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Speaker 1: He's a Miami hip hop pioneer. What ups d J

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Speaker 1: e f N? Together they drink it up with some

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Speaker 2: Professional unprofessional podcast and your.

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Speaker 1: Number one source for drunk drinks.

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Speaker 3: D is New year c That's it's time for drink champs,

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Speaker 3: drink up?

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Speaker 1: Mother would it could be hoping He's winter should be

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Speaker 1: it's your boy in O R E? What up is

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Speaker 2: This is mina tepic crazy have you have gonna make something?

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Speaker 1: And when we started, when we started the show, we.

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Speaker 2: Said we wanted to interview legends. Yes, man here as

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Speaker 2: a legend. This man is an icon. He's the only

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Speaker 2: what the fucking e goot was I dropped out a

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Speaker 1: God damn it, it's mo fucker E got is he?

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Speaker 2: NAACP Awards nominated at least thirty forty nine a thousand times,

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Speaker 1: This motherfucker is a legend on a legend and his

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Speaker 1: name is a legend. And in case you don't know

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Speaker 1: who we talking about, we talked about the one, the

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Speaker 1: only dampeccable. Yes, you can take a quack before me.

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Speaker 1: You beat me to the blest of intro. I like

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Speaker 1: to hear. Man, So what's going on which brings you

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Speaker 3: Man?

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Speaker 1: I came to see y'all. Oh, I just fix the

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Speaker 4: I was in New York doing press and they were like,

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Speaker 1: And yes. I was like, it's about time. Yes, yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So recently you letting your skills and you sang for

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Speaker 2: the fire department, but now it's not a normal fire department.

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Speaker 2: This was a fire department that was sent prison.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So I wasn't there to sing.

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Speaker 4: I was just there to highlight what they're doing, to

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Speaker 4: thank them because these guys they're currently incarcerated and they

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Speaker 4: volunteer for this program to fight fires in California, which

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Speaker 4: up and back and forth and up and back and forth,

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Speaker 4: and it's a crazy training program. But they grow so

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Speaker 4: other things like that. So I was there just to

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Speaker 4: like that was all I was doing there. I went

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Speaker 4: there to talk to them, highlight them, thanked them, advocate

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Speaker 4: then at the end they were like, John, what you

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Speaker 1: Some of the top of people in the world love

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you something to me. You are hamanitarian,

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Speaker 4: Well, I always thought that I wanted to be an artist.

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Speaker 4: but also always thought that the greatest artists that I

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm gonna give straight to it. It was

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Speaker 3: I feel like he's NICs nemesis.

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Speaker 1: They're not mine because.

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Speaker 1: Do you I think he follows you on Twitter secretly? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm not on Twitter anymore? Okay, good? Yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: Go on black Twitter. I just have to broke. You

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Speaker 1: He has a fan base. He started. It's a black owned.

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Speaker 4: And then a lot of people left Twitter. I left Twitter,

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Speaker 4: He's like the only time he really acknowledged us when

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Speaker 4: And yeah, so we went up there to the prison

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Speaker 4: And for some reason, on a Sunday night, the President

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Speaker 2: Sorry to get political, because I'm gonna go. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: Yeah, huh yeah, I believe Dame was down and these

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Speaker 2: automatically said, this is a Illuminati right now, right now,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he went over to that other side. Well, I

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Speaker 4: He was able to donate over two hundred million dollars

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Speaker 1: Because what's the thing you just said.

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Speaker 2: That's a different Twitter, Isaac Hayeson.

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Speaker 4: That one's called fan Base, But there's a Blue Sky,

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Speaker 1: Threads is part of Instagram. I know, I know.

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Speaker 3: You can invest in fan base too, like apen source

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Speaker 3: where you can invest in it.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, yeah, so what if we all got together.

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Speaker 1: That's that's what Isaac's trying to do.

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Speaker 4: He's trying to do that's what But there's a couple

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Speaker 2: I think the reason why I like Twitter to take

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Speaker 1: When I'm having a good day, they will humble me.

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Speaker 1: That's the worst humanity, you know.

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Speaker 2: I could post the most positive things in the world

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Speaker 2: and somebody black, somebody.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, it works for me because I'm like,

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Speaker 2: all right, cool, it keeps you humble.

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Speaker 1: I'm off my high horse. You want to be like,

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Speaker 2: I heard you say something about that. I'm gonna get

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Speaker 2: to that. But when you was fifteen, you wrote an

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Speaker 1: So I wrote an essay.

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Speaker 4: the question was just how you plan to make Black history?

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Speaker 4: And so I said, I'm going to be a famous artist.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna be a famous singer, and then I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: to stand up for what's right, stand up for justice.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I've been doing. Wow, since I manifest

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Speaker 2: I know you did that for school, But do you

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Speaker 2: recommend that kids that age fourteen, fifteen sixty years years

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Speaker 2: I write an essay of who they should be in

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, start setting intentions for yourself at that age, and

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Speaker 2: So let me ask you right in Miami, they got

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'll be doing out here. I'm watching y'all.

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Speaker 2: I know people right, but but in their assurance, it's

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Speaker 4: Insurance companies their job is to find a way to

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Speaker 2: So what these California flyers. Do you think people were

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Speaker 4: But even if you are, they only ensure the actual home,

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Speaker 1: And I heard a lot of people lost their policies.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be because they can't afford the mortgage

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, so you're in the fire, right, I'm not there,

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Speaker 3: How.

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Speaker 4: How we how we experienced the fire. Like we landed

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Speaker 1: The tragedy was crazy. I hang out with a lot

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Speaker 2: Conspiracy theorists of mines said to me that these were

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Speaker 1: This is not me, This was not me.

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Speaker 2: This was caused to the areas of the rich so

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Speaker 1: That's what that's what he thinks, right, what do you

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Speaker 2: No, because they said the fires didn't come to the hood,

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Speaker 2: Didn't know about this, uh until until the fires. Like

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Speaker 1: But there was a black neighborhood there.

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Speaker 4: And a lot of the folks there are like middle class,

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Speaker 1: Of rich people got hit. But I have a hard

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Speaker 3: They're saying the same thing, the same conspiracy that happened

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Speaker 1: But I could be wrong. Sometimes it was probably caused

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Speaker 1: man made, which the fires.

444
00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:09,399
Speaker 4: Happened accidentally, yeah, or even sometimes it's on purpose. But

445
00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:13,760
Speaker 4: the wind and the dryness just accelerated everything. We hadn't

446
00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:18,160
Speaker 4: had rain since like last fall rain Soulls of California,

447
00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:18,600
Speaker 4: that's what.

448
00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,840
Speaker 1: But we literally we normally would have like they said.

449
00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,000
Speaker 4: Five or six inches between October first and when the

450
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Speaker 4: fires happened, we had point one six inch, So that

451
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Speaker 4: on its own was an accelerant. And then the wind

452
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Speaker 4: was something we almost never see. The Santa Ana winds

453
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Speaker 4: at that wind at that speed, So you out there,

454
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Speaker 4: you combine the speed of the wind and the dryness.

455
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Speaker 4: That's why it happened. Were you out there we landed,

456
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Speaker 4: you know after it started.

457
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Speaker 3: Wow.

458
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

459
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Speaker 4: But we never were in the fire, so we didn't

460
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Speaker 4: see it up close and personal. But close friends of

461
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Speaker 4: ours were and uh, you know they lost their homes.

462
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Speaker 4: They didn't make you evacuate. No, we were not in

463
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Speaker 4: evacuation zone. We were like between evacuation zones. But we

464
00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:03,199
Speaker 4: left anyway, just for.

465
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Speaker 1: A little bit. There's people that lost everything.

466
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Speaker 2: Be honest, I thought New Yorkers was stubborn until I

467
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 2: moved to Miami.

468
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Speaker 1: They won't move for the hurricane. You're like, hurricane is

469
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Speaker 1: going to kill everybody. They don't really tell everyone is

470
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Speaker 1: gonna die in Miami. They were like, it's okay, I

471
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Speaker 1: guess sawtcula go to home. People in public about to

472
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Speaker 1: get you, and then the ship goes out with listen, yo,

473
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Speaker 1: but y'all take it. You'll take it too far. Soon

474
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Speaker 1: as it's a hurricane.

475
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Speaker 2: They rack up hurricane party hurricane parties.

476
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Speaker 1: The nigga store is gone. They're used to it here many.

477
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna be honest with you, John Legend, you

478
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:44,479
Speaker 2: look like you never had a bad day.

479
00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:48,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest. I'm a little jealous. Man.

480
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:53,200
Speaker 2: I look at you, and you look stressed. Fucking you

481
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 2: look like nothing you have had bad days.

482
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Speaker 4: But I would say I am probably one of the

483
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Speaker 4: most kind of, like even killed people you'll ever meet.

484
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Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of I don't get really

485
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:10,600
Speaker 1: angry very often. I am as chill as you think.

486
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Speaker 4: And he compares me, song compares me to Seinfeld because

487
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 4: there's this episode of Seinfeld.

488
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Speaker 1: Show me the episode I'm ready for it.

489
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Speaker 4: Where they say everything always evens out for Jerry.

490
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:25,880
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because.

491
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Son always called me Seinfeld because he's like, everything

492
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,640
Speaker 4: always evens out for you. Man, you got something happened,

493
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 4: something some for some reason, it just always evens out.

494
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Speaker 1: So I don't know, Oh my god, oh my god.

495
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 2: Hang out with you, then that's that's my that's you

496
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Speaker 2: watched Kirby Enthusiasm.

497
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Speaker 1: Yes, I love it.

498
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Speaker 2: Oh that's my favorite ship. I love shows a lot.

499
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 2: I've seen every episode. Okay, yeah, which one you will pick?

500
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 2: Curb or or side fel.

501
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,920
Speaker 1: Or Curb Curb? I mean too Yeah, most people would

502
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Speaker 1: say I can love. I'm sorry, man. I love Larry David. Man,

503
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: I'm love I love them. I love so much.

504
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 2: I don't want to meet him because if I meet

505
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 2: him and he'd be like, hey, what the fuck, I'm like, oh.

506
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 4: Man, his whole persona is that he probably wouldn't be

507
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 4: nice to you when you met him, and so you're like,

508
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Speaker 4: maybe that is being.

509
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Speaker 1: Nice being not nice to Like.

510
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Speaker 2: I was like, it's this restaurant called Club I mean

511
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Speaker 2: Hotel COASTI is in Paris. Yeah, very nasty people like

512
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 2: they're like a little French root the French Route. And

513
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 2: one time I went there on my birthday and they

514
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 2: were nice to me, and I would say, this is

515
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 2: not what I paid for. You're like to me, they

516
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 2: got a cigarette when I used to smoke cigarettes and

517
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 2: have a cigarettes section all that.

518
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Speaker 1: And it was nice to me. One time I didn't

519
00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: like it. Yeah. Yeah, I was on Larry David show.

520
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 5: I was.

521
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 3: I did a guest of parents on he was. He

522
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 3: was nice then, and but I hung out mostly with Jeff.

523
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 2: And uh Susie yeah yeah yeah yeah, the lady with

524
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 2: the bad mouth and the manager.

525
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 1: Yes. So so what episode was this? This was the

526
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Speaker 1: bot Mitzvah. I was singing at the bat Mitzvah for

527
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Speaker 1: their daughter. Uh and uh.

528
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,159
Speaker 4: The conceit of the show was that I was one

529
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Speaker 4: of Jeff's clients and he got me to sing at

530
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Speaker 4: the bat Mitzvah.

531
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Speaker 1: So I sang a song there. This is early, like

532
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 1: six early in my career. But that was cool.

533
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 3: And I just sat there and talked to Jeff and

534
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 3: Susie the whole time, and they had me cracking up.

535
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, they were funny, Okay, yeah, they were really funny.

536
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,920
Speaker 2: Now you also got to do a movie with the

537
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 2: late great Bernie Mack. Yes, so man, Yeah, you know,

538
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 2: you know one of the best lines I ever heard

539
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 2: in the world is in that movie when Bernie Mack

540
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 2: moves into the old folks home behind and Mike f says,

541
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Speaker 2: you know, because now you can spend some time with

542
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Speaker 2: the kids, and Bernie Mack looks to him with all

543
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:01,439
Speaker 2: honesty and.

544
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:07,640
Speaker 1: Says, that's an iconic line. That line has been used

545
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,880
Speaker 1: since then. But how was me and Bertie Mack?

546
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 2: Oh?

547
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: Man, he was funny too in person.

548
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 4: You know some comedians they're not funny in person because

549
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 4: they they it's like they're saving it for the stage.

550
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: Because he's himself.

551
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 4: You can sell Yeah, I have another it's like they're

552
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 4: saving it for the stage. But Bernie was really funny

553
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 4: in person. Jeff and Susie were very funny in person.

554
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 4: And then some people they like they clam up and

555
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 4: they don't give you no jokes until you see him

556
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 4: on stage.

557
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, you never met Prince. Yeah, I met Prince. I

558
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 1: met Prince of Future. I didn't. I didn't know whatever

559
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 1: the story.

560
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 2: Let's put my seatbelt. That's kind of like I was

561
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,880
Speaker 2: about to ask you did he float? Did he float?

562
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 2: When you met him?

563
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 1: I was starstruck. This is one of the first big

564
00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: celebrities I met that I really like, truly was starstruck

565
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: when I met him. As out Prince on no ass out,

566
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: his ass was in. I'm sorry. He was close. So

567
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 1: at the time he was signed to the same label

568
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: I was.

569
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 4: He was at Columbia Sony Urban and we had the

570
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 4: same exact Lisa Ellis and he was doing a concert

571
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 4: at MSG and Lisa was like, you want to come

572
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 4: see friends. I was like yeah, so and then he

573
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 4: did an after party at bb King's and he he Princess,

574
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 4: the craziest musician because he'll do the whole show and

575
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 4: then go play the after party.

576
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:41,479
Speaker 2: Uh.

577
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 1: He he would do a three hour show and then

578
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: go play at the after party.

579
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 4: I've never seen anybody that just loved playing music and

580
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 4: kept playing music, kept playing music like he did.

581
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: And it was amazing seeing him.

582
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 4: The first time I met him, he was just like,

583
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 4: you know, he was on that protect your rights, make

584
00:27:58,920 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 4: sure you get.

585
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 1: Your master's black when you can all that.

586
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 4: And then the next time I saw him, he had

587
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 4: one of those after parties that he had after the

588
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 4: Grammys or the Oscars in l A. And uh it

589
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 4: was a jam session and a bunch of artists were

590
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 4: there and I got up.

591
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: On stage and jam with him, and STEVEE was there,

592
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 1: and uh it was fun. Man, God damn me. Before

593
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: I get to the Eguy, Michael Jackson met Micah.

594
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, I met Mike. I met Mike, and Bahrain put

595
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 4: back on my hand weird. So this is where he

596
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 4: was living.

597
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 3: So he was dealing with all his you know, legal things,

598
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 3: and uh, he was living in Bahrain for a while.

599
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: Over in the Middle East. It's in the Middle East.

600
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,239
Speaker 4: It's overbody like Saudi Arabia and uh, and uh they

601
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 4: were having an F one uh event over there, and

602
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 4: they had like a celebrity invitational and they were like

603
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 4: just trying to get celebrities to come to the F

604
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 4: one and I was a new celebrity. I was like, yeah,

605
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 4: I'll go to Bahrain on whatever. I heard Michael Jackson,

606
00:28:58,640 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 4: we might get to meet Michael Jackson.

607
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: And then, uh, the Crown Prince has a dinner.

608
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 4: At one of his homes and Michael Jackson just walks

609
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 4: in and I sit there and it was like a

610
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 4: few like round tables, and I'm sitting at the round

611
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 4: table where Mike's.

612
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 3: Sitting and We're all just sitting there talking, talking about

613
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 3: music whatever. You don't remember the subject we talked.

614
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: We talked about We talked about music, we talked about

615
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: you know, life. I don't know. Is it true about

616
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: his voice?

617
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 3: He said that he when he were normal, Yeah, he

618
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 3: just he doesn't have the same high pitched voice.

619
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: It was still pretty. It wasn't deep, Nah, it wasn't deep.

620
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: It was you know, walking night.

621
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 2: You know, the pictures with Michael Jackson would have grip

622
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 2: stories about him not created. He fought all kinds of

623
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 2: Mike get crazy.

624
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: I'm glad I don't hear a lot of conspiracies. They're fun.

625
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: Am I here the debunk Conspiracy Factor fiction with John.

626
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 2: So John leszend. We want you to know, man, our

627
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 2: show is about giving people the flowers.

628
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 1: Appreciate you. I love the show, but we want to

629
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: give you your flowers. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

630
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 3: For it matches my wine bottles too. You know this

631
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 3: is my l B E wine and it matches perfect.

632
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 2: So it's not love, it's l v E. Yeah, we

633
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 2: call LB, but it's been calling it love too. You

634
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 2: can call love to all right?

635
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: Cool? You ever drink Whispering Angel? Yeah, this Whispering Angel killer,

636
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: it's better. You know what I'm saying. It's the killer.

637
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: It's the killer, the killer Whisper better better than LV.

638
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: I've tried it plenty of times and and ours is

639
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: better than their. Yes, fact, Just to say, what did

640
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: you drink Whispering Age? Drying France? I've drank like the

641
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: Hampton's France Rich Rich in France. I try to do French,

642
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: you know brands out there, but now we're doing LV.

643
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 4: Man, that's the only one we're doing. Ours is French too, though,

644
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 4: What do you drink in France?

645
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: What does it?

646
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 3: Well, I drink a lot of Burgundy wines. So my

647
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 3: partner in this wine is a Frenchman. His name is

648
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 3: Jean ch.

649
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: Rich money to hold.

650
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 4: So he grew up in Burgundy in France, and so

651
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 4: his family has been making wine forever and so.

652
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 2: So he's my he's my connect in France. So how

653
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 2: did you come up with the wines? Let's talk about that. Yeah,

654
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 2: that's a cabernet. Yeah, that's a cabernet. We got a rose.

655
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 4: We got a sparkling rose. We got a sparkling white.

656
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 4: We got uh, chardonnay, sauvignon blanc. We got a nice range.

657
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: No, uh, we do have a small run of pinoa,

658
00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: not a lot of you know, it's just right now. No, great, ye.

659
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 2: So look, we're gonna want to splain them in the

660
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 2: rules quick time.

661
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Speaker 1: You got right? Are you ready? You got you gotta

662
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: ask him what he would like to drink? Please? What

663
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: we got? Yeah, I'll do shots? Yeah, I take mins chilled?

664
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: All right, remind me of rules of again. Let's go.

665
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 3: So we're gonna give you two choices. This is to

666
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 3: bring up any stories you got with anybody. But if

667
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 3: you pick one, we don't drink, don't pick drink. Okay,

668
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 3: so you say, but I just got to commit one

669
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 3: way that h we drink with you got there?

670
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, we haven't we having fun, so I gotta

671
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 2: set it off off Okay, Yeah, this is not waiting

672
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 2: for my shots.

673
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, Okay, I think I said I like this.

674
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: You're ready with the shots coming?

675
00:32:53,880 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 2: Okay, Chris Brown or Asha, I'm gonna say Usher, okay

676
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 2: because the roller skates, because.

677
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 4: Of the rollers, both of them are like supremely talented.

678
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 4: But I was on tour with Usher. Me and Kanye

679
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 4: were opening for Usher. This is like, this is the

680
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,479
Speaker 4: Confessions era Usher. So this is right after College Dropout

681
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 4: came out and right before Get Lifted my album came out,

682
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 4: and Usher's, you know, on top of the world, eight

683
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 4: million albums sold, and he's touring arenas for Confessions.

684
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: And we're opening for him. So I'm seeing the work

685
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: he's putting in every day getting the show right. And

686
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: I see that same.

687
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 4: Level of work ethic and effort and then just pure

688
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 4: talent from him still twenty years later.

689
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 2: So I'm a Usher fan for life. You don't go

690
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 2: to take a shot because you're right picked. But let

691
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 2: me ask you a question. This is off catalog. Your

692
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 2: lady asks you to go to Usher concert. Huh and

693
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 2: Usher comes over.

694
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:09,919
Speaker 1: Like Kiki, Yeah, ushers out here ruining relationship ship and strawberries.

695
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: He sees, your lady, are you getting is John Legend? Well,

696
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: the thing is I slow danced with women on my stage.

697
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 1: I understand the guy. I respect the game. You know,

698
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: he's like a show business business show business. It's cool,

699
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: but it's cool. She's not coming up volunteering her.

700
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 2: But I respect the game because he literally ruined short

701
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 2: these relationships.

702
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: Oh boy, he left like he one girl.

703
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 4: It was Keky's baby's father. And uh they weren't married,

704
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:55,439
Speaker 4: but you know he he wasn't happy. She was having

705
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 4: too much fun.

706
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: Who side was you on? He was you on his side?

707
00:34:59,400 --> 00:34:59,919
Speaker 1: Unher soide?

708
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 2: He like, oh Swiss bell swims.

709
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: I said, what up? I just saw him Sunday, But

710
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: uh listen, Uh like, I say, you got it. That's

711
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: the game.

712
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,439
Speaker 4: It's a show man like he did it in front

713
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 4: of everybody. She was sneaking up to his hotel room.

714
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,439
Speaker 4: It's like in front of everybody. This is fine, it's good.

715
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: Your arm b Niggs don't leave your girl. He a

716
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: song Sidney Poitier or Harry Belafonte.

717
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 4: I gotta go with my guy Harry, because I was

718
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 4: close with him before he passed away. I didn't really

719
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 4: I met mister Partier, but I spent a lot of

720
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:43,919
Speaker 4: time in mister Bellafonte.

721
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 1: And him both missed up. Yeah.

722
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 4: Uh, we really called him mister b and like he

723
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 4: was the example of how to be an activist and

724
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 4: an artist. And uh he took a lot of classy dudes. Yeah,

725
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 4: a classy like extremely talented, and he was the biggest

726
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 4: selling artist of his era. Like when he was big,

727
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 4: he was bigger than everybody. And so for him to

728
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 4: take that and then put it on the line so

729
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:12,760
Speaker 4: he could.

730
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 2: Support doctor King and do what everything he did, Like

731
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:17,399
Speaker 2: I always look up to him.

732
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: He picked. Yeah, Okay, Patti LaBelle or Tina Turner.

733
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:29,800
Speaker 4: Miss Patty that's right, Yeah, I mean Tina was extremely talented.

734
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 3: But I just like Miss Patty's music more. It's like

735
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 3: more more of my speed.

736
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I love to drink yeah, and I love

737
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: Miss Patty. She came on drinking chance for her own glass. Yes,

738
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 1: when you spent time with her, she's so real so real. Yeah,

739
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: like I love her, I really love her. Jada kiss

740
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 1: or Nas, I'm ready to drink.

741
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say this is that this is not easy. Actually,

742
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:04,320
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say Nas, Okay, we ain't drinking at all today, Okay,

743
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 4: this one.

744
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 3: I've done records with both of them, and I love

745
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 3: both of them.

746
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,439
Speaker 4: I think I just like NAS's voice just a little better,

747
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 4: like this, his flow and his voice just a little better.

748
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 2: But Shade is incredible, y'all all you Nas, all of

749
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 2: y'all go to light skin karate class.

750
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: I know, I know about y'all. I know about meeting meaning.

751
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: You can't drink out Franklin or Nina Simon. I might

752
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 1: drink on this, man. I don't know if I could pick.

753
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: These are two of my favorites of all time.

754
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 4: Uh, I'm gonna say, Nina Simon, Oh you don't drink shot,

755
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 4: don't take a shot.

756
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,760
Speaker 1: I take a shot for these are the smallest shots.

757
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: Usually it's a lot of shots. It's a long game.

758
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: We didn't think. We didn't think. We thought she was

759
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: going to be like very well correct. Don't know, man,

760
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 1: I'm telling you my truth. He saying that shit was

761
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 1: hot as hell, yeah, you want it Whitney Houston or

762
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 1: Amy Winehouse Whitney. That was easy. I should take a

763
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 1: shot for knowing that I love Amy though I love

764
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: her music. I met her. I met Amy when she

765
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: was brand like when that Back.

766
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 4: To Black album, So she had already had another album

767
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 4: that didn't really pop, and then the Back to Black

768
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 4: album was about to come out, and I was on

769
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 4: later with Jules Holland, which is a British show which

770
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 4: I love. And the show is just different artists in

771
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 4: like the round, and so one band will play and

772
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 4: then another band will play, and then the other band

773
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 4: all play and they're all five or six bands in

774
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 4: this room together in this big studio in London, and

775
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 4: Amy and I were both on the set, and so

776
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 4: she had a couple of her songs, she did Rehab

777
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:52,399
Speaker 4: and something else from.

778
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: That album, and then I.

779
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 4: Did a couple songs from my second album, and she

780
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 4: walked up to me like like she was a brand

781
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 4: new writers, like handing me her a demo and handing

782
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 4: me Back to Black, which ended up, you know, taking

783
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 4: over the world right after that, but at that point

784
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 4: it hadn't done that yet and it was about to.

785
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,959
Speaker 2: But that's when I first met him. Wow, yeah, Sam

786
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:18,879
Speaker 2: Cook or Teddy Pintograph mm hmmm taking a shot.

787
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 1: It's not easy. I'm gonna say Teddy just because there's

788
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 1: just more jams that I love, you know. Yeah, you

789
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: see look at Teddy Pograd. Baby, that's a Philly man.

790
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 5: You know.

791
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: He uh fly Eagles Fly? Is this gonna air after

792
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: the super Bowl? Yeah?

793
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 3: This would be at the super Bowl. Yeah, you knows

794
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 3: what happened. I'm over the Chiefs.

795
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 2: You know.

796
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: If I got to choose, you patched him my home cousin.

797
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 4: I got family look more like Jayleen Hurston. But I

798
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 4: went to scoring Philly. I went to you, that's right. Yeah,

799
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 4: so I got you know, yeah, I got love for Philly.

800
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: Okay, Jesus man, Philly. Get to the kig on like

801
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: that Biggie or Big L Biggie. I never was like

802
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: completely into Big L like, but I was definitely into Biggie. Okay,

803
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: DJ College or DJ Drama. I gotta go with College man.

804
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 4: I did like twenty records with College and legendary record

805
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 4: with niy Hustle exactly believe that was his last video

806
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 4: and to take it all the way back, we did

807
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 4: a record with good music me a consequence. We did

808
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,760
Speaker 4: a record called Grammy Family with Collein.

809
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:44,720
Speaker 1: That's a big record.

810
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 4: That was like when that was the early days when

811
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 4: Colin first started making those compilation albums, and uh, he

812
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 4: didn't win a Grammy. Colin didn't win a Grammy until

813
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:58,439
Speaker 4: we wanted together with Nipsey for Hire.

814
00:40:58,760 --> 00:40:59,280
Speaker 1: Oh wow.

815
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 4: It was called the Grammy Fan and the early record

816
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 4: was called Grammy Family. But years later we wanted his

817
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 4: first Grammy together.

818
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 2: I needed this is any criteria you want Yay or Pharrell? Mhmm,

819
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 2: I say Yay, Okay, yeah right.

820
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 3: I just started working with Pharrell recently, yeah, on music.

821
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 3: So we stepped in the studio and we started working

822
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,399
Speaker 3: on some new music. First time working together.

823
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,320
Speaker 1: We'd only done a couple of songs together.

824
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 4: Okay, but you know, obviously Yay and I have done

825
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 4: a thousand records together, and I'm truly a fan of

826
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 4: Yay as a producer and an artist over the years too.

827
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: So, but I love both of them.

828
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,800
Speaker 4: I mean, just think how influential both of them have

829
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 4: been to all of our culture, not just what we

830
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 4: listened to, what we wear everything.

831
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,359
Speaker 2: It sounds like we're taking a shot, no, he picked

832
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 2: a okay, okay, okay, so like we're taking it like a.

833
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 3: Like a.

834
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: Honorable shot. Let's mean you take a shot and oh

835
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: ship okay, yes, La or Miami. Mm hmm.

836
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 4: Well I live in l A, and I think Miami.

837
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 4: I enjoy partying here more than I do l A.

838
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 1: But I live in LA. It's like, you know, my

839
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: kids go to school there, l A.

840
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 4: Like you want to say, Miami's more Miami's more fun

841
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 4: in doses, and then La.

842
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: Is where I stay.

843
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 2: Okay, it's all you, this is me sein fell a

844
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 2: Kirby enthusiasm. We've established this curb. Yeah, yes, but let's

845
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 2: explain to the people why.

846
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 4: Well, I think the fact that on HBO gives it

847
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 4: more leeway to like say all the jokes, you know,

848
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 4: say all the funks they want to say, and everything else.

849
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 4: But also I think us getting to know Larry, who

850
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 4: was the creator of exactly, I think that was a revelation.

851
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 4: So I think that's what makes kurb better is his

852
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 4: his personality. Because George was always a really funny part

853
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 4: of Seinfeld anyway.

854
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 3: But having the real George, having Larry there is.

855
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: Like it makes it better, all right.

856
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 2: Now I want to ask you what is your favorite

857
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,800
Speaker 2: Seinfeld episode and what is your favorite curb episode?

858
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 1: Now this is this is not with drink Chance, but

859
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: one in one. I don't know, that's a good one.

860
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 4: I like the one where they're doing the contests in Seinfeld.

861
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 4: That's a good one where they're like seeing who's going

862
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 4: jack off first?

863
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, come out you were JBS? Move is Kramer?

864
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: And yeah like that?

865
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 2: Yes, he's like the black you went with the episode? Yes,

866
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 2: se felt it's called the con. Now that's your favorite curve?

867
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 1: My favorite curve? Oh, man, I gotta think about that.

868
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: I don't know, I really have to think about it.

869
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 2: You know what my favorite curve when they he hired

870
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 2: the people to be Christians in front.

871
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 1: Of down and the Nativity said, because you know he's Jewish,

872
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: so he hired Christian, but his wife is Christian. His

873
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: wife is Christian Christian, and I think he didn't feed

874
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: them or something wrong. So that's my favorite. If you

875
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: think about it, we'll come back to yes. The next one.

876
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: Swiss Beachs are Timberland.

877
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say Tim, it's fucked up because I know

878
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 3: all these people very well, so.

879
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see yes, I'll say Tim.

880
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 4: Honestly, there's more Tim records that I'm like, are some

881
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 4: of the greatest records of all time? That then I

882
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 4: think of Swiss, But I love a bunch of Swiss

883
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 4: records too. But I'm gonna say Tim. Okay, Most Deaf

884
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:22,280
Speaker 4: or to Live, Most Deaf or Black Dog Black Dot Okay.

885
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 4: I just think if Most was still giving us material

886
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 4: then it would be closer. But I think because Black

887
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:36,880
Speaker 4: Dot has been so prolific, h and consistent and prolific.

888
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: Uh, you got to show up? Is this show biz? Man?

889
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 4: If you show up and you're making records, then like, uh,

890
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 4: there's there's points.

891
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,400
Speaker 1: For that, you know, like the montaue to show up? Okay,

892
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: analog of digital?

893
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 4: Well, we we run everything through analog before we put

894
00:45:58,200 --> 00:45:58,800
Speaker 4: it on digital.

895
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: To this day, we run it through the tape. Really.

896
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, when I make a record, we run it through

897
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:05,240
Speaker 4: the tape first and then.

898
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 1: Put it to digital. We say tape you meet real, Yeah,

899
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: get the out of school, Yeah yo, let me make

900
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 1: some noise. You know. Cartel said that yesterday too on

901
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 1: the rail Oh ship. Yeah, you can run into tape

902
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: before you put it on digital. Oh man, So there's

903
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: best of both. It just gives it that flavor. That

904
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,800
Speaker 1: home you picked that digital. I'm goinging analog.

905
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 3: Thank you.

906
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:36,839
Speaker 2: That's not going all the time. Marvin Gay or Al Green, Marvin, Damn,

907
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 2: It's easy.

908
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,840
Speaker 1: I was flying through this. I'm just willing to commit.

909
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 4: You know, I'm gonna make it, even if I like

910
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 4: I might have second thoughts later, I'm gonna decide, you know,

911
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:54,800
Speaker 4: Dre or Quincy Jones. Oh, it's like apples and oranges.

912
00:46:55,360 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 4: But I'm gonna say Quincy just the range of probably musicianship,

913
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 4: you know, because you think about Quincy's career. He was

914
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 4: producing and arranging and composing for Frank Sinatra and Ray

915
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 4: Charles in the fifties and sixties, and then giving us

916
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 4: Thriller in the eighties, and to me and everybody else

917
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:21,359
Speaker 4: and all the R and B artists he produced over

918
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 4: the years. Nancy Sinatra, he did everything, so just the breadth.

919
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 1: Of work he was able to do. Yeahgazine, heay, he.

920
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 3: Produced a fresh Prince of bel air, roots, color purple.

921
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: He just gave us everything. Yeah, thanks one.

922
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 4: Get lifted or my favorite dream, get lifted. It's a

923
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 4: good segue. Let's promote get listed. Twenty years so this

924
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 4: is the twentieth anniversary. It gets listed right now. And

925
00:47:56,760 --> 00:48:00,120
Speaker 4: we just did the luxe edition of the album with

926
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:03,360
Speaker 4: the original album first, but then a whole extra album,

927
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 4: the whole I did it all over, Yeah, a whole

928
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 4: extra album of remixes. So I did The Ordinary People

929
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 4: with Thames, the APPROB version.

930
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 3: I did Approb version of Refuge with Semi.

931
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 4: Both of them are from Nigeria. And then I did

932
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 4: a couple of hip hop remixes. I did Black Thought

933
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 4: on used to Love You with ninth Wonder I'm making

934
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 4: the B and then uh You making the ninth d Yeah,

935
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 4: and then on Let's Get Lifted Again, I had Killer

936
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 4: Mike and Lil Wayne each do a verse and uh

937
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 4: So the remixes are dope, but we have the original

938
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 4: versions first, and then at the end of the album.

939
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: You can listen to the remixes. M that's fine, m

940
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 1: J or Prince.

941
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 3: Childhood. Tell this is a shot A you got four

942
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 3: shots us to do four times at least.

943
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say both MJ.

944
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 2: If I'm just going record for record, like the songs

945
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 2: that had the most impact in.

946
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: My life, I feel like MJ had more. They say,

947
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: they say MJ is just as famous as Jesus.

948
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 4: Do you believe that now at his peak, at his peak, yeah,

949
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 4: I'm sure, yeah, yes, but if you ask a kid now,

950
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 4: like I don't know, but during that time, he was everything.

951
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 4: Like the first like merch I ever had was a

952
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 4: Michael Jackson Thriller folder for school.

953
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: Zipper jacket. Yeah, zip jacket too. You look like you

954
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: had to go. Yeah, so you definitely had.

955
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:54,879
Speaker 4: I was born in seventy eight, so I was born

956
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 4: in seventy eight, so my first time going to school

957
00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 4: was like mid eighties, and like.

958
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 1: That was everything when Thriller, when that video came out.

959
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,879
Speaker 4: My parents were very religious, so Prince they like thought

960
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:09,479
Speaker 4: Prince was a little too like uh crazy, a little

961
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 4: too wild he was. Yeah, so he was like forbidden

962
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 4: through at the house for a while. But MJ, you know,

963
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 4: we could get away with that.

964
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 3: That's just great because both of them had very religious families. Yeah,

965
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 3: and Prince was very religious. Yea, Prince became even more religious.

966
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 3: I think it was Jehoah's witness. Our Seventh Day venis

967
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 3: one of Stevie Wonder or Smokey Robinson, Stevie you know.

968
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 3: Snoop Dogg said that Stevie wants face thoms him.

969
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, Steevie facetimes, what's just the one that Georgie Clinton.

970
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: Jorine Clinton said that he saw him across the busy street.

971
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 3: Everybody's got everybody got Stevie. Give everybody. Everybody's got Stevie's

972
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 3: not blind.

973
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 1: Stories.

974
00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 2: Shaq said he seen he seen Stevie getting the elevator, said,

975
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 2: what's up, Diesel.

976
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 1: Black. I don't remember that bar, but we need to No, I.

977
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:12,800
Speaker 3: Mean, everybody's got him. Like, but I went to his studio.

978
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:15,880
Speaker 2: You've seen him rolling up and he was just walking

979
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 2: around like like he was seeing everything.

980
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: But it was also his studio, so so like he's

981
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: he's been there a lot. He walking around.

982
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 3: He's literally blind, but he's actually not one hundred percent

983
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 3: blind because I don't know.

984
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 1: I don't know. I never asked. I never had when

985
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: I never asked.

986
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 3: Because men, the stories are crazy. Stevie family calling him like.

987
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 2: We spoke about him almost every but he likes to

988
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 2: make jokes about it too, Like he makes blind jokes

989
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 2: all the time.

990
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: He has blind jokes all the time. He'll just say

991
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 1: like yeah, I'll drive over there, I'll see you when

992
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: I like he'll drive over because Oprah board him with

993
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,280
Speaker 1: may back. He said he was gonna I'm dropping exactly.

994
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 1: He says it all the time, though he'll joke about

995
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 1: it all the time.

996
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 2: We would love to have him one, but I've never

997
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 2: asked him. Stevie, be real with me, are you really blind?

998
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:19,279
Speaker 1: You're pulling? You know what's crazy. Like most blind people,

999
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:21,719
Speaker 1: they feel your face to see how you you look.

1000
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 2: I've never seen Steve. Steve touch anybody's face. I've never

1001
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:28,359
Speaker 2: seen I'm just being I love. I mean, you see

1002
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 2: him as a famous person. He's had someone next to

1003
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:31,399
Speaker 2: me like you're about to see.

1004
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:36,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's always got somebody next to her. All right.

1005
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 4: If I'm betting, I'm betting he's blind. Okay, okay, Uh,

1006
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:49,840
Speaker 4: Brothers of the Parliament, Isaacs. Just more records that you

1007
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 4: know resonate with me.

1008
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 3: Tony Tony Tony or BBD Tony Tony.

1009
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 1: Tony, same answer, More records that resonate me.

1010
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm I'm close with Raphael too, and he's

1011
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 3: produced a couple of my albums.

1012
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:01,840
Speaker 1: And uh and.

1013
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:06,239
Speaker 4: Raphael sadiqu the you know, lead singer and one of

1014
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 4: the great producers. He's just one Album of the Year

1015
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 4: with with Beyonce for the country album. Uh, he was

1016
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 4: part of that, and he's part of that and part

1017
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 4: of renaissance, and he's a part of everything like that.

1018
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 4: You don't even know, like di'angelo Lady Untitled by di'angelo,

1019
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 4: like some of the great R and B records of

1020
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 4: all time, he's behind.

1021
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:27,440
Speaker 1: And then all those Tony Tony records.

1022
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 2: Are amazing too, great new addition or BBD No, No

1023
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 2: Jackson five, Jackson five, my bad Jackson Fine, Okay, it's

1024
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:37,320
Speaker 2: the guys from Boston.

1025
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: He's mad Tony, Tony Tony or BBD. I know we

1026
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 1: did that one. We did that one. Hmm. I'm gonna

1027
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 1: say Rion Alicia is my friend too.

1028
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 4: But as a fan just listening, I probably listened to

1029
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 4: Rihanna Moore and again more records that I'm like in

1030
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:01,919
Speaker 4: love with of hers.

1031
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, y'all got a couples b something you just swiss

1032
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 3: And no, man, I don't really love both of them. Man,

1033
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 3: I truly love both of them. They're like wonderful people.

1034
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 3: I'm just speaking as like a as a as a

1035
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:16,799
Speaker 3: non biased man.

1036
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: And they both drink chancelortle. Oh soul man coming to America. Oh,

1037
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,359
Speaker 1: coming to America. This is coming into America too. They

1038
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: put yes, oh coming to America too. Wow, so man,

1039
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: we'll good it to so man. Both movies.

1040
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 3: Those are both Malcolm Lee movies because you SWI Okay,

1041
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:43,240
Speaker 3: oh shot, that's my guy, Malcolm Lee. He just texted

1042
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:43,719
Speaker 3: me this week.

1043
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:48,280
Speaker 1: All right. This last question they get back in the interviews,

1044
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 1: loyalty or respect? Mm hmm.

1045
00:54:55,239 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say that's a good question, m respect. And

1046
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 4: the reason why I will say I think I think

1047
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:14,400
Speaker 4: we should want respect more than we want loyalty from people,

1048
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 4: just because, first of all, respect will come with loyalty anyway, but.

1049
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 1: I want.

1050
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:30,320
Speaker 4: Sometimes loyalty can bleed over into being blind loyalty and

1051
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 4: people not telling you what you don't want to hear, etcetera, etcetera.

1052
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:41,240
Speaker 4: So like yes, man, yeah, so I would rather have respect. Okay,

1053
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 4: this makes noise for that, John Legend. I'm gonna tell

1054
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 4: you something. I'm not sure if anybody ever told you this.

1055
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:53,360
Speaker 4: I think you should run for president.

1056
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,360
Speaker 1: No, someone has told me that before a few times,

1057
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 1: but I don't think I have put coporations. Look you, honestly,

1058
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 1: I love California.

1059
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 4: I love being involved in everything, and I'll stay involved,

1060
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:12,280
Speaker 4: but I just feel like I would not enjoy running

1061
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,920
Speaker 4: for it or being at Let's let's say you.

1062
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 2: Let's just say you you did like you woke up

1063
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 2: the next day tomorrow and I'm tomorrow, I'm gona run

1064
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:27,520
Speaker 2: for president. Who would be your vice president?

1065
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 1: Who would you? I don't know?

1066
00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 3: She got real?

1067
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 1: So seriously, who who? Who you pick?

1068
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:39,719
Speaker 3: Who? Right now?

1069
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 2: Like tomorrow, I don't know now, I don't know loaded

1070
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:49,239
Speaker 2: would it be dope if you was to pick Barack? Yo?

1071
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 1: I just feel like backs my man pronounced it, Barack

1072
00:56:55,520 --> 00:57:00,479
Speaker 1: Obama Obama? Sure would that would that'd be crazy? John

1073
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 1: legend run of a fucking president?

1074
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1075
00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 2: And Borack come out he quit walking or something like.

1076
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, like he do something like

1077
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 2: coming out to be.

1078
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:12,400
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not bad. You know, I'm going over

1079
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:19,919
Speaker 1: to place. I'm excited. I'm excited. Lexic kids, Who would

1080
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 1: you pick? Who would you pick? You know?

1081
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 4: I feel like it shouldn't be a celebrity, No, no, no, whatever.

1082
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 4: If it's going to be me, it shouldn't be a

1083
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 4: celebrity that it should be a politician. Yeah, that may

1084
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 4: be so so let's get wild. Let's George Clinton or somebody.

1085
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: I'm just just your choice. I'm sorry.

1086
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 3: Uh, Kerrie Washington, she's an actor, okay, yeah, playing president

1087
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 3: she was a scandal.

1088
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 1: She was a scandal. Okay. Well the thing about Carrie

1089
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 1: is I've seen her.

1090
00:57:56,280 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 4: Behind the scenes and she's like really politically aware, and

1091
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 4: she's really great at organizing and motivating people, and she

1092
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 4: would be amazing and she's a great communicator.

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00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 1: Okay, I thought that through. You can give him. I'm

1094
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 1: thinking for I think he's gonna pick for real. You

1095
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 1: wanted to make the best beats for the way out?

1096
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:24,480
Speaker 2: This should be being wrong, yes, okay, all right, twenty nineteen.

1097
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 2: How many haters did you get?

1098
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 1: Of course of this cover? So many see now this

1099
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 1: is this is.

1100
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 4: When if I was on Twitter. I was on Twitter

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00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 4: back then, and I made an intentional choice to not

1102
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:41,959
Speaker 4: check my Twitter.

1103
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 1: It wasn't on black Twitter when this game. I did

1104
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: not check my Twitter when that cover came out. It

1105
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:49,680
Speaker 1: was gonna be because I knew it's not gonna be

1106
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 1: nice because there's no win situation for you.

1107
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 3: Becuzin some people are like, hey, great, but most people

1108
00:58:57,040 --> 00:58:58,400
Speaker 3: are gonna be like fuck him.

1109
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 4: Somebody else should have won. And then and then they

1110
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:04,080
Speaker 4: let all the other people that should have won. So

1111
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 4: I'm like, fuck, y'all, I'm not.

1112
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 1: Reading your tweets, but how did they call you for

1113
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 1: this couple?

1114
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 3: My publicist called me and they're they're like, we got

1115
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 3: big news.

1116
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 2: John, Let's take a shot for you. That's not a

1117
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:21,360
Speaker 2: part of the show. I was just taking a shot

1118
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 2: the sexiest man alive.

1119
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 1: Jesus Holy Ship.

1120
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 4: They said we got big news, and I was like really,

1121
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 4: And I was already thinking like, oh man, I'm gonna

1122
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 4: get so much ship for this.

1123
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 1: But I was like, all right, let's do it. And

1124
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: so then they set up the photo shoot. They did

1125
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 1: the whole thing.

1126
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 2: Did that at our house, and you know you did

1127
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:44,720
Speaker 2: the photo shoot. Yeah, the help come to me. Did

1128
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 2: you charge you for that? We usually do charge like

1129
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 2: a location field. Goddamn, you gotta double it. We gotta

1130
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:01,160
Speaker 2: talk about EGOT. Yeah, all right, listen, I'm gonna be

1131
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:04,720
Speaker 2: honest with you. You're probably the only EGOT Award winner

1132
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:06,479
Speaker 2: I'm ever gonna meet, not life.

1133
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 1: Well, you could meet Jennifer Hudson. You can bet Jennifer

1134
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:13,000
Speaker 1: she is now. She might not have been when you

1135
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 1: met definitely.

1136
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 4: The first here on Drink Champs, and then whoopee Whoopy

1137
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 4: was the first black person to become a EG.

1138
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:21,880
Speaker 1: I was the second.

1139
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:24,560
Speaker 4: I was the first black man, and then Jay Hudd

1140
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 4: and now Viola also is.

1141
01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: An E guy Davis, Yes, okay, so all right, let's

1142
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: explain to mother fuckers.

1143
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:43,760
Speaker 2: So he got it's an Emmy, a Grammy, yeah, Oscar? Yeah,

1144
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 2: and I forgot what the last one?

1145
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:48,640
Speaker 1: Tony?

1146
01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 3: Did you say?

1147
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:59,919
Speaker 1: What is? That's Broadway? Broadway, That's what we produced, were

1148
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 1: to play.

1149
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 4: We produced a play called Jitney and it won a Tony, and.

1150
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: So that's my tea.

1151
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 3: That's awesome, man, congratulations, So which one did you get?

1152
01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:16,160
Speaker 1: First? The Grammys?

1153
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:20,240
Speaker 4: So my first Grammys were three Grammys for my debut

1154
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:22,960
Speaker 4: album Get Lifted twenty year anniversary this year, goddamn.

1155
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:25,600
Speaker 1: Oh.

1156
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:29,040
Speaker 4: So I won Best New Artist, Best R and B Album,

1157
01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 4: and Best R and B Male Vocal Performance for that

1158
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:35,600
Speaker 4: album and for Ordinary People. And then since then I've

1159
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 4: won thirteen Grammys. Thirteen and then I won an Oscar

1160
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 4: for Glory with Common.

1161
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:47,160
Speaker 1: We wrote that for Selma, and then.

1162
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 4: After that I won the Tony for Jitney, which is

1163
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:54,480
Speaker 4: a play written by August Wilson, and we produced a

1164
01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 4: revival of it and we won Best Revival on Broadway

1165
01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:03,360
Speaker 4: and then only needed the Emmy, and NBC called me

1166
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 4: up and asked me to start as Jesus Christ in

1167
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 4: Jesus Christ Superstar Live production that they did for NBC and.

1168
01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:13,280
Speaker 1: That play.

1169
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 4: That musical was written by Andrew, Lloyd Weber and Tim

1170
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 4: Rice and they all three of us only needed an

1171
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:24,480
Speaker 4: Emmy to get the egot, and we all wanted at

1172
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:25,200
Speaker 4: the same time.

1173
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:27,920
Speaker 1: When we won Best Live Music.

1174
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:32,560
Speaker 3: Is there a point where you're getting closer, You're like,

1175
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 3: now you're shooting for You're like this.

1176
01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:37,560
Speaker 4: My team knew that all I needed was an Emmy,

1177
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 4: and they're like, and I have a production company and

1178
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 4: we produced TV and film, so like, if anything we

1179
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:45,200
Speaker 4: produced would get an Emmy, then I would have an egot.

1180
01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 4: So they're like, man, we're gonna get you this egot.

1181
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 3: So so we produced Jesus Christ Superstar Live.

1182
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 1: And it won the Emmy.

1183
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 2: So yeah, well, I'm gonna tall you well for first

1184
01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 2: of us to make some noise for that. Well, I'm

1185
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 2: gonna tell you something. Uh, you know, I'm an artist first,

1186
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 2: and I believe in I'm pro artist, super pro artist.

1187
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:07,480
Speaker 1: Right, So we've been doing this nine years, nine years,

1188
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:09,040
Speaker 1: eight years, nine years.

1189
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:13,880
Speaker 2: I was like nine years, nine years, right, and due

1190
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 2: these nine years, no one has ever sent us a writer.

1191
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:22,320
Speaker 1: You are the only one who's sitting there. I was

1192
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:28,920
Speaker 1: so happy the artist in me. I was like, he

1193
01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:33,280
Speaker 1: has to send us a writer. It's funny because I

1194
01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 1: haven't even been to the dressing room, so I don't

1195
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 1: even know if I have a rider. I was.

1196
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:44,400
Speaker 2: The artist in me because I cool, this is this

1197
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:46,880
Speaker 2: is one thing, right, And I lost money on you too.

1198
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:49,720
Speaker 1: I bet he was gonna be on time. We always bet.

1199
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 3: This is.

1200
01:03:50,240 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 1: This is how I was there two oh nine, No, no,

1201
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 1: you said too, or nine you came here two and sixteen? Yes,

1202
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:56,920
Speaker 1: I lost.

1203
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:03,280
Speaker 2: Literally bet and I I bet my mind. I was like, no, miss,

1204
01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:05,680
Speaker 2: I'll called you miss the legend. I was like, the

1205
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:07,600
Speaker 2: legend will be on time, and he's gonna be on

1206
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 2: But holy molyam those were saying before saying that he

1207
01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:20,880
Speaker 2: was late.

1208
01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 1: The writer, the writer that ship touched me.

1209
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:26,840
Speaker 4: I was a writer because we got like small riders

1210
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:29,880
Speaker 4: and then big specifically purple grapes in there that.

1211
01:04:32,680 --> 01:04:41,080
Speaker 1: I like, I like, I love that we just have

1212
01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:41,400
Speaker 1: like that.

1213
01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 4: We have like the streamlined version and then I got

1214
01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:46,120
Speaker 4: the full version for the show and everything.

1215
01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:49,560
Speaker 1: So let me tell you, I apologize, I love it.

1216
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:53,760
Speaker 1: Do not apologize. That is dope. Your team is dope.

1217
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:59,000
Speaker 1: Let me let me just tell you something. Sorry. I

1218
01:04:59,160 --> 01:04:59,920
Speaker 1: was going to go to.

1219
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:05,920
Speaker 2: I was on tour in Japan, right and every city

1220
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:07,880
Speaker 2: that I went to, the promoter was like, he just

1221
01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:10,720
Speaker 2: kept hugging me because my writer was just like Hennessy

1222
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:11,080
Speaker 2: at the.

1223
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:15,200
Speaker 1: Time, blunt and maybe kid like I had. I had

1224
01:05:15,240 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 1: no fruit, I had no water.

1225
01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 2: And he was And I said to him, I had

1226
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 2: like a twenty four city tour with him, So I

1227
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:22,480
Speaker 2: was like, Yo, why do you keep hugging me every

1228
01:05:22,560 --> 01:05:24,440
Speaker 2: time that I go in the dressing room?

1229
01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:26,440
Speaker 1: He was like, because I just had l L.

1230
01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:32,160
Speaker 2: Do you imagine what l El's writer was in Japan?

1231
01:05:32,520 --> 01:05:36,960
Speaker 2: He wanted green apples. I don't even think green apples

1232
01:05:37,040 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 2: go past He's ghost.

1233
01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 1: So he was just happy. How he was just happy,

1234
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:44,520
Speaker 1: how simple you're I was? And I didn't so this

1235
01:05:44,680 --> 01:05:48,560
Speaker 1: whole nine years. You know, he's Hollywood. You know I

1236
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 1: believe only one of yell skittles.

1237
01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:54,640
Speaker 3: He wanted to open up everything that was all violator

1238
01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:57,680
Speaker 3: old bout of the end. I booked you out here

1239
01:05:57,760 --> 01:05:59,520
Speaker 3: for the first time and I got your writer.

1240
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:00,520
Speaker 1: It was crazy.

1241
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 3: You had like to two palettes of snapples or something

1242
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:08,480
Speaker 3: crazy like gon ship.

1243
01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:11,440
Speaker 2: Dude, By the way, do you make your own writer?

1244
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 2: Because I don't make my writer. I have input.

1245
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:19,919
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I'll like like when I don't like where

1246
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:22,400
Speaker 4: we are with it, like because maybe like I wanted

1247
01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:24,360
Speaker 4: this two years ago, but I want it now, then I'll.

1248
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:26,080
Speaker 1: Go back and go through it and edit it.

1249
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:28,000
Speaker 4: So the last tour we went on, I went through

1250
01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:30,840
Speaker 4: and edited it and I haven't had to say anything

1251
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:31,320
Speaker 4: since then.

1252
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:33,720
Speaker 2: You know what should have We should do a documentary

1253
01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:39,000
Speaker 2: music people ride us? Yeah, because different people like different ship.

1254
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:42,560
Speaker 3: They revolt, they they listen to my writer. Unfortunately, when

1255
01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:43,880
Speaker 3: I got the what's the drink?

1256
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:48,360
Speaker 1: I got you're drinking fireball? This is like a frat boy.

1257
01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:54,760
Speaker 3: To me.

1258
01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:59,080
Speaker 1: Here's your writer, oh ship? I went on from there.

1259
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:02,520
Speaker 2: By the way, I'm sorry to switch the subjects up,

1260
01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:05,000
Speaker 2: but if if, if God came to you right now,

1261
01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 2: and God says John Legend, I need you to make

1262
01:07:08,600 --> 01:07:12,760
Speaker 2: one record to save humanity, and you got one feature

1263
01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:20,440
Speaker 2: and you got one producer dead or alive, the feature

1264
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:22,160
Speaker 2: and the producer dead or live.

1265
01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:23,160
Speaker 1: You got one record.

1266
01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:25,720
Speaker 2: This record that you make John Legend is going to

1267
01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:28,720
Speaker 2: save humanity and put people on motherfucking.

1268
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 1: Mars to live. Yeah. Yeah. He said, you don't want

1269
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:39,200
Speaker 1: to work with Elon Mark. I don't believe nobody. I

1270
01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:41,800
Speaker 1: haven't worked with that. I love that. I shouted out

1271
01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:43,240
Speaker 1: today Timberland.

1272
01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:47,760
Speaker 2: Tim, you can have a feature if you want, dad

1273
01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:50,959
Speaker 2: or live. We're talking like a singer or a rapper,

1274
01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:51,960
Speaker 2: whatever you want.

1275
01:07:52,160 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 3: This is John Legend, world's doing with a banjo.

1276
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 4: Uh, let's do Tim tim Bow and hove. I was

1277
01:07:59,880 --> 01:08:01,600
Speaker 4: just listening to Dirt off your shoulder in the car.

1278
01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:08,440
Speaker 1: Crazy record. Yeah nasty. I just saw a video of

1279
01:08:08,840 --> 01:08:12,840
Speaker 1: the first moment he showed whole that Tim eat the banana.

1280
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:20,720
Speaker 1: It was awkward, but it was it was banana in

1281
01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:26,840
Speaker 1: his mouth. He just held it. What do you like more,

1282
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 1: performing or making the record? I like to make the record, man, hmm.

1283
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:36,280
Speaker 1: I love both.

1284
01:08:37,640 --> 01:08:43,479
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say my favorite part is writing writing. Yes,

1285
01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:46,559
Speaker 4: for other people, writing for myself, but I.

1286
01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:47,559
Speaker 1: Mean for other people too.

1287
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:52,439
Speaker 3: But I love starting with nothing and ending the day

1288
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:54,320
Speaker 3: with something new that could change my life.

1289
01:08:54,400 --> 01:08:55,320
Speaker 1: That that's a.

1290
01:08:55,320 --> 01:09:00,160
Speaker 4: Special It's like, Hey, that didn't exist before today and

1291
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:03,040
Speaker 4: we made it, and it's amazing. You always think it's

1292
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:05,759
Speaker 4: amazing for the first day, and it's not always amazing,

1293
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:10,840
Speaker 4: but that feeling, there's nothing like him. Right, Okay, let's

1294
01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 4: take it back to the beginning. How did we start.

1295
01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:16,120
Speaker 4: So I grew up in Ohio. Grew up in a

1296
01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:21,880
Speaker 4: small city called Springfield. And uh my family is very

1297
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:25,320
Speaker 4: next with Dave Chappelle and that right, So if he

1298
01:09:25,520 --> 01:09:26,400
Speaker 4: was on SNL, he was.

1299
01:09:26,400 --> 01:09:29,760
Speaker 1: Talking about my hometown the other day because.

1300
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 4: The whole eating Yeah, the Haitians are there and and

1301
01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 4: uh so Trump was making up shit about them on.

1302
01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 1: On the debate stage.

1303
01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:40,320
Speaker 4: But that was my city. That's where I grew up.

1304
01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 4: So I grew up in Springfield, Ohio. My family is

1305
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:46,839
Speaker 4: very involved in the church. So my grandpa was the pastor,

1306
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:50,879
Speaker 4: my grandmother was the organist, my mom was the choir director.

1307
01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:53,519
Speaker 4: So I just grew up around people who made gospel

1308
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:57,200
Speaker 4: music all the time. And so I piano at the house,

1309
01:09:57,320 --> 01:10:00,120
Speaker 4: drums at the house, and before the piano hit for

1310
01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:05,320
Speaker 4: you all right, yeah, but yeah, I just grew up

1311
01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:08,519
Speaker 4: around music all the time, especially in church, and I

1312
01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:11,760
Speaker 4: always loved it. I always wanted to sing, just grew

1313
01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:14,200
Speaker 4: up around people who loved it too, and they encouraged me.

1314
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:17,599
Speaker 4: I took piano lessons when I was four, started singing.

1315
01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:20,320
Speaker 1: In church choir when I was seven, and you know,

1316
01:10:20,400 --> 01:10:22,920
Speaker 1: it's been my life. God damn it, you love it.

1317
01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:23,640
Speaker 1: I love it.

1318
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:27,120
Speaker 3: But you said, you said you're celebrating your debut album,

1319
01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:30,559
Speaker 3: but you had music that you had albums before this independently, all.

1320
01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:32,559
Speaker 1: Independent albums, A couple of them.

1321
01:10:33,040 --> 01:10:35,320
Speaker 4: They basically were like demos that I was, you know,

1322
01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:38,240
Speaker 4: trying to get signed with, but I was also selling

1323
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:39,720
Speaker 4: them at my shows, so I would play.

1324
01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:41,679
Speaker 1: I was living in New York, and I was working

1325
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:42,160
Speaker 1: in the.

1326
01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:45,559
Speaker 3: Daytime as a consultant, so like this very like white

1327
01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:47,640
Speaker 3: collar job in.

1328
01:10:47,680 --> 01:10:49,240
Speaker 1: The business world, corporate world.

1329
01:10:49,560 --> 01:10:51,479
Speaker 4: But at night I was trying to get signed, and

1330
01:10:51,520 --> 01:10:53,320
Speaker 4: I would play gigs around New York, so I would

1331
01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 4: sell my little demos at the shows. And so that

1332
01:10:57,280 --> 01:10:59,559
Speaker 4: I graduated college in ninety nine, moved to New York

1333
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:02,760
Speaker 4: in two, and I got signed in four and Get

1334
01:11:02,840 --> 01:11:05,400
Speaker 4: Lifted came out four, So I had like those four

1335
01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:08,040
Speaker 4: or five years out of school where I was just

1336
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:09,960
Speaker 4: trying to get signed, but also working.

1337
01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:11,720
Speaker 1: A day job. That's when I met Ya.

1338
01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:14,600
Speaker 4: That's when I met a lot of the people that

1339
01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:17,599
Speaker 4: I wrote the first album with was during that time.

1340
01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:19,920
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna get back to that. But is this

1341
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:23,360
Speaker 2: true that you have to eat a rotesttery chicken meal

1342
01:11:23,439 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 2: before every.

1343
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:26,599
Speaker 4: That's in my show writer, that wasn't in this right,

1344
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 4: that's in my constant. I don't need the whole chicken,

1345
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:34,320
Speaker 4: but I ordered half a chicken.

1346
01:11:34,400 --> 01:11:35,559
Speaker 1: Okay, why.

1347
01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:40,960
Speaker 3: I just like the feel of it. Boston Market. It's

1348
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 3: Boston Market. The market, yeah, okay, Boston Market too. Was

1349
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:48,160
Speaker 3: it called Boston Boston Market used to be called Boston Chicken.

1350
01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:51,639
Speaker 4: It started as Boston Chicken, then it became Boston Market

1351
01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:52,200
Speaker 4: because that's.

1352
01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 1: That's how the chicken. I've been to Boston. I've never

1353
01:11:54,040 --> 01:11:55,040
Speaker 1: seen that chicken in Boston.

1354
01:11:56,400 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 2: I'm just asking, like anybody else has That's a good question,

1355
01:12:00,160 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 2: like I've never seen that chicken start in Boston. That

1356
01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:05,559
Speaker 2: sounds from that's the reason why. But have you ever

1357
01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:07,639
Speaker 2: had that Boston Market chicken in Boston?

1358
01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:14,880
Speaker 1: Ok? I love the market. He's serious about it, so

1359
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:19,080
Speaker 1: we established you don't get mad. I'm very very mellow guy.

1360
01:12:19,200 --> 01:12:23,960
Speaker 1: It's rarely do I lose my cool. I got to

1361
01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:24,840
Speaker 1: ask you this straight up.

1362
01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:29,160
Speaker 2: We had Kanye on this app on it I saw

1363
01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:33,760
Speaker 2: and we had two different we had two different different episodes. Yes,

1364
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 2: and this is this is your according to your words,

1365
01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:40,080
Speaker 2: as you're saying, this is like your mentor somebody that

1366
01:12:40,160 --> 01:12:42,800
Speaker 2: you looked up, somebody that puts you on. We made

1367
01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:46,360
Speaker 2: a lot of great music together, and we came we

1368
01:12:46,479 --> 01:12:47,400
Speaker 2: came up together.

1369
01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:54,040
Speaker 1: Right, Sometimes does it disturb you, Oh, how did you feel?

1370
01:12:54,160 --> 01:12:54,200
Speaker 3: Like?

1371
01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:59,120
Speaker 1: Oh? Absolutely disturbs me some of the things he says.

1372
01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:02,800
Speaker 3: And and I'm not as just serve for me because

1373
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:04,000
Speaker 3: what he said about me, I think.

1374
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:08,720
Speaker 4: I'm like, obviously it was a good thing for him

1375
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:11,519
Speaker 4: and for me that he signed me. I wasn't worried

1376
01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:14,040
Speaker 4: about the literal words that he said. I didn't take

1377
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:16,160
Speaker 4: it personally. But I just feel like a lot of

1378
01:13:16,200 --> 01:13:20,000
Speaker 4: times he seems to be going through ship and and

1379
01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:22,640
Speaker 4: every once in a while we'll get, you.

1380
01:13:22,680 --> 01:13:27,719
Speaker 3: Know, these flurries of outbursts from him, and it's sad.

1381
01:13:27,800 --> 01:13:27,920
Speaker 1: Man.

1382
01:13:28,160 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 2: I don't love seeing it. Man, I don't love seeing

1383
01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:33,280
Speaker 2: it for him because you know him, like, yeah, like

1384
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:36,880
Speaker 2: these people to most people, and I don't want to

1385
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:40,000
Speaker 2: stay on this. I'll get you know, you know, well

1386
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:42,280
Speaker 2: most people it's entertainment.

1387
01:13:41,960 --> 01:13:44,479
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, And it's like, but that's your that's your brother,

1388
01:13:44,640 --> 01:13:47,479
Speaker 4: and it is outrageous, and sometimes it's funny, like and

1389
01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:49,360
Speaker 4: some of my friends will like, you know, text me

1390
01:13:49,520 --> 01:13:52,720
Speaker 4: hear what Kanye said. Yeah, I'm like yeah, but like

1391
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:55,200
Speaker 4: part of it's sad, you know, it's sad seeing it.

1392
01:13:55,560 --> 01:14:00,800
Speaker 4: And I still look at him as one of the

1393
01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:03,960
Speaker 4: most important artists that we've ever had, and I still

1394
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:08,800
Speaker 4: like some of his music is just like truly incredible, groundbreaking,

1395
01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:13,720
Speaker 4: world changing and still holds up now and and I

1396
01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:15,439
Speaker 4: just feel like it's a shame that.

1397
01:14:17,160 --> 01:14:20,000
Speaker 1: That it gets clouded by all the other shit.

1398
01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:26,439
Speaker 3: God bless man, because to go more to the musical

1399
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:29,240
Speaker 3: side of it, like yeah, that journey that when you

1400
01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:31,760
Speaker 3: guys connected in the beginning, but was that like how

1401
01:14:32,200 --> 01:14:34,640
Speaker 3: so what stage of his career and for you, like, what.

1402
01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:37,000
Speaker 1: Was that whole that was good music? Correct? Yeah, So

1403
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:39,160
Speaker 1: it didn't even exist good music. It didn't exist when

1404
01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:42,200
Speaker 1: we met. So I'm a new artist.

1405
01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:44,920
Speaker 4: I'm, like I said, working by day as a management

1406
01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:48,280
Speaker 4: consultant in New York, one of my roommates I went

1407
01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:51,680
Speaker 4: to college with. His name is Devo, and Devo had

1408
01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:54,439
Speaker 4: a cousin from Chicago that was about to move to

1409
01:14:55,280 --> 01:14:58,799
Speaker 4: the area and his name was Kanye West. So Devo

1410
01:15:00,200 --> 01:15:03,240
Speaker 4: he's not known neither, no, but he had just started

1411
01:15:03,280 --> 01:15:07,280
Speaker 4: working Jay and Dame and all them at Rockefeller and

1412
01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:12,800
Speaker 4: he had just him and just Blaze basically did the

1413
01:15:12,840 --> 01:15:13,479
Speaker 4: whole blueprint.

1414
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:14,280
Speaker 1: That's right. That's right.

1415
01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:19,479
Speaker 4: So when I met Kanye was May of two thousand,

1416
01:15:19,600 --> 01:15:22,120
Speaker 4: or like late spring or early summer in two thousand

1417
01:15:22,120 --> 01:15:24,799
Speaker 4: and one. And I remember because it was at Jimmy's

1418
01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:29,559
Speaker 4: Uptown and I recorded that show at Jimmy's Uptown and Harlem, Yeah,

1419
01:15:29,680 --> 01:15:30,320
Speaker 4: Jimmy's Uptown.

1420
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:34,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, We're gonna stab somebody.

1421
01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:38,920
Speaker 4: So I'm doing a show there and we recorded it

1422
01:15:39,120 --> 01:15:42,160
Speaker 4: and we actually put out a live record to my

1423
01:15:42,280 --> 01:15:44,800
Speaker 4: fans of that recording. So that's why I knew when

1424
01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:47,519
Speaker 4: I met him, was because it was that day that

1425
01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:48,720
Speaker 4: we record the show, and.

1426
01:15:51,080 --> 01:15:52,679
Speaker 1: My roommates like, you gotta meet my cousin.

1427
01:15:52,720 --> 01:15:56,520
Speaker 4: He just moved to New York and he's producing for Rockefeller,

1428
01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:01,960
Speaker 4: and we met and then we started working together a

1429
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:05,080
Speaker 4: few months later. He was working on his demo and

1430
01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:07,040
Speaker 4: he was trying to get signed as a rapper, but

1431
01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:07,640
Speaker 4: everybody was like.

1432
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:09,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, you keep that serious.

1433
01:16:09,479 --> 01:16:13,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, because not me for a second, because Farrell always

1434
01:16:13,280 --> 01:16:18,840
Speaker 2: downplays when when like when me and Pharrell, Farrell was

1435
01:16:18,920 --> 01:16:21,479
Speaker 2: cocky as ship, even as a person that was coming

1436
01:16:21,560 --> 01:16:23,240
Speaker 2: up was Kanye Kky.

1437
01:16:23,320 --> 01:16:26,240
Speaker 1: Yeah he was cocky. Yeah cool is Susan right.

1438
01:16:26,439 --> 01:16:28,760
Speaker 4: He's not the same as he was back then, but

1439
01:16:28,800 --> 01:16:30,799
Speaker 4: he was. He's always like had.

1440
01:16:30,640 --> 01:16:33,599
Speaker 1: A strong say yeah all.

1441
01:16:33,560 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, was like he's so humble now I'm like,

1442
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:37,320
Speaker 2: none of the motherfucker I remember.

1443
01:16:38,439 --> 01:16:40,320
Speaker 3: But when the guy told you my cousin, did you

1444
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:41,519
Speaker 3: already know about his production?

1445
01:16:41,760 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't out yet.

1446
01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:46,040
Speaker 2: So the Bluebird came out nine eleven, remember nine eleven,

1447
01:16:46,439 --> 01:16:48,880
Speaker 2: on the day of nine eleven, and that's that's yeah,

1448
01:16:48,880 --> 01:16:50,840
Speaker 2: he's debut as a productor that.

1449
01:16:50,960 --> 01:16:53,040
Speaker 1: Was his first big moment as a producer.

1450
01:16:53,120 --> 01:16:56,920
Speaker 4: So yeah, which was a single before the album came out,

1451
01:16:57,439 --> 01:17:00,320
Speaker 4: and then he had a few cuts on the album

1452
01:17:00,680 --> 01:17:02,400
Speaker 4: and then Blaze did the other side, so it was

1453
01:17:02,479 --> 01:17:05,320
Speaker 4: just like both of them were the album basically, so

1454
01:17:05,439 --> 01:17:10,080
Speaker 4: that soul sample sound was the whole blueprint sound and yay,

1455
01:17:10,479 --> 01:17:12,599
Speaker 4: and just Blaze did the whole thing basically, and he's

1456
01:17:12,640 --> 01:17:15,680
Speaker 4: telling you this and you believe him, Like I'm like,

1457
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:16,599
Speaker 4: let's meet him.

1458
01:17:16,920 --> 01:17:19,200
Speaker 3: Like at this point, it's like I'm trying to get

1459
01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:20,880
Speaker 3: signed too, and I'm like, let's try it.

1460
01:17:21,040 --> 01:17:23,760
Speaker 1: You know, like I don't know him, but we'll see.

1461
01:17:24,080 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 2: And you never know what hip hop producers because some

1462
01:17:26,040 --> 01:17:29,760
Speaker 2: aren't musical enough because they're more like being driven and

1463
01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:32,280
Speaker 2: you know, I'm an R and B artist, some more soulful,

1464
01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:35,760
Speaker 2: so I want somebody that still has some musical underpinnings.

1465
01:17:36,200 --> 01:17:39,080
Speaker 2: And the good thing about Yay was he he was

1466
01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:42,080
Speaker 2: using all the soul samples and the music was very soulful.

1467
01:17:42,479 --> 01:17:44,560
Speaker 2: So it was like the perfect blend of soul and

1468
01:17:44,680 --> 01:17:47,000
Speaker 2: hip hop for us to work together. So we start

1469
01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:49,800
Speaker 2: working together, like late two thousand and one, early two

1470
01:17:49,840 --> 01:17:53,080
Speaker 2: thousand and two, he gets in an accident.

1471
01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:58,400
Speaker 3: You met before that before the accident, and I think

1472
01:17:58,439 --> 01:18:00,479
Speaker 3: he was signed by the time he had that SID But.

1473
01:18:02,680 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 4: Damn and m Our impression was they signed him just

1474
01:18:06,600 --> 01:18:09,320
Speaker 4: so they could keep him in house for Beef, yes,

1475
01:18:10,840 --> 01:18:13,560
Speaker 4: not because they really thought he was going to be successful.

1476
01:18:13,720 --> 01:18:15,439
Speaker 4: We saw artists who were so much.

1477
01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:21,639
Speaker 2: You Meydan Sie like the crew, so we got this, yeah,

1478
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:22,479
Speaker 2: the whole crew.

1479
01:18:22,640 --> 01:18:25,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we and I started to get to know

1480
01:18:25,560 --> 01:18:27,960
Speaker 3: them later. But you know, Devo was working with him,

1481
01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:31,040
Speaker 3: my roommate. He was like basically running his production company.

1482
01:18:31,560 --> 01:18:35,400
Speaker 3: And so you know, Kanye really believed in himself as

1483
01:18:35,439 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 3: a solo.

1484
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:38,600
Speaker 4: Artist, and a lot of his team did, but I

1485
01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:41,000
Speaker 4: felt and a lot of us felt like Rockefeller didn't.

1486
01:18:41,240 --> 01:18:43,200
Speaker 1: So he gets an accident. Can I tell you real

1487
01:18:43,280 --> 01:18:44,559
Speaker 1: question to add to the story.

1488
01:18:44,840 --> 01:18:47,320
Speaker 3: I was working for Deaf Jam at the time, and

1489
01:18:47,760 --> 01:18:50,080
Speaker 3: they weren't pushing him as an artist. He went and

1490
01:18:50,280 --> 01:18:52,679
Speaker 3: sent he got the list of all the street teams,

1491
01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:55,840
Speaker 3: sent the white labels of his singles hustling, and started

1492
01:18:55,880 --> 01:18:59,320
Speaker 3: a conference call with himself and all the street teams. So, yeah,

1493
01:18:59,320 --> 01:19:03,120
Speaker 3: we're pushing this like himself. Yes, outside of the infrastructure

1494
01:19:03,160 --> 01:19:03,599
Speaker 3: of the label.

1495
01:19:03,840 --> 01:19:06,440
Speaker 4: He was so entrepreneurial. He put out his own mixtape

1496
01:19:07,760 --> 01:19:12,920
Speaker 4: and he got an accident and made through the wire.

1497
01:19:14,160 --> 01:19:15,960
Speaker 4: And then he started just camping because he got an

1498
01:19:15,960 --> 01:19:18,840
Speaker 4: accident in La. So he started just camping out at

1499
01:19:18,880 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 4: the w and Westwood in l A. Yeah, And so

1500
01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:23,920
Speaker 4: I would go out there from New York whenever I

1501
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:26,840
Speaker 4: had time, and we would work on College Dropout with him,

1502
01:19:27,080 --> 01:19:29,479
Speaker 4: and I wrote used to love you out there, uh,

1503
01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:32,920
Speaker 4: and some of my songs forget Lifted. And that's when

1504
01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:36,280
Speaker 4: I started to see after the accident this new sense

1505
01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:40,400
Speaker 4: of like this man is on a mission. And it

1506
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:43,000
Speaker 4: started with Through the Wire, but then I heard Jesus

1507
01:19:43,120 --> 01:19:45,400
Speaker 4: Walks and all these other records. I'm like, yo, this

1508
01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:49,320
Speaker 4: is gonna be And I played piano on Lauren Hill's Miseducation,

1509
01:19:49,760 --> 01:19:52,160
Speaker 4: So what what what to so.

1510
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:54,120
Speaker 1: You put on the whole.

1511
01:19:54,320 --> 01:19:57,479
Speaker 4: I played piano on Everything Is Everything on Lauren Hill's album,

1512
01:19:57,560 --> 01:19:59,439
Speaker 4: and I said to ya when.

1513
01:19:59,280 --> 01:20:01,080
Speaker 1: I was listening to g Walks, I was like, I

1514
01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:02,479
Speaker 1: feel like I was part.

1515
01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:04,800
Speaker 4: Of one album that changed the world in ninety eight

1516
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:07,000
Speaker 4: and this is album is about to do the same

1517
01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:08,240
Speaker 4: thing in two thousand and four.

1518
01:20:09,560 --> 01:20:12,320
Speaker 1: And you got credit for Laurence Hill. Yeah, I feel

1519
01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 1: like John Stevens, Yeah I Stevens. Yeah, you know that's wild,

1520
01:20:17,680 --> 01:20:22,080
Speaker 1: that's crazy, because how did you go the Let's just

1521
01:20:22,160 --> 01:20:22,880
Speaker 1: finish this right?

1522
01:20:23,120 --> 01:20:27,320
Speaker 4: So anyway, that time was crazy because we're all out

1523
01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:31,439
Speaker 4: in la We're meeting up with him, he's recovering from

1524
01:20:31,439 --> 01:20:33,519
Speaker 4: the accident, but he's got this new sense of purpose

1525
01:20:34,240 --> 01:20:36,479
Speaker 4: and uh, he's making the best music of his.

1526
01:20:36,560 --> 01:20:40,519
Speaker 1: Life up to that point, and it just felt like the.

1527
01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:43,000
Speaker 4: Momentum was was there and it was going to be

1528
01:20:43,040 --> 01:20:47,360
Speaker 4: a big, special album and it was sure was Yeah, but.

1529
01:20:47,400 --> 01:20:50,560
Speaker 2: How about the Grammy family, Like, yeah, you had the

1530
01:20:50,640 --> 01:20:51,960
Speaker 2: whole industry shook up?

1531
01:20:52,120 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, every Monday at one point or we.

1532
01:20:54,479 --> 01:20:57,880
Speaker 2: Were doing the Good Fridays Friday my bad, I said,

1533
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:01,800
Speaker 2: Monday's lets you know how much I'll be drinking? Like

1534
01:21:02,960 --> 01:21:05,599
Speaker 2: was that something that y'all all got together and said

1535
01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:07,479
Speaker 2: we're gonna fuck up the industry?

1536
01:21:08,800 --> 01:21:12,120
Speaker 1: I think sometimes YA just gets in that like creative

1537
01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:15,720
Speaker 1: like uh, like that just.

1538
01:21:15,840 --> 01:21:18,920
Speaker 4: Extra excitement and he's ready to like he's just got

1539
01:21:18,960 --> 01:21:20,320
Speaker 4: all these ideas and he just wants to.

1540
01:21:20,280 --> 01:21:21,960
Speaker 1: Get him out and he's like, that's just good Fridays.

1541
01:21:22,120 --> 01:21:22,640
Speaker 1: That was the time.

1542
01:21:22,760 --> 01:21:25,160
Speaker 4: He's like everybody at the studio needs to wear a

1543
01:21:25,520 --> 01:21:27,800
Speaker 4: suit and tie, and so everybody was dressing like there

1544
01:21:27,880 --> 01:21:29,559
Speaker 4: was in Reservoir Dogs.

1545
01:21:29,360 --> 01:21:32,519
Speaker 1: At the studio. They called it the Rose with Era.

1546
01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:33,479
Speaker 1: It was like a whole thing.

1547
01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:36,439
Speaker 3: So sometimes he's just beyond one and he's like that's

1548
01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:37,559
Speaker 3: his thing at that time.

1549
01:21:37,479 --> 01:21:38,280
Speaker 1: And that's what he be on.

1550
01:21:39,160 --> 01:21:43,000
Speaker 2: That's yeah, God damn, I wish y'all good into the studio.

1551
01:21:43,880 --> 01:21:45,320
Speaker 2: Well a goddamn reservoir dog.

1552
01:21:47,600 --> 01:21:51,360
Speaker 1: Oh jesus. He called it the Rosewood era.

1553
01:21:52,720 --> 01:21:56,160
Speaker 3: So then you get so so now getting into your project,

1554
01:21:56,400 --> 01:21:59,080
Speaker 3: transitioning from his Yeah, So it was all happening at

1555
01:21:59,120 --> 01:22:02,040
Speaker 3: the same time though, so uh, we were working on

1556
01:22:02,400 --> 01:22:04,040
Speaker 3: like used to Love You and some of the joints

1557
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:07,120
Speaker 3: from Get Lifted during the same time that we're working

1558
01:22:07,200 --> 01:22:09,559
Speaker 3: on College Dropping Really at the same time.

1559
01:22:09,640 --> 01:22:10,800
Speaker 1: It was all happened at the same time.

1560
01:22:10,840 --> 01:22:12,599
Speaker 4: We're both trying to get I was trying to get

1561
01:22:12,680 --> 01:22:16,320
Speaker 4: signed after he had already gotten signed to Rockefeller, and

1562
01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:20,600
Speaker 4: I eventually signed to Good Music and my roommate was

1563
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:22,679
Speaker 4: running the label for him, so I was basically signed

1564
01:22:22,720 --> 01:22:23,880
Speaker 4: to my roommate's.

1565
01:22:23,560 --> 01:22:26,479
Speaker 1: Label with his cousin.

1566
01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:31,960
Speaker 4: And eventually after College Dropout came out, that was when

1567
01:22:32,040 --> 01:22:33,040
Speaker 4: the industry really.

1568
01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:35,559
Speaker 1: Started to be like, okay, we fucked with the whole crew.

1569
01:22:35,960 --> 01:22:38,680
Speaker 4: So before that, we took the same music to all

1570
01:22:38,680 --> 01:22:40,840
Speaker 4: the labels and they turned us down or they gave

1571
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:44,960
Speaker 4: us a low offer. And when College Dropout came out,

1572
01:22:45,840 --> 01:22:47,240
Speaker 4: everybody changed their tune.

1573
01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:49,679
Speaker 3: We had a bidding war and I signed with Columbia.

1574
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:54,400
Speaker 3: And who was the crew at the time? You consequence GLC,

1575
01:22:54,920 --> 01:22:57,520
Speaker 3: don C. I mean those are the artists. Me consequence

1576
01:22:57,920 --> 01:23:01,120
Speaker 3: GLC and ya that those are the artists. But then

1577
01:23:01,200 --> 01:23:03,880
Speaker 3: don ce John Monopoly. The whole crew was you know,

1578
01:23:04,160 --> 01:23:07,120
Speaker 3: we were touring together, we're opening for us, sure together.

1579
01:23:08,080 --> 01:23:12,760
Speaker 1: Uh that was the crew? Crazy, man? Did you ever think?

1580
01:23:14,120 --> 01:23:16,360
Speaker 1: Because yeah, I was like almost like the modern day

1581
01:23:16,400 --> 01:23:17,719
Speaker 1: Wu Tang clan right.

1582
01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:22,280
Speaker 2: Like like but not exactly okay, but with different like

1583
01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:23,559
Speaker 2: you know, you had to push.

1584
01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:26,960
Speaker 1: Your te you had consequence, Yeah, you had you. You

1585
01:23:27,040 --> 01:23:29,360
Speaker 1: had kick cutting Sean Big Sean.

1586
01:23:29,640 --> 01:23:32,360
Speaker 3: Like during that during that Good Friday's time, that was

1587
01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:33,960
Speaker 3: a like latt Roster was crazy.

1588
01:23:34,120 --> 01:23:36,600
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be honest as an industry person, we

1589
01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:39,519
Speaker 2: were scared of that Friday. You did not like it,

1590
01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:43,719
Speaker 2: Like I'm not gonna say I'm not fucking making.

1591
01:23:43,560 --> 01:23:44,479
Speaker 1: Music no more so.

1592
01:23:44,760 --> 01:23:47,639
Speaker 4: Yeah said the records like click and some of those

1593
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:48,799
Speaker 4: records were insane.

1594
01:23:49,120 --> 01:23:51,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like we were mad at y'all. We were like

1595
01:23:51,320 --> 01:23:54,640
Speaker 1: why why did y'all want to just blogging? Yeah? It

1596
01:23:54,760 --> 01:23:55,160
Speaker 1: was wow.

1597
01:23:55,439 --> 01:23:59,120
Speaker 4: And then right around that time, right after that time,

1598
01:24:01,760 --> 01:24:04,240
Speaker 4: Jay and Kanye start working on Watching the Throne, like

1599
01:24:04,600 --> 01:24:08,200
Speaker 4: probably this is the one, this is the main Washington, Yeah,

1600
01:24:08,320 --> 01:24:08,760
Speaker 4: the only one.

1601
01:24:08,840 --> 01:24:09,040
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1602
01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:13,920
Speaker 4: So this is around twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, he's he's

1603
01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:15,840
Speaker 4: up in the Mercer. They talk about the song the

1604
01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:18,280
Speaker 4: Mercer Hotel in New York.

1605
01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:21,800
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you something about car Let's let you know.

1606
01:24:23,360 --> 01:24:26,000
Speaker 4: So they were literally they were literally in the Mercer

1607
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:29,200
Speaker 4: Hotel and he just brought his studio equipment in there

1608
01:24:29,400 --> 01:24:31,960
Speaker 4: and was making Watch the Throne with Jay and then

1609
01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:34,599
Speaker 4: we made Love in the Future, my album that came

1610
01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:39,720
Speaker 4: out in twenty thirteen, in that same hotel, and so

1611
01:24:39,880 --> 01:24:41,439
Speaker 4: all of me was on that. I didn't do that

1612
01:24:41,479 --> 01:24:44,799
Speaker 4: one with Yay, but Yay produced the whole like executive

1613
01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:45,639
Speaker 4: produced the whole album.

1614
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:48,080
Speaker 1: And that was another crazy time.

1615
01:24:48,439 --> 01:24:52,400
Speaker 4: So there's been these times when Yay's really on like

1616
01:24:52,439 --> 01:24:56,840
Speaker 4: a creative tear and producing some of the best music

1617
01:24:57,439 --> 01:24:59,360
Speaker 4: of that era. It was incredible.

1618
01:25:00,680 --> 01:25:02,760
Speaker 1: Again, like I said it earlier, I feel like you

1619
01:25:02,880 --> 01:25:03,840
Speaker 1: never had a bad day.

1620
01:25:05,160 --> 01:25:08,120
Speaker 2: I just feel it because I just feel like you're

1621
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:11,280
Speaker 2: a positive person, which is really really, really really dope

1622
01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:14,200
Speaker 2: to see in this day and time, because there's a

1623
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:15,920
Speaker 2: lot of negative shit going on?

1624
01:25:16,240 --> 01:25:18,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, is there anything that you regret?

1625
01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:23,519
Speaker 4: I mean, I have regrets all the I mean there's

1626
01:25:23,680 --> 01:25:25,720
Speaker 4: things I would do differently now, But.

1627
01:25:26,160 --> 01:25:29,800
Speaker 1: I honestly, I don't think about regrets because.

1628
01:25:32,080 --> 01:25:36,679
Speaker 4: I feel like everything that happened happened, and I wouldn't

1629
01:25:36,720 --> 01:25:39,160
Speaker 4: be here if all of it didn't happen, like the

1630
01:25:39,240 --> 01:25:42,240
Speaker 4: good and the bad. Like, I just feel like all

1631
01:25:42,320 --> 01:25:44,360
Speaker 4: of it brought me to where I am, and I

1632
01:25:44,479 --> 01:25:47,519
Speaker 4: love where I am, and I learned from everything.

1633
01:25:49,040 --> 01:25:53,800
Speaker 1: Goddamn, that was the most people, John leg I gotta

1634
01:25:53,840 --> 01:25:57,880
Speaker 1: ask you, do you we want time? I only got

1635
01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:01,439
Speaker 1: a little bit right here, all right. I'm not trying

1636
01:26:01,439 --> 01:26:02,240
Speaker 1: to get rid of it yet.

1637
01:26:02,479 --> 01:26:09,120
Speaker 5: I'm yeah, I'm coming out with Forwards. He's coming out

1638
01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:12,479
Speaker 5: with the Great You. I got like ten Grays down here.

1639
01:26:12,880 --> 01:26:14,360
Speaker 5: He's coming up with the Virgins. Where can make it

1640
01:26:14,560 --> 01:26:15,120
Speaker 5: be it grayer?

1641
01:26:16,600 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay.

1642
01:26:19,360 --> 01:26:24,040
Speaker 2: One of the most beautiful records in the world, all

1643
01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:28,679
Speaker 2: over the world, not New York, not America, ordinary people,

1644
01:26:29,200 --> 01:26:30,120
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.

1645
01:26:30,320 --> 01:26:34,760
Speaker 1: One of the most like listeners in the world. Thank you.

1646
01:26:36,520 --> 01:26:40,160
Speaker 4: How did you make it so? That started with Will

1647
01:26:40,240 --> 01:26:44,000
Speaker 4: I Am and the Black Eyed Peas? So I had

1648
01:26:44,040 --> 01:26:47,599
Speaker 4: the same manager as them David Sonenberg.

1649
01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:54,639
Speaker 1: And we when he signed me, he was like, I'd

1650
01:26:54,680 --> 01:26:55,760
Speaker 1: love to get you in with Will.

1651
01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:57,519
Speaker 3: I am from the Black Eyed Peas and at the time,

1652
01:26:57,600 --> 01:26:59,960
Speaker 3: it was before they really blew up with Fergie and everything,

1653
01:27:00,000 --> 01:27:03,120
Speaker 3: and they were still like an underground group pree Ferki Yeah. So,

1654
01:27:04,560 --> 01:27:09,040
Speaker 3: but he was always a dope producer. And so I

1655
01:27:09,120 --> 01:27:14,280
Speaker 3: went out to La the first time and we wrote she.

1656
01:27:14,360 --> 01:27:14,960
Speaker 1: Don't Have to Know.

1657
01:27:16,120 --> 01:27:19,400
Speaker 4: We wrote something for a compilation album that Will was doing,

1658
01:27:19,960 --> 01:27:22,720
Speaker 4: and then Will really liked writing with me. I wrote

1659
01:27:22,720 --> 01:27:25,559
Speaker 4: a hook for the Black Eyed Peas, and then after

1660
01:27:25,680 --> 01:27:30,160
Speaker 4: I got signed, it was like the summer two thousand

1661
01:27:30,160 --> 01:27:32,760
Speaker 4: and four. I just gotten signed in May and he

1662
01:27:32,960 --> 01:27:34,200
Speaker 4: was in New York and he was like, can you

1663
01:27:34,280 --> 01:27:36,600
Speaker 4: come by Hit Factory when we used to have Hit Factory.

1664
01:27:36,320 --> 01:27:37,519
Speaker 1: In New York? Remember that and.

1665
01:27:39,240 --> 01:27:41,960
Speaker 4: Fifty seven Street, Yeah, right around there. And then so

1666
01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:45,519
Speaker 4: he was in the studio and he was like, can

1667
01:27:45,600 --> 01:27:47,920
Speaker 4: you just write some hooks for us? I love writing

1668
01:27:47,960 --> 01:27:49,519
Speaker 4: with you. So he would just play beats and I

1669
01:27:49,520 --> 01:27:52,000
Speaker 4: would just see what hook I could come up with, and.

1670
01:27:52,120 --> 01:27:55,560
Speaker 1: I came up with wid and the repeat pople to

1671
01:27:55,720 --> 01:27:56,120
Speaker 1: a beat.

1672
01:27:57,520 --> 01:28:00,439
Speaker 4: So it wasn't like stripped down piano ballot like it

1673
01:28:00,680 --> 01:28:01,799
Speaker 4: was on my album.

1674
01:28:01,880 --> 01:28:05,080
Speaker 1: It was to a B and it was going to

1675
01:28:05,120 --> 01:28:07,599
Speaker 1: be a hip hop song for the Black Eyed Piece

1676
01:28:08,840 --> 01:28:11,600
Speaker 1: with me on the hook that mind, thinking of the

1677
01:28:11,680 --> 01:28:12,240
Speaker 1: Black Eyed Piece.

1678
01:28:12,360 --> 01:28:14,760
Speaker 4: I wrote the chorus just listening to the music and

1679
01:28:14,840 --> 01:28:19,800
Speaker 4: seeing what I recorded it that night, just the hook.

1680
01:28:20,800 --> 01:28:23,920
Speaker 4: And then a few days later I'm like, well, you

1681
01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:25,880
Speaker 4: can keep every other idea I wrote, but I want

1682
01:28:25,880 --> 01:28:29,280
Speaker 4: to keep ordinary people for myself, and he was like, okay,

1683
01:28:29,560 --> 01:28:30,120
Speaker 4: no problem.

1684
01:28:30,240 --> 01:28:33,240
Speaker 3: I was like, I'll let you produce it, no problem. Like,

1685
01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:35,040
Speaker 3: but I feel like it'll be a better R and

1686
01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:37,320
Speaker 3: B song than like a pop hip hop song.

1687
01:28:38,000 --> 01:28:41,640
Speaker 2: And I started messing with it on tour. I went

1688
01:28:41,720 --> 01:28:44,519
Speaker 2: on a European tour with Kanye, and every.

1689
01:28:44,439 --> 01:28:48,759
Speaker 4: Soundtrack, every soundcheck, I would write more of the verses

1690
01:28:48,840 --> 01:28:52,519
Speaker 4: to ordinate people. And so I basically wrote the chorus

1691
01:28:52,680 --> 01:28:55,800
Speaker 4: in the studio with Will and the verses on the

1692
01:28:55,920 --> 01:29:01,240
Speaker 4: road with Ya. And I recorded a demo back in

1693
01:29:01,439 --> 01:29:05,840
Speaker 4: La on just piano, and I played it for everybody

1694
01:29:06,040 --> 01:29:07,680
Speaker 4: and I was like, yeah, Will I Am is going

1695
01:29:07,720 --> 01:29:10,920
Speaker 4: to produce it, blah blah blah, and everybody's like, don't

1696
01:29:10,960 --> 01:29:13,800
Speaker 4: fuck with that. Leave it alone and so we ended

1697
01:29:13,920 --> 01:29:18,240
Speaker 4: up leaving it stripped down, just vocal piano, and.

1698
01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:19,920
Speaker 1: That's how it came out.

1699
01:29:20,240 --> 01:29:24,519
Speaker 4: And back then, remember the samplers you used to get

1700
01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:28,680
Speaker 4: at DJ, so they would hand out the samplers and

1701
01:29:29,240 --> 01:29:30,960
Speaker 4: it was my first single, Used to Love You with

1702
01:29:31,080 --> 01:29:35,560
Speaker 4: the Halla haa la Halla, and then three snippets of

1703
01:29:35,680 --> 01:29:37,840
Speaker 4: other tracks from the album, and then it ended with

1704
01:29:37,960 --> 01:29:39,679
Speaker 4: a full version of Ordinary People.

1705
01:29:40,160 --> 01:29:42,320
Speaker 1: So this is, you know, late two thousand and four.

1706
01:29:42,320 --> 01:29:47,120
Speaker 4: I'm out on the road with USHERINGA from August to October.

1707
01:29:47,479 --> 01:29:50,040
Speaker 4: Used to Love You came out during that time, and

1708
01:29:50,120 --> 01:29:52,680
Speaker 4: we're promoting it at every stop on the Usher tour.

1709
01:29:52,760 --> 01:29:55,920
Speaker 4: I'm going to do radio and we're giving them the

1710
01:29:56,000 --> 01:29:59,840
Speaker 4: sampler and in Chicago they were like, yeah, used to

1711
01:30:00,200 --> 01:30:03,519
Speaker 4: he was cool, but they just decided at w g

1712
01:30:03,640 --> 01:30:05,559
Speaker 4: C I they were going to start playing. They made

1713
01:30:05,640 --> 01:30:07,840
Speaker 4: that the single ordinary People, and they made it to

1714
01:30:07,920 --> 01:30:12,080
Speaker 4: single by it blowing up in Chicago first and then

1715
01:30:12,920 --> 01:30:13,519
Speaker 4: took over.

1716
01:30:16,640 --> 01:30:18,519
Speaker 1: Because a lot of people thought you was from Chicago.

1717
01:30:18,800 --> 01:30:22,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because ya and everybody, But I grew up

1718
01:30:22,240 --> 01:30:25,080
Speaker 4: in Ohio, but uh never lived in Chicago, but you know,

1719
01:30:25,160 --> 01:30:28,479
Speaker 4: I love Chicago. But yeah, but they really claimed me

1720
01:30:28,560 --> 01:30:31,240
Speaker 4: as their own too, just because of the Yea connection

1721
01:30:31,479 --> 01:30:34,560
Speaker 4: and and uh and they were the first ones that

1722
01:30:34,840 --> 01:30:37,519
Speaker 4: loved Ordinary People and Yay loved it so much that

1723
01:30:37,640 --> 01:30:39,680
Speaker 4: he wanted to direct the video. So he ended up

1724
01:30:39,720 --> 01:30:41,920
Speaker 4: directing the Ordinary People video. So if you look at it,

1725
01:30:42,600 --> 01:30:43,800
Speaker 4: that's him, that's his work.

1726
01:30:44,160 --> 01:30:46,400
Speaker 1: Did we'll ever get upset that he couldn't produce it? No,

1727
01:30:46,560 --> 01:30:51,760
Speaker 1: he got some publishing. Really, yeah, he got some publishing,

1728
01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:54,639
Speaker 1: and uh, you know I wound up producing it. Yeah.

1729
01:30:54,800 --> 01:30:57,560
Speaker 4: Well, he knew that it was better that way, like

1730
01:30:57,720 --> 01:31:00,559
Speaker 4: stripped down it just it made more impact that way,

1731
01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:02,599
Speaker 4: and you got to think about like what was coming

1732
01:31:02,640 --> 01:31:04,200
Speaker 4: out in R and B at that time. There's nothing

1733
01:31:04,280 --> 01:31:07,439
Speaker 4: else like just like that striped down pan Alicia a

1734
01:31:07,479 --> 01:31:10,600
Speaker 4: little bit, but not even uh, it was just it

1735
01:31:10,680 --> 01:31:13,080
Speaker 4: stood out from the radio and so like a caapella.

1736
01:31:13,240 --> 01:31:16,920
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but do you think you're an ordinary person?

1737
01:31:19,800 --> 01:31:23,920
Speaker 1: I mean, what does that even mean? You know what

1738
01:31:24,040 --> 01:31:27,800
Speaker 1: I'm asking they here's the writer, Here's what I think,

1739
01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:30,000
Speaker 1: what you mean, Here's what I think.

1740
01:31:30,320 --> 01:31:30,680
Speaker 3: I think.

1741
01:31:32,120 --> 01:31:33,640
Speaker 4: When I wrote the song, I was thinking about my

1742
01:31:33,840 --> 01:31:39,760
Speaker 4: parents because they had gotten divorced, then back together, then

1743
01:31:40,080 --> 01:31:43,360
Speaker 4: divorced again right before my second my first album was

1744
01:31:43,360 --> 01:31:45,800
Speaker 4: about to come out, and so I'm writing and thinking, like,

1745
01:31:46,120 --> 01:31:48,400
Speaker 4: you know, we don't know which way to go, and.

1746
01:31:49,880 --> 01:31:52,000
Speaker 1: So I'm writing it based on their situation.

1747
01:31:53,360 --> 01:31:56,240
Speaker 4: But the bottom line is, I think, no matter if

1748
01:31:56,240 --> 01:31:59,280
Speaker 4: you're rich or poor, celebrity or not, like, everybody goes

1749
01:31:59,320 --> 01:32:00,640
Speaker 4: through shitting the relationships.

1750
01:32:00,800 --> 01:32:09,439
Speaker 3: And in that sense, yes, I'm an ordinary person. I

1751
01:32:09,680 --> 01:32:11,240
Speaker 3: love that answer, but you're not.

1752
01:32:14,760 --> 01:32:17,280
Speaker 1: There's a lot of extraordinary things about my life. Yes.

1753
01:32:18,960 --> 01:32:19,679
Speaker 1: Do you think.

1754
01:32:23,240 --> 01:32:26,400
Speaker 2: So many people say overnight success right right? That shit

1755
01:32:26,439 --> 01:32:30,599
Speaker 2: doesn't exist. It almost never happens that way. It never happened.

1756
01:32:30,680 --> 01:32:34,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, But do you think that you fast forwarded from

1757
01:32:35,520 --> 01:32:39,440
Speaker 1: that child prodigy to superstarter?

1758
01:32:41,040 --> 01:32:42,840
Speaker 2: Well, it didn't feel like fast forward to me because

1759
01:32:42,840 --> 01:32:44,679
Speaker 2: I'm like working at days, y'all work.

1760
01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:46,280
Speaker 1: Asking for the people out there.

1761
01:32:46,760 --> 01:32:49,280
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm like, and I didn't get signed until

1762
01:32:49,280 --> 01:32:51,439
Speaker 4: I was twenty five, So it wasn't like I was,

1763
01:32:52,120 --> 01:32:53,840
Speaker 4: you know, getting signed like some of these artists gets

1764
01:32:53,840 --> 01:32:58,439
Speaker 4: signed when they're eighteen, nineteen, fourteen, fifteen, And you know,

1765
01:32:59,080 --> 01:33:01,160
Speaker 4: back then, I thought I was ready. You know, when

1766
01:33:01,160 --> 01:33:03,320
Speaker 4: I was fourteen, I was like singing the talent shows.

1767
01:33:03,360 --> 01:33:05,320
Speaker 4: I'm like, why is somebody signing to me now, But

1768
01:33:05,400 --> 01:33:07,519
Speaker 4: I didn't even know what went into getting signed, you know,

1769
01:33:08,120 --> 01:33:10,840
Speaker 4: what went into being a real artist, not just a singer.

1770
01:33:11,720 --> 01:33:13,280
Speaker 4: You know, I'm on the voice now and I'm always

1771
01:33:13,320 --> 01:33:15,519
Speaker 4: like trying to advise these guys on what it means

1772
01:33:15,520 --> 01:33:17,439
Speaker 4: to actually be an artist and not just somebody who

1773
01:33:17,479 --> 01:33:20,200
Speaker 4: can sing. But I didn't know that back then.

1774
01:33:20,560 --> 01:33:22,200
Speaker 1: So you have to grow, you have to learn.

1775
01:33:22,400 --> 01:33:24,880
Speaker 4: And I thought I was ready then, but I wasn't

1776
01:33:24,920 --> 01:33:27,720
Speaker 4: ready until my mid twenties, and then you know, it

1777
01:33:27,840 --> 01:33:30,760
Speaker 4: was time, goddamn. And the you know, the cool thing

1778
01:33:30,880 --> 01:33:33,000
Speaker 4: not to interrupt your plause, but the cool thing was

1779
01:33:33,320 --> 01:33:35,639
Speaker 4: I keep bringing it up, but bringing it up being

1780
01:33:35,760 --> 01:33:38,640
Speaker 4: with you a during that time, he became famous like

1781
01:33:39,200 --> 01:33:40,240
Speaker 4: a year before I did.

1782
01:33:40,320 --> 01:33:42,320
Speaker 1: So it was almost like I got to you saw it,

1783
01:33:42,600 --> 01:33:43,000
Speaker 1: watch it.

1784
01:33:44,560 --> 01:33:48,120
Speaker 4: While he was experiencing, and I was right there, and

1785
01:33:48,880 --> 01:33:51,160
Speaker 4: it made it easier for me to transition into being

1786
01:33:51,240 --> 01:33:51,800
Speaker 4: the front guy.

1787
01:33:52,800 --> 01:33:54,160
Speaker 3: What I was going to say is, do you think

1788
01:33:54,240 --> 01:33:59,200
Speaker 3: that that process, which is a time frame now with

1789
01:33:59,320 --> 01:34:02,519
Speaker 3: the internet, like you said, these kids are making themselves

1790
01:34:02,600 --> 01:34:06,040
Speaker 3: viral and getting deals eighteen or younger, do you think

1791
01:34:06,080 --> 01:34:08,240
Speaker 3: that process takes away from their careers.

1792
01:34:08,320 --> 01:34:10,760
Speaker 4: Well, I think I've said this before and I really

1793
01:34:10,840 --> 01:34:13,600
Speaker 4: believe it that it's hard to be sustainable if you

1794
01:34:13,720 --> 01:34:16,479
Speaker 4: haven't done like the prep work early on, like doing

1795
01:34:16,560 --> 01:34:18,920
Speaker 4: shows like when nobody's there, like quote.

1796
01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:22,320
Speaker 1: Unquote development, yes, yeah, exactly, development, whether you develop yourself

1797
01:34:22,400 --> 01:34:24,720
Speaker 1: or you're in a part of a real artist plot, like.

1798
01:34:24,800 --> 01:34:26,640
Speaker 4: Doing a show in front of fifty people before you

1799
01:34:26,760 --> 01:34:28,599
Speaker 4: have to do one in front of fifteen thousand people.

1800
01:34:28,720 --> 01:34:29,840
Speaker 1: Like having that.

1801
01:34:31,479 --> 01:34:37,200
Speaker 4: Just foundation of performing and and building your career experience,

1802
01:34:37,320 --> 01:34:40,680
Speaker 4: building your story, building your experiences. It doesn't mean you

1803
01:34:40,720 --> 01:34:42,680
Speaker 4: can't make dope music then, but it's hard to do

1804
01:34:42,880 --> 01:34:46,439
Speaker 4: everything right if you haven't spent some time preparing and

1805
01:34:46,520 --> 01:34:48,360
Speaker 4: I really think performing.

1806
01:34:48,400 --> 01:34:51,120
Speaker 3: Practicing as a performer. You just look at like we

1807
01:34:51,240 --> 01:34:52,280
Speaker 3: talked about Usher.

1808
01:34:52,439 --> 01:34:55,240
Speaker 4: And even Chris Brown and Beyonce and like some of

1809
01:34:55,280 --> 01:34:57,599
Speaker 4: these artists, especially ones they have to dance and sing.

1810
01:34:58,160 --> 01:35:01,920
Speaker 1: It's like like the level of time you have.

1811
01:35:02,000 --> 01:35:04,880
Speaker 4: To put in in the studio, in the dance studio,

1812
01:35:05,000 --> 01:35:07,519
Speaker 4: working on the coreera for getting every little thing right,

1813
01:35:08,160 --> 01:35:11,120
Speaker 4: and a lot of that they did before they were famous.

1814
01:35:11,160 --> 01:35:14,559
Speaker 4: They were like they were like developing that muscle before

1815
01:35:14,600 --> 01:35:17,519
Speaker 4: they were famous, and that's why they're still here. Like,

1816
01:35:18,000 --> 01:35:21,559
Speaker 4: that's why Usher did the Super Bowl, you know, over

1817
01:35:21,680 --> 01:35:27,680
Speaker 4: twenty years after he debuted, because he made himself sustainable

1818
01:35:27,720 --> 01:35:28,839
Speaker 4: by putting in the work.

1819
01:35:28,840 --> 01:35:32,080
Speaker 1: Of preparation and the reps that he needed to put in.

1820
01:35:32,560 --> 01:35:34,280
Speaker 1: And you got to do it.

1821
01:35:34,479 --> 01:35:37,080
Speaker 4: And if you don't, if you're not prepared when you

1822
01:35:37,520 --> 01:35:41,040
Speaker 4: have that TikTok hit or that viral sensation, then it

1823
01:35:41,120 --> 01:35:43,400
Speaker 4: could be fleeting and not sustainable disposable.

1824
01:35:43,479 --> 01:35:46,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly how was it speaking about the Super Bowl

1825
01:35:46,600 --> 01:35:49,120
Speaker 2: when you got that phone call in twenty fifteen to

1826
01:35:49,280 --> 01:35:50,760
Speaker 2: perform at the Super Bowl out?

1827
01:35:51,400 --> 01:35:53,599
Speaker 1: That was dope. Man. I was at the Detroit one.

1828
01:35:53,720 --> 01:35:55,640
Speaker 2: I forget which one that was, but I did want

1829
01:35:55,760 --> 01:35:56,960
Speaker 2: Roger Goodell'll call you.

1830
01:35:57,920 --> 01:36:01,040
Speaker 1: Roger did not call you.

1831
01:36:01,120 --> 01:36:03,160
Speaker 3: They always call my agent, you know. I never't talked

1832
01:36:03,160 --> 01:36:07,040
Speaker 3: to anybody. It's like they get to my agent eventually,

1833
01:36:07,120 --> 01:36:08,080
Speaker 3: and they get to me eventually.

1834
01:36:08,200 --> 01:36:10,080
Speaker 2: Get all right, So where you at somebody and they

1835
01:36:10,160 --> 01:36:12,400
Speaker 2: call you and they say they want you to perform

1836
01:36:12,479 --> 01:36:13,000
Speaker 2: for Super Bowl.

1837
01:36:14,800 --> 01:36:18,000
Speaker 1: I don't remember, Honestly, I don't really remember that. Like

1838
01:36:18,080 --> 01:36:21,280
Speaker 1: it's so dope, you don't know, But I never like headline.

1839
01:36:20,840 --> 01:36:23,000
Speaker 4: Like the halftime at the super Bowl. I liked it

1840
01:36:23,160 --> 01:36:26,200
Speaker 4: like a pre I did God Bless America one year

1841
01:36:26,280 --> 01:36:28,360
Speaker 4: and then I did a pre performance on that. So

1842
01:36:28,400 --> 01:36:32,160
Speaker 4: I've never had like the the that prime big for us,

1843
01:36:32,200 --> 01:36:37,639
Speaker 4: sir down it was it Usher or you know, Kendrick

1844
01:36:37,800 --> 01:36:40,280
Speaker 4: or whatever. You know, it's not that that halftime spot.

1845
01:36:40,560 --> 01:36:43,240
Speaker 2: Okay, So let me ask you they call you next year,

1846
01:36:43,560 --> 01:36:47,120
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, John Legend headline.

1847
01:36:48,200 --> 01:36:50,920
Speaker 4: You know, I honestly, I don't think it's great for

1848
01:36:51,080 --> 01:36:55,760
Speaker 4: artists that are more like if like most of my

1849
01:36:55,880 --> 01:36:58,040
Speaker 4: hits are ballads. So it's like, I feel like it's

1850
01:36:58,080 --> 01:36:59,920
Speaker 4: better if you got a lot of up tempo hits

1851
01:37:00,120 --> 01:37:00,840
Speaker 4: for the super Bowl.

1852
01:37:01,840 --> 01:37:03,840
Speaker 1: It just feels more right. You got that. I got

1853
01:37:03,880 --> 01:37:07,560
Speaker 1: a little little little something. Yeah, yeah, you will do it.

1854
01:37:07,640 --> 01:37:10,960
Speaker 1: I can see you halftime show. It could be done,

1855
01:37:11,400 --> 01:37:14,720
Speaker 1: all right. So if super Bowl calls you twenty six,

1856
01:37:16,760 --> 01:37:19,400
Speaker 1: what is your your playlist? My set list?

1857
01:37:20,160 --> 01:37:22,120
Speaker 4: You know, I'll mix it up, do some up tempos,

1858
01:37:22,200 --> 01:37:26,719
Speaker 4: some slows, so we'll do green light, we'll do ordinated people,

1859
01:37:26,840 --> 01:37:27,600
Speaker 4: We'll do all of.

1860
01:37:27,680 --> 01:37:34,439
Speaker 1: Me probably like love me now, you know, I don't know.

1861
01:37:34,479 --> 01:37:35,320
Speaker 1: I have to think about it.

1862
01:37:36,600 --> 01:37:39,360
Speaker 2: Some features, like some of the you bring along as

1863
01:37:39,360 --> 01:37:41,880
Speaker 2: I've guessed it on like Grammar Family, bring it up

1864
01:37:41,960 --> 01:37:43,439
Speaker 2: some Yeah, we'll figure it out.

1865
01:37:43,680 --> 01:37:44,080
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1866
01:37:45,240 --> 01:37:47,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll definite had some collapse. It's just on the

1867
01:37:47,920 --> 01:37:50,320
Speaker 2: top of one artist. Will you Did you bring up.

1868
01:37:53,840 --> 01:37:54,680
Speaker 1: A snooper? Rick?

1869
01:37:54,960 --> 01:37:56,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, that'll be good, Rick Ross. We got a bunch

1870
01:37:56,920 --> 01:37:57,720
Speaker 3: of Doubt records together.

1871
01:37:57,800 --> 01:37:59,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah do.

1872
01:38:00,479 --> 01:38:02,720
Speaker 3: I was making playlists of like different collabs, and I

1873
01:38:02,800 --> 01:38:04,800
Speaker 3: made a whole playlist just of me and Rick because

1874
01:38:04,800 --> 01:38:08,840
Speaker 3: it was like ten songs Justice League, right. I think

1875
01:38:08,880 --> 01:38:10,679
Speaker 3: it started with college and then.

1876
01:38:12,680 --> 01:38:17,280
Speaker 4: No, probably call it because colleg was his exec at

1877
01:38:17,320 --> 01:38:23,439
Speaker 4: Deaf Jam South right earlier. Yes, so, so I don't

1878
01:38:23,439 --> 01:38:25,360
Speaker 4: know what came first, but green Light came out and

1879
01:38:25,439 --> 01:38:27,560
Speaker 4: he did like a remix that I heard and I

1880
01:38:27,600 --> 01:38:28,519
Speaker 4: didn't even know him yet.

1881
01:38:28,479 --> 01:38:31,000
Speaker 2: Like a mixtape joint, Yeah, mixtape joint of green Light

1882
01:38:31,320 --> 01:38:32,599
Speaker 2: where he was rhyming on him.

1883
01:38:33,160 --> 01:38:35,240
Speaker 4: And then not long after that he reached out to

1884
01:38:35,360 --> 01:38:38,080
Speaker 4: us about Magnificent, But I think it was through Collin.

1885
01:38:39,640 --> 01:38:42,600
Speaker 1: You know, what's one of your favorite places to perform? Uh,

1886
01:38:42,880 --> 01:38:45,640
Speaker 1: South Africa? Love it? I love Johannesberger.

1887
01:38:46,000 --> 01:38:53,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, crazy crowds there, Soul South Korea. Crazy crowds in Korea. Yeah,

1888
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:58,840
Speaker 4: I love like London and Amsterdam a lot. In the US,

1889
01:38:58,960 --> 01:39:04,560
Speaker 4: I love DC area, Atlanta area, Miami's cool. It's like

1890
01:39:05,160 --> 01:39:08,120
Speaker 4: i'd say, my best audiences are a no, no, no,

1891
01:39:08,560 --> 01:39:09,719
Speaker 4: I'm not I'm not sure.

1892
01:39:09,840 --> 01:39:10,559
Speaker 1: I'm just being honest.

1893
01:39:10,920 --> 01:39:13,880
Speaker 3: My best audience is a DC area, Atlanta area, in

1894
01:39:14,000 --> 01:39:17,000
Speaker 3: Chicago area, I would say so, and the Bay Area

1895
01:39:17,560 --> 01:39:18,760
Speaker 3: in the Bank think a lot.

1896
01:39:18,800 --> 01:39:22,680
Speaker 1: You describe the blackest cities, yeah, the world? Yeah, you know,

1897
01:39:22,880 --> 01:39:24,160
Speaker 1: let's make some noise. Yea.

1898
01:39:26,680 --> 01:39:31,960
Speaker 2: So my my wife, my wife, she's here, she's Latina. Right,

1899
01:39:32,880 --> 01:39:36,559
Speaker 2: do you get like any type of thing for your

1900
01:39:36,600 --> 01:39:38,320
Speaker 2: wife not being a black woman?

1901
01:39:40,800 --> 01:39:43,240
Speaker 4: Not really, But you know, I think when we first

1902
01:39:43,280 --> 01:39:45,599
Speaker 4: started dating we probably got some. But we've been together

1903
01:39:45,640 --> 01:39:49,599
Speaker 4: for so long. Everybody's like, yeah, yeah, of course that. Yeah,

1904
01:39:49,600 --> 01:39:51,479
Speaker 4: we've been together since six.

1905
01:39:51,680 --> 01:39:53,679
Speaker 1: So what do they call that? Interracial data?

1906
01:39:53,880 --> 01:39:56,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're in the racial So my wife is half

1907
01:39:56,760 --> 01:40:01,440
Speaker 4: Asian and half white and then I'm black, So interracial.

1908
01:40:01,680 --> 01:40:05,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, inter racial. Do we make a noise? Let's take

1909
01:40:05,800 --> 01:40:17,120
Speaker 1: it block kids in confused? Now, this motherfucker were all

1910
01:40:17,200 --> 01:40:21,280
Speaker 1: type of racist? Are we're human? Is your wife like

1911
01:40:21,400 --> 01:40:25,800
Speaker 1: light skin? Latine my head. Yeah, so your kids will

1912
01:40:25,840 --> 01:40:27,800
Speaker 1: be like in between, we got kids.

1913
01:40:35,080 --> 01:40:37,040
Speaker 4: My kids are actually the exact same color as me,

1914
01:40:38,560 --> 01:40:42,439
Speaker 4: but they just got you know, less kinky hair down.

1915
01:40:42,600 --> 01:40:47,840
Speaker 1: Now got there's a little more waving. Okay, no wave, Grace, no,

1916
01:40:48,040 --> 01:40:53,840
Speaker 1: no way, grace no no King of the Moon girl girl,

1917
01:40:55,120 --> 01:40:57,520
Speaker 1: what place have you performed.

1918
01:40:57,120 --> 01:40:59,920
Speaker 3: As country wise that you were? You just were like,

1919
01:41:00,120 --> 01:41:02,280
Speaker 3: this is wild that I'm even here in this country,

1920
01:41:02,320 --> 01:41:03,559
Speaker 3: that they that I have fans here.

1921
01:41:04,320 --> 01:41:06,040
Speaker 4: Well, the first time I went to South Africa, it

1922
01:41:06,120 --> 01:41:08,320
Speaker 4: was right at the beginning of my career, and you

1923
01:41:08,400 --> 01:41:10,800
Speaker 4: don't really know how you're going to do internationally when

1924
01:41:11,080 --> 01:41:14,200
Speaker 4: at the beginning and I went there and I was like,

1925
01:41:14,400 --> 01:41:16,920
Speaker 4: I couldn't believe how much love I had there and

1926
01:41:17,040 --> 01:41:18,400
Speaker 4: everybody knew every song.

1927
01:41:19,400 --> 01:41:20,080
Speaker 1: That was amazing.

1928
01:41:20,160 --> 01:41:22,040
Speaker 4: But then going to Asia, going to places where they

1929
01:41:22,040 --> 01:41:25,479
Speaker 4: don't speak English, non English speaking, Yeah, so you go

1930
01:41:25,560 --> 01:41:28,960
Speaker 4: to Japan, and you go to Italy, you go to Spain,

1931
01:41:29,120 --> 01:41:31,040
Speaker 4: you know, all these different places where people don't even

1932
01:41:31,080 --> 01:41:33,280
Speaker 4: speak the language that you're singing in and then they

1933
01:41:33,320 --> 01:41:36,920
Speaker 4: sing the songs back to you. It feels pretty much. Yeah,

1934
01:41:37,520 --> 01:41:39,160
Speaker 4: I was just there last year and how.

1935
01:41:39,200 --> 01:41:39,519
Speaker 3: Was that was?

1936
01:41:39,640 --> 01:41:39,840
Speaker 1: Dover.

1937
01:41:40,080 --> 01:41:42,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was into it. We had a good time.

1938
01:41:42,320 --> 01:41:46,639
Speaker 2: I'll probably go back. And you got engaged in where

1939
01:41:48,320 --> 01:41:51,599
Speaker 2: in the Maldives and then you got married at lake

1940
01:41:51,640 --> 01:41:52,880
Speaker 2: Como in Italy.

1941
01:41:58,439 --> 01:42:02,200
Speaker 1: That's my place. I love. You've been to Maldives soon?

1942
01:42:02,439 --> 01:42:04,920
Speaker 1: Of course? Oh yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir. I

1943
01:42:04,920 --> 01:42:05,479
Speaker 1: ain't gonna lie.

1944
01:42:05,560 --> 01:42:08,320
Speaker 2: Me and my wife turned up just us, yeah, because god,

1945
01:42:08,400 --> 01:42:08,800
Speaker 2: we didn't go.

1946
01:42:09,000 --> 01:42:10,080
Speaker 1: And you went with other people.

1947
01:42:10,320 --> 01:42:13,080
Speaker 4: Well, when we got engaged, it was just the two

1948
01:42:13,160 --> 01:42:15,400
Speaker 4: of us. We didn't have kids or anything. So we

1949
01:42:15,720 --> 01:42:20,080
Speaker 4: in the Maldives. Yeah, and so that was twenty eleven.

1950
01:42:20,520 --> 01:42:23,320
Speaker 1: Uh. And then we had already been to Lake.

1951
01:42:23,240 --> 01:42:26,680
Speaker 4: Como as a couple just dating, and it's like the

1952
01:42:26,800 --> 01:42:28,720
Speaker 4: most beautiful romantic place.

1953
01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:31,120
Speaker 1: You could go. You feel like you're in heaven. And

1954
01:42:31,200 --> 01:42:33,879
Speaker 1: then the little boats. Yeah, we're in a little boats,

1955
01:42:34,040 --> 01:42:36,720
Speaker 1: you know, going on dates on a boat. You know,

1956
01:42:36,840 --> 01:42:44,439
Speaker 1: it's like life is good. That's my staff. I always say.

1957
01:42:44,520 --> 01:42:47,320
Speaker 4: We fell in love at lake Como, and so we

1958
01:42:47,439 --> 01:42:50,120
Speaker 4: decided we would get married there, and so we got

1959
01:42:50,200 --> 01:42:54,400
Speaker 4: married there in twenty thirteen, and we shot the All

1960
01:42:54,479 --> 01:42:56,240
Speaker 4: of Me video there too, So if you look at

1961
01:42:56,280 --> 01:42:59,120
Speaker 4: the video, double dipped yeah, so the whole So it

1962
01:42:59,200 --> 01:43:01,000
Speaker 4: was like I got to expend some of the trip.

1963
01:43:06,439 --> 01:43:09,720
Speaker 4: But the craziest thing about the video is it was directed.

1964
01:43:09,400 --> 01:43:11,480
Speaker 1: By this guy named Nobille Elderkin.

1965
01:43:11,160 --> 01:43:14,880
Speaker 4: And he's the guy that is the reason why Christian

1966
01:43:14,880 --> 01:43:18,200
Speaker 4: and I met because he was the director of the

1967
01:43:18,400 --> 01:43:22,880
Speaker 4: very first video where we met, and Christian and I

1968
01:43:23,000 --> 01:43:26,040
Speaker 4: started dating after we met on the video set, and

1969
01:43:27,120 --> 01:43:30,000
Speaker 4: so this guy is responsible for us meeting and he

1970
01:43:30,080 --> 01:43:31,600
Speaker 4: ended up directing the video for all of.

1971
01:43:31,640 --> 01:43:36,240
Speaker 2: Me, you know, seven years later. And did he directed

1972
01:43:37,240 --> 01:43:41,080
Speaker 2: the proposal? No, we didn't shoot that. We didn't shoot that.

1973
01:43:41,160 --> 01:43:44,200
Speaker 1: That was just that was just us. That was just us.

1974
01:43:45,840 --> 01:43:53,280
Speaker 1: I mean it's a very famous yea, a very famous guy.

1975
01:43:55,040 --> 01:43:57,400
Speaker 1: So how was your proposal? What did you do? So?

1976
01:43:57,840 --> 01:43:59,920
Speaker 1: You you're a very smooth guy. I want to compare you.

1977
01:44:00,840 --> 01:44:01,120
Speaker 1: I was.

1978
01:44:01,400 --> 01:44:04,479
Speaker 4: It was like a few months I decided I was

1979
01:44:04,520 --> 01:44:05,960
Speaker 4: going to do it, and I decided I was going

1980
01:44:06,000 --> 01:44:10,920
Speaker 4: to do it on this trip, and I started getting

1981
01:44:10,920 --> 01:44:12,840
Speaker 4: the ring together and everything, and I have this little

1982
01:44:14,000 --> 01:44:17,120
Speaker 4: package trying to disguise the ring in my bag in

1983
01:44:17,240 --> 01:44:20,360
Speaker 4: case she like saw it in my bag. And so

1984
01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:25,320
Speaker 4: I had this nondescript just envelope with the ring package

1985
01:44:25,360 --> 01:44:28,280
Speaker 4: in there, and so I'm just trying to make sure

1986
01:44:28,320 --> 01:44:31,240
Speaker 4: she don't see it so I can actually propose in

1987
01:44:31,400 --> 01:44:33,080
Speaker 4: the moment, you know where I want to do it.

1988
01:44:33,720 --> 01:44:36,400
Speaker 4: And we're flying to the Maldi's and back then you

1989
01:44:36,520 --> 01:44:40,600
Speaker 4: had to fly through Colombo, Sri Lanka, but now you

1990
01:44:40,640 --> 01:44:41,800
Speaker 4: can fly direct to Malee.

1991
01:44:41,960 --> 01:44:46,320
Speaker 1: But before we flowed to the Dubai, spent a day

1992
01:44:46,320 --> 01:44:47,679
Speaker 1: at Duba and then to Malee.

1993
01:44:48,080 --> 01:44:52,679
Speaker 4: But back then you had to go somewhere Dubai, then

1994
01:44:52,760 --> 01:44:58,679
Speaker 4: to Sri Lanka and then it's horrible times. But nowadays

1995
01:44:58,760 --> 01:45:00,280
Speaker 4: you can go straight to Malee from the Bye.

1996
01:45:00,479 --> 01:45:01,360
Speaker 1: So that's what we do now.

1997
01:45:01,560 --> 01:45:07,360
Speaker 3: Anyway, we're going through the airport and they're rifling.

1998
01:45:07,000 --> 01:45:09,680
Speaker 1: Through my bag. I'm like, y'all better not open this

1999
01:45:09,880 --> 01:45:11,639
Speaker 1: fucking ring man. Wait wait customs.

2000
01:45:11,920 --> 01:45:15,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know the people can't say basically wipeople right there.

2001
01:45:16,000 --> 01:45:19,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this cer over in they about to blow

2002
01:45:19,160 --> 01:45:21,920
Speaker 1: you up. Yeah. So they're going through, going through, going through,

2003
01:45:22,200 --> 01:45:24,000
Speaker 1: and they were just about.

2004
01:45:23,760 --> 01:45:26,840
Speaker 4: To open that envelope. But God must have spoke to him.

2005
01:45:26,720 --> 01:45:31,160
Speaker 3: And said not now, son, right right right, right, right

2006
01:45:31,280 --> 01:45:34,240
Speaker 3: right right, because he didn't open up the envelope.

2007
01:45:34,520 --> 01:45:37,679
Speaker 2: And I got to propose on the beach in the Maldives.

2008
01:45:37,720 --> 01:45:41,880
Speaker 2: So it was for like Christmas Eve dinner on the

2009
01:45:41,960 --> 01:45:43,000
Speaker 2: beach in the Maldives.

2010
01:45:43,160 --> 01:45:52,880
Speaker 1: One two three. We're about to have dessert.

2011
01:45:52,720 --> 01:45:55,000
Speaker 2: And I tell the you know, a way to bring

2012
01:45:55,080 --> 01:45:58,040
Speaker 2: out the ring with dessert, and he brings it out

2013
01:45:58,080 --> 01:46:01,519
Speaker 2: in a little tray and then she sees it starts

2014
01:46:01,600 --> 01:46:06,799
Speaker 2: crying and she said, yes, that's similar to my proposal.

2015
01:46:07,000 --> 01:46:12,960
Speaker 1: But you just did it in about these no, no, no,

2016
01:46:13,160 --> 01:46:20,400
Speaker 1: let me about you old so okay, all these she

2017
01:46:20,520 --> 01:46:23,800
Speaker 1: says yes. She says yes obviously, and then we go.

2018
01:46:24,160 --> 01:46:25,760
Speaker 3: Then we go over to Thailand because her mom and

2019
01:46:25,880 --> 01:46:27,360
Speaker 3: dad were living in Thailand at the time.

2020
01:46:27,439 --> 01:46:31,479
Speaker 4: Her mom's tie and uh. And then we show them

2021
01:46:31,560 --> 01:46:34,519
Speaker 4: the ring. Uh when we land at the airport and

2022
01:46:34,560 --> 01:46:36,920
Speaker 4: they're like ah. And her mom didn't really get it.

2023
01:46:37,160 --> 01:46:39,799
Speaker 4: She was like, Okay, that's a nice ring. It's pretty

2024
01:46:39,960 --> 01:46:40,639
Speaker 4: was the first.

2025
01:46:42,960 --> 01:46:46,120
Speaker 1: I doubt it. She lived in Bangkok, you know, it's

2026
01:46:46,720 --> 01:46:49,800
Speaker 1: kind of Bangkok. Him the bank, the bankok, and they

2027
01:46:49,920 --> 01:46:56,280
Speaker 1: lived Yeah. And then and they lived in America. Yeah.

2028
01:46:56,320 --> 01:46:58,840
Speaker 1: So Christy was Christy was born in the Internet.

2029
01:46:58,880 --> 01:46:59,000
Speaker 3: You know.

2030
01:46:59,400 --> 01:47:02,640
Speaker 4: Christy was about Christie was born in America and her

2031
01:47:02,720 --> 01:47:05,559
Speaker 4: dad was born and raised in America and he met

2032
01:47:05,640 --> 01:47:05,920
Speaker 4: her mom.

2033
01:47:06,640 --> 01:47:07,840
Speaker 1: Her mom over there, but.

2034
01:47:08,120 --> 01:47:10,320
Speaker 3: Then they lived in America for a long time, but

2035
01:47:10,400 --> 01:47:11,960
Speaker 3: then they moved back to Thailand, and that's when I

2036
01:47:12,000 --> 01:47:13,479
Speaker 3: met them, when they had moved back to Thailand.

2037
01:47:13,880 --> 01:47:20,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, you like Thailand. Yeah, it's beautiful, beautiful back then,

2038
01:47:21,080 --> 01:47:23,960
Speaker 1: I don't think I think they stopped I think they

2039
01:47:24,000 --> 01:47:27,280
Speaker 1: stopped it. I think that's legal. Yeah, I think it was.

2040
01:47:28,880 --> 01:47:29,759
Speaker 1: If you do some crazy.

2041
01:47:30,400 --> 01:47:37,240
Speaker 4: Singapore, Singapore, Singapore America, Singapore.

2042
01:47:37,320 --> 01:47:38,479
Speaker 1: Singapore is really strict.

2043
01:47:38,560 --> 01:47:43,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, Singapore is like you can't shoot gum and yeah,

2044
01:47:43,240 --> 01:47:43,960
Speaker 3: it's very clean.

2045
01:47:44,360 --> 01:47:47,240
Speaker 4: It's very clean. Well, Singapore is beautiful, but it's it's

2046
01:47:47,280 --> 01:47:47,920
Speaker 4: definitely strict.

2047
01:47:48,160 --> 01:47:51,439
Speaker 2: I went to Singapore one time, and this is the

2048
01:47:51,560 --> 01:47:55,559
Speaker 2: time where the whole economy was tobacco, and I had

2049
01:47:55,600 --> 01:47:57,439
Speaker 2: two carts a new Ports.

2050
01:47:57,439 --> 01:47:59,439
Speaker 1: I used to smoke, and they pulled me over like

2051
01:47:59,520 --> 01:48:04,360
Speaker 1: I had like you got buy her, you got buy it? Yeah, yeah,

2052
01:48:04,680 --> 01:48:06,479
Speaker 1: they this is how crazy it was.

2053
01:48:06,720 --> 01:48:08,840
Speaker 2: They made me throw out the cigarettes and then they

2054
01:48:08,880 --> 01:48:12,840
Speaker 2: made me buy their cigarettes in customs and I bought it,

2055
01:48:12,920 --> 01:48:17,080
Speaker 2: like I I definitely did it. You got to buy

2056
01:48:17,080 --> 01:48:21,479
Speaker 2: a little what's your favorite country. The performer, well, South Africa,

2057
01:48:21,920 --> 01:48:28,519
Speaker 2: Korea said, I love playing in Amsterdam and London, and yeah,

2058
01:48:28,560 --> 01:48:29,360
Speaker 2: those are my favorites.

2059
01:48:30,680 --> 01:48:32,000
Speaker 1: I have a couple of times.

2060
01:48:32,960 --> 01:48:35,800
Speaker 3: It was before it got crazy experience. Yeah, it was

2061
01:48:35,880 --> 01:48:37,240
Speaker 3: before it got crazy lately, like.

2062
01:48:37,280 --> 01:48:39,880
Speaker 1: With the war and everything. But uh, I was there.

2063
01:48:40,240 --> 01:48:41,240
Speaker 1: It was like for a birthday.

2064
01:48:41,320 --> 01:48:43,320
Speaker 4: It was like a private birthday party or something and

2065
01:48:43,800 --> 01:48:46,439
Speaker 4: some you know them guys with the big money, they

2066
01:48:46,479 --> 01:48:48,160
Speaker 4: want somebody to come and sing their birthday party.

2067
01:48:48,640 --> 01:48:52,719
Speaker 2: It was in Moscow. Yeah, at like a theater. It's beautiful,

2068
01:48:53,520 --> 01:48:58,160
Speaker 2: beautiful cities. Yeah, she's the Louis Properties. I've been just

2069
01:48:58,240 --> 01:49:00,240
Speaker 2: about everywhere. There's a very few places I have been.

2070
01:49:00,320 --> 01:49:05,280
Speaker 2: But yeah, you performed a kow not kouw.

2071
01:49:05,560 --> 01:49:14,880
Speaker 1: But I played Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, a

2072
01:49:14,960 --> 01:49:19,160
Speaker 1: bunch of Middle Eastern places. Yeah. Yeah, Morocco, like I

2073
01:49:19,439 --> 01:49:23,080
Speaker 1: just take a shot. But for him performing every yes, worldwide,

2074
01:49:25,240 --> 01:49:28,680
Speaker 1: shots are gone. Here we go yeah shot yeah, yeah,

2075
01:49:28,680 --> 01:49:30,880
Speaker 1: because we like if we don't want you, we don't

2076
01:49:30,880 --> 01:49:33,200
Speaker 1: want to. Yeah, we want you to catch a flight

2077
01:49:33,280 --> 01:49:37,880
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah yeous.

2078
01:49:39,400 --> 01:49:45,200
Speaker 2: So anything in your whole career, right, yeah, beautiful lovely career,

2079
01:49:45,360 --> 01:49:47,880
Speaker 2: beautiful wife, beautiful children, beautiful everything.

2080
01:49:47,880 --> 01:49:53,360
Speaker 1: Apparently, never have a bad day, according to listen, being honest.

2081
01:49:53,120 --> 01:49:56,040
Speaker 2: I'm spreading the rumor you leave here. It might it

2082
01:49:56,120 --> 01:49:59,200
Speaker 2: might read John Legend never has a bad joy. It

2083
01:49:59,320 --> 01:50:01,519
Speaker 2: might just read that I just mean. But by the way,

2084
01:50:03,400 --> 01:50:05,040
Speaker 2: this is one of my friends, right, this is this

2085
01:50:05,200 --> 01:50:09,280
Speaker 2: is my friend Sonny d b T. He's never had

2086
01:50:09,320 --> 01:50:09,840
Speaker 2: a bad day.

2087
01:50:09,920 --> 01:50:12,640
Speaker 1: I hate him. I love that for you in a

2088
01:50:12,760 --> 01:50:13,160
Speaker 1: good way.

2089
01:50:13,439 --> 01:50:15,200
Speaker 3: He never had a bad day, and Haiti is the

2090
01:50:15,600 --> 01:50:16,640
Speaker 3: source of everything.

2091
01:50:16,760 --> 01:50:18,519
Speaker 1: In a good way, like in a good way, like

2092
01:50:18,680 --> 01:50:19,160
Speaker 1: he like.

2093
01:50:19,920 --> 01:50:22,800
Speaker 2: If ever I'm having a bad day, I call him

2094
01:50:23,040 --> 01:50:26,400
Speaker 2: and he'll be He'll he'll simply say some foul ship,

2095
01:50:26,520 --> 01:50:29,880
Speaker 2: like shut the fuck up, let's go outside on this

2096
01:50:30,120 --> 01:50:34,200
Speaker 2: and we'll have a great day. Yes, I cherished people

2097
01:50:34,280 --> 01:50:38,000
Speaker 2: like that. Yeah, is that who you are? Can I

2098
01:50:38,080 --> 01:50:39,400
Speaker 2: call you on a bad day and you'd be like,

2099
01:50:39,560 --> 01:50:39,920
Speaker 2: shut up?

2100
01:50:40,000 --> 01:50:42,880
Speaker 1: Nigga trying to find him bright side, trying to find

2101
01:50:42,920 --> 01:50:45,479
Speaker 1: the right side for you, man, trying to find find

2102
01:50:45,560 --> 01:50:47,920
Speaker 1: the right side for you. He wants you to start

2103
01:50:47,960 --> 01:50:51,439
Speaker 1: a hot line. I got to be his friend, John Legend,

2104
01:50:51,520 --> 01:50:53,760
Speaker 1: never have a bad day, never have a bad day.

2105
01:50:57,880 --> 01:51:01,759
Speaker 3: Back in the when they first started doing the voice

2106
01:51:02,800 --> 01:51:05,479
Speaker 3: activated assistant for Google.

2107
01:51:06,479 --> 01:51:07,640
Speaker 1: They made me the voice of it.

2108
01:51:07,760 --> 01:51:10,479
Speaker 4: So really I had to literally go to the studio

2109
01:51:10,520 --> 01:51:12,920
Speaker 4: and just record myself saying all kinds.

2110
01:51:12,720 --> 01:51:17,160
Speaker 1: Of words Jillian things, excuse me, check though. Yeah. It

2111
01:51:17,240 --> 01:51:19,920
Speaker 1: was a good check but it was a lot of work.

2112
01:51:19,960 --> 01:51:22,240
Speaker 3: It was like literally ten days in the studio of

2113
01:51:22,439 --> 01:51:24,000
Speaker 3: like six to eight hour days.

2114
01:51:23,880 --> 01:51:26,680
Speaker 1: Of just reading things. Does that still exists now?

2115
01:51:26,760 --> 01:51:29,599
Speaker 4: It was like a one year promotion, so you could

2116
01:51:29,960 --> 01:51:32,360
Speaker 4: if you have one of those Google Home things, you

2117
01:51:32,439 --> 01:51:34,200
Speaker 4: would have my voice on it for a year and

2118
01:51:34,280 --> 01:51:35,160
Speaker 4: then you was like Siri.

2119
01:51:35,600 --> 01:51:38,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like Siri for Google, I would buy

2120
01:51:41,160 --> 01:51:47,880
Speaker 1: all Have you done more things like that in the

2121
01:51:47,920 --> 01:51:51,240
Speaker 1: tech space, I've done a lot of stuff. Yeah.

2122
01:51:51,479 --> 01:51:53,800
Speaker 3: Well we worked with them on their AI project too,

2123
01:51:53,920 --> 01:51:57,720
Speaker 3: Google's too. So one thing that I'm curious about in

2124
01:51:57,800 --> 01:52:00,439
Speaker 3: the R and B space in terms of related to

2125
01:52:00,640 --> 01:52:02,880
Speaker 3: hip hop space. Yeah, so, you know, in the hip

2126
01:52:02,880 --> 01:52:06,000
Speaker 3: hop space generationally, we're looking at the differences in the sound.

2127
01:52:06,320 --> 01:52:07,680
Speaker 1: Uh huh. Do you see that in the R and

2128
01:52:07,760 --> 01:52:08,479
Speaker 1: B space as well?

2129
01:52:09,120 --> 01:52:11,040
Speaker 4: But I think a lot of R and B artists

2130
01:52:11,080 --> 01:52:13,960
Speaker 4: still like hold on to some of the classic sounds,

2131
01:52:14,000 --> 01:52:16,120
Speaker 4: but they're always like. But the thing is R and

2132
01:52:16,200 --> 01:52:18,080
Speaker 4: B and hip hop are so close, Like we work

2133
01:52:18,160 --> 01:52:21,040
Speaker 4: with a lot of the same producers, and so a

2134
01:52:21,080 --> 01:52:23,200
Speaker 4: lot of things that are happening in hip hop, we're

2135
01:52:23,280 --> 01:52:25,320
Speaker 4: doing it as well. But there's still a lot of

2136
01:52:25,400 --> 01:52:27,120
Speaker 4: R and B artists. I think that like the classic

2137
01:52:27,200 --> 01:52:27,599
Speaker 4: sounds too.

2138
01:52:27,800 --> 01:52:29,920
Speaker 3: Do you ever feel like you are hip hop just

2139
01:52:30,760 --> 01:52:32,439
Speaker 3: by the nature of how you came up?

2140
01:52:32,560 --> 01:52:34,599
Speaker 4: I feel I'm so connected to hip hop. I feel

2141
01:52:34,600 --> 01:52:37,719
Speaker 4: like I've made so many hip hop records. I literally

2142
01:52:37,880 --> 01:52:40,080
Speaker 4: was going through because we're doing some promotions for my

2143
01:52:40,120 --> 01:52:43,800
Speaker 4: anniversary of Get Lifted, and I was going through all

2144
01:52:43,840 --> 01:52:45,719
Speaker 4: the hip hop collapse I have and making a playlist

2145
01:52:46,240 --> 01:52:48,599
Speaker 4: and it's massive, Like the list, it's crazy.

2146
01:52:48,720 --> 01:52:51,360
Speaker 1: So yeah, hip hop is so core to my.

2147
01:52:52,360 --> 01:52:55,160
Speaker 3: Career and my musical identity and everything.

2148
01:52:55,400 --> 01:52:56,679
Speaker 1: So it's John Legend rapped.

2149
01:52:57,680 --> 01:53:01,360
Speaker 4: I have go back and list listen to a record

2150
01:53:01,439 --> 01:53:05,680
Speaker 4: with Consequence. He wrote the rapskay and.

2151
01:53:07,240 --> 01:53:10,960
Speaker 3: He like produced my session, but I did rap with him.

2152
01:53:10,880 --> 01:53:11,320
Speaker 2: On the song.

2153
01:53:11,600 --> 01:53:14,720
Speaker 1: Did you enjoy that experience? I did. I feel like

2154
01:53:14,720 --> 01:53:17,040
Speaker 1: I'd be better at it now, like I just have

2155
01:53:17,200 --> 01:53:20,240
Speaker 1: more understanding of whatever.

2156
01:53:20,360 --> 01:53:22,680
Speaker 2: So you've not and I've been writing raps actually for

2157
01:53:22,800 --> 01:53:23,599
Speaker 2: a Broadway show.

2158
01:53:24,240 --> 01:53:30,080
Speaker 1: Really yeah, writing raps? Yeah, he rhymed. Well, he's talking.

2159
01:53:29,880 --> 01:53:31,800
Speaker 4: About how hip hop is so important to my career,

2160
01:53:31,840 --> 01:53:33,240
Speaker 4: and I was talking about how many times I've been

2161
01:53:33,280 --> 01:53:35,800
Speaker 4: on hip hop records the whole life, my whole career.

2162
01:53:36,240 --> 01:53:37,920
Speaker 1: But he was like, have you ever rapped?

2163
01:53:37,960 --> 01:53:40,559
Speaker 4: And I said, I did one record with Consequence where

2164
01:53:40,600 --> 01:53:41,080
Speaker 4: he wrote the.

2165
01:53:41,120 --> 01:53:42,000
Speaker 1: Raps and I did him.

2166
01:53:43,200 --> 01:53:47,040
Speaker 4: But I've actually been writing raps for Broadway for a show.

2167
01:53:47,080 --> 01:53:47,479
Speaker 1: I'm writing.

2168
01:53:47,800 --> 01:53:52,720
Speaker 2: Oh, that's fine. What's your relationship with Consequence? He hit me,

2169
01:53:53,360 --> 01:53:55,479
Speaker 2: like a couple of weeks ago. I love Yeah, Like

2170
01:53:55,560 --> 01:53:56,840
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't talk to him a lot, but

2171
01:53:57,280 --> 01:54:00,200
Speaker 2: all love. We were like in the early day, he's

2172
01:54:00,240 --> 01:54:01,400
Speaker 2: a tour and we were roommates.

2173
01:54:01,800 --> 01:54:05,880
Speaker 3: Like uh so, so he'd have uh you know when

2174
01:54:05,920 --> 01:54:07,840
Speaker 3: you when you have a broke artist and you just

2175
01:54:07,920 --> 01:54:10,800
Speaker 3: on tour support, like everybody got double up, so you

2176
01:54:11,040 --> 01:54:12,200
Speaker 3: sleep in the double rooms.

2177
01:54:12,439 --> 01:54:14,960
Speaker 4: He's in one bed, I'm in the other. So Console

2178
01:54:15,080 --> 01:54:20,920
Speaker 4: was my roommate. Who was these other people that's on

2179
01:54:21,000 --> 01:54:24,400
Speaker 4: the tour? Consequence you GLC, don c.

2180
01:54:26,360 --> 01:54:31,839
Speaker 2: Yay, Monopoly monop would come out a lot really really.

2181
01:54:31,680 --> 01:54:34,680
Speaker 1: Dough doing tour buses or not. We were on tour buses.

2182
01:54:35,080 --> 01:54:37,760
Speaker 1: Those are rigorous. Yeah, those tour buses are. I like

2183
01:54:37,840 --> 01:54:38,440
Speaker 1: tour buses.

2184
01:54:38,920 --> 01:54:42,400
Speaker 3: Man, Well I get the start bus now, yeah, I

2185
01:54:42,440 --> 01:54:44,760
Speaker 3: get to stop goodse I got the bed, I got

2186
01:54:44,800 --> 01:54:46,680
Speaker 3: the actual everybody else is.

2187
01:54:46,680 --> 01:54:49,440
Speaker 1: In bunks and then you're in a nice bed. Yeah.

2188
01:54:50,160 --> 01:54:53,240
Speaker 2: But I don't mind it because as a singer, you

2189
01:54:53,320 --> 01:54:56,640
Speaker 2: don't love being up and down in the uh because

2190
01:54:56,720 --> 01:54:59,000
Speaker 2: the air yeah mess with your vocal.

2191
01:54:59,040 --> 01:55:01,920
Speaker 4: You just get dry and going up and down all

2192
01:55:01,960 --> 01:55:06,360
Speaker 4: the time for shows, and so it's easier for just

2193
01:55:06,400 --> 01:55:06,600
Speaker 4: to be.

2194
01:55:06,640 --> 01:55:09,400
Speaker 1: On the bus. You know why I love good music.

2195
01:55:09,640 --> 01:55:10,560
Speaker 1: I'ma be honest with you.

2196
01:55:13,000 --> 01:55:14,560
Speaker 2: I came up in an arrow where we had to

2197
01:55:14,640 --> 01:55:19,040
Speaker 2: be gangster, right, and we had to keep up that gangster.

2198
01:55:19,440 --> 01:55:22,680
Speaker 2: If you not gangster for one week, there's someone who

2199
01:55:22,720 --> 01:55:26,440
Speaker 2: will come and try to take that slot that same week.

2200
01:55:26,640 --> 01:55:27,880
Speaker 1: Just you're just trying to chill.

2201
01:55:31,000 --> 01:55:36,160
Speaker 2: I got introduced to a person named for Real. His

2202
01:55:36,320 --> 01:55:39,920
Speaker 2: first lines he ever said to me was I don't

2203
01:55:39,960 --> 01:55:43,200
Speaker 2: have a gangster bone in my body. At the time,

2204
01:55:45,360 --> 01:55:48,840
Speaker 2: I could have been like this egotistic maniac and been

2205
01:55:48,920 --> 01:55:52,840
Speaker 2: like what because he had on a medium shirt. I

2206
01:55:52,920 --> 01:55:55,640
Speaker 2: had on a five acts right, So this is the

2207
01:55:55,760 --> 01:55:59,840
Speaker 2: time of Fox, right, No, I know, and I chose

2208
01:56:00,080 --> 01:56:03,200
Speaker 2: to believe in that movement. Yeah, I chose to believe.

2209
01:56:03,240 --> 01:56:04,600
Speaker 2: I was like, fuck that you don't have to be.

2210
01:56:04,920 --> 01:56:07,360
Speaker 2: But if Pharrell knew how to make gangster beats for y'all,

2211
01:56:07,880 --> 01:56:13,040
Speaker 2: you know, and me and Pharrell made all this. But

2212
01:56:13,800 --> 01:56:18,840
Speaker 2: to me, I always remember those first words they said

2213
01:56:18,880 --> 01:56:21,720
Speaker 2: to me, and then it trickled down to good music, right.

2214
01:56:22,960 --> 01:56:26,320
Speaker 2: And I always loved y'all because that's what y'all represented.

2215
01:56:26,920 --> 01:56:33,920
Speaker 2: Represent the gangster part of life, yeah, represented the I

2216
01:56:33,960 --> 01:56:37,200
Speaker 2: don't want to the ordinary people part of life.

2217
01:56:37,320 --> 01:56:37,520
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2218
01:56:37,600 --> 01:56:39,240
Speaker 1: And most people aren't gangsters, you know.

2219
01:56:39,600 --> 01:56:44,240
Speaker 4: And so and you know the thing about us being

2220
01:56:44,280 --> 01:56:49,600
Speaker 4: attracted to artists that describe that life, It is attractive

2221
01:56:49,600 --> 01:56:51,840
Speaker 4: because it's just like you want to watch Scarface or

2222
01:56:51,880 --> 01:56:52,600
Speaker 4: you want to watch.

2223
01:56:52,800 --> 01:56:54,360
Speaker 1: Like you want to watch Against the movie.

2224
01:56:54,280 --> 01:56:56,600
Speaker 4: And so there's something appealing about that even if you

2225
01:56:56,720 --> 01:56:59,400
Speaker 4: haven't lived that life, like you're fascinated by that life.

2226
01:56:59,600 --> 01:57:01,640
Speaker 4: And so I see why people love gangst the rap.

2227
01:57:02,000 --> 01:57:05,320
Speaker 4: But it also helped Kanye stand out when he was

2228
01:57:05,400 --> 01:57:08,360
Speaker 4: like we're in the polos and talking about dropping out

2229
01:57:08,400 --> 01:57:11,480
Speaker 4: of college. When he was on the same label with

2230
01:57:12,040 --> 01:57:15,360
Speaker 4: guys rapping about Dylan Coke, it was like it made

2231
01:57:15,440 --> 01:57:17,360
Speaker 4: him stand out, you know, And I'm giving it to

2232
01:57:17,520 --> 01:57:20,560
Speaker 4: y'all in its entirety. It just because it was all

2233
01:57:20,680 --> 01:57:23,600
Speaker 4: of y'all like yeah, like I mean, but I wasn't rapping,

2234
01:57:23,680 --> 01:57:24,680
Speaker 4: so like I didn't.

2235
01:57:24,480 --> 01:57:26,760
Speaker 1: Have to be gast it was I was singing, but

2236
01:57:26,840 --> 01:57:30,040
Speaker 1: you were singing. That was the outfit.

2237
01:57:31,000 --> 01:57:32,920
Speaker 4: But I didn't have to be gangster though, But as

2238
01:57:32,960 --> 01:57:35,040
Speaker 4: a rapper, that was a bold thing to do to

2239
01:57:35,200 --> 01:57:37,560
Speaker 4: like not to be the only non I was very.

2240
01:57:37,520 --> 01:57:40,600
Speaker 1: Gangster, Yeah, Kanye, to be that way, it's bold, it's authentic.

2241
01:57:40,720 --> 01:57:46,240
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And now we have a whole genre of

2242
01:57:47,600 --> 01:57:50,440
Speaker 1: that music. But then we have a whole genre of

2243
01:57:50,880 --> 01:57:53,600
Speaker 1: dead music. Jesus Christmas.

2244
01:57:54,400 --> 01:57:59,240
Speaker 2: These people rhyme about killing people, and it's crazy because

2245
01:57:59,400 --> 01:58:02,920
Speaker 2: I'm un quote against the wrapping and I listen to

2246
01:58:03,000 --> 01:58:04,000
Speaker 2: this ship like, oh.

2247
01:58:06,040 --> 01:58:08,000
Speaker 3: No, but you're saying it wrong because you guys, you

2248
01:58:08,080 --> 01:58:10,840
Speaker 3: guys are rhyming about killing people in a way, the

2249
01:58:11,440 --> 01:58:14,120
Speaker 3: kids are literally rhyming about killing people for.

2250
01:58:14,320 --> 01:58:17,760
Speaker 1: Real, like you talking about like, yeah, we don't about

2251
01:58:17,840 --> 01:58:22,680
Speaker 1: drill is mostly in New York, right, it's all over it. Yeah,

2252
01:58:22,800 --> 01:58:24,040
Speaker 1: you know, I'm saying, where did that start?

2253
01:58:24,360 --> 01:58:28,160
Speaker 3: Chicago's gets Chicago gets yeah, gets gets.

2254
01:58:27,960 --> 01:58:32,200
Speaker 1: Scort starts, I think really and London.

2255
01:58:32,800 --> 01:58:35,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, London, like there's there's city, Like New York has

2256
01:58:35,680 --> 01:58:37,200
Speaker 3: its own version that's.

2257
01:58:37,080 --> 01:58:40,360
Speaker 2: Drill and then yeah London, Like I'm so gree Like

2258
01:58:40,720 --> 01:58:43,200
Speaker 2: one day I was just like I hit some really

2259
01:58:43,360 --> 01:58:43,840
Speaker 2: talk about it.

2260
01:58:44,280 --> 01:58:52,440
Speaker 1: That's drill. I mean, but I think that's that was

2261
01:58:52,720 --> 01:58:54,720
Speaker 1: for New York. But I even think it's changed so

2262
01:58:54,880 --> 01:58:55,480
Speaker 1: much from them.

2263
01:58:56,160 --> 01:58:59,280
Speaker 3: It's gotten so much, like where they really like because

2264
01:58:59,280 --> 01:59:02,040
Speaker 3: they're using souli media with the music to really like

2265
01:59:03,040 --> 01:59:05,879
Speaker 3: this is what I'm really doing, but they're like outing themselves.

2266
01:59:05,920 --> 01:59:06,760
Speaker 1: It's just wild.

2267
01:59:06,880 --> 01:59:09,200
Speaker 4: It's it's what what do you think about the whole

2268
01:59:09,480 --> 01:59:12,640
Speaker 4: movement to not hold like a record against the person,

2269
01:59:12,840 --> 01:59:17,640
Speaker 4: Like like how with the uh in the case you

2270
01:59:17,720 --> 01:59:20,320
Speaker 4: can't like quote the lyrics it blurs the lines.

2271
01:59:21,280 --> 01:59:21,840
Speaker 1: Complicated.

2272
01:59:22,040 --> 01:59:26,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really complicated, man, Like I really think that

2273
01:59:26,640 --> 01:59:30,120
Speaker 3: that art should be separated, yeah, from the judicial system in.

2274
01:59:30,160 --> 01:59:33,640
Speaker 1: That sense, Yeah, you could should be just can't be charged.

2275
01:59:34,480 --> 01:59:36,960
Speaker 1: I agree. Like, also, like what the fuck I believe?

2276
01:59:37,160 --> 01:59:39,440
Speaker 1: I believe you shouldn't. You shouldn't be able to hold

2277
01:59:39,520 --> 01:59:40,720
Speaker 1: someone's song against them.

2278
01:59:40,880 --> 01:59:43,040
Speaker 4: You got to have real evidence that they did something,

2279
01:59:43,680 --> 01:59:46,440
Speaker 4: not just that they rapped about something hard.

2280
01:59:46,520 --> 01:59:51,720
Speaker 1: That Nigga killed nineteen for sure, exactly sure, so he

2281
01:59:51,920 --> 01:59:56,760
Speaker 1: really didn't that's the problem. But Rus, that is not that.

2282
01:59:57,240 --> 01:59:59,400
Speaker 4: But the point is, it's not enough proof to say

2283
01:59:59,440 --> 02:00:01,680
Speaker 4: someone made art about killing somebody.

2284
02:00:01,760 --> 02:00:03,440
Speaker 1: You have to be able to prove they actually did it,

2285
02:00:03,560 --> 02:00:04,760
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely.

2286
02:00:04,840 --> 02:00:07,960
Speaker 2: Because I remember you being against the stopping chriss, Yeah,

2287
02:00:08,080 --> 02:00:09,320
Speaker 2: he was fully against the stopping.

2288
02:00:09,560 --> 02:00:12,720
Speaker 4: Now I'm generally like trying to find ways to make

2289
02:00:13,080 --> 02:00:16,160
Speaker 4: everything more just for us, you know, And so I

2290
02:00:16,240 --> 02:00:18,760
Speaker 4: don't like the idea of them holding songs against us.

2291
02:00:19,720 --> 02:00:21,800
Speaker 4: I don't like the idea of stopping frisk. I don't

2292
02:00:21,880 --> 02:00:24,240
Speaker 4: like the idea of illegal searches in general. And I'm

2293
02:00:24,320 --> 02:00:26,760
Speaker 4: just always going to be on the side of standing

2294
02:00:26,840 --> 02:00:28,120
Speaker 4: up for us and not locking a.

2295
02:00:28,120 --> 02:00:29,920
Speaker 1: Bunch of us up. That's why are we running for

2296
02:00:30,000 --> 02:00:38,920
Speaker 1: president twenty twenty? Excellent? But I don't know what God does.

2297
02:00:42,520 --> 02:00:45,720
Speaker 2: How long you live down here, mem I'm going on

2298
02:00:45,880 --> 02:00:47,400
Speaker 2: like seventeen years.

2299
02:00:47,560 --> 02:00:50,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, you never going back? You said, I don't want

2300
02:00:50,040 --> 02:00:52,080
Speaker 3: no more snow. No, I don't want to sound.

2301
02:00:53,600 --> 02:00:55,480
Speaker 1: You like the snows. I'm good with it.

2302
02:00:55,720 --> 02:00:59,360
Speaker 2: No, it's filming the fuck Korean Kareem is here, that's

2303
02:00:59,400 --> 02:00:59,920
Speaker 2: what jamake.

2304
02:01:00,280 --> 02:01:04,920
Speaker 1: He don't stop working. Yes, yeah, you got eight jobs,

2305
02:01:06,040 --> 02:01:08,640
Speaker 1: but you do. I don't like the cold.

2306
02:01:08,760 --> 02:01:12,320
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Like that is that different people from I'm

2307
02:01:12,360 --> 02:01:16,840
Speaker 2: Puerto Rican, but they're black? Okay, yeah, so yeah, I don't.

2308
02:01:16,880 --> 02:01:20,080
Speaker 2: I don't think any side of my side wants to

2309
02:01:20,320 --> 02:01:23,960
Speaker 2: reside wants to the cold, Like like why, like how

2310
02:01:24,880 --> 02:01:27,840
Speaker 2: I put it in my whole time in New York.

2311
02:01:28,680 --> 02:01:31,280
Speaker 2: Then I moved to New Jersey. I did all the

2312
02:01:31,520 --> 02:01:35,920
Speaker 2: like walking with my tams in the snow, and now

2313
02:01:36,120 --> 02:01:37,080
Speaker 2: like Louis Tims.

2314
02:01:37,280 --> 02:01:39,160
Speaker 1: So it's like a little different. You don't want him

2315
02:01:39,160 --> 02:01:41,840
Speaker 1: to get up, Like why can't I just be like

2316
02:01:42,400 --> 02:01:46,240
Speaker 1: who I am now? Like funk that I deserve the

2317
02:01:46,400 --> 02:01:50,000
Speaker 1: right to where Louis tim. That's right, I deserve the right.

2318
02:01:50,920 --> 02:01:53,080
Speaker 1: God damn it. And you said you're working before. What

2319
02:01:53,240 --> 02:01:55,640
Speaker 1: are y'all doing? We just started working on the album.

2320
02:01:56,080 --> 02:01:57,320
Speaker 1: We never a whole album.

2321
02:01:57,720 --> 02:02:00,800
Speaker 4: We never done like a whole big thing together. He

2322
02:02:01,000 --> 02:02:02,800
Speaker 4: just did a couple of songs with me years ago.

2323
02:02:03,600 --> 02:02:05,080
Speaker 4: And he just called me up in De Simmer. It

2324
02:02:05,200 --> 02:02:08,120
Speaker 4: was like, uh, I really am inspired. Like I've been

2325
02:02:08,160 --> 02:02:11,560
Speaker 4: thinking about your music and my vision for it. I

2326
02:02:11,600 --> 02:02:14,640
Speaker 4: feel like we should just get in and see what happens. Wait,

2327
02:02:14,640 --> 02:02:16,560
Speaker 4: he hit you out the blue saying this out the blue.

2328
02:02:16,640 --> 02:02:19,600
Speaker 1: That's that's type of it makes sense, makes sense.

2329
02:02:20,560 --> 02:02:20,680
Speaker 5: You know.

2330
02:02:20,800 --> 02:02:23,080
Speaker 4: He's so creative and he gets inspired and and so

2331
02:02:23,280 --> 02:02:25,000
Speaker 4: I've been over to Paris to work with them, and

2332
02:02:25,360 --> 02:02:26,840
Speaker 4: we're gonna do it again in March.

2333
02:02:27,680 --> 02:02:29,160
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, So we'll see what happens.

2334
02:02:29,240 --> 02:02:33,240
Speaker 2: That's your next album, yeah, I mean well, yeah to

2335
02:02:33,360 --> 02:02:36,800
Speaker 2: the people that your next album is fully produced Buffalo.

2336
02:02:36,960 --> 02:02:39,400
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say fully produced, yeah, I'm just gonna

2337
02:02:39,400 --> 02:02:40,480
Speaker 2: say executive produce.

2338
02:02:40,600 --> 02:02:42,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm saying we're getting in and he's gonna ep

2339
02:02:42,800 --> 02:02:50,680
Speaker 1: the record. So that's exact. H What is something that

2340
02:02:54,280 --> 02:02:57,080
Speaker 1: you did back then you wish you could have did

2341
02:02:58,080 --> 02:03:01,600
Speaker 1: right now? Like back then.

2342
02:03:01,800 --> 02:03:05,440
Speaker 2: I'll give you an example example. My friend of mine

2343
02:03:05,520 --> 02:03:09,840
Speaker 2: is named Tata. I have this number one record. It's

2344
02:03:09,880 --> 02:03:18,680
Speaker 2: called Equal Man. I'm I'm Latino, I'm all over thet.

2345
02:03:17,640 --> 02:03:18,800
Speaker 1: Comes all over the place.

2346
02:03:19,080 --> 02:03:21,520
Speaker 2: Tata comes to me and says, I want a girl

2347
02:03:21,880 --> 02:03:26,800
Speaker 2: to do a remix to this record. This is Jay,

2348
02:03:27,360 --> 02:03:29,720
Speaker 2: absolutely yes, and he says, I want to go to

2349
02:03:29,800 --> 02:03:31,360
Speaker 2: do a remix to this record, and I got to

2350
02:03:31,680 --> 02:03:32,440
Speaker 2: just listen to me.

2351
02:03:35,160 --> 02:03:37,200
Speaker 1: Somewhat. I don't want to say I said no. I

2352
02:03:37,240 --> 02:03:40,480
Speaker 1: didn't say no. But when they asked me the payment,

2353
02:03:40,560 --> 02:03:43,960
Speaker 1: it was like it's fifteen grand and I was like, Oh,

2354
02:03:45,200 --> 02:03:50,760
Speaker 1: this woman wind up being Rihanna. Oh make this mistake

2355
02:03:50,840 --> 02:03:53,720
Speaker 1: of my whole correct I don't have one like that that.

2356
02:03:53,960 --> 02:03:56,400
Speaker 1: They don't have one. I don't no, I don't have one.

2357
02:03:56,480 --> 02:03:58,880
Speaker 4: That was like, John, we want you to feature with

2358
02:03:59,000 --> 02:04:00,440
Speaker 4: this of that artists, and then they went on to

2359
02:04:00,480 --> 02:04:03,440
Speaker 4: blow up when I said no, I haven't done that honestly.

2360
02:04:03,600 --> 02:04:09,120
Speaker 1: So if you've never said no to somebody that I'm

2361
02:04:09,160 --> 02:04:11,240
Speaker 1: trying to think of something. I can't think of anything.

2362
02:04:11,280 --> 02:04:14,320
Speaker 1: That means you say yes to everybody. No. It means

2363
02:04:14,440 --> 02:04:16,040
Speaker 1: what I say no to I don't regret.

2364
02:04:19,600 --> 02:04:22,160
Speaker 3: You know, I said yes a lot, because you know,

2365
02:04:22,200 --> 02:04:23,440
Speaker 3: I got a lot of collapse out there.

2366
02:04:23,520 --> 02:04:26,840
Speaker 4: But I definitely said no to something. But it didn't

2367
02:04:26,840 --> 02:04:28,720
Speaker 4: come back to bite me, honestly, because not for nothing

2368
02:04:28,760 --> 02:04:29,960
Speaker 4: Sonny did. He's got a record.

2369
02:04:33,320 --> 02:04:36,240
Speaker 1: I'll tell you a funny story had Nas on here? Yeah,

2370
02:04:36,360 --> 02:04:38,120
Speaker 1: it was my brother and Nas.

2371
02:04:38,360 --> 02:04:40,440
Speaker 2: So I said to Nas, I said, because I feel

2372
02:04:40,480 --> 02:04:42,000
Speaker 2: like the same way I feel about you, that.

2373
02:04:42,040 --> 02:04:43,720
Speaker 1: You have a bad day in your life.

2374
02:04:44,080 --> 02:04:46,520
Speaker 2: I feel like Nas, no one would tell Nas no,

2375
02:04:46,880 --> 02:04:48,920
Speaker 2: Like I've been to the club with Nas and all

2376
02:04:48,960 --> 02:04:49,760
Speaker 2: these gangsters.

2377
02:04:50,640 --> 02:04:54,520
Speaker 1: Everybody knows and they see Naves to go. He's royalty.

2378
02:04:56,080 --> 02:04:59,400
Speaker 1: I love royalty. But I asked now, I said, Yo,

2379
02:05:00,200 --> 02:05:01,520
Speaker 1: anybody ever told you no?

2380
02:05:02,360 --> 02:05:04,360
Speaker 2: And now I was like maybe no. And then I

2381
02:05:04,480 --> 02:05:06,640
Speaker 2: was like, nah, nah, someone told you no. And then

2382
02:05:06,720 --> 02:05:10,800
Speaker 2: he said Prince, Okay, there you go. And then I said,

2383
02:05:10,920 --> 02:05:11,960
Speaker 2: why did Prince tell you?

2384
02:05:12,120 --> 02:05:15,000
Speaker 1: Know? You know what Prince told Nas? No? He said,

2385
02:05:15,040 --> 02:05:17,000
Speaker 1: do you own your masters? Yeah?

2386
02:05:17,520 --> 02:05:19,520
Speaker 2: And now I said, I told him I don't own

2387
02:05:19,720 --> 02:05:22,680
Speaker 2: my masters. He said, well, get back with me when

2388
02:05:22,720 --> 02:05:23,680
Speaker 2: you do own your masters.

2389
02:05:23,760 --> 02:05:26,960
Speaker 1: Yeah. So now just part to that too, where he

2390
02:05:26,960 --> 02:05:28,520
Speaker 1: said I don't want to put them through colleges on

2391
02:05:29,840 --> 02:05:31,400
Speaker 1: like put your kids through college.

2392
02:05:31,960 --> 02:05:33,880
Speaker 3: I don't want to put the ekids college.

2393
02:05:33,960 --> 02:05:37,840
Speaker 1: Yeah. I want to ask you this question again. Has

2394
02:05:37,880 --> 02:05:40,520
Speaker 1: it any ever been anybody in front of them on you.

2395
02:05:41,280 --> 02:05:43,720
Speaker 4: Front of them and like said no to me? Oh yeah,

2396
02:05:43,960 --> 02:05:46,600
Speaker 4: there's been a artists that passed on. Like I'll reach

2397
02:05:46,680 --> 02:05:49,240
Speaker 4: out and ask for somebody to feature on the record

2398
02:05:49,720 --> 02:05:52,120
Speaker 4: and they'll pass, and they'll pass for different reasons. Like

2399
02:05:53,000 --> 02:05:56,440
Speaker 4: sometimes I think with rap, especially if you want an

2400
02:05:56,560 --> 02:05:58,800
Speaker 4: MC to get on a record, they really have to

2401
02:05:58,920 --> 02:06:02,160
Speaker 4: hear that be and feel in spite of the right Yeah,

2402
02:06:02,480 --> 02:06:06,160
Speaker 4: hit themselves on it. And sometimes they don't, and and

2403
02:06:06,440 --> 02:06:08,960
Speaker 4: it's fine, give me a sample. I don't take it personally,

2404
02:06:09,240 --> 02:06:13,960
Speaker 4: give me a sample who's passed. I mean, Andre just

2405
02:06:14,080 --> 02:06:18,800
Speaker 4: passed on something three but like recently passed on everything, so.

2406
02:06:20,840 --> 02:06:25,560
Speaker 1: You could even play. They were like, the guy that

2407
02:06:25,680 --> 02:06:27,560
Speaker 1: I go through is a good friend of both.

2408
02:06:27,400 --> 02:06:28,720
Speaker 3: Of ours, and he was like, if you have to

2409
02:06:28,720 --> 02:06:30,400
Speaker 3: play flute, he might have done it, but.

2410
02:06:31,680 --> 02:06:32,280
Speaker 1: You should.

2411
02:06:33,760 --> 02:06:36,280
Speaker 4: Because it was a beautiful way. It was for the remix.

2412
02:06:36,320 --> 02:06:39,200
Speaker 4: It was for the remixes. It was the one remix

2413
02:06:39,320 --> 02:06:39,920
Speaker 4: on the remix.

2414
02:06:40,360 --> 02:06:42,400
Speaker 1: It was one of the remixes that we did it

2415
02:06:42,560 --> 02:06:43,400
Speaker 1: for the Get Lifted.

2416
02:06:44,360 --> 02:06:47,040
Speaker 2: Adrey rapping more bro and he was like, if you

2417
02:06:47,080 --> 02:06:48,720
Speaker 2: have them to play flute, he might say yes, but

2418
02:06:48,840 --> 02:06:51,800
Speaker 2: you know, Andre be on what he's on at that time,

2419
02:06:52,120 --> 02:06:54,560
Speaker 2: and if he ain't on, good shot.

2420
02:06:55,040 --> 02:06:57,000
Speaker 1: And saying no, because we should have we should have

2421
02:06:57,040 --> 02:06:59,560
Speaker 1: dot it. I don't be mad at it.

2422
02:06:59,640 --> 02:07:01,720
Speaker 2: I'm like, Okay, you're not in the right place to

2423
02:07:01,800 --> 02:07:03,800
Speaker 2: do it, you know, but you got a record with Andre,

2424
02:07:04,200 --> 02:07:11,960
Speaker 2: but also Limpsey battle you I did Andre's record, yes,

2425
02:07:12,600 --> 02:07:14,320
Speaker 2: but yes, we did green Light together.

2426
02:07:14,400 --> 02:07:16,440
Speaker 1: That was our you know single we did together. We

2427
02:07:16,520 --> 02:07:17,040
Speaker 1: did the video.

2428
02:07:17,760 --> 02:07:19,400
Speaker 3: He really helped come up with the concept for the

2429
02:07:19,480 --> 02:07:20,720
Speaker 3: video too, and uh.

2430
02:07:21,160 --> 02:07:24,280
Speaker 4: It was incredible working with him for that. And then uh,

2431
02:07:24,600 --> 02:07:27,560
Speaker 4: when Christy was co hosting lip Sync Battle with l

2432
02:07:27,760 --> 02:07:31,640
Speaker 4: l Uh, I came on and did hey, y'all do

2433
02:07:33,440 --> 02:07:36,480
Speaker 4: with a full wig and everything? It was something lip

2434
02:07:36,600 --> 02:07:37,400
Speaker 4: sync was a time.

2435
02:07:38,240 --> 02:07:48,840
Speaker 2: Yes, goddamn it, who's your favorite? Wrapper alls on Jay? Yeah,

2436
02:07:49,560 --> 02:07:50,240
Speaker 2: I say Jay?

2437
02:07:50,440 --> 02:07:55,400
Speaker 3: And then uh, I feel like Kendrick is almost there now.

2438
02:07:55,640 --> 02:07:59,960
Speaker 3: Like it's like I was talking to Charlemagne like probably

2439
02:08:00,200 --> 02:08:01,040
Speaker 3: two years ago.

2440
02:08:01,560 --> 02:08:04,160
Speaker 4: And we were still like, are we putting him in

2441
02:08:04,160 --> 02:08:07,880
Speaker 4: the top five already? Because he's younger than everybody else? Yep,

2442
02:08:08,120 --> 02:08:08,280
Speaker 4: he was.

2443
02:08:08,600 --> 02:08:09,680
Speaker 1: Well, we were discussing it.

2444
02:08:09,880 --> 02:08:12,360
Speaker 4: We were discussing it because he was younger than everybody

2445
02:08:12,400 --> 02:08:14,200
Speaker 4: else that normally you would put in there.

2446
02:08:15,040 --> 02:08:17,160
Speaker 1: And I was like, at this point, you got to

2447
02:08:17,160 --> 02:08:18,360
Speaker 1: put him there prolific.

2448
02:08:18,640 --> 02:08:18,880
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2449
02:08:19,080 --> 02:08:21,200
Speaker 1: Two years ago he was wait, yeah, and I was like,

2450
02:08:21,440 --> 02:08:22,480
Speaker 1: at this point, you already got.

2451
02:08:22,480 --> 02:08:24,200
Speaker 4: To put him there because and he never lets you

2452
02:08:24,280 --> 02:08:26,760
Speaker 4: down because all the records are dope, the singles are dope,

2453
02:08:26,840 --> 02:08:27,920
Speaker 4: and the videos are dope.

2454
02:08:28,000 --> 02:08:31,880
Speaker 1: Different. Yeah, the videos are crazy. His shows are crazy. Like,

2455
02:08:32,160 --> 02:08:35,040
Speaker 1: you got to put him right up there. Who's your

2456
02:08:35,040 --> 02:08:36,120
Speaker 1: favorite R and B singer?

2457
02:08:37,920 --> 02:08:44,320
Speaker 2: Stevie Steve, Steve seeing Stevie or no, Steven Steve, He's

2458
02:08:44,360 --> 02:08:45,840
Speaker 2: always He's always.

2459
02:08:51,360 --> 02:08:52,520
Speaker 1: Your favorite jazz.

2460
02:08:53,280 --> 02:08:57,360
Speaker 2: I'm not super into jazz. Truthfully, you look you look

2461
02:08:57,400 --> 02:09:00,280
Speaker 2: like a jazz player. I'm gonna be honest, and didn't

2462
02:09:01,120 --> 02:09:04,000
Speaker 2: look like on the flu. I'm not like deep into it.

2463
02:09:04,360 --> 02:09:06,480
Speaker 4: I'm more like, you know, I know some Miles Davis

2464
02:09:06,560 --> 02:09:10,120
Speaker 4: records from John Coltrane, some like you know, like the

2465
02:09:10,240 --> 02:09:13,640
Speaker 4: older singers like uh, you know Louis and Ella and uh,

2466
02:09:14,040 --> 02:09:15,840
Speaker 4: I listen to some of that, but I'm not like

2467
02:09:16,040 --> 02:09:17,760
Speaker 4: deeply into jazz zz.

2468
02:09:18,560 --> 02:09:18,840
Speaker 1: Damn.

2469
02:09:19,800 --> 02:09:25,800
Speaker 3: Who's your favorite jazz artists? Louis Armstrong, Yes, right, you

2470
02:09:25,880 --> 02:09:26,680
Speaker 3: know the man?

2471
02:09:27,120 --> 02:09:29,600
Speaker 1: And I like to singing boy. I like to singing well.

2472
02:09:31,160 --> 02:09:33,920
Speaker 1: I like the ratty singing boys too, like he was dope.

2473
02:09:34,080 --> 02:09:45,200
Speaker 2: Who's your favorite reggae artist Boo Nice Month, whom.

2474
02:09:43,480 --> 02:09:45,120
Speaker 3: I've done a couple of records of Boo I love,

2475
02:09:45,880 --> 02:09:46,440
Speaker 3: I said.

2476
02:09:46,240 --> 02:09:50,280
Speaker 4: Reggae dance? Who's your favorite dance hall? Okay, so bo

2477
02:09:50,680 --> 02:09:53,320
Speaker 4: dance hall? Yes, all right, we're being more specific. Yes,

2478
02:09:53,840 --> 02:10:00,560
Speaker 4: just go back to Rake. Reggae Bob Marley, you made

2479
02:10:00,560 --> 02:10:04,280
Speaker 4: records with I have a couple of records of the

2480
02:10:04,320 --> 02:10:06,960
Speaker 4: first one we did together was on my Evolver albums

2481
02:10:07,000 --> 02:10:08,760
Speaker 4: called Can't Be My Lover and.

2482
02:10:10,440 --> 02:10:13,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I've been on a couple of his projects.

2483
02:10:14,800 --> 02:10:20,440
Speaker 1: He's the weast Papa Cheese. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

2484
02:10:22,480 --> 02:10:26,040
Speaker 3: Reggae doesn't take or world Jamaican Today.

2485
02:10:26,600 --> 02:10:31,640
Speaker 1: M hm. Who's your favorite reggae throne artists? Regged throne?

2486
02:10:32,520 --> 02:10:37,800
Speaker 1: Have you dabbled in that? No? Do we count Bad Bunny?

2487
02:10:37,880 --> 02:10:40,200
Speaker 1: Is he regu? I think so. I think I'm not

2488
02:10:40,400 --> 02:10:43,000
Speaker 1: very well versed, so I'm not. I mean, yeah, you

2489
02:10:43,040 --> 02:10:47,600
Speaker 1: don't count what's your favorite reg I love Bad Bunny,

2490
02:10:47,840 --> 02:10:51,120
Speaker 1: but I don't know very well honest And he got conscious. Yeah,

2491
02:10:51,200 --> 02:10:57,120
Speaker 1: he got like he stands up for Puerto Rico because listen,

2492
02:10:57,160 --> 02:10:58,960
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie to you. He said, it might

2493
02:10:59,000 --> 02:11:00,640
Speaker 1: be a porter going up for the weekends.

2494
02:11:02,120 --> 02:11:05,000
Speaker 3: He stands up for Puerto Rico. Like, he's very political

2495
02:11:06,120 --> 02:11:08,320
Speaker 3: and his music is crazy damn.

2496
02:11:08,440 --> 02:11:11,080
Speaker 1: So you will collab with bad Bunny? Absolutely love to

2497
02:11:12,440 --> 02:11:16,200
Speaker 1: Would that be your go to feature? Uh life? I

2498
02:11:16,280 --> 02:11:19,480
Speaker 1: had a record artist? Yeah, I mean Latin America. And

2499
02:11:19,680 --> 02:11:22,680
Speaker 1: for the time, I've worked with like singers in Latin America.

2500
02:11:22,800 --> 02:11:26,280
Speaker 3: So I worked with like one Is and uh Sebastian

2501
02:11:27,520 --> 02:11:31,200
Speaker 3: and uh like you got the Noel from.

2502
02:11:33,360 --> 02:11:39,120
Speaker 1: Uh who else? I haven't done a record with would

2503
02:11:41,280 --> 02:11:43,200
Speaker 1: and uh Yeah, I've worked with a few Latin.

2504
02:11:43,080 --> 02:11:46,080
Speaker 4: Artists over the years, but singers, I have really done

2505
02:11:46,080 --> 02:11:47,560
Speaker 4: your record good?

2506
02:11:48,120 --> 02:11:53,000
Speaker 1: Now his his is where we gotta go? Who's your

2507
02:11:53,080 --> 02:12:01,320
Speaker 1: favorite dancehall artists? We kind we said, oka reggae artists.

2508
02:12:01,360 --> 02:12:03,600
Speaker 1: I'm saying he's going to happen. He's going through, he said,

2509
02:12:05,200 --> 02:12:12,200
Speaker 1: sucking up. Who's your favorite car? Who's your favorite DJ?

2510
02:12:12,360 --> 02:12:18,280
Speaker 1: How about that DJ? If you're getting married, Maldi's who?

2511
02:12:18,560 --> 02:12:22,120
Speaker 4: Well, you know, we played my last big party jig Capri.

2512
02:12:23,600 --> 02:12:27,000
Speaker 4: I went back, absolutely, I went back, you know, and he.

2513
02:12:27,480 --> 02:12:31,040
Speaker 1: It was amazing, honestly, and biz MARKI played our wedding.

2514
02:12:31,520 --> 02:12:36,000
Speaker 1: Well that was so vapis he played a vabis No

2515
02:12:36,080 --> 02:12:39,200
Speaker 1: he DJ bro DJ. Sure, he did a couple of it.

2516
02:12:39,360 --> 02:12:41,480
Speaker 1: He usually with DJ song and performing a little bit

2517
02:12:41,520 --> 02:12:42,200
Speaker 1: a couple, just.

2518
02:12:42,200 --> 02:12:45,520
Speaker 4: A couple, but mainly he's just playing records and uh and.

2519
02:12:45,840 --> 02:12:48,320
Speaker 1: Just the party was going the whole night. So that

2520
02:12:48,480 --> 02:12:49,920
Speaker 1: was twenty thirteen and.

2521
02:12:49,960 --> 02:12:53,280
Speaker 4: Then we and then we did our tenth anniversary in

2522
02:12:53,320 --> 02:12:57,960
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three and Bis Markey was no longer with us,

2523
02:12:58,040 --> 02:13:01,600
Speaker 4: but k Capri came and kickza want that party ever?

2524
02:13:01,720 --> 02:13:01,880
Speaker 5: Do it?

2525
02:13:02,520 --> 02:13:04,000
Speaker 1: Crazy? You anymore?

2526
02:13:04,040 --> 02:13:07,000
Speaker 4: Jonnres And I'll tell you why I wanted him, because

2527
02:13:07,040 --> 02:13:09,280
Speaker 4: I had been talking about this college party I went

2528
02:13:09,320 --> 02:13:10,720
Speaker 4: to when I was in school. This is in like

2529
02:13:10,840 --> 02:13:13,440
Speaker 4: ninety six, and I was like, I've never seen a

2530
02:13:13,520 --> 02:13:16,960
Speaker 4: party like so turned for so long, Like he just

2531
02:13:17,040 --> 02:13:20,520
Speaker 4: had the party on eleven the whole night and it was.

2532
02:13:20,600 --> 02:13:23,240
Speaker 3: Ca Capri and I was like my brother. I was like,

2533
02:13:23,360 --> 02:13:27,280
Speaker 3: let's get him back. And so that was I sat

2534
02:13:27,360 --> 02:13:32,200
Speaker 3: to him, no more, Genres, no, no, who's your favorite whistler?

2535
02:13:34,160 --> 02:13:36,320
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep it. Oh, this's writing.

2536
02:13:38,160 --> 02:13:43,280
Speaker 2: Because you have one of the best beautiful family stories, right,

2537
02:13:44,760 --> 02:13:46,960
Speaker 2: But you know it started out it's.

2538
02:13:46,920 --> 02:13:49,640
Speaker 1: Like real fighting there was there was fighting in there.

2539
02:13:49,720 --> 02:13:55,600
Speaker 1: Where is this going out? Because you picked out a model.

2540
02:13:57,360 --> 02:14:00,680
Speaker 1: It was like, I like her, had to come to

2541
02:14:00,760 --> 02:14:03,400
Speaker 1: the yea. So she she was in the video with me.

2542
02:14:03,560 --> 02:14:07,440
Speaker 1: And then that's how we met. Yeah, and the is history.

2543
02:14:07,480 --> 02:14:11,880
Speaker 1: See a lot of people listen, a lot of people

2544
02:14:11,920 --> 02:14:15,640
Speaker 1: want to build up Oh I don't you ask. It

2545
02:14:15,760 --> 02:14:18,720
Speaker 1: started out with the b what you said, Yeah, I'm

2546
02:14:18,760 --> 02:14:24,520
Speaker 1: going to build up mom his wife. First day they

2547
02:14:24,960 --> 02:14:26,800
Speaker 1: kicked it off, and they kicked off.

2548
02:14:26,880 --> 02:14:30,240
Speaker 4: He said, if you hear me, yeah right, And now

2549
02:14:30,360 --> 02:14:34,760
Speaker 4: y'all eighteen years we met eighteen years ago ago.

2550
02:14:37,160 --> 02:14:40,800
Speaker 1: We got four kids. Four kids, yeah, yeah, yeah.

2551
02:14:42,760 --> 02:14:45,280
Speaker 3: Four kids, the oldest ones eight and the youngest ones

2552
02:14:45,520 --> 02:14:46,960
Speaker 3: one and a half. Wow.

2553
02:14:48,200 --> 02:14:50,600
Speaker 1: So director came to you and showed you a picture.

2554
02:14:50,720 --> 02:14:53,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, you said I'm in I was all right, what

2555
02:14:54,440 --> 02:14:57,880
Speaker 4: And then we just had good chemistry and had a

2556
02:14:57,960 --> 02:15:01,280
Speaker 4: show later that night, and then we hung out after

2557
02:15:01,360 --> 02:15:02,840
Speaker 4: that and we've been hanging out ever since.

2558
02:15:03,960 --> 02:15:05,480
Speaker 1: God damn understatement.

2559
02:15:06,240 --> 02:15:18,080
Speaker 2: And you became a great father listen some years later. Yo, man,

2560
02:15:18,160 --> 02:15:19,760
Speaker 2: I just want to be honest with you.

2561
02:15:19,920 --> 02:15:20,080
Speaker 1: Man.

2562
02:15:20,440 --> 02:15:23,800
Speaker 2: I really really respect your legacy. I really respect what

2563
02:15:23,920 --> 02:15:26,800
Speaker 2: you're doing. I really respect how you represent for black people.

2564
02:15:26,960 --> 02:15:30,920
Speaker 2: Every time there's a there's a there's a moment. I

2565
02:15:31,080 --> 02:15:33,040
Speaker 2: know that John Legend is going to be there. I

2566
02:15:33,120 --> 02:15:35,440
Speaker 2: know that you you'll be there in the forest fires.

2567
02:15:35,480 --> 02:15:37,480
Speaker 2: I know that you'll be there during COVID. I know

2568
02:15:37,560 --> 02:15:38,240
Speaker 2: that you'll be there.

2569
02:15:38,840 --> 02:15:41,200
Speaker 1: And that ship is just like a beautiful thing to me.

2570
02:15:41,520 --> 02:15:41,800
Speaker 1: Thank you.

2571
02:15:41,960 --> 02:15:45,680
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like, because I want to watch,

2572
02:15:45,960 --> 02:15:49,280
Speaker 2: but I don't maybe not be there, like, but I

2573
02:15:49,400 --> 02:15:50,920
Speaker 2: want to watch still, like I want to be like,

2574
02:15:51,040 --> 02:15:53,680
Speaker 2: oh ship, that ship is nice and you.

2575
02:15:53,800 --> 02:16:01,520
Speaker 1: Be holding it down don Lemon style. Okay, new one. Okay,

2576
02:16:07,640 --> 02:16:15,200
Speaker 1: So what are we talking about? I don't know. I'm

2577
02:16:15,200 --> 02:16:20,680
Speaker 1: a reporter now, So so what hold on? Going back

2578
02:16:20,720 --> 02:16:21,280
Speaker 1: to the fires?

2579
02:16:21,400 --> 02:16:23,080
Speaker 3: Is there anything before you get out of here that

2580
02:16:23,560 --> 02:16:27,240
Speaker 3: any true things that people could donate to that are

2581
02:16:27,320 --> 02:16:28,600
Speaker 3: actually impacting and helping.

2582
02:16:28,920 --> 02:16:31,840
Speaker 1: Well, there's a bunch of charities that are doing great work.

2583
02:16:32,200 --> 02:16:34,320
Speaker 4: We always work with Baby the Baby a lot, and

2584
02:16:34,520 --> 02:16:37,880
Speaker 4: because they help parents that have kids and need supplies

2585
02:16:37,920 --> 02:16:39,800
Speaker 4: for their kids. A lot of people got displaced to

2586
02:16:39,879 --> 02:16:42,760
Speaker 4: have kids, so Baby to Baby is great. Of course

2587
02:16:42,800 --> 02:16:46,680
Speaker 4: the Red Cross is helping. Yeah, those are a couple

2588
02:16:46,800 --> 02:16:49,840
Speaker 4: that we've donated to and helped out. But I would say,

2589
02:16:49,879 --> 02:16:52,040
Speaker 4: baby the Baby, that one's close to our heart and

2590
02:16:52,080 --> 02:16:54,160
Speaker 4: we've raised money for them a lot over the years.

2591
02:16:54,280 --> 02:16:56,680
Speaker 3: Any any artists that you know that personally have been

2592
02:16:56,720 --> 02:17:01,480
Speaker 3: impacted are artists you don't like in the hip hop world.

2593
02:17:01,560 --> 02:17:03,959
Speaker 3: Mad Lib he lost Yes, I saw.

2594
02:17:03,959 --> 02:17:09,879
Speaker 1: That concerts and Ico she lost her place. And then.

2595
02:17:11,840 --> 02:17:13,760
Speaker 4: The guys we sang with on the opening of the

2596
02:17:13,800 --> 02:17:16,760
Speaker 4: Grammys that was a band, uh, a rock band, indie

2597
02:17:16,800 --> 02:17:20,920
Speaker 4: band called DAWs and they grew up in that area

2598
02:17:20,959 --> 02:17:24,720
Speaker 4: in Altadena and they lost everything. Their parents lost their

2599
02:17:24,720 --> 02:17:28,640
Speaker 4: home in the studio and the instruments, everything, So a

2600
02:17:28,720 --> 02:17:31,840
Speaker 4: lot of people lost a lot. It's crazy because when

2601
02:17:31,840 --> 02:17:34,120
Speaker 4: you go to La unless you're in those areas, you

2602
02:17:34,160 --> 02:17:37,600
Speaker 4: don't even see it because everything else looks completely normal.

2603
02:17:38,280 --> 02:17:39,680
Speaker 1: But when you go to those areas, they look like

2604
02:17:40,959 --> 02:17:44,080
Speaker 1: a war zone. They're like, I don't, we don't see that.

2605
02:17:44,240 --> 02:17:46,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like a war zone in those specific areas,

2606
02:17:46,560 --> 02:17:47,800
Speaker 4: and then everywhere else looks normal.

2607
02:17:48,040 --> 02:17:52,160
Speaker 1: It's crazy though, it's surreal. Yeah. Well so, I mean,

2608
02:17:53,000 --> 02:17:56,680
Speaker 1: all right, this this is one meme percent all me.

2609
02:17:58,720 --> 02:17:59,960
Speaker 1: That's gonna be impactful.

2610
02:18:00,400 --> 02:18:05,080
Speaker 2: Of course, because you were really Trump's nemesis, right, let's

2611
02:18:05,080 --> 02:18:09,959
Speaker 2: suppost didn't work this Trump says, I want to meet

2612
02:18:10,000 --> 02:18:17,040
Speaker 2: with John in the middle of Central Park. Why because

2613
02:18:17,080 --> 02:18:17,920
Speaker 2: let me be in New York.

2614
02:18:19,160 --> 02:18:19,879
Speaker 1: Why you hating?

2615
02:18:21,640 --> 02:18:24,080
Speaker 4: Honestly, I would meet with him with no cameras and

2616
02:18:24,280 --> 02:18:27,080
Speaker 4: no like this is like I would. I would meet

2617
02:18:27,320 --> 02:18:29,480
Speaker 4: just like on some could I influence him because I

2618
02:18:29,520 --> 02:18:33,280
Speaker 4: feel like he's very easy, Like I think people people

2619
02:18:33,360 --> 02:18:34,480
Speaker 4: getting his ear, I feel like.

2620
02:18:34,840 --> 02:18:37,800
Speaker 1: They can convince him of things, and so I.

2621
02:18:37,800 --> 02:18:41,720
Speaker 4: Would deal with no cameras and just try to use

2622
02:18:41,760 --> 02:18:42,760
Speaker 4: whatever influence I had.

2623
02:18:42,840 --> 02:18:45,440
Speaker 1: But I doubt it would be useful, but it would

2624
02:18:45,440 --> 02:18:47,640
Speaker 1: be worth a shot. Why not? But let me ask you,

2625
02:18:47,680 --> 02:18:51,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep it real. Are you gonna have jokes?

2626
02:18:53,800 --> 02:18:57,640
Speaker 2: You gotta have jokes, you gotta call him arms Asian arm.

2627
02:18:57,760 --> 02:18:59,920
Speaker 2: You're gonna do something to bring yourself up.

2628
02:19:00,240 --> 02:19:02,000
Speaker 1: I'd be like, I'm not boring as singer with the

2629
02:19:02,040 --> 02:19:02,680
Speaker 1: Filthy Mountain.

2630
02:19:05,400 --> 02:19:08,880
Speaker 4: I don't know, but honestly, I believe like anybody can

2631
02:19:08,920 --> 02:19:11,200
Speaker 4: be talked to, and you don't need to do it

2632
02:19:11,360 --> 02:19:13,680
Speaker 4: for like a photo op.

2633
02:19:13,959 --> 02:19:17,640
Speaker 1: Do it like actually trying to accomplish something, and he knows.

2634
02:19:17,520 --> 02:19:19,600
Speaker 3: And everybody should be talked to, like, if he's in

2635
02:19:19,800 --> 02:19:22,840
Speaker 3: a position, especially if they're in power, you should talk

2636
02:19:22,879 --> 02:19:23,160
Speaker 3: to them.

2637
02:19:24,000 --> 02:19:27,560
Speaker 1: But you would meet it. I mean, it's not on

2638
02:19:27,640 --> 02:19:33,520
Speaker 1: the table, But yes, I think it's plausible. I think so. Yeah.

2639
02:19:35,000 --> 02:19:37,760
Speaker 4: I think I just think he needs someone in his

2640
02:19:37,879 --> 02:19:41,200
Speaker 4: ear telling him something other than what Elon and all

2641
02:19:41,240 --> 02:19:42,280
Speaker 4: these other guys are telling him.

2642
02:19:42,360 --> 02:19:43,720
Speaker 1: So if that needs to be.

2643
02:19:43,800 --> 02:19:47,800
Speaker 2: Me, fine, Okay, So let's let's talk about for a second.

2644
02:19:49,120 --> 02:19:51,480
Speaker 2: Why did you change your name from John Stevens to

2645
02:19:51,640 --> 02:19:53,000
Speaker 2: John So the.

2646
02:19:53,080 --> 02:19:55,200
Speaker 4: First person to call me John Legend was a guy

2647
02:19:55,320 --> 02:19:58,640
Speaker 4: named Jay Ivy, and he just started calling me the Legend.

2648
02:19:58,720 --> 02:20:01,160
Speaker 4: Jay Ivy's a spoken word ARTI. If you listen back

2649
02:20:01,240 --> 02:20:04,959
Speaker 4: to Never Let Me Down on the College Dropout, he's

2650
02:20:05,120 --> 02:20:05,440
Speaker 4: doing the.

2651
02:20:05,440 --> 02:20:08,720
Speaker 3: Spoken word piece on it. He's from Chicago, and I

2652
02:20:08,840 --> 02:20:10,920
Speaker 3: met him when we were working on the College Dropout

2653
02:20:10,959 --> 02:20:13,200
Speaker 3: album and he just heard everything I was doing in

2654
02:20:13,280 --> 02:20:13,640
Speaker 3: the studio.

2655
02:20:13,680 --> 02:20:14,280
Speaker 1: I was singing on.

2656
02:20:14,320 --> 02:20:16,760
Speaker 2: Everything, playing on everything, and you just started calling me

2657
02:20:16,840 --> 02:20:20,640
Speaker 2: the legend. And our whole crew just started calling me

2658
02:20:20,720 --> 02:20:21,560
Speaker 2: John Legend.

2659
02:20:21,440 --> 02:20:25,039
Speaker 4: Not long after that, and I had to decide whether

2660
02:20:25,120 --> 02:20:27,320
Speaker 4: or not I would actually use it as a stage

2661
02:20:27,400 --> 02:20:31,320
Speaker 4: name or just you know, just a nickname among our friends, and.

2662
02:20:31,400 --> 02:20:33,640
Speaker 1: I decided I will use it. I was like, fuck it.

2663
02:20:33,760 --> 02:20:38,600
Speaker 4: You know, this is like, this is announcing my presence.

2664
02:20:38,640 --> 02:20:40,520
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say I'm John Legend.

2665
02:20:41,000 --> 02:20:44,960
Speaker 1: And what was ever a thought of the of it

2666
02:20:45,080 --> 02:20:48,400
Speaker 1: sounding like John Lennon. It started to come up later.

2667
02:20:48,879 --> 02:20:49,400
Speaker 1: It's funny.

2668
02:20:49,600 --> 02:20:51,520
Speaker 4: Some people was like, hey, it's John Lennon, which is

2669
02:20:51,600 --> 02:20:54,040
Speaker 4: kind of dope. Yeah, it's fine. And then some of

2670
02:20:54,240 --> 02:20:57,840
Speaker 4: John Lennon's fans call him John Legend. I learned that later. Yeah,

2671
02:20:58,320 --> 02:21:00,200
Speaker 4: but I didn't know that before. But I had to

2672
02:21:00,320 --> 02:21:04,920
Speaker 4: check on their trademark and trademark that could infringe.

2673
02:21:05,200 --> 02:21:06,000
Speaker 1: I had to check on it.

2674
02:21:06,160 --> 02:21:10,600
Speaker 4: So we found out that once I got signed a

2675
02:21:10,720 --> 02:21:13,000
Speaker 4: mass Sony and all the lawyers, you know they're about

2676
02:21:13,040 --> 02:21:15,160
Speaker 4: to get my album ready and make sure the clearances

2677
02:21:15,160 --> 02:21:17,880
Speaker 4: are right, they're like, we need to make sure we

2678
02:21:18,000 --> 02:21:22,800
Speaker 4: trademark John Legend as your stage name. So they go

2679
02:21:22,920 --> 02:21:26,680
Speaker 4: out and look for other John Legends. And it wasn't

2680
02:21:26,720 --> 02:21:30,760
Speaker 4: an issue with the John Lennon, uh, you know, leg Estate.

2681
02:21:31,320 --> 02:21:35,039
Speaker 4: But there's this porn producer named Johnny Legend.

2682
02:21:36,959 --> 02:21:44,400
Speaker 1: Legends. So there's a porn producer, but he also made music.

2683
02:21:44,560 --> 02:21:49,879
Speaker 4: So because he made music. Yeah, we had to clear

2684
02:21:49,959 --> 02:21:52,520
Speaker 4: it with him for me to use the name. And

2685
02:21:52,840 --> 02:21:56,680
Speaker 4: so we found him and my manager was like trying

2686
02:21:56,680 --> 02:21:57,959
Speaker 4: to be chill about it. He didn't want to make

2687
02:21:58,000 --> 02:22:01,000
Speaker 4: it seem like this big new artist on this Yeah.

2688
02:22:01,200 --> 02:22:03,199
Speaker 4: He wanted to seem like we were just some poor

2689
02:22:03,520 --> 02:22:06,400
Speaker 4: kid from Ohio. And so he was like, yeah, I

2690
02:22:06,600 --> 02:22:09,200
Speaker 4: have this artist and he goes by John Legend, and

2691
02:22:09,360 --> 02:22:11,840
Speaker 4: we don't want any trouble, just want to negotiate a

2692
02:22:11,959 --> 02:22:15,199
Speaker 4: mutually non exclusive deal with the guy owned the name Legend.

2693
02:22:15,560 --> 02:22:19,520
Speaker 4: He was Johnny Legend, Johnny and he was a musician.

2694
02:22:19,680 --> 02:22:23,160
Speaker 4: So if he had a record at a store.

2695
02:22:23,360 --> 02:22:27,280
Speaker 1: And I had one at the store, he could be like, yo, confusing, Yeah,

2696
02:22:27,320 --> 02:22:30,880
Speaker 1: there could be a suit. Yeah, that's confusing. So we

2697
02:22:31,040 --> 02:22:33,000
Speaker 1: had to find him and he agreed.

2698
02:22:34,600 --> 02:22:38,720
Speaker 4: We gave him I think ten thousand dollars, which I

2699
02:22:38,760 --> 02:22:40,560
Speaker 4: think was a very affordable bargain.

2700
02:22:42,200 --> 02:22:44,200
Speaker 1: Yeah for him, it's probably good. Yeah, and he was

2701
02:22:44,360 --> 02:22:47,440
Speaker 1: like yeah, so he signed the deal.

2702
02:22:47,520 --> 02:22:50,680
Speaker 4: He was Johnny Legend, I'm John Legend, and he went

2703
02:22:50,800 --> 02:22:53,560
Speaker 4: sue me and I wouldn't sue him. So you kind

2704
02:22:53,600 --> 02:22:59,280
Speaker 4: of popping in the porn world too, Yeah, you know

2705
02:22:59,440 --> 02:23:01,480
Speaker 4: you made it. You know you made it when fake

2706
02:23:01,600 --> 02:23:05,600
Speaker 4: dudes are you, you know, use your name. So my

2707
02:23:05,760 --> 02:23:08,440
Speaker 4: friend sent me. I don't know how you found it.

2708
02:23:10,200 --> 02:23:12,160
Speaker 1: You found this as a poor star that goes.

2709
02:23:12,080 --> 02:23:14,800
Speaker 4: By John the Legend and it's like a light stined

2710
02:23:14,879 --> 02:23:20,160
Speaker 4: dude with a beard like trying to look like, yes,

2711
02:23:20,959 --> 02:23:21,840
Speaker 4: you know you made it when you.

2712
02:23:21,879 --> 02:23:27,359
Speaker 1: Got a poor knockoff star and he's cocking and saying ordinary.

2713
02:23:40,080 --> 02:23:44,040
Speaker 2: John Lezard, Man, I really appreciate you man for coming

2714
02:23:44,160 --> 02:23:46,000
Speaker 2: out and just hanging with us.

2715
02:23:46,160 --> 02:23:48,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, because this is what I've been looking forward

2716
02:23:49,000 --> 02:23:53,520
Speaker 1: to it. Yeah, yeah, we were scared. Well you know

2717
02:23:53,640 --> 02:23:54,160
Speaker 1: what happened.

2718
02:23:54,360 --> 02:23:56,320
Speaker 4: You know last time my friend was on the show

2719
02:23:56,560 --> 02:23:59,840
Speaker 4: and it wasn't great, But I figured I should come

2720
02:23:59,879 --> 02:24:00,800
Speaker 4: on at some point.

2721
02:24:01,280 --> 02:24:07,680
Speaker 1: Yes, and uh, either have our own conversations. This is

2722
02:24:07,680 --> 02:24:08,640
Speaker 1: the first, not the last.

2723
02:24:09,080 --> 02:24:12,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you want to promote pink socks, I'm in

2724
02:24:12,560 --> 02:24:13,240
Speaker 2: pink socks.

2725
02:24:13,760 --> 02:24:15,600
Speaker 1: We got the pink rose though from l v E.

2726
02:24:16,040 --> 02:24:21,200
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, l l v E because just Love Love

2727
02:24:21,240 --> 02:24:25,039
Speaker 4: Love Love LB stands for Legend Vineyard Exclusive.

2728
02:24:25,160 --> 02:24:28,240
Speaker 1: There it is there, it is say it again. Legend

2729
02:24:28,440 --> 02:24:32,879
Speaker 1: Vineyard Exclusive, Legend Vineyard l v SO short for love too.

2730
02:24:33,360 --> 02:24:36,280
Speaker 1: That's right, that's what Noy is calling. I love love. Yeah,

2731
02:24:36,920 --> 02:24:40,240
Speaker 1: I love love you, love love. I love love you,

2732
02:24:40,320 --> 02:24:43,080
Speaker 1: love love you. I love being married. I love love.

2733
02:24:43,760 --> 02:24:47,080
Speaker 1: I'm happily married, happily happy to be a dad. Love

2734
02:24:47,160 --> 02:24:50,960
Speaker 1: it all. It's good. Why why don't people praise that?

2735
02:24:51,480 --> 02:24:55,959
Speaker 1: Like from friend Swiss called me earlier great dad. Loves

2736
02:24:56,040 --> 02:24:58,160
Speaker 1: being great dad, and I love yeah.

2737
02:24:58,320 --> 02:25:02,720
Speaker 2: At lasta keys, Wow, we don't like focused on bigging

2738
02:25:03,360 --> 02:25:05,640
Speaker 2: that part of hip hop.

2739
02:25:06,400 --> 02:25:08,840
Speaker 1: I love it. You know, we don't. I think we're

2740
02:25:08,879 --> 02:25:12,039
Speaker 1: starting to, don't know. I think we're maturing more. Let

2741
02:25:12,080 --> 02:25:12,680
Speaker 1: me tell you something.

2742
02:25:13,200 --> 02:25:17,800
Speaker 2: Swiss and at Leasta being at the Grammys was great, right,

2743
02:25:17,959 --> 02:25:20,760
Speaker 2: But if Swiss would have been with another bitch at

2744
02:25:20,800 --> 02:25:25,280
Speaker 2: the Grammys, thatsh it would have been top line whatever.

2745
02:25:25,640 --> 02:25:27,000
Speaker 1: But him's being a lawyer.

2746
02:25:27,280 --> 02:25:30,880
Speaker 3: But if it's God, yeah, if you're married consistently, why

2747
02:25:30,959 --> 02:25:31,840
Speaker 3: would that be anything.

2748
02:25:31,920 --> 02:25:35,879
Speaker 2: It's not news, it's not news. But I think we celebrate.

2749
02:25:36,640 --> 02:25:38,440
Speaker 2: You know, we said we should, we said, we said,

2750
02:25:38,480 --> 02:25:41,520
Speaker 2: we said, picked that up. Like the thing about it, like,

2751
02:25:41,760 --> 02:25:46,200
Speaker 2: I'm looking at Jay and his wife Beyonce. Yeah, I

2752
02:25:46,320 --> 02:25:48,520
Speaker 2: mean that's my friend, so I'm.

2753
02:25:48,400 --> 02:25:49,080
Speaker 1: Looking at him.

2754
02:25:49,560 --> 02:25:52,800
Speaker 2: But I'm saying, why are we not bigging that up more?

2755
02:25:53,560 --> 02:25:56,600
Speaker 2: I think they're celebrated as a couple. Yeah, I'm not

2756
02:25:56,800 --> 02:25:58,800
Speaker 2: looking at you and your wife. Now, why do we

2757
02:25:58,920 --> 02:25:59,960
Speaker 2: not bigging it up more?

2758
02:26:00,080 --> 02:26:06,440
Speaker 4: I think they're celebrated. I feel like not in pop culture. Well,

2759
02:26:06,640 --> 02:26:09,080
Speaker 4: the thing is, people like news and they like controversy.

2760
02:26:09,200 --> 02:26:12,119
Speaker 4: So people were excited when they saw Jay and Solange

2761
02:26:12,160 --> 02:26:14,880
Speaker 4: and the Elevator because it was controversy.

2762
02:26:14,320 --> 02:26:17,000
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying too, And so I feel like,

2763
02:26:18,400 --> 02:26:19,119
Speaker 1: so I really.

2764
02:26:19,000 --> 02:26:22,480
Speaker 4: Think like it's not exciting when it's just bliss and

2765
02:26:22,560 --> 02:26:23,240
Speaker 4: it's love.

2766
02:26:23,520 --> 02:26:26,280
Speaker 1: And so people get more excited for the controversy side.

2767
02:26:26,400 --> 02:26:28,960
Speaker 3: And the flip is it shouldn't be extraordinary for a

2768
02:26:29,000 --> 02:26:30,240
Speaker 3: couple to be together a long time.

2769
02:26:30,640 --> 02:26:32,200
Speaker 1: That should not be an extraordinary thing.

2770
02:26:32,320 --> 02:26:35,480
Speaker 4: And the thing is with artists, especially with hip hop,

2771
02:26:35,640 --> 02:26:38,000
Speaker 4: like a lot of our biggest stars currently, like in

2772
02:26:38,080 --> 02:26:40,760
Speaker 4: the moment, are young, and they're not in that phase

2773
02:26:40,800 --> 02:26:43,160
Speaker 4: of life, right, They're not like they're in the datings. Yeah,

2774
02:26:43,160 --> 02:26:45,320
Speaker 4: they're they're in a bachelor phase of their life.

2775
02:26:45,520 --> 02:26:45,880
Speaker 1: Bachelor.

2776
02:26:47,080 --> 02:26:47,280
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2777
02:26:47,959 --> 02:26:50,600
Speaker 4: But then but then by by the time their legend

2778
02:26:50,640 --> 02:26:53,720
Speaker 4: status like Jay, then they should and have kids.

2779
02:26:53,800 --> 02:27:00,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, but this because in our community, the just

2780
02:27:00,480 --> 02:27:03,480
Speaker 2: promoted so much of you not having a fault. Now

2781
02:27:03,560 --> 02:27:07,640
Speaker 2: you've got John Legend with his beautiful wife, you got

2782
02:27:07,760 --> 02:27:10,560
Speaker 2: Jay with his beautiful wife, you got Swiss Beats with

2783
02:27:10,640 --> 02:27:14,760
Speaker 2: his beautiful Why are we not saying yo, black man,

2784
02:27:15,240 --> 02:27:17,680
Speaker 2: black all, all Latino man.

2785
02:27:17,840 --> 02:27:22,119
Speaker 1: Whatever. Let's let's just let's focus on that part. Yeah,

2786
02:27:22,560 --> 02:27:23,160
Speaker 1: you know what's on that.

2787
02:27:23,440 --> 02:27:25,440
Speaker 4: You know, one of the myths about us is that

2788
02:27:25,600 --> 02:27:28,760
Speaker 4: we aren't as present as fathers. We're actually more present

2789
02:27:28,879 --> 02:27:34,240
Speaker 4: as fathers. The statistics statistics are that we are Actually

2790
02:27:34,680 --> 02:27:38,200
Speaker 4: we spend more time with our kids than white fathers do.

2791
02:27:39,160 --> 02:27:47,760
Speaker 4: We're more present, and so and so, like that's never told.

2792
02:27:47,840 --> 02:27:50,160
Speaker 4: That story is really never told. There is not told enough.

2793
02:27:50,400 --> 02:27:54,600
Speaker 4: But that's right. Like Black fatherhood is wonderful and we

2794
02:27:54,760 --> 02:27:56,400
Speaker 4: are really good fathers.

2795
02:27:56,120 --> 02:27:58,360
Speaker 1: And we know that means to be present for our kids.

2796
02:27:58,760 --> 02:28:01,200
Speaker 4: And even if you're not married read to the mother

2797
02:28:01,280 --> 02:28:03,199
Speaker 4: of your child, you can still be a great father.

2798
02:28:03,720 --> 02:28:06,800
Speaker 1: And and so I see that example all the time.

2799
02:28:06,920 --> 02:28:08,240
Speaker 1: Like I have people, I have.

2800
02:28:10,160 --> 02:28:12,320
Speaker 4: Friends in my life who are really great fathers that

2801
02:28:12,400 --> 02:28:15,240
Speaker 4: may not be married to the mother the child, but

2802
02:28:15,320 --> 02:28:18,640
Speaker 4: they still make sure they're there for everything. Yeah, Like,

2803
02:28:18,800 --> 02:28:21,320
Speaker 4: and I was raised around great fathers. My dad's a

2804
02:28:21,360 --> 02:28:23,240
Speaker 4: great one. He was a single dad for us for

2805
02:28:23,280 --> 02:28:26,400
Speaker 4: a while. My uncles all of them like really great fathers.

2806
02:28:26,400 --> 02:28:28,920
Speaker 4: So I'm just I'm like, that's my example. It's like

2807
02:28:29,040 --> 02:28:32,480
Speaker 4: I've seen great fatherhood and it's not everybody's example. But

2808
02:28:32,640 --> 02:28:35,720
Speaker 4: the bottom line is, even when we're not married, black

2809
02:28:35,800 --> 02:28:38,720
Speaker 4: fathers are very present in general, and we.

2810
02:28:38,800 --> 02:28:43,800
Speaker 3: Got to celebrate it. Yeah, take a shot for the

2811
02:28:44,800 --> 02:28:45,480
Speaker 3: black fathers.

2812
02:28:45,520 --> 02:28:47,959
Speaker 1: Here. We got black father. Yes, he has a.

2813
02:28:52,800 --> 02:28:56,680
Speaker 2: Let's take a shot to fatherhood, fathershood.

2814
02:28:58,520 --> 02:29:02,840
Speaker 1: I might seem like a priest though, isn't it, John Legend?

2815
02:29:02,879 --> 02:29:06,560
Speaker 1: What is? What do you see yourself trying to accomplish?

2816
02:29:06,640 --> 02:29:06,760
Speaker 3: Now?

2817
02:29:06,800 --> 02:29:08,840
Speaker 1: With all the things you've accomplished.

2818
02:29:08,400 --> 02:29:10,520
Speaker 4: Well, there's a couple of things I'm doing that are new.

2819
02:29:10,760 --> 02:29:12,520
Speaker 4: I told you before I'm writing for Broadway.

2820
02:29:12,600 --> 02:29:15,400
Speaker 3: That's the first time I've ever done that, and neither

2821
02:29:15,400 --> 02:29:17,320
Speaker 3: of the shows out even though you got the Tony already,

2822
02:29:17,640 --> 02:29:20,440
Speaker 3: I was producing, but I didn't write. I'm writing music

2823
02:29:20,520 --> 02:29:24,400
Speaker 3: for musical two musicals, so that these two shows are

2824
02:29:24,440 --> 02:29:27,560
Speaker 3: the first time I've ever done that. And then then

2825
02:29:27,560 --> 02:29:29,600
Speaker 3: I'm always just trying to tap myself as an artist,

2826
02:29:29,720 --> 02:29:31,960
Speaker 3: like next album needs to be better than the last album,

2827
02:29:32,160 --> 02:29:34,000
Speaker 3: Like every time, that's my goal.

2828
02:29:34,520 --> 02:29:36,480
Speaker 1: So that'll be my goal with this next album.

2829
02:29:36,560 --> 02:29:40,480
Speaker 4: What about acting, it's not a goal honestly if it

2830
02:29:40,720 --> 02:29:43,760
Speaker 4: works out and it's the right thing at the right time.

2831
02:29:44,240 --> 02:29:51,440
Speaker 4: But honestly, like you're kind of like starting from the

2832
02:29:51,560 --> 02:29:56,600
Speaker 4: bottom as an actor because you're like, because I get what,

2833
02:29:56,720 --> 02:29:59,040
Speaker 4: I get to go sing somewhere and I sing for

2834
02:29:59,120 --> 02:30:00,400
Speaker 4: an hour, you know, Oh, do.

2835
02:30:00,440 --> 02:30:01,600
Speaker 1: You feel like it's starting over?

2836
02:30:01,840 --> 02:30:04,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not going to get that for being in

2837
02:30:04,520 --> 02:30:07,200
Speaker 4: a film and it's going to take six weeks of

2838
02:30:07,280 --> 02:30:07,680
Speaker 4: my time.

2839
02:30:08,440 --> 02:30:11,480
Speaker 1: It does, and it's like is that worth it? Most

2840
02:30:11,520 --> 02:30:12,080
Speaker 1: of the time it's not.

2841
02:30:13,040 --> 02:30:16,400
Speaker 2: I feel like Common is the positive blueprint, Yeah, because.

2842
02:30:16,200 --> 02:30:19,040
Speaker 1: If you build long enough, then it can be worth it.

2843
02:30:19,160 --> 02:30:20,680
Speaker 1: But you got to be able to put that time

2844
02:30:20,720 --> 02:30:23,320
Speaker 1: in because Common has been building that acting career for

2845
02:30:23,400 --> 02:30:25,240
Speaker 1: a long time. You can't just PLoP in and be

2846
02:30:25,400 --> 02:30:28,360
Speaker 1: like I want, you know, ten million to show up

2847
02:30:28,400 --> 02:30:30,240
Speaker 1: for this film, right Like, you just can't do it.

2848
02:30:30,760 --> 02:30:32,320
Speaker 3: And so it's like, do I want to put in

2849
02:30:32,360 --> 02:30:34,879
Speaker 3: all that time to build up my price in there

2850
02:30:34,920 --> 02:30:37,560
Speaker 3: when I've already built up my price as a singer.

2851
02:30:38,120 --> 02:30:41,680
Speaker 1: I rather just can't make money. Yeah, and I love making.

2852
02:30:41,600 --> 02:30:44,440
Speaker 3: Music, right, But okay, so I know we joked about

2853
02:30:44,480 --> 02:30:45,320
Speaker 3: the political realm.

2854
02:30:45,879 --> 02:30:49,600
Speaker 1: Do you really ever see yourself? I don't, and people

2855
02:30:49,760 --> 02:30:50,520
Speaker 1: do advocate.

2856
02:30:51,200 --> 02:30:53,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and I will continue to And people ask

2857
02:30:53,720 --> 02:30:54,840
Speaker 3: me all the time if I ever want to run

2858
02:30:54,879 --> 02:30:55,480
Speaker 3: for office, and I.

2859
02:30:55,879 --> 02:30:58,480
Speaker 1: Still don't believe I ever will, and I don't believe i'll.

2860
02:30:58,320 --> 02:31:00,280
Speaker 3: Ever want to. If I change my mind, and then

2861
02:31:00,320 --> 02:31:02,119
Speaker 3: I'll change my mind, but I don't. I don't think

2862
02:31:02,160 --> 02:31:02,480
Speaker 3: I will.

2863
02:31:04,879 --> 02:31:07,280
Speaker 1: I don't think he will either. Nor are you gonna run,

2864
02:31:07,320 --> 02:31:12,080
Speaker 1: profess No, I'm running for offers you. I'm gonna be

2865
02:31:12,120 --> 02:31:15,240
Speaker 1: honest with you. If you run for office, I'll be

2866
02:31:15,400 --> 02:31:16,879
Speaker 1: like you know, the guys with the.

2867
02:31:16,920 --> 02:31:30,119
Speaker 2: Helmets security January sixth, niggah, my Hitchman, BECAUSEA be honest.

2868
02:31:32,120 --> 02:31:32,480
Speaker 1: I don't be.

2869
02:31:33,560 --> 02:31:39,600
Speaker 2: No, you will mind me of a rock in the

2870
02:31:39,720 --> 02:31:45,080
Speaker 2: most beautifulest way it is. And I spoke to Killer Mike.

2871
02:31:45,320 --> 02:31:48,600
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love killing Mike, right, I love Mike. Kill

2872
02:31:48,640 --> 02:31:51,760
Speaker 1: him Mike man. But I feel like Killer Mike should

2873
02:31:51,800 --> 02:31:55,320
Speaker 1: be mayor of Atlanta. He could do it. I feel

2874
02:31:55,360 --> 02:31:58,160
Speaker 1: like he might run. I feel like he should do it.

2875
02:31:58,360 --> 02:32:03,000
Speaker 2: I feel like he should do it unapologetically. I feel

2876
02:32:03,040 --> 02:32:05,760
Speaker 2: like he shoul to do it eating peanuts like me.

2877
02:32:07,360 --> 02:32:09,480
Speaker 1: What up in his real self? Yeah?

2878
02:32:09,680 --> 02:32:12,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, well he cares a lot about lances and put

2879
02:32:12,440 --> 02:32:13,480
Speaker 4: it that way. I don't know if he every wants

2880
02:32:13,520 --> 02:32:16,039
Speaker 4: to run for office, but he's I feel like he's

2881
02:32:16,120 --> 02:32:20,000
Speaker 4: great at knowing what the people want in his city,

2882
02:32:20,120 --> 02:32:22,920
Speaker 4: and he loves his city. He advocates for his city,

2883
02:32:22,959 --> 02:32:23,560
Speaker 4: advocates for.

2884
02:32:25,200 --> 02:32:28,280
Speaker 3: Our community, like having our own businesses and own property

2885
02:32:28,320 --> 02:32:31,080
Speaker 3: or on wealth. And uh, he's a great man.

2886
02:32:32,000 --> 02:32:35,520
Speaker 1: But you you never thought about running for president when

2887
02:32:35,520 --> 02:32:37,760
Speaker 1: I was a kid. I didn't since I've been in

2888
02:32:37,840 --> 02:32:40,240
Speaker 1: an adult I love my life.

2889
02:32:40,280 --> 02:32:42,760
Speaker 3: I love what I get to do now, and I

2890
02:32:42,800 --> 02:32:45,800
Speaker 3: don't think I would enjoy being president. Wow, I just

2891
02:32:45,879 --> 02:32:48,800
Speaker 3: don't think I would. You know what, Actually, we got

2892
02:32:48,879 --> 02:32:50,879
Speaker 3: to shut out his papa, Keith is running for office,

2893
02:32:50,920 --> 02:32:56,199
Speaker 3: right commissioner shout out to from out here. Yeah, he's

2894
02:32:56,240 --> 02:32:59,360
Speaker 3: a radio personality. He's been influential out here in the

2895
02:32:59,440 --> 02:33:00,920
Speaker 3: community and now he's.

2896
02:33:00,920 --> 02:33:03,360
Speaker 4: I respect anybody that puts himself out there. My friend

2897
02:33:03,520 --> 02:33:06,280
Speaker 4: Hill Harper, he ran for you don't want to he

2898
02:33:06,360 --> 02:33:08,039
Speaker 4: ran for Senate in Michigan.

2899
02:33:08,320 --> 02:33:10,400
Speaker 3: I was like, man, it's just stressful. He didn't win

2900
02:33:10,520 --> 02:33:13,320
Speaker 3: the primary, and it's like you put yourself out there,

2901
02:33:13,480 --> 02:33:16,320
Speaker 3: they come at you. Yeah, and it's like into those I'm.

2902
02:33:16,240 --> 02:33:18,960
Speaker 1: Like, I already put myself out there enough and I

2903
02:33:19,080 --> 02:33:20,080
Speaker 1: get enough ship for it.

2904
02:33:20,160 --> 02:33:22,080
Speaker 4: And I'm like, I don't want to like actually run,

2905
02:33:22,520 --> 02:33:25,520
Speaker 4: but imagine you and dlugy.

2906
02:33:27,240 --> 02:33:35,040
Speaker 1: Dl DL's instagram be going. You know you wouldn't one?

2907
02:33:37,280 --> 02:33:39,960
Speaker 1: Why give up? Give up on this lot of questions.

2908
02:33:40,760 --> 02:33:43,720
Speaker 1: I'm just asking because to me, I will one job.

2909
02:33:43,959 --> 02:33:47,040
Speaker 1: I want to go pisical ends to be a fucking

2910
02:33:47,120 --> 02:33:49,920
Speaker 1: president like me. This is me. I guess the personal

2911
02:33:49,959 --> 02:33:52,520
Speaker 1: open you can look at me out I got I believe.

2912
02:33:52,840 --> 02:33:55,880
Speaker 1: I believe in you that much? Did I feel like

2913
02:33:56,000 --> 02:33:59,400
Speaker 1: you can be the president? But why why? Why?

2914
02:33:59,480 --> 02:34:03,000
Speaker 2: Why can't we have our own community, support our own community.

2915
02:34:03,200 --> 02:34:07,959
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I appreciate because you know why use

2916
02:34:08,000 --> 02:34:13,640
Speaker 1: against Trump every every Yeah? So why not have you? Yeah,

2917
02:34:14,560 --> 02:34:19,960
Speaker 1: I take a shot. It ain't even got nothing to

2918
02:34:20,040 --> 02:34:26,600
Speaker 1: do with it. But why why why wouldn't you wouldn't you? Well?

2919
02:34:26,640 --> 02:34:29,240
Speaker 1: We got here, Oh thank you, Sam? Yeah, here we go.

2920
02:34:29,760 --> 02:34:33,320
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna take something cash. He's in the writer,

2921
02:34:36,959 --> 02:34:38,520
Speaker 2: but why wouldn't you want for possident.

2922
02:34:39,400 --> 02:34:41,920
Speaker 4: I just feel like it's so much negativity and like

2923
02:34:42,000 --> 02:34:43,200
Speaker 4: where's the positive side?

2924
02:34:44,720 --> 02:34:49,520
Speaker 1: And there's music. Music is now when you're.

2925
02:34:49,320 --> 02:34:53,039
Speaker 4: A musician, there's not a whole party organized to bring

2926
02:34:53,160 --> 02:34:58,320
Speaker 4: you down like all the other R and B cats

2927
02:34:58,680 --> 02:35:02,440
Speaker 4: don't have like organized party trying to destroy my career.

2928
02:35:05,480 --> 02:35:08,600
Speaker 4: Like user fans aren't like outside my door with picking

2929
02:35:08,640 --> 02:35:15,800
Speaker 4: signs like fuck John Legend. It might be, but like

2930
02:35:15,959 --> 02:35:18,800
Speaker 4: if you run for office, like there's like literally half

2931
02:35:18,879 --> 02:35:21,960
Speaker 4: the country hates you or they're being told to hate you,

2932
02:35:22,400 --> 02:35:24,679
Speaker 4: and I'm like, I'm not interested in that feeling.

2933
02:35:26,760 --> 02:35:30,840
Speaker 1: But we interested in your ideology. I get it. I

2934
02:35:30,959 --> 02:35:35,480
Speaker 1: get it. We will leave with John Legend believes I

2935
02:35:35,560 --> 02:35:38,200
Speaker 1: get it. And I appreciate black people to say, you

2936
02:35:38,360 --> 02:35:41,280
Speaker 1: know what, we need you? Yeah, we need you. We

2937
02:35:41,400 --> 02:35:43,560
Speaker 1: want to get behind well.

2938
02:35:44,480 --> 02:35:47,800
Speaker 3: Crazy, I want to get behind you, Paulsey taking me

2939
02:35:47,879 --> 02:35:51,480
Speaker 3: back two thousand and four but the pause days.

2940
02:35:51,680 --> 02:35:55,280
Speaker 2: But we need we need somebody in that office that

2941
02:35:55,560 --> 02:35:58,720
Speaker 2: we can identify, would relate to because we can see

2942
02:35:59,280 --> 02:36:00,160
Speaker 2: you don't think that's you.

2943
02:36:01,760 --> 02:36:04,360
Speaker 4: I hope Wes Moore runs for president. And there's some

2944
02:36:04,480 --> 02:36:06,480
Speaker 4: great people that we can look up to. Let's let's

2945
02:36:06,600 --> 02:36:11,080
Speaker 4: so Wes Moore. He's a governor of Maryland. Brother, very accomplished, veteran,

2946
02:36:12,200 --> 02:36:16,840
Speaker 4: amazing speaker. Okay, beautiful wife. You know he can do it,

2947
02:36:17,480 --> 02:36:19,640
Speaker 4: and I think he's he's already governor of Maryland.

2948
02:36:19,680 --> 02:36:24,080
Speaker 1: He could do it. So I'll support them. So are

2949
02:36:24,120 --> 02:36:28,640
Speaker 1: we We're putting on money to him. Who knows.

2950
02:36:28,760 --> 02:36:31,880
Speaker 2: We'll see, we'll see, we'll see if he runs. But

2951
02:36:32,000 --> 02:36:33,480
Speaker 2: he could, and I think he'd do a good job.

2952
02:36:37,560 --> 02:36:43,119
Speaker 2: I'm looking at everybody here. What's his name, Wes Moore,

2953
02:36:43,520 --> 02:36:47,720
Speaker 2: Wes Moore. But if we could pick Wes Moore, we

2954
02:36:47,959 --> 02:36:54,160
Speaker 2: could pick John Legend. That's our next running candidate for

2955
02:36:54,280 --> 02:36:56,400
Speaker 2: the president of the United States. Look at this nigga.

2956
02:36:57,400 --> 02:37:05,879
Speaker 1: This nigga is Obama's because it Okay, I appreciate it, nor,

2957
02:37:06,120 --> 02:37:06,480
Speaker 1: I really do.

2958
02:37:06,600 --> 02:37:06,760
Speaker 5: I do.

2959
02:37:06,920 --> 02:37:09,680
Speaker 1: I appreciate what you're doing. Right now, you get an endorsement, right,

2960
02:37:14,280 --> 02:37:17,000
Speaker 1: love and respect. I did no. No, you know why

2961
02:37:17,640 --> 02:37:18,560
Speaker 1: because I trust you.

2962
02:37:20,520 --> 02:37:25,760
Speaker 2: The thing about it is, we're voting for the American President.

2963
02:37:25,959 --> 02:37:27,840
Speaker 2: You want to trust him. I want to trust the person.

2964
02:37:28,720 --> 02:37:33,280
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest with you me and that you

2965
02:37:33,360 --> 02:37:36,280
Speaker 2: know I'm brown. Trust you all right?

2966
02:37:37,160 --> 02:37:40,720
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate it. I pretty much on you. I'm

2967
02:37:40,760 --> 02:37:44,400
Speaker 1: so sorry because you know it's all good. But but

2968
02:37:44,640 --> 02:37:52,040
Speaker 1: why not, because you know why? The one thing that

2969
02:37:52,120 --> 02:37:55,400
Speaker 1: we got to give Trump is he just outrageous. Yeah,

2970
02:37:55,440 --> 02:37:58,520
Speaker 1: you don't give a fuck. So why wouldn't you, Why

2971
02:37:58,560 --> 02:38:03,240
Speaker 1: wouldn't you be up? They be like this man himself

2972
02:38:03,320 --> 02:38:08,880
Speaker 1: holds down. I don't know, I don't know this is president.

2973
02:38:09,800 --> 02:38:11,600
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I want to.

2974
02:38:15,840 --> 02:38:21,720
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest that John John John legends resident.

2975
02:38:22,040 --> 02:38:27,640
Speaker 1: You gotta be writer. If you John let the president.

2976
02:38:28,200 --> 02:38:32,120
Speaker 1: How many of us is rooting voting for John? I

2977
02:38:32,200 --> 02:38:38,440
Speaker 1: make some No, I'm gonna be honest. I'm just sorry.

2978
02:38:39,240 --> 02:38:42,240
Speaker 1: We believe in you. Curls is right, I feel it.

2979
02:38:42,400 --> 02:38:45,160
Speaker 1: I feel it. The girls he's gonna be secretary of State.

2980
02:38:46,120 --> 02:38:48,280
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be something else, Like I'm gonna be like

2981
02:38:48,480 --> 02:38:50,440
Speaker 2: what else, drinker of the drink?

2982
02:38:50,480 --> 02:38:51,200
Speaker 1: Girls stink up.

2983
02:38:51,360 --> 02:38:55,520
Speaker 2: I don't think think we're gonna make some new position.

2984
02:38:56,720 --> 02:39:00,520
Speaker 2: I'm playing around, But in real reality, I was thought

2985
02:39:00,560 --> 02:39:04,840
Speaker 2: about that. He's not with it because because look at me,

2986
02:39:04,879 --> 02:39:05,240
Speaker 2: look at me.

2987
02:39:05,240 --> 02:39:08,400
Speaker 1: I'm looking at you. He's look at me, look at me,

2988
02:39:08,440 --> 02:39:11,080
Speaker 1: look at you. I have no beef for Trump. Right,

2989
02:39:11,280 --> 02:39:14,080
Speaker 1: but if I was to put you and Trump in

2990
02:39:14,160 --> 02:39:19,920
Speaker 1: a spelling bee, I'm picking you. Yeah, I would win.

2991
02:39:21,560 --> 02:39:24,840
Speaker 2: If I'm picking you and Trump against like like, uh

2992
02:39:26,480 --> 02:39:28,440
Speaker 2: of course we're a puzzle. I'm picking you.

2993
02:39:29,000 --> 02:39:37,520
Speaker 1: Jeopardy Yeah yeah yeah, travel so so so why wouldn't

2994
02:39:37,520 --> 02:39:42,680
Speaker 1: you try to lead off monopoly a little bit? Why

2995
02:39:42,720 --> 02:39:47,600
Speaker 1: would you? I just don't feel like I would enjoy it. Yeah,

2996
02:39:47,840 --> 02:39:52,160
Speaker 1: it's wonderful man, running or being in office. I don't

2997
02:39:52,160 --> 02:39:57,440
Speaker 1: think I would enjoy either. One very just one. Yeah.

2998
02:39:57,560 --> 02:40:00,880
Speaker 1: I'm sorry because I believe mean you so much. I know,

2999
02:40:01,000 --> 02:40:03,240
Speaker 1: I feel it. I feel it, I feel it. He's

3000
02:40:03,360 --> 02:40:06,640
Speaker 1: your campaign, I'm your number one thing. I know, I

3001
02:40:06,760 --> 02:40:08,959
Speaker 1: feel it. I feel if you feel like that next

3002
02:40:09,000 --> 02:40:12,680
Speaker 1: to year, Okay, I'll hit you, please hit me. Yeah,

3003
02:40:12,720 --> 02:40:18,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be like that. The John Legend man. Thank

3004
02:40:18,879 --> 02:40:21,600
Speaker 1: you so much, man, thank you. I had such a

3005
02:40:21,680 --> 02:40:29,600
Speaker 1: good time. What say it out? I say, I'll talk

3006
02:40:29,640 --> 02:40:36,120
Speaker 1: about let's go make some money? Yeah, get it now.

3007
02:40:36,560 --> 02:40:38,560
Speaker 2: I'm truly I'm glad I got to come by and

3008
02:40:38,640 --> 02:40:40,360
Speaker 2: see y'all. I've been wanting to do it for a minute.

3009
02:40:40,600 --> 02:40:42,800
Speaker 4: And I'm glad we got to come and celebrate the

3010
02:40:42,840 --> 02:40:45,160
Speaker 4: twentieth anniversary because I'm just grateful.

3011
02:40:45,360 --> 02:40:47,120
Speaker 2: And you know, I told you all these stories of

3012
02:40:47,240 --> 02:40:50,120
Speaker 2: like us on the come up, and like I think

3013
02:40:50,200 --> 02:40:52,040
Speaker 2: back on all of that when I listen to that

3014
02:40:52,160 --> 02:40:55,440
Speaker 2: music from Get Lifted, and I'm just grateful for everything

3015
02:40:55,480 --> 02:41:01,760
Speaker 2: to happen. Yeah, good John, thank you so much, thank you.

3016
02:41:03,040 --> 02:41:05,560
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna lie. You're the only nigga that ever

3017
02:41:05,760 --> 02:41:06,400
Speaker 2: ordered beef.

3018
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Speaker 1: Jerky turkey, turkey, turkey jack turkey. Yeah no, no, don't

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Speaker 1: say that. That's in my that's in my rider too,

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Speaker 1: because you know with turkey. Come on, I don't eat beef.

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Speaker 1: I don't eat you sure that's turkey.

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Speaker 3: I swear to god, you ain't gonna be able to

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Speaker 3: tell because it smelled the same.

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Speaker 1: Already, Bro, somebody went to the grocery store in here.

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Speaker 1: They got it. Are you ready? You ate it already?

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Speaker 1: You had a dinner with a shot though, and then

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Speaker 1: we out of here. I appreciate you, y'all. Man, what

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Speaker 3: for joining us for another episode of Drink Champs hosted

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