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Speaker 1: What's What's up with you?
Speaker 3: How you feeling? How you feel is that I feel great?
Speaker 3: I feel good?
Speaker 1: You feel great.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful day in the Hey, there you go. Traffic, Yeah,
Speaker 2: minus the traffic. It was like a little rainy yesterday.
Speaker 2: I had to cancel my pool party, but I got
Speaker 2: another one coming up this Sunday at the Thompson Hotel.
Speaker 2: So next y'all pull up, y'all in body. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be crazy. The pleasure pool, my boy k Bachi and
Speaker 2: all of that.
Speaker 1: So you live in Atlanta, now, Yes, where were you
Speaker 1: before Atlanta?
Speaker 3: Miami?
Speaker 1: Miami in l.
Speaker 3: A prior to that, but yeah, Miami in l A.
Speaker 4: I lived what's the big difend? Thinking and just lifestyle
Speaker 4: between living out there living up here.
Speaker 2: Well, I think Atlanta is more for blacks. I've never
Speaker 2: seen the city with so many black people striving. I mean,
Speaker 2: whether you got a three hundred thousand dollars house, fifty
Speaker 2: thousand dollars house.
Speaker 3: You got a nice house. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Everybody got their own businesses, and this is a place
Speaker 2: where you can do shit like you can you can
Speaker 2: get Like if I'm dreaming.
Speaker 3: Something, somebody know how to make it happen.
Speaker 2: I dreamed the podcasts, they gonna say, oh shit, I
Speaker 2: know somebody the microphones.
Speaker 3: Just like Atlanta, it's just a beautiful place.
Speaker 2: And Miami is kind of like Cubans, Jews, you know, everybody,
Speaker 2: kind of Hastians, Jamaica's everybody's spread out to their own
Speaker 2: little world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but here you can just make it happen. So
Speaker 3: I love it here for that.
Speaker 5: So what was it like growing up in Miami?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: For me, it was like anybody else, well or not,
Speaker 3: I want to say, like anybody else.
Speaker 2: Uh, you got Haitian freens, make friends, Cuban friends.
Speaker 5: That means you probably had a lot of different food.
Speaker 2: While you were absolutely so I'm a foodie, yeah, because
Speaker 2: I'm used to like just different you know, coaches and
Speaker 2: stuff like that. But you know, for the most part,
Speaker 2: growing up there, it's like you know, you know, Uh,
Speaker 2: grandmama raised me them there, you know my mama at work,
Speaker 2: go to the park. Everybody in your community becomes your friends,
Speaker 2: you know, your child of friends. You fight every day. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I got a brother and a sister and a lot
Speaker 2: of them, you know what I'm saying. But you fight
Speaker 2: every day after school. If you lose, you fight again
Speaker 2: the next day. You know, say the same old ship.
Speaker 1: So what's what's up?
Speaker 4: We're pretty ricky, man. We see like talks of reunions,
Speaker 4: then we see division, and we see maybe.
Speaker 1: Like where where are y'all at?
Speaker 2: Like you've seen the reunion and then you've seen woman
Speaker 2: go to jail for PPP long fraudt So that put
Speaker 2: a hold on what we gotta do because it takes
Speaker 2: full God. And then you got another guy who's, you know,
Speaker 2: battling addiction to drugs and he's overcoming.
Speaker 3: That, you know what I'm saying. So some things just
Speaker 3: take time.
Speaker 2: Got another guy is good in tech and internet marketing,
Speaker 2: and I'm just gonna keep sticking to the music.
Speaker 3: I'm a songwriter.
Speaker 2: I'm a singer, and I got solo hits and I
Speaker 2: perform every day. So when we all get together, it's special.
Speaker 2: But with this thing shit, like people don't understand that.
Speaker 2: It takes a toll on everybody, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: and everybody deal with it in a different way. And
Speaker 2: mental health is bro. You got some artists they stay
Speaker 2: in character the whole time. They don't know how to
Speaker 2: separate the stage. Like on the stage, I'm fucking pleasure people.
Speaker 2: When I get off the stage, I'm markets you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, And I roll like that every day,
Speaker 2: like I don't require much, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I understand walks to life. But that's the problem with
Speaker 2: a lot of people. They just stay in character the
Speaker 2: two they don't and then because of what's expected, and
Speaker 2: everybody take it a certain kind of way. Maybe you
Speaker 2: were supposed to buy you mama house, but you got
Speaker 2: fucked over.
Speaker 3: You couldn't do that.
Speaker 2: So guess what, you're gonna go to the next thing,
Speaker 2: drugs or you're gonna go to the next thing like
Speaker 2: I gotta do this or you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And nobody's perfect in life, so we're not judging. We're
Speaker 2: just praying for them, and you know, when the time comes,
Speaker 2: we're gonna do what we gotta do.
Speaker 3: What would you say the biggest obstacle is being in
Speaker 3: a group, Like.
Speaker 2: The biggest obstacle for me is the work ethic, you know,
Speaker 2: seeing how it was when we started versus too, when
Speaker 2: once we made it, and then how it you know,
Speaker 2: how everybody became somebody different based on the success. You
Speaker 2: know that, Like seeing that you saying, like staying hongry
Speaker 2: basically for niggas to stay hungry, say they didn't stay home, no,
Speaker 2: meaning like you get at some point in school, you
Speaker 2: get to see who was the A students and then
Speaker 2: you get to see who's.
Speaker 3: The F students. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So if I'm a nigga in the studio twenty four
Speaker 2: hours a day, sixteen hours a day doing the students
Speaker 2: doing that, and the other niggas is just whatever.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm saying, I'll just come and do my
Speaker 3: verse and.
Speaker 2: You gotta track me down to do their verse, or
Speaker 2: they don't take the niche shift to want to record,
Speaker 2: or you know what I'm saying, they don't want to
Speaker 2: do it. You just kind of carrying into the process.
Speaker 2: It makes you look at it in a different perspective.
Speaker 5: And a slow process frustrates the.
Speaker 2: Entire It frustrates me because I'm the creative and you know,
Speaker 2: this is what I do.
Speaker 3: Baby blew and me. We was in the studio recording
Speaker 3: ground on me for four days. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Slick them came in, did his part.
Speaker 2: We worked on this park spectacular come through Spectacul don't
Speaker 2: even like the rap he's you know, he likes to
Speaker 2: dance and he does the entertainment part of the group.
Speaker 2: So we had play to where everybody know what they're
Speaker 2: good at and then once it once it, once it starts,
Speaker 2: then it's like, damn niggas forget who do what?
Speaker 3: And you know, things like that.
Speaker 2: So that's the most frustrating part to see that we
Speaker 2: built McDonald's and niggas not taking the serious like bro,
Speaker 2: we running out of time. I'm telling them be too,
Speaker 2: k the same thing like, oh MARII fuck, what happened?
Speaker 2: Y'all built McDonald's. Y'all these rock groups and things like that.
Speaker 2: They don't have to they don't have to be friends.
Speaker 2: You'll have to go to work and have you don't
Speaker 2: have to go after work and have drinks with your coworking.
Speaker 3: But this is what y'all build. Y'all Build McDonald's, y'all
Speaker 3: Bill McDonald's.
Speaker 5: Are you still king machine?
Speaker 2: Yeah, when we're when we're Burger king So ship that's
Speaker 2: Bill McDonald's and Burger Kington together. Let's let's go on
Speaker 2: tour together. You know what I'm saying. And you know
Speaker 2: ship like that.
Speaker 5: So what happened?
Speaker 6: Okay, speaking of like other groups and you know, working
Speaker 6: with other.
Speaker 5: People and getting stuff together. What the fuck happened at
Speaker 5: the verses?
Speaker 3: Not what you mean?
Speaker 2: What I think happened is at the verses. I feel
Speaker 2: like it was a little unorganized. Some people have other advantages,
Speaker 2: Like when we got there, we just thought it was
Speaker 2: gonna be a DJ.
Speaker 3: These niggas had a whole dancers and all.
Speaker 2: Kinds of you know who went against So it was
Speaker 2: it was me and Samy against Bobby V and Ray
Speaker 2: j oh that and.
Speaker 3: Then there was Marion against Mario. What kind of ship.
Speaker 1: Is that.
Speaker 4: Saying you got more hiss than all of them? You
Speaker 4: put a comment of saying you have more hits than
Speaker 4: all of them or something like that.
Speaker 2: You've seen the verses, right, you know we can go
Speaker 2: hit for I'll go hit fit with anybody in that genre.
Speaker 2: But some people just kind of bring it theyselves better
Speaker 2: because they've.
Speaker 3: Been they've been so little artists longer than me.
Speaker 2: But they don't respect me coming to the game as
Speaker 2: a solo artist because I didn't have.
Speaker 3: A you know, a long run. But I had a
Speaker 3: good run and not done.
Speaker 2: I'm about to come out with new music and all
Speaker 2: kinds of stuff that connect with the people.
Speaker 3: I never had my.
Speaker 2: Fair shake when it comes to this business, based on
Speaker 2: my childs and tribulations of what I've been through.
Speaker 3: But I'm still here.
Speaker 2: I'm still standing, I'm still connected to the streets, I'm
Speaker 2: still selling out shows.
Speaker 3: I'm still who I am. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I saw a tweet that said, if Pretty it was
Speaker 4: a it was a I guess like a female fan.
Speaker 4: If Pretty Ricky didn't break up, they would have been
Speaker 4: the greatest R and B group of all time.
Speaker 1: Do you agree or disagree with that?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm the only guy that sings in the group,
Speaker 2: so how can they That don't even make sense?
Speaker 3: The three of them are rappers. I'm the only singer,
Speaker 3: so that shit gonna make sense.
Speaker 4: So you disagree, Like how you said, I got you
Speaker 4: all right? That was just the female super fan.
Speaker 2: Anybody else in the group singing no, I'm only I
Speaker 2: bring the R and B to the group and finding
Speaker 2: the sound for that. There was a rap group before
Speaker 2: I was even got in the group. I was a
Speaker 2: solo artist. Grind on Me was our first record we recorded.
Speaker 2: Eight months later we got a record there.
Speaker 3: MHM wrote that song. We all wrote the song. We
Speaker 3: wrote it together.
Speaker 2: I never want to ever make sure or make it
Speaker 2: look like I'm bigger than anybody that's in my group
Speaker 2: because we put the grind in bro, you know that
Speaker 2: who they were saying like the star of the group
Speaker 2: was like off the rips when y'all dropped who the
Speaker 2: people we got there and plocking to I think everybody
Speaker 2: had their own fans, that's the that's the thing, because
Speaker 2: we had We called it pretty ricky, right, who Michael,
Speaker 2: We called it pretty ricky.
Speaker 3: That's that's they thought it was, you know, one person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So then you find out that there's four
Speaker 2: different individuals.
Speaker 3: We're one group that you know, everybody name in the group.
Speaker 2: If you followed us because you thought it was one person,
Speaker 2: and then Travis Porter followed you know, kind of in
Speaker 2: the same way.
Speaker 3: But yeah, like our marketing was pretty cool when it
Speaker 3: comes to that.
Speaker 2: But you like a light skinned nigga with a six
Speaker 2: pack that spec if you like a nigga with dreads
Speaker 2: that slick, if you like the short, fast wrapping.
Speaker 3: Nigga that's baby blue, you like the singing nigga that'll
Speaker 3: be me. You know what I'm saying. So I think
Speaker 3: it was spread it out, like you know, and that's
Speaker 3: what make a group.
Speaker 6: So how hard was it being that they were kind
Speaker 6: of already in their own situation before they added your
Speaker 6: R and B element to it. I guess my question
Speaker 6: is how hard was it to mesh all of that
Speaker 6: together and to get accustomed into inserting yourself into the group.
Speaker 2: It wasn't hard because the first song kind of gave
Speaker 2: us like an idea, the.
Speaker 3: Momentum of what we should be doing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then.
Speaker 3: As we did more like I had my own songs
Speaker 3: before I got in the group. Okay, so sure.
Speaker 2: It would you be My age ain't up, but a
Speaker 2: number certain records I had before I got in group.
Speaker 2: So when we got with Jim Johnson, shouts out to
Speaker 2: Jim Johnson and Big D and Lucis Charles and everybody
Speaker 2: that was a part of the project Static Major I
Speaker 2: gotta get. But you know before, you know, before we
Speaker 2: got with them and stuff like that, or when we
Speaker 2: got with them, the song was already done.
Speaker 3: So I just sang the hook, Kid, that's out of verse.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I was in a different room from them recording hooks
Speaker 2: with Static and stuff like that. And then sometimes we
Speaker 2: all get together on our way to the studio and
Speaker 2: we writing songs and you know, on the way to
Speaker 2: the studio, playing the beating, come up with a melody.
Speaker 3: When we get to the studio, you know, put it
Speaker 3: down like that.
Speaker 4: Okay, So do you do you have you always sung
Speaker 4: about like real like real life ship, like ship that
Speaker 4: you go through or the ship that you I'm going
Speaker 4: somewhere with this question, but this is the first part
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean during that time, I was a teenager fucking
Speaker 2: bitches all the time. So that's what we rapped. That's
Speaker 2: what we rap and singing about. So that's my said
Speaker 2: way to ask you. So you're still on the boyfriend
Speaker 2: number two ship that you was on when you made
Speaker 2: boyfriend number two. That's probably one of your most I
Speaker 2: wouldn't say, well controversial.
Speaker 3: Absolutely still still boyfriend number two.
Speaker 2: Okay, I ain't. I'm single, gotcha, I'm single. But you know,
Speaker 2: obviously you grow with the the things you write about.
Speaker 2: For me, I have several different projects. So when you
Speaker 2: do different genres of music, people be like.
Speaker 3: I want this from that. It's kind of like you're
Speaker 3: in the box.
Speaker 2: Because you got a brand. And when you think pleasure,
Speaker 2: people just think sex. Right, So after stay in that box.
Speaker 2: But I wrote wild One for Florider, I wrote Lollipop
Speaker 2: Flow Wayne, I write outside of the box.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying for other people.
Speaker 2: But and I have like different layers and different albums
Speaker 2: that's just sitting and it's about to come out thanks
Speaker 2: to my brother our Brunch and you know the team
Speaker 2: that I got Melinda and everybody else with Keith Sweat
Speaker 2: and you know boy Williams and everybody else that I
Speaker 2: fuck with.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's what it is. Would you ever go
Speaker 1: like far out there?
Speaker 4: Like I don't know, you say you wrote some pop records,
Speaker 4: but like would you go like a gospel or Caribbean
Speaker 4: or afrobeast, Like would you go far away from Caribbean?
Speaker 2: I have I have a whole reggae album I lived
Speaker 2: in Jamaica for three years Kingston. Yeah, and I just
Speaker 2: got to learn the culture there and I love it
Speaker 2: there by the way. I lived there and worked with
Speaker 2: Don Corleone and Isca and Stephen McGregor and you know,
Speaker 2: just a few other cool face and you know Nikki
Speaker 2: b It was. It's a few people that are shaggy,
Speaker 2: a few people I work with out there. Sean paul
Speaker 2: Ovado shouts out to all my Jamaicans, big up, very
Speaker 2: all my Jamaicans.
Speaker 3: But I lived there for three years and I worked
Speaker 3: on the album.
Speaker 2: And yeah, oh ship, I forgot about Saruni and t
Speaker 2: O K and all those guys, Jazzy t everybody, Renaissance,
Speaker 2: everybody that I messed with in Jamaica. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: lived there for three years and worked and worked on
Speaker 2: the album there.
Speaker 3: Then I went to Australia.
Speaker 2: In London and I worked on like house music there
Speaker 2: and I created this group me and my brother Sonny
Speaker 2: Mason and my brother Jermaine, all black sync.
Speaker 3: So we got a song called could You Love Me?
Speaker 3: And it went crazy over there. House song. If you
Speaker 3: look it up, it's called could You Love Me?
Speaker 2: And I actually released it in the US It's featured
Speaker 2: in Florida too, But y'all do all genres and music. Man,
Speaker 2: who'd just say the goat from Florida is the goat
Speaker 2: from Florida. Yeah, like Uncle Luke that it wouldn't be
Speaker 2: no music if he didn't go to jail for parental
Speaker 2: advisory rights and things like that. So I'm always gonna
Speaker 2: go with Uncle Luke coming up. That's what Joab listen
Speaker 2: to coming up there with Joa listen to listen to
Speaker 2: Uncle Luke. We listened to Trick Daddy, We listened to Man.
Speaker 2: I listened to some of Everybody though too short, JD
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, eight Ball, m J g Outcast, Uh,
Speaker 2: some of Eir Piccolo some you know how you knew
Speaker 2: you want to do music though, So.
Speaker 3: I come from a musical background.
Speaker 2: My mother was in a band called the raptor the
Speaker 2: Rappers when she was younger, and my dad was in
Speaker 2: the same band, so that's how they got together, and
Speaker 2: then my dad grew on to start a group called
Speaker 2: Civil Platinum with Michael Sterling. Michael Sterling is a guy
Speaker 2: that made Doug Holiday lovers and friends at Usher Sample.
Speaker 2: They always simple his records and stuff like that, so
Speaker 2: that's like an uncle of mine. But I came up
Speaker 2: around it, like my living room was filled with instruments
Speaker 2: and stuff like that, so I ain't have no other
Speaker 2: way but to pick it up, you know.
Speaker 3: I started singing when I was nine years old.
Speaker 2: And before that, I would be in talent shows with
Speaker 2: my brother and them acting like we another bad creation,
Speaker 2: and you know, doing playground and talent shows and stuff
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 3: Me and my cousins and all us.
Speaker 2: We just danced at the parties and wear cross colors
Speaker 2: and that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: And then Immature came.
Speaker 2: Out with a song called I Would Never Lie, and
Speaker 2: I sing that song in the shower, you know, And
Speaker 2: I looked up to them and my uncle heard be.
Speaker 3: Singing the song. He was like, YO, singing for your mom,
Speaker 3: and I sing it for my mom.
Speaker 2: My mom made me rehearse, and I ended the Talents
Speaker 2: show at Dixie Park. Benji Brown was the host on
Speaker 2: the comedian Benji. He was the host of the Talent show.
Speaker 2: He'll tell you this. I won first place, and ever
Speaker 2: since then I became an artist.
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Speaker 4: Right, Why does it seem like every r and b
Speaker 4: nigga want to rap, and every rapper.
Speaker 1: Now I want to sing. I don't want to rap,
Speaker 1: not you. I was saying, why does it seem like
Speaker 1: most I should say every Why do you think that is?
Speaker 3: I don't know why rappers want to sing?
Speaker 1: But hmmm, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I can't figure it out.
Speaker 5: Do you think it's the same reason or parallel to why.
Speaker 3: Because a rap there got to be hard, he can't
Speaker 3: do this? Yeah, we can do that.
Speaker 6: But I'm thinking, like about the parallel of how we've seen,
Speaker 6: like some successful athletes try to go back to the
Speaker 6: streets and sell drugs or you know, try to get
Speaker 6: involved in like if it's a nigga that gets drafted
Speaker 6: to the NBA.
Speaker 5: It's been a few of them.
Speaker 6: I don't I can't remember their names right all, but
Speaker 6: you know how like they might get caught like with
Speaker 6: a whole bunch of weed or some ship like, but
Speaker 6: they just signed a multimillion.
Speaker 5: Dollar contract for the NBA.
Speaker 6: Shit, But they still go back to the streets and
Speaker 6: they've never done street ship before ever in life, and
Speaker 6: they choose to do it after they've become successful.
Speaker 2: I got a son like that, tell Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my son grew up you know, in in in
Speaker 3: in the suburbs.
Speaker 2: You work hard to change your kid life and get
Speaker 2: around the wrong people, and he don't understand who he
Speaker 2: is based off of who I am right and he,
Speaker 2: you know, goes down the wrong cap and you gotta
Speaker 2: fight and fight and fight and fight to figure him
Speaker 2: out and get him back to a reality. I'm him
Speaker 2: locked up right now.
Speaker 1: Hmhmm.
Speaker 2: While I was on tour, they try to charge my
Speaker 2: son for murder in the case and my face all over.
Speaker 3: The news, the whole nine and just dealing with that.
Speaker 2: While you're on tour, like, oh, ship, that's a lot.
Speaker 2: You know, obviously he's innocent, but.
Speaker 1: You're still there.
Speaker 3: You can only do what you can do.
Speaker 4: You think all the fame and just life and just
Speaker 4: all of that that that can that can affect you.
Speaker 4: Maybe having a time or the quality time to instill
Speaker 4: some of that in children.
Speaker 2: No, No, I don't think it's that. I think that we
Speaker 2: spend quality time, but we we we we as entertainers
Speaker 2: and people the other first generation we put our allmer
Speaker 2: taking care of our family and making sure that the
Speaker 2: next generation is straight.
Speaker 3: So it's about what goes on when you're not there, because.
Speaker 2: You can teach him everything, right, I could teach him
Speaker 2: the more I could teach him how to be, how
Speaker 2: to save his money, tell him everything in the part
Speaker 2: that the father supposed to do.
Speaker 3: When he get back home, What does the mother say,
Speaker 3: now we share everything. I was just trying to teach
Speaker 3: him responsibility.
Speaker 2: I was trying to you know, it has to respect
Speaker 2: what the man is trying to teach to his kids.
Speaker 2: So I think sometimes we can get caught up in
Speaker 2: our feelings and emotions and things like that. And I
Speaker 2: appreciate my son's mother. I would never diss my son's mother,
Speaker 2: but I just wish that it could be you know,
Speaker 2: I wish it could have been different. But we were young,
Speaker 2: trying to you know, I'm adapting to the music business.
Speaker 2: She young, trying to just figure out her life. Like
Speaker 2: you know, she didn't even get the live of my
Speaker 2: life yet because this situation.
Speaker 1: So they said anything else when I got.
Speaker 2: Big, what's weird ship you don't seem like in the musicum,
Speaker 2: like all this ship that they be talking about going on,
Speaker 2: you know, like coughing all that ship, Like, what's some
Speaker 2: weird ass ship you don't seen?
Speaker 4: This.
Speaker 2: I don't be around weird ono ship, So I can't
Speaker 2: tell you that I go to strip clubs.
Speaker 3: I got damned be around real niggas. I don't. I
Speaker 3: don't be around them. What you heard, then, it's like nigga,
Speaker 3: I don't hear.
Speaker 2: I don't heard. I don't hear nothing but everywhere what
Speaker 2: a nigga business is that between them? I just respect everybody.
Speaker 2: I don't care what genre, whatever you is, I respect everybody,
Speaker 2: and I stay in my own land.
Speaker 7: Genre.
Speaker 8: It's a lot of different genres people. It's kind of
Speaker 8: like country rock. You know, where are you at? Who
Speaker 8: they are right now?
Speaker 3: You get what I'm saying. I just dout.
Speaker 2: I just dout the way dog and my own business
Speaker 2: man because you know, but I don't judge people, bro.
Speaker 2: I think that we're the biggest culture to judge somebody
Speaker 2: else of what they heard or this or this or
Speaker 2: that or that versus to just seeing what the truth is.
Speaker 2: And what about the forgiveness process. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: You damn be forgiven, forget not everything, but ship some things.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Because the man I was when I was fifteen, not
Speaker 2: no about to be forty.
Speaker 3: That's two different people.
Speaker 2: What you feel like some unforgivable shit is though I'm
Speaker 2: a teacher, you couldn't come back from from a free
Speaker 2: and family member of anybody death.
Speaker 4: So you say murder, Yeah, yeah, if you kill mine
Speaker 4: from the brother m hm. So when you see it,
Speaker 4: I ain't trying to really even be messing. When you
Speaker 4: see that those parents that say we forgive the police
Speaker 4: that killed that kid, you know, I feel being the
Speaker 4: bigger people is that that test.
Speaker 3: Is probably some people wored like that, you know.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna tell you some ship though for real,
Speaker 2: me forgiving a lot of people in the business.
Speaker 3: Made me be like a lot happier.
Speaker 2: And I don't live with I don't be I don't
Speaker 2: become that ship because at one point you get around
Speaker 2: some people that already talk about is they past. They
Speaker 2: can never talk about the future. They just you'll get
Speaker 2: with them and they just talk about the past. Man,
Speaker 2: when I was and they still hurt from the past.
Speaker 2: They never forget the past. So I will say that
Speaker 2: me being forgiven to a lot of ship that happened,
Speaker 2: you know, make me a better person. So you believe
Speaker 2: in forgiveness, Yeah, in certain you've you believe in letting
Speaker 2: it go, like you true ain't forgive me because you
Speaker 2: ain't gonna let it.
Speaker 3: They can't do what they did again, right, Yeah, not.
Speaker 2: A giving like when you forgive somebody, you really open
Speaker 2: the door for them today to do the same ship
Speaker 2: you again. That's forgiving. That's forgiven. Forgive the reader, look
Speaker 2: at it. Look when we look at it.
Speaker 1: That's supposed because a lot, a lot happened.
Speaker 4: If a woman keep forgiving her man or whatever in
Speaker 4: any situation for cheating, and they keep doing it, if
Speaker 4: they keep if they keep allowing them to do it,
Speaker 4: they repeatedly forgiving it.
Speaker 2: Like it's like, you know, what's what's there saying shamey once,
Speaker 2: shame me twice for me once?
Speaker 3: What what's the saying on you for on me?
Speaker 5: Same on you bite me twice, shame on me.
Speaker 3: It's like that, like you got away with it. I
Speaker 3: know your thief.
Speaker 2: You know, life is like my my grandmama says, life
Speaker 2: is like a long handed spoon. You learn how to
Speaker 2: deal with people. You know, some people you deal with
Speaker 2: them from this level, and some people you don't at all.
Speaker 2: That's just what the industry is. It's like you know,
Speaker 2: every time you see nigga, this isn't gonna be like
Speaker 2: just do record mand fuck with me. You know, you
Speaker 2: hit them, here can re respond. So when you see them,
Speaker 2: we don't even got to do that. Bro, How you
Speaker 2: doing see how to deal with it? You know who
Speaker 2: is who?
Speaker 3: And what is what?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're saying, accepted for what it is. It is
Speaker 1: what it is.
Speaker 3: It is what it is.
Speaker 2: Like if you're fuck nigga, you're fucking I can't, well
Speaker 2: I beat your ass. You're still fucking you, So why
Speaker 2: should I beat your ass? You got some childhood morals
Speaker 2: and values and all kind of cities you gotta deal with.
Speaker 2: But the people that I deal with, we understand what
Speaker 2: it's like to do good business. And you know, you know,
Speaker 2: and that's just what it is.
Speaker 4: You think you think you think like the industry like
Speaker 4: so you become comfortable in yourself. But you think that
Speaker 4: this industry like drives certain people like mentally crazy, Absolutely.
Speaker 3: I from are crazy.
Speaker 2: They like think about living as a character that you
Speaker 2: didn't you, you was not born to be you. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm Marcus. It's almost like I don't know, I don't
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 4: Even gonna say that please do, please say no, I'm
Speaker 4: not please do.
Speaker 3: I'm not say that. I don't know that back then.
Speaker 3: But it's like the same person, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Like you really think you're this because somebody told you
Speaker 2: that you're this, But when you grew up, you was
Speaker 2: not this bro you gotta hit record, So you think
Speaker 2: of this now, Right, people are whether you got a
Speaker 2: hit movie, whether you gotta whatever, right you're saying, you're
Speaker 2: saying they start who they is off for what they've accomplished.
Speaker 2: Like if they do some shit and everybody know now
Speaker 2: they trying to fit who they think that person should
Speaker 2: be instead of being themself. Right, Like think about it,
Speaker 2: celebrities dating celebrities and ship.
Speaker 3: It's like some girls will date you because that's a look.
Speaker 2: That's a look to the image. And what kind of
Speaker 2: shit is that? What kind of love is love?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: So then what kind of shit is that?
Speaker 2: So then if you don't have real love and real
Speaker 2: affection and real feelings towards people and real.
Speaker 3: Like them, that's fucked up. Then you're becoming this character.
Speaker 2: So I've watched people become a character and they stay
Speaker 2: inside this character. To me, they mentally ill bro, no
Speaker 2: fact they talk about this seven third person bro.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen that in real time they become.
Speaker 2: This like you'll be like, damn, bro, we all got money,
Speaker 2: we all you know, no matter what, long as you
Speaker 2: got a roof of your head, some people got more
Speaker 2: than others. Cool, but long as you're happy, it's all
Speaker 2: the matter. I don't seen people in forty million dollar
Speaker 2: mansions fucking miserable living in LA and.
Speaker 6: Then this nigga's sleeping up under the bridge in the
Speaker 6: box that are living a life.
Speaker 2: No, it's people that's in Jamaica who work with nine
Speaker 2: to five, who's selling water in the streets, who you know,
Speaker 2: we'll share a Q room with you and give you
Speaker 2: a piece of They fished.
Speaker 3: They just fried and just want.
Speaker 2: To hear some music and happen because they understand what
Speaker 2: living is about.
Speaker 4: Hit you think, you think to a certain extent, though,
Speaker 4: that's what it may take to be great, Like you
Speaker 4: could be really good, but like the greats all seem
Speaker 4: to have this distorted story, like it's never just black
Speaker 4: and white.
Speaker 3: I think that the way this ship is now, it ain't.
Speaker 2: Its it's politics, bro, it's hand chosen. It's not like
Speaker 2: it's no more great. It's hand it's hand picked, it's
Speaker 2: it's it's it's rigged like an election.
Speaker 3: Damn, you said the music industry rigged like a lection.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like it don't depend like basically saying, it don't
Speaker 2: matter how talenty you are, how much you work, if
Speaker 2: you got to get that look and went from being
Speaker 2: talented too popular, you know what I'm saying. So if
Speaker 2: I'm on Instagram getting views and do whatever I gotta
Speaker 2: do to get views and this this and that, that
Speaker 2: and that, it ain't about talent no more. It's about
Speaker 2: how many harmonies I can stack, or the fact that
Speaker 2: I number theory of music, or the time that I
Speaker 2: put into learning how to make music, or the years
Speaker 2: that I speak. It's about popularity. You got the girls
Speaker 2: on Love and hip Hop making music now, damn, and
Speaker 2: it's like, Okay, she's popular.
Speaker 3: That's that. Come on, Who is.
Speaker 1: The last great? Though?
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think who was great? Who was the
Speaker 4: last great? And this is all opinionated the last great
Speaker 4: great artists in terms of what like what you just
Speaker 4: telling Swift great?
Speaker 2: It's Drake great. Drake is definitely great. Telling Swift is
Speaker 2: definitely great.
Speaker 4: But you're saying, like posts, but if it wasn't for
Speaker 4: Wayne and going through what he'd been through, Drake wouldn't
Speaker 4: have been Drake.
Speaker 2: M M.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like they.
Speaker 2: Like Nikki and all of them, you know, with with
Speaker 2: Wayne what he had going get like being under the
Speaker 2: hardest artists. They started off on two buses. They have
Speaker 2: to take the minivans and go to radio.
Speaker 3: Stations one by one by one night we did. You
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: The next thing they getting bottles of Don Perry on
Speaker 2: and you know what I'm saying, they have to go
Speaker 2: through the private jets they like, you know, somebody paid
Speaker 2: the way for them to do that, and Wayne was one.
Speaker 1: Of the hmm. That's an interesting perspective, you feel.
Speaker 2: Look at the look at the look at the college
Speaker 2: players now they getting paid.
Speaker 3: Now who paid the way for that? So you're saying
Speaker 3: that they may not be great.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like everything was done down for them
Speaker 2: for you know, each generation gets worse. I feel, I'm saying,
Speaker 2: has the music industry which way they rigging it? Well,
Speaker 2: before you had radio, that was a system. You got
Speaker 2: BT on the.
Speaker 3: Sixth and Park, that was a system.
Speaker 2: You got Spotify, You're all these different somebody's ahead of
Speaker 2: these things and saying when you look at these playlists,
Speaker 2: you'll be like, damn, that's the R and B playlist.
Speaker 2: That ain't no fucking R and B. Bro, You'd be like,
Speaker 2: who put this playlist together? Not a person that lived
Speaker 2: R and B. Not a person that's going to all
Speaker 2: the R and B parties and living this lifestyle and
Speaker 2: grew up, you know what I'm saying, Like, you know,
Speaker 2: it's somebody that is not a part of the culture.
Speaker 3: Since we're talking about culture.
Speaker 6: Damn, the curators are really far removed from the reality
Speaker 6: of R and B.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's like, okay, how many how many how
Speaker 2: many okay, how many.
Speaker 3: Jewish R and B artists are there versus how many
Speaker 3: like black kids are there?
Speaker 5: You know, I need the Jews are out numbered? Huh,
Speaker 5: the Jews are out numbered.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, how many? How many? How
Speaker 3: many Jewish R and B artists?
Speaker 5: You know, I can't name one?
Speaker 3: Okay, that's my point. And not against nothing against Jewish people.
Speaker 2: I love everybody, but just think about that little black
Speaker 2: boys and little black girls. They take from the hood
Speaker 2: and they don't make you a brand. These people ain't
Speaker 2: never had nothing go crazy. Yeah, they staying character. They're
Speaker 2: not mentally saying. Think about in the past, generations and
Speaker 2: generations before what those artists that now some of them
Speaker 2: do shows still and people celebrate them because R and
Speaker 2: B is a celebration and we have our own parties
Speaker 2: and ship now. But just think about that, brom mhould.
Speaker 4: You would you tell some you advise people to get
Speaker 4: in this ship or do something else young young people.
Speaker 2: I would advise anybody to do what they want to do,
Speaker 2: because you can do what you want to do.
Speaker 3: Like this, this world and this earth is.
Speaker 2: For the taking, bro, you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 2: if you put your mind to go after it, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, just look at the history before beforehand.
Speaker 3: And and see how you can make your mark. I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure Drake did it.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure a lot of people look at the
Speaker 2: history and Okay, that's how this person messed up, and
Speaker 2: that's what this person did.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna do just just be smart about it,
Speaker 3: that's all. Mhmm.
Speaker 1: What you think, Easier Rapper singer, I don't, I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say either, because it's hard being
Speaker 2: a creative be right, rap though I can't, But it's
Speaker 2: hard being the creator based on what you're going through,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Singing, obviously you gotta get
Speaker 2: notes and ship right, but rapping you gotta rap on
Speaker 2: the same frequency and be able to deliver, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying what people want to hear.
Speaker 3: So at the end of the day, it's the same
Speaker 3: thing if you got to music.
Speaker 6: So outside of music and R and B and all
Speaker 6: of that kind of stuff, I know you said that
Speaker 6: you were a foodie.
Speaker 5: So what do you like to cook?
Speaker 3: Or can I can cook?
Speaker 5: I can cook like basic Cameron or hot dog cook.
Speaker 3: Or like, yeah, I can I can cook everything.
Speaker 5: Spanish squad outfreid I'll cook.
Speaker 2: I can cook. Everybody can cook our freid on. That's
Speaker 2: that's y'all go to like women, y'all be getting lazy.
Speaker 5: But can you properly? Yes, that's easy.
Speaker 3: If you can fry conk, you can fry fish, you
Speaker 3: can fry kelamara. If you will cook, you.
Speaker 5: Know that, but you know you can overcook it and
Speaker 5: it can be tough.
Speaker 3: Yeah you can't. You can overcook anything. Ye gotta be
Speaker 3: just kind of mar.
Speaker 5: Yes. Okay, So outside of the cooking.
Speaker 6: What else do you like to do, Like, what are
Speaker 6: some of your hobbies or favorite actippies.
Speaker 3: I like to go hunting. I like to kill things.
Speaker 5: Like game or like duck hunting, like what.
Speaker 3: I like to kill things like animals and ship.
Speaker 5: So game.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm more so like a game night type of dude.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I like to play cards like tongue, roll dice, play twister.
Speaker 3: Nah, I don't play twister.
Speaker 2: I play I play say, I shoot se low, I
Speaker 2: play tongue, I play spades, I play you know the
Speaker 2: real nigga you're talking about the rapper twister. That's my dog.
Speaker 2: But outside of that, we ain't playing. I'm gonna watch
Speaker 2: the girls play Twisted Down. I'll pay you to that
Speaker 2: Twisted You know.
Speaker 6: A lot of people like we played. I used to
Speaker 6: be in college drunk game night. You gotta spin the
Speaker 6: thing and then you gotta put like your left hand
Speaker 6: on the red dot and then your right leg on
Speaker 6: the blue dot, and you gotta try not to fall.
Speaker 6: You gotta twist yourself and like not the fall.
Speaker 1: You see that commercial before. Yeah, you seen that ship
Speaker 1: before playing pistol.
Speaker 3: That's not the three fourth shot.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 5: I always shoot. I'm a shooter.
Speaker 3: So rock is rock?
Speaker 5: No, but I played that, but I'm always shoot.
Speaker 7: Rock paper scissors. She gotta pick one. Okay, three rocks rock?
Speaker 7: See so I beat you? Did you cut the paper?
Speaker 7: But normally the paper can crumple.
Speaker 3: Up the lost that's what is it? Okay, rock paper,
Speaker 3: shoot some paper couple. She noint gotta take the shot.
Speaker 5: Oh, shoot the shot, not to shoot the game. Shoot
Speaker 5: the gun.
Speaker 3: I didn't know, like, oh, I want to play? Huh?
Speaker 1: Got crazy?
Speaker 3: Okay? Drinking or nothing? Now object with you doing.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna you gotta make a hangout for the niggas
Speaker 5: that ain't here.
Speaker 3: What made you move out to city?
Speaker 7: What like?
Speaker 3: What made you move away from home? White? US State?
Speaker 3: Like what I feel like?
Speaker 2: So my whole career, I'm a living in Miami. You
Speaker 2: I'm limited to I can to who I can work with.
Speaker 2: So my whole career I worked with just Jim Johnson
Speaker 2: and Big Dye and then of course you got Cool
Speaker 2: and Dre down there.
Speaker 3: You got Rico Love. That's my brother and ship. You know,
Speaker 3: what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: There's a few other people down there, but people go
Speaker 2: to Miamy and be on vacation. You said, basically, you
Speaker 2: need to be inspired. Way wait where you can be here,
Speaker 2: be there, be here. You know what I'm saying, get
Speaker 2: some work, work done. So so no, my whole career,
Speaker 2: I was against it because I didn't understand it. And
Speaker 2: and then my men talk, he sweat. He was like, Yo,
Speaker 2: come on out here and just you know, try Leonard,
Speaker 2: you know. And I got the opportunity to work with
Speaker 2: Brian Mickael Cox, JD fucking you know, Zatoven fucking like
Speaker 2: I got the Sean Gary Uh, Damien Thomas, like I
Speaker 2: got the little Like I got to work with so
Speaker 2: many different people, and it's like, well damn, this is
Speaker 2: behind down here. Like everybody got a restaurant in Atlanta,
Speaker 2: A black person get a restaurant in Miami's.
Speaker 3: Like, oh shit, you got a fucking restaurant. You like,
Speaker 3: go to my home with shit down the street. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go to you know.
Speaker 2: I just I just love to see black excellence and
Speaker 2: I love to see black people doing their thing. Like
Speaker 2: look at everybody here, Maron, it's us. You know, and
Speaker 2: in Miami, we don't. We don't have that, So you
Speaker 2: limit it to what you can do and what you
Speaker 2: can accomplish. So for me to have all these albums,
Speaker 2: you know, ready with and I don't work with all
Speaker 2: these great people and the fact that Boosy on my
Speaker 2: first single, you know, birthday sex, I can go to Boosy,
Speaker 2: got a pool, come to my pool party, pull on
Speaker 2: a do like everybody's here.
Speaker 3: I just loved it about the city, like I love that.
Speaker 5: So do you think you ever want to leave and
Speaker 5: go somewhere else?
Speaker 3: This is the first place I ever moved to.
Speaker 2: When I go to other places like l A, I'll
Speaker 2: be like I lived there for three years too, but
Speaker 2: you know it was like, eh, people here just so
Speaker 2: genuine and so cool, and it's just a place I
Speaker 2: just feel like home. Every time I leave too long,
Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta get back. Today they charging too
Speaker 2: much for bottle prices. They acting like that, give me
Speaker 2: give me back to Atlanta. They doing this, they fucking
Speaker 2: were going back. I gotta get back home. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: feel me, Yeah, nigga, Like you know, I'm everywhere.
Speaker 3: I'm on the South, I'm merrywell, I'm on the South Side.
Speaker 3: I'm everywhere. But yeah, I'm a strip club king.
Speaker 2: Ask anybody any R and B nigga at they't outside,
Speaker 2: I'm outside.
Speaker 3: You're gonna You're gonna see me at Magic City. You're
Speaker 3: gonna see me as.
Speaker 2: You're gonna see me out and about doing my thing,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, minding my business, you feel me?
Speaker 5: So let me ask you this. Are you into politics
Speaker 5: at all?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 6: Okay, So you don't have any kind of like opinion
Speaker 6: on what's going on with Trump or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Nope, Okay, You're a voter, not a voter.
Speaker 2: I think everybody should vote, you know, based on what
Speaker 2: they believe in and who they think.
Speaker 3: You know, But I just don't get into that kind
Speaker 3: of stuff. Bro.
Speaker 5: Do you understand the importance of it?
Speaker 3: But I just don't. I'm an R and B singer,
Speaker 3: and my job is to.
Speaker 5: Make people move and groove.
Speaker 2: Make people fall in love again, make people, you know,
Speaker 2: make babies, make people when they break up and ship
Speaker 2: get them back together, you know, you know, set the
Speaker 2: mood for a good evening, good vibes. I'm not in that, okay, man.
Speaker 4: A long lasting narrative is the one of like, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, artists getting into bad contracts and shit. And
Speaker 4: I think I read somewhere where there was some some
Speaker 4: some some business stuff that you went through as well,
Speaker 4: like how do you think artists can avoid that bad
Speaker 4: contract shit?
Speaker 1: And who do you think is that fault?
Speaker 4: Because they always kind of want to blame I guess,
Speaker 4: like the labels and all that type of stuff. And
Speaker 4: in the same respect, the labels, labels and managers might
Speaker 4: say the artists should have had a lawyer, like what's
Speaker 4: your what's your take on all that?
Speaker 2: When I got in the game, my father figure, who
Speaker 2: was an investor who invested in our career as a group.
Speaker 3: He made us sign a contract. No lawyer, no nothing.
Speaker 2: He said, sorry, man, you know I gotta make y'all
Speaker 2: sign this contract because Atlantic making me do it and whatever.
Speaker 2: I'm a kid from the streets, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So my mother wasn't there to look over the contract.
Speaker 2: My father was in there to look over the contract.
Speaker 2: I signed off the loyalty storm. Coming from nothing, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. This then got a big house,
Speaker 2: he got everything.
Speaker 3: He know, you know what I'm saying. He know the
Speaker 3: way I was thinking.
Speaker 2: That he got my best interest int heart, but he
Speaker 2: know he doing the whole damn time, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. So then when time's come to where he
Speaker 2: feel like he owned you, because when that comes to ego,
Speaker 2: like he owned you, like I own this nigga man,
Speaker 2: Like y'all just want my own house and my own car, bro,
Speaker 2: because we know we're plottingum now and you ain't got
Speaker 2: no money what and that's when all hell break loose,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Then, what the what the people that the labeled do?
Speaker 1: How do you say he was plating on y'all? Didn't
Speaker 1: have a car in the house?
Speaker 3: No, I didn't.
Speaker 2: We stayed in his house. Okay, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I stayed in his house for like eight months before
Speaker 2: we got a deal. Then after that we'll be on
Speaker 2: the road twenty four seven, twenty four seven, you know, performing,
Speaker 2: performing performance, So you ain't got time.
Speaker 3: To spend money because you were in four cities in
Speaker 3: one day.
Speaker 2: So you finally get home and you get a real
Speaker 2: checked like okay, I got a son at this time,
Speaker 2: all kind of shit like yo, man, like I just
Speaker 2: want to Yeah, I'm a Brown these niggas twenty four seven.
Speaker 2: I need my own space kind of shit for.
Speaker 5: My fucking family.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I'm saying. I say, nigga, you
Speaker 3: ain't nigga, you ain't got no money.
Speaker 2: I charged you for the forts and the knife and
Speaker 2: the pillow that you set on it, the cup people
Speaker 2: that itemized list of everything in this house, and say,
Speaker 2: I spent my money on that. And I was like, well,
Speaker 2: Jez had a solo deal with Boys in the Hood. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was in Boys in the Hood, but he had
Speaker 2: a soldo. So I said, well, I ain't understand the
Speaker 2: business understood. Why can't I get a solo deal like
Speaker 2: Jesus to get some money there? Right, don't you ever
Speaker 2: think about going solo?
Speaker 1: Nigga?
Speaker 2: I own you, I said, but I don't need to
Speaker 2: sell a contract to be in the group. And then
Speaker 2: he was like, I owned you. And that's when I
Speaker 2: was like, hold on and all hell broke loose. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. I want and have got my
Speaker 2: own lawyer, my own manager. Jimmy Henchman was my manager
Speaker 2: at the time. And you know, I worked my way
Speaker 2: out of that situation thanks to Brian McKinney. He gave
Speaker 2: me like seventy thousand at one point to fight the
Speaker 2: case and and was, you know, a part of my
Speaker 2: whole process and the starting the label and all that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. And you know, after a while, I
Speaker 2: kept putting out songs replies, Yo, Gotti, little Wayne, all
Speaker 2: those guys help me. Thank y'all got so much, all
Speaker 2: of y'all and ship. I forced their hand to let
Speaker 2: me out of my contract. I gave him five hundred
Speaker 2: thousand and never look back.
Speaker 1: They said, else when I got big.
Speaker 3: What was you the first one to like? I was
Speaker 3: if it was if this is n w A, I
Speaker 3: was ice cube And the same thing.
Speaker 2: Happened, because it happens over and over and over and
Speaker 2: over and over again. Yeah, and they divide and conquer.
Speaker 2: They see us fighting each other, they getting between. They
Speaker 2: gained the power because we're too ignorant to come together
Speaker 2: and say, now you know what, I ain't like this,
Speaker 2: so we communicator. You know what I'm saying. And then
Speaker 2: at the end of the day you get the Hot
Speaker 2: Boys reunion. So was you trying to tell them the
Speaker 2: other one? Yes, what they were saying, that's their father,
Speaker 2: So they can't go against their father.
Speaker 1: That their blood.
Speaker 3: But as time going, the nigga.
Speaker 6: That was telling you that you owed for forks and
Speaker 6: spoons was their father.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was all y'all father, right, basically blood. That
Speaker 3: was their blood father.
Speaker 2: But because because the way I came up, I looked
Speaker 2: at him like a father, thinking, yeah.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, okay, yeah, I thought you were speaking like
Speaker 6: figuratively not literally.
Speaker 3: No, that was their father, two of them, bare baby
Speaker 3: blueing spectacle. That was their father.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 2: But I still, you know, I still appreciate him to
Speaker 2: this day because it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: where I'm at.
Speaker 3: But ship got fucked up. Ben niggas.
Speaker 2: They had the business the right way, and shit's all good.
Speaker 2: I'll never discredit anybody because we're still here and we
Speaker 2: still got yeah, we still his money and everything he
Speaker 2: did still help me get here.
Speaker 1: So sure you damn So how can it be avoided?
Speaker 3: Should it be avoided?
Speaker 4: Do you think you're kind of giving the credit to
Speaker 4: bringing you to where you are?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: It's your journey, it's your story. How can it be
Speaker 4: avoided or should it be avoided?
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, because sometimes you got to go
Speaker 2: through things and learn things, bro, And I will never
Speaker 2: take back anything.
Speaker 3: And I've been through because I'm happy as fuck. Like
Speaker 3: I learned.
Speaker 2: Everything from the you know, from from growing up, telemarketing job,
Speaker 2: fucking selling dope, whatever the fuck I did when I
Speaker 2: was growing up, locked up at a young age.
Speaker 3: I did it.
Speaker 2: All, you know what I'm saying, and coming, you know,
Speaker 2: to to.
Speaker 3: This, to this level. And I done been through the irs,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: For him, him him not reporting money and ship like
Speaker 2: that and me having to pay it back as a
Speaker 2: solo artist. Nigga, that was the crazy ship, nigga, having
Speaker 2: all your ship taken. I've been through it all ups
Speaker 2: and downs, but I'm still up and the people that
Speaker 2: still rocking me, they still rocking me. And that's just life.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's a pleasure feece story, man, It's a pleasure fee story.
Speaker 1: So you already kind of talked about you about to
Speaker 1: drop some new music. You're kind of telling us off
Speaker 1: the off the off the line about what is it
Speaker 1: when it's two thousand and two, explain that break all
Speaker 1: that down. So it's just.
Speaker 2: Everything that goes On and Pinouts two thousand and two,
Speaker 2: just different relationships and stories and different nights and just
Speaker 2: what goes on is a lifestyle.
Speaker 3: R and B is a lifestyle.
Speaker 2: So what me and Al are doing now is our
Speaker 2: brunch where pretty much branding.
Speaker 3: That particular thing.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna start with products, sex toys, sex enhancement products,
Speaker 2: you know, things like that, under the pleasure of my
Speaker 2: PE brand. And I'm doing everything like when I come
Speaker 2: to cities, I'm doing happy hours, you know, I'm doing
Speaker 2: but less kind of strip club nights. So I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be doing Monday nights at ONYX Happy Hour from three
Speaker 2: to eight. But I'm gona put on the for Less
Speaker 2: show and let people know, like you know, and it's
Speaker 2: like a trapping bee.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. So it's like a trapping b type of thing,
Speaker 3: like to.
Speaker 2: Where you're gonna see Lisa Ray, you know, dancing the scenes,
Speaker 2: like you know, you're gonna see that kind of thing
Speaker 2: that you're gonna see like a real show. So shouts
Speaker 2: out to everybody, franking everybody at Onyx. We about to
Speaker 2: do that. Then I got the pleasure pool at the
Speaker 2: Thompson Hotel on Sundays, So y'all pull up on me.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be crazy everything every Sunday. So come here Sunday,
Speaker 2: next Sunday. Every Sunday is gonna be lit right on
Speaker 2: East faces. Yeah, right there, So y'all pull up. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be plenty of ladies there. And we just branding
Speaker 2: the product now.
Speaker 3: Okay, m hm.
Speaker 1: And what about signing other artists? Not your thing?
Speaker 3: We're gonna get to that.
Speaker 2: I've been working with so many different artists and throughout
Speaker 2: the time because I'm a songwriter. But first it's just,
Speaker 2: you know, some artists are unappreciative. I understand. My managers
Speaker 2: go through they disloyal you can get a free studio
Speaker 2: time and whatever the fuck record songs with him, and
Speaker 2: now just go to somebody like it's no loyalty in
Speaker 2: the game and sweat say, don't work with nobody that
Speaker 2: you signed him. And I didn't listen to him at first.
Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, I don't just try
Speaker 2: to do it differently than how you did it when
Speaker 2: you were you know, young. And some of these artists
Speaker 2: they disappointed me because it got hit records and they
Speaker 2: still just looking for a wave instead of wanting to
Speaker 2: do the work, and social media makes it, you know, different,
Speaker 2: because they don't want to put the work in.
Speaker 3: I knew how to put the work in, and we
Speaker 3: was our own street team.
Speaker 2: We had to go to every city and touch a
Speaker 2: million hands, to sell a million records. We had to
Speaker 2: perform and make a person a fan every single night.
Speaker 2: We had to have a relationship with the DJs, be respectful,
Speaker 2: respectful to the people before us. Like that was a
Speaker 2: different code in this shit. Now it's like the adults
Speaker 2: are trying to follow the kids. They'll be cool. When
Speaker 2: I rode with you know, I rode to school with
Speaker 2: my mama. Shit, I listened to what she listened to.
Speaker 2: I wasn't listening to. I couldn't cuss around my mama
Speaker 2: certain things. Is I'll do windo bro yah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could.
Speaker 3: Cuss around your grandmama and your mama play certain ship.
Speaker 3: You couldn't. You might get around your.
Speaker 2: Friends because but ship, all right, knock your tea pat right,
Speaker 2: and you then not tell you how your tea got nothing.
Speaker 2: We come from drinking drinking water out of the water
Speaker 2: fountain in the in the in the water holes. You know,
Speaker 2: like we're different, these kids different in the iPad all day.
Speaker 2: My boy, they getting the same information as adults. You
Speaker 2: can see your teacher in a bikini.
Speaker 1: Nigga, I saw that, how, but.
Speaker 3: She don't look at it that way because she like,
Speaker 3: I'm just living my life.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 3: There's no discretion anymore. Yeah, I never looked at like that.
Speaker 3: You're right, there's no like and nobody sees it.
Speaker 1: Bro Well, I think people see it.
Speaker 2: They just they don't because they continuously think about it, you.
Speaker 4: Know how you say you just find like ignore it
Speaker 4: and people see what's going on. They just try to ship.
Speaker 3: I've been in strip club and I'll be like, I
Speaker 3: can't post that.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Because damn, my niece might be watching because she watches
Speaker 2: my you know.
Speaker 3: Or I can't post that, but ship nobody else care.
Speaker 1: Damn hm.
Speaker 2: And that's the hardest part about putting together Penhouse two
Speaker 2: thousand and two, because we gotta find a platform to
Speaker 2: where we can do the BT uncut, you know, to
Speaker 2: where it don't But it's hard.
Speaker 4: Kids want to get up in Pinhouse two two thousand however,
Speaker 4: they got to tell.
Speaker 3: Me that they get up here. Nah, we don't need
Speaker 3: to in there. There just adults on h what you
Speaker 3: do with the phones. You gotta leave your phone in
Speaker 3: the car.
Speaker 2: H They got a lot their phone up when they
Speaker 2: come in to come through the thought.
Speaker 3: Nah, no, no, ain't. I don't deal with a lot
Speaker 3: of people. They ain't.
Speaker 2: Ain't that ain't no freak off coming at that kind
Speaker 2: of ship. They's just saying to keep it out the
Speaker 2: way up though. No recording, no recording.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: What I want to do is I want to take
Speaker 2: the art of dancing, bro, and I want to really
Speaker 2: highlight some of the best dancers to dance to R
Speaker 2: and B.
Speaker 3: Because when you go to the strip club, you get some.
Speaker 2: Girls they didn't even experience. They just do this, do this,
Speaker 2: and it's like that they ain't no experience, bro.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. They don't know how to
Speaker 3: like entertain.
Speaker 2: So this is really for the entertainers, but like the
Speaker 2: girls that really like to entertain, not just been over
Speaker 2: and look, I got you every song, right, bro, And
Speaker 2: I'm spending like five thousand dollars that I just made
Speaker 2: working hard for just throwing it for.
Speaker 3: No reason, like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: The real thing is like it's twenty dollars a song,
Speaker 2: so you probably just deserve twenty dollars because you ain't
Speaker 2: even putting no effort and to make me feel.
Speaker 3: Like I want to spend you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you think a lot of strippers lay stripping. They've
Speaker 1: gotten lazy.
Speaker 3: Especially they're lazy, bro, They're fucking lazy. And we work
Speaker 3: so hard for our money right to they entitled and lazy.
Speaker 3: I don't you know. We're trying to change that narrative.
Speaker 1: Make strippers again.
Speaker 3: We're trying to.
Speaker 2: Much like this is what I do. I test all
Speaker 2: my records in the strip club. If you can't break
Speaker 2: an R and B record in the strip club, then
Speaker 2: you ain't got to hit, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So I test them and that you know, over time,
Speaker 2: and I tip a lot of girls and you know.
Speaker 3: Ship like that. But yeah, they're lazy, man.
Speaker 1: Mhm. It was one thing you'll bring back the R
Speaker 1: and B if you could.
Speaker 3: Slow dancing mm hmmm, slow dancing in the club.
Speaker 2: And just appreciating the music, because that's what the slow
Speaker 2: dance was about. It's about the end of this song,
Speaker 2: and this song is so good that we connect to
Speaker 2: this song and we're gonna rub up and fill them
Speaker 2: up on each other.
Speaker 4: Oh we're gonna fuck after, but before ever be slow
Speaker 4: dancing on. Somebody gotta make some slow music.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So what I'm saying is they're they're they're category
Speaker 2: guys that they're saying that rapping niggas that's singing is
Speaker 2: R and B now, and that's not the case, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, because they got it to the
Speaker 2: point where the niggas microphone ain't on dog they singing
Speaker 2: through auto tune.
Speaker 3: They thinking through auto tune.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: So if you're singing out of the box, if you
Speaker 4: a future, love you better, how do you catch I
Speaker 4: just think it's good.
Speaker 1: I kind of be on it. Just good music and
Speaker 1: music that I don't care for. I think it's good music.
Speaker 1: How do you categorize something like that?
Speaker 3: New leaking them how to sing and ship?
Speaker 1: Go? Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know so Future is a goat. I love Future,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: But sometimes Future you can get somebody to sing your
Speaker 2: hooks for you, bro, because not every note you sing
Speaker 2: sound good.
Speaker 3: You've got a part of his art though, That's what
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Ain't trying to see you. You're looking at it from
Speaker 2: the technical point because you really know music. But sometimes
Speaker 2: niggas feel like I ain't trying to hit it. No,
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to make you feel the pain in
Speaker 2: this shit. I you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at it from a nigga. You just took
Speaker 3: my job type of shit. Let me do that, yeah,
Speaker 3: let me do me sing that pain. That's what I do.
Speaker 2: So if it's a team nigga, right, yeah, the quarterback,
Speaker 2: I'm the running back.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. We're gonna get this touchdown.
Speaker 3: But y'all just put me out of business. It survives
Speaker 3: us because y'all y'all. So the way to take my job.
Speaker 1: But I think.
Speaker 5: About like the whole.
Speaker 2: Clubs not saying it ain't five brother, let me do
Speaker 2: this bro, you know yeah.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 6: Another thing that that I think is an issue too,
Speaker 6: is is like the way that a lot of these
Speaker 6: clubs are set up now because most clubs don't have
Speaker 6: a dance board.
Speaker 5: They're just all sections. So it's like it's hard to
Speaker 5: it'll be kind of hard to like.
Speaker 6: Encourage getting back to dancing and you know how it
Speaker 6: used to be because it's not really a space to
Speaker 6: properly do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's why we move in the chairs that
Speaker 2: are or were move into sections.
Speaker 3: Oh really, the section is going to be on the side.
Speaker 2: We're moving the sections and we're gonna make it a
Speaker 2: different kind of feel.
Speaker 3: For real, for people that come.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 2: I'm handpicking all the waitresses, all of the dances and
Speaker 2: all of the stuff.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm. I'm there. I want to see that.
Speaker 3: I'm there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, so so you're gonna see, You're gonna see uh ah,
Speaker 3: come on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you're about to make it a different kind
Speaker 2: of field, different kind of experience. It's gonna be an
Speaker 2: experience during the happy hour, something different for Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Okay, hmm.
Speaker 3: It's ten dollars parking and it's affordable for everybody.
Speaker 2: It's affordable, like you got drink specials, we got you know,
Speaker 2: just different things that we're going to make it play
Speaker 2: for everybody to just come pull up on us. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, because you know, one hundred dollars
Speaker 2: park and all the crazy nigga we ain't doing, especially
Speaker 2: during traffic time.
Speaker 3: You know what traffic, you know what traffic. I got
Speaker 3: to get here.
Speaker 2: I'm stopping somewhere, I'm stopping at on behind l a
Speaker 2: Living people that don't point everything the menu is on point.
Speaker 5: They got good mashed potatoes.
Speaker 3: Too, We got good everything.
Speaker 5: We got.
Speaker 3: Chop.
Speaker 2: You doing Sunday the pool party, Monday match Sundays and Mondays,
Speaker 2: Sunday money.
Speaker 3: Sundays and Monday.
Speaker 2: You're gonna bring the girl from the pool party. I'm
Speaker 2: bringing the whole city the hot because you know, well.
Speaker 1: You know where to go during to the other than
Speaker 1: you said, it's a day party on Monday. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: Sunday Sunday. You know what I'm saying, Onyx is Monday day. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you get that's perfect. You can go to Magic to
Speaker 1: get it started to Magic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you get off work. Come on if you just board.
Speaker 2: You know how Platinum used to be like during the day.
Speaker 2: What yeah, this is during everybody like we need that
Speaker 2: energy back.
Speaker 5: So it's nowhere to go during the day except baby.
Speaker 3: Yeah closed down?
Speaker 1: What is it? Go go rush go It was right here.
Speaker 3: What what's what's not? Cheatadh, Cheatadh? They just closed up.
Speaker 3: Go something.
Speaker 1: You got to go room? Oh go room, We'll go rooms,
Speaker 1: the club club and no, you.
Speaker 2: Just had a day ship here bro where it's right
Speaker 2: off of Damn. I'm just learning the streets here.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 3: It's about like a gas station in the court about
Speaker 3: the highway?
Speaker 1: Are you talking about did yeah.
Speaker 5: The day open it up?
Speaker 1: Back up? Yeah?
Speaker 3: But they closed that one down? Yeah?
Speaker 5: But is he got some bigger and better ship on
Speaker 5: the way.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah that I go to the flame and girl,
Speaker 2: that's listen. I don't go nowhere but strip clubs because
Speaker 2: that's my that's my bile what I'm saying. And if
Speaker 2: an R and B song came playing the strip club,
Speaker 2: then you ain't got to hit, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And these R and B niggas don't be outside, they
Speaker 2: don't they don't be outside. I'll be outside, bro. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll bet I go to all the day ship nights.
Speaker 2: That's all I do.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: The army parties gotta pay me to pull up, But
Speaker 2: sometimes I go through and show love. I went to
Speaker 2: Sweet Lounges last night and just you know, pull up
Speaker 2: on my boy Tory and show him some love.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Me, let me grab the mic and you know, me
Speaker 2: and the twin Brian from Jacket Edge, you know, we're
Speaker 2: just gonna pull up some time and day.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying that's hard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but I'm ensured about this urban burlesque. I
Speaker 5: can't wait to see that.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be crazy. And then me and Candy about
Speaker 2: to link up and do some ship.
Speaker 5: Yeah she got she got that ship already, like that ship.
Speaker 1: Would it be?
Speaker 3: Like I'm thinking ahead, you know what I'm saying. So okay,
Speaker 3: and I did I did her Actually I did her
Speaker 3: Dungeon party.
Speaker 2: Oh really, Yeah, performed that, you know, Candy' dungeon bouns
Speaker 2: shot the candy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, she's doing that like she did Fox in Atlanta. Right, Nah,
Speaker 3: we did it? Was it is it called the Battery
Speaker 3: some some oh yeah yeah yeah. It was the Battery
Speaker 3: of Mariella by the ball park. Yeah it was some Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was over there the Rocks and Colah exactly that
Speaker 3: that's what the rocks. It was crazy, It was crazy.
Speaker 3: It was that. So we're about to take over that,
Speaker 3: you know. Yeah, that kind of thing.
Speaker 5: But that's a whole other world of people.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, no, nah, everybody in that kind of ship. They
Speaker 3: just don't say it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the end of that going to their little
Speaker 2: search web all everybody watched pooring this ship. What porn
Speaker 2: did you watch today, today.
Speaker 3: Today, yesterday.
Speaker 2: So you're all telling me everybody and nobody watched porn
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 1: I stopped.
Speaker 2: I stopped a long time watching for nobody. I stopped
Speaker 2: long term today, yesterday. Okay, within the last ten days,
Speaker 2: did you watch porn?
Speaker 3: Motherfucker? Be honest.
Speaker 5: Just what I'm trying to.
Speaker 3: Tell y'all, Like you feel me this week, that's what
Speaker 3: we're going.
Speaker 2: To so magic a magic coming to magic, coming to Onyx. Right,
Speaker 2: and you can see something that you saw on the
Speaker 2: porn in the show. You're gonna pull up for that, right,
Speaker 2: You're tired of the same dancing and chop music, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna do trapping be you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Guys shaking and looking back now we're from the put
Speaker 3: on the show.
Speaker 5: You're like, they're really gonna have to perform.
Speaker 2: It's really it's gonna be real show. Yeah, you might
Speaker 2: see a girls strapping a girl on in my shoes.
Speaker 2: You don't know what you're gonna see in my shop,
Speaker 2: but we're gonna make it very interesting.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: That's what's gonna keep it going on.
Speaker 1: Sean j will be there.
Speaker 2: You might see you might see two girls in the
Speaker 2: shower like whatever. We I'm thinking out the box with this,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, because it's just needed, and
Speaker 2: you get to do it before after hours, you get
Speaker 2: to do it before you go home.
Speaker 5: So so you're doing it still go home and get
Speaker 5: up before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's from three to nine.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yes, y'all.
Speaker 3: When y'all pull up, I got y'allm gonna take care
Speaker 3: of y'all. Y'all good to go. I'm gonna get y'all
Speaker 3: whatever y'all need.
Speaker 2: I got y'all, and hopefully y'all can talk about experience
Speaker 2: after y'all experienced the experience.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: But it's gonna be up and running in about two weeks,
Speaker 2: so let's get ready for that pleasure.
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