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Speaker 1: Wake that answer in the morning. Breakfast Club Morning, everybody

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Speaker 1: is j Envy and Ngelue, Charlomagne the guy. We are

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Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building.

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Speaker 1: EP is out today, ladies and gentlemen, Danny Lay, good morning,

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Speaker 1: Good morning. How are you feeling? I feel good, AP

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Speaker 1: is out. Don't give us the generic answer, how do

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Speaker 1: you feel? No, My energy is good good. I'm glad.

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Speaker 1: You know. I was like, am I gonna be nervous?

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Speaker 1: But I feel like last time, the very first time,

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Speaker 1: like Breakfast Club, I was so nervous, But I feel

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Speaker 1: better now. I think that's natural. I think anytime you

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Speaker 1: have like this, this good anxiety and bad anxiety. Right,

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Speaker 1: So the good anxiety is just when something means something

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Speaker 1: to you're gonna feel something. Yeah, of course, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And it's a big day for you, it is. I

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Speaker 1: saw one of your logs. You were going to audition

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Speaker 1: some backup dances in Miami, and you were nervous for that,

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Speaker 1: and you weren't even I know, I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: feel like I've been getting more nervous lately, Like I

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Speaker 1: I just get nervous. Could you older? You got more responsibilities?

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Speaker 1: I think the pandemic too. And then it was like

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Speaker 1: it took two years off from performing in front of people.

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of like all right, we're back again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. So taking two years off, it's such a

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Speaker 1: long time. And how's the baby. How's the baby? Doors?

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Speaker 1: She's good, She's about to be one in August. So

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Speaker 1: how I was leaving her home? This it's hard. I

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Speaker 1: like cried on the plane, like I'd just be so

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Speaker 1: me because it's just like I work a lot. It's

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Speaker 1: been really busy for me right now too, so yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot. You got a good sports system, I do? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do. Yeah. So how do you send to yourself

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Speaker 1: when you're nervous, like when you dealing with things ziety?

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Speaker 1: What do you do to send to yourself? Hey? Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's why my biggest it's just pray before I step on.

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Speaker 1: So whatever I'm doing, I'm just like, okay, gott be

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Speaker 1: with me, all right. I also tell you post what's

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Speaker 1: the most taxic or what sign is the worst to date? Right,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about that. So you believe in signs astrology

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Speaker 1: so accurate. What's your sign? I'm a Sagittarius? Okay, so

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Speaker 1: what does that mean? Um? Our sign is very like

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Speaker 1: We just were sometimes too honest where it's like you

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Speaker 1: What would you say? You're compatible? What signs do you like? Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm compatible with aries fire signs. I'm a fire sign.

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Speaker 1: So leo, my baby's a Leo. Um Sagistarius is we

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Speaker 1: get along with each other? Um? I think aquariuss. So

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Speaker 1: the hard nos you stay away from um guys scorpio.

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Speaker 1: I've never talked to a scorpio. I don't know any

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I see that there's so many get you.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, you know what I see. Don't make

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Speaker 1: the story now? Now, everybody, we don't need to hear

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Speaker 1: So what is the that you can't compromise in a relationship?

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Speaker 1: Would you say for yourself moving forward? I'm it's a

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Speaker 1: IP has called my side. What made you feel like

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Speaker 1: Artists always say the music is therapeutic for them, all right,

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Speaker 1: And it's not like I'm in a bad place to

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Speaker 1: Like that's not even the type of person I am.

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Speaker 1: Like it. We're posted it for all these random people

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's helped me to be more stern

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Speaker 1: on what it is that I want in life and

424
00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,760
Speaker 1: like things like that versus what everybody else wants from me.

425
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Speaker 1: What are those dms looking like my dms? Girl on Fire?

426
00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:26,520
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we don't know. D you don't know.

427
00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,800
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know. I've been getting some dms.

428
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Speaker 1: I don't opening dms. I'm not worried about nobody right now, Like,

429
00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:33,920
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying, you're a little curious when you

430
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,520
Speaker 1: get like somebody with a botle. Yeah, I'm like, look

431
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:40,200
Speaker 1: at their page. I'm like, like, you you already know

432
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,240
Speaker 1: what you about, Like, buy your page. I could just

433
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,760
Speaker 1: tell because the man you did have to have children too. No,

434
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,239
Speaker 1: And it's funny because I'm like, I don't really want

435
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Speaker 1: nobody with children. But then I also thought about it.

436
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:52,879
Speaker 1: I'm like, it would be nice to have somebody that

437
00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,320
Speaker 1: knows how to be adapted to Yeah, so it just

438
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,159
Speaker 1: gotta you know, makes sense. You're like, I have not

439
00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,920
Speaker 1: thought that far ahead yet. Yeah, I didn't you have

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00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 1: a relationship with Prince of Friendship, not because I'd be

441
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 1: seeing blogs Saint used to didn't stopped playing like yeah, yeah,

442
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 1: yeah I did, And he was amazing. I really like,

443
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 1: was super cool him. I used to run his Instagram.

444
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,960
Speaker 1: What print Instagram? That was like my first job. And

445
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,160
Speaker 1: I used to post pictures and like make the captions.

446
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 1: If you guys go look at the page and still up.

447
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,080
Speaker 1: That wasn't me posted everything. He would just send me

448
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,119
Speaker 1: the pictures. How did you meet Prince? Um? He found

449
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,400
Speaker 1: me online? Like I used to do vine a lot,

450
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:34,720
Speaker 1: and he used to like my vines because I guess

451
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 1: they were like pretty funny and I'll just be like Prince.

452
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:42,480
Speaker 1: Yeah huh. He liked him under another name or something

453
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,360
Speaker 1: him Yeah, um, what do you mean like his Instagram? Yeah,

454
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 1: he didn't have Prince. Prince wasn't like his Prince. It

455
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 1: was called Prinstagram. How old were you that I was eighteen?

456
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,360
Speaker 1: Did you understand this is Prince? No? I mean yes,

457
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 1: of course, because I know, like the legendary Prince. But

458
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,159
Speaker 1: you know it took him inute to really like, especially

459
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Speaker 1: after he passed too. I'm just like, dang, like I

460
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: had a song with Prince like really video for Prince

461
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 1: like yeah, it was really crazy. So he liked your

462
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:15,160
Speaker 1: stuff and then y'all ways started communicating damn. Yeah through

463
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:19,920
Speaker 1: Twitter DM. That's how we would always talk to ms right,

464
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 1: just Twitter. So he when did he finally like pick

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Speaker 1: up the phone and call you and say, hey, I

466
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Speaker 1: want you to come direct this video? Um? Yeah. It

467
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 1: was like first, um Nandy and Maia who used to

468
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,920
Speaker 1: be his dancers, reached out to me through email and

469
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,320
Speaker 1: they're like, Prince to Artists wants you to submit a

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Speaker 1: video of you dancing to his song. So I did

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Speaker 1: the choreography they like sent it to him and he's like, okay,

472
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 1: now he wants you to direct the video. Write a

473
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Speaker 1: treatment like okay, So I just wrote around them treatment

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Speaker 1: and then then I got on the phone with him. Wow. Yeah,

475
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 1: and it was like his voice was so deep and

476
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Speaker 1: I was like hello, It's like how amazing that is? Yeah? Yeah,

477
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Speaker 1: I was like this is wild. Did you ever meet him?

478
00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 1: I did? Yeah. A couple of times. He flew my

479
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Speaker 1: family out to Paisley Park, like he used to like

480
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,399
Speaker 1: have movie theaters. One time he like rented out a

481
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,879
Speaker 1: whole movie theater in LA and like his whole bands,

482
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 1: all of us came. Um. He went to like this

483
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 1: like Latin restaurant in LA. One time they had dancing

484
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 1: and I don't really know what it's called. But that

485
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,679
Speaker 1: was one time we met up with him. Um went

486
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Speaker 1: to Pass Parker. I think a couple of times. Do

487
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Speaker 1: you keep in touch with any of those people that

488
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Speaker 1: was around him? Not really, m No, I was just

489
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Speaker 1: really cool with him. I met your mom was like, yo,

490
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Speaker 1: you made it right? That might have been it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my little sister like sang for him, like, because my

492
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 1: little sister sings to it. She's like a crazy singer.

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Speaker 1: She's sang like at his concert like that he had

494
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Speaker 1: at Haisley Park. You guys are like family, No, for real.

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00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,719
Speaker 1: He really looked at us like family. Yeah, how did

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Speaker 1: that in peg? You? It was crazy. I was in

497
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 1: Toronto and I heard it and I like literally talked

498
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,880
Speaker 1: to him the day before, so I was just really yeah,

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00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 1: I was crying, like that was that was hard because

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Speaker 1: I was like, dang, like I wanted to make it

501
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 1: and you would still be a part of me co

502
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Speaker 1: signing me like you know. So it was what was

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Speaker 1: the conversation the day before the day before? Um, I

504
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 1: think it might have just been, like I swear I

505
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 1: could look it up. Probably, UM, I can't remember. It

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00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 1: was probably just about Instagram at that time. Like I remember,

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00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 1: he used to send me like memes and pictures all

508
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: the time. So he was a goofball. I know you

509
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 1: guys heard that about him. Yeah, so did he allow

510
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: to pick? You know, he was not big on taking pictures. No.

511
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 1: He would tell everybody put their phones away from Pizzy,

512
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: like we had to put all of our phones away,

513
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,719
Speaker 1: so you don't got no pictures. No, I don't got

514
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,920
Speaker 1: no pictures. And he just been lying for the last time,

515
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: all these great stories. I gotta pick like a guitar pick.

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00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:54,920
Speaker 1: That's his Prince. You know, he signed no like being printed. No,

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00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:56,919
Speaker 1: I'm always treating by the stories because I I heard

518
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Speaker 1: Lizzo say the same thing, and I'm like, damn, Prince

519
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: was really like tapped into you're saying. No, Prince was

520
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: really tapped into like the like the up and comers,

521
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, right, Yeah, Yeah, he really

522
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: did love like artistry and artists and stuff. You could

523
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 1: tell he's so he was, you know, he's a musical genius.

524
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,719
Speaker 1: Like so it was cool to even be acknowledged by

525
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: Prince because I'm like, okay, so when you get a

526
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:21,479
Speaker 1: cold signed by somebody like Prince, why would you ever,

527
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: let like the opinions of social media impact you in

528
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: regards to your music. I mean it's hard, Like you know,

529
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Speaker 1: I'm a person like at the end of the day,

530
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 1: you imagine like the whole world like writing stuff about you,

531
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,159
Speaker 1: Like you gotta be real tough and like have thick

532
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: skin for that. So but I learned to get to

533
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: that place. And you know, how is the writer's camp

534
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: since you were talking about that a little bit earlier

535
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 1: with Rodney Jerkins, how does that work? Like you sit down,

536
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,880
Speaker 1: you tell what you want, and then you write part

537
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 1: of the song and then the people chime in. How

538
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 1: do you Some actually like had a couple hooks in there,

539
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 1: and then I would write verses or we would collib

540
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 1: It was just like each song was kind of different,

541
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 1: but I think everybody was really on the same page,

542
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: like on like what would be the perfect project with

543
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: topic and exactly each song and everything. So they were

544
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: all really young too, and just R and B heads

545
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: like like Telly Risa, like they all just like they're

546
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: so talented, Like they would just be running and singing

547
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: in the hallways and I'm just like, dang, like you

548
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 1: could just felt like you could just feel like it

549
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 1: was just so authentic, like great vibe. I would definitely

550
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 1: work with them again for like album or something. But

551
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,640
Speaker 1: it was there, the chemistry and everybody was just comfortable.

552
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: It was comfortable. I didn't even know them, but it

553
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 1: just felt right. So was anybody scared to be a

554
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: part of this project because it's kind of like a

555
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: Thiss album? Oh my god, um no, no no, you

556
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,160
Speaker 1: don't look at it as a dis album. I don't

557
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: look at it. It's your side, yeah, And it's like,

558
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 1: you know, I don't look at it this album. I

559
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: try to just I look at it. It's like I

560
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 1: almost like feel like it's for my fans as well,

561
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 1: because it ain't even like super on the place that

562
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: I'm in anymore, because obviously that's a more darker space

563
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 1: and I don't feel that way. Me and Jonathan are

564
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: great co parents, like we work like we're good like,

565
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 1: so it's not like that. It's not really super real.

566
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: But it's also like I was so mad at that time,

567
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 1: That's how I felt, And there's women right now at

568
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: that place too, So it's like it's for my fans

569
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: more so than for myself. But of course it's for

570
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: myself to release. But it's more so for than I

571
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: feel like, right or with that tattoo on your hand,

572
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: which one it's like a figure? Oh where were so

573
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: many tattoos? Well, let's play let's play a record off

574
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 1: that what you want to hear? Whoa, let's say no,

575
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: that's like the same, because I got a whole bunch

576
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: of a man in the room anything, and it's for

577
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 1: you guys. I'm seeing that little bad right there. Oh

578
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: my god, I'm as so many. It's expensive because you

579
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: plopped it like it's huge, like put it down, like

580
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: gonna put it got a drazzy to be honest, I

581
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: just bought it, so it literally doesn't have anything in it.

582
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: It has straps and probably the receipt. Yeah, there are

583
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: a little mini bags that's so in right now. It's Diesel. Yeah, okay, okay, okay,

584
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: he said, like what it's like it's Diesel like you

585
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: she said, you just bought it. I was like, y'all

586
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: gotta take Danny somewhere better than Canal screet That's what

587
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 1: I thought myself. All right, Well we go get into

588
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: the song right now. It's the same. It's the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 1: Come on and thanks for joining us.