Speaker 1: R and B money, Honey, we are.
Speaker 2: Than think about the child. We are the authority on
Speaker 2: all th R and B ladies and gentlemen. My name
Speaker 2: is Tank, and this.
Speaker 3: Tell them what it is. Ship.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hold on, hold on, yeah, motherfuckers, Oh, motherfucking yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do long intro.
Speaker 2: You know why why because the people have been asking,
Speaker 2: not asking for two interview, demanding the interviews, threatening two interviews.
Speaker 1: One was Jesus and the other was christ.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, ship ship.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be round right now, y'all can't funk with us?
Speaker 1: Go ahead. I remember, I remember.
Speaker 2: I remember walking into the studio on your second album
Speaker 2: and you're saying, big bro out, I want you to
Speaker 2: get on. I'm like, okay, cool, you know, come up there.
Speaker 2: You know, probably gonna help you, right, help you, help
Speaker 2: you really put the ship together. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: because that's what I do, and help you put your
Speaker 2: ship together. You know what I'm saying. I'm on a
Speaker 2: high level. You know, I'm a high level producer, writing
Speaker 2: and singer. You know you probably need me. I'm on
Speaker 2: the way. And I get in there and you play
Speaker 2: this song called take My Time, and you said, yeah,
Speaker 2: big brother, got I got. I kind of modeled it
Speaker 2: off after Sexual Pain and it's already good. You just
Speaker 2: you just sing your verse, right, this is your verse.
Speaker 2: And I was like, so he doesn't need.
Speaker 1: And bro.
Speaker 2: It was like the craziest I'd never seen a learning
Speaker 2: curve that small to where a first album, it was
Speaker 2: like people were giving you things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, had to learn that was like school.
Speaker 2: And by your second album you had already figured it out.
Speaker 2: And it was scary to see. I was like, where's
Speaker 2: he gonna be on his third album? Where's he gonna be?
Speaker 2: And now too many years later, now it's just records
Speaker 2: being broken. Now you're just breaking your own records.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to set againness world records and it's not
Speaker 6: even it's not even close.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. We like to start to begin.
Speaker 2: I just had to start there because I just I
Speaker 2: just when I felt like I wasn't needed anymore musically,
Speaker 2: I just kind of.
Speaker 1: Myself.
Speaker 6: But I called him I was like being broken on
Speaker 6: the record. So it was like I didn't feel the
Speaker 6: record at that time. It would be like me stealing
Speaker 6: a record from you. What I'm saying that I didn't
Speaker 6: involve you in the record because I'm like, I was
Speaker 6: inspired by your song to do the song. So I
Speaker 6: was like, let me now get on the record with me,
Speaker 6: bro Like, and I can talk. I can talk a
Speaker 6: little bit more adult now on the song because I'm older,
Speaker 6: you know, before I had to learn him like, oh,
Speaker 6: I can't say that, I can't say this. And then
Speaker 6: by the time, like even working with you from Kerry Hillson,
Speaker 6: I Donnis, you know, like working with all these different writers,
Speaker 6: Dre and Dal all of them, like back in the day,
Speaker 6: I was fifteen fourteen doing that album, my first album.
Speaker 5: Man, that's that was like learning. So like I said,
Speaker 5: I was in school, like Okay, this is how you
Speaker 5: do it. This is how you make a song. There's
Speaker 5: a verse a pre course, and I didn't know none
Speaker 5: of that.
Speaker 1: So you learned that over a summer, bro.
Speaker 3: Man, That's what it felt like.
Speaker 1: That's what it felt like.
Speaker 2: I felt like that it took me to the place
Speaker 2: of being where I was the teacher. It took me
Speaker 2: to a place of being reverting back to a student.
Speaker 1: Damn. Like watching him work like that, I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: he different. No, we literally like and.
Speaker 7: I don't know if we've ever told you this, but
Speaker 7: we've literally worked with you, got in the car and
Speaker 7: then implement it some of the ship you do.
Speaker 3: Bro, you may look at us like the big brother.
Speaker 7: No, Nigga, we've literally worked with you and been like, nigga,
Speaker 7: did you watch out he and then he did.
Speaker 3: His vocal this way.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, like you know we're paying attention. Yeah, that's sporadic.
Speaker 6: How how we record? Like I learned, remember how everybody
Speaker 6: used to have to record like we have to punch.
Speaker 5: No, it was really no punching.
Speaker 6: You had to sing that whole work, right, So once
Speaker 6: technology got faster, I was like, we can still do
Speaker 6: the same amount of effort as far as you remember.
Speaker 6: How how how do my stack? So how it's it's
Speaker 6: faster to me because it's like in section and I
Speaker 6: can just put them all together and then it looks
Speaker 6: like a painting.
Speaker 5: So that's what I was kind of learning.
Speaker 6: So if y'all, if y'all implemented certain ship, I'm like, damn,
Speaker 6: y'all was looking at what I was doing.
Speaker 1: I'm stealing.
Speaker 3: I used to.
Speaker 5: A great word.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Thank you stealing. I'm at
Speaker 2: the house like Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: How we get that?
Speaker 2: How do we get that? I ain't gonna do the dance?
Speaker 2: Moved to go over and slow it down a little bit,
Speaker 2: like I ain't.
Speaker 1: Make it do that.
Speaker 3: He's here now, Chris is here, So Chris Brown. That's
Speaker 3: Nigga Brown. Just so you know, that's Nigga Brown over there.
Speaker 7: And he always mentions you when he mentions his dance
Speaker 7: move for some odd reason.
Speaker 2: Because you have to understand, I'm the older version of
Speaker 2: Chris Brown. Since this genuine won't do the dances. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, I tell the nigga the nigga
Speaker 2: first of all, come on, due to the fucking pony dance.
Speaker 2: He won't do the fucking pony dance. So it upsets me.
Speaker 1: I won't do it.
Speaker 2: So now I got to pick up the mantle. I
Speaker 2: gotta go back to my freaky days. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. Video I'm doing summersaults. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I'm blowing up fucking buildings. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 2: I got to go back to those days just to
Speaker 2: show people I'm really that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So what are you telling you? Is he was
Speaker 3: Yusie for you.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is, don't
Speaker 2: don't think I ain't got feet.
Speaker 1: Y'all got I got feet.
Speaker 3: They don't all work the same.
Speaker 1: No, Brown, that's going to be too left feet. But
Speaker 1: it's the left them.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the beginning, the beginning of when when
Speaker 2: did somebody identify that you had something special?
Speaker 6: Or when did you I mean, as you know, like
Speaker 6: I think I was like probably about nine when I
Speaker 6: was like, Okay, I actually can sing. I was in
Speaker 6: the choir and I was like, oh, they gave me
Speaker 6: the leads and I was like I'm seeing people like
Speaker 6: yeah baby when I sing church Yeah, And I'm like, yeah, oh,
Speaker 6: I really sound good to these people because you know,
Speaker 6: your family members always hate man, shut up, you don't
Speaker 6: sound like So I really took a series like nine
Speaker 6: to ten, and then my mom was we were in
Speaker 6: Tappa handing, and I was like, look I met these people.
Speaker 5: We just got to drive like an hour and a
Speaker 5: half away, Like you met the people.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I met him. I met the people through through
Speaker 6: through like one guy. I met him through like three
Speaker 6: different people. So I maintained a close relationship with a
Speaker 6: guy that was around my age, and we and we
Speaker 6: always did music, but he would he would always dance.
Speaker 6: So he'll take me to like the radio shows, like, look,
Speaker 6: let's go up to the radio station while they doing
Speaker 6: like they knew artist stuff. Let's let's see if we
Speaker 6: can slide in there and we just play our stuff
Speaker 6: and we just dance.
Speaker 5: So I hung with him, and then he got noticed
Speaker 5: by like.
Speaker 6: Troy Taylor's people and a group of different different uh
Speaker 6: like guys that that they knew around the Virginia area.
Speaker 5: So from there we.
Speaker 6: Started working and then I met the people I met
Speaker 6: in New York and so now that was like all
Speaker 6: in like a three to four year process. But it
Speaker 6: was like as soon as I said, Mom, want to
Speaker 6: do this, it was like basketball practice. Okay, drive I
Speaker 6: don't know what You're in the studio till six in
Speaker 6: the morning, Drive back nine to eight and what age
Speaker 6: shit ten?
Speaker 1: Eleven?
Speaker 5: Oh man, yeah ten, shout out to yeah mama.
Speaker 1: Mama.
Speaker 6: Mama was son the vision she and she made sure
Speaker 6: I still went took my ass to school. But at
Speaker 6: the same time, she was like, all right, if you
Speaker 6: want to do this, you're gonna have to have the
Speaker 6: same discipline and you can't be slacking off on certain shit.
Speaker 5: So I got too.
Speaker 6: Much energy as it is, So I was like, shit,
Speaker 6: I'm not feeling I'm finna do this.
Speaker 2: So people writing songs for y'all like producing songs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a group, like what's going on?
Speaker 5: Uh? Well, I was never.
Speaker 6: I was never in a group. The only group I
Speaker 6: was in was with my boy TJ. Shout out to TJ.
Speaker 5: Free him. Uh but for him, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: He'd be out in the buy it some time. But
Speaker 6: back in the day, he was the rapper, you know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. And I would get on the songs
Speaker 6: with him and just be on the courses like you know,
Speaker 6: do hooks and stuff. And we would write little stuff
Speaker 6: and it really won't like good at the time when
Speaker 6: we was young, but it was for our age.
Speaker 5: It was like exceptional, Like okay, y'all got your potention.
Speaker 3: Remember he was man.
Speaker 5: Fans my my rap name. So he was TJ nice
Speaker 5: and see sizzle he was. He was a sizzle man.
Speaker 6: It was I was playing basketball, so sa sizzle was
Speaker 6: a word you can say.
Speaker 2: Back then, I wouldn't be hurricane and he he niggas
Speaker 2: would have never.
Speaker 5: Made the hell out we would have made it get
Speaker 5: him out of here.
Speaker 7: I would have been the punk ass executive y'all come
Speaker 7: sing probably man, if you don't get sizzled and hurricane
Speaker 7: the funk.
Speaker 1: Out of here.
Speaker 3: Man again, bro, look at R and B.
Speaker 1: Look what R and B is done for y'all too, Man,
Speaker 1: what was the next level up? When it was like?
Speaker 2: When was it like, Okay, this ship is getting serious
Speaker 2: or we found a record or we found a moment
Speaker 2: where so when I started, pros are starting now.
Speaker 6: So I had my first I think it got serious
Speaker 6: to me when I booked my and this had nothing
Speaker 6: to do with music at the time, but because we
Speaker 6: showcased our musical talent, we booked the job. It was
Speaker 6: for a g unit campaign, right, and so like I
Speaker 6: was like, you know what, fifty c hes gonna.
Speaker 5: Be able to see it. He gonna be at the
Speaker 5: vote at the shoot. We can give him my demo.
Speaker 6: We could sing, you know, the typical like y'all want
Speaker 6: to get signs ship. So we actually did that audition.
Speaker 6: They was like, man, you kids are phenomenal, and they
Speaker 6: booked us. Boom, we got there. We went, we backstage
Speaker 6: with all of them, like but I never really hung
Speaker 6: with fifty at that time. He just was always respectful,
Speaker 6: like what's up y'all boom, But we was around Lloyd
Speaker 6: Banks a couple of different.
Speaker 5: Guys, but we were bad little kids. Like you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: We already had weed and ship like, so we was like,
Speaker 6: we're trying to smoke our weed on the side.
Speaker 5: They're like, man, what y'all doing, and so like nah,
Speaker 5: we wrapped and we see. So we started.
Speaker 6: Performing with them and then they was like you know what, man,
Speaker 6: y'all niggas is dope. And then I remember one niggas
Speaker 6: like man, but we don't know how to fuck markt No,
Speaker 6: damn kids, we some gangsters.
Speaker 5: So I was like, so I was like, damn, Like
Speaker 5: I understood it.
Speaker 6: But it was just like, Okay, this ship is about
Speaker 6: to be real for us because other artists actually looking
Speaker 6: and that not saying the typical art that's cool, you
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So like real real artists who do.
Speaker 5: And people were looking up. There was the hottest group
Speaker 5: at the time, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: So like for us that was like seeing seeing gods,
Speaker 6: like okay, cool, we get to see all our all
Speaker 6: our idols in one and they like our stuff. And
Speaker 6: then from there our demo tapes started going out, like
Speaker 6: we had a but I was only how I discovered
Speaker 6: I had a solo song that I did.
Speaker 5: It's called Whose Girl Is that? You can go look
Speaker 5: at her YouTube.
Speaker 6: I was like, I think I was twelve or thirteen
Speaker 6: when I shot it, So this was yeah, so so,
Speaker 6: but it was like back then, you know that was that.
Speaker 6: It was like the bootleg videos, you know how man,
Speaker 6: it's gotta be two thousand and what three?
Speaker 1: Might it might have been on DVD? I thought I
Speaker 1: thought it might have been on VHS.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, we had we had it on the debut.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: If it was VHS, I would be like, oh you
Speaker 5: heard the the popping before the videos stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But when we did we did the video like it
Speaker 6: wasn't It wasn't really expensive, but you know, because it
Speaker 6: was independent, we was like, okay, cool, we're gonna we're
Speaker 6: gonna shoot it like this. And the demo tape actually
Speaker 6: the video didn't even go out because we didn't have
Speaker 6: no platform to put it on. We would just ship
Speaker 6: ship it or shop it with our demos. So the
Speaker 6: demo I was number seven out of a song of
Speaker 6: maybe like twenty eight, but with seven different or seven
Speaker 6: or eight different artists.
Speaker 5: It was like a damn mixtape mixed up.
Speaker 6: So but basically they were shopping it out to other
Speaker 6: labels to see and I remember Tina Davis to this
Speaker 6: day shout out to Teena Davis. She she listened to
Speaker 6: the songs like who's this kid? And then I want
Speaker 6: to meet this kid? And that's when I went to
Speaker 6: death Jam and she had to meeting with us, and
Speaker 6: then from there they wanted to sign us, and then
Speaker 6: you know, a merger happened. She left and I was like,
Speaker 6: hold on, but Tina, you listened to me first, so
Speaker 6: could you you want to manage me? I don't got
Speaker 6: no manage You're like, She's like cool, but you want
Speaker 6: to stay here or I can get you some other deals?
Speaker 1: I said you, So does the company get the deal
Speaker 1: and you're part of that deal.
Speaker 5: So what it was was the company did a deal
Speaker 5: with me.
Speaker 6: When I ended up signing with with job at the time,
Speaker 6: the company, we we just paid them out for the
Speaker 6: work that they already did and then we gave them
Speaker 6: points on the album and they would Yeah. So they
Speaker 6: always get credited so that that that classic album, they're
Speaker 6: always going to eat from it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: So the way I looked at it was it was
Speaker 6: cool because they didn't hold me into a nah, you
Speaker 6: gotta be like this we get we taking your publishing,
Speaker 6: they need all this.
Speaker 5: They didn't.
Speaker 6: They didn't strong arm at all because and they believed
Speaker 6: in the dream, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: To this day.
Speaker 6: TJ's father was the guy who really put it together.
Speaker 6: So me and TJ are brothers, even with his kids
Speaker 6: with everything. So it's like, how how I looked at
Speaker 6: it was like, damn, they gave me a shot and
Speaker 6: they let me.
Speaker 7: They let me do what I needed to do because
Speaker 7: there have been labels that have held artists and you
Speaker 7: never get a chance to see if an artist is
Speaker 7: going to become a star because they're just trying to
Speaker 7: do what they consider to be business instead of actually
Speaker 7: caring about the artists.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And then Mark Pitt's how they did it with us.
Speaker 6: With Mark pitts uh, the actual production company I was
Speaker 6: working with.
Speaker 5: They they brought me right to Mark Pits with Tina.
Speaker 6: So when we went to a job, they was like
Speaker 6: you know what, we don't want to let y'all leave
Speaker 6: the building. Like and I built a bigger rapport with
Speaker 6: Mark out of any other A and R that I
Speaker 6: would meet, Like, you know, Kevin Loules was cool as hell,
Speaker 6: but like Mark Pitts was like more young. He was energetic,
Speaker 6: like he was like, hey man, let's and you know,
Speaker 6: job had everybody too. They had Britney Spears, Aaron Carter
Speaker 6: at the time, recipes, uh r, Kelly, they had everybody,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. So I'm looking like who
Speaker 6: who's going to be the best for the genre that
Speaker 6: I'm doing?
Speaker 5: Who's going to be the best R and B genre?
Speaker 3: You're already thinking about that fourteen?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Because I needed. I needed.
Speaker 6: I always always wanted to execute a plan and know
Speaker 6: that it comes with a lot of shit, Like you
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, Like I'm not okay, I'm not
Speaker 6: gonna just do this right now to get some girls
Speaker 6: and then go back home. Anything I could do to
Speaker 6: not go back home, like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: To elevate my life, I think I planned. I'm very imaginative,
Speaker 6: so so my my what is it called? My manifestations
Speaker 6: were already like years in advance, like I want to
Speaker 6: do this so you know.
Speaker 2: So you said Tina Davis shout out to Tenna Davis
Speaker 2: shout out to the area. Yeah, yeah, what's your when
Speaker 2: you get with Tina Davis?
Speaker 1: What is what is?
Speaker 2: First of all, you spoke on it just like a
Speaker 2: little bit in terms of you saying like something was
Speaker 2: something about her made sense for you in terms of saying,
Speaker 2: you know, I want to roll with you. Yeah, what
Speaker 2: was that thing that you just connected with that just
Speaker 2: made you like because that's a different type of because
Speaker 2: you already in a building.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like, well she did.
Speaker 6: She really kind of like showed me the first the
Speaker 6: first ten minutes of me being in the office because
Speaker 6: we came in there. Me and TJ came in there
Speaker 6: red rags on beads like I hadn't read to get it.
Speaker 6: We came, we came on some gangs, trying to look tough.
Speaker 6: She's like, take that shit off, take all that off.
Speaker 5: Boom boom.
Speaker 6: And when we when I started performing, she would be like,
Speaker 6: stop do this when you perform, act like that. This
Speaker 6: person the only person.
Speaker 5: So she gave me direction that i've that I've never experienced,
Speaker 5: and I was like, this is the sharpening that I
Speaker 5: need in order to be big. You gee what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: So once once she did that, I was like, damn,
Speaker 6: she believed in me and gave me a chance with
Speaker 6: somebody could have they could have just let me go
Speaker 6: out how I thought it.
Speaker 1: Was gonna be.
Speaker 5: And then it was they were like, we don't want this.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. We don't want this kid.
Speaker 5: She shaped it.
Speaker 6: So I was like, you know what, I don't want
Speaker 6: to I don't want to traverse through this whole kind
Speaker 6: of thing and not know where the fuck I'm going
Speaker 6: that right there. I want to see if she wants
Speaker 6: to manage me or be a part of it, because
Speaker 6: she she kind of like opened the spark up in
Speaker 6: my in my creative brain or seeing what I really
Speaker 6: needed to be.
Speaker 2: And I think the reason I was asking you that
Speaker 2: is because as as like, just as new artists emerged,
Speaker 2: I think, you know, we see we see new artists
Speaker 2: with this with definitely a great level of confidence. But
Speaker 2: I want artists to make sure they're putting themselves in
Speaker 2: a position with people that challenge them, Yeah, challenge them
Speaker 2: to be better.
Speaker 6: What is it called what we conditioning, not conditioning like
Speaker 6: when we were younger. You have to go through artists
Speaker 6: development development, That's what it was.
Speaker 5: So so as far as what we have to do
Speaker 5: is like you got to go through media training. You
Speaker 5: gotta go.
Speaker 6: You got to know how to answer a question, like
Speaker 6: you got to know how to think about lost art.
Speaker 2: To lead the interview. Yeah, like there they have a goal.
Speaker 2: But I have a fucking call, right, I got ship
Speaker 2: that I'm selling exactly. Okay, what question you asked me.
Speaker 2: We don't get back to this fucking if I promise you.
Speaker 2: That takes preparation, though, that takes preparation. And I remember
Speaker 2: my first time meeting you in New York. I think
Speaker 2: you're like fourteen, maybe.
Speaker 7: About to be fifteen, at Ethiopia's office when she was
Speaker 7: in publishing at the time at the Universal Music Publishing Company,
Speaker 7: and I was there on the writing trip, and I
Speaker 7: never forget he walked in there. She said, it's a
Speaker 7: kid you got to meet. She's like, you have to
Speaker 7: meet him. She's like he only in here for minute,
Speaker 7: but you got to meet him. And she brought you
Speaker 7: to that room and I literally, like you said, within
Speaker 7: five ten minutes, I was like, oh, he about to
Speaker 7: be the biggest on the road.
Speaker 5: He was in the writing room.
Speaker 7: I was in the little writing room. I was in
Speaker 7: a little writing room. I was like, Yo, whoever the.
Speaker 3: Fuck that is that nigga? Everybody in trouble.
Speaker 7: She's like, you know how that she is because she
Speaker 7: was signing you from a publishing seat. She was working
Speaker 7: with you on that, so you know, of course it's
Speaker 7: it's kind of one of those and you know this
Speaker 7: stage where everybody everywhere you're going before you crack off,
Speaker 7: your auditioning everywhere pretty much just in your personality whatever
Speaker 7: it is. So when I tell her, she's like, yeah,
Speaker 7: I think you start. I'm like, yo, he got it.
Speaker 1: It's like he has it.
Speaker 7: And I hadn't seen anything like that because to me,
Speaker 7: you were already even at fourteen fifteen, in my opinion,
Speaker 7: you were already in the space of, oh, he's going
Speaker 7: to be able to transition into an adult artist too,
Speaker 7: even though you hadn't put out none of your kid record.
Speaker 7: I saw it with you and just from your personality back,
Speaker 7: you know, but what they used to call call it
Speaker 7: managed nigga, he was managed.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I was looking at everything with a skirt. Who
Speaker 5: that what's the name? That's the country you want? It
Speaker 5: starts early in the country. Yeah, you grow fast and fastest.
Speaker 1: So you're making when you get with you.
Speaker 2: Now you start making rounds right because you you made
Speaker 2: you made heavy rounds very early that most most new
Speaker 2: artists don't get to make.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And you made a stop
Speaker 1: at the underdogs.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, facts, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: And I'm looking at this little nigga, I'm like, okay.
Speaker 5: I was nervous too.
Speaker 6: I ain't a lot going in there with y'all because
Speaker 6: you gotta think I'm still learning singing, like it's still
Speaker 6: I had a natural talent, but like to be in
Speaker 6: there and and here y'all running scales all that.
Speaker 5: I'm in there sweating. But I'm not going to let you.
Speaker 1: You weren't scared. You was going back with us, though.
Speaker 1: He was like dar devil. Look at him. I'm like,
Speaker 1: can you dance? He said, yeah, nigga. I was like
Speaker 1: you then, I think it was a DVD or type
Speaker 1: of something, and I said.
Speaker 6: That showed you the whole I say, that's when we
Speaker 6: did the little school runs and I was showing you
Speaker 6: like the performance.
Speaker 1: Said oh you you can, damn.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just trying to find a win. I'm like,
Speaker 2: can you hoop niggas? Yeah, nigga, I can hoop? Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's And it was like at every turn it was like.
Speaker 1: This nigga is different. This nigga do everything. He sings,
Speaker 1: he danced, he hoop, he manish. I love this nigga
Speaker 1: and not to speed forward.
Speaker 2: But there was a point where I was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: first you get a hear record, let's start there.
Speaker 3: Out the gate, out the gate. There was no sputter
Speaker 3: for you at all.
Speaker 5: I was. I was just surprised though I was.
Speaker 6: I was like, I didn't even realize how big the
Speaker 6: record was gonna be.
Speaker 5: Like not to kill it now.
Speaker 6: But I hated the record because I was doing R
Speaker 6: and B R and B songs, so like Scott's stories,
Speaker 6: I was like, man, I don't know what a hit is,
Speaker 6: so I'm not gonna tell him that this is not.
Speaker 3: A hit, right, And he got a gang of hits.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I sat in there like, man.
Speaker 1: I don't really like this.
Speaker 5: Saw me in Miami.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to tell teen and all them like I
Speaker 6: don't think this is fun. Me this song, ain't. We
Speaker 6: got so many other songs like the your song.
Speaker 1: The your song. I'm like, so.
Speaker 6: I'm thinking all of that type because I wanted to
Speaker 6: be more, more vulnerable or not, but I also wanted
Speaker 6: to kick ass on the dance and I wanted to
Speaker 6: show off that.
Speaker 5: So they was like, nah, trust me, this is it
Speaker 5: put it out and I didn't.
Speaker 6: When it blew up, I said, what the It's like,
Speaker 6: I'm still in like, what is it called imposter syndrome?
Speaker 6: To this day, I still know the feeling of how
Speaker 6: I felt when that shitent crazy.
Speaker 7: So when you do your difference, we went by that
Speaker 7: because I always asked this question. And at this point
Speaker 7: you're like fourteen fifty fifteen, you get to do did
Speaker 7: they let you touch the money?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 6: How I did it? See a lot of people don't know.
Speaker 6: I didn't get signed for like you know how people
Speaker 6: get signed for. Oh, I got signed for me and
Speaker 6: eight men. Back then it won't so I got signed
Speaker 6: for like one hundred and fifty k, right and so
Speaker 6: and then from there, because I was under age, my
Speaker 6: mom was in control of it, but most of it.
Speaker 5: Would be like a trust yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: The Cooglan account, Yeah, Cooglan Acount, so I wouldn't be
Speaker 6: able to touch it.
Speaker 5: So obviously we could.
Speaker 6: She could go and withdraw stuff if I wanted to
Speaker 6: make purchases or I wanted to do stuff.
Speaker 5: But nah, I still was every bit of a teenager
Speaker 5: that they made me.
Speaker 3: So as a teenager, what's the what's the first thing
Speaker 3: you buy?
Speaker 5: Oh? Do you escalate? Bro?
Speaker 1: Off the deal?
Speaker 5: That's what you got? No, you know what it was?
Speaker 6: Was it an escalator? And it was like an I
Speaker 6: don't know if it's not. It might have been escalator
Speaker 6: or for Ford something.
Speaker 5: I remember. It's a big truck. It's been a while.
Speaker 6: I had the Lamborghini doors on it, and like I
Speaker 6: put the doors that come up, like your first your
Speaker 6: first car.
Speaker 3: Had Lamborghiny doors. This is getting I was about to get.
Speaker 5: I swear I was about to get a Honda Civic. Bro,
Speaker 5: I was about to get a put put that was
Speaker 5: gonna be my first car.
Speaker 7: But it's like it's definitely your uncle.
Speaker 3: God, you definitely got to be real related.
Speaker 6: So sure, because I was gonna do with the suicide
Speaker 6: man the butterfly doors. Yeah, bro, Like I'm from I'm
Speaker 6: from partial South, like Virginia is the South.
Speaker 2: But you know what I'm saying, So you don't just
Speaker 2: listen to what DC Maryland? Like what d C and Maryland?
Speaker 2: They mirror the South. Yeah, period like we mirror everything south.
Speaker 2: There was like we went through East Coast phase with
Speaker 2: Biggie and but we mirror.
Speaker 5: The last money was it Tappahannock?
Speaker 1: Definitely just cash money?
Speaker 5: Was it?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Everybody?
Speaker 3: You know your purchase is the best one that we've had.
Speaker 3: What nigga, that's sixteen you bought?
Speaker 6: But I had the amps in the back too. I
Speaker 6: had like I ain't gonna lie. I took out the
Speaker 6: whole back seat. It's like it was like six six
Speaker 6: sixteen and.
Speaker 1: Knocking, locking fuga.
Speaker 6: I was in Virginia thinking, I was, you know, you.
Speaker 1: Pull up on that skating ring with that Oh god,
Speaker 1: it's first hit record. What changes for you in your mind?
Speaker 2: Now? I mean now it's not now it's not guesswork.
Speaker 2: Now things are like this is what I do. Now,
Speaker 2: Things are automatic. Now, things are like it's more so
Speaker 2: what I need I can get.
Speaker 6: It kind of was like you know when the kid,
Speaker 6: when I could just go to the movies with my
Speaker 6: homeboys because I did everything as a as a regular kid,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, even being in Harlem to
Speaker 6: be in Virginia like I did, like regular, so I
Speaker 6: was used to being around people and being in an environment.
Speaker 6: As soon as that song went crazy, I couldn't go nowhere.
Speaker 6: I couldn't go to the mall. Like if I walked
Speaker 6: outside of the neighborhood that I was in, it would
Speaker 6: be people running down the street like so I was
Speaker 6: still in Virginia. No, Well, and Jay took me out
Speaker 6: of Virginia as soon as as soon as I shot
Speaker 6: the deal, like I think my record came on. I
Speaker 6: was in tenth grade when my song came out and
Speaker 6: when I got my record deal. So and I didn't
Speaker 6: leave school until after my song had already hit the radio.
Speaker 6: So they's like, we got to pull them, we gotta,
Speaker 6: we gotta get him out of there. So then from there,
Speaker 6: I went from Virginia to Jersey, so so I could
Speaker 6: be closer to uh New York. But I couldn't even
Speaker 6: walk down the street there like I was. We would
Speaker 6: literally have.
Speaker 5: To drive in the garage every time we come home
Speaker 5: and shut the door. So nobody knows.
Speaker 3: What's the what's the mindset?
Speaker 7: Of that for you as this sixteen year old, fifteen,
Speaker 7: sixteen year old kid, Like, how does it? Because that's
Speaker 7: the one thing it's bro, And I know, I know
Speaker 7: he can attest to this because we are all so
Speaker 7: close and we've we've all known each other for so long.
Speaker 7: We have so many conversations that come to us about you, right,
Speaker 7: and my things always been.
Speaker 3: I can't tell him.
Speaker 7: I can only tell him so much because I haven't
Speaker 7: had that experience. And that's a very real thing that
Speaker 7: I think people have never truly taken into account that, Bro,
Speaker 7: this has been your life since fifteen years old. Like,
Speaker 7: just tell me if you can remember that as being
Speaker 7: like a fifteen year old, Like, yo, they're pulling me
Speaker 7: out of school, I can't go outside, I can't go
Speaker 7: to the movies.
Speaker 5: You know, it's a lot of kid no more because
Speaker 5: of my challenging spirit. I like challenges.
Speaker 6: It was amazing thing because I be real because guess
Speaker 6: what if Well, now I'm gonna look at the bright side.
Speaker 5: I ain't got to be in school. I ain't got
Speaker 5: to be I could do my I got a two do.
Speaker 5: I don't got to be there. I could do. I
Speaker 5: can go out. Did you finish. I'm going Yeah I did,
Speaker 5: if you did, but I ain't gonna lie. I took
Speaker 5: the first two years off.
Speaker 3: Of high school though college.
Speaker 5: Yeah so I was originally supposed to be the class seven.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of yeah, so so technically you two years
Speaker 2: younger to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll take it ship.
Speaker 6: But yeah, man, it was so for you adjusted to it. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it wasn't and it would be fun. I would still
Speaker 6: do regular ship. I would just make sure I have
Speaker 6: my niggas around, like my homeboys, some of them being school.
Speaker 5: I go to their school.
Speaker 6: So my cousin just on a Friday, hey, y'all, come
Speaker 6: outside the girls, I saw them screaming. Then after that
Speaker 6: they come back to school on Monday.
Speaker 5: They the man in school, you know.
Speaker 6: So I used to go to the mall ship bo
Speaker 6: Bo did this ship too, like shout out to Bow.
Speaker 6: But we used to go to the mall, and I
Speaker 6: did it by myself, just to see what it was.
Speaker 6: I used to go to the mall and just go
Speaker 6: to one store it's popping in Virginia and like, hey
Speaker 6: that's and then take off running and wait, you would
Speaker 6: run before it even gets started.
Speaker 5: Take We did this a man and it worked. I'm
Speaker 5: talking about they would table chase you was running out
Speaker 5: of man's land.
Speaker 1: I was running out.
Speaker 5: I was at I think Virginia Center comments. That's what
Speaker 5: it was we used to go to, and then I
Speaker 5: used to be at I used to go with what
Speaker 5: was it up against the wall.
Speaker 6: It was another dtail all detailer. Yeah, said yeah, I'll
Speaker 6: be right there. They had to ship there, man, what
Speaker 6: all the girls being there? So and then I go
Speaker 6: in there and start with my homeboys to come with me,
Speaker 6: and then I see just so they'll notice who I am,
Speaker 6: like just on some young ship.
Speaker 7: Then they'll be like, hold on, that is here's some
Speaker 7: R and V ship, R n V ship. Nigga can't
Speaker 7: just bust out rapping, look around and.
Speaker 5: Facts.
Speaker 2: It worked, absolutely worked. Okay, here here, here's what I
Speaker 2: want from you. Right when did you meet him? It
Speaker 2: was the Scream tour, that first album, that first album.
Speaker 5: Right, I think it was. It had to be. It
Speaker 5: had to be like first album and the first album fatigues, Yes.
Speaker 2: First album, yep. Okay, So so I'm watching I used
Speaker 2: to watch you in the Marin Battle. Yeah, and I
Speaker 2: used to I used to watch get You. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: would you would be like fuck, you would be angry nigga.
Speaker 1: All right and I'll be back.
Speaker 5: But I always say this to this day.
Speaker 6: At that time, his discipline and what he learned and
Speaker 6: how he gets that niggas was not.
Speaker 5: Fucking with that boy.
Speaker 1: He's a monster.
Speaker 6: I don't know about now because I get off now,
Speaker 6: but at that time, that boy was a monster.
Speaker 1: He was a monster. But I want to go to
Speaker 1: the Scream tour.
Speaker 2: I was using that to set up set up the
Speaker 2: Scream tour, and my cousin, my cousin and my people
Speaker 2: wanted to go to the tour, so we can't. We
Speaker 2: came to see you, and we came backstage and everything,
Speaker 2: and I'm watching you on stage and I had I
Speaker 2: hadn't seen you perform since the album was out, since
Speaker 2: everything was going crazy, I hadn't seen you perform yet,
Speaker 2: and you know, all had the records and he was,
Speaker 2: you know, of course he was headlined. But I watched
Speaker 2: you come out in those black fatigues and I watched
Speaker 2: I can't do the move. I watched like you was
Speaker 2: the crumping and you were like pause, you was your
Speaker 2: arms were out this wide you was, you was. It
Speaker 2: was the like the whole fucking stage was in between y'all,
Speaker 2: and I'm looking. I'm like, he's getting ready to pass
Speaker 2: the guy. He's getting ready to pass him because I
Speaker 2: didn't see a kid on stage.
Speaker 1: I saw a grown ass man on stage at the
Speaker 1: screen tour. He's getting ready and I'm looking at my
Speaker 1: little cousin. She's like, oh my god, you all right?
Speaker 1: You know, we go to church on Sunday, you know,
Speaker 1: we have today's fri listen, and we go backstage to
Speaker 1: take her to meet him and she sees, she sees
Speaker 1: this nigga Chris and the Flesh, and she goes, mm hm,
Speaker 1: So you are little? Did you as you are little?
Speaker 2: That night I saw you, there was for me the
Speaker 2: beginning of the separation of you going to another place
Speaker 2: because I felt like you were I felt like you
Speaker 2: were angrier, you were more aggressive, and you had something
Speaker 2: in your mind that you were aiming.
Speaker 6: You know what it was though, even being on that tour,
Speaker 6: like what I learned, and I learned from Bio a lot.
Speaker 5: You know, he's like one of the greatest showmen as far.
Speaker 6: As so the lack of discipline that I had. I
Speaker 6: had a great amount of training, meaning like okay, Sam's
Speaker 6: you know everybody, they're gonna they're gonna get us right
Speaker 6: with the moves. Were gonna have fun. And I was
Speaker 6: able to be also creative too. They didn't just say
Speaker 6: we're gonna do this. They let me come over with
Speaker 6: some things. But the thing that I felt that I
Speaker 6: lacked was the experienced one and and just the discipline
Speaker 6: that everybody else had.
Speaker 5: You know, we it was B two K bow uh.
Speaker 5: It was so many other artists all polished here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so when you.
Speaker 5: Would see their shows, you would see the glitz and
Speaker 5: the glamour.
Speaker 6: Like me, I had a DJ booth, just a little
Speaker 6: DJ booth that I was slide from under with the
Speaker 6: dancers with the little smoke, and then I had a
Speaker 6: graffiti background, you know what I'm saying. And they maybe
Speaker 6: maybe gave me like twelve minutes. I probably had like
Speaker 6: not even that, it might have been eight minutes. So
Speaker 6: I had to, you know, figure it out. But seeing
Speaker 6: these other performers, it kind of like grew my hunger
Speaker 6: for what I needed to be doing in order to
Speaker 6: in order to be the person headlining, in order to
Speaker 6: be the person that I think I can be. You
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, so a lot of them, a
Speaker 6: lot of those guys, and seeing their performance, seeing their
Speaker 6: their quality and how out long they're dancing, and then
Speaker 6: they're just getting off and all the screams, like it
Speaker 6: was really the Scream Tour, like you, it's no other
Speaker 6: there's no other experience that I can tell you. At
Speaker 6: that time, was like forget all the festivals and stuff
Speaker 6: that they got going on right now.
Speaker 5: Back then your ears were literally you would really go.
Speaker 5: Definitely shout out to Michael Martin. I saw him during
Speaker 5: the Grammy week.
Speaker 7: I never met him before, and I just told him,
Speaker 7: I'm like, listen, man, what you did just what I
Speaker 7: mean obviously what you've.
Speaker 3: Done in the business, pier, but that Scream Tour.
Speaker 7: Jesus with giving that type of spotlight to young artists
Speaker 7: and putting him on that type of platform.
Speaker 3: I don't know anyone that's done that.
Speaker 6: I don't, I don't. I don't think it can be
Speaker 6: done right now. It's not like with you. I think
Speaker 6: that's sounds. I can't even recreate like I was just
Speaker 6: happy to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: Like I was.
Speaker 7: That's a legendary to recreate with these phones. Man, that's
Speaker 7: the other part.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because because because like that stay was like
Speaker 2: still in that moment, it still was a place where
Speaker 2: you still felt like this is the only place I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get to see that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm only gonna see this type of shit here.
Speaker 2: Like it was still that we hadn't gotten to the
Speaker 2: phone yet to where you could get used to seeing
Speaker 2: that type of shit all the time. It just runs
Speaker 2: all day. That's them scream to it. It was really screams, yeah,
Speaker 2: facts like motherfuckers. When you came on stage, it was
Speaker 2: they was glued from from from from top to bottom.
Speaker 6: And I was nervous because that's like, you know, we
Speaker 6: had performed before, Like I've performed at different places I
Speaker 6: had to perform what is.
Speaker 5: It playing in Hollywood? Different different places.
Speaker 6: But there's a little venues when you I'm in an
Speaker 6: arena now, and it's even though I go on first,
Speaker 6: the parents back then they trying to get their kids
Speaker 6: into the building early. So now if the show starts
Speaker 6: at let's say nine, some people might not leave their
Speaker 6: house to eight thirty.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: So, but back then, everybody's in there, sitting there waiting.
Speaker 6: So whoever the first artist is they either standing up
Speaker 6: or booing the ship.
Speaker 7: Did you like, speaking of booing, did you ever experience
Speaker 7: a fucked up show.
Speaker 5: Like early on?
Speaker 3: Like early on?
Speaker 6: No, No, I'm gonna be real, like I've never got
Speaker 6: like a boot, like a bad boot. I don't want
Speaker 6: to jinx myself, but but I've never got like he's
Speaker 6: not your nigga, But I've never I never got boot
Speaker 6: on a thousand hit records.
Speaker 3: But you're not getting don't worry about that.
Speaker 5: Almost I said, you almost got boo.
Speaker 3: It started off with this moddy. That's my fault.
Speaker 2: His playlist song wasn't working yeah radio so and he
Speaker 2: still wanted to sing yeah, which we're working.
Speaker 1: It was it was.
Speaker 2: Spent seven hundred thousand. I started singing the songs.
Speaker 1: The girls in the front row looking at her friends.
Speaker 1: Oh oh god, I still.
Speaker 2: Got two minutes and it's a tape, so that that
Speaker 2: you just gotta live that motherfucking out you.
Speaker 5: Start, that's when you start thinking the most.
Speaker 2: That's when I started sweating. That's when you get caught
Speaker 2: the mouth man.
Speaker 6: Now I sucked up myself on stage, like did the
Speaker 6: back flip slipped? But I play it off or like
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, then stepped off the stage
Speaker 6: before and fell in the crowd.
Speaker 7: But yeah, they still feel bad for because you're just
Speaker 7: being great.
Speaker 2: Yeah they still screamed, oh my goddess.
Speaker 3: Okay, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 7: So off the first off, the first album, you start
Speaker 7: to you start to see what this thing is like.
Speaker 7: You start to see, you know, what fame is like,
Speaker 7: and how how you're gonna adjust. Did you ever have
Speaker 7: like the can I do it again? Because you know,
Speaker 7: people talk about the sophomore sophomore.
Speaker 6: J I had that in my in the back of
Speaker 6: my head probably every day, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So like, for me, it was because the first album
Speaker 5: was like a learning experience. I wrote with writers. I
Speaker 5: didn't really write, you know.
Speaker 6: It was really how they kind of shaped what I
Speaker 6: what my ideas would be. The second album was like, okay, cool,
Speaker 6: well you've been you've been right the song selections, you're
Speaker 6: picking the choices, you know what you're doing. So but
Speaker 6: I feel like it's like the challenge thing again. I
Speaker 6: was like, you know what, I'm gonna try.
Speaker 5: To prove them wrong.
Speaker 3: You fought for that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like I said, I proved myself wrong with the
Speaker 6: with the first album.
Speaker 5: So it's like, now now I'm gonna prove them wrong.
Speaker 5: I could do this ship. So I was. I had
Speaker 5: that sophomore Jinx in the back of my head.
Speaker 1: What's the first first record from the second?
Speaker 6: The second album? Damn Let Men Make Me Go? You know,
Speaker 6: I got a lot of damn albums, man, I.
Speaker 5: Know. I think that's the album.
Speaker 7: Records from the first from the first album?
Speaker 1: Was it kids, Kiss? I'm yeah it was Kiss, wasn't it.
Speaker 5: It had to it had to? Oh no, wall to Wall?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well I think.
Speaker 2: It was water Wall. It was absolutely absolutely water Wall
Speaker 2: then Kiss Kiss.
Speaker 3: I imagine you're putting together your show set.
Speaker 6: You know, look for tour now, bro, it's crazy because
Speaker 6: I'm trying to because you know, people are still in
Speaker 6: love with the older songs.
Speaker 5: So it's like, I have no problem doing that.
Speaker 6: But the only difference is when people come to my shows,
Speaker 6: I want them to see something like evolution. Like you
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. They're not seeing the last tour
Speaker 6: that they saw. They're not seen the one before that.
Speaker 6: Every tour is completely different and it gives them, you know,
Speaker 6: the same nostalgia. But also with this with the new music.
Speaker 6: So it's so hard for us right now. I even
Speaker 6: I even put on my Instagram and Twitter, like, look
Speaker 6: what songs y'all want me to perform? They was like
Speaker 6: all of them bitches. I said, we're gonna be there
Speaker 6: for three days.
Speaker 2: I'm not, but you gotta think of it like this though, right,
Speaker 2: I always equated back to like Frankie Beverly and May. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Frankie Beverly and the same show in Arenas for twenty years.
Speaker 7: With all due respect, they don't have a hundred.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, let me get into. What I'm getting
Speaker 2: to is the variations of those songs that make it
Speaker 2: old to you.
Speaker 5: Don't get don't get old to them.
Speaker 1: Don't get old to them.
Speaker 5: But at least how you how how they will see it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they remember that. They're telling that friends. Watch when
Speaker 2: he do this, he do this thing when he sings.
Speaker 2: Watch when there you're waiting.
Speaker 6: You got a point too, that's the point. But I
Speaker 6: always want to how I look. I'll be like you
Speaker 6: know what, I want to always give them more. It's
Speaker 6: not like because you can see Chris Brown on YouTube,
Speaker 6: but you can go see it and be like all right,
Speaker 6: and then they're like man fell off.
Speaker 5: I never want to hear that ship until I'm ready
Speaker 5: to be like, look, I'm tired.
Speaker 1: I don't think because new material.
Speaker 5: I'm not, You're not gonna be tired. But that was hypothetic.
Speaker 1: You have like eight thousand songs and the what's.
Speaker 3: The longest show you've done?
Speaker 5: Ship?
Speaker 6: The last one we just did. We just came from
Speaker 6: towards overseas. You came to it like two hours and
Speaker 6: fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Hold on, let's nigga, that's let's go, let's go there,
Speaker 1: let's go there. Movie that's.
Speaker 5: Over.
Speaker 1: Ship.
Speaker 2: I was like, Bag, we're going over seas to Chris Brown.
Speaker 2: What the fuck are you talking about? We're going to Paris.
Speaker 1: Pack your ship. We're going to see Chris Brown. I
Speaker 1: told you. Now, make me tell you again.
Speaker 7: Nigga, like you have enough room in his bag to
Speaker 7: bring me back a hoodie or nothing. No, no, mer
Speaker 7: don't like to travel like that.
Speaker 1: That's why you should can't.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, march here now, merchant here, march here. We
Speaker 2: were in Paris and we pull up to the venue
Speaker 2: I'm hitting and we're here. He's like, all right, come
Speaker 2: to the back. And as we're at the venue. It's
Speaker 2: quiet outside of the venue the show. The show starts
Speaker 2: and like maybe like an hour, it's quiet, there's no traffic,
Speaker 2: there's there's there's nothing.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, this is weird. This is Chris Brown show.
Speaker 2: This is this is supposed to be It's supposed to
Speaker 2: be off the chain, house side, motherfucker is supposed to
Speaker 2: be bootlegging shit, all sorts of ship. Right, we walk
Speaker 2: into that Building's twenty thousand people already in there, probably
Speaker 2: two hours of They are in their seats like this
Speaker 2: ready but vernying on Dick Saponi's coming out soon, just
Speaker 2: sitting dispelly.
Speaker 1: It's going to be so good.
Speaker 2: And and you know, we're so used to seeing shows,
Speaker 2: you know, in the States and how people react in
Speaker 2: the States. But I wanted to go to Paris because
Speaker 2: I wanted to see people with a different mindset. I
Speaker 2: wanted to see people completely free of what this the
Speaker 2: state stigma.
Speaker 5: Is, how you gotta be cool?
Speaker 2: I'm people supposed to act, how the dudes is? I mean,
Speaker 2: I fuck with, I said I rock with. It wasn't
Speaker 2: none of that. I'm watching grown men go ape shoes.
Speaker 2: It was themselves in the music when these songs. Come on,
Speaker 2: I got a videotape of the entire arena jumping up
Speaker 2: and die. I'm like Jesus. Rice and we had talked
Speaker 2: about it before, before you got the overseas tour, and
Speaker 2: I said, Bro, I said, look, Bro, the world is
Speaker 2: getting ready to open up to you in such a
Speaker 2: way that I don't even think you could you even
Speaker 2: understand it. And you was like, he was like, bro,
Speaker 2: I hear you, but I'm I'm I'm not gonna believe
Speaker 2: it until I see it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, facts, I remember I told you that.
Speaker 2: And we and we were sitting in your dress room backstage.
Speaker 2: I said, do you see this? I said, And I
Speaker 2: watched you for two nights in a row. I don't
Speaker 2: know how the fuck you did it for two and
Speaker 2: a half hours, dance and sing.
Speaker 6: NonStop because I haven't been over there in a minute too,
Speaker 6: So by me having a tour out there, I was like, damn,
Speaker 6: this is I haven't toured over there in twelve years
Speaker 6: in certain places twelve like like London, certain places it
Speaker 6: has been twelve years. So I'm like, damn. So that
Speaker 6: they got a whole chunk of history that they ain't
Speaker 6: even sing. So I'm like, I can't be lazy and
Speaker 6: go on stage and do sixty minutes ninety minutes and
Speaker 6: be like all right, cool, we just give me out
Speaker 6: of new shit and getting out of it.
Speaker 3: Sixty ninety minutes is the that's the regular show. And
Speaker 3: he's like, I can't.
Speaker 5: I can't be nice because of the chuck.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because because because think about it, it's it's people
Speaker 6: that's my age bringing their kids to the show, you
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So they're like, now this is the person I like.
Speaker 6: So it's almost like teaching a class again, like okay, cool,
Speaker 6: the kid might not know this song, but they mama
Speaker 6: know the song and they gonna pray, you know.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 6: But in that in that space, it's like it's like
Speaker 6: a different appreciation. Remember I was like, it's like not
Speaker 6: to discredit, you know, the US, but at the end
Speaker 6: of the day when you go over there.
Speaker 1: It's like different.
Speaker 5: You're really appreciated for the music.
Speaker 3: They don't see you all the time either. Yeah you
Speaker 3: said they miss you, they miss you.
Speaker 2: But R and B is still a thing. Listen, And
Speaker 2: I gotta say it like, we're not we're not slighting
Speaker 2: in the US, but the US is spoiled. They see
Speaker 2: us walking down the street, they see it's very sass
Speaker 2: to see. It's in Miami moving already, they see us
Speaker 2: and so overseas like even just just even outside of
Speaker 2: the presence their their thirst and desire for real music
Speaker 2: is just it's just different.
Speaker 1: It's still old school over there.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's the words songs and speak English.
Speaker 3: That's gotta be great.
Speaker 6: That's that's that's phenom. I never I could never understand that.
Speaker 6: It still makes me. I think I get more excited
Speaker 6: when I when I when I see that because I'm like,
Speaker 6: you know what, that that type of energy. They don't
Speaker 6: know what the fuck I'm saying, or they might now,
Speaker 6: but it's for them to like something that that bad
Speaker 6: and you know what I'm saying, that takes dedication. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but you know the States give me my love too,
Speaker 6: because I can't.
Speaker 5: I can't lie.
Speaker 6: Fuck the media aspect we talk about like we talk
Speaker 6: about when I when I when we geah them asses
Speaker 6: in them seats, you know what I'm saying, And so
Speaker 6: and they real fans like my fan base. I can say,
Speaker 6: you know, you got Nikki's fan base beyond these fan base.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but the.
Speaker 6: Fans, I feel like everybody them in their family, they
Speaker 6: got they always you know, I always a comment. I'll
Speaker 6: get on somebody asks if they go crazy in the comments,
Speaker 6: but I always listen and kind of like let them
Speaker 6: dictate certain aspects of Okay, y'all want to hear this.
Speaker 6: Y'all like this, like I like to be engaged with them,
Speaker 6: so they so they know that this shit ain't just
Speaker 6: like oh, all right, shut up and listen. And then
Speaker 6: I'm gonna make y'all follow me this way, you know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. I feel like as a family and
Speaker 6: the people that support me there, I love this person.
Speaker 6: You know, it'd be people's mama's kids. They be like,
Speaker 6: you know what, I love that boy like so and
Speaker 6: I can I can feel that energy. So when I
Speaker 6: get into an arena, you know the fans is the
Speaker 6: really wanted to keep me in.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 3: You change the meet and greet.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, you got some flat behind that too, like nigga,
Speaker 7: you literally change.
Speaker 3: The meet and greek.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I want to say this, okay, all right,
Speaker 2: they got on his ass like I'm not doing okay,
Speaker 2: I might have to do something. Yeah, you got you
Speaker 2: gotta at least I might have to do something, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. But the Chris Brown meet and Greek,
Speaker 2: it's out of control.
Speaker 7: You might need to press that ship fun like I
Speaker 7: bet it's because.
Speaker 6: Look where else in the time, Like everybody usually like
Speaker 6: you get your pictures back in the day, all the
Speaker 6: artists like yeah, you know, like like and I don't
Speaker 6: do I'm not doing like one hundred and fifty people
Speaker 6: a night, like you know what I'm saying. So might
Speaker 6: be a small intimate group of people that actually spent
Speaker 6: that money that they might not even have to come
Speaker 6: and meet me. So I'm not gonna make they moment,
Speaker 6: you know, I don't want to make their moment, just
Speaker 6: something Hey what's up?
Speaker 5: Let me sign this? Get the funk out?
Speaker 6: Like that's weak to me because I feel like these
Speaker 6: are the same people, no matter how big of that
Speaker 6: group or smaller that group, I feel like they're the
Speaker 6: same people. That's a part of the family aspect. So
Speaker 6: so and some of these girls is man, that's the
Speaker 6: bucket list. Some of them they like, Look.
Speaker 5: All I want to do is just be able to
Speaker 5: be on him cool as long as you ain't got
Speaker 5: COVID were good.
Speaker 2: I should tell my wife she should loosen up and
Speaker 2: let me. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you can't do no motherfucking pictures with your
Speaker 6: shirt off because then you can't You can't you can't
Speaker 6: gauge the person. You don't know what might lick your
Speaker 6: stomach and something you're gonna be like hold.
Speaker 1: Onto that you get off now.
Speaker 3: But got you also?
Speaker 7: In my opinion, bro, like, I've met a lot of people,
Speaker 7: I've friends with a lot of people. We've been in
Speaker 7: this industry a long time, and I really believe that
Speaker 7: you are the most.
Speaker 3: How can I say you're the.
Speaker 7: Your cares, bro cook, absolutely care, but the most accessible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, superstar I've ever seen, literally, bro.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like I feel.
Speaker 6: Like I feel like Jill probably humbled me on that
Speaker 6: one that Yeah, there's that. But being able to like
Speaker 6: go through ship and not have to be, you know,
Speaker 6: walk a thin line because a lot of artists have
Speaker 6: to walk a thin line unless you're independent. If you're
Speaker 6: like the mainstream, you can't do this. You can't be
Speaker 6: associated with somebody, You can't do a song because of
Speaker 6: how it looks. Once that shit, like once I was
Speaker 6: able to still do music and they was and I
Speaker 6: got to be my regular nigga, Like, I got to
Speaker 6: be myself man, funk all this extra shit.
Speaker 5: I can look if somebody come up to me, what's
Speaker 5: up you like with music?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 5: What's I appreciate it?
Speaker 1: Cool?
Speaker 5: Can I get a.
Speaker 6: Picture if I'm in a go Sorry not right now,
Speaker 6: but I appreciate you boom If I'm not, it's a
Speaker 6: million pictures, whether I'm drunk, whatever it is, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: take a picture with somebody, like, because I've been able,
Speaker 6: I've been humbled through whatever my experiences are.
Speaker 5: Like, so I done went through bullshit. I and went
Speaker 5: through you know, normal nigga shit.
Speaker 6: So it's like, you know what, let me uh, let
Speaker 6: me not take this ship for granted and be appreciative
Speaker 6: every single second, every single time I get to get
Speaker 6: a chance to like do anything or be around somebody.
Speaker 2: This is a flowers pod, right, and so this is
Speaker 2: for you, your flowers. Take a second to to to speak
Speaker 2: on Team Breezy and and staying down with you through
Speaker 2: thick and thin. What is that feeling like to you?
Speaker 6: It's the it's the imposter syndrome again, like you know,
Speaker 6: because it's it's it's unbelievable, like sometimes I wake up,
Speaker 6: I'm like, damn, people go by like whether I'm promoting,
Speaker 6: I don't care if there's some shoes I'm promoting or
Speaker 6: there's a there's a following of people, a big following.
Speaker 5: Of people who who support me, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: So that also makes me the uh like cherish where
Speaker 6: I'm at, bros a Team Breezy, Like even to have
Speaker 6: a name for people to follow.
Speaker 5: You is kind of crazy, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: So I feel like I'm appreciative, Like my fans know
Speaker 6: how much, and I try to let them in on
Speaker 6: stuff I talked to them, like I remember because somebody
Speaker 6: dates for the tours will come.
Speaker 5: I say, look, y'all, get on my damn nerves.
Speaker 6: If y'all ain't got the damn you sit on and
Speaker 6: got this, shut up the puck up and go.
Speaker 5: To the next city.
Speaker 6: So so so like but but I'm able to I
Speaker 6: wouldn't even be in this chair right now.
Speaker 5: Like, but y'all my brother, so I probably would be
Speaker 5: in the chair.
Speaker 6: But any success or anything that that's further that these
Speaker 6: songs that I'm putting out like that, ain't that ain't
Speaker 6: us paying somebody off and.
Speaker 5: Trying to like please, like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: That's that's really the fans, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: And they and they kept me here twenty almost twenty
Speaker 6: years now, so it's like for me to have that
Speaker 6: connection with them, it's probably.
Speaker 5: The biggest thing ever, you know. So so I may
Speaker 5: that's why I'm always thirsty and still doing me. Why
Speaker 5: he's still doing this? Why it because of y'all? Like
Speaker 5: that's the reason real.
Speaker 2: Talk shout out to Team Yeah, I talked to Team
Speaker 2: Breezy often talked they.
Speaker 1: You know, as as as as as a Team Breezer.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Never with you shout out
Speaker 1: what's your favorite album?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Out of mind?
Speaker 5: Damn it's you know what it is? I can I
Speaker 5: have two? I got Eleven of the Motherfuckers.
Speaker 6: Uh, my two will be my first one because of
Speaker 6: the experience that what we talked about earlier, like how
Speaker 6: it felt everything was was was amazing. So I think
Speaker 6: the first one and then my fame album.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I got the Grammy Grammy album.
Speaker 6: And the reason why I say that is because of
Speaker 6: the ship I had to go through around that time
Speaker 6: and still make music and people still listening to me
Speaker 6: despite maybe not come with me.
Speaker 5: For real, I'm not liking New York, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. The first canceled Nigga.
Speaker 6: So you know, so those two albums kind of like
Speaker 6: were milestones in my career, Like the first one has
Speaker 6: shown me that I'm I'm able to do it, and
Speaker 6: then that album Okay you can do it, Yeah, I
Speaker 6: can do it again.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go the The first album, first album as
Speaker 1: a classic exclusive is special to me.
Speaker 3: What's your favorite Chris song?
Speaker 1: In the goal is.
Speaker 3: What's your favorite Chris song? Okay? I know mine off
Speaker 3: the top of my head.
Speaker 1: It changes, he just plays.
Speaker 3: I still got my favorite, though you don't have your favorite.
Speaker 1: It changes every time he plays me.
Speaker 7: Something he just to this day, yeah, to this day.
Speaker 7: The Nigga played it for me a record plan, and
Speaker 7: I said, Nigga, the record tomorrow, the record.
Speaker 2: The record that the record that haunts me, like a
Speaker 2: record that when I hear it, it takes me to
Speaker 2: where I was, like, it takes me back to Paris
Speaker 2: and watching on stage.
Speaker 1: It's Indigo.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: If there's something about the feeling, it's something about the conversation,
Speaker 2: it's something about Indigo, Bro, that is so special to me.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: It's the melodies, it's the trust, the production, it's the words,
Speaker 2: it's like my life. I'm like, it's special to me,
Speaker 2: super special.
Speaker 1: And Heat.
Speaker 2: And the reason Heat just got so embedded was because
Speaker 2: everybody thinks I'm singing on it. Everybody thinks I'm singing
Speaker 2: on Heat, and I never said I wasn't singing on Heat.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: I don't think he knows what songs he's one of yours,
Speaker 7: since I think I'm singing backgrounds.
Speaker 2: I was just I was just in a sensation on
Speaker 2: the other day and I was like, I was like,
Speaker 2: why does he sound like me on the end of
Speaker 2: this song?
Speaker 1: Why does his ad libs? I said, funk, I did
Speaker 1: the ad libs? Got it?
Speaker 5: Got it?
Speaker 1: Because Chris will be like, get in the poof and
Speaker 1: just sing something of this ship.
Speaker 6: I'm like, yeah, because I just need his voice and backgrounds,
Speaker 6: and he knows where to put the pockets at. So
Speaker 6: I'd be like, it'd been damn it, eight to nine
Speaker 6: songs already.
Speaker 2: He never remembers, though, we'd be doing so much of it,
Speaker 2: and for me, it's just like in your space, I
Speaker 2: just try to make myself available for whatever it is
Speaker 2: you need. You know what I'm saying, whether it be
Speaker 2: whether it be musical conversation. Another question I wanted to
Speaker 2: ask you is probably a deeper question in and now
Speaker 2: in your stages of being a father. We we have
Speaker 2: so many loves, right, and love changes in terms of
Speaker 2: what it means as we grow. What does love mean
Speaker 2: to you?
Speaker 5: Now, that's a deep question. What does love mean to me? Uh?
Speaker 6: Love is scary to me, but at the same time,
Speaker 6: like it's too I'm full of it, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying, I'm full of love.
Speaker 5: Like so I feel like my kids kind of like
Speaker 5: made me appreciate.
Speaker 6: What that word mean, what the word meant like to
Speaker 6: love something outside of yourself, outside of anything.
Speaker 2: That's like, that's that's great segue. Are they are? Are
Speaker 2: they making you more free to love, more open to love?
Speaker 5: Yes? And no, they're they're making me more open to
Speaker 5: loving them. Then like I'm just.
Speaker 6: I'm pouring all my love and them, but you're also
Speaker 6: very protective.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but makes you yeah, not let more people in.
Speaker 6: Yeah, But at the same time, like it's making me
Speaker 6: learn patience and making me learn just life skills that
Speaker 6: I that I I made. It might have been too
Speaker 6: too antsy for too busy for So I think love
Speaker 6: for me now is like it's expanding. It's like me,
Speaker 6: you're saying you have to have a favorite color, right, No,
Speaker 6: I really don't. I can actually find beauty in every
Speaker 6: all of the colors. So my uh, my thought process
Speaker 6: on love isn't as controlled as I thought it should be.
Speaker 6: It should be like this, it should be like no,
Speaker 6: like love is an abundance to me. So I feel
Speaker 6: like it's like, all right, cool, I don't got Yeah
Speaker 6: I could.
Speaker 5: I could do this out. Yeah, I can smile a
Speaker 5: lot more.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Now look look that's that's what you're for, what you've
Speaker 7: been through and what you've accomplished.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you should smile more. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: You should continue to have a good time because this
Speaker 7: this isn't given to everyone. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: It's especially your life and what you know. And but
Speaker 7: the thing that would make me angry when it came
Speaker 7: to you was that people didn't realize this.
Speaker 3: Was your life, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: Everybody had an opinion or has an opinion of how
Speaker 7: you should live your life. And for me, as your brother,
Speaker 7: I've never had an opinion about how you should live
Speaker 7: your life. And you know we've had many a talk
Speaker 7: to in many a cities and many long nights, and
Speaker 7: I've never said you should do No, you should do
Speaker 7: what you want to do and live how you want
Speaker 7: to live and experience the things you want to because
Speaker 7: it's what makes you who you are, you know what
Speaker 7: I mean. And you've been able to, like you said,
Speaker 7: average motherfucker can't go sit down and go and be
Speaker 7: in the whole tank and go to jail.
Speaker 3: That's your experience. So whatever that put you there, you
Speaker 3: were able to man up.
Speaker 7: Except that even though you did lose me a championship
Speaker 7: in the NBA E League because we were undefeated and
Speaker 7: then you went you had to go do too much
Speaker 7: and you.
Speaker 6: Had to Yeah, I was like and then by the
Speaker 6: time I got out, I was not about to play.
Speaker 5: The basketball and the season was over there for bad
Speaker 5: you And you was like Niga going in.
Speaker 1: Two weeks, you have to have a fro. The stomach said,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be gone. It's gonna be going in two weeks.
Speaker 1: Two weeks and then two weeks I said, Okay, he's back.
Speaker 6: Yeah I was, because they called me in them pictures.
Speaker 6: I think we went to like now I went to
Speaker 6: I went to South to France or something.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 6: They took the pictures and I was just seeing that
Speaker 6: that jelly roll. I said, what hell no, And then
Speaker 6: from there just dancing, dancing, dancing. I was even big
Speaker 6: on when I got out of jail for the for
Speaker 6: the BT Awards, when I had to when I when
Speaker 6: we came, I did loyal and I had to h
Speaker 6: This was when everybody's wearing for real hats. Yeah, like
Speaker 6: you know, the smoky the beer hat. But I remember
Speaker 6: having this outfit. I had to put the outfit on
Speaker 6: and it was like too small. The pants wouldn't fit.
Speaker 5: Like I was.
Speaker 6: I'm like a thirty four or thirty six, and I
Speaker 6: was like a few thirty Yeah, for sure, I was
Speaker 6: like a forty or something. Fordy. I'm talking about big
Speaker 6: boy big. I said, hold on, you know what, I
Speaker 6: can't do this no more.
Speaker 5: But I was. I was.
Speaker 6: I had to go through a lot of boot camp,
Speaker 6: dancing and everything else to get back.
Speaker 5: But Nigga ship back though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you was all right.
Speaker 5: It was terrible. I'm telling you that my most depressing
Speaker 5: time of my life. Bro Chris Brown, it was a
Speaker 5: Brown Brown.
Speaker 2: When did you really get into the business, like start
Speaker 2: owning the business of all of that, because that's what
Speaker 2: people really don't know about you.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah.
Speaker 6: I did that first, and I would be like I
Speaker 6: was seventeen when I started trying to invest in certain
Speaker 6: things just because I knew, like, you know, unless you torn,
Speaker 6: unless you like, you don't know how how long you're
Speaker 6: gonna be successful.
Speaker 5: And it's not like every artist can make it look like.
Speaker 6: They getting money, getting money, getting my If you not
Speaker 6: a touring act, if you're not doing stuff, you're not
Speaker 6: gonna you need.
Speaker 5: An exit strategy.
Speaker 6: So I would have, like, you know, the business people
Speaker 6: around me at the time, I can't say they were
Speaker 6: good at the time, but you know, my investments were
Speaker 6: like into burger kings and stuff like that, just so
Speaker 6: I could have a portfolio of and you know, constant income.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: So that was my first step.
Speaker 6: But when I really started getting into like the music side,
Speaker 6: like the executive side, it was like I was twenty five,
Speaker 6: and what happened was, uh, loyal and all these other
Speaker 6: records had already been been blowing up, so and I
Speaker 6: was out of my almost out of my contract, so
Speaker 6: I was able to negotiate.
Speaker 5: I was like, well, cool, well.
Speaker 6: Now that I have leverage as an actual not an artist,
Speaker 6: I don't want to be an artist. I want to
Speaker 6: be fifty to fifty profits shared with you guys. I
Speaker 6: want to have the same deal Birdman got Universal, like
Speaker 6: you know, you know, I acted around trying to figure
Speaker 6: out so I don't have to be getting you know,
Speaker 6: cents on the.
Speaker 3: Dollar, right, you know, just living off advances.
Speaker 5: You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: So from there that was my first step boom, and
Speaker 6: then I think they were like oh and then they
Speaker 6: kind of like, you know what, fuck it.
Speaker 5: We'll do it.
Speaker 6: I'm like, shit, damn, I'm like the youngest nigga with this,
Speaker 6: with this deal right here. I don't think nobody knows,
Speaker 6: you know. So that was my first step.
Speaker 5: Then after that was me trying to own my masters.
Speaker 6: So I think when I was like twenty seven or
Speaker 6: twenty eight, like by that time, it was a renegotiation time,
Speaker 6: and I was like, hey, cool, I still want this,
Speaker 6: but let me get my masters from here. From from
Speaker 6: I think from my fame albuming up, I said, let
Speaker 6: me get the Masters from there, and then I'm able
Speaker 6: to come back and negotiate, you know, in six years
Speaker 6: for the.
Speaker 5: First album and all of my shit.
Speaker 6: So being able to have that type of structure deal
Speaker 6: like shout out the Mark Pits again, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying, Peter Edge, everybody that was you know, everybody
Speaker 6: that really kind of like looked and said, you know,
Speaker 6: we'll give them this deal. And Barry Rice, Barry Rice
Speaker 6: is like he put the shit down, like he really
Speaker 6: he the one that kind of allowed me to be like,
Speaker 6: you know what, here a fucking kid, take it.
Speaker 5: You got it?
Speaker 1: I mean, you had made him so much.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but let's let's also speak on that. Let's not
Speaker 7: let's not just breeze over that the fact that you
Speaker 7: understood though, I got to prove myself first, because now
Speaker 7: we have these we have these new artists who come
Speaker 7: into the game thinking they can own the masters, Like
Speaker 7: why would I let you have the masters or why
Speaker 7: would you deserve your masters in the beginning, if someone
Speaker 7: is actually making the initial investment and.
Speaker 3: They're not working.
Speaker 7: So somebody walking into the door saying why I owe
Speaker 7: my masters? Okay, well what are you going to do
Speaker 7: with it? Do you know how to license it? Is
Speaker 7: there any distribution for it? And is it worth anything
Speaker 7: in the beginning? Right, so you were able to say, hey, listen,
Speaker 7: now I want from fame ongoing, and now I'll put
Speaker 7: myself in a position because I'll continue to be successful
Speaker 7: to come back again, renegotiate and get those initial albums
Speaker 7: as well. That's just smart business, and I think embedding
Speaker 7: on yourself. But I think people want to skip the
Speaker 7: steps and say, oh well this labeled like listen, labors
Speaker 7: are going to be what they are. Labors are going
Speaker 7: to their banks and.
Speaker 3: That's what they do.
Speaker 7: But they also have infrastructure to put you in a
Speaker 7: place that's unimaginable.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I don't disagree with that at all, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean.
Speaker 7: And so I think you should be, for lack of
Speaker 7: a better term, a poster boy of like listen, just
Speaker 7: be successful, Just be great, You be great, You get
Speaker 7: everything you're supposed to out.
Speaker 1: Of this ship.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and get the right lawyers. Make sure your lawyers
Speaker 6: is looking a little bit of contract. Yeah, so you
Speaker 6: got to make sure everybody. You know, when I was young,
Speaker 6: I was I was fortunate enough to be saved on
Speaker 6: certain things, but I was my deals weren't always great.
Speaker 6: So once I was able to be able to be
Speaker 6: more independence, like, look, I got a little bit more
Speaker 6: leverage now, and they then, you know, they made all
Speaker 6: this money and all that.
Speaker 5: So I'm more like, you know, I'm.
Speaker 6: Able to now see real money or see something from
Speaker 6: what I've created because I know I created it. So
Speaker 6: now you know I can go and do this. Now
Speaker 6: I can create some more. Wait till you'll see what
Speaker 6: I'm about to create. So now I get to own
Speaker 6: all of that, you know. And and it's like like
Speaker 6: you said, I'm like a testament to that to hey,
Speaker 6: not saying put your head down, just be the best
Speaker 6: you right.
Speaker 2: I feel like the way I go to the gym
Speaker 2: is the way you go to the studio. Yeah, It's
Speaker 2: like that's what I said. Your me and Green you
Speaker 2: should bench pressed. It's like, is there no no way limit?
Speaker 1: Though I got something.
Speaker 2: Something get a good fifty off now, But even in
Speaker 2: my my meeting Green pictures like there's some some joints
Speaker 2: and like some nights like you know what come on?
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you know, like we can't do certain.
Speaker 2: Things try something else, I get the same back.
Speaker 5: I got your picture, I got next.
Speaker 7: Listen already waiting for what these pictures gonna look like. Man,
Speaker 7: you know shit is gonna be insane. Oh shit, here's
Speaker 7: the last question.
Speaker 1: Bro. How do you do like eight thousand songs in
Speaker 1: one night? Bro? Like you do?
Speaker 2: How is that even possible that you I come to
Speaker 2: your house and there are I just left your house
Speaker 2: two days ago and I come back and there are
Speaker 2: twenty new songs.
Speaker 5: How?
Speaker 6: I just feel like a lot of the times, you know,
Speaker 6: how I used to be in the studio back in
Speaker 6: the day. Even I'm like, yo, come to the studio,
Speaker 6: Like I just I think, what did you call you?
Speaker 5: Master?
Speaker 6: Something that you spend more than a one hundred hours
Speaker 6: on or something? So I think I'll just try to overly, overly,
Speaker 6: overly overly master it. So me being in the studio,
Speaker 6: like I might have an idea in my head, or
Speaker 6: I might just hear some songs like man, I need
Speaker 6: to get on my game.
Speaker 5: I need to steal.
Speaker 6: It's like shooting jump shots, like you know, you gotta
Speaker 6: make sure if you don't, if you don't shop at
Speaker 6: the tube, it ain't gonna work. So I feel like
Speaker 6: me being in the studio is where I kind of live.
Speaker 6: I got two studios, you see in the house. I
Speaker 6: got two studios in the house, so I can change scening,
Speaker 6: real change, like you know, mental states.
Speaker 5: When I'm in different studios.
Speaker 1: I've never seen you're making the amount of songs that underdogs,
Speaker 1: all of us in different rooms used to make. It
Speaker 1: was it was six of us, and he's still making more.
Speaker 1: It's just wanting. We weren't making money at night.
Speaker 7: We weren't writing twenty songs at night.
Speaker 3: You got it.
Speaker 5: You gotta how many things you have?
Speaker 6: I said before like fifteen thousands, but then but then
Speaker 6: I think I miscalculated, you know, So it's it's a
Speaker 6: world champlainship.
Speaker 5: Yeah that was that was I think I was thinking
Speaker 5: of it.
Speaker 6: I'm like, okay, I got this, yeah a lot, So
Speaker 6: I'm gonna be realistic. And it's it's in the eight
Speaker 6: thousands to nine thousands, though it's a lot, like.
Speaker 1: Like it's finished or just the pieces.
Speaker 6: I can say pieces, It won't it won't be. It
Speaker 6: might be first verse, cause you know how I used
Speaker 6: to send demos out be first verse or chorse and
Speaker 6: then no second verse. So it'll be stuff like that.
Speaker 6: So it's like, yeah, collectively, is that a lot.
Speaker 3: Of that'sag insane?
Speaker 5: Bro mm hmmm, what you got for.
Speaker 3: M h Come on, comfy Tea, you say what you got?
Speaker 3: You see you see his fitty comfy.
Speaker 2: Shot out exclusive game. Come on, comfy Tea, turn these
Speaker 2: towels into a outfit.
Speaker 1: It's the Superman music.
Speaker 3: No, it's not. We don't want to be to.
Speaker 5: The remix.
Speaker 2: Team Breezy want to know what they want to know
Speaker 2: what we want to know. You've listened to a lot
Speaker 2: of music in your days, young man. Yeah, some of
Speaker 2: this music you've made your favorite. The world wants to know.
Speaker 3: Your top five, saying.
Speaker 1: This ship, your top five, top five, your top five
Speaker 1: RB sing whatever you already song? We all a lo
Speaker 1: you gotta show. I'm dancing to go. I'm really all
Speaker 1: to know.
Speaker 2: If he has.
Speaker 1: Top you top five.
Speaker 8: Yeah, y'all gonna put me on the spot.
Speaker 6: It's so damn mark to pick five. But look, I'll
Speaker 6: give you now. My ship might change in a couple
Speaker 6: of days.
Speaker 5: Come on, Top five R and B singers right right now.
Speaker 2: Today you're saying today, No, No, I'm saying how you
Speaker 2: feel today?
Speaker 1: Your world.
Speaker 6: So this is not biased because my brother in the room,
Speaker 6: you know, I say it all the time. Tank Usher, yes,
Speaker 6: Brandy Yeah, Tevin Campbell yeah, and Sam Cook Ship.
Speaker 7: So that's my top five I can think of right now. Okay,
Speaker 7: all right, Kevin was really cold. Listen tomorrow whatever better?
Speaker 1: Are you better than me? He was? He was killing
Speaker 1: grown men. Prodigy, he's a prodigy.
Speaker 5: His rangers, he was gifted.
Speaker 3: Chess boy. Oh my god, nigga, how do you still
Speaker 3: sing that high?
Speaker 1: I'll get my nerves he'd be giving me. So I
Speaker 1: was like, bro, you can sing this one.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I think it's it's just like the adrenaline when you
Speaker 6: get on stage.
Speaker 1: It's like, but even talking voices not My talking.
Speaker 6: Voice is raspy, like I gotta, I gott but you're
Speaker 6: clear on records.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I don't know.
Speaker 6: I'm just always I guess we sing from different parts
Speaker 6: when we when I talk, I don't think I'm talking
Speaker 6: from the same diaphragm is when I'm singing, So I'm
Speaker 6: pushing the air differently.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I feel like that's why I'm able to still
Speaker 6: sound young and still sound like.
Speaker 5: The old met but not the super young Me, not.
Speaker 6: The fifteen, but at least I said, my voice hasn't
Speaker 6: like changed dramatically.
Speaker 3: Nigga you and Ralph Treastman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do not sound figure it out now. I
Speaker 2: listened to the Young Thank, I was like this, who
Speaker 2: is this?
Speaker 7: Was this singing three?
Speaker 1: So crazy? They like singing that whole song.
Speaker 2: I will not breezy your top five R and B songs.
Speaker 5: Oh, this is gonna be difficult, brother, braik my hair by.
Speaker 6: Mario Ship, Heirl, Lily Girl, Lily, Somebody Sleeping.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the remix.
Speaker 5: Them so so differently.
Speaker 6: Okay, Damn Oh, Sex Love and Pain that's you know, yes,
Speaker 6: the beginning, the.
Speaker 5: Intro, the intro from the yes.
Speaker 7: That he never does live, He's do it live. You
Speaker 7: don't given give him the ship though, Bro.
Speaker 6: I listened to that before when I was on tour,
Speaker 6: any any tour I was on, I would listen to
Speaker 6: that as my warm up songs.
Speaker 3: But I sing you, I need you right now. I
Speaker 3: need you right now, my brother. I need you on
Speaker 3: my team to tell him to do the damn sound
Speaker 3: even the song.
Speaker 7: I need him to do the Sex Love and Pain
Speaker 7: album one Night Only.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you gott at least you gotta give him that
Speaker 6: because that's my favorite album.
Speaker 5: One Night Only, don't be scared.
Speaker 7: Let's do that, alum, Let's do that one of those,
Speaker 7: one of them type of benu fact.
Speaker 1: All right, one night Only.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think that's three, so I gotta think
Speaker 5: it two more.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: This is all this subject to change now, is it? Superstar? Superstar?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 6: And and Candy Rain so for really.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, shout out to soul for real.
Speaker 5: God, you know, I'm like what it need so for real.
Speaker 6: But it's so difficult for me to come up with
Speaker 6: those five songs. And I had like ten other songs like.
Speaker 2: A combo of so many are like four thousands, eight thousands.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I didn't want to add my songs in it.
Speaker 5: I wanted to get everybody to do that.
Speaker 3: You know, how do you have a favorite Chris Brown song?
Speaker 5: Shit? No, I have rarors I have. I have. I
Speaker 5: have times of when I when I like songs.
Speaker 3: Man, this niggas is pouring champagne. You got some chage.
Speaker 1: I told you yea Eras niggas breaking his own rest.
Speaker 6: I think Eras is like certain songs that I what
Speaker 6: I was going through at certain.
Speaker 5: Times, like damn, Like like how you like no bullshit?
Speaker 6: For example, that era of no Bullshit and and Deuces
Speaker 6: those songs.
Speaker 5: When we did those songs, that was like when I
Speaker 5: was at my lowest, Like I was like with the.
Speaker 6: Back back against the wall, like no no support from
Speaker 6: the label, no support from radio.
Speaker 5: They was like, you know what, we ain't fucking with you,
Speaker 5: mixt You're canceled.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so these songs are mixtape songs that out ten
Speaker 6: months before we put them on on that album.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: So and I'm I'm shot the video for like twenty
Speaker 6: five hundred each video Deduces video and no bullshit. But
Speaker 6: it was it was like being an independent artist and
Speaker 6: grinding your motherfucker yourself being like, you know what, I'm
Speaker 6: gonna prove them wrong.
Speaker 5: So I could say those songs would.
Speaker 6: Be an era, and then then it could be the
Speaker 6: next songs that I'm doing. So it switches all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, I feel like I can always go back
Speaker 6: to different songs and then relive those moments in my
Speaker 6: head and be like damn that happened, and also remind
Speaker 6: myself like damn, I do remember that, you know.
Speaker 2: So it's billed your voltron you're super R and B artists.
Speaker 2: We want to know who you're going to get the
Speaker 2: vocal from, the performance style, the styling, from the heart
Speaker 2: of the artist, the passion of the artists. And since
Speaker 2: you know, since you're a songwriter, who's gonna write for
Speaker 2: that artist, Let's start with the vocal. Who you're getting
Speaker 2: the vocal from for your super R and B artists?
Speaker 5: The vocal. Damn, I'm gonna go with Tevin Campbell.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna just as far as the as far as
Speaker 6: the vocal, yeah, like the range or whatever.
Speaker 5: You Yeah, I'm going with Tevan. Your voice his voice
Speaker 5: is different. His voice was just cold.
Speaker 1: Wasn't supposed to be like that.
Speaker 6: No, So I'm gonna go I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 6: voice wise, Yeah, yeah, between him and Mike, because Mike.
Speaker 1: Just got pick one or you can mix it. What.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's gonna be like a hybrid. It's gonna be
Speaker 6: Mike and Tevin Jackson.
Speaker 2: Okay, uh performing style on stage Michael Jackson.
Speaker 5: I could have guessed down should Yeah, that was easy? Yeah, Okay, styling,
Speaker 5: who's gonna put this?
Speaker 6: Damn Uh, it's gonna be a hybrid. Another hybrid. It's
Speaker 6: gonna be like a trifecta hybrid Michael, me and and
Speaker 6: Usher mm hmm as far as styling, and I gotta
Speaker 6: say yes in this in this category because like and
Speaker 6: through his eerrors, from the my Ways to the you know,
Speaker 6: everything he'd done has has been visually like stamped in
Speaker 6: your head to wearic iconic, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: He made niggas wear coofies and ship like you remember.
Speaker 6: So it's like certain things will always be embedded in
Speaker 6: style and fragments to me. So it's like Michael was
Speaker 6: the definition of that, Like he could wear wrestling looking yeah,
Speaker 6: like being his own icon.
Speaker 2: I think when we talk about styling, not even to
Speaker 2: stop you here, but I think you're the first person,
Speaker 2: the first artist that I've ever walked into the room
Speaker 2: to the dressing room and they were like the racks.
Speaker 2: There were racks on racks on racks of clothes and
Speaker 2: you had no idea what you were going to put
Speaker 2: on like that night. You don't you don't have a
Speaker 2: uniform where you're like, Okay, this is the tour fit
Speaker 2: and these are the combinations of the tour fit. This
Speaker 2: is where this I was like what are you gonna wear?
Speaker 2: He's like, oh no, I'm about to look through it
Speaker 2: right now. He getting dressed in school, like like he
Speaker 2: getting dressed in Marcus.
Speaker 1: Let me just grab somebody. I've never seen anything like
Speaker 1: that in my life.
Speaker 6: So what I've done the last couple of tours and
Speaker 6: this tour is gonna be a little different.
Speaker 5: So we have a set to where.
Speaker 6: Because I don't want to give too much, I want
Speaker 6: you to come and see it, but I'm going to
Speaker 6: have changes in the outfice. But the outfite is going
Speaker 6: to be more customized like a lot of like designers
Speaker 6: are making specific stuff for me, so it'll be more
Speaker 6: So it goes along with the with the actual show
Speaker 6: of what I'm trying to show, like the Broadway style
Speaker 6: of what I'm trying to show, but before like the
Speaker 6: last toy you were at and the different ones. The
Speaker 6: stage that I've built is is you can change your
Speaker 6: outfit every night. You could be something different because the
Speaker 6: stage doesn't it doesn't have a certain Yeah, it has
Speaker 6: a freedom about it. So we just have a rack
Speaker 6: of clothes and long as long as I can dance
Speaker 6: in them and it's not not too tight or the
Speaker 6: shirts is like, you know, I'm putting on something different
Speaker 6: every night.
Speaker 1: I always think of behind the things.
Speaker 2: I'll be thinking about the nigga that has to put
Speaker 2: take all that out and put off.
Speaker 3: And he be trying to figure out a way to
Speaker 3: steal some ship.
Speaker 1: Of course I'm ahead that fits.
Speaker 3: Yeah, always comes back with something.
Speaker 6: Because this nigga not afraid to ask, because look that's like, look,
Speaker 6: little bro, you already want to.
Speaker 2: You can take you can take it. I'm like a
Speaker 2: whole that jacket like ship, the passion of.
Speaker 6: The artist, passionate the artist, Prince I would say prince
Speaker 6: cold passion because you can play every instrument right and
Speaker 6: mean it.
Speaker 5: Man, what mean it?
Speaker 3: Come?
Speaker 5: Get this hit? Get this hit?
Speaker 1: Who who says that?
Speaker 5: Like I would have been like that, I'm keeping this record.
Speaker 5: You don't want this record? No? He he know he
Speaker 5: he is the ship passion.
Speaker 7: You start doing that, you got a gang here records
Speaker 7: telling niggas that get the song.
Speaker 1: Who's going to write for that artist?
Speaker 5: Damn, there's so many damn good writers. Who's gonna write?
Speaker 6: I was I couldn't say Phil Collins because it wouldn't
Speaker 6: be cool because Phil Collins is one of my like
Speaker 6: he's one of the dope writers.
Speaker 3: Out all time. Why can't Phil Collins write the records?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think Phil could do it, but I would say
Speaker 5: Quincy Jones.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's no argument.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was just like, I'm goa Thay curveball though. Yeah,
Speaker 7: who's gonna do the choreography?
Speaker 5: Damn?
Speaker 3: Come on, man, use a stepper, Use a real deal stepper.
Speaker 5: You know what it would have to be.
Speaker 6: It would have to be a collective because in that
Speaker 6: dancing ships, so many come on on, so many people
Speaker 6: who made you know, I'm talking about fly fly styles, SAMs,
Speaker 6: Josh Smith.
Speaker 5: We got Lavel? Uh?
Speaker 6: Is it label Franklin who he taught me a thriller?
Speaker 6: His name is Lavel, but he takes that. Yeah, world
Speaker 6: music wars when I was young. Sorry I'm forgetting his
Speaker 6: last name, but you got super Damn you got man.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think I.
Speaker 3: Did this on purpose.
Speaker 1: To give, but.
Speaker 7: You're not even trying to get you. This is what
Speaker 7: our podcast is about. Podcast is about Jamaica. I'm thinking
Speaker 7: to him still, It's about celebrating. It's about celebrating people
Speaker 7: that aren't always celebrated publicly.
Speaker 5: Absolutely absolutely, who.
Speaker 7: Means so much to what we do and has have
Speaker 7: meant so much to what you do because they mold God,
Speaker 7: they shaped all that ship.
Speaker 6: Yeah, one hundred percent. So I mean there's so many
Speaker 6: different people that that I'm leaving out too. So I
Speaker 6: know they're like, man, he didn't say my name.
Speaker 1: My bad. You know.
Speaker 6: At the same time, it would be with that dance ship.
Speaker 6: It would have to be a collective group. It still
Speaker 6: makes it's a village that make it, you know, take
Speaker 6: a village to crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So, yeah, we've come to the point.
Speaker 2: I ain't saying no names. Hey, I ain't saying no names.
Speaker 2: Saying no names. I ain't saying no niggs.
Speaker 1: Weird know what you did? Don't say she ain't saying
Speaker 1: no name, no name? All right?
Speaker 5: Cool?
Speaker 3: Hold hold on.
Speaker 6: I listened to like, Okay, this sounds like I got
Speaker 6: to say some funny she give you exactly right now.
Speaker 7: You are at a very important part of the show. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it's called I ain't saying no names. Will you tell
Speaker 7: us a story funny or funked up? Are funny and fuck?
Speaker 7: The only rule to the game. The rules is you
Speaker 7: can't say no names name all right?
Speaker 5: Cool? Well, I ain't saying no names.
Speaker 3: Yeah, come on, come on.
Speaker 6: But yeah, So there was this artist, and this artist
Speaker 6: wanted to go out to the club with us, so,
Speaker 6: you know, huge artists. So I'm like, all right, cool, me,
Speaker 6: me and my crib, We're gonna go to the club.
Speaker 6: It's it's nigga night, it's turn up night. You know
Speaker 6: it's gonna be another artist in their performing. And that
Speaker 6: artist song was the number one song in the country.
Speaker 6: I'm talking about going crazy.
Speaker 5: We get in the club, I make sure we got
Speaker 5: the whole section full of women.
Speaker 6: So the person in there he looking around the song.
Speaker 6: Come on, the other artist is on stage, start singing
Speaker 6: a song. The whole building erupts. I'm talking about it erupts,
Speaker 6: like everybody. Girls in our section, Girl, they going crazy.
Speaker 6: I look over to this person.
Speaker 1: He ain't feeling.
Speaker 6: I'm talking about, not a smirk, not a head, no nothing.
Speaker 6: I turned back to look at the artists. But the
Speaker 6: next time I turned back to look at the person
Speaker 6: in my section, they gone, I don't see him.
Speaker 5: I'm like, what that? What is nigga win? I look up.
Speaker 6: The nigga is on the DJ booth right next to
Speaker 6: the artist that's doing the song.
Speaker 5: And he just like this the nigga.
Speaker 6: When the song goes off, the nigga takes the mic,
Speaker 6: takes the mic. So I'm thinking this artist is about
Speaker 6: to do some songs. I'm like, okay, he got he
Speaker 6: got the itch like you know, you know some artists
Speaker 6: can't take it, you know, they self sender though they
Speaker 6: you know, it got to.
Speaker 5: Syndrome. Like I'm not one of those.
Speaker 6: I know how to be like, oh this is litter here,
Speaker 6: but I can read it all over this person's face.
Speaker 6: Get the mic. I'm thinking he about to do it
Speaker 6: songs or do something.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, this is crazy about to go crazy here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the nigga goes on a forty five minute rent.
Speaker 6: I'm talking about talking. I'm talking about saying all of
Speaker 6: everything that about nothing. It's like it's it's so just
Speaker 6: like disappointing. Like when I was in there, I started
Speaker 6: looking around and then from the club being a yeah,
Speaker 6: everybody turning up, maybe holler as some girls, what's up,
Speaker 6: it went from that to looking like the waiting room
Speaker 6: in Hell.
Speaker 5: That's what I felt like.
Speaker 6: It was like, yeah, like everybody turned into psychopath people.
Speaker 6: And he was not saying you know what I'm saying
Speaker 6: the topic of what his rent was about was was like,
Speaker 6: what the fuck put the music back on?
Speaker 5: Like that's you know, that's how I feel.
Speaker 6: So in that club, there's a there's a secret area
Speaker 6: that's like a resting area. You can go down at
Speaker 6: the club, so I said, I told one of hummies,
Speaker 6: I can't.
Speaker 5: I don't want to sit up here and hear this
Speaker 5: shit all night. So I'm going downstairs. I'm a cheer.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna smoke this blunt downstairs. Whatever we doing, boom boom.
Speaker 6: And by this nigga gonna stop talking soun later, so
Speaker 6: you know, I'm gonna go back up there afterwards. I'm
Speaker 6: down that motherfucker for about twenty to thirty minutes and.
Speaker 5: Are you still here?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: Right right right right right over the over the this hit.
Speaker 3: It took over the club.
Speaker 6: This is how it ended for me, anyway. So I
Speaker 6: get up back into the section. Half of the girls
Speaker 6: is gone, most of most of the most of.
Speaker 5: The fine girl. They yeah, I'm like, man, what the
Speaker 5: fuck is going on?
Speaker 6: The last thing I hear such and such, ain't stick
Speaker 6: they finger in my booty.
Speaker 1: I don't even play.
Speaker 6: That way, I said, Yeah, I'm out this motherfucker. Look
Speaker 6: and I look to our mutual friend that was there,
Speaker 6: was there. I said, you gotta be a nigga and
Speaker 6: stop letting this niggas be like this.
Speaker 5: Your ays need to be able to tell your friends.
Speaker 5: Stop being a yes man. You need to be like, look, nigga,
Speaker 5: this ain't it. You don't say this type of shit.
Speaker 5: And I left the club. I ain't even answer no
Speaker 5: phone calls.
Speaker 3: I ain't go on home.
Speaker 5: I ain't gonna say no names.
Speaker 7: Yeah you can whoever was in that club though they
Speaker 7: like I was there, I was there be to come.
Speaker 1: I was there the finger.
Speaker 3: No no, not each love.
Speaker 1: Brother, Chris brown Man. When I say we you.
Speaker 7: Even it's another thank you. I got to give you one.
Speaker 7: Will always keep me your word. Something you've always done
Speaker 7: from the day I've met you. If you say you're
Speaker 7: gonna do something, you're gonna do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah you might be late, yeah a little late, but
Speaker 5: you know, oh.
Speaker 7: Shit happens, but you always do what you say you're
Speaker 7: gonna do. And I want to thank you for. At
Speaker 7: the time, I was managing the artist named Love Rants
Speaker 7: and there was this record that we had and I
Speaker 7: had this crazy idea to turn this rap record into
Speaker 7: an R and B song. You heard it and you
Speaker 7: was like, Nigga, I'm coming to do it tomorrow. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and you put up in your fast car, you knock
Speaker 7: the shit out, and this record has lived on to
Speaker 7: this day.
Speaker 3: I cannot go to a club.
Speaker 7: It's still I'm going to hear the R and B
Speaker 7: version of up to this day. Nigga, send me videos
Speaker 7: from friends, send.
Speaker 3: Me video on it anywhere in the world.
Speaker 7: And the fact that you obviously you did that for
Speaker 7: me because we're brothers, but the fact that you were
Speaker 7: able to help me make this record that came from
Speaker 7: the Bey area and my young boys had had this song.
Speaker 3: And it was blown up and you helped.
Speaker 7: Them take the record worldwide. I just want to say
Speaker 7: thank you, No, thank you, I appreciate you that for that.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you. You see, I'm bad with thank you.
Speaker 6: Like when people think me become like real ship, you
Speaker 6: help me all the same in the same token. I
Speaker 6: look at it like like if you would have called
Speaker 6: and if it was a Wax song, we would be
Speaker 6: like like, let's.
Speaker 3: Try a different record.
Speaker 5: But it's like, you know what what a song gonna do?
Speaker 6: And then at the same time, it's even easier when
Speaker 6: it's when it's like family. When you got people that's
Speaker 6: around you that are musically gifted and they do the
Speaker 6: same thing you do. It's not a conversation like nah,
Speaker 6: I can't really do it, or no, I'm here whatever
Speaker 6: you need, you know. So I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 2: I am upset that this song was was on fire,
Speaker 2: super flames, right, and this nigga wouldn't go nowhere and.
Speaker 3: Performance or I was becoming your manager.
Speaker 1: That ship he was, he.
Speaker 2: Was, he was behind the scenes, and it was promoters
Speaker 2: offering him the best.
Speaker 3: We had some other ship we had to do though.
Speaker 1: Man, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Look at us now, Look at us now?
Speaker 1: You got records now?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, they be lonely. What the fuck is we doing?
Speaker 5: I'm just saying, y'all know me and this nigga got
Speaker 5: a record again. It's all right, it's so way. Let
Speaker 5: y'all know that we got a record.
Speaker 3: Thank you again.
Speaker 2: Listen, brother to say we love you would be an understatement.
Speaker 2: You already know what that means.
Speaker 5: My brothers.
Speaker 1: We don't play no games about Breezy. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And that's in real life.
Speaker 2: That's not that's not music, that's not entertainment, that's that's
Speaker 2: real life, in real life. And so I think people
Speaker 2: have known by you know, all the times I've jumped
Speaker 2: in the in the comments to make sure fuck you
Speaker 2: niggas up you fuck around with the fuck around yeah alone.
Speaker 2: But my congratulations to you man for continuing to work hard, bro.
Speaker 2: And I think that that's the separation between you and
Speaker 2: everybody that you've probably seen from the last twenty something
Speaker 2: years come and go.
Speaker 1: You just won't stop working.
Speaker 2: And and that is commendable with the success that you've had,
Speaker 2: that you are still aspiring and still pushing to do
Speaker 2: more and to be greater. Like if if if I'm
Speaker 2: telling my son to chase anything saying you watch Chris Brown,
Speaker 2: you watch that journey and you watch him work, and
Speaker 2: that's how you work, and that's how you find it.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you, man. Listen, man, my name is Tank Man.
Speaker 2: And this is the R and Money podcast them on all.
Speaker 1: Things R and B one of the greatest to ever
Speaker 1: do it.
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