1
00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,200
Speaker 1: You own your masters, Yeah, and you were one of

2
00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,120
Speaker 1: the youngest to ever do that at the age of

3
00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:08,760
Speaker 1: twenty nine. Would you ever, I mean a lot of

4
00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,000
Speaker 1: you see a lot of artists selling the catalog. Is

5
00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,160
Speaker 1: that something Chris Brown would look to do in the future.

6
00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,000
Speaker 2: I don't think I would because I feel like, uh,

7
00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,480
Speaker 2: as as a black artist, that's that's what we've been

8
00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:21,680
Speaker 2: wanting forever with to be able to get that get

9
00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:24,160
Speaker 2: our masters right. So so for me to be able

10
00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:26,000
Speaker 2: to do that, like and be one of the first

11
00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:28,880
Speaker 2: young cats to do it, like it's like, oh my

12
00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,560
Speaker 2: I beat the game. But I feel like I feel

13
00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:33,240
Speaker 2: like I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it at this point

14
00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,480
Speaker 2: because that's that's something my my children's children's children.

15
00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:37,800
Speaker 3: Can he do all my life?

16
00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:41,840
Speaker 4: Grinding all my life, sacrifights, hustle, pa the price?

17
00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:43,159
Speaker 5: Want to slice?

18
00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:44,400
Speaker 3: Got the Brons?

19
00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:45,760
Speaker 5: Swap all my life?

20
00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,400
Speaker 4: Be grinding all my life, all my life, grinding all

21
00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,319
Speaker 4: my life and uh, sacrifights, hustle, pay the price one

22
00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,440
Speaker 4: slice the Bros. Swap all my life.

23
00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:00,240
Speaker 2: I be grinding all my life.

24
00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,240
Speaker 1: Hello, welcome to another edition of Club Shay Shay. I

25
00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,480
Speaker 1: am your host, Shannon sharp. I'm also the proprietor of

26
00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:07,760
Speaker 1: Club Sha Sha and for today we have a very

27
00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,320
Speaker 1: special edition of Club Shay Shay, We're.

28
00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:10,759
Speaker 5: On the Road.

29
00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,240
Speaker 1: He's one of the most accomplished R and B performers

30
00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:15,959
Speaker 1: and hit makers of his era. He surpassed Elvis Presley

31
00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,920
Speaker 1: for the most gold certified singles and Billboard Hot one

32
00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:22,320
Speaker 1: hundred entries among all male vocals in history, the first

33
00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,520
Speaker 1: male singer to have twenty platinum singles, the first R

34
00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:28,080
Speaker 1: and B singer in history own one hundred Hot one

35
00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,160
Speaker 1: hundred hits. One of the highest grossing African American touring

36
00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:34,280
Speaker 1: artists of all times, one of the best selling digital

37
00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:42,839
Speaker 1: artists of all time, a Grammy Award winner, global superstar, songwriter, dancer, actor, producer, entrepreneur, author, father.

38
00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,280
Speaker 1: Some call him the King of R and B. When

39
00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,160
Speaker 1: they say R and B is dad, I see check

40
00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:52,040
Speaker 1: this man's resume, Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Brown, freezing Man

41
00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:53,480
Speaker 1: who was a long.

42
00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:59,680
Speaker 3: Time clubbing man man King R and B. Keepit you

43
00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:01,520
Speaker 3: let me got it? Got it?

44
00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:02,280
Speaker 5: How you doing?

45
00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:03,200
Speaker 3: I'm great man.

46
00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,840
Speaker 1: You know before I start every show, I always I

47
00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,400
Speaker 1: have my own contact. I brought you a gift for you,

48
00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,400
Speaker 1: about you, but I want you.

49
00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:10,800
Speaker 5: To try it.

50
00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,079
Speaker 3: Come on, let's get it, let's do it. I was

51
00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:15,920
Speaker 3: about to do that. Okay, come on, you can op

52
00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:16,480
Speaker 3: it if you want.

53
00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:21,320
Speaker 2: You I'm gonna say that for later, Okay, I don't

54
00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:22,280
Speaker 2: want to be too saucy.

55
00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:24,880
Speaker 5: Hold hold on, we gotta get a toe, fir, we

56
00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:32,320
Speaker 5: gotta get told. F Bro continued success.

57
00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,720
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, grasp on everything You've done so

58
00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:42,520
Speaker 1: much more to accomplish. I appreciate you, Chris. It's smooth

59
00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:45,200
Speaker 1: move you like and you that's what you can.

60
00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:46,800
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't like when to be like.

61
00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,919
Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't got that burning nice and smooth y'all.

62
00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,880
Speaker 5: You hurt the man, Bro, how you do it?

63
00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:56,440
Speaker 3: I'm great, man, I'm great, great.

64
00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:58,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I really appreciate you taking time.

65
00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,000
Speaker 1: Jack Queeze started to say, Man, Chris Brown manager, trying

66
00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:04,000
Speaker 1: to get to get in touch with you.

67
00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:05,320
Speaker 5: You might not gonna give me a number. It's like

68
00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:06,519
Speaker 5: you're no problem.

69
00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,440
Speaker 1: And I'm like, cause you and I we had we

70
00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,639
Speaker 1: had talked a little bit before, and you're like, I'm

71
00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:11,320
Speaker 1: going overseas.

72
00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,520
Speaker 5: When I get back, let's do it. I say this, man,

73
00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:14,919
Speaker 5: beiz I see he ain't gonna find time.

74
00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,560
Speaker 1: And I got you to man, and it happened so

75
00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:20,240
Speaker 1: quick because this is like a week this was done.

76
00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:21,639
Speaker 1: I thought you was like, are we gonna do it

77
00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:23,440
Speaker 1: in July August? He said, nah, We're gonna do it

78
00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:23,839
Speaker 1: in a week.

79
00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:24,640
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.

80
00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,440
Speaker 2: I had to come through because I don't like to

81
00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:28,639
Speaker 2: skip out on my promises.

82
00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:30,080
Speaker 3: Man, I know we talked. I was like, I got you,

83
00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:31,120
Speaker 3: So you did?

84
00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:32,320
Speaker 5: You say you had, but you got me.

85
00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:35,800
Speaker 1: So let's let's talk about what you got going on

86
00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:38,559
Speaker 1: before we get to that basketball.

87
00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:40,160
Speaker 5: I know you love basketball.

88
00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000
Speaker 1: Ron Artees said he believed had you not chosen the

89
00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,120
Speaker 1: music path, you could have been an NBA player.

90
00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:52,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, with a lot more discipline. I think I definitely

91
00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,120
Speaker 2: think I could have pursued it.

92
00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:55,840
Speaker 3: I really I really loved it. I still love the

93
00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:57,000
Speaker 3: game I play all the time.

94
00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,760
Speaker 2: Uh As far as like training and having a good

95
00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,120
Speaker 2: conditioned I think I could have did it. And I

96
00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,480
Speaker 2: don't think this profession kind of made me allow you to.

97
00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:10,000
Speaker 5: Do kind of schedule as opposed to some what else is.

98
00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,880
Speaker 2: Getting Yeah, so I gotta kind of even get acclimated

99
00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,600
Speaker 2: and being a team player, right, you know what I'm saying?

100
00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:19,360
Speaker 1: So because when when I hear everybody uh snoop dogg,

101
00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,920
Speaker 1: I hear a lot of the NBA player there's like, okay,

102
00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,280
Speaker 1: what rapper could like really hoop? I'm talking about like

103
00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,120
Speaker 1: really really hoop. The first two names come up you

104
00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,520
Speaker 1: J Cole? Yeah, so one on one who win it?

105
00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:32,520
Speaker 3: Well right now, I mean J Cole.

106
00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:34,279
Speaker 2: I got to give him his credit because he's improved

107
00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:35,120
Speaker 2: his basketball game.

108
00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:35,920
Speaker 3: Like him.

109
00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:37,520
Speaker 2: I know you work with a couple of other guys

110
00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:39,760
Speaker 2: that I work with to as far as like basketball training,

111
00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,560
Speaker 2: but he's he's amazing. I'm still not gonna adubt me now,

112
00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,080
Speaker 2: you know. So give me like a week of practice

113
00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:48,440
Speaker 2: and then I think I got.

114
00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,640
Speaker 5: Anough a couple of guys out Drake, he'd be hooping little.

115
00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,120
Speaker 3: Dirt down with him this.

116
00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,120
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna get j Cole though. We if

117
00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,720
Speaker 2: we can make that happen, I love I would love that.

118
00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:05,280
Speaker 2: I'm saying that humbly though, because Jay Cole is.

119
00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:07,279
Speaker 5: Because I watched kind of watch both of you guys

120
00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:09,560
Speaker 5: in the celebrity games at the NBA All Star Game.

121
00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,159
Speaker 5: See you play a couple of times with some real players.

122
00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:13,920
Speaker 5: You you for real guy game.

123
00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:15,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, if I'm if I'm serious about it, I play

124
00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:17,400
Speaker 3: most of the time. I try to just have fun.

125
00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,120
Speaker 3: But nah, I'm not. I'm not taking the air. I

126
00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:20,920
Speaker 3: gotta i gotta do that.

127
00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:22,839
Speaker 1: How much do we need to put up to make

128
00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:26,039
Speaker 1: sure you take it serious? If we put up one

129
00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:27,400
Speaker 1: hundred thive will to take off?

130
00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,360
Speaker 3: Oh no, I'm in there, that's mine. I'm taking that.

131
00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:35,040
Speaker 1: That's so so Cole got no chance.

132
00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:39,320
Speaker 3: I mean nah nah.

133
00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,080
Speaker 5: So if you were to say, if you're an NBA,

134
00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,359
Speaker 5: if your game, Chris Brown, your game reminds you me

135
00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,360
Speaker 5: of what NBA player you.

136
00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:51,440
Speaker 2: Know, It's funny, bro a long time ago. They but

137
00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,000
Speaker 2: I used to play a lot of my home theys

138
00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:54,919
Speaker 2: like you look like CJ.

139
00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,880
Speaker 3: Mccullor okay, And I was like why.

140
00:05:58,120 --> 00:05:59,520
Speaker 2: And then I looked at some of his like high

141
00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:01,560
Speaker 2: school pick and then some of his games like he

142
00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,279
Speaker 2: was he's long Lenky played like me. So I was like,

143
00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,640
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll take that any NBA player I would

144
00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,640
Speaker 2: take you to. You know, you know that's a hard profession.

145
00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:10,600
Speaker 3: To get into.

146
00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:12,320
Speaker 5: Did you hoop in high school?

147
00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,240
Speaker 2: Yes, definitely hooped in high school. I actually played varsity

148
00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,000
Speaker 2: on the JV squad. But you know as the as

149
00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,080
Speaker 2: a bring on, right, But I was I was always

150
00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:23,919
Speaker 2: playing with older guys as a young age. When I

151
00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,120
Speaker 2: was like ten or eleven years old, my dad used

152
00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,000
Speaker 2: to take me to the gym and drop me off.

153
00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,000
Speaker 3: It's like, look, I don't care get in the game.

154
00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,200
Speaker 3: I don't care how old it is. Get in the game. Wow,

155
00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,279
Speaker 3: And I'm playing with grown men, twenty seven thirty year olds,

156
00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:36,160
Speaker 3: you know.

157
00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:37,640
Speaker 5: So what's your favorite NBA team?

158
00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,320
Speaker 3: Favorite NBA team? Man, I'm in LA right now. I

159
00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:41,840
Speaker 3: wish I wish my Lakers could.

160
00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know that I really want Lebron and them

161
00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,839
Speaker 2: and to really do something man and make some history happen.

162
00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,719
Speaker 3: But I'm such a fan.

163
00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,040
Speaker 2: Of the game and certain areas are certain different teams,

164
00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,000
Speaker 2: and I'm that it's hard for me to be like, hey,

165
00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,040
Speaker 2: I'm this team all the way, you know, because because

166
00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,880
Speaker 2: it's like dang, I like friends with this guy on

167
00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:02,960
Speaker 2: this team and him have a personal relationship, so I'm

168
00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:04,920
Speaker 2: rooting for him and then on this side.

169
00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,360
Speaker 3: So whoever wins, the best player wins.

170
00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,480
Speaker 5: But who's your favorite player?

171
00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:13,000
Speaker 3: Favorite player? Kyrie, Kyrie Carie.

172
00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:14,840
Speaker 2: He's one of my one of my closest friends, too,

173
00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,600
Speaker 2: But as far as like seeing him play, being around him,

174
00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:21,640
Speaker 2: play playing with him, like he's probably one of the

175
00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,000
Speaker 2: most phenomenal guys when it comes to the English.

176
00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,680
Speaker 5: On that back, bro, So, what do you like so

177
00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:26,760
Speaker 5: much about Kyrie's game?

178
00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:31,720
Speaker 2: Uh, it's tenacity. He's aggressive, but it's it's graceful.

179
00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:32,200
Speaker 3: Right, you know.

180
00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:34,400
Speaker 2: And and he's he's going and he and I think

181
00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,680
Speaker 2: he makes other players better. I think he I think

182
00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:40,640
Speaker 2: he's getting into that to that uh that uh consciousness

183
00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,280
Speaker 2: of saying, hey, look, we got to do this together.

184
00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:44,960
Speaker 2: So I think he brings out a lot of a

185
00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:47,480
Speaker 2: lot of a lot of spunk and a lot of real,

186
00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,440
Speaker 2: real talent, a lot of a lot of players that

187
00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,160
Speaker 2: that probably already knew they had it, but he encourages that.

188
00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,080
Speaker 1: I know you followed the game closely, so you see

189
00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,760
Speaker 1: some of the trades that transpired, and you see Bradley

190
00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,600
Speaker 1: Beal goes from the Wizard to go to the Enix Sons.

191
00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,240
Speaker 1: So now he pairs with Kevin Durant and Devin Booker.

192
00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:05,880
Speaker 1: You see Chris Paul gets traded, he gets moved again.

193
00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,520
Speaker 1: Now he goes to the Golden State Warriors to go

194
00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,280
Speaker 1: with Steph Draymondic potentially Draymond Draymond is unrestricted free agent.

195
00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,760
Speaker 5: You see Jordan Poole goes to the Wizard, So.

196
00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,600
Speaker 1: You think this is Kevin Durant's opportunity now to get

197
00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:20,080
Speaker 1: a ring away from Golden State.

198
00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:22,680
Speaker 3: I thought it was this time. I thought it was

199
00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:25,800
Speaker 3: this time, But uh, I think it's I think it's

200
00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:27,360
Speaker 3: up in the area. I think Chris going.

201
00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:28,400
Speaker 5: To Golden State.

202
00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,920
Speaker 3: Man, it's that that's a that's a good place for him.

203
00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,760
Speaker 2: I just want him to get a ring, right, I like,

204
00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,040
Speaker 2: Chris been doing this thing for a while, but I

205
00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:38,120
Speaker 2: really want him to get a ring.

206
00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:41,920
Speaker 3: But I think KD is like, you know, they gonna

207
00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:43,880
Speaker 3: be coming. They're gonna be coming.

208
00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:45,480
Speaker 5: Would you like to see in Chris Paul on the

209
00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:46,520
Speaker 5: on the Lakers.

210
00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:49,160
Speaker 3: He would have been a good asset. But I but

211
00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:50,560
Speaker 3: I feel like he would have. He would have.

212
00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:53,960
Speaker 2: You know, there's there's two types of players. There's the

213
00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,720
Speaker 2: coaches players and then there's the there's a okay, there's.

214
00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:58,360
Speaker 3: The militant or the follower.

215
00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:00,280
Speaker 2: So I feel like he would he would up in

216
00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,040
Speaker 2: the system and get it together, like you know, bringing

217
00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:06,400
Speaker 2: them all in, making sure from even even from Anthony

218
00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:08,760
Speaker 2: Davis to, Hey, look, we gotta do this, y'all.

219
00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:10,080
Speaker 3: Make sure y'all stop this.

220
00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,000
Speaker 2: He's gonna he has that tenacity, right, So I feel

221
00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,360
Speaker 2: like him and him and Lebron a with a I

222
00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:16,240
Speaker 2: think they would have paired up.

223
00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:17,640
Speaker 3: I don't think that they would have clashed.

224
00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,760
Speaker 2: What about a Kyrie Lebron reunion? I would love it.

225
00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,120
Speaker 2: I would love it. I think here in La.

226
00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:29,880
Speaker 1: Or you want Bron to go to Dallas, Nah, it's got.

227
00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:30,480
Speaker 5: To happen to La.

228
00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, it gotta be in La. I would love to

229
00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,160
Speaker 3: see them paired up.

230
00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,880
Speaker 2: I think their chemistry is like Undereniavel And I think

231
00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:39,600
Speaker 2: with seeing those two guys in motion is just gon

232
00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,439
Speaker 2: spark another whole nother uprise in those guys.

233
00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:44,160
Speaker 3: So I feel like.

234
00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:45,920
Speaker 2: That's what I want to see. I mean, I don't

235
00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:47,719
Speaker 2: know what Kyle I want to do, man, but I

236
00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:48,559
Speaker 2: would love to see that.

237
00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,000
Speaker 1: I wouldn't get you get your take on this. You've

238
00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,959
Speaker 1: been in the spotlight, man, basically your whole life. I mean,

239
00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,840
Speaker 1: since you're probably twelve thirteen. Yeah, and you get Zion

240
00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:01,360
Speaker 1: Williamson who's been in the spotlights, he's probably fifteen sixteen,

241
00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:03,880
Speaker 1: And you see the issue he having with girl. What

242
00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:05,760
Speaker 1: advice would you give him? How would you tell him

243
00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:07,320
Speaker 1: to navigate this situation?

244
00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,079
Speaker 5: He's in it now? Yeah, there, you can't turn them back.

245
00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:12,960
Speaker 1: He have a girl, he has one young lady pregnant,

246
00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,080
Speaker 1: is gonna have He's welcome with your child. And then

247
00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:16,920
Speaker 1: you have this other one over here just putting all

248
00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:17,679
Speaker 1: this business.

249
00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:20,520
Speaker 3: I mean, it's hard out here.

250
00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:26,760
Speaker 2: When I would just pray for Zion man, I feel like, hey, man, is.

251
00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:27,839
Speaker 5: That what you need? A prayer?

252
00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:31,080
Speaker 2: Just praying? You know, be be the best man you

253
00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,560
Speaker 2: could be at that point. You know, I'm blessed to

254
00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:36,880
Speaker 2: have three children, three different baby moms. But at the

255
00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,800
Speaker 2: same time, the relationship that I've built with them and

256
00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:42,480
Speaker 2: the and the uh, the energy that I that I

257
00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,880
Speaker 2: kind of come with is it's a little bit more

258
00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:46,559
Speaker 2: I don't know, my R and B guys, I'm.

259
00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:48,400
Speaker 3: A little bit more subtle with it.

260
00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:49,000
Speaker 1: Uh.

261
00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:49,800
Speaker 5: Is it hard?

262
00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,760
Speaker 2: It's very hard. You gotta but you gotta also watch out.

263
00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,120
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, we all want to be in

264
00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,960
Speaker 2: the same spots, in the same places, the clubs we

265
00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,800
Speaker 2: want to be to this day, I still want to

266
00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:00,760
Speaker 2: see some beautiful women.

267
00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:01,560
Speaker 3: But at the same time.

268
00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,480
Speaker 2: You just got to be mind full of the certain

269
00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,559
Speaker 2: company you will keep or the trappers that will will decept.

270
00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:09,360
Speaker 3: Themselves as athletes.

271
00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:12,000
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that the guys on the team probably

272
00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:13,640
Speaker 2: give him real pep talk.

273
00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,640
Speaker 3: Look you can't do this, look, you know, but uh,

274
00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,720
Speaker 3: on the road, on our on our end.

275
00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,640
Speaker 2: It's a it's a little bit different, but I understand

276
00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:22,520
Speaker 2: what he's going through.

277
00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,079
Speaker 3: So he just gotta he just gotta hold his head together.

278
00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:27,160
Speaker 3: Man hold your head.

279
00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:31,280
Speaker 1: So hopefully he's learned from some of the mistakes that

280
00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:33,880
Speaker 1: he had made, because I'm sure there this this social

281
00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:35,040
Speaker 1: media is a different animal.

282
00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:36,280
Speaker 3: Man animal animal.

283
00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,120
Speaker 2: I'll try to I'm engaged with the social media stuff,

284
00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,280
Speaker 2: but I'll try to stay away. Like my fans always

285
00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:45,040
Speaker 2: asking why you never like posting selfies or you never

286
00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:47,840
Speaker 2: I'm like, sometimes I'll just be wanting to chill because

287
00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:49,800
Speaker 2: because it's a long want to get away from that. Yeah,

288
00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:52,000
Speaker 2: sometimes you need it, Sometimes you need that piece of mind.

289
00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:54,320
Speaker 2: So I feel like in this era, it's so easy

290
00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:57,800
Speaker 2: to contact someone you know, so so if you so

291
00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:01,000
Speaker 2: even if they made it, except well, you get scroll

292
00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:03,640
Speaker 2: down your explore page and you're like, oh, man, hold

293
00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:04,520
Speaker 2: on and just say.

294
00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,400
Speaker 1: Hey, and they hit you back, and it's like you

295
00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,480
Speaker 1: can say that. Most people can't say that. They gonna

296
00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:14,800
Speaker 1: say bye. You could say how this is like is

297
00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:15,640
Speaker 1: this really you?

298
00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:19,080
Speaker 3: You say yes, yeah, you gotta use that Vanish mud.

299
00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:22,160
Speaker 5: That they disagree have to come it.

300
00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:24,439
Speaker 3: Definitely definitely let me.

301
00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:25,680
Speaker 5: Ask you this honestly.

302
00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,480
Speaker 1: Uh, the job Morant He was suspended for twenty the

303
00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:33,200
Speaker 1: first twenty five games of the season. Yeah, what if

304
00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,000
Speaker 1: if you could see if job, if John sitting right

305
00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,240
Speaker 1: where I'm sitting, Yeah, and you could talk to it,

306
00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:39,320
Speaker 1: what would you say?

307
00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:41,640
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what I what I would

308
00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:44,199
Speaker 2: saying because because I also look at my life and

309
00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,400
Speaker 2: I kind of look at it as a mirror with

310
00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,600
Speaker 2: certain things, especially when it comes to like.

311
00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,640
Speaker 3: Being shunned in a certain negative spotlight.

312
00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,200
Speaker 2: I feel like he's he's gonna I mean, everybody learns man,

313
00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,680
Speaker 2: he's he's young, but I feel like he's you know,

314
00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:02,800
Speaker 2: people make mistakes, you know, sometimes we make it continuous, right,

315
00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:05,880
Speaker 2: But you know, I feel like I can't. I can't

316
00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,040
Speaker 2: tell him how to how to write his story or

317
00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:13,000
Speaker 2: or find his path. I would just say, just just

318
00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,480
Speaker 2: do what you came in to do, right, I was.

319
00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:16,880
Speaker 3: That's all I can say.

320
00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:19,880
Speaker 1: You try to surround yourself with as many good people

321
00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,280
Speaker 1: as you possibly can. Yeah, and if you feel somebody

322
00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:28,080
Speaker 1: is not adding, you have to remove them. Have there

323
00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:30,840
Speaker 1: been a situation where you felt someone was not adding

324
00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,760
Speaker 1: to Chris Brown, but they were taking that you had

325
00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:36,120
Speaker 1: to like, I'm sorry, but I've got to stop the

326
00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:37,679
Speaker 1: ride here, you have to get off.

327
00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:39,200
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, absolutely.

328
00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:40,200
Speaker 5: Through the years, it's hard.

329
00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:41,200
Speaker 3: It's very hard.

330
00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,320
Speaker 2: Because you build relationships with people and you have and

331
00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:47,559
Speaker 2: you have like brotherhoods with people. People people state that

332
00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:49,560
Speaker 2: like when you're on the road, you got people with

333
00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:51,880
Speaker 2: you every day or and you know some some people,

334
00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,480
Speaker 2: I'm I'm a family first type of guy. Yes, but

335
00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:57,600
Speaker 2: family doesn't necessarily mean have to be biologically right.

336
00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:59,959
Speaker 5: It's not necessarily blood. You sometimes blood.

337
00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:01,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.

338
00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,600
Speaker 2: So I feel like I have a I have a

339
00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:06,440
Speaker 2: nice entourage. Are a nice group of people now that

340
00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,880
Speaker 2: that are for me, that understand the bigger goal, you know.

341
00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,560
Speaker 2: So I think now it was very it was very

342
00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:14,680
Speaker 2: hard for me because because I would hang out with

343
00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:17,200
Speaker 2: you know, we be with gang bangers, we'd be with

344
00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,720
Speaker 2: the wrong type of people you will be with, you know,

345
00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,160
Speaker 2: just just people that don't go with the life path

346
00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:23,280
Speaker 2: that you might want to choose.

347
00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:26,600
Speaker 3: Correct, So I feel like, but but you kind of

348
00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:29,040
Speaker 3: you kind of start absorbing their energy.

349
00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:31,760
Speaker 2: So if it doesn't benefit you, I feel like you

350
00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:35,160
Speaker 2: really have to kind of like separate yourself. And I

351
00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,280
Speaker 2: was my children were able to kind of like get

352
00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:38,240
Speaker 2: me out of that.

353
00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:40,320
Speaker 5: So it was the kid for you.

354
00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,360
Speaker 2: For me, per se Yes, definitely my kids because it

355
00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:45,920
Speaker 2: made me have a real responsibility, Like I could be

356
00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:47,000
Speaker 2: reckless without what.

357
00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:49,280
Speaker 3: There was no one to care for, but you know.

358
00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:50,880
Speaker 5: My children responsibility.

359
00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of made me start thinking.

360
00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,240
Speaker 5: And that sees what Chris is doing, what sees what

361
00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:56,960
Speaker 5: Daddy is doing.

362
00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:01,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you feel that had you not had kids,

363
00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:03,280
Speaker 1: you might've been on a different path.

364
00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:09,160
Speaker 2: Possibly possibly I might have been a lot more careless,

365
00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:10,560
Speaker 2: careless because I was.

366
00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:12,920
Speaker 3: I was reckless. I was definitely I've been reckless when

367
00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:13,960
Speaker 3: I was young a lot.

368
00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,040
Speaker 2: But I feel you know that, right, Yeah, but I'm

369
00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:20,600
Speaker 2: I'm talking about nineteen twenty twenty one.

370
00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:24,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was. I was feeling myself, you know.

371
00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,600
Speaker 2: So I think I think now I'm able to be

372
00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,760
Speaker 2: appreciative of Like, let's say, if people like that song

373
00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:31,800
Speaker 2: I have or people listening to me.

374
00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:33,080
Speaker 3: You know what, I readly like that song.

375
00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,120
Speaker 2: I really feel it like real thank you and it's

376
00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:38,480
Speaker 2: a real thank you', not like all right right, you know.

377
00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:40,840
Speaker 2: So I think my kids made me kind of like

378
00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,960
Speaker 2: see other aspects that were fun in life. But we'll

379
00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,920
Speaker 2: still I'm still able to have my my career of

380
00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:49,520
Speaker 2: the lifestyle that I live, but maintain it in a

381
00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:50,720
Speaker 2: a in a better balance.

382
00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,360
Speaker 5: Do your kids make you appreciate more a life?

383
00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, they made me appreciate the stuff that I used

384
00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:59,160
Speaker 2: to do when I was a kid because they do

385
00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:00,840
Speaker 2: everything that I sued to do when I was a kid.

386
00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:02,640
Speaker 2: So and then being able to talk to them, like

387
00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:05,200
Speaker 2: my dad would tell me certain things, but there would

388
00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,200
Speaker 2: be kind of there would be limitations on it.

389
00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:08,960
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm just like, hey, let me tell

390
00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:09,440
Speaker 3: you this.

391
00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,000
Speaker 2: Because because you're gonna because I know you're gonna do this,

392
00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,000
Speaker 2: so let me explain to you exactly.

393
00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:15,520
Speaker 3: So it's a little different.

394
00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,120
Speaker 2: Like my kids are definitely my friends until I have

395
00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:20,920
Speaker 2: to be their father old old older, like older, and

396
00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:22,640
Speaker 2: I'm like, look, okay, look, you can't be doing it

397
00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:23,480
Speaker 2: right now.

398
00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,280
Speaker 3: Right now, I'm in the fun stages.

399
00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:29,640
Speaker 1: Right So how difficult is it for your kids considering

400
00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,440
Speaker 1: your parents didn't have what you have, So how difficult

401
00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:35,840
Speaker 1: is it going to be for you to read your

402
00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:38,400
Speaker 1: kids compared to how your parents rid you.

403
00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:41,840
Speaker 2: The funniest thing for that is that I love the

404
00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:42,920
Speaker 2: people that I have around.

405
00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,800
Speaker 3: But I always tell tell my mom, I tell their moms.

406
00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:50,960
Speaker 2: I'm like, look, I didn't have none of this, but

407
00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,880
Speaker 2: I still had so much fun as a child. My

408
00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,240
Speaker 2: mom and my father they allow me to be like kids.

409
00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:01,040
Speaker 3: You didn't I spoil them there?

410
00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,280
Speaker 2: Okay, But I always joke with my oldest daughter and

411
00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,720
Speaker 2: I'm like, look, I'm finna take you to the hood.

412
00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:10,959
Speaker 2: You're finna go and learn all that and stay over

413
00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,760
Speaker 2: there with your cousins for a couple of weekends.

414
00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:15,760
Speaker 3: Right, just so you, just so you nothing is handed

415
00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:16,000
Speaker 3: to you.

416
00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,000
Speaker 2: I want you to understand, like I want you to

417
00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:20,680
Speaker 2: be just as sweet how my mother is and how

418
00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:21,840
Speaker 2: my mother instilled in me.

419
00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:23,560
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. But at the same time,

420
00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,360
Speaker 3: find yourself, love life, and don't you don't have to.

421
00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:28,600
Speaker 2: Following daddy is for seventh, Like that, if they want

422
00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,080
Speaker 2: to sing, great, if they want to perform entertained business,

423
00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,840
Speaker 2: perfect but I'm just as happy if they want to

424
00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:35,920
Speaker 2: do anything.

425
00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:39,960
Speaker 1: Else with when you were growing up. Let's just say,

426
00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,120
Speaker 1: for the sake of ar you're seven eight seventy ten

427
00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,119
Speaker 1: years old. What did Chris Brown want to be?

428
00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:49,920
Speaker 3: Seven eight? Man? I'm not gonna lie. At that time,

429
00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:52,320
Speaker 3: I love so much.

430
00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:54,760
Speaker 2: I love music so much, but it was kind of

431
00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:56,880
Speaker 2: like my own personal like.

432
00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,240
Speaker 3: Okay, nobody really knows I love this music like this,

433
00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:03,640
Speaker 3: I really wanted to, like play sports. I wanted to I.

434
00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:05,840
Speaker 5: Wanted to do in the NBA. Did you play football?

435
00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:08,960
Speaker 3: Yes, definitely played football. Uh, ninth grade.

436
00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,000
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be real, like my ninth grade year, I

437
00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,639
Speaker 2: had broke my wrists in both and both bones. That

438
00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:18,480
Speaker 2: snapped it boom catching that catching the wide receivers.

439
00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:19,680
Speaker 3: But I caught a pass. Boom.

440
00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,800
Speaker 2: I'm right at the like the teen yard line. My

441
00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,919
Speaker 2: my cousin that plays on the other team kissed me.

442
00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:28,000
Speaker 3: Breaks my mom. He broke your wrists, broke my wrist.

443
00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:30,600
Speaker 3: It was done like this, man. I was like, what

444
00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:31,320
Speaker 3: you doing was.

445
00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:34,280
Speaker 2: He was apologizing and everything, and we went undefeated.

446
00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:36,440
Speaker 3: That y'all was so mad. But but what.

447
00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,440
Speaker 2: Happened was it kind of almost prohibited me from playing basketball.

448
00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,200
Speaker 3: So I was like, you know what, I might I

449
00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:43,440
Speaker 3: might need to if I really want to do the basketball.

450
00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:46,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna give it a football up, you know,

451
00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,520
Speaker 2: but I love football though, still love football.

452
00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:51,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, you have a team, you have a player, favorite player.

453
00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:52,080
Speaker 3: You know.

454
00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:55,359
Speaker 2: I'm from Virginia, so it's it's a whole bunch of

455
00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:00,119
Speaker 2: either the Redskins or you, or you the Cowboys, you know,

456
00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:01,880
Speaker 2: because we don't really you know, Virginia, we don't really

457
00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:05,280
Speaker 2: have a But in my household, it was the Redskins.

458
00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:08,439
Speaker 2: It was the Cowboys. And they used to argue, Yeah, so.

459
00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:10,040
Speaker 5: You like the cowboy? How how do you like that?

460
00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:10,359
Speaker 3: Allong?

461
00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,560
Speaker 1: If you from if you from that area, if you're

462
00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:18,760
Speaker 1: from the DC, the Maryland to Virginia, you hate the cowboys.

463
00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:21,480
Speaker 2: In our household, they love they love the cowboys.

464
00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,480
Speaker 5: They love the cowboys, y'all, y'all to be undercovered cowboy.

465
00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:24,760
Speaker 3: Yeah.

466
00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:27,880
Speaker 2: You put big coachs on big coats. No, don't worry

467
00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:29,160
Speaker 2: to Jersey to the game.

468
00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:31,440
Speaker 1: So seven A, You're like, okay, I think it really,

469
00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:34,360
Speaker 1: So when did you start to take music serious and say,

470
00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:36,600
Speaker 1: you know what, this basketball thing you gotta take a

471
00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:37,360
Speaker 1: back seat.

472
00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,600
Speaker 2: I was actually doing music secretively, like I was doing

473
00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:43,760
Speaker 2: like the like nobody in my school knew that I

474
00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,280
Speaker 2: that I kind of like did music. Then I could

475
00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:47,720
Speaker 2: sing in things like that, but I would be in

476
00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:52,000
Speaker 2: basketball practice. I'm saying the seventh eighth grade, ninth grade

477
00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,560
Speaker 2: basketball practice six thirty, didn't drive our way go to

478
00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:57,480
Speaker 2: the studio and be there till maybe that.

479
00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:00,000
Speaker 3: Say, three in the morning. They got to get back

480
00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:00,879
Speaker 3: and go back to school.

481
00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:02,600
Speaker 2: And you know, so I was doing that a while,

482
00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:06,040
Speaker 2: but I met I have met these producers, a couple

483
00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,159
Speaker 2: of guys that are from the area, and I was like, no,

484
00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,680
Speaker 2: I'm serious about it. So you know, I was a

485
00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,679
Speaker 2: little nervous because I never really recorded and stuff like that.

486
00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:16,040
Speaker 2: So my first time actually doing it, I was I

487
00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,200
Speaker 2: was kind of like just behind the ears, like, hey man,

488
00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:19,919
Speaker 2: what are we going to do?

489
00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:21,919
Speaker 3: Like how do I do this? Like and I do

490
00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:22,960
Speaker 3: I even sound good?

491
00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,639
Speaker 2: But I knew I had it enemy to do it,

492
00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,840
Speaker 2: so I just was like, this is this is kind

493
00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,240
Speaker 2: of calling me faster than I think the other thing

494
00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:31,080
Speaker 2: is right.

495
00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:32,240
Speaker 5: So, but how was it?

496
00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:38,520
Speaker 1: Like given so much you a child superstar and the

497
00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:40,520
Speaker 1: expectations that come along with that.

498
00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,760
Speaker 3: Man, I was. I was kind of still in bliss.

499
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,600
Speaker 2: Like when I was like fifteen fourteen, my first song

500
00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:49,600
Speaker 2: came out, I was, I was kind of like shocked,

501
00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,400
Speaker 2: so everything was new. So I kind of I kind

502
00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,080
Speaker 2: of had tough skin because I was, you know, I

503
00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:57,159
Speaker 2: wanted to I was ready for it.

504
00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:59,399
Speaker 3: So whether they had to be doing.

505
00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:03,000
Speaker 2: Hours and hours of van rids from from the east

506
00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,320
Speaker 2: of the West Coast or you know, going through the

507
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,960
Speaker 2: Bible Belt, doing every interview every radio station, I did.

508
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:10,320
Speaker 3: It was something I wanted to do.

509
00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:12,439
Speaker 2: I felt like I felt like it was my calling, Like,

510
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:14,359
Speaker 2: and I'm from a small town, so I was like,

511
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:15,520
Speaker 2: how did I even get here?

512
00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,639
Speaker 3: Every step of the way. So I was appreciative, you know,

513
00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:19,640
Speaker 3: I was. I was ready for.

514
00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,199
Speaker 2: I think I did one actual talent show. It was

515
00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,800
Speaker 2: a it was at summer camp. Oh okay, it was

516
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:27,880
Speaker 2: at like a summer camp.

517
00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,119
Speaker 3: I did you better have one one?

518
00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,080
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm gonna say because somebody got.

519
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 2: Bragging, right, Yeah, I know. I definitely won and I did.

520
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 3: It's funny. I did throng song Cisco Bro. I had

521
00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,879
Speaker 3: to like my little homegirl dancers, like I had to

522
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 3: be like Bro. I had to have been seven like

523
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 3: seven or eight.

524
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,800
Speaker 1: Oh, I hope that was at the end of the

525
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:54,480
Speaker 1: week camp and not the beginning of the weeknd.

526
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:55,640
Speaker 5: They'll probably go to see you home.

527
00:21:55,760 --> 00:22:00,600
Speaker 2: Oh the camp leaders they laughed, but everybody kind of

528
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,040
Speaker 2: went crazy in there, and I was like, I think

529
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,240
Speaker 2: I might can do this right, you know, but that

530
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,439
Speaker 2: was my first actual talent show. I didn't really like.

531
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 3: I used to go to the mall and see I

532
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,200
Speaker 3: used to go to the mall, like my homeboys.

533
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:12,840
Speaker 2: Would go come with me like the weekend, will go

534
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:14,359
Speaker 2: drive up to the mall and be like and they

535
00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:16,000
Speaker 2: would see a group of girls and you know.

536
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,240
Speaker 3: When like the food courses certain all yeah.

537
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 5: Yeah.

538
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 2: So I was like, you know what, they'd be like, yo, bro,

539
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,960
Speaker 2: just sing and I'll sing Mario, I'll sing somebody's song

540
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 2: that's hot on the radio, usher song like so. And

541
00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:28,600
Speaker 2: then they would be like, hey, what's your name? And

542
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,080
Speaker 2: I'd be like, Okay, We're good, Okay, I got we

543
00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 2: can do this. We can do this every weekend, Let's

544
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:33,199
Speaker 2: do it.

545
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 5: So you were saying in the mall to get the girl. Yeah, absolutely,

546
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:39,280
Speaker 5: it worked. Every time.

547
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:40,160
Speaker 3: It worked.

548
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, it worked every time unless they was a two

549
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:43,560
Speaker 2: grown They're like y'all some little boys.

550
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 3: If we can't mess with y'all.

551
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,400
Speaker 5: So what so, what have you learned from if? What

552
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,160
Speaker 5: would the thirty three I think you're thirty three about.

553
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,040
Speaker 3: To be thirty thirty four?

554
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,879
Speaker 5: What would the thirty four year old till the fifteen

555
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,560
Speaker 5: to twenty twenty three year old Chris.

556
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 3: Brown fifteen to twenty three year old?

557
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 5: What would the thirty four year old telling.

558
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 2: I would say, I damn, I never thought about that.

559
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,959
Speaker 3: That's crazy. I think I would tell him, be humble.

560
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 2: The road ahead isn't isn't the end, It's just the beginning.

561
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 2: So but but be humbling and everything you do.

562
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 5: So it said you discovered that your dad's gas station.

563
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah kind of yeah.

564
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:32,920
Speaker 5: So how did that go? Okay?

565
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 1: You your dand sing you out to put so did

566
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 1: you pump gas or you just at the gas station

567
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 1: with your.

568
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,160
Speaker 5: Dad and you know, you just singing and people like, man.

569
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I used to help my dad. I used to eat.

570
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,159
Speaker 2: I used to go there after school and then, uh,

571
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 2: you know how certain people come in and he was like, Hey,

572
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 2: I'm does.

573
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 3: Anybody in this town like do music twn or anything?

574
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 2: And then and I was just listening to the guy

575
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,640
Speaker 2: and my dad was like, my son sings, and so

576
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 2: he basically gave us like his contact information, and through him,

577
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,359
Speaker 2: I met the producers and the people who actually got

578
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 2: me to you know, getting to New York and meeting

579
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,679
Speaker 2: the record labels. So a lot of a lot of that,

580
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 2: a lot of that time that was kind of like

581
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,679
Speaker 2: a four year process, but that kind of started.

582
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 3: That's how I was discovering.

583
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:16,680
Speaker 1: So, I mean, Teddy Riley's from your area, Timberland, Google.

584
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 5: You, Yeah, you ain't bumping another bill mate.

585
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 3: No, because because Virginia's Virginia's so big.

586
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 2: I'm sure like Virginia's big, and it's different places where

587
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 2: I'm from. It's maybe like I want to say, an

588
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 2: hour and a half away from where they are, you know,

589
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,920
Speaker 2: and then we don't have like musical centers or performing

590
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 2: our stuff that that we can showcase our talent. It's

591
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 2: Virginia's really like a sports you know, a state. So

592
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 2: I feel like, uh, we were kind of like the

593
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 2: roads in the concrete. I feel like everybody, I think

594
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 2: everybody was kind of like, oh you made it, man,

595
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 2: it's amazing. But but you know, yeah, Teddy Rally and

596
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,159
Speaker 2: all them, they kind of started it off because Virginia

597
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 2: Beach kind of was was. I remember my my moms

598
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 2: and aunts and pumped the back. Man they going, they said,

599
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 2: were going down there for the weekend. We'll never be

600
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 2: able to go up. Man, they was going out there

601
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,120
Speaker 2: probably while Mama, hope you won't.

602
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 3: But see what you.

603
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 1: So when you tell your parents you're dropping out of

604
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 1: high school? Yeah, did they say, boy, you crazy? Did

605
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:20,640
Speaker 1: this what kind of made it sound nice?

606
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 3: Again? I said, Mama, I got this. I got this opportunity.

607
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 3: I remember being in the phone. I was.

608
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,199
Speaker 2: I was in New York, but I was in the

609
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:30,160
Speaker 2: record label's office.

610
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:31,879
Speaker 3: But I went to the bathroom. I said, Mom, I

611
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 3: really young. I got a record deal.

612
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 2: I said, But I'm not gonna get out of school.

613
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 2: They'll give me a tutor, you know. You know, So

614
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 2: I actually finished school. So I but it took me

615
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 2: instead of me finishing I supposed to. Yeah, I left it.

616
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 2: It took me like two years because I was doing

617
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 2: I was on the road. I was working my ninth

618
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 2: and tenth grade. I left my tenth grade year and

619
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 2: that's when my single came out. But so I was

620
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:53,919
Speaker 2: supposed to be class of seven, but I ended up

621
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:55,679
Speaker 2: becoming Class of O nine because I had to.

622
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 5: I had to wait, why would you what made you

623
00:25:58,840 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 5: better on yourself?

624
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: Why would you so sure that this was the opportunity

625
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,399
Speaker 1: that was too good to pass to pass up? And

626
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: I'm willing to, like, you know what, for gold my

627
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: final in two years.

628
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 2: I feel like the dream I never lost that when

629
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 2: they be like what you want to be when you

630
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 2: when you grew up and you still have those those

631
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 2: grandiose ambitions.

632
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 3: I felt like the light bulb was clinking, like, Hey,

633
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,160
Speaker 3: this is that you've been actioning for this.

634
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 2: This was your action for a goal. And look, look,

635
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 2: look where we are in this situation. Like my my

636
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 2: family didn't didn't have money at all. So it's like

637
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 2: I wanted, I wanted to do better than my whole

638
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 2: like before me, in before for them, you know what

639
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 2: I'm saying.

640
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:40,400
Speaker 3: I wanted to be able to say, you.

641
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 2: Know what, I did this out of out of everybody

642
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 2: in my family, right, everybody in my town.

643
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 3: Everything you know, I saw.

644
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 2: I saw the opportunity to make it a better opportunity

645
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 2: for them, and definitely make a better opportunity for my mom.

646
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: You leave, you moved to New York, New York is

647
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: really really different than Virginia. Yeah, they didn't man to

648
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: get lonely. Did you get home sick that you said? Damn,

649
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if I may did the right the

650
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: right thing here.

651
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 3: You know what? It was fun because because of the freedom,

652
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:07,880
Speaker 3: like my mom.

653
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,159
Speaker 2: My mom didn't know at first, because a lot of

654
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 2: a lot of the times I would go on a

655
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 2: Greyhound from Virginia and go all the way to Harlem

656
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 2: and I would be I would be by yourself. No,

657
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 2: I would be with the guys who were in the

658
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 2: production team and they had and they had a son

659
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 2: and he's my brother to this day, but we were

660
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 2: the same age. So he kind of showed me the

661
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 2: ropes and he and he grew right up in Middle Halem.

662
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 2: So I'm like, I was kind of it was a

663
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 2: calture shod. It was like, man, I felt so green,

664
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 2: like I felt so out of it.

665
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 3: And I would speak to people. I would go and

666
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 3: see people be like, hey, how y'all doing with the

667
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:42,199
Speaker 3: hair on?

668
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 5: You got it from the South.

669
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I had to I had to really kind

670
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 2: of like get acclimated. But over over about a three

671
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 2: month period, I kind of started started finding my way,

672
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 2: and I think that kind of made me be adaptable

673
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 2: in every situation and being an artist going, whether it

674
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 2: be Belgium, whether it be London, Australia, Like I'm able

675
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:08,120
Speaker 2: to be presentable in a room amongst different cultures and ethnicities.

676
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 5: Were it ever nice that you think this wasn't gonna happen?

677
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, all the time, all the time.

678
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 2: I felt like a lot of like a lot of

679
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 2: people don't see those that everybody gets like like they

680
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 2: just see the success, right and they don't think that

681
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 2: it takes hard work.

682
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 5: They just got discovered. You went to this place. Boom,

683
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 5: it blew up.

684
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, like it would sound like that if it was

685
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 2: written in a you know, fairy tale story, but not

686
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 2: a lot a lot of hard works, a lot of

687
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,639
Speaker 2: late nights sleep it's nice, stressful nights crying in the studio,

688
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 2: not thinking I'm good enough, like as a as a

689
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 2: younger artist. But yeah, a lot of that, But I

690
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 2: think like I could, I didn't let that doubt overshadow

691
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 2: the dream.

692
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 3: I feel like my heart.

693
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 2: Was was was was in it, so I was I was,

694
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 2: I was ready for anything, just even to this day,

695
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 2: like my heart and my passion is in what I

696
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 2: do still that. Yeah, So so I feel like that's

697
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 2: what I guess keeps me consistent, or keeps people interested

698
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 2: or or you know, engaged in my music.

699
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 5: Death Jam.

700
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: You get a contract offer from death Jam. They offer

701
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: you a contract on the spot, and you turned it down.

702
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: Why did you turn it down? What is the numbers?

703
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: What made Chris Brown? Because this is your opportunity.

704
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 5: This is death Jam. This ain't no no, this ain't

705
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 5: no no glass of music. This is death Jam. They

706
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 5: offer you a contract, Chris, and you said, nah, I'm good.

707
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 3: I'm thinking I'm country.

708
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 2: The man wouldn't talk to my mama, huh. So basically

709
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 2: he wanted me to basically like with the production guys.

710
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 2: I'm not going to say the executive name because I

711
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 2: love him to this day. I'm never gonna I'm never

712
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,719
Speaker 2: going to expose them. But I wanted to get him

713
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 2: on the phone with my mom and be like, okay, cool,

714
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 2: So could you explain this to my mom?

715
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 3: What's going on?

716
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 2: You know, I'm I think I'm fourteen at the time,

717
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 2: So yeah, fourteen, just turned fourteen, and my production crew

718
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 2: was there, but you know, they're my handlers at that time.

719
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 2: But you know, at the same time. We're all in

720
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 2: the same excitement. But I just wanted to makes sense,

721
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 2: my mom is her words, tell her, boy, so you

722
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 2: got to tell to my mama. So as soon as

723
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 2: that happened, he was like, oh no, no, no, no, I

724
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 2: don't need that. We were good and I and I

725
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 2: kind of didn't like. I didn't like what that. I

726
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,719
Speaker 2: felt like they wanted to get over like I was.

727
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 2: You know, I wasn't I wasn't green, I was.

728
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 3: Very street wart. So I just was like, well, why

729
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 3: wouldn't you just you know, I'm not saying, hey, say

730
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 3: how to my mama exactly.

731
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 2: So so that kind of made me kind of have reservations.

732
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 2: But then Tina Davis, who was my manager at the time,

733
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 2: she was working at Death Gym.

734
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 3: I think she they had a merger.

735
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 2: So she she was she went, she went her separate ways,

736
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 2: but I had I had learned so much from her,

737
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 2: even from going into the different meetings, how to prep

738
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 2: how to be ready to perform. So I was like,

739
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 2: you know what, I need someone like that that can

740
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 2: show me that because I don't. I'm just I'm just

741
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 2: going off the raw music at this point. So she

742
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 2: was able to like, Tina, would you mind managing me?

743
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 2: And so she was like cool, let's do it. And

744
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 2: from there she actually got me uh all the other

745
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 2: other deals or other other sittings with the labels that

746
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 2: I was sitting with.

747
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 3: So yeah, did he turn you down? Yeah? Yeah?

748
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 5: So how did that beating go? So?

749
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: So what so how did the meeting go? And then

750
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: what did he say? Why did he turn you down?

751
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 2: And this was this is probably maybe two or three

752
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 2: years prior, so I was like eleven or twelve at

753
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 2: this time.

754
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 3: The same kid that I said that that showed me

755
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 3: the ropes in New York. Yeah, he he Me and

756
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 3: him had songs. It was like a group.

757
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 2: So me and him had different like uh songs that

758
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 2: we would do together, and I would do solo songs.

759
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 2: So we both got the audition. He's like, all right, cool,

760
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 2: let's go, let's go and meet him and let's go sing.

761
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 2: So we went in and we went in there together.

762
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 2: He was like cool, we did the song that we

763
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 2: have together and I'm singing on the course and so

764
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 2: he was just like cool, cool, Yeah, I talk to you,

765
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 2: you know, he yeah, can he go outside for a second,

766
00:31:58,640 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 2: We're gonna just talk.

767
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 3: Was like, nah, we don't want we don't want him.

768
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 5: They didn't want you want me.

769
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 2: So I was like, as a twelve thirteen year old,

770
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 2: I was in that elevator, probably crying like.

771
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 3: Them up so but you knew who Diddy was, right of.

772
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 2: Course, of course, And at the pinda, I'm like, man,

773
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 2: First of all, I was just excited just to meet them.

774
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 5: Yeah.

775
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 2: Like, so being in the room kind of made me, uh,

776
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 2: made me like shaky, So I probably was nervous and

777
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 2: singing crazy.

778
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 3: But at the same time, He's.

779
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 2: Like, ah, I'm gonna pass on that, right, So I

780
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 2: was kind of I was like, you know what, I'm

781
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 2: gonna show him like, so that was my that was

782
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 2: my motivation to keep going to It's.

783
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: So because knowing who Diddy was, for Dinny to say, nah,

784
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: you need to go on outside, it probably would be

785
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: like a basketball player said Phil Jackson said, nah, go away.

786
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: You know one of these prominent coach You said, nah, bro,

787
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: you not. I don't think you good enough, So you go.

788
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: So you're on the elevator, what are you thinking.

789
00:32:58,400 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 3: Like, am I not good enough?

790
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 5: Because he did he just told me like nah.

791
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 2: Of course, of course, of course, I'm definitely I was

792
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 2: in the elevator like a man, this might be it

793
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 2: for me, you know, because as a.

794
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 3: D when you're a kid, you think anything that's.

795
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 2: H But I think I think I just took I

796
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 2: took that motivation. Me and my me and my my homeboy.

797
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 2: We just was like, you know what, let's just keep

798
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 2: going back in the studio. Let's just let's just make

799
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 2: more songs. Let's get get better. We just started, so

800
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 2: I think, But I think I think puff for that man,

801
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 2: They didn't mean I appreciate it though, Like because that

802
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 2: made me, that made me get on my gun.

803
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: You say, you hire teena David, says your business manager.

804
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: What did you learn from her?

805
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 2: I learned everything from media training, to to how to

806
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 2: how to how to be presentable in the room, how

807
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 2: to how to speak to people, how to how to

808
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 2: listen to people.

809
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 3: You know. I was I was like so country and like, hey,

810
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 3: what's up, y'all? I'm just loud.

811
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 2: So I felt like I feel like she guided me

812
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 2: through a lot of the music industry, the business of

813
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 2: how it works, meeting pds program directors and going to

814
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 2: different radio stations, teaching.

815
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 3: Me how to have showmanship. Like she was, she would

816
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:10,720
Speaker 3: be like nah.

817
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 2: She used to tell me because because Neo's a good

818
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 2: friend of mine as well, and she worked with Neil before,

819
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 2: so she was like, She's like, nah, huh, you don't

820
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 2: got showman ship like Neo.

821
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 3: And I was like, huh, what what am I not doing?

822
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 3: So I would have.

823
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 2: Just rehearsals, not even dance, just rehearsals of me just

824
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 2: figuring out how to be me on stage or what

825
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 2: what was me when I get on stage?

826
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 3: You know?

827
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 1: So when you hear that first song you hear come

828
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: on the radio, what's going through your mind?

829
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 2: Man, I'm cussing first, and I'm in the basement, so

830
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,720
Speaker 2: my mama don't hear me, but I'm cussing. I remember

831
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 2: I had a spot in Jersey because right when I

832
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 2: signed my deal, I wasn't out of school yet, but

833
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 2: they had they had to push put me in a

834
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 2: place to.

835
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 3: Where I could be closer to the label to start working.

836
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 2: So I was still doing in school in Virginia and

837
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 2: I had just left them, and I was like, yeah,

838
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:04,439
Speaker 2: I'm about to I'm about to be in the radio.

839
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 3: Everybody radio, what are you talking about?

840
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 2: So then when they say I remember the song came on.

841
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 2: My cousins was calling me, like, Bro, they playing you

842
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 2: on the radio, bro, And I'm like you lying, And

843
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,439
Speaker 2: I remember I turned it on. I think I sat

844
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 2: in the corner. It was like and yaled for like

845
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,479
Speaker 2: five minutes straight, like I.

846
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 3: Felt it was the best feeling. Like I still feel

847
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 3: like that when I when I hear my songs on

848
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 3: the radio.

849
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 2: Now it's not the same excitement, but it's still the same.

850
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's definitely definitely run.

851
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: It made you the first artist is ninety five to

852
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: have a debut single to talk the charts man, did

853
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: you know that song? I mean, obviously it was the

854
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: first song that was released, but did you know that

855
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: song would forever change your life?

856
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 3: No? No, I'm gonna be real.

857
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 2: When I did that song, we were in Miami and

858
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 2: Hit Factory Scott Storch, Sean Garrett like, and I was

859
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 2: just and I was a student because this is my

860
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 2: first ever album, so any producer would me and I'm

861
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 2: just soaking it all in, you know. So I'm scared.

862
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, like, I don't sound good. I don't know

863
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 2: if they do I sound good. I hate I don't

864
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 2: know if I like the song because I was too

865
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,919
Speaker 2: nervous in my head. But then they was like, nah,

866
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 2: this is the one. But I knew I wanted to

867
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 2: dance in it. The music was bumping, so I was like, look,

868
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,879
Speaker 2: I want to dance. I just want to showcase this.

869
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 2: But I didn't know. I think I never had an

870
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 2: expectation that it would have the success that it put

871
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 2: me at.

872
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,879
Speaker 1: You know, So, what's your your favorite song of all

873
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 1: the songs you've done, what's your favorite song?

874
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:38,919
Speaker 5: And give me your top three?

875
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 3: My top three.

876
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 2: Man, it's so hard with me because I have this,

877
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 2: just to be honest, I have about fifteen thousand unreleased songs,

878
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 2: right what, Yeah, I got like in my phone alone,

879
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 2: like my in certain apps I have I want to say,

880
00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,280
Speaker 2: maybe eighteen hundred.

881
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 3: It's eighteen hundred to like. Yeah.

882
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: So obviously we're in your studio, so you come down

883
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: here like you know, it's like and just crank out songs.

884
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it was a point.

885
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 2: It was a point where I used to stay in

886
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 2: the studio, Like when I was doing a lot of

887
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,280
Speaker 2: my earlier albums.

888
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 3: I had to learn.

889
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 2: But but around I want to say, around the Fame

890
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 2: album and certain stuff like that, I was kind of

891
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 2: like in my in my zone, I knew how, I

892
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 2: knew what I wanted. Yeah, So even for me now,

893
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 2: I put the studio in my house because like I

894
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 2: can draw inspiration faster, Like if I think of something,

895
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 2: if I think of an idea, like oh I got

896
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 2: an idea for this song, I don't have to like

897
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 2: wait or set up the studio and like, okay, I

898
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 2: gotta go to studio now.

899
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 5: So if you in your bed at night and you

900
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 5: think of something, you just come down here and just Yeah.

901
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 2: It depends because I'll make sure my engineers. Await, if

902
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 2: it's like five six in the morning, I'm like, man,

903
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 2: I'll just do it in the morning, right, But like

904
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 2: if it's maybe if it's me and that, I'm like, hey,

905
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 2: man up, let's let's let's do it.

906
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 3: Wow.

907
00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: So eighteen thousand unreleased songs? What I mean, how do

908
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: you how do you get to eight? How do you

909
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: get to like a hundred? Okay, if somebody said, you know,

910
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: I got like twenty, I got fifty unreleased songs, but

911
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: you saying, like in some of your apps, you have

912
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds. So you just like like go days, months, years,

913
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:17,240
Speaker 1: Well you just record?

914
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, I literally recorded like four songs yesterday, but I did,

915
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 2: like I do it in spurts, So sometimes some days

916
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 2: I'll just relax.

917
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 3: I might do one song, but then some.

918
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 2: Days it's just like we just because I feel like

919
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 2: it's like sharpening your sword man, like being better at

920
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 2: your craft, like.

921
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 3: Shooting jump getting your jump shot.

922
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 2: So like, I feel like I don't want to be

923
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 2: complacent and thinking I'm I got it all figured out.

924
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 2: I never want to think that, Oh, I'm Chris Brown.

925
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 2: So whatever I'll put out it's gonna be great. I

926
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 2: want to make sure it is.

927
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 1: You know, are there any songs that you wrote for

928
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: an artist that if people actually knew you wrote it,

929
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: they would be surprised?

930
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 2: I think back in the day they did. I wrote

931
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 2: a I wrote a a couple of pop records. I

932
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,720
Speaker 2: wrote a couple of Jonas Brothers songs.

933
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 3: I wrote a couple uh well, I wrote a couple

934
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 3: of Rihanna songs. Uh damn. I do a couple of

935
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 3: country country records.

936
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 2: I used to write a lot for for a lot

937
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 2: of different artists, but it was more it was more

938
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 2: so me experimenting with with what music was like. I

939
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 2: wasn't just doing R and b so I would just write.

940
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 3: But I but I've.

941
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 2: LaToya lucky I've written for. There's been it's been a

942
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 2: lot of people I've written for. But I feel like

943
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 2: a lot of people didn't know I really write because

944
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 2: as an artist, you know, you get a lot of

945
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 2: a lot of uh you know, a lot of artists

946
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 2: that music artists that don't do them.

947
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, but and I I can't.

948
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 2: I can't shun them because I work with a lot

949
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 2: of producers, a lot of writers, and we do different things.

950
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 2: But I've also had time to sit down and just

951
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 2: really have my own songs that people are love and I'm.

952
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,439
Speaker 3: Like, I'm glad they love that I wrote that song.

953
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 3: You know.

954
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 5: So yeah, what what's your favorite music genre?

955
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 3: Is the pop?

956
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 5: Is R and b uh dance, euro rap?

957
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 3: I'm eclectic.

958
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 2: I'm eclectic, So I like I like certain songs, Like

959
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 2: I think, when the song comes out and it just

960
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 2: m it moves me, I I just like it. It

961
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 2: cul It could be a country song, it could be

962
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 2: our piano song, it could be uh a heavy metal song,

963
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 2: Like you know, I think, I just think whatever whatever

964
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 2: frequency that that tunes me to it is is is

965
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 2: what I what I kind of gravitate to. In my

966
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 2: lane of my music, I love doing. I just love

967
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 2: doing feel good music, fun music.

968
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 3: Music.

969
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,280
Speaker 2: People can dance too, But at the same time, give 'em,

970
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 2: give them certain s s things that get them through

971
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:36,439
Speaker 2: their life.

972
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:37,959
Speaker 3: Cause I cause I'll see a lot of my fans

973
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 3: or I talk to.

974
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 2: 'em, whether it's meet and grease, whether it's discord or

975
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 2: whatever it is, and we talking and it's like they

976
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 2: they explain to me how certain songs got them through

977
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 2: life situations, and and I'm like, wow, that really it

978
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,879
Speaker 2: kind of sinks in with me. It makes me makes

979
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:52,959
Speaker 2: me kind of like dang, I I'm I'm really doing

980
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 2: the music.

981
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 3: For it actual purpose.

982
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 2: So when I do certain songs speak from my experience,

983
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 2: but also try to speak to uplift somebody, make them

984
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 2: have fun or make them be like, man, this makes

985
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:04,320
Speaker 2: you makes me feel good inside.

986
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 1: Are there any features that you turned down? You was like, damn,

987
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: I should have hopped on that one.

988
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 3: Any features that I turned down? A lot? No, I

989
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 3: ain't gonna lie. I'm on a lot of features.

990
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 2: I feel like, I feel like it's certain songs that

991
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 2: I wish that I was on.

992
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 3: When I would hear certain songs.

993
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:26,759
Speaker 2: But then I would be like, that's just that's just

994
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 2: my artist ego wanted to be a part of it. Yeah,

995
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,359
Speaker 2: but but I feel like I feel like evens there's

996
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:34,760
Speaker 2: certain records out now that I'll.

997
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 3: Hear and I'm like, man, that's amazing.

998
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 2: But but I think that's that's good for me because

999
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 2: I'm not I don't think I get convoluted in what

1000
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 2: I sound like. I'm able to appreciate other people music,

1001
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 2: and I'd be like, oh, it's just only about me.

1002
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 5: Have you ever been removed from a song after it's

1003
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:51,280
Speaker 5: been recorded?

1004
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 3: I don't think so.

1005
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 5: Have you removed somebody from a song after it's been recorded?

1006
00:41:58,920 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 3: Yes?

1007
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 5: So, so how do you how do you go about?

1008
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: How do you go about telling them or telling him

1009
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: or her that their verse is gonna make it?

1010
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 3: Man? Uh?

1011
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: Do you tell them? When you have somebody else call

1012
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 1: and tell him. I think it'd be better coming from you.

1013
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 2: Though, Yeah, I would tell him. I would tell him

1014
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 2: I've done I've done songs.

1015
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 3: Uh, Like, even even with my I ain't gonna say

1016
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 3: their names.

1017
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 2: Certain artists that that that are that are like real

1018
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 2: friends with me, and we've done songs. But I may

1019
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 2: have I may have had like two songs already with them.

1020
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 2: I'm like, look, I ain't you I ain't gonna'm gonna

1021
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 2: take you off this one because we already got this

1022
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 2: other song, you know, So I've done that.

1023
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 5: But then that's the way, that's what you tell them.

1024
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 2: No, No, that's been the reason. But the other ones

1025
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 2: that got taken off just to get taken off.

1026
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 3: It just didn't fit.

1027
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 2: It didn't fit the record, and I felt like the

1028
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 2: time in with it, and we just I'll explain it

1029
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 2: to him and I'll be like, look, it just doesn't

1030
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 2: fit the time in for for what we're doing and

1031
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 2: how we want to shoot the record. But I haven't

1032
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,800
Speaker 2: let down too many people. That down too many people.

1033
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 3: You're a fit guy. You in the train, you like

1034
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 3: to work out.

1035
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: So what do you do? So, so what do you

1036
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: do you on tour? How does Chris Brown manage to

1037
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: stay in shape? Because you gotta get you you're a performer.

1038
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: You're not just a singer. You're a performer. You're an entertainer.

1039
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: Let me take that back. You're an entertainer. So singing

1040
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: and dancing, that's a part of the act. Yeah, So

1041
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 1: how do you maintain that level night after night after night,

1042
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: week after week after month after month.

1043
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:35,280
Speaker 3: Man, I just think I got more, uh more.

1044
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,759
Speaker 2: But at the same time, my team, man, I think

1045
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 2: everybody keeps a tight schedule when it comes to what

1046
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 2: we're doing on the road.

1047
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 3: Right, our chef make sure we eat the right stuff.

1048
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 3: I don't.

1049
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 2: I don't try to eat stuff that's gonna see heavy.

1050
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 2: I want to see anything that builds my protein up,

1051
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,359
Speaker 2: just builds my addurance. That's what I'm on you. I'm

1052
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 2: really and I'm really uh, I'm finicky about it, like

1053
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 2: because we also have after parties after shows on tourists.

1054
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 3: It's a long road.

1055
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I make sure I at

1056
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 2: least get my eight hours of sleep, right, So the

1057
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 2: rest is that me and my dancers that workout is

1058
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 2: like no, man, So.

1059
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 3: You know we got our workout regimen.

1060
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 2: We do our like fifteen to thirty minute a flash

1061
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 2: set before we go, before we get on stage, and

1062
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 2: then and then repeat it over and over, right, So

1063
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 2: I've been able to have this fast metabolism.

1064
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 3: Hopefully it never slows up.

1065
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to figure out, how do you protect

1066
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 5: your voice with me?

1067
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 3: Well, I wouldn't I wouldn't advise this to everybody else

1068
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 3: because I do.

1069
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 2: I do smoke every now and then a lot. But

1070
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:44,840
Speaker 2: for me, I have that I use these there's there's

1071
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 2: these pills the call mullet Mulon pills.

1072
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 3: They're good for your for your lungs.

1073
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 2: So and I make sure that I'm not just smoking

1074
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,439
Speaker 2: smoking smoking before I go on stage. So a lot

1075
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 2: of the times i'm whenever I am smoking, I'm doing

1076
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 2: something that counteracted. I'm making sure i'm t and vocal

1077
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 2: rest is the best. Like like I'm yelling on stage

1078
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 2: two and a half hours, right.

1079
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 3: You know, so after that, chill out, after that, right,

1080
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 3: say what's up? Bro? Cool?

1081
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 1: You know?

1082
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 2: I try to I try to refrain from doing anything

1083
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 2: that's gonna put too much of a strain on my book.

1084
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 5: What I have to applaud, bro, I don't know.

1085
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: I mean I have to go back to like James Brown,

1086
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 1: to see somebody to sing.

1087
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 5: And perform like you think. I mean, it's continuous, it's NonStop.

1088
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: I mean I first, when the first time I ever

1089
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 1: heard of Chris Brown, I heard you say something like,

1090
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: oh I can I dance?

1091
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 5: USh?

1092
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: I said, man, this man, this damn About thirteen he

1093
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: already liked who talked this man a lot like this

1094
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 1: at thirteen?

1095
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 5: And then I watched it. I like, and then you like,

1096
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 5: I might get my Michael. I was like, I don't know,

1097
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:50,359
Speaker 5: he might.

1098
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: I mean to see the way he moved, man, and

1099
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,320
Speaker 1: the way he can adore his body.

1100
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 5: I don't know, he might be on the something. How

1101
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 5: when did you learn to do that?

1102
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 3: I watched that. That's being a kid at the cookout. Man.

1103
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 3: Your uncle's like, come man, come out here, man, do that?

1104
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 3: Do that dance you'd be doing.

1105
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 2: So I feel like, uh, my childhood gave me that

1106
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:18,439
Speaker 2: freedom to really, like you know, be from mc Hammer.

1107
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,760
Speaker 3: Watching mc ham Michael Jackson.

1108
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 2: I always was moving and I had a fascination in

1109
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 2: love with with rhythms. So I feel like, you know,

1110
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 2: even even in sports, you gotta have the rhythm, right,

1111
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 2: So so that just was like natural to me. It

1112
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:33,399
Speaker 2: came natural. I feel like it's from the soul.

1113
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1114
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:34,839
Speaker 3: So I feel like.

1115
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 2: Even even dancing now, like I can learn technical stuff.

1116
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 2: I can learn stuff, but I like to just I

1117
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 2: like when people to see it to be like that

1118
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 2: feel good he having fun doing it.

1119
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you do realize that a lot of the

1120
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: stuff you do they can't do right, Like you know

1121
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: what I mean, you like the only one that can

1122
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: do that do it? Yeah, I mean I like to

1123
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,720
Speaker 1: see a dance like you. Okay, you move, walk, okay, breakdown.

1124
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,839
Speaker 1: I mean you do a little breakdancing, but a lot

1125
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: of the stuff that you be doing rib like, man,

1126
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: people gonna break their neck.

1127
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:01,919
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1128
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't invite people to try some of the

1129
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 2: stuff I do. That's why it's good to just see

1130
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 2: it at the show. Kids, y'all can have fun. Y'all

1131
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:10,319
Speaker 2: a little bit more flexible. But at the same time,

1132
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 2: like I just I'm thankful to be able to still

1133
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 2: have these needs to be Yeah, and I don't get.

1134
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 3: Up like, oh man, I'm tired. I gotta go dance.

1135
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 2: I love it right, So, so as long as I'm

1136
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 2: able and God blesses me to be able to dance

1137
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 2: and showcase this talent and hopefully inspired the world, I'm

1138
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 2: gonna keep doing it.

1139
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: Why don't you think other artists have adopted your approach

1140
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 1: to become performance? I mean, sometimes you see performers or

1141
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: you see like singers. I mean, there's nothing wrong. I mean,

1142
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: but I look at you as an entertainer. I look

1143
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 1: at Beyonces, but their singers. Dan was a singer. Yeah,

1144
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: you got a mermaid dress on. She on that Mic

1145
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 1: I saw. I saw the observatory unbelievable. But I saw

1146
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 1: Beyonce and I'm like, how should you do that? For

1147
00:47:58,000 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: two hours?

1148
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,360
Speaker 5: I watch you? I'm like, he do that for two hours?

1149
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 2: I think, I think because you know, different, I think

1150
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:06,279
Speaker 2: it's different stars. Man, it's different stars in the sky.

1151
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 2: So I kind of I kind of my take on

1152
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 2: it is everybody has their thing, right, you know.

1153
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 3: I feel like in our in our genre, it's it's

1154
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 3: a it's like an old art.

1155
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 2: But you know, because you got to really do your researcher,

1156
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 2: you got to really, you know, want it.

1157
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 3: And I think Beyonce, I gott always give her a credit.

1158
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,360
Speaker 3: She wants it. She has always wanted it, you know

1159
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So and she is it. You know.

1160
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 3: I feel like with me, I've always I've always wanted it.

1161
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 2: I always wanted to leave a legacy of of of being.

1162
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:39,840
Speaker 3: One of the baddest. You know, I don't got to

1163
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 3: be the baddest, but I'm gonna be one of them.

1164
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,839
Speaker 1: You know, what does it make you feel like when

1165
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: other artists come up to you and say, Braud, that

1166
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:48,919
Speaker 1: was unbelievable.

1167
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 2: Form, I'm still in shot, like I have an imposter syndrome.

1168
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 3: I wake up to this day and be like, am

1169
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 3: I how did I get here?

1170
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 2: Like so when people even ignore, I'm more receptive and appreciative.

1171
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 2: I'm kind of like, for real, Okay, cool, they like

1172
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 2: my stuff. I'm still fans of other artists. It's like,

1173
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 2: so it's still me being like, Okay, they really love

1174
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 2: what I'm doing, right, I'm gonna keep doing it right

1175
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:14,879
Speaker 2: all right.

1176
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 5: When you first started out, you used to open up

1177
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 5: for Beyonce.

1178
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:22,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, you like you know that. I would try to

1179
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:25,439
Speaker 1: swipe some of her fan. I walks over her fan

1180
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: because I know what she's gonna do after me. Man,

1181
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 1: I need to make sure I do something before so

1182
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: them people talk about.

1183
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 5: Yeah Beyonce, it was great, but you should have saw

1184
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:34,839
Speaker 5: Chris Brown. Chris Brown was unbelievable.

1185
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I was a student being on there. I

1186
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 3: was with Destiny Shot. I think I was like sixteen

1187
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 3: or seventeen. I opened up for.

1188
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 2: Them in Australia and for that that was just a

1189
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:49,279
Speaker 2: blessing because to be able to go from me having

1190
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 2: a little TV and me watching these people performing and

1191
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 2: being able to see them and they're like, hi.

1192
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 3: They know my name.

1193
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, they said hi to me

1194
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 2: watching them perform from stage, presence, lighting.

1195
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 3: Production, dancers, timing.

1196
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 2: I learned so much from all of those experiences, and

1197
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,319
Speaker 2: I soaked it up and I said, well, I don't

1198
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 2: want to copy anybody, but okay, well if I could

1199
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 2: do that, I'll do it like this. So I was

1200
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,279
Speaker 2: able to digest and and and and learn from from

1201
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 2: all those experiences. So it was it was actually a blessing.

1202
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 2: It was a blessing.

1203
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: I had Drew Skale on my show and he said

1204
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: he would on tour with you. He said, it's unbelievable

1205
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 1: the amount of distractions that's going on, like girls just

1206
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: running everywhere.

1207
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 5: With your laser focus on what you need to do.

1208
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, because because because I look at it, like these

1209
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:42,319
Speaker 2: people spending money to come see me, like even to

1210
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 2: this day, like you spend a ticket or whatever for

1211
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 2: your family coming through with your it's kids, there's grown

1212
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 2: people there, it's all ages.

1213
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:50,720
Speaker 3: But the one thing.

1214
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 2: I need them to do is leave happy. I need

1215
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 2: them to leave, not not for my pockets. You know,

1216
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,800
Speaker 2: they need to leave happy for my soul. Like this

1217
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:01,239
Speaker 2: this ability that I'm made able to have, or this

1218
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:04,240
Speaker 2: this talent that I'm going with, I want to express

1219
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 2: it with love the frequency I want to give out

1220
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 2: his love. So like that's what gets me going. And

1221
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 2: when they when they get coming here, I'm excited.

1222
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:12,360
Speaker 3: I'm more nervous than they is.

1223
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 2: So but but I'm gonna make sure that they gonna

1224
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:16,400
Speaker 2: leave and be like, you know what I got my

1225
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 2: money's worth?

1226
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:17,399
Speaker 3: Man.

1227
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 1: I read that you this guy broke up with his girl.

1228
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: You call this girl up on stage and gave the lady,

1229
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 1: gave the young lady a lap bad and he broke

1230
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:27,240
Speaker 1: up with a prie.

1231
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 3: You do that man. See it wasn't intentional, but happen.

1232
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 3: See I didn't know she had a had a had

1233
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 3: a guy.

1234
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 5: That's her fault. Because she knows she had a guy.

1235
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 3: She should have said it.

1236
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 2: She definitely should have said my My dancers pull up

1237
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 2: a girl on stage during our set, and we usually

1238
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 2: we just we usually like to give the fans an opportunity.

1239
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 3: But sometimes it's very very very.

1240
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 2: Attractive women come and say so I'm like, okay, cool.

1241
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:56,799
Speaker 2: So me grinding on him. They don't really have a

1242
00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 2: problem with it. It's just I guess she had a

1243
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,879
Speaker 2: man there, right, So but I didn't know. I didn't

1244
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 2: find out that. Afterwards. I was like, man, we should

1245
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 2: have just do we send him flowers or sending her flowers?

1246
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:14,360
Speaker 1: Should said no, see, I mean not that, no, no, no, no,

1247
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,800
Speaker 1: the lady. See, if I'm out with a young lady,

1248
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: it's not my job to check the guy.

1249
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:20,359
Speaker 5: It's her job.

1250
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 3: She should have been like, no, you know, there you go,

1251
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 3: and I can't come up.

1252
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,360
Speaker 5: I'm with someone, right, And if a lady check on me,

1253
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 5: if you're not gonna be forget it there you be

1254
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 5: like okay, great, right, and you'd have been okay, but.

1255
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 1: He gonna he the one man. But I'm surprised. First

1256
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: of all, I commend him for going.

1257
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean not a whole lot of guys are

1258
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:41,280
Speaker 5: going with the girls that they might.

1259
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:41,719
Speaker 3: Go, but.

1260
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 2: They might be a little bit further back, like, nah,

1261
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 2: you ain't getting from right, he's not finna look at.

1262
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: You at let's talk about I'm looking at the Grammys. Yeah,

1263
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 1: and you have one. But reading you and researching this,

1264
00:52:58,880 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 1: you feel you should have.

1265
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 3: Yes, I feel like a lot of artists feel like

1266
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 3: they should have one.

1267
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 2: Uh, But you know, I feel like I don't want

1268
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 2: to discredited Grammys or discimins or feel like the angry

1269
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 2: artist when it comes to that.

1270
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 5: I feel like he will be the first, he will

1271
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 5: be the last.

1272
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it's just I feel like music

1273
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 2: out of state right now is it's not based on

1274
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 2: what people love. I feel like I feel like, well

1275
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 2: with the Grammys, no disrespect to y'all, but I just

1276
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:27,000
Speaker 2: feel like it's a lot of old ears over there,

1277
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 2: a lot of old ears. There's a lot of people

1278
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 2: that's that's not really too th into what's going on.

1279
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,279
Speaker 2: So and and you know, it's just it's a broad

1280
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 2: range of artists that I that I can think of

1281
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 2: now that that deserve more Grammys and more recognition. But

1282
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 2: you know, I feel like at this point in my

1283
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 2: in my career, in my life, I'm like, you know what.

1284
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:49,239
Speaker 3: I have one? Right, that's good enough? You know for me,

1285
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 3: I feel like.

1286
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 2: He lonely, though he could be lonely, but but he

1287
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:56,879
Speaker 2: could be lonely. I'd rather mind what what I get,

1288
00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 2: what I get my joy from is feeling them stands

1289
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:02,879
Speaker 2: like I could care less about getting on the stage

1290
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:04,400
Speaker 2: where I would love to get on the stage at

1291
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 2: a Grammys or any awards.

1292
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 3: I don't have a problem with it.

1293
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,799
Speaker 2: But it doesn't feel my heart more than it does

1294
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 2: to see twice as many people in a a in

1295
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 2: an arena, or I'll go over and I sell out

1296
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 2: six nights like that.

1297
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 3: That's priceless to me.

1298
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 2: Right, So I feel like I've just started loving what

1299
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:25,479
Speaker 2: I love the most about what I do, just.

1300
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 3: The music and the passion, and just focused on that.

1301
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 1: You caught some flat because you wrote Robert Glasper you say,

1302
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:32,399
Speaker 1: who is this cat?

1303
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1304
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 1: And I mean he did the single the song with

1305
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 1: Michelle and Diegoceello, who's my favorite all time artist and

1306
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:43,920
Speaker 1: her great song, and you you know, you say no disrespect.

1307
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 5: You took it back. Tell me what your mindset was. Okay,

1308
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 5: you're sitting at home, impulse. So that's where hold up?

1309
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:54,320
Speaker 5: Who the homeboy?

1310
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:55,919
Speaker 1: He give me that because you about to do something,

1311
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 1: You about to do something, Give me that and put

1312
00:54:57,760 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: it in.

1313
00:54:57,920 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 5: His back pocket.

1314
00:54:58,640 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1315
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:03,439
Speaker 2: They probably was maybe fifteen seconds to letter by that time,

1316
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:03,799
Speaker 2: I think.

1317
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 3: But at the time, because me, I was missing for him.

1318
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 2: So even even when I had to I had to

1319
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 2: do my research and like, you know what this these guys,

1320
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 2: you know, and I reached out to him. I said, look,

1321
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 2: I said, look, I don't want you to think that

1322
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 2: I have ill ill will towards.

1323
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 3: You or anything. Be sure work.

1324
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1325
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, So so he reached back out to me. So, yeah,

1326
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 3: we're gonna, were gonna get in the studio work. But

1327
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 3: that was me. That's you know, being a sorro push.

1328
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 1: You know, are you disappointed that the award shows, given

1329
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,319
Speaker 1: your background, given what you've done, given how you packed

1330
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 1: the arenas, given how the numbers speak more than Elvis

1331
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:40,080
Speaker 1: and a.

1332
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 5: Billion this and that, Yeah, that they haven't allowed you.

1333
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 2: To perform at times you want her to perform in

1334
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 2: front of your peers. I want to showcase what I

1335
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 2: what I'm really capable of at all times. But I've

1336
00:55:56,320 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 2: taken I've taken my position to say I'm not stopping right.

1337
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:04,759
Speaker 3: You know, So it'll happen. It'll happen, you know, it'll happen.

1338
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 5: Do you remember the last award show you performed at?

1339
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 2: My last awards show might have been BT last show

1340
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 2: might have been BT Awards.

1341
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Kelly rolled supported you.

1342
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, she got some criticism.

1343
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:25,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love you, Kelly. I mean, what's I mean, Lizzo? Yeah,

1344
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:30,399
Speaker 1: say your favorite criticism and cheering. Some others have come

1345
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 1: to your like the man is unbelievable and they call criticism.

1346
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:35,120
Speaker 1: What is it with this cancel culture?

1347
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 2: I think it's I don't think it's even the cancel culture.

1348
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:41,399
Speaker 2: I think because my my fans and the people who

1349
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 2: who do love me, like they.

1350
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 3: Kind of overshadow and I'm still here, you know. But

1351
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:48,760
Speaker 3: I feel like I just feel like people are sensitive

1352
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:49,360
Speaker 3: as hell today.

1353
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 2: Man, Like we don't get we don't get to really

1354
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 2: shoot the ship, or we don't get to say what

1355
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:55,279
Speaker 2: we really want to say. A lot of times, a

1356
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 2: lot of things. It's contrive to conform. You don't get

1357
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 2: to be yourself because you can't have it. And open

1358
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 2: expression and freedom freedom to say anything if you don't

1359
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:07,800
Speaker 2: have to discredit anybody or or cut anybody out, or

1360
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 2: say anything rude about anybody. But I feel like everybody's

1361
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:12,640
Speaker 2: too dairmb sensitive at this point, right.

1362
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:15,359
Speaker 1: But you've mentioned some of the people that that's in

1363
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: this business, Yeah, that have had some transgressions, Yeah, that

1364
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 1: have been forgiven and gone onto. And it hasn't stopped

1365
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: you from making money. But those people were able to

1366
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 1: go back, be on stage, get in movies, and do

1367
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:30,240
Speaker 1: all these other things.

1368
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 2: It's my smile, and I think I think it's I

1369
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:36,120
Speaker 2: think it's because I think people think I have a

1370
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 2: careless outlook on it.

1371
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 3: It's not that I have a careless outlet.

1372
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,880
Speaker 2: I don't care to make you believe that I'm a

1373
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 2: I'm a great person or a good person.

1374
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna be one. So I feel like with that, you.

1375
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 2: Know, I mean, and I don't take no nonsense. I'm like,

1376
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 2: I'm I'm a humble guy. I'll be cool, but I

1377
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 2: really don't. I really don't take nonsense. I try to

1378
00:57:57,440 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 2: stay in my lane, get out the way, don't bother nobody.

1379
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 2: But I'm not gonna take no nonsense.

1380
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 1: If you were to get back, if if they called,

1381
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: and says Chris this year's grammysh we want you to perform.

1382
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:12,680
Speaker 3: Yeah you there, of course I do it.

1383
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:13,959
Speaker 5: No, ill Will.

1384
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 2: It wouldn't be ill Will because because it would be

1385
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:18,640
Speaker 2: about the performance. I would want, I would want to

1386
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 2: get that to my fans. It wouldn't be it wouldn't

1387
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 2: be necessarily about the Grammys. It would be about putting

1388
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 2: on the best.

1389
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 3: Chris and just and just and just going out there

1390
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 3: and doing that.

1391
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:29,960
Speaker 5: You'll kill it.

1392
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: This This might be the greatest book, This might be

1393
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 1: the greatest stage performance.

1394
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 5: Anybody's ever seen.

1395
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna try to make it that every time,

1396
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 2: every time, anytime that opportunity gives, like gives itself that opportunity, even.

1397
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 3: On my on my when you come to my shows,

1398
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:48,920
Speaker 3: I want.

1399
00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 2: To make it like you're you're watching it on an

1400
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 2: award show. I want it needs to be theater. It

1401
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 2: needs to be needs to be fun.

1402
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 5: When you try to leave, you try to the fan.

1403
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 1: You want the fan to leave, said, I've never seen

1404
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 1: anybody do that before.

1405
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, every absolutely. I want to do that every time.

1406
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 2: And and just like I said, give them that joy

1407
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 2: and give them that uh that it factor.

1408
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 3: I'm trying to I'm trying to be the greatest to

1409
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 3: do it while I still can do it.

1410
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 5: When they say R and B is dead, Chris Brown says, what.

1411
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 2: It's not, it's not just hip hop is is more prevalent.

1412
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:29,440
Speaker 2: I would just say hip hop is has has been influential.

1413
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 3: Over the over the whole world. But I feel like

1414
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 3: R and B.

1415
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:36,120
Speaker 2: R and B has has its place, and there's a

1416
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 2: lot of there's a lot of R and B artists

1417
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 2: out because I don't want to discredit it. It's a

1418
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 2: lot of great R and B female wise and male wise.

1419
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 2: I just feel like we just have to have platforms.

1420
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 2: I feel like we need.

1421
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:49,440
Speaker 3: Bigger platforms to show music videos. I think we need

1422
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:51,560
Speaker 3: not just for R and B, just for music period.

1423
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:52,880
Speaker 2: Like we used to have one on six in part,

1424
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 2: you know, we used to have have outlets to where

1425
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 2: people would be engaged and have to see you at

1426
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 2: a certain time and have to be invested in your

1427
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 2: music and certain things like that.

1428
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:03,440
Speaker 3: There's other avenues like that on the internet.

1429
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 1: But Tyler Perry did by just just by BT, so

1430
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:07,160
Speaker 1: maybe he'll he'll bring one.

1431
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.

1432
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:12,040
Speaker 2: Let us let us start showcasing new artists, new talent

1433
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 2: so people can and so everybody just have to go

1434
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 2: find an artists, like, like, let these talented artists be broadcasted,

1435
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 2: like let them, let them, let them wrong.

1436
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 3: I feel like it's it's needed.

1437
01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:23,960
Speaker 2: I feel like I go to flip through my channels

1438
01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:25,920
Speaker 2: unless I have to type in the name of the artists.

1439
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:29,160
Speaker 2: It's cool, but I would like to be presented with

1440
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 2: artists like, oh man, that's that's tight.

1441
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 3: Who is that guy?

1442
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 5: How do we get R and B? Will R and

1443
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 5: B ever be what it once was?

1444
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 1: Because I was talking Timberland, I thought I think it

1445
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:39,400
Speaker 1: was Timberland, and he says, I don't think it to

1446
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 1: be at the height it once was.

1447
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 2: The R It depends because because everything shifts, there's always

1448
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,880
Speaker 2: a shift in music. Uh so, so it just depends

1449
01:00:48,880 --> 01:00:52,520
Speaker 2: on the right artist, depends on the right the right timing,

1450
01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 2: the season, what the world is, what the state of the.

1451
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 3: World is, what people are going through.

1452
01:00:57,160 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 2: Like, you know, music, music, especially R and B come

1453
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:01,400
Speaker 2: from pain, a lot of pain.

1454
01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 3: There's a lot of pain on on the world.

1455
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:05,400
Speaker 2: But I think we're trying to I think right there,

1456
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:08,080
Speaker 2: everybody's trying to kind of like Negate that trying to

1457
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 2: be like.

1458
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 3: You know what, Hey, I just want to feel better.

1459
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:14,000
Speaker 2: I want to talk about substances and records and whatever

1460
01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 2: crazy stuff it is.

1461
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 3: But I think I think I think it has it's

1462
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 3: gonna be time for it.

1463
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 5: What's your thought on AI you like it?

1464
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:25,640
Speaker 3: It's yeah, I'm kind of, oh, I'm kind of I'm

1465
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 3: kind of uh, I'm.

1466
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:33,440
Speaker 2: Fifty to fifty because the capabilities of the scientific community.

1467
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:34,640
Speaker 3: I love it.

1468
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:36,360
Speaker 1: You know, they can make me sound like Chris Brown.

1469
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:39,840
Speaker 1: That's crazy, and then they won't need real Chris Brown. See,

1470
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:40,960
Speaker 1: I can play your half of that.

1471
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:43,480
Speaker 2: I said this, this, this, This is what I said

1472
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 2: if I heard it when I hear when I hear

1473
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 2: the AI version of Chris Brown, and it's just a

1474
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:51,000
Speaker 2: complete song, and it's a great song. I'm gonna figure

1475
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:55,840
Speaker 2: out if we're gonna license our voices out right, because

1476
01:01:56,560 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 2: I know I'm not going to be the one to

1477
01:01:58,120 --> 01:01:59,920
Speaker 2: do it, but there's gonna be an artist that's the

1478
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:03,120
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, that's me, that's me, right, and they

1479
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:05,360
Speaker 2: just and they're gonna they're gonna benefit from it.

1480
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:06,840
Speaker 3: But I'm fifty to fifty.

1481
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 2: I feel like it takes away a lot of the

1482
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:13,520
Speaker 2: the mystery or the artistry that makes you a beautiful artist.

1483
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:16,800
Speaker 3: Right, if you could just have challenge beauty.

1484
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's crazy, but I feel like I'm still

1485
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:23,360
Speaker 2: I'm in this technological world too, so I'm fascinated with

1486
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:24,000
Speaker 2: it as well.

1487
01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 5: You know, I'm gonna get you out here on these

1488
01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 5: two right here.

1489
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 1: You're a very good businessman, reported that you own fourteen

1490
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:34,080
Speaker 1: Burger Kings. How are you able to become so business

1491
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:35,760
Speaker 1: savage at such a young age.

1492
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 2: My team, my team, I've been able to have a

1493
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 2: great team that you know, I've been through my ups

1494
01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 2: and downs, Like I felt a lot financially in the beginning.

1495
01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:48,160
Speaker 2: Just you know, uh, you make mistakes, yeah, you know.

1496
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:51,440
Speaker 2: But now it's about it's about just trying to.

1497
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:51,880
Speaker 3: I want to.

1498
01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:54,480
Speaker 2: I want to create stuff that's going to create stuff,

1499
01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:55,320
Speaker 2: you know, right.

1500
01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:56,160
Speaker 3: I want to be able.

1501
01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 2: To have stuff that's going to be here for everybody,

1502
01:02:57,920 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 2: for rajevity, so and it doesn't necessari have to be

1503
01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 2: titled around uh my actual name or brand. I just

1504
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:06,960
Speaker 2: want to be able to have a legacy for my

1505
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 2: for my family outside of music, you know, I want to.

1506
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 3: I want to be wealthy instead of rich.

1507
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:16,280
Speaker 1: You know. Okay, your catalogs, that seems to be a

1508
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:19,880
Speaker 1: big You own your masters. Yeah, and you were one

1509
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 1: of the youngest to ever do that at the age

1510
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:22,480
Speaker 1: of twenty nine.

1511
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:24,920
Speaker 5: Would you ever?

1512
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:26,160
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of you see a lot of

1513
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:28,959
Speaker 1: artists selling the catalog Is that's something Chris Brown would

1514
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:29,920
Speaker 1: look to do in the future.

1515
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 2: I don't know, It depends it depends on I would.

1516
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 2: I don't think I would sell them. I think I might,

1517
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:40,800
Speaker 2: I might do least them out and stuff like that later,

1518
01:03:40,840 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 2: but I don't think. I don't think I would because

1519
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 2: I feel like, as a black artist, that's that's what

1520
01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:49,520
Speaker 2: we've been wanting forever to be able to get that

1521
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:52,120
Speaker 2: get our masters right. So so for me to be

1522
01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:53,800
Speaker 2: able to do that, like and be one of the

1523
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:57,040
Speaker 2: first young cats to do it, like it's like, oh my,

1524
01:03:57,160 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 2: I beat the game. But I feel like I feel

1525
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:01,400
Speaker 2: like I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it at this point

1526
01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:04,800
Speaker 2: because that's that's something my my children's children's children can

1527
01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:05,880
Speaker 2: eat off, you know.

1528
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:08,600
Speaker 3: So I think I'm a temper.

1529
01:04:08,680 --> 01:04:12,680
Speaker 5: The story by jockeys, jacque said he came to a head.

1530
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 5: He lived in the crib. Yeah so so so Jock.

1531
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 3: He's been around me since he was teenagers bracest everything. Uh.

1532
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:24,640
Speaker 2: I've seen Jacqueze's videos through through mutual friends.

1533
01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 3: That we knew, and I knew that he was a

1534
01:04:26,320 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 3: fan of me, and I'm not. I'm not like if

1535
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:30,360
Speaker 3: I see talent and I see and I see the

1536
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 3: same spunk that I had in my eye. But I

1537
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 3: was like, you know, what this.

1538
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 2: This kid is really really talented. So he came to

1539
01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:38,520
Speaker 2: l A for like a week he was staying. He

1540
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 2: was staying at a hotel. I was like, bro, why

1541
01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:44,040
Speaker 2: you waste your money at the hotel? The people we

1542
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 2: both know they had my crib.

1543
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:48,480
Speaker 3: We chill him. You good, bro, It ain't no it's

1544
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:50,240
Speaker 3: no no parents at the house gonna tell you what

1545
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:52,440
Speaker 3: to do. Come to the house. But so I just

1546
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:53,520
Speaker 3: showed him the ropes like he was.

1547
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:55,640
Speaker 2: He was around and he was able to He was

1548
01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:57,320
Speaker 2: able to learn from me in the studio as well,

1549
01:04:57,480 --> 01:04:59,360
Speaker 2: Like like so I would be in a studio with

1550
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:00,360
Speaker 2: him and just teach stuff.

1551
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:03,360
Speaker 3: He was actually like, big bro, what's this? Is this

1552
01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:05,040
Speaker 3: cool to do? This is not cool to do? And

1553
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:06,600
Speaker 3: I would just I would just telling him, hey, bro,

1554
01:05:06,680 --> 01:05:07,320
Speaker 3: don't don't do this.

1555
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:10,400
Speaker 2: Don't do what they doing. That's that's fine, you know.

1556
01:05:10,560 --> 01:05:12,760
Speaker 2: So a lot of the things with John Cueze's it's

1557
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:15,000
Speaker 2: real family. So when I see him do his thing

1558
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:17,480
Speaker 2: and where he's at now, I'm proud of him, man,

1559
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:21,200
Speaker 2: because because I saw the grind before before everybody else saw.

1560
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:24,000
Speaker 1: You know, I had Timberlon. I'm get you out of him.

1561
01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:26,400
Speaker 1: This one he said he got some great advice from you.

1562
01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 1: He said, uh, you called him and said, bro, don't

1563
01:05:30,360 --> 01:05:32,680
Speaker 1: do any more interviews. High You remember that conversation.

1564
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:37,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah because me, because you know Tims

1565
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 2: Timmys is.

1566
01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:43,640
Speaker 3: So I learned so much from him. But I remember,

1567
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:47,040
Speaker 3: you know, I love I love weed, so so we

1568
01:05:47,160 --> 01:05:48,960
Speaker 3: used to smoke a lot of time. And then I

1569
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:50,920
Speaker 3: just remember seeing them on that's a don't do that

1570
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:53,840
Speaker 3: that well, don't do that. We can't do it. It's

1571
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:55,480
Speaker 3: not it's not a good it's not a good look.

1572
01:05:55,680 --> 01:05:56,480
Speaker 3: It's not a good look.

1573
01:05:56,840 --> 01:05:58,760
Speaker 1: You got a new sing single, the new singers out

1574
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:02,840
Speaker 1: summer to Yeah, eleven sol album, leven solo album is

1575
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:05,600
Speaker 1: on the way. Yeah, what can your fans? What can

1576
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:08,920
Speaker 1: we expect from Chris Brown on this album? Less songs,

1577
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:09,800
Speaker 1: less songs?

1578
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:12,280
Speaker 3: Yes, only only saying that my fans good. I mean

1579
01:06:12,320 --> 01:06:13,240
Speaker 3: because I'm used to putting.

1580
01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:16,720
Speaker 2: I think my last album had like thirty something songs.

1581
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:19,600
Speaker 2: The one before that had like fifty six.

1582
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 3: Like, so it's a lot.

1583
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 5: Can we get like twelve thirteen?

1584
01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:25,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the albums.

1585
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:27,800
Speaker 2: The album's gonna be called eleven eleven, right, it's my

1586
01:06:27,840 --> 01:06:30,280
Speaker 2: eleventh album and it's only gonna have eleven songs.

1587
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:33,800
Speaker 3: Right, so but eleven eleven is gonna be released in November.

1588
01:06:34,160 --> 01:06:37,640
Speaker 2: No, we're trying to figure it out. Possibly, but we're

1589
01:06:37,680 --> 01:06:40,080
Speaker 2: trying to figure it out now right. As of now,

1590
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:42,320
Speaker 2: I'm still in the studio. We got a lot of

1591
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:44,760
Speaker 2: good records that I've been cutting and in the new song,

1592
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:46,360
Speaker 2: I just put it. I just put that out basically

1593
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:49,439
Speaker 2: to just have something for the summer. Have people haven't

1594
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 2: feeling good again, because I know it's about to start

1595
01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:54,480
Speaker 2: getting hot hot out here, so let's just have fun.

1596
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:57,040
Speaker 2: I'm you know the videos coming, were about to dance

1597
01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:59,800
Speaker 2: about the dance, about the dance again on them.

1598
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:03,120
Speaker 1: Congratulations with all they success, y'all. Thank you performing at

1599
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 1: DRE on the twenty nine.

1600
01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 3: Yeah. Fight, Yeah, you're gonna be in the fight.

1601
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:07,040
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be at the fight.

1602
01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, i' gonna be that too. So yeah, we

1603
01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:11,560
Speaker 3: got a link up man. Thank you, brother, Congratulations of

1604
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:12,240
Speaker 3: all these success.

1605
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:15,000
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me, God blessed brother. Thank you, brother,

1606
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 5: Chris Brown.

1607
01:07:17,480 --> 01:07:21,680
Speaker 4: All my life, grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle, bad

1608
01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:26,080
Speaker 4: the price, want slice got the brother all my life.

1609
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 5: I've been grinding all my life, all my life, grinding all.

1610
01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:34,520
Speaker 4: My life, sacrifice, hustle, bad to price, one slice, not

1611
01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:36,720
Speaker 4: the brother, all my life.

1612
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:38,120
Speaker 5: I've been grinding all my life.