1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 1: Real people, real celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning everybody is 2 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:11,159 Speaker 1: DJ m Vy Angela Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We are 3 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: to Breakfast Club special guests in the building this morning. 4 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: Kamani Marley, Sir, Good morning, sir, what's up my brother? 5 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 1: Thanks for having that means adventurous traveler, right. Yeah. You 6 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: woman said I said you had my spot the other 7 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: day in Brooklyn footprints. Yeah yeah, yeah, really I got 8 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: there all the time. That's not a little Brooklyn spot. 9 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:36,559 Speaker 1: It maybe a stupid question, but you'll never get tired 10 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: as you're making food, you know it. It's so much. 11 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: It's so much because they say we're from many one. 12 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:45,559 Speaker 1: People say you have like Indian Jamaican food, and you 13 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: have Chinese Jamaican food, and you got Jamaican Jamaican. Yeah, 14 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: it's a lot of options. Like jamase, well you have 15 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: a new album coming out next week, got new album 16 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: coming out and been a while? Yeah, well why years 17 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 1: of a break? Counting that money? I wish um. I 18 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: think you know it was just that I was just 19 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 1: you know, trying to get away from my last company. 20 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: And so we went through that process of PaperWorks and 21 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: everything else. And then you know, after that it was 22 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: making sure that when I do release this album, that 23 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,119 Speaker 1: that that the production is on point and the lyrical 24 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: content it's on point, and we do have a complete 25 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: album versus you know, running the student making a few 26 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 1: songs and then trying to throw it all out on 27 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,960 Speaker 1: the album. It was important for me to to make 28 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: sure that I was comfortable, and I was, you know 29 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: what I mean, I'm excited about it. So is there 30 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: any pressure with your dad? Of course being ball Molly 31 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 1: to make sure. It's kind of like, you know, he's 32 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: the great NBA player. Now you're in the league and 33 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: you want to score just as much or more. Um, 34 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: you know what, I've never felt that pressure because I 35 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: think the mark that my father left there is there 36 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: is you. You can't duplicate that, you know what I mean, 37 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: That wouldn't be replicated. And so for me, it was 38 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: just important to stay true to the legacy, stay true 39 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: to myself, and just try to make good music. And 40 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: you know, see what comes of it now. The true 41 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: you weren't aware of your musical abilities as a child, 42 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: I ain't growing up. For me, the furthest thing from 43 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: my mind was music, you know what I mean? For me, 44 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: it was all about playing football at the ball playing 45 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: basketball or whatever it may be. And so for me, 46 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: my music, I said all the time, like my musical 47 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: career started kind of like a fluke, kind of like 48 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I'm at a friend house 49 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: playing around. He had a little sound system, and he 50 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 1: was like, he's going out to play tonight, so I 51 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: should give him a dub playing I'm like Brown sing like, well, 52 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 1: you're Marley, so it don't matter. Just stay and you know, 53 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: I started playing around on the mic and at the 54 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: time of producer by the name Macarl Peterson walked and 55 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 1: Carl used to do some work with my pops in 56 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 1: the early days. You know, he kind of said to me, 57 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: you got a nice tone. You know, you should come 58 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: through the studio and see what we can do. And 59 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: started going there once a week, started writing music, and 60 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 1: one thing led to the other. One of the earliest 61 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 1: songs I wrote was a song called their Dad was 62 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: a letter to my pops, and that's what got me 63 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: my first record deal. And it was funny because I 64 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: wrote that song when I was about sixteen and got 65 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: the deal when I was about eighteen. And you know, 66 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: I took that little bus ride. Yeah I am. Now 67 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: you also have memoirs called their Dad as well. Yeah, right, 68 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: and that was I remember that came out like five 69 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: years ago. Five years ago. Yeah, it was a little 70 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: bit controversial at the time because there were some interesting 71 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,119 Speaker 1: things in there. I think that people didn't know about you. Yeah. 72 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: I believe the family wasn't too happy with some of it. 73 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think the family was unhappy about 74 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: any of it, but I think when I come from 75 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: very humble beginnings, and I don't know if that's what they, 76 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: you know, thought would be controversial or not. But I'm 77 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: from very humble beginnings. You know. I was living, I 78 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 1: was raising Jamaica until I was eight years old, in 79 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 1: a little wooden two bedroom house a little countryside and 80 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: I remember my grandma moving to America and Mom telling me, 81 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: you know, Grandma's final for us, so we'll be living 82 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: in America soon. And I just remember I had this 83 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: image of what my home was gonna be like in 84 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: this new life that I was heading to. And I 85 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: still remember the night, you know, coming over landing in 86 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: Miami and just seeing all the lights and being you know, 87 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: in awe, and it was nights. I remember when I 88 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: got to the house looked like the house I had 89 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:27,919 Speaker 1: in my light, the house I had late. Yeah, it 90 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: was in Miami. I grew up in Liberty City. And 91 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: so when I woke up the morning, I realized that 92 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: I was still in the two bedroom with the house 93 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: with nine people, worse than the one that I left 94 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: in Jamaica, and across the street from a crack house. Wow, 95 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: and so and so that was my introduction, you know 96 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 1: what I mean. And people might have envisioned you growing 97 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,479 Speaker 1: up with like a silver spoon in you. Everybody exactly, 98 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 1: you know. They would assume that your dad is Bob Maller, 99 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 1: that you had riches and you had mansions in Jamaica, right, 100 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 1: but you were kind of cut off. I wouldn't say 101 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 1: cut off. It was just, you know, the things that 102 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: was happening at that particular time for your family got 103 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: mad at you were telling the truth what they want 104 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: you to do to say, talk about how you came up. 105 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 1: The family wasn't mad. I think people just assumed that 106 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: that family was mad, you know what I mean. But 107 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: it's your truth, is your truth, you know what I mean, 108 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: No matter what it is, no matter how good, no 109 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:20,919 Speaker 1: matter how bad, the truth is your truth, and you 110 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: can't really you can't go around it. Do you ever 111 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: think that our record labels were possibly just giving you 112 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 1: deals because of who because of your last name? I 113 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: wasn't getting no deals. Oh it actually can help and 114 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: hurt you don't. It's definitely a double bladed short because 115 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: a lot of people, you know, I think they assume 116 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: that you don't you don't need the chance, or you 117 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 1: don't deserve the chance because you're from such and and 118 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: and so, and then you have a lot of people 119 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: that will give you that opportunity because you know they're interested, 120 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: and there they gravitate to the name and the legacy. 121 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: So you know it works both ways. Right now? Do 122 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: you get like, how is that broken down? There's so 123 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: much Bob Marley stuff out there. I mean everything Bob 124 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: Marley had, merchandise, merchants. I mean it might be a 125 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: Bob Molly liquor, like a beard. Everything is Bob. That's 126 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 1: a family eat off for that. Yeah, Marley the other 127 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: day and he was telling me about the coffee that 128 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 1: you guys have coming out? Is it weed in it? 129 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 1: Not yet working on the fusion? Yeah? Did you guys 130 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: eat off for all that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely, 131 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: definitely the family benefits from everything that's out there in Marley. 132 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: How many brothers and sisters do you have? Oh? How 133 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: it's ten of us? Ten of wow us. Who are 134 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: you closest to Damien? Would you say? Could? You guys 135 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: are the youngest and work together a lot. I'm close 136 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: to all my brothers, you know, I'm close up, But 137 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:46,919 Speaker 1: I grew up at wrong because we both grew up 138 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: in Miami, so you know when he was playing for 139 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 1: the Hurricanes. Yeah, we grew up together. I would be 140 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,119 Speaker 1: closer to him in that sense. Ya really as sports 141 00:06:56,160 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: in your family, man, he played for Hurricanes coming up, Yeah, yeah, 142 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: play a lot of football. Yeah. My mom is a 143 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: table tennis champion, you know, so we're pretty athletic bunch. 144 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: What you mean, I'm pretty good at table tennis? Is 145 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: very You gotta have good and the eye coordination. Time 146 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: I was in them days when making money you just 147 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: represent now she traveled the world, but in them time 148 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: to table tennis, table tennis making money Now I have 149 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,559 Speaker 1: no ain't making no money now. I mean it's table tennis. 150 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: What is the sport? It's the same thing as ping, 151 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: pong right. Well, yeah, now how do you make the 152 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: most of your money right now? Like the music? I 153 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: know you got your clothing line confrontation, Yeah, yeah, something 154 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:54,239 Speaker 1: we're working on um right now. It's it's definitely music, 155 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: definitely music. You know, we did a few movie projects. 156 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 1: We did the one thing did the shot Classic shot. 157 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 1: Shots is kind of like your life, almost a piece 158 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: of it, you know, like Jamaica, Miami selling drugs a 159 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: piece of it, a piece of it. I don't know 160 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 1: if you want to admit that on camera. That would 161 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: have been embarrassing though, during a period of time in 162 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: your life to get arrested, like for selling drugs something 163 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: like that, then you know that probably would have been 164 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: a big let down, that would have been. But you know, 165 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: some you grew up in these environments and sometimes you know, 166 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: I don't want to say that was a product of that. Well, 167 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 1: I definitely was a product of that environment. But we 168 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: also have choices to make. You know, sometimes we go 169 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: through things where we feel as though the choices we 170 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: make is the only choice we have to make at 171 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: that particular time. And you know, for me, it was 172 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: just it was an interesting role because I have a 173 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: lot of friends that's that's not here. And I have 174 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: a lot of friends that's here, but I never see 175 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: the light of day again. M and um. So for me, 176 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,839 Speaker 1: it's it's it's going through all these tribes and tribulation 177 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:08,439 Speaker 1: and you know, feeling this though, well maybe it's not 178 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,439 Speaker 1: it's not it's not just luck that's keeping me out 179 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: of trouble, you know what I mean. Maybe my life 180 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: do have a purpose. So it's important for me to 181 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: start seeking and finding what that purpose is and making 182 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 1: sure that I moved towards my purpose. Right. I watched 183 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: the video for All the Way You actually film that 184 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 1: in Jamaica. That in Jamaica. Yeah, it's a beautiful song. Yeah, 185 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: thank you. What do you prefer Jamaica on Miami? Man? Oh, 186 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: Jamaica all the Way? Jamaica's paradise you ever been? Absolutely okay, 187 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: don't leave the resort and you know what, and and 188 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: that's the and that's the best about it because we Jamaicans, 189 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 1: you don't hear about tourists being hurt. You know, sometimes 190 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: you have a little one tourist that wanted out into 191 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: the wilderness and you know they might get they're probably 192 00:09:57,440 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: taken away, but you don't hear about Jamaican hurts and 193 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: tourists like that's that's never in the news. Um, the 194 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: majority of the team that got laid down thro oh 195 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: that wasn't biased. I mean the violence is it's just 196 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: like here, it's within the community, you know what I mean. 197 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: It doesn't reach the outskirts where the tourists would be. 198 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 1: And so yeah, so if you're listening, come to Jamaica 199 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 1: anytime you're safe. It's one of my favorite places to visit. 200 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: I'm going in September again. But my friend's birthday. Now, 201 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 1: I told you I met your brother, Rohan Marline. Now, 202 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: when you guys decide to do like a venture doesn't 203 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 1: have to get approved, like say you say, okay, I 204 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: want to come out with the headphones or he's doing 205 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: the coffee. Is it something that you all have to 206 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:46,559 Speaker 1: sit down and say, Okay, we're gonna use the estate 207 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 1: name for this. Everybody. Yeah, the family goes through that. 208 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 1: It definitely has to be approved, because it definitely has 209 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: you know, we have to feel it though. It it's 210 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: along the line. It's it's along the line of the 211 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:02,319 Speaker 1: legacy and what you know, the brand represents. So it's 212 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 1: definitely a conversation that takes place and for approval. Who 213 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: runs the estate? My sister runs yesterday. Man, you're relatively 214 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: young man. How old are you and your father player? 215 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: I was five years old, my brother, okay, it was 216 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 1: five years old my father. Do you have any memories 217 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 1: with him? I have one memory, you know what I mean? 218 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: One memory, and that memory is um him picking me 219 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: up in a little I'm from a little town called 220 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: five month in Trelani and him picking me up. He 221 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: had my older brother, Stephen with him. I'm a friend 222 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: of his by the name of Sang who was a 223 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:42,319 Speaker 1: guitar player, and picked me and my mom up and 224 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,320 Speaker 1: he went up to nine miles is where he was from. 225 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 1: And you know it's funny. I remember he had he 226 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:49,319 Speaker 1: had just got back from America. So he had this 227 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 1: nice sling shot, first time sin one made of iron 228 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:54,839 Speaker 1: and you know all the nice fancy things where you 229 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,199 Speaker 1: should have ones. You just find a branch on the 230 00:11:57,280 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 1: tree and mate then and I remember, yeah, that slings 231 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: I didn't. Me and my older brother went into the 232 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: woods to go shoot that birds and somehow the slingshot 233 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:07,199 Speaker 1: got lost on the way back. And I remember my 234 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 1: Stephen at the time telling me that you know, you 235 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: lost daddy slingshot, You're gonna be in trouble. And I remember, 236 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: you know, he's just going back and forward telling them 237 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: he didn't want that lost it. So I remember walking 238 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:20,319 Speaker 1: back to the house. She was standing in the doorway, 239 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 1: and I walked up to him and I said, Daddy, 240 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 1: I lost the sling shot. Daddyn't lose the slingshot. And 241 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: he looked down and he laughed. And it was at 242 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: that point I realized, Okay, well I'm not getting the beating. 243 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:33,560 Speaker 1: So I went back off the play and that's the 244 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 1: only memory I have with my father. Wow. Wow, Yeah. 245 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 1: But how hard was it for you to put out 246 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: the song, Dear Dad? That was a personal letter man? 247 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 1: You know what I said that. I said all the 248 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 1: time that that song for me was the hardest song 249 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 1: and the easiest song to write. You know, because even 250 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: at the time of writing the song, I wasn't trying 251 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 1: to write a Dear Dad song. I was actually trying 252 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: to write some other lyrics and I was having a 253 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 1: little writer's block. I stepped away for a second, went 254 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: to read the Bible, and came back, and for some reason, 255 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: the first words was dear God, I haven't let to 256 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,079 Speaker 1: hear from me to that. And that song pretty much 257 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: wrote itself, like it's the only song I've ever written 258 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: that I never had to think once of what the 259 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: next word is going to be. And and I remember 260 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 1: that in the middle of writing that song, I broke 261 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 1: down because it was so it was so emotional. You know, 262 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: I've never really expressed anything. I'm not really want to 263 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 1: bring my problems to people, so I've never really expressed, 264 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: you know, my feelings and what I'm feeling towards this 265 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: whole situation. And so I wrote it in the song 266 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:41,559 Speaker 1: and I remember, you know, being halfway through and then 267 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 1: just just tears, just running like a river and had 268 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 1: to take a step away from it, and I came 269 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: back to it, and you know, just like I didn't stop. 270 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 1: The song just wrote itself. And you know, for maybe 271 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: the first year of singing that song on stage, it 272 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: was a very emotional time. But you know, that song 273 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:00,960 Speaker 1: it's very very it's as if you ever heard it, 274 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 1: it's a very personal song. So that's what it is. 275 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: Which what trades and qualities do you have that people 276 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: who know your father say, yeah, that's that's your um 277 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: I think I always hear humility. Yeah, I think that's 278 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: that's the trait. A lot of people say I sound 279 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: like him too. Yes, that's what I got. But the 280 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: album is coming out next week and it's very you 281 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: know what I was I was listening to some of 282 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: the songs that you have on there. Now, I was wondering, 283 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: do you ever go to the club and dagger or 284 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: anything like that? All? Yeah, I got to the club 285 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: one enjoy the festivities. I watched the guy anything ever, 286 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: no wild man dry myself, you know what I mean. 287 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: But I'm definitely not jumping off speakers or jump none 288 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, Now you gotta sing all people are equal, 289 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: no one is above or beneath him. Yeah, that's true. 290 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: I mean, that's just that's not even something that's up 291 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 1: for discussion. That's is what it is, you know what 292 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: I mean. Because you have a dollar more than me, 293 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: don't make you any more especial than me. Just make 294 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: you have a dollar more than me. And if you 295 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 1: have a dollar less than me, it's the same thing. 296 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: I mean. So, and you're back on staring, back on 297 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: the road. You're back on touring, back on the road, 298 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: tour touring, the West Coast July ninth to the twenty ninth, 299 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: take a break off and August, and we're turning the 300 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: East coast in September. We also have a um Little 301 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: Our release party at LPR on the twenty ninth. It's 302 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: that Monday, next Monday. So yeah, I'm excited, you know 303 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: what I mean. I'm excited. I'm looking forward to getting 304 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: back on the road. I'm looking forward to, you know, 305 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 1: letting the people here what I've been working on. So 306 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: we can't tell when you're excited, you know why, because 307 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: you're there. You get it my own life. We appreciate 308 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: you joining us. Oh and one more thing I want 309 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: to ask you about was the Marley documentary. What did 310 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: you think about that? Did you love that document I 311 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: love it, I love it. I love it. That documentary 312 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: was on point. I even learned a few things, you 313 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: know what I mean. So that documentary was nice. If 314 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 1: you got a chance to watch it was a nice documentary, 315 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: well put together. Well are some things that you didn't 316 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: know you said that you learned from the documentary? Oh wow, 317 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 1: I can't even remember right now, but it was a 318 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 1: few things like wow, you know, I didn't had no 319 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: knowledge of oh, of your of your pops. Yeah, okay, okay. 320 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 1: Did you go out of your way to do research though, 321 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: like when you got old, like when you got older, 322 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: like I do want to know the history of my pop. 323 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: Did you talk to people? You know what, I never 324 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 1: really went out of my way to do research because 325 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: there was always somebody there telling you about it, you 326 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: know what I mean, whether it was my grandma, God 327 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 1: bless her. So she's going out where she you know, 328 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: always telling you stories. And then you go to Jamain 329 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: can run into a whole bunch of his old friends 330 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: and they give your history, you know, a little piece 331 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: of day history. So it's been like that absolutely. Well, 332 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 1: thank you again for joining us, Thanks for having stores. 333 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 1: And it's the Breakfast Club.