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Speaker 1: the Baller Alert Show start. Ferrori Simmons and Sue Solo
Speaker 1: Faller Nation joined us in welcoming and American producer who
Speaker 1: was a known hit man. Amongst the hit man that
Speaker 1: helped make music Moogo Shaan Kom's bad Boy Records of Vibe,
Speaker 1: A man who's behind some of our favorite classics behind
Speaker 1: the notorious B I. G. Faith Evans, V. Mary J.
Speaker 1: Blige and more, Ball the Nations. Snap your fingers or
Speaker 1: clap your hands for Chucky Man. Let's dope to be here.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. How you feeling today's sir? And I'm good
Speaker 1: man anticipating this when you know what I'm saying. Ball
Speaker 1: Alert is like one of my favorite spots, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So, Chucky, you've been in the game
Speaker 1: since the nineties, the early nineties at that you have
Speaker 1: a crazy resume. What are some of the classics that
Speaker 1: people may know you for and don't know that you
Speaker 1: had anything to do with them. I mean one of
Speaker 1: the biggest ones would be Big Cooper, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Um, and then My Life you know that one. Um,
Speaker 1: But then a lot of people don't realize I did one,
Speaker 1: Mike so Nas you know, Wow, that's one of the
Speaker 1: biggest songs ever. Yeah, but I mean, you know it's
Speaker 1: you know, I've always been a little key with it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Um, So it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's partly my fault that people don't know these things.
Speaker 1: But I mean they know the records, and you know
Speaker 1: these records have been a part of of hip hop
Speaker 1: and pop culture. So you know, I just feel good
Speaker 1: about that that that my contributions have helped, you know,
Speaker 1: push this thing along, you know. All right, So so
Speaker 1: paint the picture for me. It's the nineties. You know,
Speaker 1: you're talented, you know your how the help to become
Speaker 1: a hitman at that um well, you know, it was
Speaker 1: a mutual friend that that kind of pushed the situation
Speaker 1: with me and Puff, And you know, at that time,
Speaker 1: I was just submitting songs and one of those songs
Speaker 1: was the one song that Mary liked, which was to
Speaker 1: be with You record. So you know I heard at
Speaker 1: that time she was just picking a bunch of songs
Speaker 1: and nothing really attracted her, but that one song came
Speaker 1: in and was like, yo, I want to do this.
Speaker 1: So that's when Puff really said, you know what, let
Speaker 1: me get ready. We we decided on a management agreement,
Speaker 1: so you know, he was my manager. But then you
Speaker 1: know a lot of the work that I was getting
Speaker 1: was worked to help him solidify himself as a producer.
Speaker 1: So we kind of made that pack that you know,
Speaker 1: we're helping each other, you know, and you know, that's
Speaker 1: pretty much how the story started. I was really the
Speaker 1: first one. Uh you know son he was working with
Speaker 1: a couple of producers at that time. You know, EASYMBI
Speaker 1: was in a situation. Um Rashard tumming on Dice was
Speaker 1: in the situation. But you know, I was the first
Speaker 1: one that was kind of signed under management. So you know,
Speaker 1: when I got there, it was just like okay, I
Speaker 1: got this DC thing, this hospitality thing, and I played
Speaker 1: like eight different instruments, so I started going around the
Speaker 1: different sessions and just contribute, you know. But that was
Speaker 1: also getting me on projects. So when you hear the
Speaker 1: guitars on Ready to Die, that's me with easy Mobile,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So, like, you know, it
Speaker 1: started from there pretty much. Wait wait wait, wait, let
Speaker 1: me interrupt. Let me interjet because this sounds really good
Speaker 1: and it sounds like you have been making a lot
Speaker 1: of money. So I want to ask you what was
Speaker 1: the biggest first check that you got and how much
Speaker 1: was it and what the hell did you do with it?
Speaker 1: Go with that, man, I mean, it was when I
Speaker 1: signed my publishing agreement, you know what I mean, when
Speaker 1: I signed with Sony and um, you know at that time,
Speaker 1: you know, step over the mouth, don't skip over the
Speaker 1: mouth truck. It was it was, it was, you know,
Speaker 1: my first million dollars came from Badward. You know that
Speaker 1: that was you know, our agreement, like Puff felt that
Speaker 1: strongly about the union that you know at that time
Speaker 1: for me to be a new producer coming in the game,
Speaker 1: and you know, that was my contract. And then from
Speaker 1: there it was the publishing Tony Publishing, which I just
Speaker 1: re read did my agreement with Big John over there?
Speaker 1: So shout out the Big John and all of the
Speaker 1: people over that, Sony, you know what I'm saying. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta kicked in, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: the crazy thing is a million dollars then was was
Speaker 1: a little more than a million dollars. Now, yeah, real
Speaker 1: real talk, real talk. But you know it's like I said,
Speaker 1: a lot of it had to do with that that
Speaker 1: that trust, you know what I mean, because you don't
Speaker 1: just signing people and giving them that type of a
Speaker 1: situation if you don't think that it's going to work
Speaker 1: out or think that you know, you're capable of making
Speaker 1: it happen with them. So I still got to get
Speaker 1: a puffle out of credit for just seeing, you know,
Speaker 1: seeing seeing something to me that I probably didn't even
Speaker 1: seeing myself at that time because you know, I'm coming
Speaker 1: from d C. You know, he was in the game.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get there, you know, and that was
Speaker 1: just the startup. So that was a dope to me,
Speaker 1: like one of the dopest stars, you know, to get
Speaker 1: it kicked in. Yeah. I can't imagine it could have gotten, honestly,
Speaker 1: any bigger than that at that time, especially being in
Speaker 1: black culture because he was he was the man, he
Speaker 1: was real talk. I mean, you know, I was just
Speaker 1: I was lucky, you know to have had uh, somebody
Speaker 1: because did anything about it. At that time, it was
Speaker 1: no Internet. It was really no way to get to
Speaker 1: people other than for you to actually meet them and
Speaker 1: then you have to actually you know, meet them in
Speaker 1: a way where they want to even deal with you.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It was a weird time,
Speaker 1: but I was lucky enough to have somebody there to
Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, at least have a bridge
Speaker 1: into it. Um and it got that song placed and
Speaker 1: you know the rest of the rest kicked it in.
Speaker 1: That was it. That was history, you know, Chuck, Chuck,
Speaker 1: I got a question. I know you have a Biggie
Speaker 1: story that you can tell us, because you know, I
Speaker 1: grew up listening to bigg He never met him. I
Speaker 1: was a kid when he passed away. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: so I kind of was. I kind of came in.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had a short career anyway. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, you know, I kind of didn't realize
Speaker 1: or understand why he died, you know, because I was
Speaker 1: a kid. Um. I know you have a story to
Speaker 1: tell us about you in the studio with Biggie or
Speaker 1: come on, man, give us some Yeah. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's let's let's let's talk about I almost didn't make. Um,
Speaker 1: I almost didn't make Life after Death. Um. At that
Speaker 1: particular time for me, I was work and on my artists.
Speaker 1: I had an artist signed the Effort. It's a guy
Speaker 1: named Frankie. And I was just trying to devote my time,
Speaker 1: you know, watching Pump and seeing how much Heed to
Speaker 1: vote at his time in the building this company. I
Speaker 1: wanted to put that same energy into mine, you know.
Speaker 1: And at that time I was just focused on that,
Speaker 1: and I had went into the studio. I think I
Speaker 1: went to Daddy's house to grab something and Big was
Speaker 1: in the other room. He sent somebody in there to
Speaker 1: talk to me, like you're big one. The haul is
Speaker 1: shoot and say okay, So I go in there. This
Speaker 1: is right after the accident, sees he got the cane
Speaker 1: and all that. So I walked in. He's like, yo,
Speaker 1: what's up man, You ain't doing nothing on my album,
Speaker 1: like he was closing out the Life After Death album.
Speaker 1: So I was like, no, I even like that. He said,
Speaker 1: come on you. I was like, first off, you got
Speaker 1: one of the biggest records on my last album, so
Speaker 1: it's gonna look real funny that you don't have nothing
Speaker 1: on this. So I'm about to take offense if you don't.
Speaker 1: You know, if you don't jump on this record, we
Speaker 1: might have me issues. So I you know, he's that
Speaker 1: real that he pulled me up, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I said, cool, let me let me finally sit
Speaker 1: with Puff and kind of here what what was happening?
Speaker 1: And he played me a bunch of records and he
Speaker 1: played Storytell and if you go online, it's an original
Speaker 1: version of it um and they couldn't clear that sample.
Speaker 1: So I was like, okay, so that's my end, I
Speaker 1: was saying. So I was I'll replay this sample. And
Speaker 1: get us through the door. So I basically it was
Speaker 1: it was a night of the Grammys. I'm in the
Speaker 1: studio with a big boats I on, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, like just finishing it up because they're closing
Speaker 1: it out. If it doesn't happen tonight, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So I finished that up. And you know the sad
Speaker 1: part is I never really got to talk to Big
Speaker 1: to see how he felt about it, you know, but
Speaker 1: I know it made the record, so um you know,
Speaker 1: all of that stuff kicked in like like right after
Speaker 1: you know, um man that story to tell kid flow down.
Speaker 1: Remember that's one, Remember that one? So chucky. At the time,
Speaker 1: did you know that you were working with not only
Speaker 1: classic music, but classic artists? I mean, yeah, It's like
Speaker 1: it's funny with me because I get personal with people,
Speaker 1: you know. When you know Big and and we used
Speaker 1: to hang out all the time, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I remember him having issues with Safe. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm coming to be like dope, I want
Speaker 1: to fix my marriage Joe, And I'm like, come on, man,
Speaker 1: you out here and how are home coming? Going nuts?
Speaker 1: And you're tik about fixing your marriage. Come on church,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So going nuts? Like how
Speaker 1: I mean, he was big. You've seen what it was
Speaker 1: he you know he was a gym or not. I
Speaker 1: mean big was I mean he got married because he
Speaker 1: loved her, but he was big because he was big.
Speaker 1: So it was just you know, he was that player.
Speaker 1: He had that in them, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And and and that's was the thing that broke them up.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, that that's the part that
Speaker 1: that killed it. But you know, I'm I'm hearing all
Speaker 1: of these stories and I'm catching the vibe. So, like
Speaker 1: I said, I was around, I was around people in
Speaker 1: different lights. You know. USh it was only what seventeen
Speaker 1: and something crazy, you know, But he was in the house,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Mary, you would hang with
Speaker 1: her and we're having so much fun. And then she
Speaker 1: get on the microphone and then we realized, Wait, aut
Speaker 1: job was hanging with Mary. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like I didn't realize it until I realized it. But
Speaker 1: you could feel the part about them just being real people.
Speaker 1: You know, if you if we don't know nothing else
Speaker 1: about these artists, we liked them because of that you know,
Speaker 1: and that's really what it was. Just being around family.
Speaker 1: You know, puff created this energy where it was just
Speaker 1: like young black up and coming like the next That's
Speaker 1: all that was around. Is everybody that was a Craig
Speaker 1: mac over here, like everybody around was on their up.
Speaker 1: So it was it was a blessing to come into
Speaker 1: a situation like that. Because it's question we all got
Speaker 1: that vibe. Okay, question, if you had to give us
Speaker 1: your top five and you know we have a lot
Speaker 1: of listeners on the Ball the Show podcast, if you
Speaker 1: had to give it us your top five of the
Speaker 1: records that you had something to do with or do
Speaker 1: you have a top five? Or is this is gonna
Speaker 1: be hard for you to say. I mean it's you
Speaker 1: know what, it probably won't be what most people would
Speaker 1: think would be my top five. You know what, Let's
Speaker 1: brag a little bit. Let's brag. Come on, give us,
Speaker 1: give us, give us a list, give us about ten
Speaker 1: records you have something to do with Bonnie and Sean,
Speaker 1: with Sean, you know, can't you see what total Dey're wrong?
Speaker 1: Would be one of my favorite records. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I got records that people probably wouldn't recognize that they
Speaker 1: need to go back and here it's a song called
Speaker 1: rest of My Life with nas and the final one
Speaker 1: would be Another one that most people don't understand is
Speaker 1: Chuck Baby. I produced the record with Chuck Brown Soul
Speaker 1: searches down here in d C. And um, you know
Speaker 1: it's like a d C classes, you know. But I'm
Speaker 1: super proud of that record. That's like total total record
Speaker 1: was a big record. Yeah, man, I mean shot off
Speaker 1: to Rashard Tumblin Dice he you know, it was like
Speaker 1: a synergy around us, like it was walking the room
Speaker 1: and just started working. So Rashard had something going. I
Speaker 1: came in and added some pieces. You know. Puff put
Speaker 1: the cherry on top of as Big to get on it.
Speaker 1: I think he paid them five thousand longs to know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But Big was a hustler, so he
Speaker 1: snatched it. It, did it and done. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean was family. So it was a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of good love back then. So Mary J.
Speaker 1: Blige is in the spotlight right now. Heavy you know
Speaker 1: she She's always in a spotlight to me. But as
Speaker 1: of right now, my life celebrates the anniversary this year
Speaker 1: the Mary J. Blige My Life documentary is actually out
Speaker 1: on Amazon pime um. How is think that the fans
Speaker 1: are going to react to this documentary and what does
Speaker 1: it mean to you to actually be a part of
Speaker 1: it to some degree, I think the fans are gonna
Speaker 1: love it because it goes back to what I was saying, like,
Speaker 1: she's a real one, you know she She's a super
Speaker 1: real one, and this story shows you behind the curtain.
Speaker 1: You know, we already see this Wizard of Odd story,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And what's out in front
Speaker 1: is one thing. You go behind that curtain, it ain't pretty,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. To keep up that that
Speaker 1: look of what's out front. But she was, she was
Speaker 1: so dope that she just said, you know what, that's
Speaker 1: the best way for me to to to be able
Speaker 1: to connect with the people is to just be as
Speaker 1: real as possible, you know what I'm saying. And with
Speaker 1: the crazy part about it was real painful for her
Speaker 1: after the success of the record, because you think about it,
Speaker 1: You're going through a situation that's probably the lowest point
Speaker 1: in your life, and that was being broadcasts all over
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and you gotta get on stage,
Speaker 1: you gotta single for four and these these songs are painful.
Speaker 1: So you know, I give a lot of credit to
Speaker 1: her to be able to, you know, just expose herself
Speaker 1: like that. You know what I'm talking. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: some ugly truths in it, and this documentary it just
Speaker 1: you know, it packages it up. It packages it up
Speaker 1: for everybody that loves her to really understand, you know,
Speaker 1: all that goes on with her, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: just from just being married, you know. Um And and
Speaker 1: I'm I'm proud of it. I really like how it
Speaker 1: came out, you know. I like the fact that this record,
Speaker 1: I mean, for a time that we were just I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's like being a somebody that builds houses
Speaker 1: and you're just making sure to screws in the right place,
Speaker 1: and you know what I mean, and then you just
Speaker 1: step away, you off to the next house. But then
Speaker 1: for people to come back and just look at the
Speaker 1: house and admire and just see the art in the
Speaker 1: work that we put in, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: It is incredible. Twenty five years of of of a
Speaker 1: situation that took four months. That record was done in
Speaker 1: four months, So it's like, you know, I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: overwhelmed with I don't even know how to put this
Speaker 1: right now. So I'm just happy and I want everybody
Speaker 1: to just check it out, you know, and look at
Speaker 1: it from a couple of different angles. You know that
Speaker 1: there was a lot of it was a lot of love.
Speaker 1: It's like when you look at the Motown story and
Speaker 1: you think about all that love that went into making
Speaker 1: those records. Puff took a page right out of that book,
Speaker 1: and that's what we were doing. It was just it
Speaker 1: was a lot of God around, you know, it had
Speaker 1: to be for that record to turn out that way
Speaker 1: and still be relevant, you know. So I'm happy it
Speaker 1: is absolutely still relevant. I mean, I think it's I
Speaker 1: think that that's kind of what makes a classical classic,
Speaker 1: is that new generations to come can still relate to
Speaker 1: the music and still feel it. I'm just happy they
Speaker 1: let me be the canvas. You know, when when when
Speaker 1: you're an artists, if you don't have a good canvas,
Speaker 1: your paint not gonna stick right, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: something he's gonna be right. So that's just the part
Speaker 1: that I feel like I played with that, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: the master Chef, you know what I mean. But they
Speaker 1: were they were the you know, they weren't agreed. They
Speaker 1: just let me season and you know, let me do
Speaker 1: my thing, and that kind of trust, you know, is
Speaker 1: important because I was brand new, you know. She she
Speaker 1: had a list of producers from the previous project, but
Speaker 1: they all came in kind of you know, we just
Speaker 1: sold three million that I that, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: that she just she's real. She's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm liking what this is doing. So if she asked,
Speaker 1: puff would it be cool if we did the whole project,
Speaker 1: It's I was only contracted to do one song, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, So it just flipped the whole script.
Speaker 1: Likes Joe, she wants to do the whole album. Mean
Speaker 1: what we were doing. They never met the talk about
Speaker 1: with that. So that's how fast it happened. But I
Speaker 1: mean because of that synergy of everybody just being around
Speaker 1: each other. It's like, that's what made it happen as
Speaker 1: fast as as it did and as dope as it did.
Speaker 1: Like every day that raised was supposed to be on
Speaker 1: My Life album. I don't know if you remember that song.
Speaker 1: It was on the show soundtrack. It's a song called
Speaker 1: every Day, and that was actually supposed to be on
Speaker 1: the My Life album, but I think because the time
Speaker 1: of them made of the double album, so then they
Speaker 1: were like, you know, and then also Who Shot You
Speaker 1: was an interlude on My Life album. People don't know that,
Speaker 1: like Pluff went and got big off the street. It's
Speaker 1: a Friday night, you know what I'm saying. So he
Speaker 1: comes in, he shoots that that line, that rhyme. I mean,
Speaker 1: he said something even crazier than that, Like he said,
Speaker 1: he said some crazy stuff, and it was so crazy
Speaker 1: that they were gonna they were gonna have to put
Speaker 1: the uh, the parental sticker on her album if they
Speaker 1: would have kept his version. So that's why they switched
Speaker 1: it up and got Keith Murray because Bigg's verse was
Speaker 1: so gangster. But look at the time frame. Everybody's trying
Speaker 1: to think that he made Who Shot You behind that situation,
Speaker 1: but look at the time frame that was before that
Speaker 1: was before that was ninety four. It was like summer
Speaker 1: ninety four that he wrote that. We will be right
Speaker 1: back with more of The Baller Alert Show. You're listening
Speaker 1: to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show. Mary
Speaker 1: Serai Simmons and Sue so Long. This is special cloth alert.
Speaker 1: Now I wanted I wanted to shift gears a little
Speaker 1: bit um and we're talking very professionally. How is this
Speaker 1: taken off? How is this success that you've had in
Speaker 1: your lifetime taking a toll on you personally? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's to me, it's all one and the same. Like
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not a I'm not a famed cat,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I'm all about the work.
Speaker 1: I always try to let the work speak for ourselves,
Speaker 1: and that keeps me in a real space. You know
Speaker 1: that I'm I'm I'm I'm approachable. You know. I try
Speaker 1: to look at every situation is as real as it is,
Speaker 1: or you know what I'm saying, trying to get the
Speaker 1: reality of each situation. So I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's no separation to me. I try not to do
Speaker 1: that because you you know, you start to create these
Speaker 1: different levels and all that does and sometimes it will
Speaker 1: bring you down. So I stay low to the ground,
Speaker 1: I stay right connected to because the streets dictate everything.
Speaker 1: This is That's how I always feel about it. If
Speaker 1: they don't move in the streets it's not gonna move.
Speaker 1: It's like the foundation. So I stay connected to that
Speaker 1: type of life, like I focus on real people like
Speaker 1: in my music, you know what I mean, not the guy,
Speaker 1: not the guy in the suits, in the in the
Speaker 1: offices and this and that, they're gonna like it if
Speaker 1: the people in the streets like so always and that
Speaker 1: was always be in puffs uh um connection to He
Speaker 1: stayed in the quasions. I loved him for that. But
Speaker 1: I always stayed in the street so he could always
Speaker 1: look across the room and know the perspective I'm coming
Speaker 1: from is to make sure that the everyday person respects
Speaker 1: what we're doing. And thank you for that, because you know,
Speaker 1: we talked about mental health a lot on our show,
Speaker 1: and I like, I like that you said that, you
Speaker 1: know you you stayed real grounded, because I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't realize that when you stay grounded
Speaker 1: and you keep you here low um, that helps your
Speaker 1: mental state of mind as well. So you know what,
Speaker 1: I was lucky enough to be crowned. You know, I
Speaker 1: gotta give give a lot of things to the people
Speaker 1: that that that were around that raised me. I came
Speaker 1: up in a term where you know, you're doing stuff
Speaker 1: in the street, You're gonna get checked. You know. We
Speaker 1: used to bust bottles in the in the alley, just
Speaker 1: busting bottles like food, and somebody came and checked that.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, And that that that type
Speaker 1: of community, that type of you know, that type of
Speaker 1: energy around you is going to push you to you know,
Speaker 1: try to succeed, because it's more to life than just
Speaker 1: you know, doing doing reckless stuff, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And I'm at the point right now I reach out
Speaker 1: to these youngest I try to talk to him because
Speaker 1: they need, you know, they need to see that there's
Speaker 1: no difference. You know a lot of people feel like
Speaker 1: you're old or you're young. Nah, even you fly or
Speaker 1: you're not. It's not even a really old or young
Speaker 1: to it. You know what I'm saying. Uh, Douggie Fresh
Speaker 1: is still one of the dopest people that I know.
Speaker 1: It's not about what record he put out, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. He can staying get drop him in
Speaker 1: the middle of the street with nothing and see what happens.
Speaker 1: He'll rock the whole you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: it's never really about an age thing. It's just about
Speaker 1: what you know, how you know, how, what's your codes?
Speaker 1: How how you working? You know what? What? What are
Speaker 1: the things that matter? And a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: really have those those codes. So it's it's it's almost
Speaker 1: if you meet somebody, you talk to him, you just
Speaker 1: just talk about life. Just get on a life page
Speaker 1: and see what's happened. You know. I'm down for that.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to ask you if Mary J. Blige
Speaker 1: does a versus battle one, who do you think could
Speaker 1: go up against her? And too? What would be the
Speaker 1: first song that she should start with? Oh? Man, who
Speaker 1: do I think will go up against her in a
Speaker 1: versus battle? I know everybody off the top of sake faith,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, just because of that, the
Speaker 1: time frames and things like that. Um, But uh, with her,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm all the way up there with Anita
Speaker 1: Baker and all of that. Like for me, with her,
Speaker 1: it's it's different things, you know, um, because she has
Speaker 1: the soul about her, She has this like hood about her,
Speaker 1: you know, and and all of these things come from
Speaker 1: that place of just being in you know, being in
Speaker 1: the hood and hearing these songs like those were those
Speaker 1: were medicine. What I'm saying that that Anita Baker's songs
Speaker 1: just record that ship was medicine. It's almost the same
Speaker 1: as the medicine with my life out. So I would
Speaker 1: I would, you know, I know that seems crazy to
Speaker 1: say that, but I would probably go with that. I
Speaker 1: would go with with Anita Baker with her Now, it's
Speaker 1: not crazy. I actually think you are giving um an
Speaker 1: opinion based off of some ship that you really know. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not crazy at all. Are the phone calls going
Speaker 1: crazy now? With this documentary coming out and like the
Speaker 1: resurface of one of the men who are responsible for
Speaker 1: its success. I mean, yeah, it's it's it's it's like up,
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit more than normal, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot of this. It's a lot of
Speaker 1: the same people though, you know, it's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that's been you know and know having me in
Speaker 1: their prayers and things like that. So it's just been
Speaker 1: a lot of reassurance that you know, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I was a part of something that I helped create,
Speaker 1: something that's like, you know, a soundtrack for all of us,
Speaker 1: you know, and and and it's here forever. I mean,
Speaker 1: we just survived. You know, I put that in the
Speaker 1: classic box with you know, the Oasy Brothers and and
Speaker 1: you know, certain situations like that. So I'm ecstatic things
Speaker 1: are happening, you know, just from that level. But you know,
Speaker 1: I have, UM, I have some things that that are
Speaker 1: in the works too, you know, that are about to
Speaker 1: get ready to surface. Because one thing that most people
Speaker 1: don't realize is the fact that I am from d C,
Speaker 1: and d C has uh music in that town, you know,
Speaker 1: is go Go music. The crazy part about it is
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't realize how much Go Go
Speaker 1: has played a part and pushing hip hop you know,
Speaker 1: UM and and and just pop culture in general. You know,
Speaker 1: when you look at Beyonce is one of her biggest
Speaker 1: records was done by Rich Harrison, who I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you off the top and his brain was thinking go
Speaker 1: Go when he made that record. And it's that pocket
Speaker 1: in that field. So I have a documentary coming out.
Speaker 1: It's called Chuckie Thompson Presents DC Go Go, and it
Speaker 1: basically breaks down, you know a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: understand the music. They don't understand even what it takes
Speaker 1: to make Go Go. Then it's also a big movement
Speaker 1: behind it, you know, where it's the official music of
Speaker 1: the city. And then also a lot of people in
Speaker 1: the city they either deem it that Go Go has
Speaker 1: been on or that it's a mainstay, like it's just
Speaker 1: for the city. It's probably one of the only places
Speaker 1: that you can go and see a true art form
Speaker 1: still in its truest art form. And I just you know,
Speaker 1: I took it as a mission. It's not the Go
Speaker 1: Go story. It's my story with Go Go. People don't
Speaker 1: even realize that my life. The song I was mimicking
Speaker 1: a Go Go band in d C. I I played
Speaker 1: that Royer's record like a Go Go band with Clay,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So it's it's behind a
Speaker 1: lot of the records that I've made. So you know,
Speaker 1: with that being said, it's like everything is uh is happening,
Speaker 1: and I think it's happening for a reason, you know.
Speaker 1: Definitely for Mary, I really wanted uh. I want to
Speaker 1: give a stupid shout out to her man because it's
Speaker 1: it's it's just incredible that, you know, for a situation
Speaker 1: that she was sad about, you know, and it turned
Speaker 1: into all of this to realize how many other people
Speaker 1: related to that sadness, you know, and the fact that
Speaker 1: I was able to play a part in that, you know,
Speaker 1: is amazing. So I appreciate all the phone calls right now.
Speaker 1: I'm loving it. I love it, and we absolutely appreciate
Speaker 1: you for coming to the Ball of our show podcast
Speaker 1: before we let you go, Before we let you go,
Speaker 1: we have to have you as a part of our
Speaker 1: father mail segments. Go for it all, right, here we go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read it, dear Rory. My wife is terrible
Speaker 1: with money. I have to hide money from her all
Speaker 1: the time. I love her with all my heart, but
Speaker 1: from managing money to managing credit, she's hella irresponsible. How
Speaker 1: do I speak with How do I speak to her
Speaker 1: in a way that won't hurt her feelings? Chuck, you
Speaker 1: have to go first. I mean, in a situation like that,
Speaker 1: you gotta be real. It's money, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I don't think that that's the situation you should play with.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying you should scream and go nuts
Speaker 1: when you're talking about it. But you also have to
Speaker 1: understand where she may be coming from. You know, you
Speaker 1: have to see the root of the problem. Why why
Speaker 1: is she acting this way? What is it about money
Speaker 1: that makes her? Actors? Right? And you deal with that,
Speaker 1: you know, you try to figure out, Okay, you know what,
Speaker 1: maybe you can't have this, but maybe we give you this,
Speaker 1: and then after this, you know, you just have to manage.
Speaker 1: But that that story rains and every household. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm saying everybody has to deal with money, but it's
Speaker 1: just you know, how real are you with it? Because
Speaker 1: the one lesson that I learned is the money always
Speaker 1: gets spent. You know, I don't give if you get
Speaker 1: a check for forty million dollars, the money's gonna get spent.
Speaker 1: The question is is what have you done? You know,
Speaker 1: what's the plan? What's the situation? So I would just
Speaker 1: say they just need to sit down and just, you know,
Speaker 1: be real and then map out a plan. But be
Speaker 1: real with the plan. You know, understand where she's at,
Speaker 1: why she moves like that, you know, and trying to
Speaker 1: try to meet the middle. I love because the reality
Speaker 1: is some of us never had no money. So when
Speaker 1: you get to a place where you have a little bit,
Speaker 1: you don't know what to do with it, you know,
Speaker 1: So I love Chucky's approach. Talk to or see what
Speaker 1: the rule of the problem is, because she might not
Speaker 1: be spending it just because she wants to. She may
Speaker 1: just not know how to do any better. So I
Speaker 1: definitely agree with R. That's it. You know, she might
Speaker 1: be feeling like, you know, money is a band aid
Speaker 1: for something, you know what I'm saying. So you just
Speaker 1: gotta literally really gotta get into that problem. But what
Speaker 1: is it that's doing this, Like, why are you doing this?
Speaker 1: You know a lot of people don't tag me in.
Speaker 1: Somebody tagged me in. Man, you know I'm a little
Speaker 1: I'm a little rente game chop. This is to the dude,
Speaker 1: Oh man, get your goddamn feelings out of or why
Speaker 1: are you worried about how she feels? Bro her little
Speaker 1: as down down and keep it to her raw and
Speaker 1: funky so it stank when you talk to her. Bro
Speaker 1: stop acting like, oh, I don't want to hurt her spinnings.
Speaker 1: If you got damn goddamn, if you shed just spend
Speaker 1: the rent money, this is a problem. She's a problem
Speaker 1: if both. If your credit is good or her credit
Speaker 1: is not good, this is a problem. Okay, by the
Speaker 1: credit need to be on point when you sit down,
Speaker 1: has thrill goals? Have a list. I am married to
Speaker 1: an accountant. She saved my life, Chuck. When I met her,
Speaker 1: I had a five ninety five. Chup. Now I'm sitting
Speaker 1: next to you and I got a seven credits for
Speaker 1: seven five for I say that ship with confidence. All
Speaker 1: I'm saying is, she sat me down, and she wrote
Speaker 1: down and we figured out the root of the problems.
Speaker 1: So Chuck, you all right, we gotta figure out the
Speaker 1: root of the problem. But dude, we are your balls,
Speaker 1: that bro. I gotta speak to her in a way
Speaker 1: that they don't hurt hut all that. When you do
Speaker 1: stuff like that, you hurt your films. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's like, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's a team, you know. I always looked at it
Speaker 1: like that. Some of the some of the dopest hustlers
Speaker 1: that I've ever met. I'm talking about the Eights. Some
Speaker 1: of their rules to the organization was if a guy
Speaker 1: is not a person that uses his brain, I'm not
Speaker 1: enforcing to use his brain. Like, if you're a person
Speaker 1: to use your hand, I'm gonna give you that job.
Speaker 1: So if you're not the person to manage the money
Speaker 1: that that's not your job. Give it to the person
Speaker 1: that manages the money. And then guess what. Now you
Speaker 1: can live your life. You will have everything you want
Speaker 1: and guess what days are gonna be taken care of?
Speaker 1: And we're teams. You know that's a good aass point
Speaker 1: because sometimes people expect you to be a professional is
Speaker 1: something that you don't know it about. So identify the
Speaker 1: weaknesses the strengths, and rely on that person for where
Speaker 1: they're strong and and support them where they're not. And
Speaker 1: but you got there at some point that everybody has
Speaker 1: to be real because you might not want to hear
Speaker 1: that fact that that's all you need to do is that.
Speaker 1: But if you're if you love somebody enough, you know
Speaker 1: that that you are in that union that where you're
Speaker 1: dealing with money somewhere, and then you know it should
Speaker 1: be it should be just you know, second nature that
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Thank you now, this is a super dogbity
Speaker 1: got you hYP got my man hype for two second,
Speaker 1: admitted he was with a chucky Please tell bother nation
Speaker 1: where they can find you, how they can keep up
Speaker 1: with all of your current successes. Future successes as successes
Speaker 1: where does ball the nation find you? Okay, so right
Speaker 1: now you can definitely find me on my Instagram, which
Speaker 1: is at chuck like three sixty five. Let me say
Speaker 1: that again. At Chuck Like three sixty five, I post
Speaker 1: some wow. It's funny, but it's all about life. It's
Speaker 1: always real. Just come hang out with me. Also, my
Speaker 1: Twitter is CHUCKI Thompson and my Facebook is CHUCKI. Thompson.
Speaker 1: So come on all that Chucky Thompson, come come on
Speaker 1: fall in line. Yea, welcome on us whenever you are
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. Pleasure man. We we had a ball today.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us on. I appreciate,
Speaker 1: I appreciate. So so you got any shots before we
Speaker 1: can go, because you know what I'm about to say,
Speaker 1: So you go ahead and go first. Well first, I
Speaker 1: mean shout out to my mom's man. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Charlotte Jay Thompson man. And that's my mother and my
Speaker 1: sister's Christal and callers. Um. You know my son's Quincy
Speaker 1: and Trede, who are also producers. You know the name
Speaker 1: of their group is Negative Minds. They're about to get
Speaker 1: ready like the scene up. Trust me when I tell
Speaker 1: you I didn't even know they were focusing on production
Speaker 1: until I heard the records, Like they are amazing. They
Speaker 1: do it different than I do it, but they do
Speaker 1: it for what's happening right now, and they'll make their
Speaker 1: mix between my hip hop and theirs. I didn't know
Speaker 1: they were listening to the call that time. So shout
Speaker 1: out to my family, man, and uh, you know that's
Speaker 1: pretty much it. Man. Love out to the people of Tidy,
Speaker 1: which is the northern region of Ethiopia, and I want
Speaker 1: to give a big shout out to a really trying
Speaker 1: to bring an end to the table eye genocide. People
Speaker 1: that are speaking about it, repeat, reposting, retweeting, reaching out
Speaker 1: to local government. I appreciate you guys were standing for Tickaday.
Speaker 1: Whether you are Ethiopian, eritre and Molly's American, if you
Speaker 1: stand on the right side of humanity, this shout out
Speaker 1: is to you. Oh and my shoutout is to the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks. Okay, hey, New York Nick fans. We told
Speaker 1: y'all we beat y'all last. Philadelphia set the ships for fans.
Speaker 1: We told y'all we beat y'all ast and hopefully now
Speaker 1: we told everybody that's said we was gonna get swept,
Speaker 1: and it was gonna be bucks in five when we
Speaker 1: beat y'all, and then one trade t L Hawks and
Speaker 1: seven Hawks going to the finals. And then when we
Speaker 1: get to the finals, Hawks and six chuck. You heard
Speaker 1: it first from me. Hey man, I'm with you, Joe.
Speaker 1: Appreciate your chuck. I can't get enough of baller Alerts.
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