WEBVTT - Rico Love Interview 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:08.039 Realty, but real celebrity. Join the Breakfast Morning. Everybody is 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.040 DJ Envy, Angela, Ye, Charloman the guy. We are the 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:15.320 Breakfast Club special guests in the building. Mister Rico love 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:19.840 listen Rico produces everything. Everything go out there. He was 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:21.120 taking pictures up and he was like, let me see 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:23.880 that pictures sits down here he goes, Yo, this position right, 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:28.520 everything that's got that's got to be kind of difficult 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:30.440 reco you can wow, you know what's crazy. I never 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.519 even noticed that. Just that's crazy. I do do that 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.320 about every situation. I always just like, it's my posture right, 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:39.680 and you do interviews everything about you know, it's the 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:41.720 lighting right, And I always tell them like I saw 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:43.800 that light moved by accident. I know you walked back, 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:45.200 you hit the light. I don't know if you want 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:46.479 that to be hit like that. Oh no, it's no 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:51.559 good detail. Absolutely, let me tell you something. You know, 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:53.479 I'm dark skinned, so we could come up real crazy 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:57.000 on camera. We got to make sure every little part, 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:58.680 you know what I mean, Let's put some lotion on 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.520 and that helps. That helps. Do Some people take that 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.360 as controlling, though I don't. I never noticed it as 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:05.920 much you know. Now, until you just said that, I 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:07.440 never noticed it. But I don't know how people take it. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.640 But you know what creatives, I think they respected like 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.200 a guy who um knows you know a little bit 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:14.080 what he's talking about. And I love that. I just 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.360 you know, i'd be around and I, you know, kind 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:18.319 of like pay attention to little things, and I pick 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:20.480 up on little things, and you know, I listened. So 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:22.760 if I overhear you talking about a lens or something 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.240 like that or different things, then next time I'm somewhere 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:26.800 or something like, yo, I don't know, but maybe you 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:28.680 should use another lens because I know those type of 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:30.840 lens get some fall because I would heard somebody saying 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:33.440 and they're like, oh, wow, you know you pick up 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.720 on that everything. Yeah, And I always and I always 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.160 ask questions. If I see a film on myself and 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.319 I'm looking in a certain way, I'm like, why is that? Oh? 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:41.920 Because we shot with the wide and we should have 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:43.480 went closer on the zoom. So now I'm like, I 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.360 learned that, So next time around, I'm like, yo, don't 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.400 shoot me on the on the wide, shoot me on 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.360 the zoom. Information never hurt nobody, man, it never It 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.720 never does. But you don't work aholic? Yeah, man, but 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.680 you know, how do you work so hard as dud? 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:57.400 Spend time with your family? Let me I tell your 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.360 story which impressed me. Flew out to Miami and I 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:04.200 spent the day with Rico, right, and me and Rico 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.480 went to the store one shop and came back and 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.760 I would say, in twenty minutes, he completed about tim 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.440 tongs in twenty minutes, No, lie, And these were impossible. 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:17.560 I said, light it up online. Ay, all right, I 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.280 got a hook. Did the hook twenty minutes. It wasn't 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.880 it wasn't full songs. It was these concepts, and you know, 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:25.680 laying ideas. I lay a verse on this one, an 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.520 idea to this one. All right, this the next one, 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.600 give me a hook on this one. Lay a hook 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.639 idea on this one. Because I don't write anything, damn. 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:33.960 I just listened to the music and it kind of 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.680 like not saying wow, because sometimes it's terrible, you know, 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.120 sometimes good. Just I never I never try to let 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.200 you hear the terrible. Like there was like, for instance, 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.120 shout the fat like your fat Joe wants to record. 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:44.960 I I got one record for fat Joe. Boom all 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.480 I said that to Joe all right, yo, every this record. 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:48.880 It was just it was just like that. I was 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.600 saying there, like this mother effort is really now. I 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.320 love the song that you did for Envy. From the 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.799 first time I heard now, I was gonna say, was 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.119 it just him sending you that one or was it 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.440 I caught Envy personally said this is your record. By 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.120 the way, I don't do I don't do records and 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.600 um throwaways. I never do records like I don't shop music. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.240 I don't you know, a lot of people produces, and 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:10.919 this is lesson to a lot of guys. You'll make 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:13.520 if you you'll keep yourself a way more exclusive, if 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.760 you don't send everybody the same record. I would never 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:17.600 insult Envy like that and send him a record and 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.679 then he go play for somebody and they're like, oh yeah, 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:21.280 he said that. He said that to me. I got 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.560 that in mind, Embo. So what I do is, I'll 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.200 be in a studio and I'll be selective. I don't 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.680 even I'll do twenty songs and within a few weeks 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.600 and I won't shop any of them, and it'll be 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.280 months ago by nobody has ever heard them. But when 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.079 I get in a studio with somebody and I'm just like, 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.440 you know, I think this will work for you. You know, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.840 I mean, I believe in collecting catalog and collecting music 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.520 and not whoring yourself out because that way you become 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.880 more exclusive, and then you'll end up with way more 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.200 songs on other artists because you feel they'll feel like 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.720 they feel special, like this record was created for me 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:49.600 or with me and mine. There's only one wack part 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.120 about the Evy record, and that's the part where it 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:58.920 says DJ Envy in the beginning. That's like a classic 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:04.800 I G I love it's about reco to. It is 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.880 you don't really stress artists, and I you know I 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:09.640 have that problem because I can't stress an artists. I 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.680 can't call an artists a million times. But you have 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.839 that same thing. Why is that with you? Because you'd 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:15.760 be like, hey, look, if I ask you one time, 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.000 it's your word. If you don't do by your word 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.600 or store with you anymore ever. And I don't mean 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:21.880 I got a problem with you when I see you 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:23.799 as love, but it's just on a on a business 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.960 I'm never gonna actually do anything for me. Ever. If 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.440 you noticed all of my singles, I never had features. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.800 I just it took everything in me to get you know, 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:33.920 ushering with Kalipha on the remix. That's just one of 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.600 my best friends. Because you would produce a songwriter, So 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.320 why couldn't return the favor? You would think, Bro, you 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.320 got people who won't even tweet for you. Bro, you 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.039 got people who and I don't ask, you know, I 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:44.440 just I just know if I if I give you 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.080 the number one record number in the studio with you 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.960 and we made millions together, you would think I got 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.200 an album coming out and these guys will call you 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.400 and be like, congratulations on the album. But put that 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:58.200 on Instagram and something get my followers up. Did you 0:04:58.240 --> 0:04:59.800 know what with Kalipha was gonna talk about on the 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:01.880 for somebody else? I have an idea, you know, And 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:03.760 that was the reason I called him. And that's just 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:04.800 to be honest, you know. I mean a lot of 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:06.359 people try to make it saying like, no, I didn't 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:07.880 call you just because of what you're going through. No, 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.080 that's the time to call you. When people when we 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.680 when we make records about getting money, nobody has a 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.040 problem with saying, oh, well, you can relate to get money. 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.800 I just know you went through some serious heartbreak. This 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.880 song is about heartbreak, talk about it? Why not? Because 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.039 men are so comfortable talking about we get money and 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:24.440 we win in and this this and then and pop 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.960 that and shake that. But we don't express pain. We 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:31.080 don't express fear, we don't express remorse because we feel 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.680 like that's weak. But I always tell people honesty is 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.080 the most strong thing a man could be. When you're 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.280 honest about who you are, you know, how could you 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:39.920 sleep at night when you tell the truth? You know 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.320 what I mean, You're like, it's like a weight off you. 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.680 You felt like you got that off. So um, I 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:46.760 just feel like it was meant for him to get 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.320 on that record. You do have songs about heartbreak and remorse. 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.320 Do you ever cry when you're writing any songs? Never? Never? 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.719 But um, you know I don't. I'm not against cry. 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.039 I just know I haven't cried in like a long time. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.240 But I'm not against anybody that cries a baby the 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.680 baby's born. No, I haven't cried yet. See what even 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.000 when my son. When my son was born, I think 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.479 I cried when he was like three months because I 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.040 just stare at him when he's sleeping and he just 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.520 kind of get emotional or like, um, little things they 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:16.080 do when they call you and be like, you know, daddy, 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.719 when are you gonna Why does mommy have a different 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:22.720 last name than us? You know you're like that. That's 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.680 made me get married. Yeah, those type of things. You'll 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.880 be like, oh man, the only thing that was one 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.479 of the main one you just thought about that like old, 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.080 that was one of the main ones. Like that hurt feeling, 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.440 like because you have got no answer for all you 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.200 ladies out there if you want to figure out, here's 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:49.599 the script to tell your kids. Now. I want to 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.400 go back to you with these artists, because I find 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.960 it very disrespectful that none of these guys would show 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:55.760 you the same respect. I'm sure that he didn't say 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.000 none of them. I mean some of them do. But 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.400 what it is is like this, right, Um, You'll see 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.920 people out and you're like, um, one thing I gotta 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:05.520 this is rand I got to say shout out to 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.760 DJ Kali because he's the best at this, the best 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.480 at Fat Joe and DJ Kalt I think called in 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.120 all respect and I think he would admit this he 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.520 learned it from from Fat Joe, who was the president 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.560 of YO. Run down on Homeboy and make sure you're 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.000 on the record, because I remember and Fat Joe at 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:21.920 one point was like one of my closest friends in 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:26.000 the whole entire world, right, So Machow and this me 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.360 and Joe were really close at the time, really really closer. 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.160 And Macha was sitting in the studio like like DEEPO 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:32.720 waiting for me to do the verse. I'm like, bo, 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.600 I'm gonna do it, and my show would be like, yeah, 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.680 I'm gonna wait for you. And that's the type of 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.960 thing and you gotta respect that because their mentality is 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.239 get it done. I don't care how it makes you feel. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.800 I don't care how uncomfortable it is or how for me. 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:50.320 I just my pride ego. It's not because I feel 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:51.840 like I feel like if I ask you to do 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.560 something for me. And and by the way, I want 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.760 you to understand how this game is set up a 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:58.600 lot of time where producers and writers when I charge 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.400 a flat rate of fifty thousand for a track and 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.800 then I do a record for whatever person, and they're 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.880 telling me, well, since we get in two records, can 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.280 we get them you know, two for sixty can we 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:09.840 get two? Can we work this deal out and do 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:11.960 this whatever? And you're like, man, of course, because to me, 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:13.600 it ain't about that. It's really about to get in 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.280 the music out. And that's why I've been able to have, 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.880 you know, a certain amount of records out at one time, 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.240 because I always was working deals with people. So I 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.480 feel like, if I work to deal for you, it's 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.680 an unwritten rule like we have when I come back 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.600 around it's love and it's love and I'm not asking anybody. 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.280 I don't even ask people to get on my records 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.000 because I believe it's impossible for an artist to get 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.200 other artists, other people in the world to get to 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.200 know them if they surrounding themselves with people they are 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.839 already familiar with it already. It bugs me out when 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:41.800 an artist has like, only got one verse on their record. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:43.640 They got somebody featured on the hook and then another 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.880 person rapping. Bro, you got one verse on your own single? 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:49.960 How do you expect people to know you? Even if 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.240 your record does super well, You do shows everywhere. Why 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.120 would I buy your record when I really don't truly 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.160 identify with who you are? And that goes in content 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.719 as well. But with me, I'll say this, I did 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:01.319 that for you, and that should be a solid And 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.120 then later I should come back and say and I 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.320 have simple things and he knows me, I'll say, you'll 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.760 post this for me on your joint. You know, okay, 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.000 I got you nothing. Then my company, everybody's calling me, 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.160 everybody works for me is telling me bro calling back. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.560 I'm not calling no grown man back about it right now? 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:24.080 The same thing I think I like the way call 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:25.680 them do things. Sometimes you gotta let me tell you, 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:27.080 let me tell you, let me tell you, and let 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:28.959 me tell you. The follow through is one thing. But 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:30.600 then when you see me out again, I'm gonna tell 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:32.440 you something. If I'm make a mistake and forget something. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.480 As soon as I see you, I'm like, I forgot 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.880 to do that, let me do it right now. Like 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:38.520 since I just saw you, let me knock that out 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.400 for you right now. But you know, and and again, 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.160 I don't want anybody this is all, you know, fun. 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.200 I don't want anybody think I'm looking at these guys 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.000 like f them. But at the end of the day, 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.160 I just know I'm not gonna put myself in a 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.760 position where I gotta keep asking you for something, and 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.000 like I said, called and um Joe, they like, they 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:58.720 don't care, They like, we need to get this done. 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.280 And then you look at how it benefits the artists 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.800 usually that they do the stuff for. Think about if 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.559 anybody whom Kali has done a record with or put 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.520 on his record, it really it benefits both benefits Kalid 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.680 and it benefits the artists. You got a free marketing 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.440 opportunity for him to market your record and work. And 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:19.280 now when you see, I'm sure, but he leans, he said, 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.280 he said, the newer artists are actually a lot harder 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:25.040 for him to get than the more established. Really, but 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.080 he keeps going and he but guess what, I bet 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.160 you they're gonna do it. I bet you you're gonna 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:30.719 sit there in the studio and make sure they do it. 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.360 I bet he's gonna call him every time. If Kali 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.680 got to go a hold everybody, I need all my 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:36.760 followers to tweet blah blah blah and let him know 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.720 he don't care. Like a different code with these newer artists, 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.880 Like they don't have the same kind of way that 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:43.720 they were. Oh, let me tell you something, these new 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:45.680 artists got it all figured out too. By the way 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.160 they think they know everything. Can nobody tell them none? 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.200 Can nobody tell them what what's right or what's wrong? 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.960 And they never had extreme success. The best part about 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.200 my career was I started off with Usher, So I 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.000 start off for Usher. During confessions, you understand when when 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.200 Usher was shut down malls, like when he was shut 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.960 down whole blocks and streets, it was ridiculous, and we'd 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:06.239 be in Paris somewhere and it'd be like whole everything. 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.400 Then you go be just in Detroit and the same 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.360 thing that happened. So these artists, they'll get a little 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.520 bit of attention and they have a semi hit you 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.840 know what I mean and exactly, and then they'll be like, 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.720 can nobody tell me nothing about a record? About music? 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:21.520 And then you look at your discography and you'd be like, 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.200 I probably could though you know I probably could tell 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.439 you something because I've consistently been able to do it. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.680 But you just let these people in time or run 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.160 this course and you see what happens. How does that 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.079 work with the artists that are signed to you? Because 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.719 I know you know obviously you and Tierra Thomas are 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.160 not working together anymore, and you had different ideas on 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.240 where her career should go. Was it a problem where 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.680 she kind of felt like she knew and you know 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.680 she wasn't know. What it is is that, um, First 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.319 of all, she one of the most talented people I've 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.240 ever met in my life, and that's saying a lot. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.560 One of the most talented writers, really brilliant. But what 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.959 happened was when I signed that she was writing a 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.280 certain type of songs and I signed on it's like 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.560 if I married you because I thought you were this way, 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:01.839 and then as soon as we got married, things changed. 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.600 I think when um, I think, um, it's safe to 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.440 say everybody knows about the whole situation she was going 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.280 through with the wile and everything. I think it put 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.040 her in a real dark space. Imagine you a sweet girl, 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.040 you know from Indianapolis, and you you get on Twitter 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:15.520 and every day you get on Instagram and Twitter and 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.360 people are like calling you names and bashing you and 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:19.959 they don't even know the details or anything. And he's 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.080 going crazy. And now this is not me, a guy 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.080 who's been in the game twelve years and seeing everything. 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.080 I can handle that stuff, you know, But a girl 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.160 who's like, I can't believe I didn't bother nobody. I 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.040 really didn't do anything wrong, and these people are really 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.760 coming at me crazy enough every single day. I think 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:35.400 it put her in a dark space over her writing 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.600 is concerned and when she wrote songs like gang Signs 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.280 and popular are in Bad when I signed her. So 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.480 then later she started writing different type of records that 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.880 I didn't think were um superstar calible records for her. 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.640 I think she was bigger than the songs she was writing. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.000 And it's a girl who's super talents could write anything. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:53.599 And that's just my opinion of it. So this is 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.079 I don't I don't want anybody to take this as 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:57.560 meet this and them, because I could never do that. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.400 I would never. I came on this same show and 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.400 fought in the offended her. So if I can't win 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.319 the show and try to dis how crazy would that 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.280 make me? No? No, no no, no no no, I said 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.160 that she. I think they put her in a dark 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.040 space because you were her biggest champion. You were debuting 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:13.439 news sounds. You're like, I want to make sure we 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.719 debut her anytime. I was like, I was fighting with 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:17.600 the company. I need her on to remix. They didn't 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.400 want her hund remix but they don't know. And I'm 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.719 just like, this is my biggest, biggest record, number two 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:23.839 in the country. I'm not gonna put my artists on it. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.040 These are type of things that I was going in 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.720 for spending. We we spent you know, a lot of money, 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:30.800 you know, on her and on a roll out without 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.080 even putting having a chance to really put out a record. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.920 But um, I think that our visions changed. The one 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:37.400 thing about me is I know how it feels to 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.280 be an artist, and I know how it feels to 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:40.800 be pressured. And I said, you know what, I never 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.199 want to be in a situation where I'm forcing you 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.079 to do nothing and we don't like each other. So 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.520 instead of me saying you don't want to do what 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.000 I do, shelfer until she get her mind right, and 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.360 then I'm owing you father, no, let you go free. 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:55.079 You know what I mean, because I don't want to 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:56.959 be in that situation. Even though people around me was like, 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:58.480 you need to get this, you need to do this, 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:00.560 I'm like, but but I don't have I'm not mad 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.439 at I just don't agree with what she's going to 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:03.760 She don't agree with what I want her to go. 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.400 But you know is that what she wanted though, or 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.880 did she want to try to still come out but 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.400 still have it her way, or did she want to 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.480 just not be signed anymore. I don't know. I didn't 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.079 even I'm gonna be honest with you. I hadn't to 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.040 be totally honest. I didn't have a conversation with her. 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.240 I just told you know, I just said, I asked 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.160 in the scope, you know, I said, I don't. I 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.960 don't think it's gonna work out what y'all like to 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:27.920 keep it? Because I don't even want to try to 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:29.840 box her out. I didn't want to say, well, I'm 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:31.680 dropping in, y'all, can I said, what y'all like to 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.440 keep it and go straight through in the scope and 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.080 they said no, And I said, cool, Well, then give 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:37.800 her release. Let her do a thing. If she feels 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:39.680 like she knows her in her management feel like they know, 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:41.440 let's do that. Because I don't want to be in 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.520 a situation where I'm holding anybody down and making them 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:47.400 feel away. You know, do your thing. But what I do, 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.040 what I do is and I'm gonna be And that 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.680 probably makes me the worst because I've had artists before 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.960 and they all no artists ever can walk around and 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:57.160 say Rico Love did me wrong or Rico did anything. 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:58.920 If you look at how close me and young Chris saw, 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.560 you know what I mean. I took care of young Chris. Bro, 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:03.280 you know what I mean. I got young Chris. I 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:07.120 got young Chris an apartment in Miami, and young Chris 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:11.520 did not come to the apartment one time, one time, 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.120 you know, And that's my brother. We could share those 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.640 types of but because I think what happens is you 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.840 surround yourself with people, you know what I mean, who 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.560 I think at that time, he can admit who was 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.920 in his ear saying, oh, you know you need to 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:25.200 be doing this, you need to be on this, and 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:26.920 we you know, he need to be a Philly you 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:28.360 need to do this and a lot of time home. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.080 Who wants you to stay home because they feel like 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.840 that's how um, that's what keeps you authentic. But I 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.240 was like, bro, come down here. Think about this. When 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:40.280 I wrote Motivation, Kelly, it was it was laid out, 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:41.840 it was laid up, it was a it was a partm. 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:43.640 I rented this dope apartment on the beach, like right 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.320 down the street from where I was living at the time. 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.000 It was laid out, but and he never went to 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.520 it one time, not one time, and it's and it 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:51.280 was crazy. And he'll even admit to you he was. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:53.440 He was like, I was bugging. I had people in 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.440 my you know, in my around me that was telling 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:56.840 me certain things. And I'm gonna tell you a crazy 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.440 story about position positioning yourself where the things happened. I 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:04.360 wrote a motivation for Kelly Rolling and as soon as 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.520 we finished it, Kelly said, where's young Chris. He should 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:11.440 rap on this? No, she said it like playfully serious. 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:13.680 She said it like you know, who knows if she 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:15.760 was even serious or if she even would have followed through, 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:17.560 But she just said it in passing like real cool, 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.440