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Speaker 1: Quest Love Supreme is production of iHeartRadio. This classic episode

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Speaker 1: was produced by the team at Pandora.

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Speaker 2: Quest Love Supreme. Ma contained language that some of our

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Speaker 2: listeners may find offensive. Listener discretion is advised.

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Speaker 1: What's up, y'all, Welcome to QLs Classic. This is Questlove.

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Speaker 1: We did the Bobby Brown episode I believe in the

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Speaker 1: summer of twenty and eighteen. This is right before his

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Speaker 1: BET two Parts special came on, way after the new

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Speaker 1: edition BT Special came on, And of course his story

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Speaker 1: alone bananas, and that's putting it lightly, especially the parts

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Speaker 1: about Miss Jackson.

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Speaker 3: It was nasty anyway. For me.

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Speaker 1: I think it was also important not to just focus

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Speaker 1: on the salacious, controversial side to mister Brown, Like there's

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Speaker 1: other sides to him that people don't know about. So

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Speaker 1: for us, it's like a way to humanize him more

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Speaker 1: than he normally is in other interviews. And I think

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Speaker 1: we did a pretty good job at covering both of them.

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Speaker 1: Uh So, this is the Bobby Brown QLs Classic episode.

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Speaker 3: I hope you enjoy it.

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Speaker 4: Suprema Son Supremo. Roll call, Suprema So Supremo. Roll call

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Speaker 4: Suprema Son Son Supremo. Roll called Suprema Son Son Suprema.

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Speaker 3: My name is Questloud, that's what they call me.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Supremo, Suprema roll Suprema s Suprema roll.

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Speaker 6: My name is Fante. Yeah, I'm getting my bread. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: because I made this money.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you did right there, Son Supremo roll call subpremer

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Speaker 4: Son Subpremo roll call.

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Speaker 3: Her name is Sugar. Yeah, I'm gonna show you how. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Just stay in this corner. Yeah and cool it now.

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Speaker 4: Supreme roll call Subprema Son Son Subpremo roll call.

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Speaker 7: Here's one thing. Yeah, lost Bill wants to know. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: did you ever get that proton pack?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? For your little bro.

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Speaker 4: Supprime up sucking Supreme roll Supreme suck something Supremo roll call.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: And Bobby so nice. Yeah, I know I'm gonna love you.

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Speaker 8: Yeah for most of the Malays.

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Speaker 4: Supprima son Suck Supprimo roll Suprema So Supremo roll call.

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Speaker 3: Her name is Bobby. Yeah, he's just Jess. Yeah, here

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Speaker 3: chilling with my man, Quest.

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Speaker 4: Come on, Son Supremo, roll call, Suprema something Supremo roll call,

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Speaker 4: Suprema so so Supprima roll call Suprima Son Supremo.

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Speaker 1: I'm up I'm up, Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another

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Speaker 1: episode of Course Love Supreme.

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Speaker 3: I am quest Love. What's up Team Supreme?

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Speaker 8: Some fucking awesome awesome Sorry this number.

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Speaker 6: One like this is this is why we started this

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Speaker 6: podcast exactly for moments like this, straight up, straight up,

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Speaker 6: ladies and gentlemen, Our guest.

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Speaker 3: Today is simply the Kang King. Hey, yeah, the King Inger.

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Speaker 9: Stage, King of Rocksbury, Weird Kango fried Chicken. Yes, oh yeah,

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Speaker 9: got that, King of Pregatives.

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Speaker 6: I want to thank Bobby Brown for introducing the word

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Speaker 6: prerogative to the community.

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Speaker 3: I did not know what that word was. That word

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Speaker 3: you have to really understand something. I didn't know what

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Speaker 3: the word was at first. I even spelled the word

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Speaker 3: wrong on the record, and the dictionary corrected it in

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Speaker 3: the dictionary. Wow, So they rewrote it like I said

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Speaker 3: it and like I spelled it, So it was just

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Speaker 3: like it was. It was weird for me. I was

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Speaker 3: because it's prerogative. It's not perrogative. It's prerogative. That's the

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Speaker 3: that's the proper way to say. But they changed it

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Speaker 3: in the dictionary to be King of Webster's Brown. Thank

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Speaker 3: you for having me, brother sister. Wait a minute, So

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Speaker 3: the way I've been spelling prerogative has been wrong, has

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Speaker 8: But the whole world, the whole world.

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Speaker 3: He introduced that word to the world. Who knew what

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Speaker 3: the proprocative was? What is that?

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Speaker 7: But you know what, it's sure as hell came in

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Speaker 7: handy when I was had to take the vocabulary test.

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Speaker 7: What's his eight year old boy know what a progative is?

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Speaker 3: Bobby Brown? Bobby Brown, So you do. I'm wonderful, man,

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm just I'm just happy today. Last night we

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Speaker 3: had the first viewing, the first premier of the Bobby

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Speaker 3: McLean is He's Bobby? Is you? Yeah? Yeah, I'm I'm

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Speaker 3: the tours. Yeah, send my check back. What's wrong with it?

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Speaker 1: What is the process of especially I mean this being

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Speaker 3: Like? How long did it take him to well? With

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Speaker 3: with with me and Woody? Me and Woody got to

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Speaker 3: we knew that we couldn't find somebody else that could

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Speaker 3: And we called him up and me and him had

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Speaker 3: and he developed all of my mannerisms. He hung out

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Speaker 3: I'm just, you know, I try to keep them far

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Speaker 3: away from each other. But no, wood he's just he's

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Speaker 3: just a great kid, and he's very extremely talented. And

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Speaker 3: I just thought that, you know what, let's get this

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Speaker 3: saw and he's about to he's about to saw.

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Speaker 2: Now, did you use the same younger guy from the

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Speaker 3: I had to. I had to keep it. I had

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Speaker 3: just it was just meant to be. You know, the

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Speaker 3: you know, the role of being Bobby and and knowing

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Speaker 3: You know, I think gave them a lot of confidence

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Speaker 3: how do you play this strange character. And they pulled

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Speaker 8: How does the younger how does the younger Bobby? Who

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Speaker 3: He goes to me, He goes to me and my

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Speaker 3: You know, isn't that my man from a Stranger things? Yes? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No.

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Speaker 3: pull it back, pull it back, you know, don't don't

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Speaker 3: cry in front of all of these people. So what angle.

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Speaker 1: Or approach did you take to tell in your life

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Speaker 1: story that was different than the new edition biopicking because

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Speaker 1: I know when you first came it was like when

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Speaker 3: Yes, this deals with the first time I experienced tragedy,

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Speaker 3: the first time that I lost someone in my life.

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Speaker 3: When I was young. I was just a child and

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Speaker 3: I had lost my grandmother and right after my grandmother,

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Speaker 3: just I was done, I mean done. Because she was

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Speaker 3: She had every record, every album of every artist in

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Speaker 3: it's the first scene. So me and Jimmy, we steal

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Speaker 3: I asked Michael Bivens that he wanted to in my

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Speaker 3: heard Ralph singing, I just lost it. I was like, okay, okay, okay,

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Speaker 3: So I eventually put myself in the background a little bit.

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Speaker 3: ever in the history, which is the Jackson's, and us

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Speaker 3: coming behind them was just everything. Then we met Ronnie

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Speaker 3: from our choreographer, Brooke Payne. How did you How did

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Speaker 3: you who officially met Brooke Payne? Me, Michael and Ricky. Yeah, me,

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Speaker 3: Michael and Ricky went up to him and we was like,

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Speaker 1: What I always loved about you guys was that, you know,

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Speaker 3: And that's how we looked at it. That you know,

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Speaker 3: Guys No Planet Patrol. They were older and all of that.

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Speaker 3: So we were just like, okay, Maurice just put us

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Speaker 3: because I've only seen that. The Colonel Prince, how was

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Speaker 2: Wow, was he doing old to somebody or he was

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Speaker 2: just was he doing old to somebody like his grandpapa

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Speaker 3: You know that was just Maurice. What was what was

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Speaker 1: Because I got admit, when y'all gave a shout out

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Speaker 3: I knew it, knew Michael. I knew it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, when I was, when I was younger, I was

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Speaker 3: course she snuck me was at your spot. Oh, I

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Speaker 10: I remember you, but I remember this one kid, one

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Speaker 3: That I was. I was like, that's me.

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Speaker 2: So did you always have this confidence? Like you said,

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Speaker 3: Yeah I was. I've never been shy about anything. I

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Speaker 3: You know, there's no reason to hold anything that God

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Speaker 3: He was on the show a while back and he

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Speaker 6: He was like, man, Bobby was like a prize fighter.

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Speaker 6: He was like, he said, Bob will come out. He

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Speaker 6: I don't play I don't play with that. I do

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Speaker 6: not play with that.

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Speaker 3: When it comes to being our stage, a whole total

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Speaker 3: And your dances? What were their names? It was pop?

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Speaker 3: was the name? I didn't know? So I didn't Black

433
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:58,399
Speaker 3: Mysteries unlocked right here Bobby's dance and so, okay, did you.

434
00:25:58,440 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 8: Turn into in that way?

435
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 3: Did you way with your yes and no at the

436
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 3: same time, because you know, I mean when we was

437
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 3: rehearsing with Brooke, I mean we had to rehearse in

438
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 3: a really hot, smoke filled room because Brooks chained smoked

439
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 3: Newports during our whole rehearsal. So it was just like

440
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 3: and it was like ninety degrees up in there, so

441
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 3: we were sweating and all we was doing was breathing

442
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 3: in Newports. And it's a shot that only me and

443
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 3: Ralph turned out to be smokers. Nobody else but me

444
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 3: and Ralph turned out, you know, to stop smoking after

445
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 3: you know, several years of just being in the room

446
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:52,880
Speaker 3: like hand inhaling all of that. So you know, other

447
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 3: than that, you know, Brooke was always just He's a

448
00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 3: stickler for you know, perfection. With my guys, I was

449
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 3: just I was the type to tell them to dance loose,

450
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 3: but dance but dance tight. You know, always be in

451
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 3: formation and follow me, you know, because I might do something.

452
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 3: I might do something slick and out of the step

453
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 3: of what the actual step is, and I need you

454
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 3: all to remember it so the next show they will

455
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 3: remember the slick, build on and build on and build on.

456
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,119
Speaker 3: So it just got it just started growing, and we

457
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 3: got closer, and it was just we were able to

458
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 3: read each other when we were on stage, and that

459
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 3: was a good part. Then we got Mecca and the

460
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 3: La Connection dancers, which were you know, uh, four girls

461
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 3: from New York, four girls from l A and we

462
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,160
Speaker 3: put them together. It was a lot of fights though,

463
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 3: it was like the Bloods and the Cribs. Yeah, Leslie

464
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:06,679
Speaker 3: was the big less on Facebook occasion.

465
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 2: Can you just tell me this is always a mystery

466
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 2: to me. Who was the girl who was always in

467
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 2: the videos with the short cut, slender brown skin. But

468
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,880
Speaker 2: she was in my prerogative and she had the short hair.

469
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 8: She was planked.

470
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,199
Speaker 3: Oh that's Cloudsier, Okay, because you used to see her.

471
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 8: She had an error. I felt like, huh, I felt

472
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 8: like she had an era like she was she.

473
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 3: Videos after that.

474
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm sure she had an aura.

475
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 11: But I just I was about to, you know, but

476
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 11: I hold it back back, you know, but you know,

477
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 11: you did skip a decade.

478
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 8: So I'm sorry.

479
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 2: I was.

480
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 3: My mind fast forward. You know, it's good. It's all good.

481
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: So for me, even even though I know what what

482
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: the initial by a pic had depicted, but how well,

483
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: what I want to do is, first of all, what

484
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 1: was the what's the term he used with Randy? Oh,

485
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: the click? What was the what was as far as

486
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: like your your new addition situation? Who were the clicks?

487
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: Like who was who was your friend in the band

488
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: that you were close to?

489
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 3: We were all all clicks at certain times, you know,

490
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 3: at certain times of the day, I would be with

491
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 3: like Ronnie, you know, playing cards or something like that.

492
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 3: Then there was certain times that me and Ralph would

493
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 3: you know, be kicking it and just doing what we do,

494
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 3: you know, goofing off and stuff like that, going to

495
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 3: buy water guns and you know, spraying everybody on the tour.

496
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 3: Then it was me and Mike, who's the who's the thinker.

497
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 3: He's like a big think tank. So you know, I'd

498
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 3: like to pick his brain every now and then. You know,

499
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 3: and then Ricky, Ricky's just Ricky is just Ricky. You know,

500
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 3: you just get around Ricky and Ricky just he's quiet.

501
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 3: If you say something, he'll agree with you. And that's

502
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 3: just how Ricky is. Ricky agrees with, you know, most

503
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 3: of the things that everybody says. But he's super intelligent.

504
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 3: He knows what's right and what's wrong. And that's where

505
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 3: you that's who you go to to tell if there's

506
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 3: three against two and a vote, you go to Ricky,

507
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 3: and he's a swing vote. Yeah, he's a swing vote.

508
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 3: You know, you got to get to him. Ronnie always

509
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 3: seemed to just be so cool man. He's one of

510
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 3: the most laid back dudes in the world. I'm so

511
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 3: proud of him. He just had twins. Yeah, yeah, I mean,

512
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 3: you know, I'm just really proud of him. He knows,

513
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 3: he knows what he wants, and he knows how to

514
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 3: go get it. You know, he's he's bought so much

515
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 3: property in Detroit that is incredible.

516
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 8: I mean, then he's starting Atlanta and he moves he's

517
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 8: now moving to.

518
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 3: He started it, he started his his his business in Atlanta.

519
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 3: But he's yes buying, buying land in different places. And

520
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 3: I commend him because Detroit is about to get a

521
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 3: whole big facelift. You know, Japanese, Chinese or I don't know,

522
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 3: the Japanese are going into. Japanese put like ten billion

523
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 3: dollars into already Detroit already, and it's like build industries,

524
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 3: build industries, you know, the Forward Company, all of that,

525
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 3: all of that's being rebuilt up and there'll be more

526
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 3: jobs and the homes will shoot up. You know, it's

527
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 3: almost about to be. So I recommend that for most

528
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 3: people out there listening, go buy you some property. Go

529
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 3: buy you some property in Detroit and watch it and

530
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 3: just sit on it for a little while.

531
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 8: Out rent the community, you know. You know what I'm saying.

532
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 3: About gentrification, havitable, It is coming a little at what

533
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 3: they're selling them houses like five thousand dollars.

534
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 8: Flip those.

535
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 3: It's going to be. That's the name of it. Yeah,

536
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 3: that's business. Let's call it Ronnie right now.

537
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: So when when you guys first started touring and traveling, HM,

538
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: I first saw you guys at I think you're a

539
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: valid for it's music fair. Okay, you did a bunch

540
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: of like these small venues where uh, where the stage

541
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: is always in the center or whatever. I forget, Yeah,

542
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: what you're this was? I think there's like eighty three

543
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: eighty four. But how how did that affect you as

544
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: far as like finally making it out of out of

545
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: Boston and did you feel like, Okay, we finally made

546
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: it or yeah, probably so.

547
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 3: We used to before before Candy Girl became a number

548
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 3: one record, we would come to New York. We would

549
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 3: go to New York and we would perform like five

550
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 3: shows a night. We would play all five bottles, and

551
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 3: we would start at like eleven at night and we

552
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 3: would just go to each We used to go to

553
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 3: each club or each roller skating rin and just play

554
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 3: from from eleven o'clock all the way to six that morning.

555
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 3: We will get in We would finally get in bed

556
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 3: by six that morning and get some rest and do

557
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 3: it again on Saturday. And then Sunday we would get

558
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 3: all into this station wag excuse me, the station wagon

559
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 3: and we would drive back to Boston. How old are

560
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 3: you at this time? Like fourteen fifteen? Couldn't even drive

561
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 3: it fourteen damn your homework done in the car. So

562
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 3: it was required, like tutors and all that stuff. Tutors

563
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 3: were required. My mom wasn't letting me not, you know,

564
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:58,959
Speaker 3: get my education. She didn't play that. Yo.

565
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 2: The way that they they played your moms out in

566
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 2: the movie amazing.

567
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 3: Was this where do you see this? The same? Just

568
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 3: the same. Yes, Sandy McCree was Sandy McCree. And we

569
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 3: have T. K. Carter playing my father whow where we

570
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 3: bound him? But he is playing the hell out of

571
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 3: my father and he knew my father, so you know,

572
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 3: it was just like it was just like so great

573
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 3: that he came to that that try out for the movie.

574
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 3: And when they told us it was T. K. Carter,

575
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,320
Speaker 3: I was like, that's him because I was going I

576
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 3: was going for a John Witherspoon or somebody like that.

577
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 3: I was going for John Witherspoon because my father was hilarious.

578
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:56,439
Speaker 3: I mean just just hilarious. He would do the whole

579
00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 3: coordinate thing. He loved the dress. You know, he was

580
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 3: just that man. He was just that man that kept

581
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 3: everybody laughing in the house. Everybody that met my father

582
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 3: called them pops. Everybody everybody in the projects just called

583
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 3: them pops.

584
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 6: When you started working on your first album on King

585
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 6: of Stage, my man Lavel we were talking off Mike

586
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 6: Homie Lavell Molten, he's a basketball coach at my alma mater.

587
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 6: He was telling me that you used to pass out.

588
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 6: He was passing out tapes like back in the hood.

589
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 6: Like even though what was that like, man, it was

590
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:38,760
Speaker 6: tapes in some other things. Anyway, it wasn't just tapes.

591
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 6: Probably tapes had packages in there.

592
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 3: But that that was the time when you know, I

593
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 3: was put out a new addition, and you know, I

594
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 3: had one chance to you know, do it again. I

595
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 3: never gave up on myself, but at the same time,

596
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 3: the only way for me to survive at that time

597
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 3: was to sell drugs and do what I had to

598
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 3: do to you know, keep my sanity, you know, from

599
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 3: not making the little bit of money that we was

600
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 3: making on the tours. I had to find a way

601
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 3: to make money to take care of my baby boy.

602
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 3: I had a baby boy, so I had to you know,

603
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:27,240
Speaker 3: have some type of income. And yeah, but when Girlfriend

604
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 3: hit and it was a number one record and I

605
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 3: was able to tour and stuff, and that just opened

606
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,399
Speaker 3: it opened the door up for me to be able

607
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 3: to do another record, and then Little Solace Junr introduced

608
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 3: me to Kenny Babyface Edmonds in La Reid and I

609
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,240
Speaker 3: just was like what. And when you see the movie

610
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 3: you'll know why I said what, because they were they

611
00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 3: was yeah, they was just totally dress wrong, you know,

612
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 3: and you know the thing all right hair, they thought makeup,

613
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 3: and it was just like I was like, dude, I

614
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 3: was like, come in, guys, right, come in, man, come in,

615
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 3: please please tell me I don't have to work with them.

616
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: With I know I know where you were trying to

617
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: go because when I purchased King of Stage, I knew

618
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: it's worried that even though I didn't know what a

619
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: new Jack swing was in nineteen eighty six, because technically

620
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: where they had been it yet, right, I kind of

621
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 1: knew what you were going for because you know, you

622
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 1: were like be boxing on some of the songs that

623
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 1: Larry Black, you know, but it was how hard I

624
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: can tell where you.

625
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 3: Were trying to go with it.

626
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 1: But either technology or maybe Teddy just had a better

627
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: vision on how to make that shit bund right. So,

628
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: especially like with the title cut, which I thought the

629
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: title cut was like, Okay, that's the closest thing to

630
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,879
Speaker 1: a Houdini or a run DMC sound. Did it ever

631
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: occur to you to ask U who produced yeah, Larry Smith?

632
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: Did it ever occur to you to go to Larry Smith?

633
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 3: Who you know?

634
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 1: His work with Houdini and run DMC was like the

635
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,399
Speaker 1: closest thing to an R and B hip hop mess

636
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: that there was Like, did you get a choice in

637
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: saying I want to work with them?

638
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 3: Them them? Or was Lou Silace just like Nope, you

639
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 3: can know Black Lou Silas was like this. He was.

640
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:31,359
Speaker 3: He was basically, if you work with these people, then

641
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 3: you could work with whoever you wanted to work with.

642
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 3: And that's what he told me about working with La

643
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 3: and Face. Okay, so my first my first person, I said.

644
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 3: I told him, I said, well, I gotta go fly

645
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,360
Speaker 3: to New York and I got to work with Teddy Riley.

646
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 3: How did you know about Teddy? Because Teddy meuse he

647
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 3: was he was in a boys group kids kids will

648
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,919
Speaker 3: work and he used to just I used to see

649
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 3: him all the time walking with this cassio key and

650
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 3: he used to always I would stop him at Raise

651
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 3: Pizza right there fifty seven just stop him and just

652
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 3: be listening to some of the grooves he had, and

653
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 3: it was just like it was just meant to be,

654
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:15,760
Speaker 3: you know. And he was telling me he was starting

655
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 3: up a new group called Guy and you know, he

656
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,359
Speaker 3: had just finished working with this this guy called Keith

657
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,240
Speaker 3: Sweat and he played me that and I was like, okay.

658
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 3: I was like, well, I got some tracks that I

659
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 3: want you to hear. And I had this one baseline

660
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 3: that I couldn't I couldn't, couldn't do anything with and

661
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 3: it was Prerogatives baseline. And Teddy came with this groove man,

662
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 3: that was just it just it just fits so perfectly.

663
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 3: And then I met Aaron and me and Aaron just

664
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 3: just click like this, Yeah, Aaron Hall, we just clicked.

665
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 3: I went on the subway for the first time in

666
00:39:55,960 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 3: New York City with him to Brooklyn and we basically

667
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 3: wrote the lyrics to Prerogative on that subway. Yes, yes,

668
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 3: I didn't know, though thought y'all did.

669
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 8: I don't want to seem stupid, But.

670
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 3: Jene Griffin came and messed that up right. Yeah, took

671
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 3: all of the credit on the record. Because Teddy was

672
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 3: in a litigation with I guess two people who whoever

673
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 3: he had signed He had signed a production deal with somebody,

674
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 3: and Jeene Griffin put it under his name so that

675
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 3: Teddy can receive something, you know, from prerogative. And then

676
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 3: Teddy got his you know, publishing and all of this

677
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 3: stuff back. So you know, Jean did a great thing

678
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 3: for him. You know, he held he held him down

679
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 3: and he helped him, you know, you know, be the

680
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 3: businessman that he is. Oh. I always thought it was

681
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 3: a thing where he just jack Yes, No, he didn't

682
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 3: jock him. He didn't jock him. He was He was

683
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 3: very much taken care of Teddy as well as he

684
00:40:58,239 --> 00:40:58,919
Speaker 3: possibly could.

685
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: I mean, knowing no one can planned for the phenomenon

686
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: that was, don't be cruel, like nobody saw it coming

687
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: thirty years ago. But did you did you really feel

688
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: as though because even in my mind, like I'm just

689
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: thinking like, okay, there's Michael, there's Prince, no one else,

690
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 1: and you know, I just thinking like everyone else is underly,

691
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: But it's suddenly like the people that you grow up

692
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 1: idolizing now you're pushing them to the side a little bit.

693
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 3: So what was that transition? Like, Like, have you ever

694
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 3: personally met Michael Jackson and had interaction. What was that like?

695
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 5: It was?

696
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 3: It was? It was great. I met him when I

697
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 3: was with the new audition. He invited a new addition

698
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 3: to his home and we hung out with him the

699
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:47,280
Speaker 3: whole day. I mean, it was just it was just crazy.

700
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 3: All the book and animals. What can you tell the

701
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 3: story about from the book about him chasing LaToya and

702
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 3: jennit around? Yeah, wait, what happened? Well, we were all

703
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 3: running around and we were chasing We were just running

704
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 3: around and uh, LaToya was, you know, standing somewhere and

705
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 3: he smacked her on her ass and all of us

706
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 3: was like, all of us was like, oh, I want

707
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 3: to smack her, but we didn't. We didn't smack her

708
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 3: ass like he did. But it was just Oh my god,

709
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 3: just to be and and you know, I had always

710
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 3: had a crush on Janet, so it was just like

711
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 3: just to be in the same room with her at

712
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,439
Speaker 3: that time was you know, it was, oh my god,

713
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 3: She's standing right next to me. She feel the same

714
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 3: way she spoke to me. Matter like last week almost

715
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 3: passed out man. Yeah, well you'll see some scenes in

716
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 3: my movie about Janet. So what was doing feel different?

717
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 3: About it.

718
00:42:53,040 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 6: Oh, no spoilers. What was you in relationship? Like in

719
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 6: the studio, man, Like, how did y'all vibe off each other?

720
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 3: We bobbed really well off each other. You know. It

721
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 3: wasn't no rush thing. We knew that when we had

722
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 3: something hot. We knew what we had and we would

723
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 3: take our time and take our time and get it,

724
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 3: get it down, get it down perfectly, and then we

725
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 3: go out, you know, we'll go eat or you know,

726
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 3: just go chill out, playpool, you know. And then but

727
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 3: the first time, the first time with Prerogative, he was

728
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 3: living in the projects. So we in Harlem in the

729
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 3: projects on the first floor, and you know, the booth

730
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 3: was a bathroom, you know. So we literally did it,

731
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 3: and we did and we did. Prerogative recorded it in

732
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 3: the bathroom in his apartment. That's where we did the vocals.

733
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 3: What all of them? What did y'all what we all

734
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 3: recording on like a four track or was six sixteen tracks?

735
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 3: M yeah, I know his set up was ate that thing. Yeah, yeah,

736
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 3: in the So the vocal we hear today was the

737
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 3: vocal that you cut. We cut in the in the bathroom.

738
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: So in your mind, whenever you hear those vocals from

739
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: that record you're just thinking of, like there's tooth brush, toothpaste.

740
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 3: Close up, close up. They don't make close up anymore.

741
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 3: I don't know that hot ass just hot mouth fans

742
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 3: close up Dollar General.

743
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 5: You know.

744
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 3: The one thing I remember, you know, about recording that

745
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 3: song was was just just you know, the kinship you know,

746
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 3: between me, Aaron him, Big Bub was even there, you know.

747
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 3: So it was a bunch of singers and you know,

748
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 3: a bunch of people that love music and love being

749
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 3: a part of you know, what music was going to become,

750
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,800
Speaker 3: and it was just fun to just be around it,

751
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 3: you know, and all of us, all of us out

752
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 3: there giving one hundred and ten percent, you know, trying

753
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 3: to make it out. I knew that Aaron was a singer,

754
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 3: but I read somewhere was Aaron a keyboard player as well?

755
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 3: Eric Can played the piano like yeah, like what's his name?

756
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 3: With all the jewry wait Erican played the piano like Liberaci,

757
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 3: I mean, play the piano play You were tracked? You

758
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 3: did you track the majority of the album in New

759
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 3: York City? No, the majority of the album was done

760
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 3: here in silver Lake, Okay, with La and Face and

761
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 3: me and Teddy did our stuff over there in New York,

762
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 3: and then I I did some more stuff in the

763
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 3: Bay Area and then you know, just mostly la though.

764
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 7: You guys recorded forty songs for the album. Yeah, how

765
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 7: many of them? Like, did you ever revisit any of

766
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 7: them later on?

767
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 3: Or yeah? I still have them in my garage actually, yeah,

768
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 3: the masters in my garage. Yes, I don't know yet.

769
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think, you know, I'm let my

770
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:27,800
Speaker 3: son listen to a bunch of them and see what

771
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 3: he likes and see how you know, he feels about

772
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 3: him because he's recording his album right now. So so

773
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 3: I'm really looking forward to, you know, helping both of

774
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 3: my oldest son and my middle son are both you know,

775
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 3: recording out us. So you know, I'm just trying to

776
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 3: lay back and let them do what they do. And

777
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:52,399
Speaker 3: then when I see him, you know, going straight pull

778
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 3: a coat and you know.

779
00:46:53,760 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 6: What's because I feel like most of us, like, what

780
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:03,479
Speaker 6: was the what was the workflow, like you talk about

781
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 6: you and Teddy's vibe, what was the difference with Elien Face?

782
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,280
Speaker 3: What were they like in the studio, like in y'all sessions.

783
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 3: Because of the person that I am they have to

784
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 3: go with the flow. They had to go with how

785
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 3: I was this is Bobby Brown session. Wow, you mean

786
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 3: like I'll be there, you know there there three means

787
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 3: that I'll be there.

788
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 8: Always, no matter who you was working with. They had

789
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 8: to adjust.

790
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 3: But yeah, basically because you know, it was just sometimes

791
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 3: I'm late. I mean sometimes you gottes. But but but

792
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:47,439
Speaker 3: I've learned a new way of living and being late

793
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 3: is not cool. You know, you need to be on

794
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 3: time so that you can get your work done and

795
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 3: be able to do Stop looking at you, stop looking

796
00:47:56,120 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 3: at question, you're a little late, looking at it in

797
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:03,800
Speaker 3: my direction? Whatever.

798
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 6: Steve once once Don't be Crewe became and the album

799
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:12,240
Speaker 6: once it becomes that just this months everywhere?

800
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 3: What how did your life change? Then? What what happens?

801
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 3: Oh boy? I started touring a lot more. Of course,

802
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 3: I was torn with heart the Heartbreak tour. I was

803
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 3: touring with them. I was opening up for I'll Be

804
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 3: Sure and then Don't Be Crew hit and Prerogative hit

805
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 3: and we have to switch. And then you know, of course,

806
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 3: you know, stopped having problems because you know, New Edition

807
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 3: was you know, kind of hating on me because of

808
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 3: the success of don't be Crewe, and they didn't want

809
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 3: me to, you know, film the Roney video on that tour.

810
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 3: So I told him, Okay, well if they if they,

811
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:02,799
Speaker 3: if they, if they can Roney, I'll have them film

812
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:06,479
Speaker 3: y'all show. So I paid for the cameras to film

813
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 3: the show. And so then I was like I talked

814
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 3: to Al Hayman, who was the promoter, and I was like,

815
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:19,359
Speaker 3: that keeps coming up. I was like, dude, I need

816
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 3: my own tour. I got to go out on my

817
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 3: own tour. And he said okay. So we went and

818
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 3: got Lavert and Karen White and we went out and

819
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 3: just and just smashed, and we toured for over three

820
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:33,320
Speaker 3: years with that album.

821
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 7: My sister saw a heartbreak tour and Don't Be Cruel

822
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 7: tour without me, and I still hate them for it.

823
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: Having technically yet to see the biopic. And you address

824
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: it in the Rooney video. But what was the situation

825
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: with my memories, Foggy? What what arena had a problem with?

826
00:49:58,680 --> 00:49:59,320
Speaker 1: Are you dancing?

827
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 3: Or was Georgia Georgia. I guess they had heard about,

828
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 3: you know, my my stage show, but they still you know,

829
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:10,439
Speaker 3: wanted me to come to Georgia. The police had told

830
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 3: me right before the concert, no sexual indoors, no getting

831
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,760
Speaker 3: close to the girls. Can't bring girls up on your stage.

832
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,360
Speaker 3: We don't want We don't want to see you pelvic

833
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:30,839
Speaker 3: thrusting or anything. So they didn't want Bobby Brown. How

834
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 3: do they know it was coming? Because it's like you've yet.

835
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 3: They had heard the word had been spreading, you know,

836
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 3: throughout the country on how I performed. That's why they

837
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:39,919
Speaker 3: called me bad boy.

838
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 8: Okay, pumped really hard. I remember you remember watching like I.

839
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 5: Did.

840
00:50:53,400 --> 00:51:00,760
Speaker 3: Used to get in trouble for you know, Brown, pilvoc

841
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 3: thrust for me, it got me in trouble. In fourth grade.

842
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 6: We were doing a talent show and I was gonna

843
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:08,439
Speaker 6: dance and I opened up with four pervit threast.

844
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 3: It was over just like down over here. It was

845
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 3: well fourth grade. Yeah, it was about the same for

846
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 3: me too. So my little nine year old is pumping down.

847
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 3: Is it weird for you? Stop?

848
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 1: Is it weird for your kids to discover that you're

849
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: not dad? You're that guy I'm seeing on television. How

850
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 1: did they discover?

851
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 3: No, they basically know. I try to show them as

852
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 3: much as possible about me. Yeah, trying to show my son,

853
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 3: my nine year old Cassius. He's a he's a dancer himself.

854
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 3: He's a ballroom he does ballroom dancing. You know, he's running. Yes,

855
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 3: Oh my god. You should see his little hips doing

856
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 3: the tango and doing the chi and all of this.

857
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 3: I mean, and he's won six competitions by him and

858
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 3: his little dance partner. It's just a girl. Oh my god.

859
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 3: I mean he has to holds the head up and

860
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 3: shoulders and the hips I mean straight. So the last

861
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 3: one he just ended up jumped up in the inn,

862
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 3: came down to full split.

863
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: I was wow, please wait. This is the thing though,

864
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 1: What after you did what you did? Did they physically

865
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:41,360
Speaker 1: come out and stop the show and the rescue.

866
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:44,359
Speaker 3: No, they waited for me to come off stage. Oh

867
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 3: so they let the show go on and then they

868
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 3: had to It's not depicted like that in the movie

869
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 3: because we didn't have time to you know, technicality checkers. Yeah,

870
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:58,280
Speaker 3: so this is what happened. When I got off stage.

871
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 3: I had my brother put on my robe and they

872
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 3: followed him out at first diversion diversion, and I was

873
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:13,760
Speaker 3: in one of the anvil cases. Oh, they was pushing

874
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 3: the anvil case up the up the hill and they

875
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 3: took the thing off of Tommy and realized that it

876
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 3: wasn't me. So they followed the anvolcase and soon as

877
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 3: soon as they opened the amvlcase, they were cops. Was

878
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:24,319
Speaker 3: right there.

879
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 8: Wow, the worst way to get caught.

880
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:30,320
Speaker 3: Yes, trying to evade.

881
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:31,880
Speaker 8: Police another charge.

882
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:36,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's weird, because that's what that's what I remember

883
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 1: about the show that I saw. You guys used to

884
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:43,280
Speaker 1: enter in this like this trojan horse sort of vehicle

885
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 1: where they had to push y'all to the stage inside

886
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 1: of this wooden device. So girls would attack y'all. So, yes,

887
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:51,880
Speaker 1: y'all are like the original kings of Anvil case.

888
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:54,360
Speaker 3: When we would do that, we would do that. That

889
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 3: was that was one of the tricks of brook Paye

890
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 3: and just of the trade. You know, we liked being attacked. Yeah,

891
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,800
Speaker 3: we don't wrong. We were younger, but we were We

892
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 3: was you know, girl crazy, So we loved, you know,

893
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 3: being able to see all the all of the chicks,

894
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:17,239
Speaker 3: all of all of the young little hobbies. You know, right,

895
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:20,360
Speaker 3: we were cool with that. But you know now our

896
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 3: managers they was like, girls are only gonna get y'all

897
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 3: in trouble. We was like, well, that's some trouble. We

898
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:28,840
Speaker 3: would like to give you that trouble man. Please answer

899
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 3: for us. Who was Jackie? Oh god, yes, who is that?

900
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 6: Was that?

901
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 3: Just? I love you Jackie? There was nobody. There was

902
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:42,280
Speaker 3: no Jackie. We heard that Jackie? Or what did smooth

903
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 3: be of nicest move? Did he write that rhyme? Was

904
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:48,399
Speaker 3: it him? Or did you write it? No, he didn't

905
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,800
Speaker 3: write that. He didn't write that one. Okay, no he

906
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 3: didn't write there. He was wrong. Hey, listen, that's what

907
00:54:55,719 --> 00:55:06,840
Speaker 3: was just a rhyme scheme form I can see see. No,

908
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say we're not gonna do like we

909
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 3: did the baby Face where we just wrapped the whole thing.

910
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:15,399
Speaker 1: No, please, don't speaker of Smoothie. I know that your

911
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:18,399
Speaker 1: your peers are mostly wrapped, like who who was your click?

912
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: As far as like you're you're when you were hanging

913
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 1: and and it was it.

914
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 3: Was smooth Bie. It was you know, at times Cougie

915
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 3: rap at times all times, well whodini? Of course there

916
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,399
Speaker 3: was a bunch. I mean I used to hang out

917
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 3: with with rappers a lot where in New York, In

918
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 3: New York, just any particular places quarters we got it.

919
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 1: I've been waiting, yes, nineteen weeks to finally get a

920
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:08,320
Speaker 1: Latin quarter story.

921
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:12,319
Speaker 3: Oh my god. You don't understand. It's like our first

922
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:13,440
Speaker 3: twenty episodes.

923
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 1: Everybody in their mother they retired about Latin quarter story stops.

924
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:23,879
Speaker 3: Finally I got a Latin quarter Tell me. I once

925
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 3: saw a very well known rapper, very well known, got hat.

926
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:35,400
Speaker 3: He wears a hat all the time. Llll okay. I

927
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:41,320
Speaker 3: saw him get his chain, snacks waters and it was

928
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 3: just it was, oh, it was bad. It was bad.

929
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:47,680
Speaker 3: It was bad because you know, it was these Brooklyn

930
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,600
Speaker 3: cats and it was just like, oh man, and they

931
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:53,800
Speaker 3: was like they was for real about it. They was not,

932
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:56,719
Speaker 3: you know, trying to give him his jewelry back at all.

933
00:56:57,400 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 3: And they just bounced with his chain and I was

934
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 3: like and L was like, you know, l, I didn't care,

935
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 3: and we'll have another one tomorrow. You know.

936
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,719
Speaker 1: Why, What was the allure of that place? Because all

937
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: I know is that it was dangerous and you could

938
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 1: get snatched. You know, you can't sign too much.

939
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 3: The danger part of it was it was one way in,

940
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 3: one way out. There was no side doors, Latin corns

941
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 3: in the middle of the block, right It didn't have it, didn't.

942
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:36,840
Speaker 12: I mean it was next to it was a store

943
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 12: or this, but Latin Corters was one way in and

944
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:44,880
Speaker 12: one way out, so and it was hot and all

945
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 12: of the chicks went there and we were just you know,

946
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 12: so it's worth risky in life to hear all the

947
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 12: hip hop that yes, all the hip hop you can

948
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 12: hear girls and all the girls and bamboo.

949
00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 3: Ear rings at least two pairs. He also wrote that

950
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 3: and that club because that's all you saw up in

951
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 3: that club.

952
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 6: From the time that it was four years I think

953
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:12,120
Speaker 6: it was four years from the time of Don't Be

954
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 6: Crewe into Bobby.

955
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 3: What took so long for the follow up? Just wanting

956
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 3: to break because Don't Be Crewe tour was grueling, Like

957
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 3: I said, it was three years of touring you know,

958
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 3: the world, and when I decided to go back in,

959
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:33,560
Speaker 3: I really wanted a lot more of Teddy's funkiness on

960
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 3: the album. You know, I was strained, strained further away

961
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:42,880
Speaker 3: from the sounds of you know, La and Babyface, and

962
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 3: so I just took my time with this that one,

963
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 3: and you know, we came up with what we came

964
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:51,960
Speaker 3: up with, and I think that's one of the most

965
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 3: funkiest albums.

966
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 2: I know.

967
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 3: It is my favorite.

968
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 6: That's my favorite Bobby album. I was One More Night

969
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 6: and that to play the Game. Yeah, that was just

970
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 6: jam after jam. Yeah, like what who decided the singles?

971
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:07,800
Speaker 6: Picking the singles? Because like humping Around, I mean, it

972
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 6: was a big hit. But when I heard it, I

973
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 6: was just like, Okay, this is kind of like my prerogative.

974
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:14,480
Speaker 6: But then when I bought the album, my uncle he

975
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 6: had it and I would listen to it on his

976
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 6: big speakers, and man, you had like some sweet fucking

977
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 6: songs on that album.

978
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 3: And I was like, man.

979
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 6: Like, I was like, yo, this is like this is

980
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:27,360
Speaker 6: it sounded to me it sounded like the next progression.

981
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 6: It was like, okay, don't be cruel, was bad boy

982
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 6: Bobby or whatever? And then but Bobby was like it

983
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 6: sounded like growth and it was. I love that album.

984
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 3: It was. But you know, with La and Babyface becoming

985
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:45,720
Speaker 3: such such a popular duo, with with all of the

986
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 3: music they was doing for everybody else, I think Little

987
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 3: Silas felt that it should be a Face La and

988
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 3: Face record that drops first, and I was moving towards

989
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:03,840
Speaker 3: you know, get away or to complay that game was

990
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 3: like that's the one right there. I love that, right so,

991
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 3: you know, it's just creative differences, and you know, I

992
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 3: went with it, you know. But of course we still

993
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:20,440
Speaker 3: sold three million copies of that, you know, and it

994
01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 3: was like, I mean, after my first album almost going gold,

995
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:28,440
Speaker 3: King of Stage and then for Don't Be Crude to

996
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:35,400
Speaker 3: sell twelve million, I'm just in the States alone. I

997
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:38,960
Speaker 3: felt that you know, Bobby album, you know, I thought

998
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 3: it was going to do more. But at the same time,

999
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 3: I appreciated who who bought it, you know, because it

1000
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:46,960
Speaker 3: was it was just it was just a project that

1001
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:49,960
Speaker 3: I was really passionate about, and I had a lot

1002
01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 3: of fun doing the tour. That tour was that tour

1003
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 3: was mean for me. That tour was mean because I

1004
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 3: got a chance to go back to all the different

1005
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:02,960
Speaker 3: countries and continents and all of the cities in America

1006
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 3: and and just performed this this funky album, this funky

1007
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 3: just funky music that that that made me feel good,

1008
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:16,040
Speaker 3: you know, and that made others feel good. And I

1009
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:18,360
Speaker 3: was just really proud of that album. No you should

1010
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 3: be Man.

1011
01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 6: For the longest time in high school, well it was yeah,

1012
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:25,959
Speaker 6: middle school, going in high school, college girl remained a staple.

1013
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 3: So thank you for that. I used to take that.

1014
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:35,400
Speaker 7: You mentioned like turning all over the world. In your book,

1015
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:38,400
Speaker 7: you mentioned the Bobbyos fan group in Japan. Oh yeah,

1016
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:40,160
Speaker 7: can you tell us about that, because that seems it

1017
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 7: seems about Bobbyos.

1018
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:47,120
Speaker 3: The Bobbyos they would it was guys and girls. They

1019
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:53,919
Speaker 3: would tan their bodies to my complexion and they would

1020
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 3: wear clothes like me and they would all have gumbies. Dog.

1021
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 3: They found a way. There's no questions too.

1022
01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:04,720
Speaker 12: Man.

1023
01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:08,000
Speaker 3: That was weird to see, like.

1024
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:12,640
Speaker 1: For Orange with these Afros, like they wouldn't pur their

1025
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:15,720
Speaker 1: they were perning their hairs, but it would currently look

1026
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:16,760
Speaker 1: like African.

1027
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 3: American and freaked the ship out. Yeah, man, built in Japan,

1028
01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:25,160
Speaker 3: you never had loyal You never find more loyal fans

1029
01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:28,480
Speaker 3: in the world. You have never find more loyal fans.

1030
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:32,000
Speaker 3: I mean they come and droves and they'll keep coming.

1031
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 3: Every time you go back there they go again.

1032
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 6: What were some of the other places we were able

1033
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 6: to hit Africa while you were doing anywhere in Africa?

1034
01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:44,760
Speaker 3: I played sun City at one time, and that was

1035
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 3: you played sun City, Yes, and that was what wait,

1036
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 3: what year? It was the year that you should have

1037
01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 3: played Some City. Yeah I should have. Yeah. Oh it

1038
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 3: was passing the okay, okay, yeah yeah he was home. Yeah, okay.

1039
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 1: So basically in in eighty five, Sylvia and Sopranos, Stephen

1040
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:15,959
Speaker 1: Little Stephen kind of organized uh, kind of a protest record,

1041
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:19,800
Speaker 1: We Are the World Asque protest record called Sun City,

1042
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:23,320
Speaker 1: in which basically he didn't want American artists going over

1043
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:25,880
Speaker 1: there to play, to play South Africa, Yeah, to play

1044
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 1: South Africa.

1045
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:28,880
Speaker 3: The video was weird too. It's like that Miles Davis

1046
01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 3: walking Davis for Melli mel Yeah, yeah, it was. It

1047
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:35,680
Speaker 3: was great. I remember that song. It was like King yea.

1048
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:39,480
Speaker 1: And but the thing was is that some artists were

1049
01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:42,120
Speaker 1: sort of crossing the protest line, like I know that

1050
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 1: that's why Mylon Williams had left the Commodores ant Thomas McCleary,

1051
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:51,880
Speaker 1: because you know, South Africa will basically offer artists like

1052
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:55,160
Speaker 1: five times the dollars to go over there to play,

1053
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:59,400
Speaker 1: and you know it's either you show solidarity not play it,

1054
01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:02,040
Speaker 1: or you sell your soul, and some artists wild cross

1055
01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 1: that line. So but yeah, my time ninety two ninety three,

1056
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:08,920
Speaker 1: then it was okay to.

1057
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:11,600
Speaker 3: Play some City. Oh man, we jumped a little bit.

1058
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:16,520
Speaker 6: Ghostbuster, Yeah, we gotta yeah, come on Ghostbusters man, like

1059
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:17,760
Speaker 6: talk about.

1060
01:04:17,640 --> 01:04:21,360
Speaker 3: Doing the song and like being in the movie with Ghostbusters.

1061
01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:25,960
Speaker 3: They approached me to write a song for the soundtrack

1062
01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:29,919
Speaker 3: and I did, and I wrote a song called We're Back, Oh.

1063
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:30,600
Speaker 5: Yeah and.

1064
01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:36,160
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's my Ship. I wrote that first, and

1065
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:38,320
Speaker 3: then I gave them that one and they was like,

1066
01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:40,480
Speaker 3: we love it, we love it, We just need one more.

1067
01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:42,240
Speaker 3: Can you give us one more? And I was like,

1068
01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:48,200
Speaker 3: you know what, l and babyfacing right, I ain't got

1069
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:50,920
Speaker 3: no more words that I can say about ghosts, about

1070
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:54,400
Speaker 3: ghosts and evil and ship. I'm not I'm not in that.

1071
01:04:54,560 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 3: I'm not in that frame of mind right now, you know.

1072
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:02,160
Speaker 3: But the thing was, if I wrote the song, I

1073
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 3: told him I want to be in the movie also,

1074
01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 3: you know. So they put that in the contract and

1075
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:10,640
Speaker 3: I and then when I got on our own from

1076
01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 3: facing the House like okay, So we dropped it. When

1077
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 3: we put the single out, we put on our Own

1078
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:21,680
Speaker 3: on the B side, and we're back on the on

1079
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:25,600
Speaker 3: the A side. But we did the video for on

1080
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:32,240
Speaker 3: our own, so as many as they sold, I still

1081
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:36,840
Speaker 3: get my publisher back because it's the A side. I

1082
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:39,240
Speaker 3: never knew that on our own was the B side. Yeah,

1083
01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:41,840
Speaker 3: I know that. I always thought that was the main joining.

1084
01:05:42,240 --> 01:05:43,920
Speaker 3: You also did a thin line between.

1085
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:48,439
Speaker 6: Yeah, yo, we gotta talk about that and like and panther.

1086
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:55,160
Speaker 6: But he had he had He had a dope as

1087
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:57,800
Speaker 6: song on the soundtrack to So Yeah.

1088
01:05:58,560 --> 01:06:01,840
Speaker 3: I don't know. I I love acting. I love being

1089
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 3: a part of you know, just to hurry up and

1090
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 3: wait situation. Yeah, you're just waiting your trailing. You go

1091
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 3: out there, you work for four minutes and go back

1092
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:13,600
Speaker 3: in your trailing. You're in there for three hours. And

1093
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 3: I love that, you know, and you're getting the check too.

1094
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, just let me chill in my trailer. Man.

1095
01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:26,560
Speaker 3: How was and Martin was really cool? We had so

1096
01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:28,920
Speaker 3: much fun on that set. Man, It was just like

1097
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:32,040
Speaker 3: I don't know, it was it was. It was basically

1098
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:35,520
Speaker 3: a party because he was directing, you know, he did,

1099
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:37,880
Speaker 3: and it was just a lot of fun, you know,

1100
01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:41,360
Speaker 3: the whole cast. You know, we just we just joked

1101
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:43,000
Speaker 3: around all the time.

1102
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 8: That meant for you or was it?

1103
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, he wrote it for me.

1104
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:50,440
Speaker 6: Yeah, Lynn Whitfield because she played the hell out of

1105
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 6: that role, and yeah, she scared me.

1106
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:55,760
Speaker 3: She scared the ship out of me because she stayed

1107
01:06:55,800 --> 01:07:02,600
Speaker 3: in character. Offset Yeah, y'a making jokes. She wasn't she

1108
01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:05,880
Speaker 3: wasn't kept she kept that face straight like this, and

1109
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:08,240
Speaker 3: she was just walking around looking at people all weird

1110
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:15,520
Speaker 3: and ship and I was like, wrong, it's crazy, man.

1111
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:18,520
Speaker 13: And then after we rapped, she was like, oh my god,

1112
01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 13: oh oh oh, I'm so glad I could come out

1113
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:27,840
Speaker 13: of that.

1114
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:34,680
Speaker 3: I was like, we are too stup out here. Well,

1115
01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:37,680
Speaker 3: you did a panther with Mario van Peebles. How did

1116
01:07:37,720 --> 01:07:41,280
Speaker 3: that come together? That came together? I went, I met

1117
01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:44,920
Speaker 3: with uh Mario at his office and he was like,

1118
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:47,440
Speaker 3: he had this thing for me. He said, I got

1119
01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:50,160
Speaker 3: something for you, man, I got something that I really

1120
01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:53,880
Speaker 3: think you're gonna you know, you could really come across

1121
01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:58,800
Speaker 3: and really good. I'm team you up with Chris Rock

1122
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:02,400
Speaker 3: and you him we're gonna And he explained the characters

1123
01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:04,960
Speaker 3: and how we were supposed to be and I was

1124
01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:08,080
Speaker 3: just like, I was like, oh ship, this is this

1125
01:08:08,280 --> 01:08:14,720
Speaker 3: is gonna be some funny ship. I know you're gonna

1126
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:22,000
Speaker 3: kill me. Chris Rock, Yes, yeah, I remember, I'm sorry.

1127
01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:27,400
Speaker 7: Hold on, So, since we're talking about acting and you

1128
01:08:27,560 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 7: just played that I got to ask you about the

1129
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:33,080
Speaker 7: two two seven guest spot. Yes, after that, I was

1130
01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:34,960
Speaker 7: sure that I'll be Good to you was gonna be

1131
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:36,920
Speaker 7: the next thing. I was waiting for that. Damn man,

1132
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:40,760
Speaker 7: I just didn't. I didn't at that point.

1133
01:08:40,840 --> 01:08:42,479
Speaker 3: I didn't want to do any of the you know,

1134
01:08:43,320 --> 01:08:47,559
Speaker 3: other songs that everybody normally hears from me. So I figured,

1135
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:51,439
Speaker 3: you know, on on to seven, I was just like, yeah,

1136
01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 3: let me I'll do I'll do this one. And unfortunately,

1137
01:08:56,200 --> 01:09:00,360
Speaker 3: fortunately that it came out really, really good. I loved.

1138
01:09:00,479 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 3: I loved being able to perform it like like I did,

1139
01:09:05,280 --> 01:09:08,600
Speaker 3: into the in the classroom and Regina jumping in and

1140
01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:11,000
Speaker 3: dancing with me. That was just a lot of fun

1141
01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:14,400
Speaker 3: and being on that set. Molly Gibbs is, Oh my god,

1142
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:20,479
Speaker 3: what a gym she's. She's a beautiful, beautiful, one of

1143
01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:22,559
Speaker 3: the most kindest women I've ever met in my life

1144
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:26,640
Speaker 3: other than my mom. She is really kind. And I

1145
01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:31,000
Speaker 3: got a story about that. She was We were all

1146
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:34,600
Speaker 3: backstage and I'm thinking, you know, I got to go

1147
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:37,599
Speaker 3: to the bathroom and I walk into the wrong room

1148
01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:47,400
Speaker 3: and Mala's trying to get was asking her she had

1149
01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:49,600
Speaker 3: on she had a stock and she was trying to

1150
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 3: pull address up. She was like, boy, close that door.

1151
01:09:54,560 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, that's dope.

1152
01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:07,400
Speaker 6: When you did After, After Bobby and then Forever, it

1153
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 6: was like five years.

1154
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:12,280
Speaker 3: In between scrapped the record in between there, didn't you.

1155
01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:16,160
Speaker 3: I think it was the Forever album that I had scrapped.

1156
01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:19,960
Speaker 3: I didn't want to put it out because the record

1157
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:23,880
Speaker 3: was done, so I did it so early, you know,

1158
01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:28,400
Speaker 3: and I like to try to space the albums out,

1159
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:34,200
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, and it creates, you know, a mystique

1160
01:10:34,280 --> 01:10:39,960
Speaker 3: to to the name Bobby Brown. But with Forever, I

1161
01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:44,519
Speaker 3: was truly in love, you know, and I just wrote

1162
01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 3: songs that were about, you know, love.

1163
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:50,560
Speaker 6: And I loved feeling the side feeling that. Yeah, I

1164
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:52,720
Speaker 6: love that record, feeling inside.

1165
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:56,320
Speaker 3: You like that. I don't don't make me feel like

1166
01:10:56,920 --> 01:10:59,400
Speaker 3: I said something wrong now, No, I just couldn't. I

1167
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:03,240
Speaker 3: just couldn't stand the record. I really felt like I like,

1168
01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:07,000
Speaker 3: I don't know, I just don't know. I just too

1169
01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:10,040
Speaker 3: close to it. I mean, I don't know. Jeff Wait

1170
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:14,000
Speaker 3: a minute, Jeff Red you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, he

1171
01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:16,960
Speaker 3: did the record, and you know, at the time, he

1172
01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:21,360
Speaker 3: was a and R up at mc A, and I

1173
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:24,559
Speaker 3: was like, dude, we're not We're not dropping that first.

1174
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:26,920
Speaker 3: I don't want to drop that first. And he was like,

1175
01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 3: but he had more pull over there, and he was like, yeah,

1176
01:11:31,200 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 3: I think we should drop this one. I was like,

1177
01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:34,479
Speaker 3: because you did, you did it right.

1178
01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 7: But I liked it because it was kind of a

1179
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:39,080
Speaker 7: different feel for you, Like yeah, and like the way

1180
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 7: you're saying on that record, you hadn't really kind of

1181
01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:42,400
Speaker 7: done things like that before.

1182
01:11:42,760 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 3: So I was like, yeah, I'm with this, thank you,

1183
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:47,560
Speaker 3: thank you. I appreciate it because this is there's so

1184
01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:51,200
Speaker 3: many songs that I've recorded that I didn't like, like

1185
01:11:51,439 --> 01:11:54,160
Speaker 3: don't be cruel, I didn't like that, I didn't like

1186
01:11:54,400 --> 01:12:01,240
Speaker 3: I didn't like every little stat blasphemous.

1187
01:12:01,880 --> 01:12:07,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, why do I feel that even thirty years after

1188
01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:11,320
Speaker 1: the fact, still you're still lukewarm on your working relationship

1189
01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:14,599
Speaker 1: with La and Face, Like, no, no, we're good, We're good.

1190
01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:17,200
Speaker 1: Me and Me and Face are really good. First of all,

1191
01:12:17,240 --> 01:12:21,719
Speaker 1: can you settle this whole that was really Ralph singing

1192
01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:26,040
Speaker 1: on every little stuff? Whatever started that rumor or.

1193
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:28,920
Speaker 3: I don't know who started that, but that is definitely

1194
01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:31,720
Speaker 3: a lie. Okay, So what did you not like?

1195
01:12:31,920 --> 01:12:32,800
Speaker 8: Please don't be cruel.

1196
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:38,760
Speaker 3: I just thought it was too slow. Oh man, I

1197
01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:44,760
Speaker 3: thought it was too slow. It's like that's how dam

1198
01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:51,040
Speaker 3: Then I started thinking, you know that it sounded like Casanova.

1199
01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:55,040
Speaker 3: I can't see that, I can see, but you see

1200
01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:57,519
Speaker 3: the jam people the damn too.

1201
01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:00,880
Speaker 6: You got it because I was yeah, because that was like,

1202
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:02,519
Speaker 6: well that was eighty eight, so that was like I

1203
01:13:02,640 --> 01:13:04,400
Speaker 6: was like third grade, so we would have our dance.

1204
01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:04,560
Speaker 3: You know.

1205
01:13:04,640 --> 01:13:06,840
Speaker 1: I was always a man of husk. So it's the

1206
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:09,519
Speaker 1: heavy d That was the Yo, the big man. What

1207
01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:16,360
Speaker 1: was like eighty seven, that was the Calaway Brothers.

1208
01:13:16,479 --> 01:13:17,840
Speaker 8: Yeah, that one you would have made that you on

1209
01:13:17,880 --> 01:13:18,479
Speaker 8: a house record.

1210
01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 3: I put a little bit more funk on it. But

1211
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:26,320
Speaker 3: as I as it started to grow on me when

1212
01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:29,000
Speaker 3: I was on tour, it was just it just grew

1213
01:13:29,080 --> 01:13:32,880
Speaker 3: on me, you know, especially when we put the rap

1214
01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:36,240
Speaker 3: in it, because first we dropped it, and we had

1215
01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:38,600
Speaker 3: to drop it without the rap because radio would not

1216
01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:43,280
Speaker 3: play rap at the time, really, no wrap, no version

1217
01:13:43,360 --> 01:13:45,920
Speaker 3: without the rep. We put it out the first time

1218
01:13:46,040 --> 01:13:50,479
Speaker 3: without the rap, and then the radio was playing it,

1219
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:53,240
Speaker 3: but it wasn't it wasn't really going nowhere. So we

1220
01:13:53,880 --> 01:13:57,560
Speaker 3: took we stopped that. We brought that one back and

1221
01:13:57,720 --> 01:14:02,840
Speaker 3: put out my prerogative, Like we pulled the pulled Domp

1222
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:06,320
Speaker 3: crew and put out my prerogative and boom, we hit him.

1223
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 3: We got pop radio. We you know, we got started

1224
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:12,720
Speaker 3: getting all the ads and then we put the rap

1225
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:15,120
Speaker 3: on them Won't Be Crew and put it back out

1226
01:14:15,240 --> 01:14:18,000
Speaker 3: right after prerogative. So it was like it was like

1227
01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:19,519
Speaker 3: a switcher through And what.

1228
01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:21,040
Speaker 8: Was the effects of that when you put the rap

1229
01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:21,240
Speaker 8: back on?

1230
01:14:21,320 --> 01:14:22,880
Speaker 3: What did you what did you say? Number one? That

1231
01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:26,400
Speaker 3: was the Yeah, that's the part everyone. That's when they

1232
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:31,320
Speaker 3: started really really playing rap music on the pop radio stations,

1233
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:36,040
Speaker 3: because it was like they had to. I'm really shocked

1234
01:14:36,120 --> 01:14:39,439
Speaker 3: that you're this would be cool man? If you didn't

1235
01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:41,160
Speaker 3: like it? Did you? Were you hesitant to name the

1236
01:14:41,200 --> 01:14:42,120
Speaker 3: title after the record?

1237
01:14:42,360 --> 01:14:42,400
Speaker 5: No?

1238
01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:46,400
Speaker 3: No, I thought I thought, I'm I'm a big Elvis

1239
01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:51,120
Speaker 3: Presley fan. It was like that, I'm gonna take Yeah.

1240
01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:55,080
Speaker 8: So then every little step, what is the problem?

1241
01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:55,920
Speaker 6: Like that?

1242
01:14:58,120 --> 01:15:00,760
Speaker 3: Was it the same verse, the same verse? Yeah, it

1243
01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:05,000
Speaker 3: took parts of that, parts of that, and then I

1244
01:15:05,479 --> 01:15:08,160
Speaker 3: just thought it was bubble gummish. Wait why was it

1245
01:15:08,360 --> 01:15:13,160
Speaker 3: just why was it one verse sung twice the same? Now?

1246
01:15:13,439 --> 01:15:15,920
Speaker 3: Now I'm doing. Wait, didn't Face already revealed that to us?

1247
01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 3: Or am I just discovering that right now? I can't remember?

1248
01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:19,920
Speaker 3: So it was.

1249
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:23,560
Speaker 1: No, No, it was the same verse. It was the

1250
01:15:23,600 --> 01:15:27,799
Speaker 1: same thing verse. It was just sung sung differently. On Saturday.

1251
01:15:29,920 --> 01:15:33,040
Speaker 3: Lewis did the same thing Saturday Love. Yeah. Man, So

1252
01:15:33,200 --> 01:15:35,639
Speaker 3: did you like Ronie because that's like I love okay

1253
01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 3: all the balance Here.

1254
01:15:42,200 --> 01:15:44,519
Speaker 7: Here's a random ass question that probably I'm the only

1255
01:15:44,560 --> 01:15:47,080
Speaker 7: one that's interested in. How involved were you with the

1256
01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:48,320
Speaker 7: Dance You Note remix album?

1257
01:15:48,439 --> 01:15:52,920
Speaker 3: Yes, A very yeah, because I felt, you know, if

1258
01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:55,880
Speaker 3: I wasn't going to drop an album right right away,

1259
01:15:56,320 --> 01:15:59,720
Speaker 3: that the best thing to do is remix and re

1260
01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:03,800
Speaker 3: sell the same songs that we just sold. It was

1261
01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:07,240
Speaker 3: it was that was the remixes in the Key of B.

1262
01:16:07,560 --> 01:16:07,800
Speaker 3: Was it that?

1263
01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 6: No, There was Dance You Note for the Don't Be

1264
01:16:09,560 --> 01:16:12,599
Speaker 6: Cruel out and remixes for the Bobby Yeah.

1265
01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:15,840
Speaker 3: I had mixed drop it on more. Where is the

1266
01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:22,640
Speaker 3: b Brown posse? Everywhere? Everywhere? We're starting to rebuild right now.

1267
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:25,920
Speaker 3: We are definitely starting to rebuild with my sons. And

1268
01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 3: I have this other artist. His name is Damn. Did

1269
01:16:31,439 --> 01:16:35,520
Speaker 3: I just forget his name's an artist named Frank Stickham's

1270
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:41,160
Speaker 3: and got a guy named Tim Campbell and then we

1271
01:16:41,240 --> 01:16:46,599
Speaker 3: still have Styles. Styles are still out there. Yeah, yeah,

1272
01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:48,880
Speaker 3: I'll keep it going.

1273
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:50,920
Speaker 7: In your book, you were talking about, you know, you

1274
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:52,960
Speaker 7: guys recorded a lot of stuff for the for your

1275
01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:55,519
Speaker 7: label that you had. Is any do you ever think

1276
01:16:55,560 --> 01:16:56,760
Speaker 7: any of that stuff is going to come out?

1277
01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:01,040
Speaker 3: Never know? You know, I just gotta go and and

1278
01:17:01,360 --> 01:17:05,840
Speaker 3: I gotta I mean, my my garage is stacked, which

1279
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:10,080
Speaker 3: just just reels and reels and reels, and I just

1280
01:17:10,160 --> 01:17:12,320
Speaker 3: gotta find time to you know, go through them. And

1281
01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:14,720
Speaker 3: I mean, if you need somebody to help you, volunteer, Yeah,

1282
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:20,479
Speaker 3: I volunteers. Tribute. Yeah, I'd like to know what was the.

1283
01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:25,680
Speaker 1: The process of reuniting the group back together for the

1284
01:17:26,080 --> 01:17:29,360
Speaker 1: Home the Home Again album? Like, I know it's an

1285
01:17:29,360 --> 01:17:35,000
Speaker 1: extension of the Get Back the Remix of Words, but

1286
01:17:36,200 --> 01:17:37,120
Speaker 1: how how is that.

1287
01:17:38,840 --> 01:17:42,160
Speaker 3: I organized? I just missed my I just missed my crew,

1288
01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:44,280
Speaker 3: you know, I missed all the guys. I missed the

1289
01:17:44,360 --> 01:17:48,519
Speaker 3: camaraderie that we have. I missed just my friends just

1290
01:17:48,600 --> 01:17:54,120
Speaker 3: being out on the road with them. And I was like, man,

1291
01:17:54,200 --> 01:17:56,160
Speaker 3: it's time. I think it's time, you know, we get

1292
01:17:56,200 --> 01:17:58,920
Speaker 3: together and we do something. What went wrong with it?

1293
01:18:00,280 --> 01:18:04,360
Speaker 3: We were all crazy. We were all crazy.

1294
01:18:05,240 --> 01:18:07,720
Speaker 1: But did it last at least the full tour? That's

1295
01:18:07,760 --> 01:18:10,160
Speaker 1: the only time I didn't get to see I didn't.

1296
01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:11,479
Speaker 3: I didn't get to see him that year either. I

1297
01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:13,040
Speaker 3: didn't get to see you guys, I still have. I

1298
01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:16,160
Speaker 3: don't know if it lasted the whole tour. I don't know.

1299
01:18:16,240 --> 01:18:18,960
Speaker 3: I don't even know that because I mean, at that time,

1300
01:18:19,080 --> 01:18:21,080
Speaker 3: I was in a funk. I was in a real

1301
01:18:21,240 --> 01:18:24,760
Speaker 3: bad way, you know, with using drugs and things like that,

1302
01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:27,880
Speaker 3: and it was just it was just not a good

1303
01:18:27,920 --> 01:18:31,559
Speaker 3: time for me in my life. And I was still rolling,

1304
01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:35,160
Speaker 3: you know, I was still on the road and not

1305
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:37,720
Speaker 3: taking care of myself, and it was just it was

1306
01:18:37,840 --> 01:18:40,439
Speaker 3: just a bad time, and you know, we ended up.

1307
01:18:42,160 --> 01:18:45,200
Speaker 3: I ended up losing my damn mind and you'll see

1308
01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:50,000
Speaker 3: it in my film. And I just I snapped, you know,

1309
01:18:50,400 --> 01:18:54,200
Speaker 3: and just went crazy for a little while and had

1310
01:18:54,200 --> 01:18:57,000
Speaker 3: to come up tour and you know, get some help.

1311
01:18:57,080 --> 01:18:59,120
Speaker 3: And I'm grateful that I did.

1312
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:01,120
Speaker 8: Is it always all good?

1313
01:19:01,240 --> 01:19:05,080
Speaker 2: With with the introduction of Johnny and I was like

1314
01:19:05,160 --> 01:19:07,040
Speaker 2: that if it was, it was great, But I always

1315
01:19:07,040 --> 01:19:07,360
Speaker 2: a the fan.

1316
01:19:07,400 --> 01:19:10,240
Speaker 3: I was like, was that that easy? Well, me and

1317
01:19:10,360 --> 01:19:13,559
Speaker 3: Johnny have never have had a problem since I since

1318
01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:15,840
Speaker 3: I found out that he wasn't there to replace me,

1319
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:19,559
Speaker 3: you know, he was there to replace Ralph because Ralph

1320
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:24,000
Speaker 3: was going to go solo. So I was just like, oh, okay, well,

1321
01:19:24,080 --> 01:19:26,360
Speaker 3: I mean you got no problems then, because you know

1322
01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:29,360
Speaker 3: I was I was Eddie Kane Jr. At that time.

1323
01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:35,120
Speaker 8: Well, how long did it take you to get that

1324
01:19:35,160 --> 01:19:36,280
Speaker 8: information that looks this.

1325
01:19:36,360 --> 01:19:38,840
Speaker 3: Is what it is? Actually? No, they told me Mike

1326
01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:42,280
Speaker 3: and Mike, Ricky and Ronnie and and and then told me.

1327
01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:44,679
Speaker 3: And then, you know, me being close to Ralph, Ralph

1328
01:19:44,800 --> 01:19:48,160
Speaker 3: was telling he had been playing me his his album,

1329
01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:49,880
Speaker 3: you know, because me and Ralph was.

1330
01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:50,960
Speaker 5: Like this and.

1331
01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:54,680
Speaker 3: He had been playing me his music and stuff. And

1332
01:19:54,760 --> 01:20:03,280
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, that's you about to blow more sensitivity. Yeah. Yeah,

1333
01:20:03,360 --> 01:20:06,240
Speaker 3: he had a bomb album that he did with who

1334
01:20:06,360 --> 01:20:08,600
Speaker 3: was he working with, you know, the producers just a

1335
01:20:08,760 --> 01:20:12,840
Speaker 3: guy named Dwayne, Dwayne in Boston, I forget his name,

1336
01:20:13,479 --> 01:20:16,240
Speaker 3: but yeah, they had some hot stuff, man. And I

1337
01:20:16,360 --> 01:20:18,639
Speaker 3: was just like, yeah, that's that's what's gonna get. That's

1338
01:20:18,680 --> 01:20:20,439
Speaker 3: it's gonna care. They hinted at that in the in

1339
01:20:20,520 --> 01:20:23,479
Speaker 3: the New Addition movie. Were they actually using the music

1340
01:20:23,520 --> 01:20:25,439
Speaker 3: that Roth had recorded for that record, because they were

1341
01:20:25,479 --> 01:20:27,320
Speaker 3: playing some songs? I don't think so.

1342
01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:31,439
Speaker 2: Did you treat the relations Did y'all treat the relationship

1343
01:20:31,479 --> 01:20:35,200
Speaker 2: with new kids on the block the same way as Johnny?

1344
01:20:35,760 --> 01:20:36,240
Speaker 3: In that way?

1345
01:20:36,400 --> 01:20:38,640
Speaker 2: Like? Well, I guess I should say that it was

1346
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:41,080
Speaker 2: their hostility more toward Maurice in that way then?

1347
01:20:41,840 --> 01:20:45,280
Speaker 3: No, no, we we we we really didn't care. We

1348
01:20:45,479 --> 01:20:50,639
Speaker 3: was just we were mad that they they cornered the merchant.

1349
01:20:54,120 --> 01:20:57,400
Speaker 3: They made more money with their merchandise than the records

1350
01:20:57,400 --> 01:21:00,679
Speaker 3: than their records. It was couldn't go to class without

1351
01:21:00,680 --> 01:21:03,320
Speaker 3: seeing like eighteen girls and new kids on the block.

1352
01:21:03,640 --> 01:21:09,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, the sweat shirts, sweatshirt traffic keepers, traffic keepers, Yeah

1353
01:21:10,080 --> 01:21:10,839
Speaker 6: yeah yeah.

1354
01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:16,080
Speaker 3: Traficet pillows, all kinds of ship wait side questions.

1355
01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:19,200
Speaker 1: I'm about to derel into a rabbit hole. But your dad,

1356
01:21:19,800 --> 01:21:21,120
Speaker 1: it's almost back to school time.

1357
01:21:21,240 --> 01:21:22,320
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's already bad.

1358
01:21:22,400 --> 01:21:23,720
Speaker 1: I haven't already got all the school and I'm not

1359
01:21:23,800 --> 01:21:27,840
Speaker 1: a dad, so I got to know the books anymore.

1360
01:21:27,960 --> 01:21:30,720
Speaker 1: They don't use traffic keepers anyway, like the traffic keepers done.

1361
01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:33,000
Speaker 1: They do have notebooks but what's fly now is that

1362
01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:37,120
Speaker 1: they have companies now, uh that you can prepay for

1363
01:21:37,640 --> 01:21:40,120
Speaker 1: your your back to school supplies.

1364
01:21:40,280 --> 01:21:42,920
Speaker 3: Yeah and l and when your kids get the school,

1365
01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:44,840
Speaker 3: the box to just be there, but they name on it.

1366
01:21:45,240 --> 01:21:47,040
Speaker 3: So that's what I do. Like I bought, I buy

1367
01:21:47,120 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 3: like Amazon, your son the school Man.

1368
01:21:49,560 --> 01:21:53,479
Speaker 6: Amazon Prime that niggas apply. I'm not going to target

1369
01:21:53,520 --> 01:21:55,800
Speaker 6: and spending all that time and there that's so fun.

1370
01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:00,920
Speaker 6: I get them and you send him and he gets

1371
01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:02,800
Speaker 6: to school the first day, his name is on the

1372
01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:03,880
Speaker 6: box and he good.

1373
01:22:03,760 --> 01:22:04,519
Speaker 3: To go, all right.

1374
01:22:04,600 --> 01:22:06,679
Speaker 7: So I hate to keep referencing things in your book,

1375
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:08,240
Speaker 7: but your book is really good, and I hope people

1376
01:22:08,280 --> 01:22:11,040
Speaker 7: can keep it. Like from me asking to tell these stories,

1377
01:22:11,120 --> 01:22:13,920
Speaker 7: We'll go out and buy it. There's a story about

1378
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:15,000
Speaker 7: Mike Tyson in the book.

1379
01:22:15,080 --> 01:22:17,160
Speaker 3: Is this in the movie? Do you know where I'm going?

1380
01:22:19,560 --> 01:22:22,439
Speaker 3: Can you? Can you tell the story about the night

1381
01:22:22,520 --> 01:22:25,800
Speaker 3: partying with Mike Tyson and what happened the day after? Well,

1382
01:22:26,479 --> 01:22:30,800
Speaker 3: it was we was in Japan and we hooked up

1383
01:22:30,840 --> 01:22:33,120
Speaker 3: in Japan. Is this when he lost to Buster Douglas? Yes,

1384
01:22:33,760 --> 01:22:41,000
Speaker 3: spoiling the story for us, Well, but you didn't know

1385
01:22:41,080 --> 01:22:44,320
Speaker 3: that's what where this was going, I'll take the editor out. Listen.

1386
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:50,000
Speaker 3: We basically stayed up all night partying okay, with like

1387
01:22:50,520 --> 01:22:55,680
Speaker 3: maybe twelve Japanese girls and just me and Mike. And

1388
01:22:57,320 --> 01:23:01,559
Speaker 3: it was just the funniest night ever. We had a ball,

1389
01:23:01,720 --> 01:23:04,519
Speaker 3: but it was just the funniest night ever. I kept

1390
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:07,160
Speaker 3: telling them. I kept telling them, and I kept telling them.

1391
01:23:07,200 --> 01:23:10,080
Speaker 3: I was like, Mike, you need to go get some sleep.

1392
01:23:10,479 --> 01:23:19,040
Speaker 3: You gotta fight tomorrow. He's like, Bobby, listen, buster douggat is.

1393
01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:22,560
Speaker 3: He's an amateur, he said, he said I could. I

1394
01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:25,240
Speaker 3: could beat him if I didn't sleep for five weeks,

1395
01:23:26,280 --> 01:23:29,880
Speaker 3: he said. He said, watch watch how quick this fight ends.

1396
01:23:30,120 --> 01:23:32,800
Speaker 3: This is gonna be one of my quickest fights. And

1397
01:23:33,120 --> 01:23:36,200
Speaker 3: I was like, Mike, all right. He was like, don't worry, man,

1398
01:23:36,360 --> 01:23:40,320
Speaker 3: you worry so much. I was like, all right, Pride

1399
01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:43,960
Speaker 3: Goes before the Fall and what on behold? I had

1400
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:46,559
Speaker 3: to go to Osaka and I couldn't go to the fight.

1401
01:23:47,439 --> 01:23:50,360
Speaker 3: I had to go to Osaka and I'm sitting there

1402
01:23:50,920 --> 01:23:55,560
Speaker 3: at this this Empress place and he has it on

1403
01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:58,920
Speaker 3: this big screen and I'm like, we're watching it and

1404
01:24:00,080 --> 01:24:03,160
Speaker 3: looking at Mike and I'm seeing the fatigue in him.

1405
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:07,879
Speaker 3: And I was just like, oh ship, and then them

1406
01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:12,920
Speaker 3: punches came boom boom boom, boom boom, and I just

1407
01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:18,120
Speaker 3: started crying, like yo, baby, listen cried so bad. You

1408
01:24:18,200 --> 01:24:22,080
Speaker 3: don't understand. I was grade Man. Wasn't that She's like

1409
01:24:22,160 --> 01:24:27,160
Speaker 3: watching Superman like that. It was hurt. Yeah, that hurt.

1410
01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:29,439
Speaker 3: I mean, it hurt me to my core. I was

1411
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:32,519
Speaker 3: just like I couldn't. I couldn't breathe, and I had

1412
01:24:32,600 --> 01:24:36,519
Speaker 3: to go on stage. So I was just like I

1413
01:24:36,640 --> 01:24:39,840
Speaker 3: think that's when I started having panic attacks, you know,

1414
01:24:40,200 --> 01:24:43,240
Speaker 3: and just like I was like, oh my god, he's

1415
01:24:43,280 --> 01:24:46,240
Speaker 3: gonna kill me. He's gonna, he's gonna, he's just gonna

1416
01:24:46,280 --> 01:24:49,600
Speaker 3: he's just gonna destroy me when he sees me. And

1417
01:24:49,760 --> 01:24:52,360
Speaker 3: I was like, I was like yo. But then I

1418
01:24:52,439 --> 01:24:57,760
Speaker 3: started thinking about it. I kept telling this, why would

1419
01:24:57,800 --> 01:25:00,680
Speaker 3: he be mad at me? What? What was it like?

1420
01:25:00,760 --> 01:25:04,080
Speaker 3: At the after after he after the fight, he called

1421
01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:06,280
Speaker 3: me on the phone. He said, Bob, he was right.

1422
01:25:09,560 --> 01:25:11,600
Speaker 3: He said, you was so like he said, I was

1423
01:25:11,680 --> 01:25:14,680
Speaker 3: so sleepy in there, my legs, with my legs with

1424
01:25:14,920 --> 01:25:18,160
Speaker 3: mushing there. He said, that's why, he said, that's why

1425
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:23,080
Speaker 3: coustry model told me don't have sex for a fight again,

1426
01:25:23,240 --> 01:25:27,960
Speaker 3: you had a lot of sex. You had a lot

1427
01:25:28,120 --> 01:25:30,880
Speaker 3: of it was it wasn't just one person. You have

1428
01:25:31,080 --> 01:25:43,880
Speaker 3: a lot of oh god, drinking a dragging alkaline alkaline water. Yeah.

1429
01:25:47,120 --> 01:25:49,479
Speaker 3: So like what's your life like now? Like on the

1430
01:25:49,560 --> 01:25:51,360
Speaker 3: day to day, Like what you my life? What you do?

1431
01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:55,439
Speaker 3: My life now was beautiful, I think. I mean, I'm

1432
01:25:55,520 --> 01:26:06,680
Speaker 3: living my best days coming back for I love shoulders. No,

1433
01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:11,360
Speaker 3: I'm I'm I'm so happy as y'all know. I'm I'm married.

1434
01:26:11,400 --> 01:26:15,000
Speaker 3: I've been married to my wife, Alicia for for the

1435
01:26:15,200 --> 01:26:19,720
Speaker 3: last six years. We've been together for about ten and

1436
01:26:19,920 --> 01:26:23,880
Speaker 3: then we have three kids, a two year old, a

1437
01:26:23,960 --> 01:26:27,400
Speaker 3: three year old, and a nine year old. And I

1438
01:26:27,960 --> 01:26:35,120
Speaker 3: just love you just six six six six, all right.

1439
01:26:35,640 --> 01:26:39,120
Speaker 1: I know I have it on good authority as a foodie. Uhh,

1440
01:26:39,560 --> 01:26:44,720
Speaker 1: that you're fried chicken? Game is bart nine hands down.

1441
01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:46,320
Speaker 3: Look at.

1442
01:26:49,000 --> 01:26:51,240
Speaker 1: I saw someone another room like look like I told you,

1443
01:26:53,520 --> 01:26:55,120
Speaker 1: And this is not the cocaine chicken.

1444
01:26:55,840 --> 01:26:59,240
Speaker 3: This is not the cocaine. Is that really better to

1445
01:26:59,280 --> 01:27:00,439
Speaker 3: make you addicted like coke?

1446
01:27:02,840 --> 01:27:02,880
Speaker 6: No?

1447
01:27:03,080 --> 01:27:05,280
Speaker 3: I have you know we have a food line, I know,

1448
01:27:05,640 --> 01:27:11,080
Speaker 3: Bobby Brownfoods dot com and we make barbecue sauces, all natural,

1449
01:27:11,479 --> 01:27:15,360
Speaker 3: gluten free kosha, you know, all all of the all

1450
01:27:15,400 --> 01:27:19,440
Speaker 3: of the natural ingredients that we put in there afresh,

1451
01:27:20,600 --> 01:27:24,840
Speaker 3: and we we basically make it and bottle it while

1452
01:27:24,880 --> 01:27:28,240
Speaker 3: it's hot, so that you know it's it's the real

1453
01:27:28,520 --> 01:27:31,720
Speaker 3: it's the real deal, you know. Then we have the

1454
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:36,360
Speaker 3: fried chicken mix which you can cook pork, chicken fish with.

1455
01:27:36,520 --> 01:27:39,840
Speaker 3: The fried chicken mixes called brown bagging it we give you,

1456
01:27:43,160 --> 01:27:45,760
Speaker 3: give you a bag. You get it comes in a

1457
01:27:45,840 --> 01:27:47,680
Speaker 3: bag and you can use that bag to shake it,

1458
01:27:48,479 --> 01:27:52,880
Speaker 3: shake your stuff up. The Boston band Boston Boston blenn

1459
01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:55,400
Speaker 3: is like a rub or you know, just like an

1460
01:27:55,439 --> 01:27:59,760
Speaker 3: everyday pepper, which is which is also all natural.

1461
01:28:01,160 --> 01:28:01,760
Speaker 8: Recipes.

1462
01:28:01,880 --> 01:28:06,400
Speaker 6: Yes, Bobby's barbecue salmon, yes, yes, vegetarians right.

1463
01:28:07,080 --> 01:28:11,200
Speaker 3: Speaking of seafood in the everyday seasoning is also it's

1464
01:28:11,360 --> 01:28:15,600
Speaker 3: like a it's like Lowry's, but it's a lot a

1465
01:28:15,760 --> 01:28:19,960
Speaker 3: lot less salt, and it's it's it's also you know,

1466
01:28:20,120 --> 01:28:22,280
Speaker 3: gluten free and all natural. We're gonna cops, I'm a

1467
01:28:22,400 --> 01:28:24,600
Speaker 3: cop some of that. Speaking of seafood, I understand you

1468
01:28:24,760 --> 01:28:27,479
Speaker 3: you're big into sushi, is that right? I am? I am?

1469
01:28:28,840 --> 01:28:30,920
Speaker 3: Have you ever been to Gero's in Japan.

1470
01:28:31,840 --> 01:28:35,080
Speaker 1: That you're right Gero's, Yes, I don't think so he's

1471
01:28:35,120 --> 01:28:37,920
Speaker 1: the god of sushi. Oh yeah, since he he's like

1472
01:28:38,120 --> 01:28:40,880
Speaker 1: eighty eighty nine years old.

1473
01:28:40,920 --> 01:28:42,960
Speaker 3: But you have to check him out. You got to

1474
01:28:42,960 --> 01:28:43,960
Speaker 3: see his on a Netflix.

1475
01:28:44,000 --> 01:28:47,080
Speaker 1: You gotta see his documentary, Gerald Dreams of Sushi and

1476
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:50,400
Speaker 1: like it's it's a pilgrimage, Like his meals are like.

1477
01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:53,640
Speaker 3: Six seven hundred dollars.

1478
01:28:53,760 --> 01:28:57,400
Speaker 1: But it's people. People make pilgrimages over there. It's almost

1479
01:28:57,400 --> 01:29:00,360
Speaker 1: like going to confessional just him. Yeah, like it's just

1480
01:29:00,479 --> 01:29:02,800
Speaker 1: you and him alone in the room, and he feeds you,

1481
01:29:03,280 --> 01:29:06,280
Speaker 1: you know, the best sushi you've ever had in your life.

1482
01:29:06,680 --> 01:29:10,599
Speaker 3: Wow. I remember, I remember going when I first ate sushi.

1483
01:29:10,680 --> 01:29:14,880
Speaker 3: I ate sushi in Japan at the Empress Palace. He

1484
01:29:15,000 --> 01:29:19,280
Speaker 3: invited us over, Me and my whole crew. We had

1485
01:29:19,400 --> 01:29:23,680
Speaker 3: just finished doing Tokyo dum for the seventh night and

1486
01:29:25,120 --> 01:29:27,960
Speaker 3: he invited us over, and I mean the palace was

1487
01:29:28,040 --> 01:29:32,640
Speaker 3: so beautiful and he just we were like skeptical of

1488
01:29:32,800 --> 01:29:35,439
Speaker 3: trying sushi, but it was like this was so long ago,

1489
01:29:35,600 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 3: this was before all of these sushi restaurants started popping

1490
01:29:39,439 --> 01:29:44,200
Speaker 3: up here, and man I swear on my life this

1491
01:29:44,720 --> 01:29:48,240
Speaker 3: this food was so good. It was oh my god.

1492
01:29:48,360 --> 01:29:51,680
Speaker 3: And they had temporas and all of that. They had

1493
01:29:51,720 --> 01:29:57,360
Speaker 3: these little white fish that the tempora and I mean, oh,

1494
01:30:01,520 --> 01:30:04,679
Speaker 3: I can still taste it right now, that's how good

1495
01:30:04,680 --> 01:30:06,599
Speaker 3: it was. And then I tried all of the other

1496
01:30:06,840 --> 01:30:10,680
Speaker 3: you know, you know, raw fish and things like that,

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Speaker 3: and got my kids into it, you know, my older kids,

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Speaker 3: and then I started telling them that the you know,

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Speaker 3: the wasabi was dessert and that was the ice cream.

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Speaker 3: That's nice. I did it to my brother first, and

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Speaker 3: he took a scoop and put it all the way

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Speaker 3: in his love and he was and he doesn't like

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Speaker 3: anything hot, and his snow started running. I started tearing up.

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Speaker 6: I was like, before I forget talk to us about

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Speaker 6: how you had Bosstown in Atlanta and then how it

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Speaker 6: became thinkni you okay in outcast in that connection, I forgot.

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Speaker 3: Well. Bosstown was a place where we did all of

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Speaker 3: the recordings for you know, most of my stuff that

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Speaker 3: I did with b Brown Posse, and we would rent

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Speaker 3: it out, you know track. We would do lots of tracks.

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Speaker 3: We had three studios. But I just got I just

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01:31:15,920 --> 01:31:19,559
Speaker 3: got tired of Atlanta. You know, when I was getting

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Speaker 3: ready to get married to Whitney, I was just tired

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Speaker 3: of Atlanta. I was tired of being there and tired

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Speaker 3: of the whole Atlanta scene. You know, because what years

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Speaker 3: were you there from? Ooh, I want to say eighty eight,

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Speaker 3: eighty seven.

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Speaker 6: To ninety eighty seven, ninety okay, eighty seven to ninety two.

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Speaker 6: So that was was Freaknick still run Nick was yeah.

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Speaker 6: They canceled Freak Nick back in ninety ninety, yeah, around

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Speaker 6: ninety because.

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Speaker 3: It was it was wild. It was wild. I have

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01:31:58,840 --> 01:32:02,360
Speaker 3: never seen so many strip I was on in my life.

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01:32:03,680 --> 01:32:07,760
Speaker 3: I mean, strip club on every corner, every corner. I

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01:32:09,360 --> 01:32:13,360
Speaker 3: was like, isn't this the Bible Belt state? Apparently not.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Atlanta is just I mean when you know, like

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Speaker 6: Atlanta is just like one spec of black people, but

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Speaker 6: Georgia like as a whole. Oh yeah, it's yeah, it's real.

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Speaker 6: I'm from I'm born and raised North Carolina. So like

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Speaker 6: my buddies, my homies were drive down to Freaknick, but

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Speaker 6: I never got a chance to go.

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Speaker 3: I was too young. But Freaknick was wow. So you

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01:32:30,200 --> 01:32:33,040
Speaker 3: had the studio there, you had boss Town, I had Bosstown,

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01:32:33,120 --> 01:32:37,320
Speaker 3: there and I guess you know, I was told to

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01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:42,240
Speaker 3: La that I wanted to sell it, and he said, well,

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01:32:42,280 --> 01:32:43,920
Speaker 3: I got some guys that might want to buy it

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01:32:44,000 --> 01:32:47,320
Speaker 3: off you and go we hold it was outcasts, you know,

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01:32:48,160 --> 01:32:52,280
Speaker 3: the Dungeon Crew, and I sold it to them and

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01:32:52,760 --> 01:32:57,760
Speaker 3: moved on, you know, didn't look back. He well, you know,

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Speaker 3: brother Brown, We thank you. Thank you. Yell y'all, bro

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01:33:02,880 --> 01:33:05,800
Speaker 3: like for real, like you are a surviving Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate straight up.

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Speaker 7: And I want to thank you for all the sacrifices

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01:33:09,439 --> 01:33:11,479
Speaker 7: that you and the guys in New Addition made because

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01:33:11,479 --> 01:33:13,760
Speaker 7: you guys basically gave up your childhood just to entertain us.

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Speaker 3: I want to thank you for that. Thank you. You

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01:33:16,760 --> 01:33:19,360
Speaker 3: made a lot of people very happy. Thanks y'all made

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01:33:19,439 --> 01:33:21,800
Speaker 3: us got be I mean, y'all didn't have to listen,

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01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:27,040
Speaker 3: but you did listen. We have what else am I

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Speaker 3: going to put on my cake?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 6: God?

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Speaker 3: All right on? Behalf of team Supreme? Uh you fan

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Speaker 3: take a little and Sugar Steve you cool Yeah, I'm

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01:33:39,080 --> 01:33:40,439
Speaker 3: cooling it now and then cool.

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Speaker 1: Boston on pay Bill quest love. Thank you Bobby once again,

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01:33:45,479 --> 01:33:46,840
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: You got it. This is quest Love Supreme only on Pandora.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you on the next go around, y'all.

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