need to do 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.320 to be consistent and to stay relevant. Yeah, I mean 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.240 I think you can't be afraid to change sometimes, Like 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.160 say you came like you came out saying one thing. 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.560 We all grow, we all like evolved as human beings, 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:51.360 she said, like your grandmother, Like can you call that 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.080 young boy if you was on the phone with one 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.640 of these kids right now. I mean too, it's like 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.360 you kind of want to you want to find your voice, 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.040 like you to just be imitating everybody else out there, 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.439 because you will be that run of the male artists 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.120 that we just you know you're here and then they 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.080 just fly by night. If you get something, bring something unique, 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.559 because even with Charlomagne saying like, yo, man, we thought 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.800 the Jesus was his was Jay's electric circus. Jaya bring 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:17.800 you something each time to make you keep you on 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.640 your toes, like if we if you know, like this 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.400 artist is gonna do the same thing. And they only 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.680 fifth album at the while you like it's like it's 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.240 like a woman that ain't like you know, y'all doing 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.880 the same position anytime, you know you want to flip it, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:32.920 you know what I mean? Yeah, you go back to 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.440 comment would saying he doesn't have a girlfriend to celebrate 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.559 with to celebrate his birthday with on Friday, so you're 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.320 gonna spend him with the team. Yeah, I'm spending with 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.000 the team. And you know I'm a single guy right now. 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.920 Life is life is great. Speaking of sex, how does 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:51.679 it feel to watch the Roger every Wednesday? I mean, 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.600 I don't watch Empire all the time, not because it's 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:56.719 the show is funny, man, I love it. Man, it's 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.480 a good show. Um, But I'm I don't really watch 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.360 CV that must to be honest. But did you see 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.320 the episode when she walked out and he asked, was out? 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.679 But to ROGI doing a thing. That's one thing I 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.120 gotta say. I did see when she beat us song 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.120 with a broom, and I kind of I was like, man, 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.560 this she going in YO, people love her. I got 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.719 more power. I'm saying more power to her. She doing 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.440 nothing and she and my na in my hometown, so 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.200 they hold it down. She she came to this festival 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.560 we had called the I Fest, where I had like 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.680 Yae perform and and Loupe and Little Herb. It was 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.480 like a festival for Chicago. We was raising money for 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.600 our programs and stuff. Ya's programming everything. Yeah, shout out 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.680 to Ryan Fest too, because he was really behind a 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:39.480 lot of that. You say, you singing, but she like, 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.600 you're looking from good ones get away. I know it's 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:49.000 been some good hey man. I mean Washington that's a 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:50.880 good one. But you But I'm saying, all these women 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.240 are doing great huge. It's kind of like once you 0:14:54.360 --> 0:15:04.200 day coming, you go on to becoming elevate. I elevate them, 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.680 but Serena. But Serena had a lot of stuff before. 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.160 But but I elevate them. That's all it is. Yet 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.080 hit TV shows after they all text you, like when 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:15.600 you wanted to ask, did you look at your phone? 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.440 It was like Carrie, I mean, they definitely give love, 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:22.640 like to Rogie, she didn't tweeted before. After the Golden Glow, 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.080 she gave us a shout out of that's what. That's 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:26.760 the one thing I ain't end off on. No bad 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:30.880 notes that everybody. Yeah, okay, how close are you to 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.520 play in the Green Landing. Man. Man, I'm hoping that 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:38.080 it happens because, like I know, they rebooting The Justice League, 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.480 and if they if they decide to do like that 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.120 Green Landing John Stewart, the Black version. Man, I'm hoping 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.200 they come to me. I'm definitely gonna fights you just 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.640 I'm just I'm doing no, I've been um, I'm doing 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.320 two other movies that I'm about to start, and then 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:57.200 I'm producing and gonna starting this TV show, but specifically 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.160 for the Green Landing. I ain't got no call. You 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:04.920 got to fight that role. I know. Yeah, I ain't 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.360 mad on it. Go forward. What's this TV show? This 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.360 TV show is I can't really talk all about it, 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.680 but it's it's dope. I'm the lead of it, and 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:17.760 it's like it's gonna be real good. It's kind of yeah, 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.880 it's something here and something we put together. No, No, 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.240 it's more it's it's gonna be based in the world 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.160 that y'all gonna love. It's really dope. The I'm the 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.320 League and we're producing it. It's gonna be You still 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.280 love music. It seems like you love the acting in 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.120 the movies. You still love music, man, I love music. 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.640 Part of the movie that he was in. Yeah, but 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.080 you know, I ain't in front. I do like writing 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.840 music for different things, like now when I'm working on 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.520 the project where I want to Liken make a short 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.680 film to it and maybe eventually like put it on 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.440 Broadway or something like. I like having thinking of doing 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:57.280 music in different ways. So um, yeah, I love doing music. Though. Man, 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.800 it's like, man, every time I get around, like when 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.080 we rapping and cat saying some dope rhymes, I'll be like, yeah, 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.280 all right, that's all. Is it pressure to win an 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:09.320 Oscar for acting? Um? I don't think it's pressure, but 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.520 I wanted. I want to do that. I want to 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.680 I want to get like a Grammy where I got 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:16.840 the Grammys. I want to get Oscar. I want to Emmy, 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:18.800 and I want to Tony. It's like it's called the 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.200 egot and it's only a few people to ever walk 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.000 the earth to that have done that. So that's one 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.399 I got to go go. Yeah, I got to go 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:30.560 to go Oscar the Grammy. But you know the Tony Award. 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.280 I mean I would have to win doing theater and 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:35.520 then Emmy. I would have to win for something on TV. 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:40.200 So going forward. You went from can I borrow a dollar? 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.560 To mom, I want to Oscar? Yes, like when you 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.840 were thinking about nothing that's growing up in Chicago. Nah, man, 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:46.720 I mean that's the That's the thing about it. It's 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.640 like I just wanted to be heard as an MC. 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.560 I wanted like car Rush one and and day I 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.600 sold to know who I am, like be coming to 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:59.399 New York Rocket shows. And then it just kept I 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.639 mean no, I wasn't. I mean we Twister was the 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:04.880 first artist out, and then I came next, and we 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.160 had to had to fight to get that respect. That's 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:08.920 why I even name the album Cannot Bought a Dollar, 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:10.639 because I was saying, can't we get our respect? Can 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:14.040 we get some love? But then, you know, eventually, as 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.040 I became an actor, I was like, man, I want 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.240 to Oscar. I want to Oscar. I was thinking about that, 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:20.040 and who would have known. I would have got it 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.360 through music, but I wouldn't have wanted it no other 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.400 way than to be up there representing with Glory and Selma. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.560 You know, of course I would like to get it 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:29.800 as an actor too, but for us to be able 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.800 to say, look, man, we up there represent this, like 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.840 you know, the movement like and hip hop. What was 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:37.440 that turn where you went from music and said I 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.800 want to start acting? That was like that was around 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.879 the Electric Circus time, like House Like. It was a 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.480 little before like Electric Circus. But I just was getting 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.719 bored with hip hop. I was like, I gotta do 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:51.440 something else like and I'd already been into I did 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.000 some plays when I was younger, but then when I 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.439 did to play my mother, and everybody wasn't saying like 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:58.680 I was fresh, So I just stopped acting. But then 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:03.200 then I just decided I was. I started taking classes, man, 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.720 I was going to classes being on tour. I would 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.160 come home just take classes, and then I started going 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.920 on auditions. I just loved acting, and I was like, man, 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.520 it's something I really feel, like like I feel music. 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:15.600 I feel just as passionate about it. You even look 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.000 at some of your old auditions tastes like, oh man, 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:19.919 I look at some of my old films I've been 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.280 in and be like, damn, I could have did. I 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.760 don't care what nobody my joint I can't talk about 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:31.840 I know, but I'm right man. Thank you many That 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:33.880 girl tries to come back to you after you got 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.200