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Speaker 4: We started this show, we said we wanted to interview legends.
Speaker 4: We wanted to interview people that are icons. This woman
Speaker 4: right here is an icon. She's a legend. She is
Speaker 4: has been through it all, and I don't want to
Speaker 4: I don't know how far can I ask her?
Speaker 1: How far can I ask her? Because oh man, and.
Speaker 4: She's fired well, she's done everything. But I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 4: I just want to get straight into this interview. So
Speaker 4: I want to say that thank you for being here,
Speaker 4: Thank you for being.
Speaker 1: A part of this show.
Speaker 4: But in case I don't understand who we have. This
Speaker 4: woman is an icon, she's a legend, she's a tight tun.
Speaker 1: Let's make some.
Speaker 4: Noise for motherfucking the one and only Keisha.
Speaker 1: You know we we should still.
Speaker 4: Right off, right right over the flowers, right off with
Speaker 4: the flowers, the flowers, Keisha. Let me just tell you,
Speaker 4: I was like, I got flowers. Yeah, yeah, introduce the flower.
Speaker 1: Let me just tell you something.
Speaker 4: Our show was about giving people their flowers while they
Speaker 4: can smell them. They do what they can tell them,
Speaker 4: and they drinks where they can hell them.
Speaker 1: You know. Snoop Dogg said.
Speaker 4: It's better than a Grammy because it's come from your family.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 4: But let's let's let's get straight into it. Let's talk
Speaker 4: about the beginning. Akisha kov What what was the first
Speaker 4: thoughts of you saying I'm going to be a star?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, right, that is a long time ago. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a minute, No.
Speaker 5: I actually put it in the movie that I did
Speaker 5: on my life story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when when my mom passed.
Speaker 5: God bless Yeah for sure, Mom, Duke, thank you you did.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Like yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 5: That personality lives, okay, and all of our families you know,
Speaker 5: from where we're from.
Speaker 1: And it's just like I.
Speaker 5: Think that when I was a little girl and I
Speaker 5: saw my brothers rapping and them just being influenced and
Speaker 5: by n w A and like, you know those kind
Speaker 5: of groups. Yeah, my brother yeah used to be in
Speaker 5: flu Was Yeah, by n w A and of course Tupac,
Speaker 5: but you know those things. So when I saw them,
Speaker 5: me and my me and my best friend at the time,
Speaker 5: we formed a group like, yeah, we were both rapping
Speaker 5: and I was singing as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when I that's when I first started.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was a little rapper and we used to
Speaker 6: just write rhymes and stuff like that, and then it
Speaker 6: just started from that watching our older brothers.
Speaker 5: We were tomboys when we were little, so you know,
Speaker 5: it was the thing.
Speaker 1: And then I it's got serious.
Speaker 5: Like when I started singing, I was like, oh wait,
Speaker 5: this is a thing.
Speaker 4: So that's that's that's the that's the part that I'm like,
Speaker 4: very cure yourself, right, young.
Speaker 1: And how did you transition to singing when you would
Speaker 1: when you wanted to? She was rhyming in right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well I was, Yeah, I was. I was rapping and
Speaker 1: then also singing the hook. Yep, yeah, it was horrible.
Speaker 5: When we met Tupac, He's like, you're, little lady, this is.
Speaker 1: What we're not going to do this. You're gonna you're gonna.
Speaker 5: Be singing and you're gonna stop rapping about weed and
Speaker 5: being out in the streets.
Speaker 1: What are y'all doing? Know that that was the first
Speaker 1: we've been doing this for nine years.
Speaker 4: And the way she just said that was so fly
Speaker 4: because we know when I met Tupac, hold on, hold on,
Speaker 4: hold on telling children that was the fly ship. I
Speaker 4: think I've ever heard the way you just said it.
Speaker 4: So what you're in your neighborhood? Then Tupackets there, how
Speaker 4: the funk is?
Speaker 1: Was he in Digital Underground?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: We were thirteen thirteen and well, first levels to it.
Speaker 5: First of all, we went to EMC Hammer, right.
Speaker 1: Hammer That hammer puts you on. Well, Hammer took us there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: to death Row Records, whoa yeah, lie to you can?
Speaker 1: I wait, man, I don't understand the time MC hammer
Speaker 1: when he's on death Throw already, that's what later? Yes,
Speaker 1: it was around that time. Oh yeah, yeah, when Eric.
Speaker 7: B was on.
Speaker 1: Yes, and that was like a vibe and then yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sor I gotta stop you for one second. Please
Speaker 1: just make some noise. He makes a noise. Misterious, Eric
Speaker 1: still love me, Eric, love me as a wrapp bro.
Speaker 4: What you just saying is such a fucking dope. I'm
Speaker 4: just like because by the way, you could google this, right,
Speaker 4: but hearing you just say that so nonchalant, it's so
Speaker 4: just the way you go.
Speaker 1: So okay, let me let you take beautiful thing.
Speaker 5: Because after Pak passed away and his mom and they all,
Speaker 5: you know, reached out to me, and thank God for
Speaker 5: that because Pak promised me he would do a song
Speaker 5: with me before he left, and to actually come to
Speaker 5: Fruition was awesome because I always wanted to do a
Speaker 5: record with him. And so when we did play your
Speaker 5: cards right, his mom was in the video and that
Speaker 5: was just so beautiful. My brother was a part of
Speaker 5: the outlaw scene, and you know, my brother was like,
Speaker 5: you know, my big brother with him and like, so
Speaker 5: that was just.
Speaker 1: Like inspirational as well, like you know, so it was
Speaker 1: I was able to see it see it all the
Speaker 1: way through. You know, what did you do? You grabbed
Speaker 1: a bottle and you just did He doesn't drink you
Speaker 1: got this. He just looked funny.
Speaker 6: There, bro, that's some Dominicans that he was like, wait
Speaker 6: a minute, wait, so what's the timeline?
Speaker 1: Thirteen fourteen? God at sixteen? Okay? What's going? Okay? So,
Speaker 1: so is it cool that I drink in front of you?
Speaker 5: Just the reason why I can't drink is because I
Speaker 5: have a tour coming up. Yeah, I got to make
Speaker 5: sure i'm you know, the voice, the.
Speaker 1: Focus is right list. I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 4: At some point, I'm going to get you to drink,
Speaker 4: take a shot something one?
Speaker 1: No, all right? Cool?
Speaker 5: No no no, no, no, no, no, prom God.
Speaker 1: We're good, We're good. It was coming? Is the one though?
Speaker 1: That right now? Yes?
Speaker 5: And don't just wants to be taking shots? I mean,
Speaker 5: why is it we didn't get there?
Speaker 1: Oh? You get there?
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, I'm not gonna lie to you. I went
Speaker 4: through discogay and I'm not gonna lie. You just make hits?
Speaker 4: Do you not know how to make a regular song?
Speaker 5: Well that's why I stopped. They gotta start getting a
Speaker 5: little regular like like it already sung about all the
Speaker 5: heartbreak I can sing about? How many different ways can
Speaker 5: we rewrite this story?
Speaker 1: I'm over it feeling what they did the Keisha man,
Speaker 1: but they won't stop doing lie to you.
Speaker 4: This is something I really have to ask and this
Speaker 4: is personal.
Speaker 1: Right. I'm also an artist, right, also been an artist?
Speaker 4: Right, So sometimes you have to go through certain things
Speaker 4: to do that.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like that's how you have to make music? Okay?
Speaker 1: My favorite this is maya. This is maya lavender macha
Speaker 1: what it's lavender matcha.
Speaker 6: It's so good like this, Oh my god, Like this
Speaker 6: is like the like.
Speaker 1: A larvender lavender marching I have marching tea. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: make it with heavy cream.
Speaker 4: Hm.
Speaker 1: I have no idea where we're at right now? Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I'm sorry. It cares bros.
Speaker 4: So so so let me get back to the question.
Speaker 4: Is great you know, Mary j. There's so many people
Speaker 4: who have to go through these this pain to make
Speaker 4: these great music.
Speaker 1: Is that something you feel like?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Really up, man, that's really you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Like that got to be a thing that it's like
Speaker 5: we love you more when your heartbroken because we know
Speaker 5: that you feel it, like well, I mean my mama,
Speaker 5: my dad, my dog of fourteen years past, I lost
Speaker 5: my boyfriend. I mean like so I guess I should
Speaker 5: write some music like no, but not no, you're not heal.
Speaker 5: I'm not doing it like I don't. I don't, I
Speaker 5: don't want to.
Speaker 1: I mean the.
Speaker 5: Heartbreak records we got, it's still here in twenty years,
Speaker 5: twenty year anniversary.
Speaker 1: This year, I'm plug my tour.
Speaker 5: Which we are going on tour for the twentieth anniversary
Speaker 5: of It is the way it is.
Speaker 1: The way it is, I got it.
Speaker 2: So you know, you know why he's sitting here right
Speaker 2: because his heart is broken.
Speaker 1: He need a therapy. Yeah yeah, yeah, my heart is
Speaker 1: not broken. But I want to hear with you.
Speaker 7: You need to be listen man, Keisha, are you the
Speaker 7: first artist that had a reality show?
Speaker 1: Because I feel like you're my cousin. I remember the reality.
Speaker 7: Well, what I'm saying is he said the world. Yeah
Speaker 7: she might be a Z, but I'm just saying, the
Speaker 7: world knows you like we we feel like we grew
Speaker 7: up with you. You know your family, uh nepher tity
Speaker 7: is crazy, Yeah, she's crazy. She's I'm listening to you, Drake, Drake,
Speaker 7: but I'm just saying, like her, and we just feel
Speaker 7: that we know your family, like we grew up when.
Speaker 1: You were early on the flavor play right for the
Speaker 1: love of the flavor flavor. Yeah, but that was dating.
Speaker 7: I'm talking about your family, the Upstdamos.
Speaker 1: Everyone's rinky, right, I kid you not.
Speaker 4: I feel like I knew her, like like like I said,
Speaker 4: like real, like.
Speaker 1: When y'all argued and y'all talk to me crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is I know.
Speaker 4: I'm super super hood. I felt her. Yes, so I
Speaker 4: did too.
Speaker 5: I understood and as a mother now I understand like
Speaker 5: I totally did, like how bad it could have been
Speaker 5: for her and not understanding what that mad had been
Speaker 5: like for her.
Speaker 1: I wish I would have known.
Speaker 5: But you know, I'm just happy I got to have
Speaker 5: her as my mom and experience ups and down for
Speaker 5: her because it really shaped me to.
Speaker 1: Be who I am.
Speaker 5: And you know, I'm appreciative of all the moments, the good,
Speaker 5: the ups, the downs, the bad, the ugly, you know,
Speaker 5: the great moments.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: So, but as a superstar, right, and I could relate
Speaker 4: so much in so many different levels.
Speaker 1: But there's certain images that I.
Speaker 4: Tried to protect, right, Oh yeah, but then certain images
Speaker 4: I can't protect, right, meaning, this is just it just
Speaker 4: is what it is. This is just my family.
Speaker 5: Well yeah, I mean that was the whole conversation. It
Speaker 5: was like like I was talking to other artists that
Speaker 5: I won't say no name, but they be like, yo,
Speaker 5: you don't have to go and do that.
Speaker 1: You don't got to put your family on TV.
Speaker 5: Like you already making a name for yourself in the
Speaker 5: music business, you know, Like I had already dropped my
Speaker 5: album when The Way It Is the reality show came out.
Speaker 5: But I was like still, like I know how it
Speaker 5: feels to be that girl that is in the hood
Speaker 5: that don't really have much to look up to are
Speaker 5: inspired by. So I wanted to be that inspiration that
Speaker 5: you don't. I mean no disrespect to nobody, because everybody
Speaker 5: get their thing the way they get they thing, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: But like some people, I mean not built like that,
Speaker 5: Like you know, you ain't got to do certain things
Speaker 5: to get what you want, Like you can put that
Speaker 5: work in and really go out there and make that
Speaker 5: music and like like use your voice, use your talent.
Speaker 5: That was my whole thing. I wanted to be that.
Speaker 5: I mean, of course, everything can turn on you, you.
Speaker 6: Know, like people will be like, oh, yeah, well that
Speaker 6: your mom is this shit that yeah, and they make
Speaker 6: jokes about it, but I slapped.
Speaker 1: Those people in the hood like I don't give a fuck,
Speaker 1: like you get your ass beat, like if you talk
Speaker 1: to mother, like.
Speaker 5: But like yeah, like but but you know, I mean,
Speaker 5: but thankfully, like my mom was there for me, both
Speaker 5: my parents who know my my foster mother as well,
Speaker 5: my foster father, my brothers, my sisters, everybody came together,
Speaker 5: everybody got paid.
Speaker 1: It was a thing.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie to you, and I'm gonna say this.
Speaker 4: You don't have to say this, but I feel like
Speaker 4: the Kardashian stole everything from you. Oh shit, because I
Speaker 4: feel like you were you were you were actually you
Speaker 4: were like like when I'm watching you and I'm watching this, I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, yo, And then in my opinion.
Speaker 4: They kind of did that same type of thing. You
Speaker 4: don't have to say this, because I'm not scared.
Speaker 5: Of nobody in this world, but I will say this
Speaker 5: and shout out to the Kardashians and Christianner and all
Speaker 5: those people over there that and I know a few
Speaker 5: of them actually personally. But my thing is is what
Speaker 5: I love to see as a family coming together and
Speaker 5: staying together and not tearing each other down. That was
Speaker 5: one of our downfalls of the way it is. And
Speaker 5: no matter what I tried to do to bring our
Speaker 5: family together, I pray that one day I'll be rich
Speaker 5: so I can put all my sisters and brothers in
Speaker 5: one household.
Speaker 1: Bad idea that was that, don't.
Speaker 5: Do it your sibling and what goddamn house? No, but
Speaker 5: it was, I mean it was fun, but then it
Speaker 5: was like, you know, I mean, think about that, your
Speaker 5: brothers and sisters. I was a child and I just
Speaker 5: had great hopes for me and my brothers and sisters
Speaker 5: because we were adopted, you know, all of us.
Speaker 1: So sticking together is a thing, you.
Speaker 5: Know, because one thing you will not see the Kardashians do,
Speaker 5: it's to each other down.
Speaker 4: Well, well, I'm gonna tell you something, Keisha. Right now,
Speaker 4: if you look around, that was my son's, my my
Speaker 4: brother in law, my mother, excuse me, my my my nephews,
Speaker 4: my my friends, everyone is here, and I'm gonna tell
Speaker 4: you something.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something that you don't know. You
Speaker 1: showed that family.
Speaker 4: Camaraderie and guess what, So, just in case you don't know,
Speaker 4: we learned that from you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I wish you goodbody. I mean, you put
Speaker 1: it on display and you you you wasn't a shamed I.
Speaker 5: Wanted it to be. I wanted us to I wanted
Speaker 5: us to really grow together. I really wanted my mom
Speaker 5: to get healthy. I wanted my family to be healthier.
Speaker 5: I wanted us to go through, you know, some growth
Speaker 5: in front of everybody's eyes.
Speaker 1: That was my whole goal.
Speaker 5: And once I saw that that goal was not going
Speaker 5: to be reached during that time, I just it's time
Speaker 5: to stop.
Speaker 1: Not at the height. Everybody was pissed. Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: which you make it the most?
Speaker 6: It does not? Like no, Yeah, everybody was pierced that.
Speaker 5: Like I was like, no, no more shows, no more,
Speaker 5: We're not no until everybody really.
Speaker 1: Definitely everybody was the producers. Everybody was mad. This is
Speaker 1: where the Mother DIDs gets good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well no, not people that are trying to get better.
Speaker 5: So let's let that happen first and then you know,
Speaker 5: we can continue.
Speaker 1: But that didn't work out. So did the music suffer
Speaker 1: during that time too? No?
Speaker 5: I think what suffered is the fact that there were
Speaker 5: a lot of bad things said about me and my
Speaker 5: fans are from where I'm from, so to have siblings
Speaker 5: say things bad about you.
Speaker 1: I think that.
Speaker 5: Put a kind of damper on my fans and how
Speaker 5: they felt about me. But God is the greatest and
Speaker 5: I'm still here twenty years later, so none of that
Speaker 5: really matters. I mean, during that time, though, it really
Speaker 5: was really painful for me because I really thought my
Speaker 5: fans knew me better than to be anything but supportive
Speaker 5: and loving and con and understanding my family. But you know,
Speaker 5: it don't necessarily always go like that. And the whole
Speaker 5: point of the matter was to make sure that the
Speaker 5: girls out there in the hood and every hood across
Speaker 5: the United States of America, maybe even overseas while I'm
Speaker 5: talking like, you know, to get that that was the that.
Speaker 1: Was the point, and that was the point.
Speaker 5: So God gave me more than I could ask for,
Speaker 5: and I feel thankful and grateful that I'm still twenty
Speaker 5: years later singing the songs that I wrote.
Speaker 1: And that's a big deal. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So this is me talking, right, and this is me
Speaker 4: from a pure fan point of view, that from a
Speaker 4: hood guy.
Speaker 1: And I have to be careful. The way I worded this,
Speaker 1: Mary was like, oh, please be careful the way you were.
Speaker 1: You know where I'm going.
Speaker 2: No Okay, she's might just sick of here and stuff
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, Mary was like the queen of like
Speaker 1: was no, not was excuse me? Thank you? Thank you
Speaker 1: you corrected me.
Speaker 4: I don't know, beef and now like like you're when
Speaker 4: when it comes to the hood, like you're the queen
Speaker 4: do you actually?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm her sister ship Like.
Speaker 5: That's the way it goes, like yeah, just loved one
Speaker 5: for real, Like I love Mary man and I'm so
Speaker 5: thankful that, like even the strength, that's what inspired me
Speaker 5: about Mary. I studied her streps, like because you can't
Speaker 5: get away from marry you thought you blew her. She
Speaker 5: so yeah, very yeah about no game you know. So
Speaker 5: so let me ask you. Because they always say you
Speaker 5: don't want to meet your idols.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they do say that a lot.
Speaker 5: I met people that I really damn it, why like
Speaker 5: why you gotta be this way?
Speaker 1: Just say just you just real comfortable.
Speaker 4: I've met people that I loved, yes, and was so disappointed.
Speaker 5: Disappointed man, man, man, she's so sad. But you know,
Speaker 5: people are on there and on individual past, and you
Speaker 5: never know what they went through to them, not even
Speaker 5: just that, but just who who they are and what
Speaker 5: what it took to get where they are and what shaped.
Speaker 1: And molded them.
Speaker 5: I don't know, you know, So I try to be
Speaker 5: respectful to everybody, Like you know, I ain't gotta like you.
Speaker 1: I can still listen to your music, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Like it's people that I really was probably slapping sh
Speaker 5: it out off if I really seen them and it
Speaker 5: was on that type of hype with me, I might
Speaker 5: it might be a fight, and I've overcome that, but
Speaker 5: if it, if it got there, I probably would, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Like, I would try not to
Speaker 5: do that because I'm a parent, like I have kids.
Speaker 5: But you know, there are people that you know, but
Speaker 5: I could still listen to their music. I can still
Speaker 5: enjoy it.
Speaker 4: The artists from the person, Yes, the person, Yes, I've
Speaker 4: learned hard to do.
Speaker 1: No, I've learned to do that. You good, You're good.
Speaker 6: But beautiful thing, beautiful thing, beautiful thing, man, shit from heaven,
Speaker 6: beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: Where was you at in your life to say that?
Speaker 5: I was on my sophomore album and they told me
Speaker 5: I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: What sophomore what they call it? The Yeah?
Speaker 5: So it was the second one and I was like,
Speaker 5: that's when they had told me they got a song
Speaker 5: that they wanted me to do play cards right for
Speaker 5: his album that was coming out, And I wrote that
Speaker 5: and sent from Heaven Heaven sent in the same session.
Speaker 5: Mm hmmm, that was the same session.
Speaker 1: I get this money, you know.
Speaker 4: You know, I understand so so so so the label
Speaker 4: said don't go with send for Heaven.
Speaker 5: They said, don't go with let it go. They didn't
Speaker 5: like they didn't they didn't like.
Speaker 1: Let it go at all. Yeah, we had to put
Speaker 1: our own money in to let it go.
Speaker 4: Wow, I needn't happened give out beings in the media.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you. That's no.
Speaker 5: That wasn't Jimmy. It actually wasn't. It was some radio people.
Speaker 5: They just didn't she might have retired.
Speaker 1: Actually maybe I can.
Speaker 5: And said, okay, step Step, yeah, Step, I love step
Speaker 5: by the way, hey, Step I love you.
Speaker 1: He did coming out.
Speaker 5: Because I mean I went through a lot of records
Speaker 5: with them, you know, and and Garnet and all them.
Speaker 5: Man shout out to that game, yeah man.
Speaker 1: All of them.
Speaker 5: That really was like, no, she gonna be one of them,
Speaker 5: and that's it, like going there.
Speaker 1: It was lit. But that let it go. They just
Speaker 1: did not. They didn't like it.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I love Missy Elliott, what are you talking about?
Speaker 5: Kim was on there, shout out to Kim, who's joining
Speaker 5: the tour the twentieth anniversaries.
Speaker 1: Eventually they let it go. Well, she invested in her. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had to put my head.
Speaker 4: Yeah wait a minute minute, you put your own money
Speaker 4: in Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Done that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean just because it's kind. But I'm saying
Speaker 2: that through the wires. Didn't believe in it. Remember, we
Speaker 2: weren't for the Street Team. So he did the street
Speaker 2: team call himself saying he did the white label himself,
Speaker 2: and he called everybody up and did the whole.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But by that point, we had been through so many
Speaker 5: Chicken Chitlin circuits, been through all the streets, so it's like,
Speaker 5: you know, we know everybody at that point, just gonna
Speaker 5: hand it to him and tell them.
Speaker 4: Run the circuit the chicken certain Listen, by the way,
Speaker 4: hold on, hold on, hold on for all of y'all
Speaker 4: that don't know the chitling circuit. When you have to
Speaker 4: go and perform every single night.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: I'm like I've been telling people all day who's been
Speaker 4: hanging out with me. I now know the algorithms of life.
Speaker 4: I didn't know that back then. Like right now, if
Speaker 4: I was to drop an album, I would drop it
Speaker 4: in thirty markets. I wouldn't drop it in the fifty
Speaker 4: two states. Is fifty two states, I wouldn't drop it.
Speaker 4: I would dropping it in.
Speaker 1: The thirty markets. Uff on radio, I'm talking about radio.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about I.
Speaker 2: Mean, if you dropping on DSPs everywhere, what the is DSP.
Speaker 1: You get wait to.
Speaker 6: Ago for sure, But then but then we don't have
Speaker 6: the little local you know, record stoes.
Speaker 1: No more than do you remember meeting greets? Remember meeting greets?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's where that's where I met Big Yeah, meet
Speaker 5: and Greek Oakland.
Speaker 1: I wanted to sing. I want to sing? He said, yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: it's so cool. Was the Big Ones cool? This is?
Speaker 4: This is the cooler story. Wait a minute. So you
Speaker 4: went to a meet and greet. Big is at the
Speaker 4: meet and greet. You're there as a fan?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, they used to have meet and Greece all
Speaker 5: the time.
Speaker 6: There, you know, that's where that's how like I started.
Speaker 5: With the local mom and post, the record store and
Speaker 5: meet and greets, you know that everywhere, like yeah, until target.
Speaker 5: Then we start going to target target.
Speaker 1: Talking up they did no, no, no, yeah, yeah no.
Speaker 4: Now we're gonna get you hype right now because we're
Speaker 4: gonna play a game. This is the game that we
Speaker 4: always play on this drink drinking. This is the shot
Speaker 4: drink shot game. Yeah yeah, but by the way, you
Speaker 4: don't have to drink at all.
Speaker 1: This is drink. Bless you, thank you, Like because you
Speaker 1: would pick somebody else, I feel like you don't not
Speaker 1: really feeling brother was here, it would be cool. What's
Speaker 1: your brother? My brother's with my son right now.
Speaker 4: Okay, he's being a good he's been a good brother,
Speaker 4: good uncle.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna drink for you today.
Speaker 6: I was like about that.
Speaker 1: Are you cool with him being kick him out? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: he's not. He's not obligating here. I'm curious.
Speaker 4: The only one that you can drink from that's also
Speaker 4: that that's a great guy.
Speaker 1: That guy right there, that's shout.
Speaker 5: Don't think Alicia want to drink from me. I don't
Speaker 5: think you want to drink from me?
Speaker 1: Right You're taking here, all right?
Speaker 4: So okay, so you're gonna keep with the you wanna.
Speaker 8: All right, yeah, all right, all right, So these are
Speaker 8: the rule I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do real shots.
Speaker 8: We're gonna get two choices.
Speaker 1: I ain't fireball, is it? No? No, no, God, bless you, God,
Speaker 1: bless you.
Speaker 6: God shot that one time.
Speaker 1: It's not two choices. Two choices, you pick one and
Speaker 1: we don't drink.
Speaker 2: But if you say both are neither, like you don't
Speaker 2: want to really answer the question, Okay, then we then
Speaker 2: that's when we drink the shot.
Speaker 1: And by the way, don't feel sorry for us, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: And these choices to bring up memories of anything, anybody
Speaker 2: bring up stories.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, it's the fun stuff. Are you ready? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You ready?
Speaker 4: Cause I know she got I knew y'all was gonna
Speaker 4: go there. By the way, this is Dominican and hate
Speaker 4: Dominican and the Columbian guys.
Speaker 1: They don't make those questions up.
Speaker 4: So if at any point you don't know you're mad,
Speaker 4: you could just throw even throw something at them.
Speaker 1: Don't just throw it out.
Speaker 6: There say that, yes, okay, so I would say faith Evans.
Speaker 1: Okay, any backstory, I love face. She's always been supportive.
Speaker 5: She sung backgrounds for me one time on the album,
Speaker 5: you know, healthy taking care of with that, with that price,
Speaker 5: and I just I had.
Speaker 1: To please the please.
Speaker 5: She's like my favorite, and she was like all right,
Speaker 5: I got you, Casey, and she even did a feature
Speaker 5: for me and I wrote her verse and I, oh
Speaker 5: my god, just just ecstatic about that. She's been very
Speaker 5: supportive over the years.
Speaker 4: I love that, but cannot cannot ask something because as rappers, right,
Speaker 4: it's always frowned upon if.
Speaker 1: I depend somebody's I wrote so many people versus for
Speaker 1: R and B. Excuse me, calm down.
Speaker 4: I wrote so many you said, choruses like I've always
Speaker 4: like you got in the studio and not just like
Speaker 4: all right, cool, let me let me make this chorus.
Speaker 4: And no one's never I've never done that. And R
Speaker 4: and B is that frowned upon?
Speaker 1: When?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 5: I mean I wrote Monica's verse on trust and that
Speaker 5: was just that was a good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's more prevalent than R and B.
Speaker 2: That's why you write a lot of your own material,
Speaker 2: because most R and B is being written for the
Speaker 2: art right.
Speaker 1: And I wish I could write for other artists. I
Speaker 1: would that would be let me ask you this, has
Speaker 1: any artists ever wrote for you? Yes?
Speaker 5: Actually my brother Elijah Blake, who's actually going on tour with.
Speaker 1: Me and opening up. He wrote Enough of.
Speaker 5: No Love the Woman, Little Wayne, and he's an artist himself,
Speaker 5: very talented, very talented.
Speaker 1: Are we making some noise for him?
Speaker 5: Yeah? On broad talk to him brother other Okay, all.
Speaker 8: Right, Next up, Alicia keys Are Beyonce, Alicia Keyser Beyonce.
Speaker 4: Damn, I'm very this is going on you because I'm scared.
Speaker 4: I'm so scared.
Speaker 1: No, it's okay. You don't have to be scared. It's okay,
Speaker 1: it's not.
Speaker 5: No. I would have to say Beyonce because when I
Speaker 5: was in Oakland and I was actually Dwayne Wiggins from Tony, Tony, Tony,
Speaker 5: I have anywhere to go, Rest in peace.
Speaker 1: Dwayne Wiggins love you so much.
Speaker 5: And he allowed me to stay in the studio and
Speaker 5: work on my music, and he had actually worked with
Speaker 5: Destiny's Child and.
Speaker 1: His wife let me.
Speaker 5: Get a job at her coffee shop, and she would
Speaker 5: tell me stories about Beyonce and how focused she was
Speaker 5: and how.
Speaker 1: She didn't date no boys and she wasn't she.
Speaker 5: Wasn't like that and that if I wanted to make
Speaker 5: it in the business, that I had to I had
Speaker 5: to really study that.
Speaker 1: And it's like not getting ships and yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: And focused on that because that that ain't gonna help
Speaker 5: you make it. And I was like, all right, cool,
Speaker 5: So I would study Beyonce for sure, Like I was like.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no. It was my thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Desney's child was my thing. So I would have
Speaker 5: to say Beyonce that. But I love Alisha, but I
Speaker 5: love Alicia. But I love Alicia, but she was more.
Speaker 1: She played keys and pianos and like instrument I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I do none of that shit. I ain't know how
Speaker 1: to do that.
Speaker 4: But you knew how to make us love you with
Speaker 4: your death. Like I'm looking at let me tell you something.
Speaker 4: I'm just listening to your music. And I was happy.
Speaker 1: Sad at the same time. Oh yeah, it's definitely bipolar.
Speaker 1: Definitely bipolar. It has got to be bipolar, because I'm
Speaker 1: not a song that you can say is a true
Speaker 1: happy song.
Speaker 5: It's always some kind of hurt leading up to a
Speaker 5: little bit happy.
Speaker 1: I loved it. It's like that's what it's called. Just
Speaker 1: a little bit by Polar all right, I'm embarrassed. Did
Speaker 1: you know Underground Tupac or Death Row Tupac? No? I
Speaker 1: think that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going with.
Speaker 1: Version. But which version of park did you prefer? Dang
Speaker 1: the Death Road Pop got him. No, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the before before, before before. Yeah, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with that. I'm not gonna lie with Brenda's got a baby.
Speaker 5: I preferred him to stay around, all.
Speaker 4: Right, So, so, by the way, get a problem, I'll
Speaker 4: see why you're saying that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 4: I've never met Tupac, period, and I've been in the
Speaker 4: game for twenty five years. I've never met him. What
Speaker 4: was the difference? Because you met both of them?
Speaker 1: Right? No, No, you didn't meet I met Death, I
Speaker 1: didn't meet Digital Underground Pop.
Speaker 4: Oh you didn't meet the African No?
Speaker 5: No, no, no no? But did we did wear that?
Speaker 5: That that one chain and everybody's.
Speaker 1: Wearing that time?
Speaker 4: Yeah, looked like the Bay Area that. Yeah, I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: it's okay.
Speaker 1: It's okay because she's so.
Speaker 4: You didn't meet that version of so you only meant that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I wanted to meet him so bad, but.
Speaker 5: I just clowned him when I met him, it was
Speaker 5: like it was a good there was a good vibe.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I've never heard. I definitely told him his feet stink.
Speaker 1: I was saying it because you have your shoes on.
Speaker 5: They used to wear all the time, the goddamn but
Speaker 5: she's with no socks on. So he was trying to like,
Speaker 5: big up, walk through the be all big. I was like,
Speaker 5: your feet probably think.
Speaker 4: He was like, wait a minute, what.
Speaker 1: You know how he took it off, but he didn't
Speaker 1: like make a big deal out of it.
Speaker 4: But you actually said to Tubac your feet probably.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they probably do. That's hard. They probably do.
Speaker 9: I feel like at the next question, either, okay, hold off, slim,
Speaker 9: I've never worked.
Speaker 1: Harder at this.
Speaker 4: We've been trying to get two box stories forever. But
Speaker 4: I don't think what ever came close to you knowing
Speaker 4: Tubac in a way that no one else.
Speaker 1: Show and stories about crazy. Yeah, Ashanti Rihanna, Oh damn no,
Speaker 1: I would.
Speaker 5: I only because I think me and re recame congratulations
Speaker 5: to being a billionaire, shout out to.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 5: But when I was in the hood and it was like,
Speaker 5: if you want to make it in the business, you
Speaker 5: gotta be listening to a Shanti, I'm like, what, I'm
Speaker 5: in the back of the.
Speaker 4: Both would you know?
Speaker 1: It's like so I would I would have to pick
Speaker 1: a Shawnte.
Speaker 5: Because I feel like you picked both well I mean yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean, but.
Speaker 1: We're trying to something billionaire figured it out. She cracked
Speaker 1: the cold All let's go Mary J. Blige or Brandy.
Speaker 1: Why would you do that? Yeah? By the way, I
Speaker 1: told you that.
Speaker 4: It's the Colombian and the Dominican right there. Because if
Speaker 4: you want to throw a monster energy drink at them,
Speaker 4: it's okay the story, they know the move, they know
Speaker 4: the move.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm gonna have to say both.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to I'm gonna happy women want to drink? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: cap are y'all really drinking though, because I you want
Speaker 1: to smell? Want to make sure that it's real drinks? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you can have the Mama Huna. Nobody ever wantaka. Where
Speaker 1: is the Louis the thirteenth?
Speaker 5: See next time I'll come back after the tour, We're gonna.
Speaker 1: Have to have Louis shot.
Speaker 4: Listen, let me just tell you something. I'm gonna be
Speaker 4: honest with you.
Speaker 1: Let me take my drinks what he's saying, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest.
Speaker 2: Is like.
Speaker 4: They told me Keisha Cole is a legendary drinker when
Speaker 4: she drinks.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, well I like I like shots to
Speaker 5: patron tequila.
Speaker 1: Okay, I want to tell you about a day I
Speaker 1: met you. Oh sh oh, this is good.
Speaker 4: I met you in club Mansion. Do you remember here?
Speaker 4: My wife was with me, and you were so saucy.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you how. Let me tell you, Michael,
Speaker 1: let me tell how drunk you was.
Speaker 7: No, was not.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be no. This is in club Mansion. You were,
Speaker 4: you were, You was inside.
Speaker 1: Outside with Joe's wife Lorena Renna, that's why. And you
Speaker 1: let me tell you how saucy. I remember that night. Okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 4: You were so saucy that you made me sober because
Speaker 4: I was like They was like, oh no.
Speaker 1: Even Joe was like, yo, what the fuck?
Speaker 5: Hey Na, yeah, we are like.
Speaker 4: But Joe, I'm gonna be honest with you. It made
Speaker 4: me so happy. Other drunk people, they said.
Speaker 1: I was like one of the famous. He never forget.
Speaker 4: By the way, I'm such a big fan of you,
Speaker 4: my whole family. By the way, I just let me
Speaker 4: just want to let you know, we've been doing this
Speaker 4: for nine years. It has never been this many family members.
Speaker 4: This is my real family.
Speaker 1: Coming coming out. That's never one time. She was like.
Speaker 4: She yelled at me. She definitely spit in my eyes
Speaker 4: to this era. And I was like, I don't get
Speaker 4: that's my daughter. But I ain't gonna lie to you.
Speaker 4: I just want you to know you are the queen.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, I went too far. Yea, yeah, there's a queen's.
Speaker 1: Queens.
Speaker 4: This queen's before her. Well, right now you are holding
Speaker 4: down the R and B queen and that I'm gonna
Speaker 4: give you that man funk that ship. It's me saying
Speaker 4: you can even sit I can be like, okay, that's
Speaker 4: Nor said, yes what Nor? He knows it, knows it,
Speaker 4: and excuse me, drink champs.
Speaker 1: You know what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4: This is a shot for no reason. We are okay,
Speaker 4: you know what, We know you humble, and we know
Speaker 4: you're about to be on your tour and you He
Speaker 4: was like, she's about to be. We want, in our opinion,
Speaker 4: the queen of R and B. Right now as we
Speaker 4: sit here, it's Keisha, just okay, can.
Speaker 6: We just switch okay, because I would say, okay, so
Speaker 6: what marriage?
Speaker 1: Everybody? Just good? Queen up? Hip hop? Hip hop is soul,
Speaker 1: hip hop and soul, and I was just continue, I
Speaker 1: want you to continue. Her soul is like YO, like
Speaker 1: that like she but she was also so hip hop.
Speaker 5: See that's where I feel like I come in at right,
Speaker 5: because I'm hip hop.
Speaker 1: And R and B right, I think like.
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, I mean, it's gonna slap the ship
Speaker 5: out of me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: But like I think she is. I think she is
Speaker 1: hip hop and soul. So what did we I feel like,
Speaker 1: I mean, she's in white. Didn't she get inducted into
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame? Okay?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 1: We respect them, yo, So I think that that's that
Speaker 1: soul vibe.
Speaker 4: But right now, I'm gonna be honest with you. I
Speaker 4: think that she will respect the fact that you are.
Speaker 1: She'd give you your dudes, is what he's saying. I
Speaker 1: don't think she's hating. I'm gonna be honest. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think so either.
Speaker 5: But I think she worked pretty damn hard in this
Speaker 5: business over these years as you have.
Speaker 1: And we have to show you your flowers.
Speaker 4: You see those flowers right there, because I ain't gonna
Speaker 4: lie to you.
Speaker 1: Sat there, I listen to your music, and I was
Speaker 1: so happy. I was like, damn, you got a hit?
Speaker 1: After a hit, can you not make a head record?
Speaker 1: I hope I can make another one. Yes, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. I really hope. So, I really hope. So
Speaker 1: I hope it doesn't start with pain.
Speaker 5: I hope that it keeps going into a happiness that
Speaker 5: I can sing about.
Speaker 4: And once I said, I said, I said, we got
Speaker 4: to keep your call on the joint, like ask her
Speaker 4: out with when she was dancing on stage?
Speaker 1: What the fuck is going to happen when you dance? Dance?
Speaker 1: When I have to die with like five things?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: Wait, what goddamn shit, what's the problem? What was the
Speaker 1: It was a little big, I mean, I think so,
Speaker 1: I think, maybe just a tad bit too at what
Speaker 1: is it you mute?
Speaker 6: And it was cute and it was seven thousand dollars,
Speaker 6: eight thousand dollars of something like they're probably gonna it's
Speaker 6: probably more than that.
Speaker 1: There's probably about ten or something like that. Plus I
Speaker 1: had to have on the sock.
Speaker 6: Anyway, it was a nice look, that's what I thought,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And I liked it.
Speaker 5: So, I mean, there's gonna be times that I feel
Speaker 5: like my fans are people in general don't like what
Speaker 5: someone has on. But it was like, you know, at
Speaker 5: the end of the day, as long as I'm happy
Speaker 5: and I'm wearing what I want to wear, Like, if
Speaker 5: the mic is off, then we got a problem.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: If you got something to say about the way I'm
Speaker 5: singing or something like that, cool, I could take that
Speaker 5: constructive criticism.
Speaker 1: But about my appearance and the way I want to look,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. Like, that's not I mean you
Speaker 1: can if you want to. You feel good.
Speaker 6: It's gonna mean anything's gonna change. So it's like, listen,
Speaker 6: I still got it. I might.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure I'm gonna wear it again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like them about it because it was a little diaper no, men,
Speaker 1: wasn't plaining at all. It was a little booty outright,
Speaker 1: get something going on. Let's take it to the bay.
Speaker 1: Forty or too short? You got to take a shot?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, me and short work together a few times,
Speaker 5: so I'm gonna say show choked, okay, But I love forty.
Speaker 5: I love forty shot support that they both came out
Speaker 5: my last tour.
Speaker 1: So let's say yeah, let's say both. Let's say yeah,
Speaker 1: by the way, because I don't even lie. Carlas Rossi
Speaker 1: is the thing, you know what I'm saying. And they
Speaker 1: both Dreams alumni. So we're gonna do both. We like that,
Speaker 1: not the a lot of you do. Y'all smell this
Speaker 1: weed and I'm smoking, Yes, I do it smell like
Speaker 1: not sharing with nobody's going there. This is Lisa.
Speaker 5: Allright, Michael Jackson or Prince Michael Jackson, our prince, rest
Speaker 5: in peace to the goats man, rest in peace. I
Speaker 5: gotta put y'all got to take a shot out of respect.
Speaker 5: Y'all can't be doing that. I mean, y'all gonna start
Speaker 5: filling it up with juice.
Speaker 4: I know it.
Speaker 1: There's no way that y'all gonna take all these shots.
Speaker 1: I was already done that. And you're gonna smell my shot?
Speaker 1: What is it? Mama? They make it, they make you
Speaker 1: want to smell. Yeah, it's some scary ship. We're going
Speaker 1: to make water water. Don't fuck it arguing here, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a problem. And did we picked Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: Trina Eve, Oh definitely, damn damn that's tough. I work
Speaker 1: with both of them too. Yeah. Man, they both showed
Speaker 1: me love. Man, damn it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, y'all gonna have to drink, so trying to get
Speaker 5: no I'm being honest, I promise, all right.
Speaker 1: N w A or the Looneyes, Oh my god, that
Speaker 1: is just rude.
Speaker 4: It's not sounding good. Told you just that dominicanting the
Speaker 4: Columbian over there.
Speaker 1: They trying to get y'all drunk, not me. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: was trying to get you drunk. Drink. Yeah, that's the game. Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 1: because I'm supposed to drink. If I say oh okay,
Speaker 1: it doesn't count. But now I'm gonna be up all
Speaker 1: night tweakets. Okay, so I'm gonna take both both both. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
Speaker 5: Because I grew up to n w A and Boom
Speaker 5: the lone Eies. I got five on it and I
Speaker 5: don't even smoke.
Speaker 4: Your But I'm gonna be honest. You should have picked
Speaker 4: them the w A. It's no way I grew up.
Speaker 1: I'm from Oakland, that's right, Oakland legends. Man, that's my
Speaker 1: people too. Yeah, no, they legends. I've been having five
Speaker 1: on it for long. Yeah, okay, come on all the
Speaker 1: Bay or la. Oh, Jude, Now that's not nice. That
Speaker 1: is really rude.
Speaker 3: That is really you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean tell me I go back to la
Speaker 1: that's really rude. Fox. That was the best answer. She said,
Speaker 1: that's really rude. That's not cool. Bro, Damn twenty first
Speaker 1: twenty years in Oakland. M hm. She's got a lot
Speaker 1: of money in l A. I got a lot of
Speaker 1: life in l A as well. I gotta pour up again.
Speaker 6: Yeah, dang, they gonna kick my ass if I try
Speaker 6: to go back to Oakland.
Speaker 1: No, you're gonna pick l A. You're gonna pick l A,
Speaker 1: pick l A.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, it's both of Oakland. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: gotta be respectful it. Just go and take an l somewhere.
Speaker 5: Somebody gonna come out the cut B.
Speaker 6: That's for l A.
Speaker 1: That's for Oakland. Oh ship, So we'll save you that
Speaker 1: both even when both get my ass. You ain't pick Oakland.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Oakland. But you say in Oakland, it's too late.
Speaker 1: We already already kept okay, Damn. All right, R and
Speaker 1: B singers or rappers. Oh, this is like which individuals
Speaker 1: that you come up did you prefer her to interact with?
Speaker 1: It is a true question okay, dombling, Okay, so it's
Speaker 1: what I'm said. I didn't drink because feel like.
Speaker 5: I'm cheering up. Okay, this is funny. I'm gonna have
Speaker 5: to go with my.
Speaker 1: Rm B love birds. I respect that. Yeah, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I respect that. Sorry. I love my R and B system.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if this will apply to her,
Speaker 1: but digital or analog, she's both? Who like you? You
Speaker 1: never have to record on reel to reel? Oh yeah
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 2: So did you prefer that or straight digital? People were
Speaker 2: sending tracks to each other or they had to be
Speaker 2: in the studio with you?
Speaker 5: I mean that sound is so much different though, it's
Speaker 5: so so much better on the A track, I mean,
Speaker 5: not the tracks, the apex or whatever they call it.
Speaker 1: Digit Yeah, a tape, Dad feel to it? It did.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna choose that like first album, little Yeah.
Speaker 4: Your favorite, and I need a record. Way don't even
Speaker 4: know if I still make a record. I'm gonna make one.
Speaker 1: But she comes back and she drinks with us, and
Speaker 1: then we're gonna have the studio right there. You don't
Speaker 1: want to want to be drinking and singing. That's not
Speaker 1: a before you start drinking record and then we yea
Speaker 1: you sing first, you never sing and drink. Never sing
Speaker 1: and know that deal.
Speaker 4: I've been I've been promoting that forever he has does
Speaker 4: not drink when he wraps. You don't don't like the
Speaker 4: way you broke you know, real life though life?
Speaker 1: What does the norwego? And yes, called by I said,
Speaker 1: collect it's gonna be. That's not to sponsored period. You
Speaker 1: know we always thinking about money. But do you now
Speaker 1: I know this, this is this is a side question.
Speaker 1: Do you understand how much of a legend you are? Say? Yes,
Speaker 1: that being so humble, She's humble, he's very very decades.
Speaker 5: I mean I would say that. People will always say
Speaker 5: I forget who I am. I don't know what that means,
Speaker 5: that you forget who you are, remember who you are? Like,
Speaker 5: I don't think I forgot. I really just think that
Speaker 5: I'm who I am, like I came straight from where
Speaker 5: I'm from, and I'll never forget it because you can
Speaker 5: always go back.
Speaker 1: So you give me yourself grounded.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's even being grounded, it's just being
Speaker 5: who you are, truly, genuinely who you are. Genuine Yeah,
Speaker 5: it'll get you hurt heartbroken. But God handles it every time.
Speaker 1: It's all good. Thank you God. Amen, Like we got
Speaker 1: a clapping heart broken. Yes, we're almost done with quick time.
Speaker 1: Two more yeah, because this is a very serious one. Okay,
Speaker 1: before he rewinds or after he rewinds. Wait, wait times
Speaker 1: out wait, pay my face. I saw this. I saw this.
Speaker 1: You got three no, no, no idea. I saw this.
Speaker 1: I saw this, And my thing is is, so everybody's
Speaker 1: doing it right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, great, but I'm saying, like everybody's doing it all
Speaker 5: about them?
Speaker 1: Sell the old grades to I'm up fast forward times.
Speaker 1: It's fast forward time. I like that though, thank you,
Speaker 1: because that's a that's the thing. You're just sitting in
Speaker 1: that You're just sitting and I'm not there yet. He
Speaker 1: want the bag.
Speaker 5: But seriously, like timberlaind right, everybody rewind it period.
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at it. I'm not mad at it.
Speaker 1: Do what makes you happy. If that's what makes you
Speaker 1: feel better, do it. Don't stop. So you're saying, both, wait.
Speaker 4: Your man, you are sitting there and your man is
Speaker 4: in the bathroom, are you judging him? Like?
Speaker 1: What are you like? He like, Yeah, so I did it?
Speaker 6: Wait, I mean, does it for me, Beijing is the
Speaker 6: thing that was the original was the question?
Speaker 1: Yes? Please?
Speaker 5: Okay, So say my man is another room and he's
Speaker 5: coloring his hair, but rewind.
Speaker 1: Man is in another room and I wonder he comes
Speaker 1: back and.
Speaker 5: You can see that there's no hair there, but clearly
Speaker 5: it's shiny black.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, what is that Beijing or is it rewind?
Speaker 1: Which one is it? That's what it is? Yes, we
Speaker 1: want don't rewind because if you got to have a
Speaker 1: shiny thing, if I'm saying, is shiny like you know,
Speaker 1: like your man is not doing it the right way?
Speaker 1: We wind it's the right that's the right way because
Speaker 1: whining it's light. You got here. That's cool, thank you,
Speaker 1: that's fine that we want it's fine. But I think
Speaker 1: you said both.
Speaker 4: To take a shot, wanted to drink story you're just
Speaker 4: making him drink for no reason.
Speaker 1: Period. All right, last question give the you know the
Speaker 1: last one. You know the beautiful very much. Not last
Speaker 1: question of the interview person. Loyalty or respect, respect.
Speaker 5: Because I think that brings loyalty respect, But like d MXID,
Speaker 5: you gotta know what you're dealing with it. You gotta
Speaker 5: trust a snake.
Speaker 1: To be a snake to be a snake.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he got trust a thief to be a Hello,
Speaker 6: you're gonna respect you as you.
Speaker 1: Is on our show. Yeah, that was one of the goodest.
Speaker 1: So she really said, I'm.
Speaker 4: Gonna drink respect a lot of making a drink.
Speaker 6: To be loyal as to who they are, Like they're going,
Speaker 6: yeah that shut up.
Speaker 1: Have you ever met No?
Speaker 7: You never?
Speaker 1: No, I wish never been. You guys would have got
Speaker 1: along really well.
Speaker 6: We were supposed to do a session, but he never
Speaker 6: showed up. I was really sad about that.
Speaker 7: I'm really sad, show up, show up.
Speaker 1: I'm sad.
Speaker 4: The last two weeks of his life. He was with
Speaker 4: me almost every single day, really six weeks. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: he's with me every single day. And I was messing
Speaker 4: with him because it's known that DMX would never show
Speaker 4: up when you when you were like you ask him.
Speaker 1: So I did it.
Speaker 4: It's only one place that I did it at in
Speaker 4: this Billy's And I'm made sure. D MX came every
Speaker 4: day every day, And he came every day, but I
Speaker 4: was just bothering him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, show Yeah. I was showing up for his record.
Speaker 1: I need to hear this. It was a record for him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a record for him. Yeah, and I showed
Speaker 1: up to do the record and he never showed up.
Speaker 1: Did you end up doing the vocals for the record.
Speaker 5: I don't think. I didn't think he really wanted. I
Speaker 5: was like, I was like, if he didn't show up,
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know, didn't want to do. I
Speaker 5: was like, okay, it was like at the beginning, kind of.
Speaker 1: Like my career too. So it's like second album type ship.
Speaker 5: That would have been awesome though, because I love the
Speaker 5: song with Aliah, Like, I love that record.
Speaker 1: I went to. I went to see DMX one time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to know, thanks, but no thanks.
Speaker 4: So I ain't gonna I hate telling this story because
Speaker 4: it's crazy. So I went to see DMX. DMX called
Speaker 4: me for fifteen times, he said, come see me. I
Speaker 4: went to go see him and as I walked in,
Speaker 4: he walked out with a leah.
Speaker 1: Oh. I was like, how do I stop this? Wait?
Speaker 1: They were dated? Huh wait? Wait what just happened? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh it was at the movie thing. Oh right, you
Speaker 1: don't know. Okay, let's let's go back to this. Okay.
Speaker 1: So yeah, because have you ever thought about having your
Speaker 1: own podcast?
Speaker 2: No? I think based on everything we talked about the
Speaker 2: reality show. That's actually the next progression for you in
Speaker 2: a sense.
Speaker 1: Wow, family, it's just you, it's just you now. You
Speaker 1: said you would never do another reality show anything. You
Speaker 1: would never do another reality No, no, no, hell no.
Speaker 1: It's a big no.
Speaker 6: No no no.
Speaker 1: It broke up my marriage and broke up my family.
Speaker 1: It's a bad deal. They some ship up. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: real bad.
Speaker 6: That neither I mean, but I write songs, so songs
Speaker 6: are awesome. Got it about coming out?
Speaker 1: I do got a song.
Speaker 7: One question, what was it like, because we didn't say this,
Speaker 7: what was it like the first time you ever.
Speaker 1: Went mm hmm, I love that ship. That's a great question.
Speaker 1: Platinum gold. You skipped the whole.
Speaker 7: With God.
Speaker 1: It was like I was lit, just you. You had
Speaker 1: to go single. I had a good album after I performed.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, I mean with the first album and went
Speaker 5: when I did the BT Awards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, then the numbers went up.
Speaker 5: I was on tour with Kanye and Tanation Fantasia yep,
Speaker 5: and I was opening up for them, Wow, and then
Speaker 5: it went gold.
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, nice, yes, thank you God. I
Speaker 1: am never going back to dumbling. Okay, I know what's platinum?
Speaker 5: Platinum was just man, now I got to do it again,
Speaker 5: plain Gary. It was cool, go but it's like okay, okay,
Speaker 5: I could do this. And then Platinum was.
Speaker 1: Like can you do it again? Okay, don't dun dun du.
Speaker 1: And then I did it again, So there you girl.
Speaker 1: I did like, come on, man, that's what all stars do.
Speaker 1: It was like, ten, listen, I can stay with you all. No, like,
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed this environment coming drink. I don't think
Speaker 1: drinking would be the same. Okay, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: I like it's sober either way. You just told you.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 5: It's not about no no, no, no no, Saucy is
Speaker 5: really it's not a good look. Yeah, I get I
Speaker 5: get back to open.
Speaker 1: It's but I want to we always. I want you
Speaker 1: to know this. We will always celebrate you. Thank you.
Speaker 1: You deserve it. We want to give you your flowers.
Speaker 4: We want to make sure that you understand and you
Speaker 4: know how much you mean to our community.
Speaker 1: To our society, and to our lifestyle. Lesson, give it up.
Speaker 4: I want to look at you and I want you
Speaker 4: to know that. And I know you had a heart
Speaker 4: out at six o'clock and I was so scared. I
Speaker 4: was so scared because the one thing that I want
Speaker 4: to do, and I want to make sure that you,
Speaker 4: your people and everybody know that you deserve to be celebrated.
Speaker 4: You deserves your flowers.
Speaker 1: You deserve.
Speaker 4: Let me just tell you something, and I wanted to
Speaker 4: reiterate this, that's the most shut.
Speaker 1: I want you to look around. I want you to
Speaker 1: look around.
Speaker 4: I want you to look around, and you might think,
Speaker 4: but everybody here is actually my family. Really, this is
Speaker 4: my real family. And let me just tell you something
Speaker 4: related or not. They've been around me so long and
Speaker 4: they care because they want to meet Kesha mother.
Speaker 1: Right, No, that's serious. Look look look all right, Look
Speaker 1: I don't believe it. I appreciate it. I do love
Speaker 1: anybody ever said that, But that was hard. Are you
Speaker 1: a foodie?
Speaker 10: Yes, like Carbone, I haven't been the carb on you.
Speaker 10: The house fires at l A.
Speaker 1: Hang out in l A.
Speaker 4: So alright, so what's your what's what's what's what's your
Speaker 4: favorite restaurant in l A?
Speaker 6: Moon Shadows was like right, shadow that was right down street.
Speaker 1: From my house.
Speaker 4: It burned down because of the melorable fires. Okay, now
Speaker 4: you know understand that I'm a foodie. Okay, let's continue. Okay,
Speaker 4: shadows cools like boats and down. But sol Hose.
Speaker 1: Was in Soho House downstairs from so Horse. Oh, I've
Speaker 1: never been to Soho House. I've never been to so Horse.
Speaker 1: You didn't even realize that bo was there's Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I don't like anything really small portion like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, we want to eat some real we're getting
Speaker 1: real now.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I And it's not cool because I want to members,
Speaker 5: you know, but I don't like to like small portions
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't I'm not what am I getting
Speaker 1: out of that little little for a long time. You
Speaker 1: don't need a lot of food. Okay, put your drink.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying you don't.
Speaker 2: You don't even know.
Speaker 1: Okay, security, my security. No, he's a food. That's my
Speaker 1: that's my that's money. Every food eminem come on, yes,
Speaker 1: my last come up a little. Yeah, he had moms,
Speaker 1: So I need one more before you get out of that.
Speaker 5: Okay, just those zooming in my eyelash one and I
Speaker 5: have one and that half. I'm gonna know it's personal.
Speaker 1: More so God is calling him. No, God, I am
Speaker 1: ready now that you're about to have the best.
Speaker 4: Performance of your life. What meal are you gonna eat?
Speaker 4: I don't like this conversation, you know, I don't like
Speaker 4: it neither.
Speaker 1: No, your actually okay, you perform. I got this is
Speaker 1: very simple for me. Okay, So so what's.
Speaker 2: That? Is it?
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna rewind my time. I'm gonna go to.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 1: So God is actually the same thing.
Speaker 4: You don't have to rewind nothing, but he's actually yoo,
Speaker 4: not your last mail, but a meal that you have
Speaker 4: to go to work.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm trying to kill I'm trying to kill it.
Speaker 1: Not the last not the last summer, the supper that
Speaker 1: you have to save the world. Okay, like that, because love,
Speaker 1: you're gonna save the.
Speaker 4: World, all right, this is this meal that you got
Speaker 4: to save the world. Okay, boy, what is Keisha eating.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to call somebody Grandma to make me
Speaker 1: some Thanksgiving that's also good? That is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, morney and cheese and green and then we can
Speaker 5: do it like that because that's the only thing that's
Speaker 5: gonna keep you really.
Speaker 1: Not listen.
Speaker 7: Weekend, Sonny, Keish learned something maybe she didn't, but.
Speaker 1: We have to listen. I'm sorry, I love you, Sonny.
Speaker 1: This is the table. What was it?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 1: What did you learn period from working with Missy and Kim?
Speaker 1: That's it? He asked, what ask you questions? What what
Speaker 1: did you learn from that?
Speaker 7: That was the BUW record and they didn't want the record,
Speaker 7: Like you said, you have to put your own money
Speaker 7: into the record.
Speaker 1: Records.
Speaker 5: When miss comes on the show, I'm putting the word
Speaker 5: out there that this is the safe environment.
Speaker 1: Absolutely that word out there.
Speaker 5: So when you went back to come up here, asked
Speaker 5: her the same question that you're asking me. Because I
Speaker 5: freestyle let it go in the studio, and what I
Speaker 5: learned Missy was laying down, she gets sorry, she had
Speaker 5: a migraine and she was laying there and I was
Speaker 5: in the studio freestyle and all these different melodies, and
Speaker 5: she said.
Speaker 1: That's it right there. Tell her that's it right there.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I was just freestyling, Like I just wasn't
Speaker 5: even She said, no, you got the melody. Now come
Speaker 5: out here and write the song. I have freestyle the
Speaker 5: first verse, the second verse, and what's done with it?
Speaker 5: Like I didn't realize that you trust yourself going there
Speaker 5: and if you know that's the vibe you know it
Speaker 5: sounds good and trust yourself, like I didn't even realize that.
Speaker 2: But let me ask you this might be a dumb
Speaker 2: question when you say freestyle is the same for R
Speaker 2: and B as it is for rappers, Like you're freestyle singing.
Speaker 1: Just off the.
Speaker 5: Tuell that was on Death Row Records. She taught me
Speaker 5: how to freestyle sing.
Speaker 1: And some tracks live like that, like you frees them.
Speaker 5: I freestyled a few on the on the way it is, Yo, wow,
Speaker 5: love what you had my back. I freestyled that and
Speaker 5: Dwayne Wiggams was in the studio.
Speaker 1: That's it right.
Speaker 5: I was like, yo, I got to learn how to
Speaker 5: trust myself. But I'd be needing people in the studio
Speaker 5: with me this say that's it right there, Like I
Speaker 5: keep going and going going. I freestyle loved the chorus
Speaker 5: of it. I thought I messed up, but I love
Speaker 5: it was it was like my voice cracked. They said, no,
Speaker 5: your boys did not go in there. No, I'm not
Speaker 5: recording that.
Speaker 10: That was not good, Like no going there and seeing
Speaker 10: that that's dope.
Speaker 1: All right, that's my favorite. It was imperfection. Always been
Speaker 1: mad at I'm like, who what did they do? To
Speaker 1: her who was that guy?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 1: I had a lot of questions for y'all two, but
Speaker 1: it's good. I know you got to go. But if
Speaker 1: you have a question before. We just love the podcast.
Speaker 6: I think it's awesome what you'all doing.
Speaker 1: I really watched episode. Yeah, patient, I know that. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me and then we're getting out of here.
Speaker 6: I promise we getting out up here. But how do
Speaker 6: you keep yourself healthy?
Speaker 5: Because all of this drinking every podcast is insane? I
Speaker 5: know one time I seen you said, oh yeah, like
Speaker 5: I'm detoxing and I'm riding a bike.
Speaker 1: I'm going down there. I think it was one time
Speaker 1: you asked me to come on the podcast. Is maybe
Speaker 1: a year ago or something like that. That was like, wait,
Speaker 1: so y'all still drinking on the show, Like how do
Speaker 1: you do that?
Speaker 5: Because I got friends that actually endorse like alcohol brands,
Speaker 5: and like, how do you go to the club and
Speaker 5: you drink on it?
Speaker 1: Like I'm detoxing, I'm taking my You got to talk.
Speaker 1: You got that balance balance?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Because I mean I mean, I mean you and go
Speaker 4: to the dunt motherfuckers. This show is not about it's
Speaker 4: actually you know, we drink. We do that about that
Speaker 4: show is actually about giving people.
Speaker 1: It's not about drink. I love that. It's about you guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, luckily you got intoxicated because I probably want to flowers.
Speaker 4: Thank you, like I told you, man, like you know
Speaker 4: this is this is actually my family, actually my family
Speaker 4: members and you know, depending on who we like actually
Speaker 4: like talk to like this is the first time that
Speaker 4: everyone is like, man, I want to me. She's the cold,
Speaker 4: Like the people are coming coming to me and they're
Speaker 4: pulling me to the side. Yes, they're pulling me to
Speaker 4: the side, and they're like, yo, please, I know this
Speaker 4: is different.
Speaker 1: You know it's other serious right now, I'm serious. This
Speaker 1: is that's my son. That's my son.
Speaker 4: That's my son, that's my my my my childhood friend.
Speaker 4: That's my brother in law. These are old people. They're
Speaker 4: all sitting back and they're like.
Speaker 1: Yo, this is different. Love, yes, and going around in
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 4: Yes, and this is what we want. Because I have
Speaker 4: ten thousand more questions.
Speaker 1: But I know that they told me you have.
Speaker 2: You have.
Speaker 1: And you know what, you know what, but but but
Speaker 1: but let me in this in the real way with
Speaker 1: a shot. Okay, more if you have more, no kidding,
Speaker 1: let me in this, Let me in this, in, let
Speaker 1: me in this in the real way. You are a queen.
Speaker 4: Yes, you are a legend, you are an icon, and
Speaker 4: you are a person that we're going to continue to
Speaker 4: salute and respect and celebrate and love every single time.
Speaker 1: Thank you, God, bless you. I think it gets uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: I think you guys. Let me tell you something. We
Speaker 1: were so happy. I'm saying we were so happy. Was like,
Speaker 1: she's she's going to go to our show. He did.
Speaker 4: It's an honor, yes, yeah, yeah, and we would just
Speaker 4: want to tell you, honor, respect everything you did.
Speaker 1: And I had fifteen more, fifteen thousand more questions. Oh god,
Speaker 1: but next time, yes, after the yeah, talk about your
Speaker 1: tour real quick, if you could get yeah, yeah, yea yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely did. I definitely did. Twentyeth year anniversary starts
Speaker 1: July first, and we will be going over sea and
Speaker 1: Kim will be on there. We have Friday, we have jereedm,
Speaker 1: we have.
Speaker 5: Ah Me and we got a tink O Chicago.
Speaker 1: We got we yep, I said a Marie, And I
Speaker 1: think that's.
Speaker 6: Yes, we have.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, We're doing our thing and I
Speaker 5: love I love all those artists. I'm super excited to
Speaker 5: like get on those stages and just promote love, just
Speaker 5: promote love.
Speaker 1: There you go, guys, let it go.
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