WEBVTT - Steelo Brim 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:14.800 Money. Well, val we are the authority on all things 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:20.720 and what up is your point? Tank And I'm Ja 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.560 Valentine and this is the RB Money Podcast, the authority 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:27.800 on all things, all things R and B. Sometimes we 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.160 bring some special people in the building. Yeah you know 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.040 what I'm saying that to that want to live to 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.160 R and B, like who lives who lives in? Yeah, 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:39.280 listen it shakes his own yea on this side. Okay, 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:43.560 I'm saying the pulses around his neck. I'm saying I 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:48.400 don't look expensive, but it's expensive. Get down, make some 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:51.360 noise here in the podcast RB Money Podcast. We got 0:00:51.360 --> 0:01:01.000 my brother's right that. Yeah, thank you for having me. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.120 Man come on my podcast. It was only right. Is 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:07.920 my brother right here? Right came? Who came? Like right now? 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.319 I don't do that. You do the same movie, the 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.560 same movie, and you can never stop. You do the 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.920 same You do the same one to cross back. I 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:22.640 might's that bag of something you know to up. My 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.840 guy wants to get it. He's gonna get it. Jump 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.640 he doesn't want to. He's gonna shoot it will be 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.200 here else will not be here. It's got like a 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.200 double clutch in it. I get it. It depends on 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.520 the defender. It does it? Does you know? And Kyrie 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.920 was that I was handing out buckets a little bit. Wow, Yeah, 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.679 that's the name you're gonna as a name dry But 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:45.240 it felt real though, you know what. I was on 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:49.120 the court. I was like, I belong out here for sure. 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.360 I'm gonna take it. Listen, you were on the floor 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:56.480 with Kyrie, was gonna take a drink of that man 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.280 the baltizes on the juice class. He's not going with 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:03.600 us being inappropriate. The dirt. This dispensive, for sure, This 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:08.480 day is really good. So ste Low, our pod man 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.840 is very informative. Yes, you know what I'm saying. And 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:14.959 so we want to get your journey to this place 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:22.000 that we call Hollywood, this this entertainment space where you've 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.720 done very well. Yeah, you've done well. You know, you 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.000 know very rightly yourself. You you sent you sent out 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.880 a picture to the bros of a seven million dollar house, 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:33.760 and you did. You just posed the question should I 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:42.440 get this not that is very leisurely that should I get? Okay? 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:46.679 Should I get this one? You think this one's good enough? 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:52.040 I don't know, stew I don't know is this one's 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.919 gonna do what I think, never get any visitors. You 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:57.639 never pulled up on me at all. You told me 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.160 to get the house and it never came over. You 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.840 haven't pulled up on me either. But we'll go back 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.000 to that. You you came here when I wasn't here, 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.400 you know, because the only person don't invite mee was 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:24.440 my wife. Yeah, this iss well is going on, bro 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:30.680 take us from the beginning, right, so it's music, it's entertainment. 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:34.079 All these things part of the family are your first generation. 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.480 Let's go back to the shoy and and and pick 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.160 up from the very beginning and and get you here 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.280 sitting in the seat. For sure. I love that now, 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.000 first generation for sure. You know, being from Chicago, being 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.880 from the West side of Chicago, UM, going and raised. UM. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.720 My parents would always tell us that, h just because 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:54.360 we were from somewhere, that mean we have to be 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.680 up that place. So I constantly told myself it was more. 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.200 It was more out There was more out there. So 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.120 I think I've done with high school. I went and 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.320 I went to Morgan State for my freshman year. You know, 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.960 shout the Morgan say yeah, you know, yeah, you're going 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.040 straight to high school. What do you mean you want 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.200 to know? How did you feel high school? I was wing. 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:18.359 It's a legendary movie. You just go do that. I 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:27.760 am not. I forget about this movie because because listen, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.600 because listen, there is a debate. Yea. The debate is 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:37.839 probably just me, yeah, yeah, yeah, if you a baby 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.800 or not. That's only he's been the only person was 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.320 presented this to me non stop, and I'm telling him 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.560 not stop. Nor I wasn't Hardball. Was in a movie 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.960 Hardball when I was classic movie. Bro, you can't come classic, 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.760 Come on classic. I was not in there as an actor. 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.559 If I was, you know, aspiring to entertainment that shoot 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.360 you down. In the project, I was ranked in the 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.080 state for baseball, so they brought me in my my 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.159 my school actually had auditions for the movie. My principal 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.080 during the summer called me, I'm thinking I'm in trouble. 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.799 During sometimes she called me like, yo, you have an audition. 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.960 It's an audition up here for a baseball movie. A 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.479 baseball man. I'm gonna pull up. I pull up. They 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.560 loved me horrible, went through yere and as I met 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.760 Mike and all those dudes. Um, but that was my 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.200 first glimpse I guess of being an entertainment, But I 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.120 never had really wanted to be like in front of 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.719 the camera or like that wasn't really what I was 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.159 aspiring to do. Is that why you didn't talk in 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.120 the movie? No, I didn't talk because I wasn't casting 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:34.560 for that any when I was there. You know what 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.839 I'm saying. I end up getting paid. I end up 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.560 getting paid more than most of the actors though, because 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.160 of Illinois state labor laws stated that if I were 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.279 I was on the main team. So if you worked 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.040 the same amount of time, you got paid the same amount. 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.880 And then I didn't have an agent or manager, so 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:57.080 actually was being paid more and low key. They hated it, 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.799 the kids to the audition, but the movie I hated 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.360 so like it was a weird but me and speaking, 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.760 I'm over here accounting money and y'all keep that up. 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.520 Uh No, but that was my first time being in 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.000 a part of the industry, a glimpse of the industry. 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:15.599 I thought it was cooling things, you know what I'm saying. 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.520 I always heard you have a big personality, you should 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.880 do things, But I never really aspired for that. Uh 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.880 Speeding back up after high school, went to Morgan State. 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.160 Was there for a year. Was like around music. There 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.880 was a dude now no no, baseball was trying to 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.440 be played basketball. I wasn't really hooping like that either. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.880 Was more focused in music. Was seeing different There's different 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.320 things around me. I'm a hustle person. Just always my 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.400 wake up in the morning a D H D kick seeing. 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.600 I just want to hustle and do things and make 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.760 things move. So for me being in school was sitting 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.279 still and I was like, you know what, I could 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.880 be helping people do different things. There was Brandon Hines 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.760 who was a singer and Howard Um. I had linked 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.720 up with Troy Taylor and I had told him, Hey, 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.239 do I want to actually A and R? That's my dream. 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:03.719 I want to be A and R and Troy. You know, 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.320 Troy wants to take you through t t U to 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:11.600 all of this R and b uh University. I want 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:17.000 to work in business. Did some serious ship going on 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:20.960 for one thousands like no no, like wanted to development 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.760 production all that. Call him a mentor of mine, like 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.880 wanted to do still to this day, I'll tell Troy 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.760 like as much as we may bump his first business, 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.480 Troy taught me things I could never learn from anybody 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.520 else within the industry. So I respect him for sure, 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.280 and I wanted to really like work in the in 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.360 the in the space. So like for me, I wanted 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.680 to show I was hungry and show him that. So 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.360 I remember, I ain't had that much money, but I 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.720 had got these from hardball, having a little money sailor 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.000 from hardball, and that also couldn't touch a certain amounts. 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.320 I was eighteen, so I had a little money saved 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.200 up as well. For that, I wanted to prove to 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.720 him that I was a hustler. Just have printed out 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.960 all these flyers and different things that had really passed 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.520 out all these Brandon highs my space, you are O 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:04.000 flying us for that on on Morgan State's campus on 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.800 thousands campus on then travels to it was one of 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.560 the different colleges around and Trey and hit me like yo, 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.960 I see a spike and then what you what are 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:14.600 you doing that? I'm all I had baldy like, I 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.920 don't spend your own money, but I love the hustle 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:18.960 of t nasty And like for me, I was reading 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.960 the book Making Happen as Well, which was Kevin Low's book. 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.920 Were only went to Morgan State for full semester, and 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:31.720 I was already up for to semesters. So I'm like, 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:33.120 yo for what I want to do. And all the 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.120 people I was like looking up to aspiring to be 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.960 like they were doing music and didn't necessarily have a degree. 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:41.520 I'm not saying people shouldn't get a degree, but they 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:45.400 didn't necessarily have one. So for me, uh from Hardball 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.080 and me and Mike Jordian Head became best friends. He 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.760 was moving to l A full time. He was already 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:52.559 like in and out of an apartment out here, but 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.160 he was like, y'all moving full time, you should just 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.360 ditch you after your firstman or come out here. I'm like, 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.920 say left, I'm not really fluen, she told drop out. 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:07.760 He influenced me to drop out. You get to blame Mike, Yeah, 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:09.920 influence me to dropout. I came out here for the 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.600 first six months, I didn't have no plan, I didn't 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:14.440 have no money. End up having to move back home 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.760 to Chicago because I could not afford it at all. 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.120 I was just trying to keep up, was really hustling, 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.199 couch to couch, all that type of ship. And then 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.199 when it made a little small plan back home in 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.560 Chicago for myself so I can get back out here, 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.440 and got back out here and just hustle, hustle when 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.640 I was first older you at this point, when I 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:35.280 first moved here in nine then when I like really 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.040 started to like at least be able to provide for 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.320 myself out here, maybe twenty one, Like my first two 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.079 years out here, didn't have a car. It's like really 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.199 like hustling, like just you know, I would work a 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.240 room and ship. People thought like I had more going 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.440 on to me than I did, but I definitely didn't. 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.680 That's that's the thing too write, because we have these 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:59.800 conversations about the grind and about because everybody thinks, like 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.520 I'm just gonna move there. It's gonna be cracking as 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.480 soon as I get there. They're gonna see my talent. 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.600 And you walk in the room and everybody's talented for sure, 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.880 and everybody already knows each other and everybody has their 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.800 their relationships, and you kind of gotta play catch up 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.119 in that in that whole process. And people don't understand 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:22.559 the moving back home. Some people never come back at all. Right, 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:24.760 it's a different type of it's a different type of 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.680 humility to sleep on someone's couch, for sure, when you're 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.560 just trying to be in that room and trying to 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.760 figure it out because you're you're so focused on your career. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.960 And I think that part gets bypassed so much in 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:42.040 the conversations that people have about the journey, about what 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.120 it took to get to these spaces. If you want 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:45.720 to speak about R and B. I was out here 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.520 for lage. You know what I'm saying. I was out here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:58.640 the couches, yeah, for sure, that's just facts. So a 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.800 little while make the money, don't have the money, make 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:07.360 you okay? Selling my life the girl? Ever tell you 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:12.280 uber's waiting? No, not let you stay. Let me say 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.160 I would put myself on the couch and work my 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:19.600 way to the big room. I was tellings to keep 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.760 you smooth, I should sleep on the couch. I never 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.760 I was never comforable on the couch, right. I made 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:34.880 my game everything alright? There? Did you hear that? I 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:41.280 heard the noise? Just checking on you. Listen my my 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:47.320 move back, which is funny. My move back was moving 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:52.080 to Rancho Cucamonga. Yeah, that was, you know what I'm saying, 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.959 Because I was like, I'm not going home not And 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.599 this is after a hit record, Yeah for sure. You 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.760 know what I'm saying. This is after being CEOs with baby. 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:06.199 You know what I'm saying. So people can understand how 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:11.480 far is that from Hollywood? Rancho Cucamonga and traffic about 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:18.600 an hour and a half. Uncle he was the king, 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.959 He was the king before I got there. He was 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.080 the caing before I got there. His his vibe kind 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:28.719 of dwindled down. And I kind of went in there 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.560 and and and took over. But I had to get 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.320 I had to get to an affordable space, for sure, 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:38.520 because my my paper had ran out and I didn't 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:42.400 have a car, so I didn't have a car that 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.000 you know, carry went bad on me. So I had 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:50.079 rented a Lincoln town Car. And then money was getting real, 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:51.520 real lough. So it was to the point where I 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.960 was putting gas in the tank from changing the ash 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.560 tray while they were looking for their rental car. Hey man, 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:02.600 when you're gonna bring that back, I'm gonna hole at you. Okay, 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:05.679 so we need that car back. He thought it was 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:12.960 a library, But you have a dolphin rental. Come find me, actually, 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.199 come find me if you want. They never did, never did, 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.559 because I rented it out. I rented it out this 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.760 way and we took it to ranch. That's all you 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:27.240 gotta do. He stole a car, he didn't still, I 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.199 eventually gave it back. I followed it, and then the 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.440 old street deal Um and Wane of the Fast cousins 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.840 and got me a uh and got me an escalad 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.800 x T. And then and then my my uncle who 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:39.839 was fresh out of prison. I moved him into and 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.439 he stole. It's a lot of stuff that goes into that. 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.000 But all this to say is the move back is 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.360 real when you're trying to figure it out. And I 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:48.920 thought about that. You know, when we firstly out here, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.640 we were in like to Pango with Naka area, which 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.079 was no car out there. Y'all didn't have a car. 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.360 I didn't have a car. Mike didn't either. Mike had 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:03.439 Mike had a three series BMW. I was definitely she 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:07.000 was embarrassed the car. He definitely had a car. They 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.439 had cars, at least, believe me, because I was envious niggers. 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.760 I had no car. I was like, these niggas can 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:16.920 go places. This is crazy. Yeah. Then when I came 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.680 back out here though, end up putting together a plan. Um. 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:25.160 I was working randomly, like I have so many random 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.800 like connections with my life and degrees or some I 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:33.320 was working readily with Joe Simpson his yeah, his Jessica 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.640 Simpsons dad. Yeah. I was working with them, and Ryan 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.920 Cabrera and our as I was managing named Chris Alas 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:41.840 at the time, and all these different people working out 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:43.520 this house and kind of working with them. And that's 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.000 where I met Drama, who was Rob's cousin m and 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:51.320 he was trying to do a production company. But Rob, 0:14:51.960 --> 0:15:02.640 I do a show. Yeah, but yeah Rob here that 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.800 uh from you know, the show Ridiculousness, and Robin bid 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.520 over that fantasy if I don't skip over that. Yeah, 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.080 has done great things. Yeah, yeah, he's done amazing things. 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.800 Uh but yeah he he ended up I ended up 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.480 helping Drama put together his publishing and production company was 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.120 in the studios. He was a producer, he was trying 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:25.000 to produce. Yeah, he was, you know, he producers producers 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:26.800 under him that were gonna be under it. So that 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:32.280 was like C four and Bondo and and there was 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:33.760 to do Cam Wallace. I don't know if you guys, 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.440 Cam Wallace, but had he didn't produce under him and 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.240 stuff and Rod had just came like two studio sessions 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.120 randomly and it was just like asking. He talked to 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.840 me after the second studio you don't know. I don't 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.600 know him from my whole world. I know, of course 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:53.240 we're in his building fans because a studio, I don't Yeah, 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.280 I don't know him at all. They knew I knew 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.480 a lot of people already because one of the things 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.080 I did take from Troy Taylor was nurturing relationships. He 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.680 would always say me, you gotta nurture relationships, Like did 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:09.720 you invite me down there? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah I invited. 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:13.160 Like you know what's funny, I I've have lived multiple 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.640 lives that I've invited people and had people who I've 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.920 had connection with the music who didn't even remember me 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:23.480 from music. They remember me as steel Utle Brown from 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.760 Me and Dallas, Like me and Dallas. I've known da 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:28.760 Was for years and when we reconnected, he you know, 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.200 I was at his office one day actually playing him 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.960 some records from cboards other people, and he was like, Nigga, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.040 you know I've been watching this show. It's this dude 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:40.200 who looked just like on that ship. I was like, word, 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.000 what show and he was like, it's a new one 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:45.080 called Ridiculousness. I said. He was like, but his name 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.160 is Steel because my name is And I was like, Nigga, 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:49.720 that is me. What are you talking about? He was 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:54.200 like Nigga, I thought, But I didn't know for sure. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:55.960 So it's just always like, you know, interesting to see 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.800 people like not connected to But yeah, Rob had just 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:01.400 want me to the side and was like, hey man, 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.160 you're funny as hell. We should do a show together, 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:09.240 just like that on on something like yeah, if he 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:10.919 was out there, you could be on my show man, 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.359 And I was like, and I was like cool. I 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.320 didn't believe him at this point. Does he have Robert 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:19.560 Robert big is already out in Fantasy Factor already, you know, 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:21.440 you have another show already out, so I know that 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.040 he is capable. I don't know his set up is. 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:25.800 I don't know if he already got a deal for 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:27.800 another show. I don't know if he's just going to 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.840 pitch himself. He's just believing this is gonna happen. And 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:32.240 I didn't know him. You know what I'm saying. He 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:33.920 could just say as to everybody that walking through. I 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.919 don't know, but three months went by. I had told 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:39.920 him when to do the show? Was interested cool? Three 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.280 months went by, I didn't again, didn't know him. I 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.440 got a call from a random number and he's like, yeah, 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:50.879 it's like calls everybody. Yeah, He's like, yeah, this is 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.800 robbed daredak things aboudy playing my phone like all right, cool, 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.640 what is this for real? It's just Rob that show 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.480 I mentioned that you I thought he said that. I 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.000 knew it was him. He was like that show I 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.399 mentioned to you. We started tomorrow at ten am. Can 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:09.120 you be there? I swear? And I was like, uh, yeah, 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:11.840 I'll be there tomorrow to them, and I went into 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.520 the pilot. We shot the pilot. I was horrible, and 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:16.760 uh there was an order of speaking because it was him, 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:18.600 and there was drama that was Chanelle and they were 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.200 already on television and I'm only black dude, So I'm like, 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:22.760 I'm gonna just shut up. I don't know what y'all 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.600 was set up this here. Uh, but I was like 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.480 letting them talk about the videos and different things. I 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.360 wasn't amazing on the pilot. MTV even told Rout like, hey, 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.040 he wasn't that good, Like this is dude, you brought 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.560 it in and he was like, trust me, I gotta 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:38.840 like let him know that this is his show just 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:40.880 as much as mine, and we're gonna work this out 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.520 because he's hilarious. You just don't know. It really vouched 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:45.560 for me, which ain't none but God, because I didn't know. 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:50.359 I didn't know Homey at all, and being black saved me. 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.760 You know what I'm saying. They already had big big Black, 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:59.480 wasn't around him, needed to black dude, but that that 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:01.879 definitely helped that lot. And now we knocked it out 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.359 and now we're a thousand, over a thousand episodes in. 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:09.080 That's crazy. Season twenty nine is being filmed right now. 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.679 We're looking to go for many more thousands. I can 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.840 say that the record. Yeah, we're trying to, you know, 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:26.000 do what we die. I guess keep hearing keeping money 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.240 radio and broadcast. But you're just not on the show. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.960 On the show. I'm producing a producer on this, Yeah, man, 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:35.360 you know I'm trying to swack too much on Yeah, 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:40.440 I'm pc it is. I've been producing this season two. 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.480 Come on, I ain't trying to You got pros that 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.520 are sparkly pros. No, no, no, they have diamonds drilled 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.200 inside of them. Niggas ain't really never seen diamonds inside 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:52.320 pearls like that. So if we're gonna stop, we're gonna start. 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:55.280 I desided myself, me and reg you know this is crazy, 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:58.879 but yeah, like you said, though, yeah, it's a lot 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:02.199 of episodes, and we ain't trying to stop. Man, diamonds 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.680 and pearls, diamonds and pearls. You know what. I don't 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:12.080 have no drink, but ye for I don't know m 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:15.159 but here we are. Man dropped my R and B 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:23.480 album soon made that up right now, you've done more 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.360 in R and B though you've done working I've done 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:28.840 working with R and B producers. I ended up working 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.440 with C four. You did did uh um did some 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:39.080 next breath? Next Breath? Yea, yeah, for sure, Sammy playing 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:41.760 was on that. I've worked there with with C four 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.399 obviously with you ever trace songs, and I've worked for 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.240 a lot of R and B people in the past. 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:51.240 For sure, EP Create Too soundtrack the other year. That 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:54.240 was the last I had really dove into music before 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.280 I just dove again. But music is something that like 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:59.359 I love man, it's like the reason I moved out here. 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:01.840 You know, I'm something today, so it's not one to revisit, 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:05.280 didn't know how, But just being around R and B. 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:08.159 For me, I come from a place where R and 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:12.840 B is cherished. Chicago is super People don't notice. I noticed. Yea, 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:15.240 your mother is a preacher. She is a preacher. So 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:17.560 that's R and B is a get Yeah. Yeah, for 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:22.439 sure in the pot it starts there, so I mean, 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:26.239 you know, growing up in that type of household, it's 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:28.480 kind of you get back to that at some point 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.119 for sure. I mean when you think about vocalists, when 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:33.240 you think about R and B, like I think about, 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:35.440 it starts in the church. I think about some of 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.680 the best vocalists in the world, people I really think 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:41.240 are the criminal crop come from the church. So for me, yeah, 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.280 coming from that, I think you're just around real musicality, 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:46.320 around real life things that you're like cool. And then 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:50.080 also being from Chicago again, you know it's the home 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:54.760 of rob Um, but also you know Twister anybody else 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:58.399 that comes from there and their DNA anything in that DNA, 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:00.080 that music is gonna be RB. It's gonna be so 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:03.080 it's gonna start with that, do you feel like and 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:06.040 because the church connection, I mean I have the same 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:10.880 church connection. How did your mother receive like your movements? 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:12.959 You know what I mean in terms of you being 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:17.000 out here in Hollywood and and the steps and you know, 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:19.040