WEBVTT - Episode 291 w/ Alicia Keys 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.520 Welcome to Drink Champs, the production of The Black Effect 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:18.480 and I heart radio and his Drink chas motherfucking podcast. 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.880 He's a legendary queen's rappers, he said, that's your boy 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:25.320 in R. He's a Miami hippop and mioneer. Up is 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.000 d j e f N. Together they drinking up with 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:32.520 some of the biggest players in the most professional, unprofessional 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.839 podcast and yet number one sorts for drunk back drink 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:41.680 is New Year's Eve. That's time for Drink Champs. Trick up? Mother? 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:50.920 Would it good? Be hoping? What it should be? This? 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.159 This is your boy in o R? What up is 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.520 dj e FN? This militatate crazy wall? Yall be our 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:01.120 drink Chaps. Y'all be yaur now yeah, yappy happy. We're 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:10.560 are happy today. In case you don't know right now 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.840 right now, UM, I had so much joy Google in 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:24.520 this person ninety million records sold, fifteen Grammys. I've never 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.400 even been nominated for a Grammy, like so like I 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.400 got person to beef with the Grammy. But you cannot 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:35.160 have personally because you got fifteen and the mother um 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:40.480 countless movies, countless, staying relevant, making the best music and 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:42.840 continuing to make the best music. I'm gonna tell you what. 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.200 I listened to the new album twice. I'm gonna tell 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.200 you the joints that I really really loved. One just 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.880 hit me off top all of them. I mean, you 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:54.360 still are fine wine. You are fine wine. You are 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.559 getting better with time, You're getting better with subject matter. 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.880 Everything about this this is how did they say it 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:10.040 in Spanish? Blackuena Atlanta is whatever? This is the time 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.359 on the top. We can't go no further out of this, 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:18.040 and hopefully this makes us to be more female orientated 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.959 because we need more females. It's not the case. You 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.560 know who you're talking to about. We talked about the 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:32.000 impeccable Markable. By the way, just say you know, we've 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:35.240 been doing drink chats for six years. My friend Garcia 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:40.840 has only been hit three times where he walked in, 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.120 Paul said. Paul said, he didn't even come to my 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:56.160 son's birthday and my girl and so you so off, Tome. 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:57.680 I want to ask, I heard this is a rum 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:06.200 by that you okay drinks drinks a drink. We found out. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:10.200 We found out that you like hallapeno to killer. That 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.639 means you are gangster. Are going to be honest. Okay, 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.840 just get her drink. Let's get her. But let me 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.520 ask you. There's a rumor that you and your home 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:25.200 girl to nasht y'all, no, no, not to not share 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.440 the artist. But it was in a group and y'all 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:35.839 was Nicia you know, my my, yes, you know, either 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.920 she was Ray and I was Ghost or she was 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:41.920 Ghost and I was ready. It really depends on the day. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:43.760 So y'all was in a rap group and y'all was 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:45.880 calling yourself right and go. No, we was in a 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:50.520 singing group, but y'all were rapping on the wrap she rhymes. Okay, 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.680 you know I did a little that that that and 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:58.440 the point was we love Utan. So officially, that's hip 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.600 that Rain, that's she's Ray, I'm Ghost, I'm go, She's Ray. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.960 Who's ever the loudest at the time, it was usually her, 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.320 It's Ray, And whoever is like the cooler one, which 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.800 is usually me, it's Ghosts And that's the vibe. Yeah, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.800 and that would do show. You know. It was just 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.800 like a personal you know, like that farmer that you 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:23.920 put on when you need to just get your thing. Ghost. Notice. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.960 I think Ray might know it because Swizze knows it. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.920 And for one of my birthdays, he had Ray come 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.000 and I was like, big, I mean, I love love 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.000 love Ray and Ghost and woo and and so he 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:38.840 ended up coming, and so I was able to kind 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:40.440 of explain to him some of that so he might 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.520 know it. Okay, you know, did you make your purple tape? 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:51.040 Nobody can make the purpose there's only one. Hey, okay, 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.840 that's so let me ask you another question. Let me 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.240 ask you a question. Why is your microphone down? That's 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.440 to tell you gotta keep your because we just everybody 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:06.000 does supposed to come over and tell you to keep 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:10.400 it down. Came over and I said, wait, nervous. We're 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:18.680 all nervous at least making English now, So I gotta 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.440 ask you. How mad was you, a little mama when 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.920 she sunked up your performance? All right? The truth for 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.440 the truth first of all, you know, because I had 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.279 to watch it again, and let me just be honest 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.280 with you, as me watching it again this morning, it 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:38.200 seemed like you didn't even see her. The truth seem 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:39.960 that he was eating it was in his face. All 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:44.440 I know was on that stage, Jay was here, I 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.040 was here. In my head, I was such a gorilla 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.320 at the time. I was my eyes. I was like, 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.560 this is what's happening is I'm going to destroy this 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:57.880 record tonight. That's all I had in my head. Somehow, however, 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.760 she got over here. I didn't even bear witness to 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:05.320 the whole show. I was ice so focused on making 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:09.000 it amazing. I went backstage and Jay was like, so 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:14.040 you ain't You ain't see that, and he was like, no, 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.080 you ain't. Just see what just happened. And I was like, yeah, 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.360 we killed it, that's what and he was like, you 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.239 ain't see and I was like, what are you talking about? 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.760 The whole time my sister was standing right there, and 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.480 I had no idea that I had to watch the 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:35.520 playback myself. I had no idea. So so honestly, that's been. 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.040 That's been some time. She's super big. Love to her. No, 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:44.080 she's good. She's super good. She has you know, sent 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.440 her love, apologies the whole thing. I think she was 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:57.160 just inspired, inspirational. I got on the stage too, because 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.279 you know what, it's funny, because it's something real New 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.600 York kids like. She could have really started like a 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.040 trend like other people have been, Like yo, like maybe 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.960 a fat Joe jumped on or somebody because everyone is 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:11.520 filling the same New York spirit. Yeah yeah, but go 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:16.760 on like that because I looked at his face again 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:21.200 today and I said that man was he was not happy? 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.160 So so you go back home and didn't you don't 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:28.680 know to after? That's crazy. I was actually crying. I 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.200 was cracking to me. It was hysterical. I thought it 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.440 was the most funny. I just couldn't believe that I 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.560 was on that stage the entire time and I just 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.920 did not see that. Like that's how focused. Diane went 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.240 out performed. But like you've seen the meme, they put 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:48.440 her everywhere. Now they put her girl every single where? 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.240 Did this cup right here? She right there? She created 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.080 the memes like the first memes that was like it right, 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:56.960 you feel like she started at me. I think she 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.760 started this meme is the motherfucker thinks she gets I 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:08.800 think you right, I think little mama, I'm still okay, 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:10.680 get over the way and goes think I'm trying to 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.760 picture you as a way. But on the new album, 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:17.120 Let's start with only you? Is that is that? You know, 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.000 you know, the one that really got me. I wanted 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:22.080 to make love to my wife immedia, Okay, this is 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:27.480 what you need to do. But I love when you 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.920 called my name that that one was that I was 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:33.559 like the in the gamest of me left. I was like, 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:38.160 holy shit, you're going. First of all, I want to 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.480 tell you, I get my sage just to shot day right, 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.640 And I feel like this album that you got is 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.559 my first time getting shot out of my tape that 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.920 even though it's not a tape that you'll just starts 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:58.959 worthy every one. I love her so much for you 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.160 to just say hold on, that's a very big deal, 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.480 do you know, like you're the new version hold on 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.280 because that's my big sister in my head my head 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.880 shot it is my big sister, like for sure. And 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:18.199 have you ever Yeah, we met, We definitely, we met. 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.600 She actually performed on the show with me. That was crazy. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.240 I had to you know, fix my mouth to ask 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.080 her to come out and perform, because you know, she's 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.000 like a she's like so ethereal she's she's like the 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.400 print she just disappeared and she's just like and then 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:34.079 she reappeared and it's like that. It's like that, so 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.719 so she uh. I met her in London and we 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.440 connected and at the time, I was doing my organization, 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.040 Keep It Out Alive, and we did something called the 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:45.440 Black Ball, and so every year we had really powerful performances, 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.760 and so I asked her to be a part of it, 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:52.360 and so she told me yes. And when I tell you, 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.400 I left the room. I was like, thank you, sister, 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.920 you know, big love and to see you soon. I 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.360 left the room. I went around the corner as fast 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:01.920 as I could get and then I jumped up and 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:06.920 down like like I was super And then her assistant 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:11.920 walked by, some acting crazy. That's like, good to see you. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.280 So let me ask Let me ask you, because you've 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.960 also met Prince and Michael. Correct, how is it? How 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.640 is it? First of all, we love stories from both 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.000 of them, So whichever way you want to start prints 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:32.360 Michael Prince um Man, you know, he another one. He 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:34.280 called me a lot. He would check in on me 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.040 a lot. And I don't even know how he got 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.880 my number, Like he's I don't understand. Tell you how 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.400 the Prince got your number. He's another mysterious. He's another 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:47.520 one there he come back and and and by the way, 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.120 if you ever want to get him on the phone, 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.559 listen whole different situations. I feel like, Prince, what's a 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.720 gangster on the phone? Is that true? I'm just walking out. 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:58.160 This is just my imagination. He was definitely very directs, 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:00.640 very very direct, you know. So he would he would 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.160 call me on the phone like after you heard you 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.280 don't know my name? And he was like, you don't know, 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:13.880 you get checking it out of me? Called me it's 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:15.920 like I just heard your new record. And I was 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.920 like hello, and you know it's him because he's the 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.880 only one that sound like that, and so he so 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.079 he was like, I love what you're doing. I love 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.080 that sound that you're doing. I love how you're producing 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.360 all your records, Like this is powerful. Keep doing what 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.000 you're doing. So he would hit me like that and 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.199 I said, so, what did you say his name as 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:36.640 in your phone? He always called me from like some 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.920 old to call it back, you can't And I wasn't 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.400 trying to be so it wasn't really I don't. I 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.240 don't you know if I called him, I would, you know, 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:51.720 call through somebody Lake minnto, some weird crazy definitely somewhere crazy, 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:58.199 said scare. And then he would pop up on my 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.880 shows and and then you would just know that like 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:11.719 Princess here right and everything he turned purple purple. It 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.199 definitely had not. So you don't really want to know 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:18.080 that Princess at your show, because yeah, you don't want 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.480 to be performing when Prince is at your show. And 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:23.400 then Prince called you later and be like you didn't 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.400 hit the high note like he's the voice like that, 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.040 I'm sorry, he's wrong. He will he'd like, your sound 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.079 was sucked up this show, and I'd be like, he 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.960 never told you that you sound. Your sound wasn't right. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.439 Your sound was sucked up. And I was like, so 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.400 you think it was? But he he tried to work 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.319 through with it. He was like, I think I think 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.400 it's a little bit between the speakers that have happened. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.280 It's a little bit between how the mixer's treating it. 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:50.400 And he would actually like big brother Vicus, properly tell 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.000 me some truthful ship. But you really won't get from 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.600 most people, you know what I mean. So he's amazing. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:56.800 A lot of people said that he was like an 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.240 artist artist, like like pro artist everything. Okay, But about 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:04.480 Michael Michael, I only met him one time. What's Bubbles 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:08.480 the Monkey? I didn't meet the book. I didn't meet 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.680 the monkey. I met his kids, so that was cool. 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.400 And then he was just cool as hell. Man. It 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.120 was so cool. I mean, always saw spoken, always that 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.240 you know, that energy, and always like so curious. I 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.200 remember it might have been March and there was still 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:30.240 a Christmas tree up, so I remember I was like, wait, yeah, 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:35.400 it was definitely not near Christmas. Course I like Christmas 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:39.320 tree too, so I get it. It's good. It's good. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.760 So and he was a Reagan thing. You mean, other 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:46.360 people do this, see because you never take your I 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:50.599 don't never put it up. Holy, so Michael had this 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:54.800 Christmas tree in March, so they had like that, you know. 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.160 So anyway, everything is like kind of whimsical and kind 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.880 of just like dreaming and everything. And I remember he 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.319 was like giving all these this information about Thriller and 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.800 he was like I had all these memories, and that 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.640 big gass plaque that had like four hundred thousand times 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.800 platinum was on the floor. It was like on the 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.160 floor in the corner. So it was. It was so good. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:17.760 He was just so full of love and he was 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.160 super sweet and so loving and who would have ever 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.960 thought that was the last I mean, you know, I 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.920 only met him one time. But he's amazing. I love him. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.000 Who don't love Michael? Which is why you love love 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.280 when you call my name? Because I sound like like 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.040 a little Michael vibe. There was just one song on 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:39.000 the album that it didn't have a feature, four Umla 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:44.200 produced by Mike will that's crazy crazy Else is on 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:52.240 that record? The latest s? Oh yeah, I didn't. I 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.880 don't know what type of thing you. I feel like 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:00.680 like three records and that's good. The ain't trust me, 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:02.920 I ain't gonna lie. Let me just tell you something. 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.920 This is probably the most important. I felt as doing 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.720 an interview when they sent me the album early, because 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.920 you know, we're really not journalists, but we're journalists, right. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.480 We have to take that that that meaning. But no 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.720 one's ever done that for us. No one's ever sent 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.560 us the album offered. No one of them offered it. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:26.000 No one like you guys are really perfumptional because thank 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:34.120 you for he like the taking clan. It's like fifty 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.120 five of them right now. They just came out, everyone 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.200 masked professional who No one said nothing, just walked through. 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.960 Everything was focused. I like it. This is not rapping, 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:48.040 not rapists all over the place. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:52.120 is not. So do you consider yourself a soul artist 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.480 because you're more than just R and B. I love 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.360 that question definitely. I mean I feel I feel like 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.160 i'm genre list. I don't feel like I'm undefined. Well, 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.000 I don't get defined what I do. But but if 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.640 there was ever a definition, I think it's so artist. 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.240 It's perfect because I think who was So? I think 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.080 Nirvana is soul. I feel like, you know, soul is 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:12.840 just something that hits you and moves you and you 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.239 feel it in a way that you know you can't describe. 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.680 So I like that. I'm gonna go for that. But 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:20.760 everything you do is still very hip hop no matter 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:24.200 what you do. Yeah, you mean it's just in me. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.600 It's in me. Hip Hop is soul. Hip hop is soul. 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.400 I mean like it's in me. New York born and raised. 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.480 You can't get it out of me, No, don't try. 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.280 I've seen two during One say that you're from Harlem, 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.120 and one says he was born in Hell's Kitchen. Yeah, okay, 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.920 so Hell's Kitchen. One is true. So Hell's Kitchen, well, 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.480 I mean yeah, born in health kitchen is right, and 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.680 raising House kitchen and also Harlem Hell's Kitchen is downtown. 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.520 For people that don't he was Kitchen is like no 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.920 Elis is further down. At least it's like twenties. He 0:16:56.120 --> 0:17:00.520 was kitchen. It is like midtown forties, so it's almost sixtees. 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.960 But west side like where it was crazy. I don't 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.560 know where you were more from Queen. You were more Queens, 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:09.880 so you probably did even come to forty second Street. 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.280 That M just have to get you got your I 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:23.240 used to go to peep shows there, how I was going, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.000 that was up. Friends. I never said I had good friends. 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:33.879 At least we don't. We don't know if you know. 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.320 But our show is about giving flowers, you know. We 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.840 we see so many artists and they want to praise them, 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.199 you know, after they're gone. We wanted to change their narrative. 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.919 We want to give people, literally, they flowers while they alive. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.040 So we didn't make that statement up, but we're making 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:49.000 it famous and we're keeping it famous. So we literally 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.320 wanted to give you your flowers so you can know that. 0:17:51.400 --> 0:18:00.320 Let's make a noise. You give this to everybody coming. 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.159 Just but you're the first one of the purple all right, 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.120 this is the first one that's an exclusive one, right, Yeah, 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:11.000 this is golden. Yes, we got the beautiful They're gonna last. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:17.119 And I don't know about that purple one. I don't know. 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.040 And the purple one. I didn't even a purple tape. 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.439 Purple tape, and you don't know that. I love purple. 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:27.040 I love the purple tape fire. I love this much. 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:33.200 So okay, so we didn't get only you. Let's let's 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.359 get to only you on a new album. Yeah, alright, 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.080 what made you go on? So, first of all, the 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:43.200 album is called Keys, right, and and it's the double album, 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.320 and it has two sides. The first is called Originals 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.200 and the other one is called a Lot. So Originals 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:54.720 is like that classic a K piano songwriter. Those vibes 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:56.520 was one you could sing at the type of your LANs. 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.720 And then Unlocked, which is the other side, is the 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.440 one me and Mike Will connected and we sampled the 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:06.560 originals and made a whole another record out of dolts. 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.680 So it's it's sick. So only You was one of 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:11.679 my favorite songs. But I'm trying to figure out if 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:13.680 you got both sides, because you just got you. I 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:15.919 got Scott got best at me I got La La, 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:20.960 I got nack King Cole, is it insane? Come from 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:24.000 me with khalil? Which was I forgot? How good khalil is? 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:29.240 You reminded me it's old memories love when you called 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:39.200 my name daffa dolls when daffodil you do think, I 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:40.560 was like, I don't want to google that. That's when 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:46.600 they ask you that you'll be like diagnosing yourself on Google. 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:50.480 I'll be messing up when I Google. I'll be getting 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:53.679 confused and just give up. A lot of daffodils are 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:55.960 Actually the firstest I just learned is recently it's the 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.600 first flower that booms after the winter. And so the 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.200 life is that you know you you you can come 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.480 back after a dark time, you know what I mean. 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:09.520 So that's what Dapford deals is. And it is a flower. Okay, 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:11.200 it is a flowers, y'all. I was you know you 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.600 got this? Yeah? Yeah, So I'm bouncing all over the place. 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:17.520 But one of my favorite joints is when you sample 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:23.240 O D B. That is my sample Brooklyn Zoo and 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:26.840 it was for girl girlfriend, yes exactly. So what made 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:29.800 you go into that zone and you actually like song? 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:32.320 Like you know what I mean? Like, what made you 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.840 just say you know what? Because that's like, you know, 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.760 it's so hard to recreate a classic record that's already classic, 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:40.359 and then so many people are going to judge it 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:42.040 because they're gonna say, well, it's not as good as 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:44.240 Brooklyn Zoo or this is good. What makes you take 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.720 on that task? I just had no idea at the time. 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:49.359 I didn't even know. I didn't even know people was 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.080 gonna give a funk or not to be honest, because 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.600 it was my very first record, Like I said, I 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.639 love you very much so that that piano was so dirty, 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.159 but it was the piano that I'm so heavy and 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:03.879 so hard, and for me, it just was ill as 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:05.879 a as a singer to be able to end who 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:08.320 play the piano, who take to take those two and 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:10.159 create a song around it. To me, that was just 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:12.639 like some brilliant ship. So the last thing I was 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:15.520 thinking about was was whether I was messing up with 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:17.439 a classic or anything. I just didn't even know how 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:19.600 that went yet. You know, it's like at a certain point, 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:22.080 you don't even have any limitations. There's nothing inside your 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:24.560 head that's telling you can't do it. You're just gonna try. 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:27.320 You know, yeah, you just tried, and I was like, whatever, 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:30.320 they're gonna tell me that's a classic. But how did 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:33.600 that get in your head? Because I hate it now, 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:35.280 Like when people do my record sover, I'll be like, 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:39.480 I'll be like, people will be sending me record. So 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:41.240 they were like, look, I think your record over Like 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:46.159 I didn't get men MC. It's gonna be different, as 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:48.680 different as an MC to tackle another MC's records. What 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:51.880 I'm saying, well, but did that's even that's even more hard. 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:54.800 There might be more creative liberty if you're singing over 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:57.399 the joint, Yeah I would. I wouldn't mind someone singing 0:21:57.440 --> 0:21:59.680 over my joint as opposed to rapping and trying to wrap. 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:01.920 That's yeah, I think I think that's what it is. 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:05.440 It's easier for that. It's just different. So okay, but 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:08.480 we spoke on Empire State earlier, but we spoke about 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:11.879 the incidental performance. How is this record even put together? 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:14.280 Jay calls you and he goes, I got to pi 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:18.320 in tell us just like that. I don't know why 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:20.240 I keep caging these words. I'm doing all with job 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:26.840 by the way, but honestly kind of sounding like, so 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:29.560 does he have the record? Do you have the record? 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:33.080 Are y'all and Sony? What's going on? In this particular case, 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:36.520 he had the record. He um, he was reaching out 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:38.159 for me to do the record for a minute, and 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:39.920 he was going through you know, he was being respectful, 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:42.200 going through the proper channels at the time, and for 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:45.040 whatever reason, the people that represent me at the time 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:48.240 did not tell me about the record. I don't know why. 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:51.560 I don't know what if maybe they felt another thing 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:54.440 or I don't I really don't know. So finally he 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:56.760 called me and he was like, man, I've been trying 0:22:56.800 --> 0:22:59.440 to get you this record, this record, this special, this 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:01.680 is it's called Empire State of Mind. I want you 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:04.520 to hear it. It's about New York and obviously nobody 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:06.879 can do it, but you know you were married, Like 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:12.680 there's the only two that could do it. I need yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:23:12.720 --> 0:23:16.800 that's true. It wouldn't make sense, right, yeah, right exactly. 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:20.760 So um So, anyway, I was like, I couldn't believe 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:23.080 that it didn't get to me, and it definitely created 0:23:23.119 --> 0:23:25.359 a whole new thing for me to make sure that 0:23:25.440 --> 0:23:27.840 I was like in front of my ship because so 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:30.040 many people, you know, you trust them to handle your 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:32.119 stuff and do do you do their thing for you 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:34.040 and you don't know what's coming back to it was 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:36.280 not coming back to you. And sometimes that's crazy because 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:40.000 could you imagine that empire never got to me when 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:42.240 you heard the record? Did you know this was immediately 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:45.359 a monster? Or you was like because you know what 0:23:45.480 --> 0:23:48.560 it is? Sometimes when we make regional records, and although 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:51.520 New York is is a big market, I'm sure when um, 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:55.520 people you know from gare making a I Love New 0:23:55.600 --> 0:23:58.480 York record and a lot of people get critiqued of 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:00.840 us because they you know, they say that we're cocky. 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:04.040 New York is where cocky? So was there any time 0:24:04.080 --> 0:24:07.160 when you thought like damn, because it is a regional record, 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:10.520 although it's a global record, but it's regional because if 0:24:10.560 --> 0:24:12.240 you're really not from New York, you're not gonna have 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:14.680 that little mama spirit to jump on the stage. You 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:17.840 understand I'm saying she was correct because she felt the spirit. 0:24:18.160 --> 0:24:20.200 You know what I'm saying, That's exactly what you wanted. 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:22.200 It's just not on the stage at that stage. But 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:27.280 you know what I'm saying. But that's what I'm saying. 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:29.480 When you first heard it, did you know that immediately 0:24:29.560 --> 0:24:31.600 that this is gonna because I believe they change Frank 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:33.520 Sinatra record. They took it out, and this is the 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:35.840 new New York City. And did you know that when 0:24:35.880 --> 0:24:38.000 you heard it? I don't think I knew all that. 0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:42.760 I didn't know all that. I definitely felt it. You 0:24:42.840 --> 0:24:44.720 could feel it. You could feel it had a spirit. 0:24:44.760 --> 0:24:46.879 You could feel the way the chord has changed. You 0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:49.879 could feel that that the beginning of that chorus was 0:24:50.280 --> 0:24:52.359 already kind of in the space. You can start to 0:24:52.440 --> 0:24:55.080 feel what it what it felt like. So I already 0:24:55.720 --> 0:24:58.120 I only operate from an emotional space. I don't really 0:24:58.160 --> 0:24:59.840 know how to go from a place where I'm like, 0:25:00.320 --> 0:25:02.520 this is a smash just I don't I don't work 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:04.440 like that. I just don't even know how to think 0:25:04.560 --> 0:25:07.159 like that. So it was emotional for me, and I 0:25:07.320 --> 0:25:09.760 felt it. It's my city. I loved it, and I 0:25:10.160 --> 0:25:12.440 just felt attracted to it, so so I went forward. 0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:13.880 I actually had to record it a couple of times. 0:25:13.960 --> 0:25:16.440 The first time I recorded it in l a and 0:25:17.080 --> 0:25:19.680 the ship just didn't work. I thought it worked, I 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:23.919 thought it sounded good, but he called me. He was like, um, 0:25:25.080 --> 0:25:26.560 you think he's gonna be able to do them vocals 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:29.200 again and I was like, what I put my vocus 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:34.320 my vocus a fresh? Yeah, I don't don't. I don't 0:25:34.359 --> 0:25:38.760 know if I want to call you. I'm pretty sure 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:42.600 he didn't really want to go on. But to be 0:25:42.720 --> 0:25:45.600 honest and to be fair, I was sick, and you know, 0:25:45.640 --> 0:25:47.320 I was trying to turn the record around for him. 0:25:47.320 --> 0:25:48.920 He asked me for it by a certain time. So 0:25:49.000 --> 0:25:51.000 I was sick and I went in and I did it, 0:25:51.119 --> 0:25:55.639 and you could he when he called me, I was like, 0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:57.359 I was mad, and I was like, what you mean? 0:25:57.600 --> 0:26:00.959 But then I agreed. I agreed, and he's like another thing. 0:26:01.240 --> 0:26:03.280 You know how the record joys be like, oh yeah, 0:26:04.040 --> 0:26:05.680 could you do that? Could you do that on there? 0:26:06.160 --> 0:26:08.520 So he has requests. So I went back in. I 0:26:08.600 --> 0:26:12.760 did it in New York. I was feeling better than right. 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:15.440 You can't do a New York record in l A. 0:26:15.600 --> 0:26:17.960 That's just like, yeah, that's kind of crazy. This is 0:26:18.040 --> 0:26:20.440 like you can't be at Circle House. And my Ami 0:26:20.480 --> 0:26:28.680 even corded, no, you can't. I don't necord. So yeah, 0:26:28.680 --> 0:26:30.199 now that was so that was the vibe and then 0:26:30.359 --> 0:26:32.119 I flipped it did it again, and it was it 0:26:32.240 --> 0:26:34.120 was what it was. It is what it is right now. 0:26:34.240 --> 0:26:37.680 So but now that it is literally the not only 0:26:37.760 --> 0:26:40.280 New York record. But I'll never forget the biggest moment 0:26:40.359 --> 0:26:42.320 for me was I was in Paris and it was 0:26:42.359 --> 0:26:43.840 the first time I was performing the record. Is the 0:26:43.880 --> 0:26:46.480 first time that I performed the record by myself. And 0:26:46.600 --> 0:26:48.400 if you remember, I did a version of the record 0:26:48.440 --> 0:26:50.200 that was just me on piano because I was like, 0:26:50.280 --> 0:26:52.760 I'm not gonna be able to do this jay thing 0:26:53.000 --> 0:26:55.440 every time, Like I'm never gonna be able to perform it, 0:26:55.920 --> 0:26:57.800 and so I did a broken down version of it. 0:26:57.880 --> 0:27:00.399 And that's actually when we talked about ease, and we 0:27:00.480 --> 0:27:03.359 talked about original and unlock. We would call the broken 0:27:03.440 --> 0:27:07.200 down version of Empire my original, and we would call 0:27:07.280 --> 0:27:10.440 the original version of Empire my unlocked version. That's kind 0:27:10.440 --> 0:27:13.440 of the concept of what unlocked and keys come from. 0:27:13.880 --> 0:27:16.200 And so anyway, when I when I did when I 0:27:16.280 --> 0:27:18.800 did my version, I was in Paris and I was 0:27:18.840 --> 0:27:22.920 about to perform, and I was like, I didn't know 0:27:23.000 --> 0:27:24.520 how it was gonna go over. I'm like, first of all, 0:27:24.560 --> 0:27:28.040 they speak another language, are they even gonna understand me? 0:27:28.280 --> 0:27:30.080 And then I'm like New York, New York, and we're 0:27:30.119 --> 0:27:32.000 in Paris. I'm like, I don't know what's gonna happen. 0:27:32.040 --> 0:27:35.399 All I know I went out the entire audience top 0:27:35.560 --> 0:27:43.480 of their loan every word, and I just that was 0:27:43.560 --> 0:27:46.360 one of them records that came out and I knew 0:27:46.400 --> 0:27:49.160 that all the words the same day, like I knew, 0:27:49.240 --> 0:27:51.119 like I was, like I mean, because it was a problem, 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:53.600 Like I felt a little Mama spirit. Like I'm not 0:27:53.800 --> 0:27:56.560 saying that like being funny. I'm actually like I was, 0:27:56.640 --> 0:28:02.040 like I did too, Like I was like I wanted 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:03.639 I did in my mind, like I told you I 0:28:03.680 --> 0:28:08.399 did in my mind. It's just one of those like 0:28:08.760 --> 0:28:13.520 in fact every Winner. It's like my tradition. I go 0:28:14.040 --> 0:28:18.119 back to New York, where I'm from, and I have 0:28:18.320 --> 0:28:19.879 to hear that record. I have to hear that record 0:28:19.960 --> 0:28:24.760 going down stret Like I cannot complete my winter without 0:28:25.080 --> 0:28:29.280 riding down thirty four Street. For some reason, I'm pretty 0:28:29.359 --> 0:28:31.440 much and when I'm in New York, I'm pretty much incognige. 0:28:31.480 --> 0:28:34.520 Rob try the truck. I'm probably in the truck. Yeah, 0:28:34.880 --> 0:28:38.800 But it reminds me of you know, home Alone and 0:28:38.920 --> 0:28:41.760 these these Christmas spirits, you know, songs that you have 0:28:41.880 --> 0:28:45.640 to hear it, like Christmas. Yeah, it does, it does. 0:28:45.720 --> 0:28:47.320 Did it come out around christ I don't know, but 0:28:47.440 --> 0:28:50.600 you know why, it's just that perfect snow record when 0:28:50.640 --> 0:28:53.680 it's snowing. I just want to hear that. And you 0:28:53.720 --> 0:28:58.400 know what I google to you today, um that all 0:28:58.520 --> 0:29:03.000 of your albums like you're lea Google got OBEs of money, 0:29:03.800 --> 0:29:07.520 but you're really a big dog. Like you know, when 0:29:07.600 --> 0:29:10.040 I was making records, they would keep me in the 0:29:10.160 --> 0:29:13.320 summer because it's easier to push the artist in the summer. 0:29:13.920 --> 0:29:19.040 All of your album October I told you record point, 0:29:19.120 --> 0:29:27.480 but you really only your albums came out within November. 0:29:27.520 --> 0:29:29.440 It's only two of your albums that came out the 0:29:29.880 --> 0:29:32.920 first ye And I'm gonna get each other one maybe 0:29:33.040 --> 0:29:37.880 here and all of the other one. Fourth quarter was 0:29:37.920 --> 0:29:41.360 fourth quarter. And what I used to the big, the big, 0:29:41.880 --> 0:29:44.280 the big CEOs to tell me, you can't come out 0:29:44.400 --> 0:29:48.280 fourth quarter? You do, You're gonna say you're asking the 0:29:48.320 --> 0:29:52.480 summer time. I never got orfered and I'm looking at 0:29:52.520 --> 0:29:56.040 I said, damn, oh, it was fourth quarter. Because you 0:29:56.080 --> 0:29:58.000 know what that means that when they drop you a 0:29:58.040 --> 0:30:00.720 fourth quarter, they means that you are the your shot 0:30:00.960 --> 0:30:03.840 for them to make all their money back, so they 0:30:03.960 --> 0:30:07.880 push you J D. M X and all of you 0:30:08.040 --> 0:30:11.200 guys to the fourth quarter because y'all are short shot. 0:30:12.240 --> 0:30:16.240 You know, I happen to be aware of that, of course, 0:30:16.280 --> 0:30:24.000 you know. Yeah, man, that's a big deal now. But honestly, 0:30:24.960 --> 0:30:28.320 it's kind of it's kind of wild and I putting 0:30:28.360 --> 0:30:30.200 out putting out sounds that I'm a minor. That was 0:30:30.280 --> 0:30:33.320 my first record in the summer. Man, it's something that 0:30:33.400 --> 0:30:36.640 feels so good about the summer record. You got, the festivals, 0:30:36.680 --> 0:30:39.040 you got, the parades, you got I remember being in 0:30:39.120 --> 0:30:45.000 the Puerto Rican Day parade. You can go. You have 0:30:45.080 --> 0:30:49.360 some claiming on time. My godmother, it's for the weekend. 0:30:49.480 --> 0:30:52.160 So we rode him with that. That's just that's that's 0:30:52.200 --> 0:31:02.200 all right. We got Leicia. Yeah, but you and I 0:31:02.360 --> 0:31:04.720 loved it. There was something so good about the summer. 0:31:04.760 --> 0:31:07.160 You could go. You know, there's a different energy in 0:31:07.200 --> 0:31:09.520 the winter. You like trying to figure out where you're 0:31:09.520 --> 0:31:12.920 gonna performing out freeze, it's just different. Everybody's kind of 0:31:13.000 --> 0:31:15.520 rushing to be home. It's it's a different vibe. I 0:31:15.600 --> 0:31:18.400 feel like the summer. So my point is, even though 0:31:18.480 --> 0:31:20.400 maybe you wanted to be off in the fourth court, 0:31:20.400 --> 0:31:23.640 I think the summer was like right, yeah, but you 0:31:23.760 --> 0:31:38.160 was a short shot. I don't mind moving on. What 0:31:38.440 --> 0:31:43.600 was your first acting movie, because like, you have so 0:31:43.760 --> 0:31:48.760 much movies to like Holy Molimo. Yeah, so like and 0:31:48.960 --> 0:31:51.640 they said you were signed at twelve. You was making 0:31:51.720 --> 0:31:54.000 music at twelve, and I had a record at fifteen. 0:31:54.520 --> 0:31:58.120 My first record deal was I guess it was right 0:31:58.200 --> 0:32:01.080 out of right out of high school. Graduated high school early, 0:32:01.320 --> 0:32:04.240 so I was about fifth. I was about sixteen. I 0:32:04.320 --> 0:32:06.680 had a record deal, and I did I had a 0:32:06.720 --> 0:32:09.080 record deal. I was. I was signed to Columbia Records, 0:32:09.120 --> 0:32:12.720 and I was accepted to Columbia University. And I just 0:32:12.840 --> 0:32:16.640 knew that was some ship. I was like, Columbia Record, Colby, 0:32:16.680 --> 0:32:31.520 it's me. Somebody knew in me something you so in 0:32:31.560 --> 0:32:34.320 my total when you was in Columbia at the time, 0:32:34.400 --> 0:32:37.080 it was Donnie. I know, don I think Tommy had 0:32:37.120 --> 0:32:41.720 already maybe not, something had transitioned with with Tommy was 0:32:41.760 --> 0:32:44.440 going through it. You know. At the time, I ain't 0:32:44.440 --> 0:32:46.560 know about that ship. I was like no, no, no, 0:32:47.280 --> 0:32:50.160 you know, and then you got to work with Clive 0:32:50.320 --> 0:32:55.680 Davis and then Columbia fucked it up, and and I 0:32:55.840 --> 0:32:59.400 know that I know they're killing themselves to this day 0:33:00.000 --> 0:33:01.640 because they did it with me, and they did it 0:33:01.680 --> 0:33:08.080 with Aretha Franklin. F y damn. I'm sorry. I didn't 0:33:08.080 --> 0:33:09.280 know what they did to Areta. What did they do 0:33:09.360 --> 0:33:10.800 to her? They didn't know what to do with her. 0:33:11.320 --> 0:33:13.240 They didn't know how to Like she didn't start having 0:33:13.280 --> 0:33:15.400 her She's had her records that didn't really blow on 0:33:15.520 --> 0:33:19.760 Columbia and then she you know, she went on and 0:33:19.800 --> 0:33:22.800 then she started getting those big records. So so they 0:33:22.880 --> 0:33:24.240 just didn't really know what to do with the real 0:33:24.360 --> 0:33:26.120 artists and with an artist that was different. You know, 0:33:26.240 --> 0:33:28.680 they so many of these places they just marketing and 0:33:28.760 --> 0:33:30.920 they just commercialism, and they just don't know how to 0:33:31.320 --> 0:33:35.160 think of nothing new. It was a blessing for them, 0:33:35.280 --> 0:33:40.520 Like it was definitely. Did you see the can versus Auntie? 0:33:40.560 --> 0:33:48.880 Got a little heard her? Auntie was right there. She 0:33:49.560 --> 0:33:54.640 was drinking car. Yeah, I got I think it was. 0:33:55.320 --> 0:34:00.680 I thought they called the Soroka Con. There was so 0:34:01.440 --> 0:34:04.240 but she is a legend and the genius and her 0:34:04.440 --> 0:34:07.160 parents with Stephanie Mills, was like one of the most 0:34:07.320 --> 0:34:11.239 incredible parentings ever. And what I loved from seeing the playbacks, 0:34:11.440 --> 0:34:14.080 I love the sisterhood, like you could see how you 0:34:14.160 --> 0:34:16.879 know certain certain times, and I think sometimes artists don't 0:34:17.280 --> 0:34:21.719 don't necessarily connect so so powerfully, although you do meet 0:34:21.760 --> 0:34:24.160 people that you do connect with, but it's so separate. 0:34:24.280 --> 0:34:26.880 But them, like you could see her like she was 0:34:27.000 --> 0:34:28.800 there for her, you know, she was she was not 0:34:28.880 --> 0:34:30.960 gonna leave her. She was gonna be with her the 0:34:31.000 --> 0:34:34.160 whole time. She was gonna like make it the energy beautiful. 0:34:34.239 --> 0:34:36.680 And I just thought that that sisterhood was really really 0:34:36.840 --> 0:34:38.839 really beautiful. And you know what, that's a big show. 0:34:39.040 --> 0:34:41.400 Like people you get nervous, you know what I mean, 0:34:41.480 --> 0:34:45.120 and you definitely might need to try to feel like 0:34:45.200 --> 0:34:47.359 you calm down, But that doesn't take away from her 0:34:47.560 --> 0:34:53.360 legendary status. She's so crazy. I see. I was so 0:34:53.480 --> 0:34:55.120 scared to get up and say hi to him right 0:34:55.160 --> 0:34:59.360 because she's gonna she is gonna cut in l A A. 0:34:59.800 --> 0:35:01.200 I'll forgot who I was what I was like, can 0:35:01.200 --> 0:35:03.560 you see if I could see hot to us? By 0:35:03.640 --> 0:35:05.360 the time they came back, she had already left, and 0:35:05.400 --> 0:35:08.040 I was like, I just gonna take a loss. I 0:35:08.120 --> 0:35:09.960 was just gonna take the loss with the hell, like 0:35:10.040 --> 0:35:14.920 you know, I'm so you watch versus obviously, definitely obvious. 0:35:16.680 --> 0:35:21.520 I was there at the inception. It's part of the family. Yes, 0:35:21.760 --> 0:35:23.520 I was there. Okay, what was the inception of that. 0:35:24.080 --> 0:35:26.319 Let's let's just go there. Well, this is my vision 0:35:26.360 --> 0:35:30.520 of the okay, my virgin. The inception was. I went down. 0:35:30.760 --> 0:35:32.759 I went down to the to the garage and I 0:35:32.880 --> 0:35:35.319 walked in and and and you know, he's over there 0:35:35.320 --> 0:35:39.560 on I. But I'm like, ship, if I walk over there, 0:35:39.800 --> 0:35:41.520 he's gonna make me get on the camera. So I'm like, 0:35:42.040 --> 0:35:43.799 I'm gonna stay were here. So I was watching him, 0:35:43.800 --> 0:35:46.719 and he was like, I wonder they do it? Who's 0:35:46.760 --> 0:35:48.799 he talking to? But if I go over there, he's 0:35:48.800 --> 0:35:50.480 gonna make me get on the camera. Don't want to 0:35:50.480 --> 0:35:53.080 be on the cameras late. So I went upstairs. Next 0:35:53.120 --> 0:35:56.960 time I come back downstairs, Um, he's going And so 0:35:57.040 --> 0:35:59.719 I was like when we went so I got to 0:35:59.719 --> 0:36:05.920 sleep three in the morning. Bag never gonna believe what happened. 0:36:06.000 --> 0:36:10.000 I'm like, what happened? I was just on I g 0:36:10.239 --> 0:36:12.759 with Tim, me and Tim we went crazy and I 0:36:12.840 --> 0:36:14.440 killed him. I killed them for sure. I'm telling you. 0:36:16.680 --> 0:36:18.800 I said, what was happening. He was battling like he 0:36:18.880 --> 0:36:20.320 was playing the record. I was playing the record, he 0:36:20.360 --> 0:36:22.920 was playing why, and then everybody was just coming to 0:36:23.000 --> 0:36:25.000 the spot. It was crazy. I started to lose you, suption, 0:36:25.040 --> 0:36:27.160 so I had to go up the street finish in 0:36:27.200 --> 0:36:29.879 the car because I'm like, you finished in the car? Yeah, 0:36:29.880 --> 0:36:31.440 And I killed him in the car. I was like, 0:36:34.080 --> 0:36:36.719 I was like, okay, all right, that's fired. That sounds sick. 0:36:36.800 --> 0:36:40.480 I went to bed and that was literally the beginning 0:36:40.560 --> 0:36:48.080 of versus. Like that transformed into all that you need 0:36:48.120 --> 0:36:52.560 a versus? Are you okay? Because you do? So you 0:36:52.640 --> 0:36:56.560 know where I'm going? You know what? The next question is, Google, 0:36:56.600 --> 0:37:00.440 go ahead, would you do versus? He ain't go all that. 0:37:03.719 --> 0:37:06.320 Oh yeah, but y'all was so friendly. I wanted you 0:37:06.400 --> 0:37:07.920 to do. You need to be a little bit more. 0:37:08.520 --> 0:37:16.840 I totally forgot it, though, Google. I do think that 0:37:17.160 --> 0:37:20.120 I personally need another another verses. I think we gotta 0:37:20.160 --> 0:37:22.520 do who I want you who? Who would you want 0:37:22.560 --> 0:37:27.759 to battle? Who y'all think I should be with? He 0:37:27.800 --> 0:37:34.239 said Elton John sucking John. He just said Elton John John. 0:37:35.120 --> 0:37:43.960 H um mary on No, definitely, but el John has 0:37:44.040 --> 0:37:48.960 like sixty years in music, Like sixty years. I got 0:37:49.000 --> 0:37:55.880 a lot, But like that's a lot. Wow, But Eric 0:37:55.920 --> 0:37:58.440 about did Joe Scott, which was one of my favorites 0:37:58.719 --> 0:38:17.680 that was like one of my fast Mariah Beyonce Orihanna Orihanna. 0:38:17.960 --> 0:38:24.239 That's hard. I like that me be a ready yeah, 0:38:30.040 --> 0:38:33.719 so um uh we should leave. We had Carye on 0:38:33.840 --> 0:38:38.520 here right and he uh, that's this Sunday Service. Have 0:38:38.640 --> 0:38:41.319 you ever attend this Sunday Service. I have been one 0:38:41.440 --> 0:38:43.840 Sunday Service and I also have watched Sunday Service, and 0:38:43.880 --> 0:38:46.880 I really love I love his vibe with Sunday Service. 0:38:46.920 --> 0:38:49.520 I think it's really really special and he's like the 0:38:49.600 --> 0:38:53.040 only one that could do it, you know, just in 0:38:53.120 --> 0:38:54.920 the way that he does it that makes it such 0:38:54.960 --> 0:38:58.000 a visual experience and then kind of an emotional experience. 0:38:58.440 --> 0:39:03.719 So yeah, okay, blood At, I'm gonna name your albums, 0:39:03.760 --> 0:39:05.719 and I want you to say something about him as 0:39:05.800 --> 0:39:08.640 I name them. Tell me where you was at when 0:39:08.680 --> 0:39:11.000 you were making of what I was feeling, where I 0:39:11.200 --> 0:39:14.320 was at, what was happening. You know, you jump around 0:39:14.360 --> 0:39:17.200 a lot. I love that. Yes, I gotta keep I 0:39:17.239 --> 0:39:21.640 gotta keep up with you. We ain't even a creeptime. Yeah, 0:39:21.760 --> 0:39:29.439 it's gonna give me. Okay, songs in the minor. First 0:39:29.440 --> 0:39:31.719 of all, it's a minor. My g oh, yes, I 0:39:31.719 --> 0:39:35.239 don't know. I'm sorry. Dyslexic, that's okay, that's okay, don't worry. 0:39:37.920 --> 0:39:47.800 He's gonna use dyslextive songs and a minor. A hundred 0:39:47.920 --> 0:39:52.000 thirty five between Fifth and Lennox, one six ft walk up, 0:39:52.360 --> 0:39:57.759 one bedroom apartment, no heat blazing, MMG cafe, what's the 0:39:57.840 --> 0:40:04.920 cafe that sampans? Yes, in the closet with a blanket 0:40:05.000 --> 0:40:08.759 over recording vocals, listening to the records for hours and hours, 0:40:08.760 --> 0:40:10.719 trying to figure out how could I produce them? How 0:40:10.800 --> 0:40:13.440 could I make them sound as good as Isaac Hayes 0:40:13.480 --> 0:40:17.160 and Mary and and and and like you know, Smokey 0:40:17.320 --> 0:40:20.040 Robinson and Marvin Gaye and like those joints that was 0:40:20.120 --> 0:40:23.120 timeless forever and never went to sleep singing at the 0:40:23.160 --> 0:40:25.960 top of my loans. Dude on the corner called me, 0:40:26.080 --> 0:40:28.400 hit a high note every time I walked back to 0:40:28.560 --> 0:40:30.279 the spot. Hit a high note. What I heard you 0:40:30.440 --> 0:40:38.080 last night? That's songs and name the Diary of Alicia Keys, 0:40:39.200 --> 0:40:45.400 The Diary of Alicia Keys. I had just moved to Jersey. 0:40:46.120 --> 0:40:49.160 I thought I was thought I was big time, I 0:40:49.200 --> 0:40:51.759 thought I could get me a little spot. I just 0:40:51.880 --> 0:40:53.880 wanted a little spot of like a little house, like 0:40:53.920 --> 0:40:56.600 a little thing. All of a sudden everything kind of 0:40:56.760 --> 0:40:59.120 turned around. I didn't really have that much money that 0:40:59.160 --> 0:41:01.440 I thought I couldn't make the rent anymore for the 0:41:01.520 --> 0:41:03.920 spot that I was renting. And I got and I 0:41:04.040 --> 0:41:05.640 was stressed out, but I knew that it was gonna 0:41:05.680 --> 0:41:07.800 work out. And I promised I would never live in 0:41:07.920 --> 0:41:11.759 Jersey ever again, because I was never gonna pay to 0:41:12.000 --> 0:41:15.680 get anywhere. Don't charge me to leave or come back again. 0:41:16.280 --> 0:41:20.120 And I never saw went okay, So I went somewhere 0:41:20.160 --> 0:41:22.480 I could get a free bridge, and I ended up 0:41:22.480 --> 0:41:29.880 in Queens Queen, Okay, Jersey. Do you remember the first time? Honestly, 0:41:30.040 --> 0:41:31.759 it was such a blur. It was like such a 0:41:31.920 --> 0:41:35.239 bad time. I just didn't even remember. You was at 0:41:35.239 --> 0:41:39.680 in Queen's Rosedale, Rosdale. O, my first house, Queen's Rose 0:41:41.400 --> 0:41:45.280 From Where are you from? From Left Fra City? Goddamn 0:41:45.320 --> 0:41:53.920 it makes no noise of me? O, holy shit, soft 0:41:54.080 --> 0:42:00.280 from Rosdale? From around there? He's from Roxdale, Rocksdale. Stuff 0:42:00.320 --> 0:42:05.040 that don't add up? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, 0:42:05.120 --> 0:42:08.240 So let me finish to finished on the albums Okay, 0:42:08.400 --> 0:42:11.840 Yeah you took me there. I was lost as I 0:42:12.000 --> 0:42:17.960 am as I am. I had a major breakdown. I 0:42:18.040 --> 0:42:20.759 didn't know how to handle all the things. I felt 0:42:20.800 --> 0:42:22.600 like I was supposed to handle everything and I was 0:42:22.600 --> 0:42:25.000 supposed to be perfect. I didn't know how to do it. 0:42:25.040 --> 0:42:26.319 I didn't know how to be it, and I felt 0:42:26.360 --> 0:42:29.440 like I was sinking and I had to leave. I 0:42:29.560 --> 0:42:32.600 just like I couldn't take it anymore. And so I left. 0:42:32.719 --> 0:42:34.759 And it's the first time that I went on like 0:42:34.840 --> 0:42:37.840 a trip from ey Ey. That's when I went to Egypt. 0:42:37.880 --> 0:42:39.640 I actually went to Egypt and Italy. You know, I'm 0:42:39.640 --> 0:42:43.160 half black and half Italian, so I didn't even realize 0:42:43.200 --> 0:42:44.719 when I picked those two there was like a home 0:42:44.800 --> 0:42:46.840 coming in a way, like a you know, like a 0:42:47.600 --> 0:42:49.360 like you know, like a trip for me that was 0:42:49.400 --> 0:42:52.279 going to mean something. And so when I came back 0:42:52.360 --> 0:42:56.440 from that, I started changing everything. I started. I had 0:42:56.480 --> 0:42:58.120 a bunch of fake friends. I had people that I 0:42:58.239 --> 0:43:01.360 just they weren't fake, but they just they just wanted 0:43:01.400 --> 0:43:03.279 what they wanted and it wasn't in line. And I 0:43:03.360 --> 0:43:05.520 had to kind of babysit everybody, and I just cut 0:43:05.680 --> 0:43:09.239 off all the excess energy, and I remember, I just decided, 0:43:09.719 --> 0:43:11.880 like I can create what I want to create. I 0:43:11.920 --> 0:43:13.800 don't have to I don't have to do anything that 0:43:13.880 --> 0:43:16.080 don't feel right for me. And it was the first 0:43:16.120 --> 0:43:19.880 time that I really like expressed my own individuality and 0:43:20.000 --> 0:43:22.160 I and I and I made major changes and it 0:43:22.320 --> 0:43:25.839 changed everything's fire, business managers, lawyers, all these fake as 0:43:26.000 --> 0:43:31.120 people steal from you. And it was finished. It was 0:43:31.160 --> 0:43:33.239 a big, big shift that record, which is why I 0:43:33.320 --> 0:43:37.239 sound like that okay, the Element of Freedom, which is 0:43:37.320 --> 0:43:39.520 kind of ironic because you kind of like describing that 0:43:40.280 --> 0:43:42.960 like leaving that album, so it makes sense that you 0:43:43.040 --> 0:43:45.080 went to the element of freedom. But I want you 0:43:45.120 --> 0:43:47.439 to say, to your word, the element of freedom. Yeah, 0:43:47.480 --> 0:43:49.360 I know when I think about it, I felt so 0:43:49.480 --> 0:43:52.120 empowered naming the album element of Freedom. It wasn't until 0:43:52.120 --> 0:43:54.359 I looked back on it that I realized, what an 0:43:54.440 --> 0:43:56.760 element don't make no damn sense. This is a tiny 0:43:56.880 --> 0:44:00.000 little bit, like an element is a tiny bit of freedom. 0:44:00.040 --> 0:44:01.920 Him Here I was thinking, I was like having all 0:44:02.000 --> 0:44:05.000 this freedom, but the words I was choosing was small, 0:44:05.800 --> 0:44:07.920 and so that's kind of at the time. I had 0:44:08.000 --> 0:44:10.719 to break out of thinking small. I had to break out. 0:44:10.800 --> 0:44:15.000 Although Element is where Empire was, Element is where I 0:44:15.120 --> 0:44:18.160 try seeking with a broken heart was. Element was like 0:44:18.239 --> 0:44:20.799 a big European record for me to like, Europe went 0:44:21.080 --> 0:44:24.279 crazy over Element of Freedom, and um, it was like my. 0:44:24.440 --> 0:44:26.439 It was like my. It was like my coming out 0:44:26.680 --> 0:44:29.600 of my beginning, of coming out of anything that I 0:44:29.680 --> 0:44:32.760 had maybe held onto before and like leaving it behind. 0:44:33.280 --> 0:44:35.239 But I needed I still needed a lot. I still 0:44:35.280 --> 0:44:38.080 needed a lot of transition. You know, he's gonna get 0:44:38.120 --> 0:44:40.560 so deep drink Yeah yeah, yeah, So that brings me 0:44:40.920 --> 0:44:45.160 Girl on Fire? Oh, girl on Fire. You couldn't tell 0:44:45.520 --> 0:44:51.080 me ship. I remember people was like, you got a 0:44:51.160 --> 0:44:53.520 little bit nervous that you're calling this album girl on fire. 0:44:53.640 --> 0:44:57.400 I was like, why I'm a girl on fire? And 0:44:57.400 --> 0:44:59.200 I didn't even get what they were talking about. They 0:44:59.239 --> 0:45:01.120 were kind of saying, like I guess they were saying, 0:45:01.160 --> 0:45:03.040 if you call, if you say a girl on fire, 0:45:03.160 --> 0:45:05.640 but if it don't end up being that hot, what's 0:45:05.680 --> 0:45:07.600 gonna happen to you? Oh? I thought they was talking 0:45:07.640 --> 0:45:10.760 about like the Richard Prior type of fire. I didn't 0:45:10.800 --> 0:45:13.080 know why didn't mean it like that. Yeah, I just 0:45:13.160 --> 0:45:17.560 want that said, I thought you said. I thought you said, 0:45:18.480 --> 0:45:23.239 you said, that's why people like you. Oh though I 0:45:23.320 --> 0:45:25.560 did throw my brother like his I got a younger 0:45:25.600 --> 0:45:27.640 brother and I threw him like his eighteen birthday and 0:45:28.040 --> 0:45:30.799 and it was fresh. And we went to the um 0:45:31.000 --> 0:45:33.040 the gold car spot, you know, the racing spot. We 0:45:33.080 --> 0:45:34.920 were in the racist s and I surprised my brother, 0:45:34.960 --> 0:45:37.279 like his friends from or wherever the family was there. 0:45:37.360 --> 0:45:38.799 We rented it. How I felt like I was doing 0:45:38.840 --> 0:45:40.680 it big. It was crazy. He was so happy, he 0:45:40.760 --> 0:45:43.160 was so excited. We were in the back of cheers, brother, 0:45:43.239 --> 0:45:45.719 I love you, boom and I went back like this 0:45:46.440 --> 0:45:50.319 and there was a candle behind my hair and then 0:45:50.400 --> 0:45:52.320 my ladies know when you put like the hair, spraying 0:45:52.400 --> 0:45:56.560 all this stuff in. So you was a girl. And 0:45:56.640 --> 0:45:59.160 all I know is that God Swizzy was with me. 0:46:00.160 --> 0:46:04.000 He was like bab bab bab baby, and it was 0:46:04.160 --> 0:46:07.880 on fire. So that was during that album. And to 0:46:08.120 --> 0:46:14.600 your point you wrote that I should, oh my gosh, 0:46:14.680 --> 0:46:16.279 the girl on fire was on fire. I had my 0:46:16.400 --> 0:46:19.080 first baby. I got rid of a bunch of negative 0:46:19.160 --> 0:46:21.759 motherfucker's that needed to be out of my life. It 0:46:21.880 --> 0:46:26.200 was about removing a toxic bullshit. And I was on 0:46:26.560 --> 0:46:29.800 fire for real. There was you know, I felt myself 0:46:29.920 --> 0:46:31.920 and I was like, I had a space for myself, 0:46:32.040 --> 0:46:34.920 and nobody could tell me some ship that wasn't right 0:46:34.920 --> 0:46:41.080 because I knew for myself. You just said that title 0:46:41.320 --> 0:46:44.640 was hard, but but this title is harder to me 0:46:44.920 --> 0:46:48.880 here because it's just like to me, that's being cocky 0:46:48.960 --> 0:46:52.600 without being cocky, because because you're saying here and most 0:46:52.600 --> 0:46:57.080 people say I'm here forever. So I think camp with 0:46:57.160 --> 0:46:59.839 those words in your mouth, what were you saying by saying, 0:47:00.360 --> 0:47:04.760 I remember I was gonna name here king in New York. Okay, 0:47:05.320 --> 0:47:08.399 I wanted I've said I'm the King of New York. 0:47:08.920 --> 0:47:11.279 I respect that. I ain't gonna say. I deserve to 0:47:11.440 --> 0:47:16.040 be considered the king, not the queen, not the princess, 0:47:17.480 --> 0:47:28.640 the King of New York. I want to. So I 0:47:28.719 --> 0:47:30.759 started to kind of bring some of the other kings 0:47:30.840 --> 0:47:32.880 in New York, and I was, you know, building with 0:47:33.000 --> 0:47:39.560 nas accuted jay and and I was just like, you know, 0:47:40.160 --> 0:47:42.600 how do you feel about this? I want to call 0:47:42.680 --> 0:47:46.040 it King of New York. People have such an adverse 0:47:46.160 --> 0:47:49.040 reaction to it. It was so interesting how that rubbed 0:47:49.080 --> 0:47:53.080 people in a certain way. The other kings of New 0:47:53.160 --> 0:47:57.120 York though, and they didn't. I don't feel they It 0:47:57.200 --> 0:47:59.160 was more like they were kind of considering it for me, 0:47:59.440 --> 0:48:01.879 you know, like as a brother, like to their sister. 0:48:02.080 --> 0:48:03.880 More like that, not like they was hating they was, 0:48:04.400 --> 0:48:07.520 you know. Um anyway, So I decided to call it 0:48:07.680 --> 0:48:12.600 here because I realized that that was even more powerful 0:48:12.960 --> 0:48:15.480 to what I was feeling at the time. And that record, 0:48:15.560 --> 0:48:20.360 to me, is one of my most undiscovered jewels. To me, 0:48:20.640 --> 0:48:24.680 that record is my Purple Rain. Like that one is 0:48:24.760 --> 0:48:27.719 one of my most special important records, and it was 0:48:27.960 --> 0:48:30.080 a big transition for me. It's my love letter to 0:48:30.200 --> 0:48:31.880 New York. You really hear it. You hear it in 0:48:31.960 --> 0:48:35.480 every skit. My our brother Pick was on that record 0:48:35.800 --> 0:48:39.279 before he passed. There is a whole energy that's in 0:48:39.360 --> 0:48:42.000 there that's so real and um. And so I decided 0:48:42.000 --> 0:48:46.800 to call it here because not because I'm here, but 0:48:46.960 --> 0:48:51.520 because I'm present, Like I'm here and I'm experiencing myself 0:48:51.600 --> 0:48:54.480 in this moment and I'm being honest with everything that 0:48:54.600 --> 0:48:57.000 I'm going through and feeling, and so I'm here and 0:48:57.120 --> 0:48:58.560 that and that's the way I looked at it, And 0:48:58.680 --> 0:49:00.719 so I love that record. That's one of my favorite 0:49:00.920 --> 0:49:03.279 that's like one of my favorite records, my baby. So 0:49:03.440 --> 0:49:07.799 then you self titled the album Alicia Alicia? What made 0:49:07.800 --> 0:49:11.080 you do that? Alicia came because I realized that I 0:49:11.160 --> 0:49:14.399 started to really know who I was and who I am, 0:49:15.000 --> 0:49:19.239 and Alicia is a very complicated individual. We're all complicated individuals. 0:49:19.360 --> 0:49:21.360 We all got all these different sizes of us. And 0:49:21.440 --> 0:49:24.000 I remember I was having a conversation with my husband 0:49:24.040 --> 0:49:27.080 and he was like, you know, I haven't tell anybody 0:49:27.160 --> 0:49:30.880 with Italian And I was like, what, why don't you 0:49:31.040 --> 0:49:35.759 tell anybody that you're Italian? And I was like, people 0:49:35.840 --> 0:49:37.560 know what I'm Italian? Were you talking about? He was like, 0:49:38.000 --> 0:49:40.480 I asked anybody, but you don't know your Talian? And 0:49:40.560 --> 0:49:44.480 I was like, huh, what is the point? He's like, 0:49:44.520 --> 0:49:49.320 I just feel like you like not fully sharing everything, 0:49:49.400 --> 0:49:50.960 that there's so many ill parts to you and you 0:49:51.000 --> 0:49:54.000 don't share all of it. And that was the first 0:49:54.080 --> 0:49:56.000 time that I really thought, well, maybe there is stuff 0:49:56.040 --> 0:49:57.800 that I'm holding back that I didn't realize. And so 0:49:57.880 --> 0:50:01.560 Alicia was really about uncovering, like who is Alicia? On 0:50:01.640 --> 0:50:04.000 multiple levels? Who are we all on multiple levels? Like 0:50:04.200 --> 0:50:06.280 we feel like we have to beat this one side 0:50:06.400 --> 0:50:08.840 or this one type or it's one version, or this 0:50:08.960 --> 0:50:10.880 person makes you happy, someone be like that, and this 0:50:10.960 --> 0:50:13.360 person makes my girls happy. Someone be like that. But like, 0:50:13.480 --> 0:50:16.880 who are you? And that to me, that's like that 0:50:17.000 --> 0:50:18.799 was mine. Yeah, that was my steak in the ground, 0:50:18.840 --> 0:50:24.319 like this is who I am? And then the last 0:50:24.400 --> 0:50:33.640 one key and it's a double album. I've never got 0:50:33.680 --> 0:50:38.520 that much thought process. It cut off after d I'm 0:50:38.560 --> 0:50:45.839 fucked up, so Keys. It is really about, like, listen, 0:50:45.920 --> 0:50:47.839 there's two sides of me. There's two sides of all 0:50:47.840 --> 0:50:49.960 of this. There's many sides of all of us. I got. 0:50:50.080 --> 0:50:52.279 I have my original me, I have the one that 0:50:52.400 --> 0:50:54.520 you might expect me to be on behind the keys. 0:50:54.560 --> 0:50:56.920 I got the music, I got the soulfulness, and I 0:50:57.000 --> 0:50:58.759 also have a whole other side of me that you 0:50:59.120 --> 0:51:02.160 probably not expect. And I want to blow your mind 0:51:02.520 --> 0:51:04.200 with both of them. They're going to be all about 0:51:04.200 --> 0:51:06.120 the piano, They're gonna be all about the ship. Only 0:51:06.239 --> 0:51:08.440 I could do this is my world. You can't do 0:51:08.560 --> 0:51:10.920 what I do, and you're gonna love it because it's 0:51:10.960 --> 0:51:14.680 this experience that's just like pure and real and honest, 0:51:14.719 --> 0:51:21.440 and you're gonna feel it right here. I want to 0:51:21.480 --> 0:51:28.600 buy the album. Now yes, original a K unlocked a 0:51:28.800 --> 0:51:34.279 K original nor unlocked. Holy ship you got me hype girl. 0:51:35.200 --> 0:51:37.200 All right. So look now we were just time in 0:51:37.280 --> 0:51:40.800 the game. We're playing quick time with slie. Where's the slie? Okay, no, no, 0:51:40.880 --> 0:51:45.200 it's no, it's no slides Why because that's the word 0:51:45.200 --> 0:51:46.960 I made it back in the day. Okay, Look, this 0:51:47.040 --> 0:51:49.040 is what we do. So you can pick one of 0:51:49.120 --> 0:51:52.919 the other one of the other, and it's it's nothing. 0:51:53.000 --> 0:51:55.359 But if you pick both, or you pick you want 0:51:55.400 --> 0:51:57.319 to be political. When you say neither, then you take 0:51:58.040 --> 0:52:00.320 both of you. Okay, okay, well I pick one already. 0:52:00.360 --> 0:52:02.480 Other if I want to be political, yeah, if you 0:52:02.520 --> 0:52:09.680 want to be shot, okay, you can pour a shot 0:52:09.719 --> 0:52:12.640 in there. Yeah yeah yeah, And I'm gonna drink Japanese whiskey. 0:52:13.000 --> 0:52:17.360 Holy sh what's what's what's your drink? He's whiskey obviously. 0:52:17.800 --> 0:52:23.400 Spaces Major. We love space. What do we like it? 0:52:23.600 --> 0:52:25.359 This is one of the best champagne on the planet 0:52:25.360 --> 0:52:28.680 of that space. And we also we also promote rock 0:52:29.080 --> 0:52:35.439 like we all here. Don't drink that please, May Mama 0:52:35.440 --> 0:52:37.719 Wanta Dominican Mama one. What is that? He's just likes 0:52:37.760 --> 0:52:43.000 to be crazy yeah, they're gonna kill you. Yeah, you're 0:52:43.000 --> 0:52:47.520 not gonna make any more your interviews. Yeah, yeah, that 0:52:47.640 --> 0:52:56.000 doesn't be playing. It's no herbal okay, the herb shop. 0:52:56.040 --> 0:52:59.320 Get you do crazy? You could do ceremonies. You have 0:52:59.400 --> 0:53:04.400 a teck Google, don't choose. Oh yeah, we retired, we 0:53:04.560 --> 0:53:11.040 retired Tiger up. That that's the latest. No, we ain't 0:53:11.080 --> 0:53:13.879 been getting the Middle Garden bogy since on COVID because 0:53:13.920 --> 0:53:17.479 it came from China. So they they shot of ship down. Yeah, 0:53:17.800 --> 0:53:19.880 and then we just never conneftence. He was got a 0:53:19.920 --> 0:53:23.080 little scared, like, wait, but what do you do? You 0:53:23.239 --> 0:53:25.480 get a shot. I'm doing what we all dream were drink. 0:53:25.680 --> 0:53:29.000 If I choose the middle ground, if you're really correct, 0:53:29.360 --> 0:53:32.960 then we're drinking. Okay, and I feel like you're gonna 0:53:32.960 --> 0:53:37.759 be this is unlocked, ak unlock Okay. Cool. I have 0:53:37.840 --> 0:53:40.120 a lot of friends. I don't have a lot of friends. 0:53:40.160 --> 0:53:43.000 I love everybody. This is what it is. Okay, we're 0:53:43.000 --> 0:53:45.359 still friends. We're gonna start out. We're gonna start out. 0:53:45.360 --> 0:53:48.920 I don't know what. You have a drink everybody, you 0:53:48.960 --> 0:53:56.080 can do, it's gonna be you can you can start 0:53:56.160 --> 0:53:57.680 shot in the poor shot in the poor. You can 0:53:57.719 --> 0:54:04.280 shot in the poor, okay, Drake, Oh Wayne, Wayne scared 0:54:04.280 --> 0:54:12.000 face ice cube face out cast them off, deep o cast. 0:54:16.760 --> 0:54:19.440 I know you just work with car hard one I 0:54:19.560 --> 0:54:24.920 just spoke to was working with Car in New York. Kane. 0:54:27.640 --> 0:54:29.920 You're asking, he's pretty easy. She's not drinking it all right, 0:54:32.160 --> 0:54:35.799 push your teeth. I got the wrong one. Oh Ship, 0:54:35.960 --> 0:54:45.719 I'm so sorry. Well great, great who answered that one? Yeah? There? 0:54:45.920 --> 0:54:51.640 Question is thank you? I'm so sorry. There's the questions. 0:54:54.080 --> 0:54:59.239 That was okay? Okay? Was that hard crafted just for you? 0:54:59.719 --> 0:55:04.600 Needs guys? Come on and a Dominican. Those two guys, Okay, 0:55:05.120 --> 0:55:08.840 this this is more like Queen Latte or empty like 0:55:10.280 --> 0:55:15.960 la But I love them both, but laugh I said 0:55:16.000 --> 0:55:25.200 that second. Okay, Foxy a little Kim Kim. This one. 0:55:25.239 --> 0:55:29.960 You're taking a shot. Are you ready? Okay, evil Missy 0:55:32.640 --> 0:55:44.360 take a shot. I want to shoes. That was too big. Okay, 0:55:44.719 --> 0:55:49.160 I'm gonna smaller next like that, No problem, cam or 0:55:49.280 --> 0:55:56.080 Mace all taking a shot now. I just want to 0:55:56.120 --> 0:55:59.000 think about it for two seconds. All I'm love you 0:55:59.080 --> 0:56:06.920 too much for big. I'm gonna say camp Okay, it's funny. 0:56:08.200 --> 0:56:15.080 What Swerland, The fact that even put that you know, 0:56:16.280 --> 0:56:26.880 next we should drink it for that. Okay, that's w 0:56:27.080 --> 0:56:33.279 B or skate us as the devil to the V 0:56:34.000 --> 0:56:36.800 I was just talking about Coco, okay, O, d B 0:56:37.160 --> 0:56:47.040 or Biz Markey shot. That is a hard one. You 0:56:47.160 --> 0:56:51.640 go poke in your shot. I need a major BOTHO. 0:56:53.280 --> 0:56:57.520 I'm gonna say Biz because he's classic and he's that 0:56:57.680 --> 0:57:01.480 it is hard classic to take a shot take alright, 0:57:01.560 --> 0:57:05.439 this one were taking a shot? Yes, I'm I'm sorry. 0:57:07.160 --> 0:57:09.759 That's big you. This one right here, I don't know 0:57:09.800 --> 0:57:11.560 where you're gonna go with it because it's girl power 0:57:12.160 --> 0:57:14.640 and these are two of the most irrelevant female rap 0:57:14.760 --> 0:57:20.000 artists right now, Cardi B or Nicki Minaj. They both 0:57:20.000 --> 0:57:36.880 got your bone right there. How long this game going, 0:57:37.800 --> 0:57:40.680 don't worry gets easier. I'm not to come with it 0:57:43.000 --> 0:57:45.760 this one. I don't know where you're going with n 0:57:45.960 --> 0:57:50.360 Wa or you wo Tank. It's gonna be because I 0:57:50.480 --> 0:57:54.200 told you, it's like my mom. I respect that. Brandy 0:57:54.360 --> 0:58:05.280 or Monica, I'm cold. I'm gonna go for Monica. Okay, 0:58:06.520 --> 0:58:17.520 Whitney or Janet. You have a question, is that drinking? 0:58:20.400 --> 0:58:23.880 I'm going for Whitney. Okay, I'm going for Whitney Okay, 0:58:24.280 --> 0:58:36.520 rest in peace? Yes, what Biggie or big Al? I'm 0:58:36.520 --> 0:58:40.200 gonna just love with my child off. That was hard. 0:58:46.200 --> 0:58:48.640 There's no choosing between big and big Al. No, I 0:58:48.640 --> 0:58:52.520 don't think you should period. That is the right correct answer. 0:58:54.720 --> 0:59:04.200 Mariah or Mary Jane Mary Okay, Okay, I think I 0:59:04.280 --> 0:59:06.040 know what you're gonna pick on this one at a 0:59:06.320 --> 0:59:13.000 Miami even though we're in Miami right now. That's hard 0:59:14.040 --> 0:59:21.360 New York. I'm taking the shop of that that should 0:59:21.400 --> 0:59:26.720 be think I'm taking this. Listen, how much do you draw? 0:59:28.080 --> 0:59:30.040 How many days for a week? Is this show? This 0:59:30.120 --> 0:59:38.080 is the second time that they're worried about us. You 0:59:45.080 --> 0:59:52.920 got him? Got you? Chris Brown or Usha Ure that 0:59:53.080 --> 1:00:01.920 was Deep Trey Songs or Jeremiah Tray Okay, this one 1:00:02.640 --> 1:00:07.680 it's very tricky, meant to be tricky, DMX or tupap. 1:00:15.040 --> 1:00:21.240 There's no choosing. Yeah, I agree with you and agree. Yes, 1:00:24.640 --> 1:00:26.200 I definitely don't know what we're gonna go with this one. 1:00:26.960 --> 1:00:31.160 Jordan or Lebron Okay, I don't know where you're gonna 1:00:31.160 --> 1:00:36.240 go with this one, neither. This is pretty funny. Salt 1:00:36.320 --> 1:00:40.160 and Pepper or The City Girls. It's pretty uny. I 1:00:40.240 --> 1:00:47.040 like this one. You gotta go Pepper, you got I 1:00:47.080 --> 1:00:49.800 feel like you went to Halloween that salt Pepper. Once 1:00:50.600 --> 1:00:52.760 as the whole group went to what like Halloween, you 1:00:52.840 --> 1:00:56.880 dressed up. I think next year, I feel like, yeah, 1:00:57.040 --> 1:00:58.720 I need that. Yeah, I never did that. I never 1:00:58.760 --> 1:01:01.920 got into Halloween like that. First I dressed up, but 1:01:01.960 --> 1:01:04.760 I don't go crazy. Not everybody going bananas. I'm like, 1:01:05.000 --> 1:01:09.920 Jesus is like a major thing. That's a scarface. I was, Yeah, 1:01:09.960 --> 1:01:12.479 he went to scarface. I went as a dodgeball guy once. 1:01:14.560 --> 1:01:18.360 Feel like that was believable that I could play dodgeball. Yeah, 1:01:22.280 --> 1:01:24.920 that's what I said. One show wasn't one video, No, 1:01:25.680 --> 1:01:28.040 I went, I wanted it for thirty minutes and I said, 1:01:28.120 --> 1:01:32.120 let's get it. I took it off. So I did 1:01:32.280 --> 1:01:33.880 dress up one year. I'm gonna try to get into 1:01:33.920 --> 1:01:36.919 it because even jay Z and then I see fabulous dress. 1:01:36.920 --> 1:01:40.440 I said, it's really every the only bows yea, I 1:01:40.520 --> 1:01:43.640 gotta get into get into it. And I'm gonna get Halloween. 1:01:43.840 --> 1:01:45.840 You know what it is. And nobody dresses up as 1:01:45.920 --> 1:01:50.080 Norrie for Halloween. I don't like it. I've been looking 1:01:50.120 --> 1:01:55.640 at your pictures. Nobody wants to be me dressed, Like, 1:01:55.720 --> 1:01:58.280 how could they be when they hold this habiki in 1:01:58.360 --> 1:02:10.080 their head and say they're just let me google. I 1:02:10.200 --> 1:02:11.800 know what you're gonna say for this one, but I 1:02:11.880 --> 1:02:14.080 gotta actual You don't know the locks of the me Goes. 1:02:18.920 --> 1:02:21.360 I mean, Jada is one of the greatest of all 1:02:21.680 --> 1:02:27.960 time period and the story so is chic. Okay, even 1:02:28.000 --> 1:02:30.280 though I actually this earlier, I'm gonna reiterator just make 1:02:30.320 --> 1:02:33.000 sure you still um with the same decision for Brello. 1:02:33.120 --> 1:02:38.200 Kanye Ya you said that earlier. Yeah, Okay, what do 1:02:38.280 --> 1:02:41.120 you think I'm going for? You know, I love Kanye 1:02:41.160 --> 1:02:42.800 as a person, and I'm about to be down with 1:02:42.920 --> 1:02:45.320 don dust media. I'm about to be with that. But 1:02:45.440 --> 1:02:50.960 I can't erase my history. You know what I'm saying? Okay, 1:02:51.320 --> 1:03:00.520 Friday or house party Friday? I love my love did 1:03:00.640 --> 1:03:04.480 throw me a house party, but that was after I 1:03:04.640 --> 1:03:07.680 threw him to come into America. Party. Who won coming 1:03:07.720 --> 1:03:10.440 to America? Or house party? You know? You know I 1:03:10.520 --> 1:03:16.919 got your back? Okay, all right? This is getting great 1:03:17.760 --> 1:03:20.720 nineties or two thousand any criteria of hip hop. You 1:03:20.760 --> 1:03:26.000 want two thousands music in general nineties or two thousands 1:03:26.120 --> 1:03:31.360 nineties or two thousands, nineties, I think nineties. Okay, coming 1:03:31.400 --> 1:03:37.560 to America or Hall of Nights, that's hard. I'm gonna 1:03:37.560 --> 1:03:41.160 going for Hall of Nights. Yeah, thank you, coming to America. 1:03:41.400 --> 1:03:43.560 I'm gonna go home nights. I actually, now that I 1:03:43.640 --> 1:03:45.560 think about it, I was gonna come into America. You 1:03:45.640 --> 1:03:47.520 said that, but because you know why everybody's in Harlem, 1:03:47.800 --> 1:03:54.120 everybody that is crazy. Yeah, I actually agree with you. Okay, 1:03:55.080 --> 1:04:02.640 ye ill Matic or Ready to Die. Didn't we ask 1:04:02.680 --> 1:04:05.880 you that in a different way? Yeah? No, didn't you know? 1:04:06.000 --> 1:04:10.160 We didn't say bigger n Nope. Let me just think 1:04:10.200 --> 1:04:13.760 about this. Illmatic already to stay both first two albums. 1:04:13.880 --> 1:04:21.760 It's too classic to pick. Yeah, classics, the classics. You're 1:04:21.840 --> 1:04:25.640 really trying to do me. We're joining you were Now. 1:04:26.240 --> 1:04:28.600 I'm just gonna sound like the same question, but it isn't. Now, 1:04:28.640 --> 1:04:31.840 don't ask me some backwards question. It's gonna it's gonna 1:04:31.880 --> 1:04:35.360 actually sound the same question, but it's not. Nas or Jay. 1:04:47.760 --> 1:04:54.600 You just got you got ready, just like they both 1:04:54.640 --> 1:04:56.520 got your number. You've got to people, literally correct, you 1:04:56.600 --> 1:05:05.480 have to who's so hot? Ok? This must be over soon? Yeah? 1:05:06.080 --> 1:05:09.240 You three? You three crasses left on only three more pages. 1:05:19.400 --> 1:05:27.000 Kiss or push your teeth. I didn't expect that reaction. 1:05:32.080 --> 1:05:35.400 I am not drinking again currently, so I'm going for 1:05:35.520 --> 1:05:40.800 push your teeth. Okay, well over kiss. This is different flowers. Okay, 1:05:40.920 --> 1:05:46.680 that's true. She's balanced podcasts or radio podcast I mean, 1:05:46.880 --> 1:05:58.360 we're using that for a drop, giving me that against 1:05:58.800 --> 1:06:01.320 somewhat a trick question, but it's a very simple way 1:06:01.400 --> 1:06:07.120 to answer this. Loyalty or respect. I love this question. 1:06:08.040 --> 1:06:17.040 It's a highly debated question here. Technically you can't have 1:06:17.320 --> 1:06:21.240 loyalty without respect, so then that means it would have 1:06:21.440 --> 1:06:28.600 to be respect. Okay, yes we should. Yeah, we're gonna 1:06:28.640 --> 1:06:32.960 drink this everything, yes, yes, yes, yeah. So let me 1:06:33.000 --> 1:06:36.080 ask you. I love that game. I see the slime 1:06:39.560 --> 1:06:44.360 when the camera, we got it up in the camera. 1:06:45.440 --> 1:06:51.440 Tell me who quick time? It was just it. You 1:06:51.480 --> 1:06:55.880 want to bro they deserved they did it in they 1:06:55.920 --> 1:07:03.640 were about dot X them all owed them like this. 1:07:03.840 --> 1:07:06.280 We called Lamar after the show. He was throwing up 1:07:06.360 --> 1:07:08.080 so much that we didn't even use it. But he 1:07:09.000 --> 1:07:11.480 did talk on the show. No, he finished the show. 1:07:11.560 --> 1:07:14.000 He could believe it was such a g he threw 1:07:14.120 --> 1:07:16.920 up and then continued the interview. Now, I do think 1:07:16.960 --> 1:07:23.800 that you want to missing some buckets like yeah, yeah, 1:07:23.800 --> 1:07:32.320 we know, but I really, I really just I want 1:07:32.360 --> 1:07:34.040 to let you know, like Swiss is my brother, Like 1:07:35.280 --> 1:07:38.000 me and Swiss, I've been down with Sin. I was 1:07:38.040 --> 1:07:41.800 the first record outside of Rough Riders, you know that 1:07:42.080 --> 1:07:43.920 that he worked with. It was, you know, because all 1:07:43.960 --> 1:07:46.360 of his first early music was just with Rough Riders. 1:07:46.720 --> 1:07:49.480 And I was down with Swiss so long that they 1:07:49.560 --> 1:07:52.640 used to call Swiss Dee's nephews, like he technology didn't 1:07:52.680 --> 1:07:57.360 even have a name, and um, like that's how you 1:07:57.440 --> 1:08:00.000 knew him? Yeah, I knew him. That's that's what they said. 1:08:00.000 --> 1:08:03.160 They said, the nephew. And I remember Swiss coming to 1:08:03.240 --> 1:08:08.280 the studio and him playing band from TV and I 1:08:08.480 --> 1:08:11.360 never let the beat drop. The beat has you know, 1:08:12.320 --> 1:08:15.440 so it's a loop. And we were too thirsty, like 1:08:15.520 --> 1:08:19.599 we were starving m sees. And it was crazy because 1:08:19.680 --> 1:08:24.000 Nature came, he laid the verse, Cameron came, No, Pun came. 1:08:25.040 --> 1:08:28.720 Pun came and laid the verse, and I went downstairs 1:08:28.760 --> 1:08:31.680 to smoke a cigarette and Pun just laid a verse 1:08:31.840 --> 1:08:33.519 and I was just mad at point. I was just like, yeah, 1:08:33.560 --> 1:08:36.240 I'm erasing that. He's like, you're gonna erase that and 1:08:36.439 --> 1:08:42.280 then this is the classic cam. And then I always 1:08:42.320 --> 1:08:46.160 say this to people and I say, Swiss me and 1:08:46.200 --> 1:08:49.800 Swiss made that. Swiss is still mad at me to 1:08:49.960 --> 1:08:54.439 to this day. Nothing that everything men. And he was like, 1:08:54.720 --> 1:08:56.720 you know, we live. Let the beat drop because what 1:08:56.840 --> 1:08:59.840 I rhyme knowing was the loop that to live from. 1:09:00.160 --> 1:09:03.400 He never drops. So whenever I put somebody on or 1:09:03.439 --> 1:09:06.000 wherever I try to, like you know, uh, you know, 1:09:06.120 --> 1:09:08.599 put somebody onto game, I say, I go, look at 1:09:08.640 --> 1:09:11.479 Swiss and I showed him. I say, look, this is 1:09:11.560 --> 1:09:17.040 my friend. We're really friends. And he's still mad at me. Look, 1:09:17.720 --> 1:09:22.120 never dropped, never really dropped. Never, he said, the engineer looped. 1:09:25.120 --> 1:09:27.880 So the beat never dropped to the beat, never dropped. 1:09:28.960 --> 1:09:32.120 He's never forgetting. Don't get it twisted. We're friends, but 1:09:32.680 --> 1:09:40.599 never never never. That's yeah, it's just a loop. Yeah 1:09:41.439 --> 1:09:50.360 all that. Yeah, I keep on my card. This is 1:09:50.880 --> 1:10:13.880 your right. I say that to say, how passionate he is, like, 1:10:14.560 --> 1:10:16.320 you know, me and him, we moved on. We have 1:10:16.400 --> 1:10:19.559 successful careers. We had, you know, so much beautiful thing 1:10:19.680 --> 1:10:21.880 happened in our lives in our career, and he'll still 1:10:22.000 --> 1:10:26.000 tell me, you know, I didn't like it. Imagine how 1:10:26.040 --> 1:10:28.400 that felt for him as a producer early on too, 1:10:28.479 --> 1:10:32.360 that you didn't even run to the beat, like when 1:10:32.400 --> 1:10:35.000 you just moved your face. It's just like so so sorry. 1:10:35.360 --> 1:10:37.479 And I was just like, get him, why did you 1:10:37.960 --> 1:10:41.160 like the face you made? Just that was like only ship. 1:10:41.640 --> 1:10:46.160 I just felt fucked up, Like imagine earlier was his career. 1:10:46.200 --> 1:10:47.680 And He's like, I'm gonna give my il beat. I 1:10:47.760 --> 1:10:49.760 think you didn't even do Really, do we have a 1:10:49.920 --> 1:10:52.240 version with the beat? Because the beat is I got 1:10:52.320 --> 1:10:56.599 it some rais, I got it somewhere. Listen. I also 1:10:56.680 --> 1:11:00.400 have all right. By the way, this was from TV 1:11:00.560 --> 1:11:02.519 was a record because I made on the firm album. 1:11:02.560 --> 1:11:05.000 I made I'm leaving on the Firm album and that 1:11:05.120 --> 1:11:08.040 was Nature session. So I wanted to repay Nature back 1:11:08.080 --> 1:11:10.679 but put him on my record. So he kept coming 1:11:10.960 --> 1:11:12.840 to the studio Swiss and I knew it was. I 1:11:12.880 --> 1:11:14.799 knew Swiss was the guy wanted to make this record. 1:11:15.160 --> 1:11:17.400 So Swiss would play a beat and Nature would just 1:11:17.520 --> 1:11:20.519 standing there, and you know, Swiss cells to ship out of. 1:11:21.360 --> 1:11:25.280 Swiss can play you mouse's screen and you will buy 1:11:25.360 --> 1:11:30.760 the record. Like the little guy Swiss me look at it, 1:11:30.800 --> 1:11:33.040 and he won't make eye contact. He just looked at you. 1:11:33.800 --> 1:11:40.800 You like this, he wills it and listen. I've done 1:11:41.680 --> 1:11:45.240 I've took beat tapes home. I knew beat was it mine? 1:11:45.520 --> 1:11:51.720 But he just like that, Normy, you need this and 1:11:51.880 --> 1:11:57.400 that's what I can't rb bow you got me. He's like, 1:11:57.600 --> 1:11:59.200 you didn't like you liked it at the studio. I 1:11:59.280 --> 1:12:05.080 said the way you popped your head. Disagree. So now 1:12:05.160 --> 1:12:09.120 he says that he's the most passionate person. He's persuasive. Yes, 1:12:09.479 --> 1:12:17.320 that's what virgo, y'all, Virgo is a virgo virgos of fight. 1:12:17.840 --> 1:12:20.639 I loved how he was proud. That's how Virgo. That's 1:12:20.680 --> 1:12:27.760 pretty proud. Sweet, one day you'll connected, what's your son? 1:12:27.920 --> 1:12:33.840 A query is the best song? A curious your what's 1:12:33.840 --> 1:12:37.840 the clarious? She's your wife? Your wife is in a 1:12:37.880 --> 1:12:50.200 cy She's a Gemini the Gemini, Yeah, criminal, criminal, Penny 1:12:50.280 --> 1:12:55.759 has anybody even on a Gemini? Kanye West, it's it's Kanye, 1:12:56.920 --> 1:13:01.320 he made it known andres and Gemina. Ken drink is 1:13:01.320 --> 1:13:08.280 a Gemini. Biggie's a Germinie, not a Germinie. No, just fectary. 1:13:08.320 --> 1:13:21.680 But there's a difference between jun and major. I'm a 1:13:21.760 --> 1:13:24.479 major and I'm biggie, I'm big, okay, amazing, a little different, 1:13:24.560 --> 1:13:27.040 like a little little gentler around the edges. We didn't 1:13:27.080 --> 1:13:33.240 respond to go crazy, so let me ask right because um, 1:13:33.680 --> 1:13:35.080 and this is I just want to just keep it 1:13:35.160 --> 1:13:38.000 on you and Swiss beautiful relationship, Like you have a 1:13:38.120 --> 1:13:41.719 beautiful relationship. I admire that. And you're live in Tony 1:13:41.760 --> 1:13:46.400 Stark's house is sucking fantastic, not to big confusied ghost face, 1:13:47.280 --> 1:13:51.640 not to confusing like this, just take it from that 1:13:51.840 --> 1:13:55.040 because we've see like white living. Oh that was called 1:13:55.160 --> 1:14:04.720 architectural excuse me, that's okay, so and so, because this 1:14:04.920 --> 1:14:07.880 is a really like a dream come true, like like 1:14:08.439 --> 1:14:10.720 like I heard Swiss tell the story I forget where 1:14:10.760 --> 1:14:13.120 interview he said, he said that he wanted this house 1:14:13.439 --> 1:14:16.479 became available, and this is like his dream house. This 1:14:16.600 --> 1:14:19.639 is your dream house as a family, and y'all live 1:14:19.760 --> 1:14:22.800 on the beach and it's Tony stuff. This is iron man. 1:14:23.640 --> 1:14:27.080 The kids always asked me, is Tony Starks suit in 1:14:27.200 --> 1:14:43.519 the house. I was, yes, beautiful house. Listen, listen. I 1:14:43.640 --> 1:14:49.680 grew up with my single mother, who raised me, who 1:14:50.080 --> 1:14:53.680 prayed for my survival, who hoped that I wouldn't get 1:14:53.680 --> 1:14:58.639 trapped in the streets, and like we all did. Yes, 1:14:58.920 --> 1:15:03.280 And here we are today. You're giving me flowers, we 1:15:03.400 --> 1:15:10.639 have a toast, we drinking Dominican herbal excellence. We are 1:15:11.080 --> 1:15:14.960 celebrating the greatness that we've created. We have been able 1:15:15.040 --> 1:15:18.360 to make it out of the mouth of the harshest jungle. 1:15:19.520 --> 1:15:23.639 And so when when I'm able to and my husband 1:15:23.680 --> 1:15:25.519 and I are able to be in a home that 1:15:25.640 --> 1:15:31.400 really represents our wildest dreams, to me, this represents our beautiful, 1:15:31.439 --> 1:15:37.560 our blackness, our excellence, and what we all have. We 1:15:37.680 --> 1:15:42.200 all have this endless ability to create anything that we 1:15:42.280 --> 1:15:45.400 can imagine, and so and so that's what I believe, 1:15:45.520 --> 1:15:47.439 and that's what that represents to me. It represents to me, 1:15:47.560 --> 1:15:50.599 this this possibility that all of us have. And there's 1:15:50.680 --> 1:15:53.479 nobody that can't tell if they try, they try to 1:15:53.520 --> 1:15:55.640 make us think we can't, we won't, we shouldn't, we 1:15:55.800 --> 1:15:58.639 don't deserve whatever this bullshit is. That narrative is old, 1:15:58.760 --> 1:16:02.519 is fake, it's not even whatever. We can imagine, whatever 1:16:02.600 --> 1:16:06.000 we dream, we have the capacity to create, and I 1:16:06.080 --> 1:16:16.080 feel blessed that we get to represent that. Let let's 1:16:16.080 --> 1:16:19.200 be let's be honest here you seen the picture of 1:16:19.320 --> 1:16:21.280 you when you were young in your room with all 1:16:21.320 --> 1:16:25.840 these with my headphones on, and like the works for it, 1:16:26.000 --> 1:16:29.120 like you worked for it. You were how young you? 1:16:29.240 --> 1:16:30.360 How old were you in that picture? Do you know 1:16:30.400 --> 1:16:35.679 the one with SP behind her SP SP twelve hundred 1:16:35.720 --> 1:16:39.800 which I program personally. Wow, So you were learning how 1:16:39.840 --> 1:16:44.040 to make beats on all those machines a machine and 1:16:44.240 --> 1:16:47.640 had an a SR. We had the aid that. Then 1:16:47.680 --> 1:16:51.320 I transferred to the MP and then I got to 1:16:51.439 --> 1:16:54.680 the three thousand. I'm still one more than envision it. 1:16:54.960 --> 1:16:58.439 Just to think about it. You applied yourself my ask. 1:16:58.760 --> 1:17:01.280 There's a there's a big different that. You're right, you 1:17:01.439 --> 1:17:04.160 definitely have to work for it. For sure. There's nothing 1:17:04.200 --> 1:17:06.120 that's gonna come easy for nobody. You know that. You 1:17:06.200 --> 1:17:08.400 know that, y'all all know that. You know what I mean. 1:17:08.720 --> 1:17:11.080 But that doesn't mean that we don't have a tenacity, 1:17:11.160 --> 1:17:14.519 the genius, to brilliance, the possibility, to the potential to 1:17:14.920 --> 1:17:16.840 work for what we want. And I love what you're 1:17:16.840 --> 1:17:18.960 saying because that's true because people do think, well, it's 1:17:19.000 --> 1:17:22.160 supposed to fall in my lap, because why, you know 1:17:22.200 --> 1:17:24.800 what I mean. So we definitely do have to work 1:17:24.840 --> 1:17:27.760 for our ship, and we work hard to this day. 1:17:28.439 --> 1:17:31.360 I work my ass off and I but I believe 1:17:31.400 --> 1:17:33.080 in what I do, and I love what I do, 1:17:33.160 --> 1:17:35.880 and I love connecting with my people, and I love 1:17:36.000 --> 1:17:37.760 being able to share, and I love being able to 1:17:37.840 --> 1:17:41.080 write songs that means something to somebody in fifty years 1:17:41.120 --> 1:17:44.120 down the line, that means something to somebody. That's what 1:17:44.280 --> 1:17:46.160 I'm here to do. And I'm and I'm never going 1:17:46.240 --> 1:17:48.479 to jump out my lane. This is my lane, and 1:17:48.520 --> 1:17:51.240 I'm gonna always, you know, bring more to it because 1:17:51.240 --> 1:17:52.920 that's how I believe in it, you know what I mean. 1:17:53.000 --> 1:17:59.120 So I love what you're saying with Little Wane. The 1:17:59.240 --> 1:18:02.800 song is so why did you wanted to name it 1:18:02.960 --> 1:18:05.880 Na King? So? Na King Cole? Can you explain to 1:18:05.920 --> 1:18:08.599 people who don't know Naing? Which is so fire because 1:18:08.640 --> 1:18:11.920 like even my kids they they mommy, who's Na King Cole? 1:18:12.000 --> 1:18:13.519 And a lot of people won't know who that can 1:18:13.600 --> 1:18:16.959 call this And obviously he's one of the greatest singers, 1:18:17.360 --> 1:18:23.799 you know, black amazing singers that ever existed. Rivals Frank Sinatra, 1:18:24.000 --> 1:18:25.600 you know what I mean, if there was a if 1:18:25.640 --> 1:18:27.280 there was a rival to Frank Sinatra, to me, it 1:18:27.280 --> 1:18:30.720 would be Nacking Cole and his song is called Unforgettable, 1:18:30.760 --> 1:18:32.959 one of his big, big song you hear that Christmas. 1:18:33.080 --> 1:18:34.880 It's like one of your favorite songs. You might not 1:18:34.960 --> 1:18:37.760 know you love it, but you love it. And Unforgettable 1:18:37.800 --> 1:18:43.960 it's such a sophisticated, elegant song. And unforgettable is the 1:18:44.360 --> 1:18:47.320 is the title of it. And this the concept of keys, 1:18:47.840 --> 1:18:52.519 is that we get to be almost majestic, magnificent version 1:18:52.600 --> 1:18:56.640 of ourselves. Nobody can make us be small, nobody can 1:18:56.720 --> 1:19:00.040 make us not be incredible. And so this side of 1:19:00.240 --> 1:19:04.439 being unforgettable, we are unforgettable. We're amazing. Look what we create, 1:19:04.840 --> 1:19:06.800 Look what we do, Look what we have been through, 1:19:06.920 --> 1:19:12.240 Look what we've come through. We are unforgettable. And so 1:19:12.400 --> 1:19:17.559 that the hook is be unforgettable like that, King Cole. 1:19:17.920 --> 1:19:23.960 And that's why I called it that King Come. Yeah, 1:19:24.640 --> 1:19:27.080 it's a beautiful thing to learn about who you might 1:19:27.160 --> 1:19:29.400 not know, or who you might forgot or you know, 1:19:29.439 --> 1:19:32.080 because time passes and people forget. But you gotta remember 1:19:32.439 --> 1:19:34.000 that's part of why we do drink champs, to be 1:19:34.040 --> 1:19:36.439 honest with That's that's a really important thing, you know 1:19:36.479 --> 1:19:39.280 what I mean. So you've got records a little way nah, 1:19:39.800 --> 1:19:43.920 jay Z, is there ever somebody you tried to work 1:19:44.000 --> 1:19:47.720 with and said told you know, well, I'm pissed that 1:19:47.840 --> 1:19:49.799 I ain't get to that I didn't get to perform 1:19:49.880 --> 1:19:53.040 with with Prince. I'm pissed, you know what I mean. 1:19:53.160 --> 1:19:55.240 I just I just feel like we was meant to 1:19:55.360 --> 1:19:58.680 perform together. He came on my shows, he loved me, 1:19:58.760 --> 1:20:01.120 supported me, and I'm you think it's your fault to 1:20:01.160 --> 1:20:04.400 not invite him on stage. Maybe I think maybe I 1:20:04.560 --> 1:20:06.240 was shy. You know a lot of times you feel 1:20:06.240 --> 1:20:09.479 like you don't deserve because he's infamous for impromptu stuff 1:20:10.000 --> 1:20:12.080 and he called me to his his Okay, in that case, 1:20:12.160 --> 1:20:14.719 you're right, because we did have one where he asked 1:20:14.760 --> 1:20:15.840 me to be at one of his kind of after 1:20:15.920 --> 1:20:18.360 party things. But I wanted us to have like a Grammys. 1:20:18.400 --> 1:20:21.840 I want us to have like a moment we deserve, 1:20:22.080 --> 1:20:24.720 the moment in history, you know what I mean. But 1:20:25.120 --> 1:20:28.080 I gotta say we had we had an unforgettable time 1:20:28.120 --> 1:20:30.599 and when his kind of like secret joint switches, which 1:20:30.720 --> 1:20:33.400 was mine, but I have pictures from it. It's crazy, um, 1:20:33.760 --> 1:20:37.320 but but that one, I still feel like me and 1:20:37.479 --> 1:20:44.240 Lauren are meant to know what I mean, yes, why 1:20:44.360 --> 1:20:47.080 has Lauren not come up in this comment? Because she 1:20:47.400 --> 1:20:52.080 is greatness personify, So me and her, there's something that 1:20:52.200 --> 1:20:55.560 there's just such an emotional energy as she brings, and 1:20:55.680 --> 1:20:58.759 I feel like we could have something really really crazy. 1:20:59.080 --> 1:21:06.680 Has anybody told me, no, no, fantastic because we had 1:21:06.880 --> 1:21:10.040 had the same teeople and the only person he said 1:21:10.080 --> 1:21:12.519 that did front on him was friends, and he said 1:21:12.680 --> 1:21:14.400 it wasn't because he didn't want to do the record 1:21:14.439 --> 1:21:17.400 with him master because didn't own his masters, and he 1:21:17.920 --> 1:21:22.640 he was real like that. No. He I had the 1:21:22.760 --> 1:21:25.320 song that I had called like You've Never Seen Me Again, 1:21:25.400 --> 1:21:28.320 which is one of my favorite songs. It does have 1:21:28.439 --> 1:21:32.120 a progression very close to Purple Rain, and I had 1:21:32.160 --> 1:21:35.320 to go see him. I flew out to London. He 1:21:35.479 --> 1:21:37.560 was in like this hotel and had to find it. 1:21:37.760 --> 1:21:40.320 Like this is never an easy thing when you look 1:21:40.360 --> 1:21:41.840 at for friends, So I had to find him. I 1:21:41.880 --> 1:21:44.120 had to sit with him and I said to him, like, 1:21:44.200 --> 1:21:47.320 I love this record. It's so powerful. I wrote it 1:21:47.360 --> 1:21:50.599 for my grandmother. It's about like taking seizing the moment 1:21:51.160 --> 1:21:53.479 and not letting it go and loving the person like 1:21:53.560 --> 1:21:55.240 you might never see them again, because you know how 1:21:55.280 --> 1:21:59.280 the short life is and so he felt it. He 1:21:59.479 --> 1:22:03.040 was good and he was like, Alicia, I'm not sending 1:22:03.120 --> 1:22:08.920 these people's children to college. All my ship, it ship 1:22:09.080 --> 1:22:12.160 is deep. And he said that to me, it was like, 1:22:12.640 --> 1:22:14.840 how could I argue? You know what I mean? Like, 1:22:14.920 --> 1:22:18.760 how could you? I was like, And so he was like, 1:22:18.800 --> 1:22:20.479 I don't know what you need to do. Flip the 1:22:20.560 --> 1:22:23.400 cords up, change them around, make him like close but 1:22:23.520 --> 1:22:26.040 not quite. And I promise you I will be fine 1:22:26.080 --> 1:22:29.320 with it, but but I can't. I can't. We have 1:22:29.439 --> 1:22:32.240 to we have to own our ship. He was he 1:22:32.360 --> 1:22:34.880 was way ahead of his time. He was way ahead 1:22:34.920 --> 1:22:36.479 of his time, Like I feel like he would have 1:22:36.560 --> 1:22:40.560 flourished now now it's now, it's his time, you know 1:22:40.600 --> 1:22:42.560 what I mean? You know what I mean? Because he 1:22:42.680 --> 1:22:46.760 was about this forever we're finally getting around. He'd been there. 1:22:47.800 --> 1:22:49.720 I mean, I kind of I feel I feel like 1:22:49.760 --> 1:22:51.840 it kind of started with Jay with like you know, 1:22:52.000 --> 1:22:55.439 claiming its ownership thing, and it made us like, you know, 1:22:55.560 --> 1:22:58.439 even with us with drink chaps, like we love being 1:22:58.479 --> 1:23:00.840 a revote because vote allowed us to be who we 1:23:00.920 --> 1:23:03.640 want to be. You understand what I'm saying. And they 1:23:03.720 --> 1:23:07.160 do it so um, was that something that changed you? Here? 1:23:07.200 --> 1:23:09.840 And Prince say that like you know it was big. No, 1:23:10.040 --> 1:23:13.280 I definitely think, you know, as a young artist, because 1:23:13.360 --> 1:23:16.360 Michael wasn't as vocal as that. Michael owned the Masters, 1:23:16.400 --> 1:23:19.720 Like I heard, Michael's buying other people's published. He was 1:23:19.800 --> 1:23:27.200 like catalogs of different type of publish type, like some 1:23:27.320 --> 1:23:31.720 type of grazing ship. But even Michael was passive aggressive. 1:23:32.120 --> 1:23:36.439 I would say he didn't want to rattle to the boat, 1:23:36.680 --> 1:23:39.439 but Prince was not. Prince was asked out and everything 1:23:39.560 --> 1:23:43.479 was like maybe Michael didn't care about that portion of 1:23:43.520 --> 1:23:45.640 the business. He's like, all right, whatever the record, but 1:23:45.760 --> 1:23:48.080 he was buying up Michael, he was buying up other 1:23:48.120 --> 1:23:51.240 people's publishing. So in his don't owned like Elvis publish. 1:23:51.560 --> 1:23:55.240 I think he about the Beatles. Yeah, yeah, in his 1:23:55.400 --> 1:23:58.400 mind he's like, that's the way I'm gonna take back. Yeah, exactly. 1:23:58.479 --> 1:24:00.680 He was a silent act of it, you know what 1:24:00.720 --> 1:24:02.760 I mean, like a sign activist where he just move. 1:24:03.400 --> 1:24:07.000 So let me ask you something, where do you put 1:24:07.040 --> 1:24:12.360 your Grammys at? Like? Why was that not without expect him? 1:24:13.439 --> 1:24:16.200 So for the for the longest time, I didn't even 1:24:16.439 --> 1:24:20.559 want them. I just I just I just the way 1:24:20.640 --> 1:24:23.840 that I am. I'm such a real person. I don't 1:24:23.880 --> 1:24:27.559 want a bunch of fake statues to represent some something 1:24:27.640 --> 1:24:31.360 that's not real. What's real is you know your passion. 1:24:31.560 --> 1:24:34.800 What's real is how much you put into what you do. 1:24:35.520 --> 1:24:37.719 You yourself said you haven't got a Grammy. You deserve 1:24:37.760 --> 1:24:42.439 a grammytminated. There's so many people who deserve a Grammy. 1:24:43.000 --> 1:24:44.920 I'm so good of good in life because other than that, 1:24:44.960 --> 1:24:47.320 I would be a hater, like I would be hate 1:24:48.479 --> 1:24:51.880 does And so for me, I didn't even want them 1:24:51.960 --> 1:24:55.880 to to to to be a value of value, you know, 1:24:56.040 --> 1:24:58.280 a sense of value for me. So I didn't happen. 1:24:58.320 --> 1:25:00.560 For the longest time. My manager had them all in 1:25:00.640 --> 1:25:04.120 his house. And finally my engineer, who's amazing, she's as 1:25:04.200 --> 1:25:06.880 bad as woman who's a who's just like she runs 1:25:06.960 --> 1:25:10.200 the whole world. She's incredible, she said, where's your Grammys? 1:25:10.479 --> 1:25:13.200 And I was like, oh, I guess they're over at 1:25:13.240 --> 1:25:14.599 that person's. She was like, I need you to get 1:25:14.640 --> 1:25:17.280 your Grammys. Okay, I'm saying you forgot what your grammys 1:25:17.360 --> 1:25:19.519 is that. I just love that floor, So I just 1:25:19.640 --> 1:25:23.599 love that. I love you can see them over pill 1:25:23.760 --> 1:25:28.320 right back there, because I've seen Jay one time he 1:25:28.400 --> 1:25:32.040 posted his Grammys on the floor. Okay, do you ever 1:25:32.160 --> 1:25:34.120 have those type of moments where you're just like, I'm 1:25:34.120 --> 1:25:36.000 gonna I'm gonna just use my ship as an ass tray. 1:25:36.479 --> 1:25:38.639 I mean, Swizzy did the dude things where he liked 1:25:40.479 --> 1:25:42.920 I was there. Kanye said he pissed on this. He 1:25:43.000 --> 1:25:47.320 went to Good Luck I did. He say, you want 1:25:47.360 --> 1:25:56.240 to crazy as that boy ship? So what were you 1:25:56.439 --> 1:25:58.439 call working on in New York? Oh man, we was 1:25:58.479 --> 1:26:01.439 working on a zone okay, whole You know, I work 1:26:01.520 --> 1:26:03.479 all the time. I worked to the last minute. I 1:26:03.600 --> 1:26:07.439 keep writing records. Regardless the record drops December tenth, It's 1:26:07.439 --> 1:26:10.240 going to be so crazy. And even after that, you know, 1:26:10.400 --> 1:26:12.880 there's more songs that come. I just I just love music. 1:26:12.960 --> 1:26:14.760 So we were working on a vibe that may or 1:26:14.840 --> 1:26:17.120 may not make the record. We don't know because I'm 1:26:17.160 --> 1:26:20.439 that spontaneous. But he came through. He loved the record. 1:26:20.479 --> 1:26:23.559 Actually that only you record it, really, it really takes 1:26:23.640 --> 1:26:28.320 him to that. He had to rubber boots. I couldn't 1:26:28.400 --> 1:26:31.400 tell if they were rubber or leather. Are the rubber 1:26:31.479 --> 1:26:49.360 or leather? But they were high. I'm gonna drink to that, so, Alicia, 1:26:50.400 --> 1:26:55.000 because I mean, honestly, this is probably the only question 1:26:55.080 --> 1:26:57.439 I can ask you or bust the rhymes like in 1:26:57.520 --> 1:27:00.599 a real in a way, what are you love more 1:27:00.800 --> 1:27:06.280 making them? I gotta say bust up? First of all, Yo, 1:27:06.880 --> 1:27:10.439 can we please give him his flower? I mean, okay, 1:27:10.520 --> 1:27:14.519 but I just want to get the way that he 1:27:14.840 --> 1:27:18.800 cultivates energy is out of this world. Out of this world. 1:27:19.120 --> 1:27:22.200 So what's my my favorite? Is making the record or 1:27:22.240 --> 1:27:25.200 performing the record? D That's such a good question. I 1:27:25.280 --> 1:27:29.080 feel like making it, you have this personal experience with 1:27:29.240 --> 1:27:33.479 it that really feels magical because it's like you're by yourself, 1:27:33.560 --> 1:27:35.719 where you're with three or four people, and there's something 1:27:35.800 --> 1:27:38.560 about it that you're like, I really feel something in this. 1:27:38.720 --> 1:27:40.439 You don't know, you don't know if you're gonna like it, 1:27:40.479 --> 1:27:42.320 and you're gonna like it, you like, you have no idea, 1:27:42.600 --> 1:27:45.040 but there's something magical that exists that you feel like, 1:27:45.120 --> 1:27:48.240 I feel like there's something special with here. When you 1:27:48.360 --> 1:27:50.439 perform it and you get a chance to see how 1:27:50.600 --> 1:27:55.120 people actually connect with it, it's it's mind blowing you. 1:27:55.200 --> 1:28:00.160 Like this thing was invisible six months almost like sen 1:28:00.240 --> 1:28:02.200 the gun that you bought because you don't really know, 1:28:03.680 --> 1:28:07.320 is that? Yeah? I kind of like, I'm sorry. I mean, 1:28:07.880 --> 1:28:10.040 because you know some people, you know, you buy a gun, 1:28:10.200 --> 1:28:12.880 How did you really know if this work? Like shoes, 1:28:15.280 --> 1:28:20.519 shoes and the shot and then shoot? You like that feeling? 1:28:20.640 --> 1:28:23.840 Like that feeling, because that's always I always felt. I mean, 1:28:24.080 --> 1:28:27.280 that's the best anality of her in my life. I'm sorry. 1:28:27.360 --> 1:28:33.720 I was always trying like a motherfucker no that I 1:28:33.760 --> 1:28:37.760 got it, because you know, you're excellent performer, thank you. 1:28:37.920 --> 1:28:41.519 Like I've always watched your performance at these shows. When 1:28:41.560 --> 1:28:44.160 you come out, you got the piano on, I said, 1:28:44.160 --> 1:28:50.519 piano on you. But like you've never had a lame performance. 1:28:50.520 --> 1:28:53.360 That's why I hear you like the Buster rhyn I've 1:28:53.439 --> 1:28:57.320 never seen Buster have friends. He just performed for Dave 1:28:57.439 --> 1:28:59.800 Chappelle and he just he just did for twelve minutes 1:28:59.800 --> 1:29:04.280 and I don't know what he did. Yeah, gone, holy ship. 1:29:06.160 --> 1:29:09.080 He said that he never headlined a tour, you know, 1:29:09.320 --> 1:29:14.160 And he told me he never rehearsed. Did you believe that? 1:29:15.520 --> 1:29:19.120 I was like a legend. He literally is the best, 1:29:19.560 --> 1:29:23.680 potentially one of the best mcs that ever ever ever, 1:29:23.840 --> 1:29:27.320 And the fact that he's still could spit just like 1:29:27.560 --> 1:29:31.080 that right now, because you know why motherfucker is scared 1:29:31.120 --> 1:29:33.000 to go after Boston. Oh and you can't go you 1:29:33.080 --> 1:29:35.680 know what. That's it, that's the reasons exactly. That's what 1:29:35.760 --> 1:29:38.840 he should headlined the tour. Yeah, but then anybody never 1:29:39.880 --> 1:29:46.240 come back on Tuesday. He carries on Tuesday. Everybody gonna listen. 1:29:46.280 --> 1:29:48.880 Let me tell you something. I did a show. I'm 1:29:48.880 --> 1:29:52.040 gonna I'm gonna ship. I did a show. This is 1:29:52.080 --> 1:29:55.280 real talk, This is real, real talk. In San Francisco, 1:29:55.840 --> 1:29:58.880 Don o'mar came to the promoter and said, if I 1:29:59.040 --> 1:30:03.040 go after North, I'm giving them money back. What what 1:30:03.200 --> 1:30:05.640 he didn't know at the time, Donald War was he 1:30:05.880 --> 1:30:10.679 was bigger than me in this Latino market. But people 1:30:10.720 --> 1:30:17.880 were so scared of that ship. Was smashing ship, he told. 1:30:18.040 --> 1:30:22.320 So he made the promotera make me go, so you 1:30:22.400 --> 1:30:25.800 had to go after him. I had to go after him, 1:30:26.080 --> 1:30:29.599 and so I couldn't come after dollar was that ship 1:30:29.640 --> 1:30:36.599 he had? What the funk? I didn't want to perform. 1:30:36.640 --> 1:30:42.280 It's the whole fantasy he did. He got me, He 1:30:43.080 --> 1:30:48.559 got got me. It's okay, but okay, I realized, how 1:30:48.640 --> 1:30:51.400 crazy is there anybody who was scared to perform after 1:30:51.479 --> 1:30:59.880 you every everybody love at least it's going in how 1:31:02.720 --> 1:31:06.120 your live. Like. One of the things that the Locks 1:31:06.200 --> 1:31:09.360 pointed out when they their Bottle with Dip set was 1:31:09.880 --> 1:31:12.240 that there were certain records that they were they were 1:31:12.280 --> 1:31:16.519 going over. You never you never lip sync. Mm hmmm. 1:31:17.120 --> 1:31:21.800 That is a disrespect to your craft, I feel, you know. Also, 1:31:22.120 --> 1:31:24.320 you know, I'm very very serious about auto tune too, 1:31:24.560 --> 1:31:26.600 Like I'm like, I feel that a lot of I 1:31:26.760 --> 1:31:29.720 just personally me, I'm gonna sing the record and I'm 1:31:29.760 --> 1:31:32.080 gonna sing it until it's right, and if it's not right, 1:31:32.160 --> 1:31:34.160 I'm gonna keep singing it. I'm gonna practice it, I'm 1:31:34.160 --> 1:31:35.720 gonna fix it, and I'm gonna come back and sing it. 1:31:36.120 --> 1:31:38.240 But the but to me, I feel like a lot 1:31:38.280 --> 1:31:41.800 of people who use auto tune are actually thinking of 1:31:42.400 --> 1:31:45.600 an instrument called the vote colder, which is which is 1:31:45.720 --> 1:31:47.920 which is where it's an instrument that you play and 1:31:48.000 --> 1:31:52.120 you sing into the microphone for it. And um, I 1:31:52.160 --> 1:31:54.680 think Confunction used to use it a lot Like Confunction 1:31:54.760 --> 1:32:00.120 was the way it goes on love Chain. Okay, then 1:32:00.120 --> 1:32:04.680 all the West Coast joints period in the story what 1:32:04.800 --> 1:32:08.439 a what a what a jew when you play there 1:32:08.600 --> 1:32:12.400 all scared to come on? Mr Leading could come in. 1:32:13.200 --> 1:32:17.040 You're the producer, come anybody. I don't even know why 1:32:17.080 --> 1:32:23.760 I was up, so now you're gonna. But but the 1:32:23.880 --> 1:32:26.280 vote quota is like a son a sonic, it's a sound. 1:32:26.320 --> 1:32:27.439 So I feel like a lot of people that I 1:32:27.560 --> 1:32:31.880 use them. Um, I want to try to the exaggerated version, 1:32:31.920 --> 1:32:34.640 which would like to clear we're trying to say that 1:32:34.720 --> 1:32:37.000 people that use oral tone really can't sing. I'm just 1:32:37.200 --> 1:32:40.160 I'm asking that's what you're saying. That's definitely what I 1:32:40.280 --> 1:32:42.519 actually am saying, is that I think that people want 1:32:42.560 --> 1:32:46.880 to use it's like a sonic. And so now there's 1:32:46.880 --> 1:32:49.439 a certain sonic that is created and it actually is 1:32:49.600 --> 1:32:53.639 mimicking an instrument called the vote quota, and I think 1:32:53.720 --> 1:32:57.960 that's what's actually fresh. People are discovering what the original, 1:32:59.040 --> 1:33:01.679 which is like making a completely different instrument of your voice. 1:33:01.720 --> 1:33:03.320 Exactly what you're saying is and this is what it is, 1:33:03.400 --> 1:33:06.679 the original auto tunes. You never you never heard auto 1:33:06.760 --> 1:33:10.599 tunes being used. It just it made Yeah, it helped 1:33:10.640 --> 1:33:14.360 their vocals like match the beat or what you would better, 1:33:14.680 --> 1:33:17.479 you would just make you more on pitch. But I 1:33:17.600 --> 1:33:19.720 actually don't think people are trying to be Yes, they're 1:33:19.720 --> 1:33:21.120 trying to be on pitch to a degree, but more 1:33:21.160 --> 1:33:23.519 it's like a sonic. It's a sound. It's part of 1:33:23.840 --> 1:33:28.439 how it's used. Now nobody heard it at all exactly 1:33:28.520 --> 1:33:30.600 and now it's like intentional, you know, because it's a 1:33:30.640 --> 1:33:33.080 sonic at this point. But it really made the vocoder, 1:33:33.080 --> 1:33:35.920 which is the Roger trout like sonic. Which is fine. 1:33:36.120 --> 1:33:38.240 So let me ask you. We had tricked Daddy here 1:33:39.479 --> 1:33:45.360 and tried dad that he thinks Beyonce is a great performer, 1:33:46.120 --> 1:33:50.759 but she can't sang. I disagreed with him, and totally 1:33:50.880 --> 1:33:52.960 I think he said a little differently though what he 1:33:53.040 --> 1:33:56.880 actually said, I think I disagree. No, he didn't say 1:33:56.920 --> 1:34:00.760 it that way. He said in comparison to the great 1:34:03.320 --> 1:34:05.400 But what do you hear when you hear things like 1:34:05.560 --> 1:34:08.960 that and then people compare you to the greats? People say, 1:34:09.160 --> 1:34:12.560 Alicia Kasan San You know, first of all, there's a 1:34:12.600 --> 1:34:14.160 lot of we were talking about some of the singing 1:34:14.240 --> 1:34:17.760 singing singers. We were talking about Whitney obviously as a 1:34:18.560 --> 1:34:23.000 destructive beast monster I did. She was a friend. She 1:34:23.160 --> 1:34:25.320 was a friend, and I really really really loved her, 1:34:25.400 --> 1:34:27.640 and she really came to see me and check on 1:34:27.720 --> 1:34:30.160 me and make sure I was good and visit me 1:34:30.400 --> 1:34:33.479 and like real ship, which is rare. Um. So she's 1:34:33.479 --> 1:34:36.799 definitely a singing sing before. We're talking about SWV Coco 1:34:37.520 --> 1:34:39.639 Coco with I mean, I feel like Coco was singing 1:34:39.760 --> 1:34:43.519 so many people to the day under the table quick fast. 1:34:43.640 --> 1:34:47.360 She's amazing. We're talking about Jasmine Sullivan. I think she's 1:34:47.400 --> 1:34:53.680 like she had those vogos out are so crazy, Fantasia ridiculous, 1:34:54.479 --> 1:34:56.799 you know. So there's a lot of amazing singers. I actually, 1:34:57.479 --> 1:35:00.599 I actually do feel that b is one of those singers. 1:35:01.000 --> 1:35:03.000 If she shipped it all. But she happens to be 1:35:03.080 --> 1:35:05.600 a show woman as well as showman, you know, so 1:35:05.720 --> 1:35:09.000 she does show. You know, she she's visual, so she 1:35:09.120 --> 1:35:12.040 likes to really show how she's expressing. But if she 1:35:12.240 --> 1:35:15.880 sat or sat next to a piano and you and 1:35:15.960 --> 1:35:19.160 I played and she just sang, sing, sing, I do 1:35:19.360 --> 1:35:21.960 believe that she can absolutely hang with the greats. Like 1:35:22.040 --> 1:35:25.880 she has a voice that backs up everything. Like really, 1:35:25.920 --> 1:35:27.920 if she stripped it all back, you would you would 1:35:28.080 --> 1:35:30.599 really hear it, you know what I mean. So, um, 1:35:30.960 --> 1:35:33.720 I think She's one of the greats for sure, Big Love. 1:35:34.120 --> 1:35:37.960 But is it funny when they compare you to the 1:35:38.800 --> 1:35:41.720 to the singer of singers like like and I can 1:35:41.960 --> 1:35:45.719 read the like you know, like like the like classic. 1:35:46.760 --> 1:35:51.599 I just feel so grateful to continue on that legacy, 1:35:51.880 --> 1:35:55.560 you know, that legacy of that songwriter, that that individual. 1:35:55.760 --> 1:35:58.320 Unique artists, you know, like a Nina Simone, you know, 1:35:58.840 --> 1:36:01.639 like these these artist that really they had something to say, 1:36:01.760 --> 1:36:05.040 They had a perspective that they operated from. There wasn't 1:36:05.120 --> 1:36:08.960 backing down for nobody like they wasn't fitting in anybody's box. 1:36:09.040 --> 1:36:11.400 It wasn't trying to be commercial. It wasn't about that. 1:36:11.520 --> 1:36:13.760 It was about like what do you want to say? 1:36:13.880 --> 1:36:16.400 Who are you? And how do you express? And so 1:36:16.560 --> 1:36:18.880 for me to be compared to artists like that, he's 1:36:18.920 --> 1:36:21.400 a lot like means a lot. And I don't take 1:36:21.439 --> 1:36:24.120 that for granted. That's a that's a that's something I appreciated. 1:36:25.600 --> 1:36:31.240 But let me ask, are you so bad? I know 1:36:31.360 --> 1:36:33.960 how you started with the scratch? You know, yeah, because 1:36:34.080 --> 1:36:41.360 it's about the because you Swiss and Drake got this 1:36:41.720 --> 1:36:47.240 kind of awkward kindly relationship Swiss Drake and her. Yes, 1:36:50.720 --> 1:36:56.880 you didn't recerenspection. You didn't red Drake. One thing that's 1:36:56.920 --> 1:37:00.600 missing on the tables. Water Yeah, drink your water. We 1:37:00.640 --> 1:37:03.679 got a drink chance water. It's water. It's like it's okay, 1:37:03.760 --> 1:37:09.160 thank you, with a shoutut Tequilas, just like so yeah, 1:37:09.240 --> 1:37:14.920 because you guys did a record three of us. No, 1:37:15.040 --> 1:37:17.559 I'm talking about you and you, you and Drake right 1:37:18.040 --> 1:37:21.040 the record we did unthinkable, okay, and then Swiss and 1:37:21.320 --> 1:37:24.960 Drake did a record they did which was out of 1:37:25.000 --> 1:37:27.040 this world. Both of those was out of both of 1:37:27.120 --> 1:37:30.360 those was out of this world. But we have Swiss 1:37:30.439 --> 1:37:34.160 on here. And this was when we was in New 1:37:34.240 --> 1:37:39.320 York and he said something about Drake. We edited it out, 1:37:39.880 --> 1:37:45.080 we didn't use it. But I was supposed to say 1:37:45.120 --> 1:37:49.719 that I don't know we're gonna back. No, it's because 1:37:49.880 --> 1:37:52.360 and this is when I was learning how to be 1:37:52.479 --> 1:37:56.200 a journalist. I was learning how So when Swiss asked me, 1:37:56.280 --> 1:37:59.000 I said, no problem. But I knew that when you 1:37:59.120 --> 1:38:02.760 put energy that get that into this world, it comes back. 1:38:03.520 --> 1:38:07.240 So what happened was he had put this energy out 1:38:07.400 --> 1:38:11.920 and I guess he expected Drake toler back and say 1:38:12.000 --> 1:38:15.439 something back. That never happened because we edited it, and 1:38:15.520 --> 1:38:17.519 I told you, as I said, your listen, I would 1:38:17.600 --> 1:38:20.840 never put you in the predicament where I would get 1:38:20.880 --> 1:38:22.560 you in trouble. So I wanted to use it. But 1:38:23.040 --> 1:38:25.000 it wasn't crazy. But it wasn't crazy when he said 1:38:25.000 --> 1:38:29.680 he was put together. Then two months later because he 1:38:29.800 --> 1:38:32.479 put the same energy out, he didn't and then he 1:38:32.600 --> 1:38:35.920 was on Live with Bust the bus and it was 1:38:36.040 --> 1:38:38.519 like I called him immediately. I was like, I told you, 1:38:38.640 --> 1:38:41.160 let me use this ship. You would have never said 1:38:41.280 --> 1:38:44.760 what you said on the bus to live if you 1:38:44.800 --> 1:38:47.519 want to, just let us because because we were literally 1:38:47.720 --> 1:38:50.599 had Drake signed up for like the next two weeks 1:38:50.720 --> 1:38:52.920 or something like that on the next two months. So 1:38:53.040 --> 1:38:55.360 we was we didn't that's go crazy one because that's 1:38:55.400 --> 1:38:57.760 my brother and to like, we're protecting our old prayer. 1:38:58.520 --> 1:39:01.080 So then that's that's that's this comes out. I see, 1:39:01.280 --> 1:39:04.160 I'll see Swiss. I call him. I say, yo, bro, 1:39:04.920 --> 1:39:10.200 this was a little weird energy. It's because you're happy 1:39:10.320 --> 1:39:12.880 at it. He agree with me. It's me and him. 1:39:13.360 --> 1:39:16.519 But what I'm saying is it's sent a relationship in 1:39:16.600 --> 1:39:21.200 a bad sort of sort of energy. You're in his relationship. No, 1:39:21.280 --> 1:39:25.080 I'm talking okay, okay, Swiss and drinks. You know, I'm 1:39:25.120 --> 1:39:31.760 saying Swissen and dricks because because it's sent where it 1:39:31.960 --> 1:39:35.400 made almost look like Swiss was attacking him, and they 1:39:35.439 --> 1:39:39.479 didn't have the backstory of what happened with Fancy or 1:39:39.520 --> 1:39:41.719 what happened you felt was more explained on drink chairs. 1:39:46.479 --> 1:39:52.360 You basically salty. How he feeling about it didn't get 1:39:52.360 --> 1:40:00.439 me back. I was sent there. I I said that, 1:40:00.720 --> 1:40:03.240 but you know, I don't know if you could ask 1:40:03.320 --> 1:40:06.599 with it was that morning that came out and I said, Swiss, 1:40:06.760 --> 1:40:09.240 this is what I told him. He said, no, us right, 1:40:09.240 --> 1:40:10.600 I should have just left it. And I said that 1:40:10.760 --> 1:40:14.960 you do not want you to do because the next 1:40:15.040 --> 1:40:19.040 morning after the Bosster thing, what a lot of people 1:40:19.120 --> 1:40:24.000 were saying was, oh, Swiss is hating. You can't hate. 1:40:26.160 --> 1:40:32.280 You can't hate if you up. There's not a up hater. 1:40:33.040 --> 1:40:37.479 It's not really so on losers, there's not really so winners. 1:40:37.800 --> 1:40:41.719 Excuse me, there's not that word. Thank you. You understand 1:40:41.720 --> 1:40:45.519 about dylexia. You are you are connected with me, but 1:40:45.640 --> 1:40:47.960 they can't be really so when it's so, you know 1:40:48.080 --> 1:40:50.880 that said Swiss, can you to be a favor and 1:40:51.000 --> 1:40:54.320 he goes, what's up. I said, post your beautiful wife, 1:40:54.840 --> 1:40:58.080 post your beautiful cause, and post your beautiful house. And 1:40:58.120 --> 1:41:02.439 they don't even a dress it. And I think he 1:41:02.520 --> 1:41:05.320 actually listened to me. But the thing was it sent 1:41:05.520 --> 1:41:08.920 this relationship because all of your three very famous people. 1:41:11.120 --> 1:41:15.719 What is your take on the direct situation? My sake 1:41:16.080 --> 1:41:21.400 on Swiss is that he is the most real human 1:41:21.840 --> 1:41:27.840 on the planet. Ask anybody, there's not he's on the 1:41:28.000 --> 1:41:32.240 phone with people that he loves at three in the morning, 1:41:34.280 --> 1:41:37.160 come to bed. But he's on the phone with people 1:41:37.200 --> 1:41:40.400 because they need him, because they're going through something and 1:41:40.439 --> 1:41:48.240 they need somebody to listen. I probably definitely name of 1:41:48.439 --> 1:41:52.639 name name. He shows up for everybody times a million. 1:41:53.000 --> 1:41:56.679 I've never seen a loyalty or respects being a loyalty 1:41:56.720 --> 1:42:02.560 to respect like him that people people love him in 1:42:02.640 --> 1:42:07.200 a way that I never experienced before. There's a real connection. 1:42:07.479 --> 1:42:10.160 He can call you tomorrow, he can call anybody and 1:42:10.280 --> 1:42:12.920 say my brother blah blah blah blah blah, and it's 1:42:12.960 --> 1:42:17.080 a real thing. There's some fake industry bullshit because it 1:42:17.120 --> 1:42:20.200 serves you at the moment. He's one of the v 1:42:20.880 --> 1:42:24.160 realist person I've ever met. So so my perspective on 1:42:24.400 --> 1:42:27.880 him is that he's always going to speak his truth 1:42:28.080 --> 1:42:32.120 because whatever he's saying, there's their validity behind it and 1:42:32.280 --> 1:42:36.240 beside it. He is absolutely the most genuine person and 1:42:36.360 --> 1:42:39.240 he's he's thorough. You know, he's the realist of the 1:42:39.320 --> 1:42:42.400 real He tells me, the realists of the real can 1:42:42.479 --> 1:42:45.880 go out without a dollar in a pocket and be good. 1:42:46.479 --> 1:42:57.120 And that's who he is. That's that's so um. Hold on, 1:42:57.160 --> 1:42:58.720 when do we get to go to the back? I'm 1:42:58.760 --> 1:43:01.559 going right now, like should we should we be rapping 1:43:01.760 --> 1:43:04.240 up so I can go three? You can take a 1:43:06.680 --> 1:43:09.680 little bit, a little bit, a few more, I got 1:43:09.760 --> 1:43:15.040 more ready. You're really trying to get me chose up 1:43:15.040 --> 1:43:17.640 a little late. I was just be clear, and you 1:43:17.680 --> 1:43:21.280 know what I bet. Let me just say so we 1:43:21.479 --> 1:43:24.439 all let me. That's gonna be honest with you. We 1:43:24.680 --> 1:43:28.120 all said we do this for heavy artists, and we said, 1:43:28.600 --> 1:43:32.520 is Alicia gonna be late? Every one of us said 1:43:32.640 --> 1:43:34.559 she was gonna be on time except for one person 1:43:35.040 --> 1:43:39.120 him right there, boris right, he said she's gonna be 1:43:39.840 --> 1:43:41.800 I was a little late. So he's the only one 1:43:41.880 --> 1:43:47.880 that the only everybody's believing me, thank you, especially me. 1:43:48.120 --> 1:43:54.599 I was like she she's going on time here two 1:43:54.680 --> 1:43:56.880 hours earlier. You can go to the bathroom. Yes you can't. Please, 1:43:57.920 --> 1:44:00.600 let's make sure you're good. Get back. Gonna fill up 1:44:00.600 --> 1:44:02.840 you because you we we realized your drinking is do 1:44:03.320 --> 1:44:05.479 so we're gonna fill you up. Get you got some 1:44:05.920 --> 1:44:09.240 some hallo pegos. You're gonna get you some hollee feneos 1:44:09.320 --> 1:44:45.000 and we're gonna m h. And now for my next number, 1:44:45.920 --> 1:45:13.000 I'd like to return to the class. You want to 1:45:13.000 --> 1:45:15.000 give people they flower. So when you hear people saying 1:45:15.040 --> 1:45:17.519 giving their flowers, and we made that, you made up 1:45:17.560 --> 1:45:20.600 a statement. We made up making that face because we 1:45:20.680 --> 1:45:23.360 wanted to look at in their faces, tell them how 1:45:23.479 --> 1:45:35.360 great they are and not be ashamed. Flower. I love this, 1:45:35.640 --> 1:45:37.760 by the way. I love that this is your house. 1:45:37.880 --> 1:45:41.000 Any time you want to promote, anytime you want, you 1:45:41.040 --> 1:45:46.439 wouldn't do anything. But um, was this intentional for the video? 1:45:47.880 --> 1:45:50.240 You don't know my name when you was the way 1:45:50.360 --> 1:45:54.760 the waitress and you didn't have the name Tad You see? 1:45:55.600 --> 1:45:58.400 Is that very simple? Really? Yeah, because we got to 1:45:58.400 --> 1:46:01.400 picture of it, I just didn't have a name. Because 1:46:01.560 --> 1:46:03.040 is that the reason why I didn't know your name? 1:46:03.520 --> 1:46:09.200 That you know what Chris Robinson direction video. It works. Well, 1:46:09.479 --> 1:46:12.280 I'm gonna say that that's why they hit it. My 1:46:12.360 --> 1:46:24.960 name Name done. You're right, you got something miss let's 1:46:25.200 --> 1:46:33.559 up to. But again, when I'm listening to the new album, 1:46:35.000 --> 1:46:37.760 I'm as a person that's a veteran, as a person 1:46:37.840 --> 1:46:41.000 that's seasoned in this game, I sit back and I 1:46:41.360 --> 1:46:44.840 want to find ross. Sometimes with people that's been in 1:46:44.920 --> 1:46:48.400 this game, what did you say? Ross? Like? I want 1:46:48.439 --> 1:46:50.600 to find something like Sometimes when I look at a 1:46:50.640 --> 1:46:54.040 person that's done incredible albums back to back to back 1:46:54.080 --> 1:46:56.280 to back, I want to say, all right, cool, well 1:46:56.720 --> 1:46:58.280 let me listen to this and let me see where 1:46:58.280 --> 1:47:01.599 you're starting to fall long where and don't have that? How? 1:47:02.680 --> 1:47:06.000 How how do you develop that type of like, I'm 1:47:06.000 --> 1:47:09.760 going to make the most incredible product again after all 1:47:09.840 --> 1:47:14.760 these years you've been fifteen, you know, Grammys, ninety million records, soul, 1:47:15.200 --> 1:47:17.240 How do you still have that hunger? How do you 1:47:17.320 --> 1:47:22.840 still have this? You know? Um, this this this this 1:47:23.000 --> 1:47:27.120 classic material with meat and potatoes where it's like it's 1:47:27.240 --> 1:47:29.760 it's exactly what's needed to be heard right now? How 1:47:29.920 --> 1:47:32.200 how do you maintain that? First of all, thank you, 1:47:32.560 --> 1:47:36.040 thank you for recognizing that, because that takes effort, you know, 1:47:36.360 --> 1:47:40.559 and care, and so I really appreciate you recognizing that. Um, 1:47:42.080 --> 1:47:45.519 you know, I feel like I feel like I've always 1:47:45.640 --> 1:47:50.800 cared about the art. You know, I've never even really 1:47:50.920 --> 1:47:57.160 been here to be It's never been. I don't want 1:47:57.200 --> 1:48:01.920 to be famous, you know. I mean, I don't want 1:48:01.960 --> 1:48:07.400 to be like you know. I don't want you to 1:48:07.600 --> 1:48:10.200 know me, just because you can't even realize the reason 1:48:10.240 --> 1:48:22.679 why you know me. I really want what's good. I'm 1:48:22.800 --> 1:48:36.200 so glad look at you. We got big vibes. Nothing 1:48:36.240 --> 1:48:44.439 but real love, nothing but real love. Nothing but thank you, brother, 1:48:44.680 --> 1:48:46.920 Thank you so much. I'm so happy to see your face. 1:48:47.000 --> 1:48:50.120 That made me smile from real like that was a 1:48:50.240 --> 1:48:53.240 real smile. I didn't expect that. That was a sweet surprise. 1:48:53.360 --> 1:48:55.759 I love it. And they're trying to get me twisted 1:48:55.800 --> 1:49:02.519 over here. But but I'm a champion. They don't know, 1:49:02.920 --> 1:49:08.720 they don't even know. I love you, brother. I'm so 1:49:08.800 --> 1:49:19.760 happy to see that's fired. That's fired, you know, to 1:49:19.800 --> 1:49:23.400 piggyback off of what he's asking you right now. Yes, 1:49:23.479 --> 1:49:27.400 I knew I was being a parent. Now how do 1:49:27.479 --> 1:49:31.400 you balance creativity being a parent? Now, you know, I 1:49:34.040 --> 1:49:37.519 probably during the pandemic is when I really learned that 1:49:37.760 --> 1:49:41.280 like I needed, I needed to have to carve out 1:49:41.360 --> 1:49:44.400 time for myself. And you know, you get so worried 1:49:44.400 --> 1:49:46.600 about everybody else and you want everybody be good, and 1:49:46.920 --> 1:49:49.400 the world is so strange and we don't even know 1:49:49.560 --> 1:49:52.439 what's exactly what and what's tough from bottom or what's 1:49:52.439 --> 1:49:55.680 gonna happen tomorrow or whatever and so um, and so 1:49:55.760 --> 1:49:59.320 I just realized that it's just that's important for me 1:49:59.439 --> 1:50:02.479 to make sure that they're good is as important it 1:50:02.600 --> 1:50:04.920 is for me to make sure that I'm good, because 1:50:04.920 --> 1:50:07.240 if I'm good, then they can be great, you know 1:50:07.280 --> 1:50:10.080 what I mean. So that's something that I think for 1:50:10.280 --> 1:50:13.120 us as women, especially because we offer all the caretakers 1:50:13.200 --> 1:50:15.719 and we're the ones that's really putting the most time 1:50:15.800 --> 1:50:19.360 in and everybody, you know, creates the energy around the family. 1:50:19.960 --> 1:50:21.600 But I think that it's important for us to know 1:50:21.720 --> 1:50:25.160 that we have to make sure that we're good too, 1:50:25.760 --> 1:50:27.920 you know what I mean. So that's something that I 1:50:28.080 --> 1:50:31.599 learned recently and just was reminded of, especially with the pandemic, 1:50:31.680 --> 1:50:33.640 and especially when kids was out of school and you 1:50:33.760 --> 1:50:35.280 was trying to be the teacher and the mama and 1:50:35.920 --> 1:50:37.479 my kids were so mad at me. That's like, you're 1:50:37.680 --> 1:50:40.880 so mean, you know. It's like, I'm not me. You 1:50:41.080 --> 1:50:42.840 are trying to play me, and I need you to 1:50:42.920 --> 1:50:47.000 get good done to the pandemic and the way was 1:50:47.200 --> 1:50:49.400 a blessing in disguise for a lot of people. I 1:50:49.479 --> 1:50:51.960 think so. I think so for sure, regards to time, 1:50:52.000 --> 1:50:54.800 in regards to appreciation, and regards to really recognize in 1:50:54.880 --> 1:50:57.240 the real you know, we get so lost, we get 1:50:57.320 --> 1:51:00.800 so lost, and the fakes ship ever, it is fake, 1:51:01.160 --> 1:51:04.679 it really is. There's nothing about it that's actually real 1:51:05.080 --> 1:51:08.640 until you realize that people that actually love you and 1:51:08.720 --> 1:51:11.320 will actually they don't have any profit that they're gonna 1:51:11.360 --> 1:51:14.439 gain from you. They don't have any you know, anything 1:51:14.520 --> 1:51:18.080 that they're going to get from you being good, you know, 1:51:18.240 --> 1:51:21.080 except that you're good. Like that's the most precious thing. 1:51:21.240 --> 1:51:24.280 So with the kids and with the family and balancing that, 1:51:24.840 --> 1:51:26.600 you know, it's hard. I leave and I feel like 1:51:26.720 --> 1:51:28.519 and they're like, mommybody have to leave, and I'm like 1:51:29.360 --> 1:51:31.320 I'm trying to make sure it's worth it because me 1:51:31.439 --> 1:51:35.760 being without them, you know, it's hard, you know for 1:51:35.840 --> 1:51:38.120 any parents to leave their kids and you go to work, 1:51:38.160 --> 1:51:40.080 you going to school, you're trying to put your extra 1:51:40.160 --> 1:51:42.840 work in. It's it's hard, but if it's worth it 1:51:43.360 --> 1:51:45.360 because you you have something to say, and you've got 1:51:45.479 --> 1:51:47.640 something that you represent, and you've got something that you 1:51:47.800 --> 1:51:50.800 want them to learn and see, then you know, then 1:51:50.840 --> 1:51:52.559 it then it feels good. And that's what I can 1:51:52.600 --> 1:51:54.960 tell them. I can tell them going to bring like 1:51:55.200 --> 1:51:57.840 this energy, you know what I mean, so people can 1:51:57.960 --> 1:52:00.320 feel it, so that so that we could keep rowing, 1:52:00.520 --> 1:52:02.800 you know, all of us. Did you find any any 1:52:03.240 --> 1:52:09.040 writer's block moments? Yeah, I couldn't write shit. I was like, 1:52:11.120 --> 1:52:15.040 oh my gosh, no, the same so much. I mean 1:52:15.040 --> 1:52:16.559 I would be on these because you know, I put 1:52:16.600 --> 1:52:19.880 out the Alicia albums during the pandemic, and at first 1:52:19.920 --> 1:52:21.559 I was like is this right? Is it's not put 1:52:21.600 --> 1:52:23.840 out a book too? And I was like is this right? 1:52:23.920 --> 1:52:25.640 I mean, people can't even pay the rent, Like what 1:52:26.000 --> 1:52:27.640 am I doing? Am I going to ask him to 1:52:27.680 --> 1:52:29.680 buy a book? But I believed in the book, and 1:52:29.720 --> 1:52:32.519 I believe that it was about finding who you are 1:52:32.880 --> 1:52:35.600 and choosing who you are, especially now we got to 1:52:35.680 --> 1:52:39.000 choose who we want to be. So anyway, I'd be 1:52:39.080 --> 1:52:41.120 on these interviews and maybe like, so aren't you just 1:52:41.240 --> 1:52:43.400 so creative Alicia? I mean, my gosh, You're like, yeah, 1:52:43.400 --> 1:52:45.320 all this time at home, you must be writing a song, 1:52:50.479 --> 1:52:52.840 and I'm like, hell no, I can't write now one song. 1:52:52.880 --> 1:52:55.640 I don't know what to say. I'm stressed out. I 1:52:55.720 --> 1:52:57.600 don't know what I feel. That ship is crazy. I 1:52:57.680 --> 1:53:00.760 don't know what's happening. I was not only creative, no, 1:53:01.320 --> 1:53:03.360 like not even in the littlest bit. I was grateful 1:53:03.400 --> 1:53:06.120 that I finished the record because I actually just had 1:53:06.200 --> 1:53:08.320 the records already that I could, you know, connect with. 1:53:08.880 --> 1:53:10.799 But like if I was supposed to write new records, 1:53:10.840 --> 1:53:12.600 I was like, I couldn't can remix and say this 1:53:12.720 --> 1:53:20.360 diapers on fire and that wouldn't work. That's not gonna work. 1:53:21.479 --> 1:53:25.120 So now, But I definitely felt like confused about how 1:53:25.200 --> 1:53:27.080 I was supposed to be creative and how I supposed 1:53:27.080 --> 1:53:28.920 to find time for myself and that type of thing. 1:53:29.160 --> 1:53:30.880 Do you still feel like that or you feeling like 1:53:30.960 --> 1:53:34.320 you're kind of getting a one year old and a 1:53:34.400 --> 1:53:38.880 three year old. That's just the majors. What's hard of 1:53:38.960 --> 1:53:42.240 being an artist or being a mommy, being a mother 1:53:42.360 --> 1:53:47.160 and be a mother? Yeah, why I think that you know, 1:53:47.320 --> 1:53:54.920 like you know, like you are creating and raising a mind, 1:53:56.160 --> 1:53:59.559 a spirit of being a person. Multiple people who need 1:53:59.600 --> 1:54:02.680 who have from ways of experiencing life. They you know, 1:54:02.760 --> 1:54:06.600 they depend on you to help them equip themselves with 1:54:06.760 --> 1:54:08.800 what it's gonna take for them to survive, you know 1:54:08.840 --> 1:54:10.840 what I mean. And and and that's a real thing, 1:54:11.080 --> 1:54:13.200 you know, you know what I mean. That's a it's 1:54:13.200 --> 1:54:15.040 a real thing not to be taken lightly. And I 1:54:15.120 --> 1:54:19.320 feel like, you know, it's everything I say I'm reconsidering. 1:54:19.320 --> 1:54:20.800 I'm like, should I should have talked to him like that? 1:54:21.760 --> 1:54:23.240 I was too hard on him. I should have like 1:54:23.600 --> 1:54:26.920 explained more. Dang, why am I? Why am I so upset? 1:54:27.000 --> 1:54:29.679 When he's laughing, you know, and I'm and I'm piste 1:54:29.720 --> 1:54:32.000 off because he's talking about like this nasty ship because 1:54:32.000 --> 1:54:34.240 he's a six year old boy and they talking about 1:54:34.240 --> 1:54:36.480 all types of crazy ship and I'm mad. But I 1:54:36.520 --> 1:54:38.360 shouldn't have been mad. I should just laugh with him, 1:54:38.480 --> 1:54:40.920 like I should just laugh who cared? You know? And 1:54:41.040 --> 1:54:43.800 sometimes there's so much that you're thinking of, like, yeah, 1:54:43.880 --> 1:54:45.560 like am I doing it right? And my giving them 1:54:45.640 --> 1:54:48.040 what they need? You know, is it right? And I 1:54:48.120 --> 1:54:50.040 think we're doing our best and doing our best. We 1:54:50.080 --> 1:54:52.800 don't know everything. We boys don't clean their wrong Let's 1:54:52.840 --> 1:54:56.880 be clear, they're gonna clean that wrong clean. You're not 1:54:56.920 --> 1:54:59.880 gonna be some sloppy as boys not having it you 1:55:00.000 --> 1:55:04.400 you'll be check because it's one year old. Side. He 1:55:04.440 --> 1:55:13.920 still don't well he did that, that's his fault. We 1:55:14.000 --> 1:55:32.400 got someone one to three over here. It's so good. 1:55:32.440 --> 1:55:35.440 We haven't such a good time. It's amazing, you know 1:55:35.440 --> 1:55:37.080 what I mean. I'm loving it. They're really trying to 1:55:37.160 --> 1:55:40.840 get me to do all these toasts and drinks. He knows, 1:55:41.200 --> 1:55:43.480 he knows, he's been three, he said. I look a 1:55:43.600 --> 1:55:48.680 little bit. He does know me, but you know what, 1:55:48.800 --> 1:55:56.040 I'm still elegant queens, so it doesn't even know. He's 1:55:56.080 --> 1:56:00.560 so sweet to call he over here? Have people called you? 1:56:00.960 --> 1:56:04.960 You're all happy? You know happy? How did they drink 1:56:05.040 --> 1:56:09.800 like this every day? This is a live Should we 1:56:09.840 --> 1:56:15.040 send him to the spa? I'm going whatever he said, 1:56:15.720 --> 1:56:19.640 whatever were going to He's going, how are you doing? 1:56:19.720 --> 1:56:26.520 You're so brilliant, You're so genius, making me about to cry? Good? 1:56:26.680 --> 1:56:32.800 Everything great, We're definitely having fun. My favorite part was 1:56:32.880 --> 1:56:34.720 all the questions he asked me. I think he caught 1:56:34.800 --> 1:56:39.360 me out there with outcasts and mob deep. That was 1:56:39.440 --> 1:56:46.080 a really hard one. Somehow women don't casts. I don't 1:56:46.080 --> 1:56:49.280 feel like I heard him the same mob deep until 1:56:49.400 --> 1:56:56.080 after I said outcasts, which is fine? Are they both great? Yeah? 1:56:58.280 --> 1:57:02.120 Hold on, Swiss, I'm telling I'm telling something. She pushed, 1:57:02.320 --> 1:57:09.880 she picked, push her t over kiss though kids earlier. 1:57:10.000 --> 1:57:19.240 So you're gonna get some phone calls. Get what you said, 1:57:23.080 --> 1:57:29.800 push your well, she's a fat This is dope. Thank 1:57:29.840 --> 1:57:31.280 you so much for my brother. You know I love 1:57:31.360 --> 1:57:33.760 you man. I'm told the story how long we know 1:57:33.920 --> 1:57:37.320 each other, how you've always be my brother. But I 1:57:37.440 --> 1:57:40.400 also told the story that you never forgave me for 1:57:40.560 --> 1:57:46.160 not loving to be drop? Do you have the virgin 1:57:46.240 --> 1:57:52.120 where the be drops? Can we find that? Yeah? I 1:57:52.160 --> 1:57:54.200 got it somewhere. You have to I got it somewhere, 1:57:54.200 --> 1:57:58.080 Indi or someone. The greatest thing is I'm great old. 1:57:58.720 --> 1:58:07.400 I never even realized I'm great with all perfectly, perfectly crazy. 1:58:07.440 --> 1:58:09.360 So I want him to find the version with the 1:58:09.400 --> 1:58:19.720 bee dropping. I'll sing you you better find him. I'm 1:58:19.720 --> 1:58:27.800 gonna make it up, make it recreate. He don't let 1:58:27.840 --> 1:58:34.720 the drink. I'm gonna go back in the studio. Thank 1:58:34.760 --> 1:58:36.840 you for everything, my brother, thank you so much. Man. 1:58:36.960 --> 1:58:38.320 You're gonna get me back in the studio for real, 1:58:38.360 --> 1:58:44.160 because I wanted rather I can't the next album that's 1:58:44.200 --> 1:58:47.120 my and I know has and SCRAMs here and I 1:58:47.240 --> 1:58:50.440 love y'all want of my like not last album that 1:58:50.520 --> 1:58:54.280 people do um swiss and p. Yeah, I wanted my last. 1:58:54.360 --> 1:58:56.640 I don't know I'm gonna do it. The two of 1:58:56.720 --> 1:59:00.840 my my, my two producers who curated me. I used 1:59:00.880 --> 1:59:08.760 to work here. I just learned that work by the way, Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1:59:09.480 --> 1:59:11.560 I was about to ask her about the no commission? 1:59:12.040 --> 1:59:15.440 Is a no commission coming to art Basil? Not this year? 1:59:15.800 --> 1:59:19.840 Not this year? Why? Because like I didn't really know that. 1:59:20.440 --> 1:59:23.200 You know, you gotta plan ahead, you gotta you gotta 1:59:23.240 --> 1:59:25.120 plan a head. So I didn't know how COVID would 1:59:25.200 --> 1:59:27.320 would act, you know what I'm saying, and like to 1:59:27.400 --> 1:59:29.320 put all that working for them to shut it down. 1:59:30.240 --> 1:59:33.440 I definitely got Oh, like I'm in Saudi, man, putting 1:59:33.520 --> 1:59:35.960 up all of the um all of the artwork for 1:59:36.040 --> 1:59:37.960 the different artists, you know, on on the F one 1:59:38.000 --> 1:59:41.560 track and stuff like that. So that's pretty big. So like, 1:59:41.720 --> 1:59:44.160 you know, let me give it a break for this year. 1:59:44.600 --> 1:59:46.720 Let's see how the COVID play out and make sure 1:59:46.720 --> 1:59:49.280 you're gonna come back strong. All right, Well, well, thank 1:59:49.320 --> 1:59:50.960 you so much for calling this Swiss. We know I 1:59:51.040 --> 1:59:53.920 love you, my brother thinking so much. Oh my god, 1:59:54.040 --> 1:59:56.880 the queen is doing the queen head and she's gangster, 2:00:00.120 --> 2:00:10.400 my brother, thank you so much. Really, let me just 2:00:10.520 --> 2:00:13.120 tell you, I don't want to give you your flowers please. 2:00:13.360 --> 2:00:16.160 I like them, I really do. I don't have a 2:00:16.240 --> 2:00:20.560 box made, but I just want to tell you, but 2:00:20.760 --> 2:00:22.840 I want to tell you that I'm super super proud 2:00:22.880 --> 2:00:25.800 of you, like thank you. I know you, and I've 2:00:26.120 --> 2:00:29.040 watched you and I've racked to your music. I've turned 2:00:29.080 --> 2:00:31.600 it up in my six to six on me like 2:00:31.720 --> 2:00:34.160 it's a real thing. The first time the super thunk 2:00:34.240 --> 2:00:39.400 drop and I was in the the damn gas station 2:00:40.000 --> 2:00:43.560 and I'll never forget, I was like, what what? What? What? 2:00:43.840 --> 2:00:50.440 What was this? And that's how I felt? What what? 2:00:51.120 --> 2:00:53.240 And anyway, I just want to tell you I'm super 2:00:53.280 --> 2:00:56.000 super proud of you, and I'm grateful for you. And 2:00:56.080 --> 2:01:02.280 I see a trajectory and it's unlimited to super powerful. 2:01:02.520 --> 2:01:05.640 You are incredible. I see what you're doing. You're consistent 2:01:06.240 --> 2:01:08.400 and you and I love what you're saying about giving 2:01:08.440 --> 2:01:11.160 people their flowers, why they're here. It's supposed to thank 2:01:11.200 --> 2:01:13.560 you so the way, thank you so much. And um, 2:01:14.080 --> 2:01:16.520 let me just be clear. You know, we just looked 2:01:16.560 --> 2:01:20.360 at this game as it's terrible that people have this 2:01:20.480 --> 2:01:23.240 word washed up. Like ten years in this game, people 2:01:23.240 --> 2:01:26.320 will say you're washed stuff like there's no word like 2:01:26.440 --> 2:01:29.400 that in Rock and Rolled up. There's no word like 2:01:29.560 --> 2:01:33.880 that in Jet Jazz, Like like what you're gonna say. 2:01:33.960 --> 2:01:38.560 You're gonna say Sam Cook is washed up? How can 2:01:38.640 --> 2:01:41.040 Sam Cook be washed up? So we wanted to change it. 2:01:41.600 --> 2:01:45.080 And you know, the more that you've done in this game, 2:01:45.160 --> 2:01:46.800 we want to praise it, we want to salute it, 2:01:46.840 --> 2:01:48.320 we want to do that to your face. We don't 2:01:48.360 --> 2:01:51.320 want to do that when a person that's passed away 2:01:51.920 --> 2:01:57.680 and you're hands down the biggest artists female artists that's 2:01:57.800 --> 2:02:02.800 ever stepped here. And let me just tell you something. 2:02:02.880 --> 2:02:06.360 Although we're friends, I love your husband all that this 2:02:06.560 --> 2:02:09.720 does not go without warranted. This does not mean that. 2:02:09.840 --> 2:02:13.240 It doesn't it means less because we're friends and were 2:02:13.320 --> 2:02:16.760 family and where were This means more because you really 2:02:16.840 --> 2:02:20.080 could have did Oprah like I'm going to your husband earlier, 2:02:20.160 --> 2:02:22.160 and he was like, you listen, you know my wife 2:02:22.200 --> 2:02:23.680 could have did Oprah. And I was like, I got 2:02:23.800 --> 2:02:26.760 to hang up right now because I was like that 2:02:26.920 --> 2:02:30.960 it's actually true. I might have picked open over to y'alla, 2:02:31.080 --> 2:02:32.880 Like you know what I'm saying, Like when you would 2:02:32.920 --> 2:02:36.640 have picked up over you, I said me, Oprah, Nori 2:02:36.800 --> 2:02:38.880 maan fuck Nori mean And I come back to them later. 2:02:39.200 --> 2:02:41.560 You know what I'm saying, I might have been and 2:02:41.960 --> 2:02:45.240 and this is crazy because I have to thank artists 2:02:45.320 --> 2:02:48.840 like you, Karanye, you know the naz Is, and you 2:02:48.920 --> 2:02:52.160 know who's sitting around and says, you know what, I'm 2:02:52.200 --> 2:02:54.240 gonna go to the hip hop media and I'm gonna 2:02:54.600 --> 2:02:57.320 visit that because you know, in the honestest and the 2:02:57.440 --> 2:03:01.480 honest way, when the video, when the interview was so great, 2:03:01.600 --> 2:03:04.520 they take our bits and pieces of the interview anywhere. 2:03:04.840 --> 2:03:07.760 So you don't have to kind of do fifteen different outlets. 2:03:08.000 --> 2:03:11.320 You could do one powerful, great interview and it brings 2:03:11.360 --> 2:03:14.440 the power to I don't want to say black Latino. 2:03:14.520 --> 2:03:16.960 I want to say hip hop because it's bigger than 2:03:17.000 --> 2:03:19.000 a race. To me, It's like it's bigger than just 2:03:19.120 --> 2:03:22.680 claiming to be black or Latino or even white or 2:03:22.920 --> 2:03:27.120 whatever whatever. Remember it's wherever hip hop conversation, a conversation 2:03:28.720 --> 2:03:32.000 one of completely thank you and and and it's so 2:03:32.120 --> 2:03:34.240 professional you did it because, like I said, this is 2:03:34.320 --> 2:03:36.400 one of my best friends. And you could have just 2:03:36.680 --> 2:03:39.120 just hit swears, but you did a professional You had 2:03:39.600 --> 2:03:42.640 management the public. I felt so special. I was like, 2:03:42.720 --> 2:03:47.120 they sent me now. And by the way it took 2:03:47.200 --> 2:03:49.640 me twenty five minutes to download this ship that she 2:03:49.760 --> 2:03:54.840 was the most complicated, by the way I could not 2:03:54.960 --> 2:03:57.720 fold it to nobody to say welcome Nori, I said, oh, 2:04:00.040 --> 2:04:04.839 this is mad, but I appreciate your team. I appreciate 2:04:05.080 --> 2:04:08.880 I really, you know, thank you. You know what I'm saying, because, um, 2:04:10.080 --> 2:04:14.200 the one thing about us is we have a great platform, 2:04:14.480 --> 2:04:17.240 but it kind of seems like a boys club. And 2:04:17.360 --> 2:04:19.800 this is not a boys club. This is as much 2:04:19.960 --> 2:04:23.320 as your show as anybody. I mean, I mean, this 2:04:23.440 --> 2:04:28.360 is yours working. This is a club. And I'm so 2:04:28.600 --> 2:04:32.240 glad that you chose, Like I really, like, I was 2:04:32.320 --> 2:04:36.760 so happy, Uma. I studied you so much, like I 2:04:37.200 --> 2:04:39.080 can't lie to you, like I'm you right now, Like 2:04:39.120 --> 2:04:42.840 it's gonna take me. Yeah, it's yeah, yeah, it's like 2:04:42.920 --> 2:04:46.879 two days. Like I'm just like I was calling Swiss. 2:04:47.040 --> 2:04:49.000 This was just like what kind of christis? We were 2:04:49.080 --> 2:04:50.640 plotting on you And that's why I knew. Like I 2:04:50.720 --> 2:04:56.160 was like really in, I was like, he's plotting with me, said, 2:04:56.160 --> 2:04:59.640 she's bringing the ice out today, normal and SI, you 2:04:59.760 --> 2:05:08.960 can't ice down, You're ready to go, so let me 2:05:09.040 --> 2:05:11.760 let me just say something. So we got the new album, Yes, 2:05:12.240 --> 2:05:16.280 what's next? After we conquered movies? Um. I had a 2:05:16.360 --> 2:05:18.120 friend say to me the other day, he said, Yo, 2:05:18.240 --> 2:05:24.040 I conquered or my bucket listen, And it sucked me 2:05:24.120 --> 2:05:26.760 up because if you conquer your bucket, Liss, where did 2:05:26.800 --> 2:05:30.640 you go from? I'm gonna actually that did you conquer everything? 2:05:30.680 --> 2:05:34.200 When your bucket listen? You know, I always feel like 2:05:34.560 --> 2:05:37.280 there's more to learn. I always feel like a student. 2:05:37.880 --> 2:05:41.080 I always feel excited about what I could bring, what 2:05:41.360 --> 2:05:45.680 new I can experience as well. Um, there's a lot 2:05:45.880 --> 2:05:47.800 of things up my sleeve, for sure. I got a 2:05:47.880 --> 2:05:51.840 lot coming and a lot of amazing ideas coming. I 2:05:51.960 --> 2:05:55.800 definitely every day I'm learning more about myself and who 2:05:55.880 --> 2:05:57.360 I want to be in the world. You know, and 2:05:57.480 --> 2:05:59.520 it and it shifts and it evolves and it changes. 2:05:59.840 --> 2:06:02.560 So I'm definitely having conquered my bucket list. There's like 2:06:02.640 --> 2:06:04.840 a lot of dream and left. So what's on your 2:06:05.160 --> 2:06:07.960 list that you have a cocket? I want to do 2:06:08.760 --> 2:06:15.160 a really incredible Broadway play like writeing and performance perform 2:06:15.560 --> 2:06:21.640 right create called Alicia. I'm gonna tell you the name. Actually, 2:06:21.920 --> 2:06:23.600 I'm gonna tell you the name. You're the only person 2:06:23.720 --> 2:06:28.440 that knows it. Yeah, I don't worry about these people here, 2:06:28.640 --> 2:06:30.200 I know you will. But it's such a good name. 2:06:30.920 --> 2:06:36.520 It's called Hell's Kitchen. Killed that killed that. Nobody will 2:06:36.560 --> 2:06:42.520 ever know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, way play. I really 2:06:42.640 --> 2:06:47.640 want to focus on generational wealth. I feel like that 2:06:47.760 --> 2:06:49.960 there's a lot to learn for all of us. You know, 2:06:50.080 --> 2:06:52.400 a lot of the times we don't have the tools 2:06:52.520 --> 2:06:55.560 or the information that allows us to really get ahead. 2:06:56.000 --> 2:06:58.280 And I really want to focus on that, like in 2:06:58.400 --> 2:07:02.520 a in a major way, so crafting and creating ways 2:07:02.600 --> 2:07:06.400 that that happens and everything I do, but in everything 2:07:06.560 --> 2:07:08.640 that the people that I partner with, in the ways 2:07:08.680 --> 2:07:10.600 that I think a lot of people are open to 2:07:10.760 --> 2:07:15.840 really equalizing the scales and and that we understand that 2:07:16.440 --> 2:07:20.680 that there's been years of of incorrectly done ship and 2:07:20.880 --> 2:07:22.760 inside of fixing, you know what I mean. So I'm 2:07:22.800 --> 2:07:24.920 really into that. So I really I'm learning about that 2:07:25.000 --> 2:07:26.800 and I'm figuring out how to crack that code and 2:07:26.840 --> 2:07:29.800 really make that a real thing. So that's deep. Um, 2:07:30.160 --> 2:07:32.320 you know, I feel like there's so much to don't 2:07:32.320 --> 2:07:33.880 want to have a lot of fun too. I just 2:07:33.960 --> 2:07:35.480 want to I want to live and I want to 2:07:35.560 --> 2:07:37.960 be president. I want to be president my kid's life. 2:07:38.000 --> 2:07:40.080 I want them to know me, you know what I mean. 2:07:40.080 --> 2:07:41.640 I want them to be like, oh yeah, her who 2:07:41.720 --> 2:07:44.000 was always going you know what I mean. I really 2:07:44.080 --> 2:07:46.600 want them to know me, and they do. I'm good 2:07:46.680 --> 2:07:48.400 at it. I'm really good. I see you doing a 2:07:48.440 --> 2:07:53.080 great job. Crypto are you? Are you in the crypto? 2:07:53.320 --> 2:07:55.280 I am. I'm just getting my wallet, that's what you 2:07:55.400 --> 2:08:00.120 call because they told me get my wallet. I'm meant it. 2:08:00.240 --> 2:08:01.920 I think that I think we just have to diversify. 2:08:01.920 --> 2:08:07.720 I think we have to understand everything. You know, we're 2:08:07.720 --> 2:08:16.160 about to release our cards Culture Fire, So that's like 2:08:16.320 --> 2:08:19.920 the like the Amex that like's it's gonna be like 2:08:20.080 --> 2:08:23.120 trading cards, like n f T trading cards, and you 2:08:23.200 --> 2:08:25.840 can create your virtual record label, shout out to culture 2:08:25.880 --> 2:08:28.640 cards and we're part of that. It was definitely we 2:08:28.720 --> 2:08:30.720 were talking about the meta and all this virtual ship 2:08:30.800 --> 2:08:33.920 that's happening. It's major, it's major, But how do you 2:08:34.000 --> 2:08:35.800 feel about it? Like does it freak you out? Because 2:08:35.840 --> 2:08:38.000 it's kind of freaks me out a little bit. I 2:08:38.120 --> 2:08:40.040 need to understand what freaks you out? I think what 2:08:40.240 --> 2:08:43.240 freaks and maybe it's just I just want to make 2:08:43.320 --> 2:08:45.720 sure that we keep being actually in touch with each other. 2:08:45.800 --> 2:08:47.640 You have to be freaked out, you know what I 2:08:47.800 --> 2:08:50.680 have to know. What I'm saying is that ship actually exists? 2:08:50.840 --> 2:09:03.120 Huh whatta you gotta relax you And and the n 2:09:03.200 --> 2:09:07.920 f T is Netflix. Yeah, yeah, I don't get it. Dude, 2:09:07.920 --> 2:09:12.120 that was Dominican. Here's a question. Can I please taste 2:09:12.160 --> 2:09:19.160 that dag on you to? Oh, I'm gonna take another 2:09:19.200 --> 2:09:21.560 shot in another you just take a show. I'm gonna 2:09:21.560 --> 2:09:25.960 have a with that. Wait, why why aren't you frecking in? 2:09:26.120 --> 2:09:28.360 And I'll tell you why. I'm concerned about the metaverts. 2:09:31.560 --> 2:09:35.200 I don't think do you remember when everyone was dying 2:09:35.400 --> 2:09:43.960 and Dominica listen to these guys in my cheer But 2:09:44.000 --> 2:09:48.240 I was in the medic with the head Dominican, wasn't 2:09:48.280 --> 2:09:50.800 we in the Medica where everyone was dying? It's what 2:09:50.920 --> 2:09:55.440 you describe with the tiger bone. No, it is not sweet. 2:09:56.840 --> 2:09:58.920 It's not it is. It's very sweet. I can tell 2:09:58.920 --> 2:10:02.800 you drinking. Do you drink Jaine's whiskey? Sometimes? I like whiskey. 2:10:03.440 --> 2:10:07.400 I like whiskey, like McCallen. McCallen, that's American whiskey. Oh 2:10:07.440 --> 2:10:10.920 that's Irish whisky. All right, that's what I likes. Very 2:10:12.280 --> 2:10:17.400 that's very the best pussy come from. I I like, yes, 2:10:17.480 --> 2:10:22.320 we could tell thank you don't cheap ship. Don't gonna 2:10:22.320 --> 2:10:24.080 be no cheap ship when I get there. But you 2:10:24.240 --> 2:10:34.120 also you also like Delion too. Ye, He's like, are 2:10:34.200 --> 2:10:51.120 we doing this? You are Swiss? Lusk Swiss. Y'all are 2:10:51.280 --> 2:10:57.560 too cute? You like, you're so scared that Kanye smoke 2:10:57.880 --> 2:10:59.760 you run off some dreams. I mean, I don't know 2:11:00.000 --> 2:11:02.440 the question that I'm wondering. They told me you big 2:11:03.400 --> 2:11:16.240 who WHOA Like? I opened it and there's morning. I 2:11:16.280 --> 2:11:17.880 don't know. We don't worry. I got your back. I 2:11:17.960 --> 2:11:19.040 got your back. You don't got to do all that 2:11:21.200 --> 2:11:23.160 to get the weather, all right, So here's the question, 2:11:25.240 --> 2:11:28.959 what is this part? It's called would that be tobacco? 2:11:29.080 --> 2:11:32.840 It's called your back on because it's fake tobacco. That's 2:11:32.840 --> 2:11:37.360 a vegan tobacco. Tobacco. I don't know what I'm saying, 2:11:37.400 --> 2:11:39.920 but I think it's true. And then and then what 2:11:40.280 --> 2:11:44.600 great or strange right there? It's a great smoke Champs strain. 2:11:44.960 --> 2:11:49.440 It is called grown in the Mountains of Austria. I 2:11:49.480 --> 2:11:55.080 would prefer the Medican Republic road Roadman Republic next to 2:11:55.120 --> 2:11:58.760 the Mama Hauna Brandon. Now, I do appreciate the wooden filter. Yes, 2:11:58.840 --> 2:12:00.680 we would like for you to a spar that. Because 2:12:00.760 --> 2:12:03.520 Kanye smoked the prototype. This is the actual one, that's 2:12:03.520 --> 2:12:05.560 the real ship. So you will be the first one 2:12:05.600 --> 2:12:09.000 that ever smoked that on smoke chairs. So I'm not 2:12:09.080 --> 2:12:11.000 going to be called finishing. I don't even be calling. 2:12:11.280 --> 2:12:17.760 I don't want to whatever. Whatever. Whatever, Yeah, my god, 2:12:17.920 --> 2:12:27.760 is it going on? Can we play? Yeah, let's make 2:12:27.880 --> 2:12:32.120 sure I'm not gonna cough. No, you ain't gonna We're 2:12:32.120 --> 2:12:35.520 gonna we edited that. We have a don't worry me 2:12:35.600 --> 2:12:38.120 and Swiss is edited in this episode. Anyway, don't worry 2:12:38.120 --> 2:12:45.640 about it. We got your back I heard, I heard, 2:12:46.600 --> 2:12:48.880 I heard you're a big time smoker. That's what they 2:12:48.920 --> 2:12:55.040 said on the low. So this is actually the awkward question. 2:12:55.080 --> 2:12:56.960 Do you tell me if it's awkward? Would you ever 2:12:57.000 --> 2:13:00.400 think about making a reggae album? Oh my gosh, I love. 2:13:00.600 --> 2:13:03.160 I feel like I have a lot of reggae records 2:13:03.200 --> 2:13:05.880 that I've made that it's natural for me. This back 2:13:05.960 --> 2:13:09.280 to the soul vibe that we were talking about. It's 2:13:09.320 --> 2:13:11.640 such a soul that it's such an energy there. No 2:13:11.800 --> 2:13:13.880 one had a crazy reggae remix. You don't know my 2:13:14.040 --> 2:13:17.200 name at a crazy roots remix. There's so many songs 2:13:17.240 --> 2:13:18.920 that I have that I feel like that's natural. I 2:13:19.320 --> 2:13:22.920 actually think a reggae record would be like a zone 2:13:23.000 --> 2:13:24.800 for me. So are you going to change your name 2:13:24.840 --> 2:13:34.040 like Snoop Lion? What would be? What Tiger? It would 2:13:34.040 --> 2:13:42.400 be Alicia Panther's. Yeah, for sure, I'm buying the album already, Panther. 2:13:42.560 --> 2:13:46.120 Let what's pretty smooth? What is your ultimate thank you? 2:13:46.240 --> 2:13:50.839 We ourselves? If we canna work with anybody dead or alive, 2:13:51.160 --> 2:13:55.360 who work with anybody? Who would it be? Let's pick three? 2:13:55.680 --> 2:13:58.880 All right? If it was anybody that are alive, I 2:13:58.960 --> 2:14:05.440 feel like it would be Kurt Cobain, I can see that. 2:14:06.360 --> 2:14:13.040 Nina Simone, Marvin Gays what an amazing wait wait I 2:14:13.160 --> 2:14:17.800 changed it. You go five, okay, Nina Simone, We're gonna 2:14:17.800 --> 2:14:23.560 go high five Marvin Gaye, big Gil. I feel like 2:14:23.600 --> 2:14:35.360 that would be so crazy. And Nipsy she's going Boba beyond, 2:14:35.920 --> 2:14:39.800 she's killing it. That's because I was late. That's fine, 2:14:39.880 --> 2:14:42.800 You've got me so coldly ship. That is a great 2:14:44.280 --> 2:14:47.760 that's a good list. That's all. And you know I 2:14:47.880 --> 2:14:49.560 was gonna say, but I felt like it was obvious. 2:14:52.640 --> 2:14:56.720 But I feel like Bob, Bob is so special, Like 2:14:57.440 --> 2:15:00.400 how can how can one person be so pro thinking, 2:15:00.480 --> 2:15:04.760 like so willing to share the truth? You know what 2:15:04.840 --> 2:15:06.560 I mean? And and and the thing about this is 2:15:07.120 --> 2:15:10.760 related to you because like it's certain records that you 2:15:10.840 --> 2:15:14.160 can drop at any moment, like you don't know, my 2:15:14.320 --> 2:15:18.120 name can drop right now and they'll be saying real 2:15:18.640 --> 2:15:21.720 like you make timeless like transcend yeah, like like like 2:15:22.280 --> 2:15:24.280 like when I listened to you, and I really did 2:15:24.360 --> 2:15:27.280 a study because, like I said, Jimmy ko Swiss is 2:15:27.720 --> 2:15:29.760 your husband and he's my friend. I didn't want to 2:15:29.840 --> 2:15:31.520 do my I wanted to do my due diligence, and 2:15:31.600 --> 2:15:34.000 I wanted to go, and I'm asking them questions, is 2:15:34.000 --> 2:15:37.280 how I got the the the you would rate kwon 2:15:37.560 --> 2:15:42.040 being that I'm going in, I'm going in and I'm 2:15:42.080 --> 2:15:48.600 going in. But it's like, um, like you really make 2:15:48.840 --> 2:15:51.640 timeless music. So as I'm going through, because we had 2:15:51.680 --> 2:15:53.880 the at least the keys are centrals. This is the 2:15:54.000 --> 2:15:58.640 list of just your hits, and it's like when we 2:15:58.800 --> 2:16:01.240 listen to it, because that's what we do before artists 2:16:01.280 --> 2:16:03.880 walk in and we sit there and we're sitting here 2:16:04.120 --> 2:16:06.280 and we're all listening to it because we've all set 2:16:06.360 --> 2:16:09.560 up at three o'clock, so we all set over here three. Yeah, 2:16:09.560 --> 2:16:14.800 we're here at three. But it was like, damn, your 2:16:14.920 --> 2:16:18.520 music is really timeless, like you could have there's certain 2:16:18.560 --> 2:16:20.800 of your albums you could drop right now and it's 2:16:20.800 --> 2:16:23.720 still relevant, Like how the fund did you do that? 2:16:24.040 --> 2:16:26.600 And now are you doing it on purpose? Or I 2:16:26.720 --> 2:16:28.680 just like kind of what we kind of left off 2:16:28.760 --> 2:16:31.880 on it what you asked me. And I think you know, 2:16:31.880 --> 2:16:35.200 I'm not chasing anything. I'm not chasing a trend, I'm 2:16:35.200 --> 2:16:37.920 not tracing a sound, I'm not tracing anything. I'm I'm 2:16:38.040 --> 2:16:40.440 chasing the truth. You know, I'm chasing my truth, I'm 2:16:40.520 --> 2:16:44.640 chasing my honesty and just following that. So I think 2:16:44.680 --> 2:16:48.959 that that's what allows it to just be honest. When 2:16:49.080 --> 2:16:51.760 someone's honest, you can feel it forever. You know, it's 2:16:51.800 --> 2:16:53.400 like it don't matter. It's just like that was that 2:16:53.560 --> 2:16:56.760 person's feelings in that moment. So I feel like that's 2:16:56.760 --> 2:16:58.480 what it is. But I appreciate you saying that because 2:16:58.520 --> 2:17:02.400 that's actually a really big accomplishment. I didn't know that then. 2:17:03.200 --> 2:17:05.840 I realized that now, like when people can actually be 2:17:06.360 --> 2:17:10.760 six years old, twenty years old, thirty five years old, 2:17:11.040 --> 2:17:13.680 sixty five years old, and they can all relate to 2:17:13.840 --> 2:17:17.640 the same music, that's like, that's something. So I don't 2:17:17.680 --> 2:17:19.800 take that for granted. And let me just tell you something. 2:17:20.000 --> 2:17:29.480 Your fans are very nice people. Yes, yes, yes, but 2:17:30.400 --> 2:17:36.119 I you know, I was so open when on Twitter. Yes, 2:17:36.200 --> 2:17:40.880 I was open on Twitter, and um, Twitter is the 2:17:40.920 --> 2:17:45.080 most evilest people in the world. So I go on 2:17:45.200 --> 2:17:51.720 Twitter and I say, we got Alicia. You know, you're 2:17:51.760 --> 2:17:54.720 the only person. That's why I said your fans, you're 2:17:54.720 --> 2:17:57.760 the only person with no negative comments for people were 2:17:57.840 --> 2:17:59.400 first off telling me I was lying, like you ain't 2:17:59.440 --> 2:18:04.400 got ever, and there was a leak there was you 2:18:04.440 --> 2:18:07.440 have a fan page on Twitter, it's like Alicia fans. 2:18:07.520 --> 2:18:09.640 And then they said it's rumored that she's gonna be 2:18:09.680 --> 2:18:14.120 on Drink Chams and everyone's like, yeah, you're fans this 2:18:14.240 --> 2:18:20.200 I know. No they real listen, I'm gonna tell you 2:18:20.280 --> 2:18:24.360 who else. It's Kanye and Little Wayne. Little Wayne has 2:18:24.480 --> 2:18:30.720 nice fans too. Yeah, they asked for permission, like they asked. 2:18:30.760 --> 2:18:34.680 They like, when's the next part of it? Dropping like, okay, 2:18:36.680 --> 2:18:41.520 you're fans, Like, no, no, you're fans. When I put 2:18:41.959 --> 2:18:43.760 and I popped the bottle of Asia Spaine and I said, 2:18:43.800 --> 2:18:46.320 we gotta be prepping for Alicia and I'm playing your 2:18:46.400 --> 2:18:48.880 music in the background, and they just hit me on 2:18:48.959 --> 2:18:53.600 the d M, like, yo, y'all her fans. Yes, they 2:18:56.560 --> 2:18:58.440 I mean in my mind, just let me ride my story. 2:19:00.400 --> 2:19:04.720 They were just like, yo, that's crazy that you got. 2:19:05.440 --> 2:19:10.360 And again, it's just like, I want to reiterate what 2:19:10.480 --> 2:19:13.879 your husband said. It's just like you're really that status 2:19:13.959 --> 2:19:17.240 where you can go do Gail King, you can go 2:19:17.520 --> 2:19:21.640 do Ellen Degeneral, you know, you can go do whoever 2:19:21.800 --> 2:19:34.760 the hell you want, but you picked drink Chick. I believe. 2:19:34.840 --> 2:19:36.600 Let me tell you something. I'm gonna say something this is. 2:19:36.720 --> 2:19:38.960 This is gonna sound weird, but just robbing me for 2:19:39.080 --> 2:19:42.640 the story because my mom's my mom's had never asked 2:19:42.680 --> 2:19:45.520 me to ever meet anybody in this game. And my 2:19:45.640 --> 2:19:47.840 mom's asked me to meet Big Pun and I told her, 2:19:47.879 --> 2:19:50.800 I said, mom, that will always be around. And I 2:19:50.920 --> 2:19:53.840 never did it. And I never got a chance to 2:19:53.879 --> 2:19:56.720 beat my mom's the Big Pun for this. It's another thing. 2:19:56.840 --> 2:20:00.560 My wife never asked me to be any artists, and 2:20:00.680 --> 2:20:04.120 she asked me to be Alicia and I like that, 2:20:04.200 --> 2:20:07.040 and I never got a chance. Look she's blushing over there. 2:20:07.280 --> 2:20:09.600 I never got a chance. I went to um there 2:20:09.640 --> 2:20:11.920 was an art basil show. I know, I pronounced our 2:20:11.959 --> 2:20:17.120 basil and you had just performed and he was in 2:20:17.200 --> 2:20:19.120 the back and I didn't get a chance to to 2:20:19.600 --> 2:20:22.840 do that. So today is my day of my wife 2:20:22.920 --> 2:20:26.400 and my girl came to and she if a girl 2:20:27.160 --> 2:20:30.840 come out for nothing. She was here and she wanted 2:20:31.720 --> 2:20:36.560 time to roster. Girl came out all the females because 2:20:36.920 --> 2:20:47.440 we really this is really daughter. Yeah. Randy AKA came 2:20:47.480 --> 2:20:51.480 out and he was managing and by the way, he 2:20:51.600 --> 2:20:53.640 was made a little mama. At that time, he was 2:20:53.720 --> 2:20:56.520 managing a little mama. I called him so much, y'all, 2:20:59.480 --> 2:21:05.280 what's going? But I called hippify million times, like with 2:21:05.480 --> 2:21:08.480 mad jokes I had sent to every men that ever 2:21:08.680 --> 2:21:12.520 was sent to me. I was like, not, this is 2:21:12.600 --> 2:21:15.600 the look this like, honestly, I'm gonna be honest. Yes, please, 2:21:16.800 --> 2:21:22.280 I have done those shows multiple times. I just have 2:21:22.440 --> 2:21:24.800 to say this is like, this is the vibe. Is 2:21:25.800 --> 2:21:32.080 this it's a real thing. I'm gonna take a shot 2:21:32.120 --> 2:21:38.600 to that. Yes, but Atlicia, let us just say something 2:21:38.720 --> 2:21:43.800 one more time. I really appreciate you showing us this 2:21:43.959 --> 2:21:51.480 love because again, it's bigger than a race thing or 2:21:51.600 --> 2:21:53.920 something like that. It's hip hop. Hip hop is to 2:21:54.040 --> 2:21:58.520 me its own race. I actually want to I actually 2:21:58.560 --> 2:22:00.560 want to get a job, Like I don't. I don't 2:22:00.600 --> 2:22:02.200 need a job, but I want to get a job. 2:22:02.240 --> 2:22:06.520 And they'd be like, what race, Chill, relax, it's my career, Relax. 2:22:06.720 --> 2:22:10.120 I'm gonna get a job. And when they asked for 2:22:10.200 --> 2:22:14.640 the box to check, I want to check hip hop, like, 2:22:18.920 --> 2:22:22.000 because there's certain people we should started just doing that, 2:22:22.840 --> 2:22:25.760 started to push that that that's maybe white, there's certain 2:22:25.760 --> 2:22:28.600 people that that but then just as hip hop as me. 2:22:28.959 --> 2:22:31.320 But you know when when Michael Mex would say so called, 2:22:31.959 --> 2:22:34.960 so called, so called white man, so called black man, 2:22:35.080 --> 2:22:38.320 so called, I really that means something to me because 2:22:38.360 --> 2:22:40.440 it is a so called that's a name, that's names 2:22:40.480 --> 2:22:43.920 we've been given by whoever didn't care anything about us, 2:22:44.000 --> 2:22:48.400 any of us, whichever so called we became. So that's 2:22:48.400 --> 2:22:51.040 not so called human. Let's come on, let's just go 2:22:51.160 --> 2:22:53.960 back to the basics. That's for sure. I love that. 2:22:54.120 --> 2:22:58.080 Let's go, cheers, Let's go. What is that is that? 2:23:00.440 --> 2:23:02.720 I actually went back to this one just for safety. 2:23:03.720 --> 2:23:05.400 Mama wanna will take care of you. Trust Now, I 2:23:05.480 --> 2:23:08.520 gotta taste delicious. I just wanted to sake. The mixing 2:23:08.680 --> 2:23:14.000 is because I gotta act. I can't drink tequilla. I 2:23:14.200 --> 2:23:18.080 love tequiller. It's just so smooth, especially with the right 2:23:18.600 --> 2:23:22.840 good tequilla tequila that you need to stop. Okay, tell me, 2:23:23.400 --> 2:23:26.800 tell me example of a wrong tequilla. Julio. No, no 2:23:27.680 --> 2:23:31.160 Julio is great. I like Don Julio, I likes I 2:23:31.280 --> 2:23:35.640 like Causto meges and I like I'm getting a little nervous. 2:23:35.680 --> 2:23:38.280 A cast of me goes because every hoody person. I know. 2:23:38.600 --> 2:23:42.160 They're not. You're a mega at a bottle. The worst 2:23:42.240 --> 2:23:45.440 people in the world I know is broken around with 2:23:45.560 --> 2:23:47.880 a bottle of cast of meges. It immediately makes me 2:23:48.000 --> 2:23:55.240 not want to drink back. This one definitely has. You know, 2:23:55.400 --> 2:23:59.480 it's it's it's become universal. Yes, yes, so and look 2:23:59.480 --> 2:24:02.680 congratulate to them. Yes, because a lot of people getting 2:24:02.720 --> 2:24:09.480 money and so you recommend no Cassams, No, that's not 2:24:09.560 --> 2:24:14.800 what I said that you did. This is what we're doing. 2:24:16.680 --> 2:24:19.000 I'm not sure what he's doing, but nonetheless, that's the 2:24:19.040 --> 2:24:21.040 tequila that I like it when it's you know, when 2:24:21.080 --> 2:24:23.400 it's high quality, is smooth, and it doesn't it can't 2:24:23.440 --> 2:24:25.040 feel like it burns you and hurt you. If it 2:24:25.120 --> 2:24:27.240 hurts you and burns you is the wrong kind. Okay, 2:24:27.600 --> 2:24:32.480 And have you ever mixed your tequila. I'll do soda, 2:24:33.440 --> 2:24:34.760 but I don't like to mix it with like a 2:24:34.840 --> 2:24:37.920 bunch of fruity juices and ship We noticed you put 2:24:38.080 --> 2:24:42.440 halapeeno like a spice margarita. Margarita has too much sugar 2:24:42.480 --> 2:24:47.520 for me. But the halapenios you need to try it. 2:24:48.560 --> 2:24:52.240 You should try it's slowly I'm going to take a 2:24:52.280 --> 2:24:54.240 little bit more vegan. But but it doesn't take a 2:24:54.280 --> 2:24:57.360 little bit before you end the show. Yes, I wait 2:24:57.400 --> 2:25:00.280 for you and when you come back. He he just 2:25:00.360 --> 2:25:03.440 takes random bees. He just does He just does it. 2:25:04.160 --> 2:25:07.280 He just he loves it. He drinks, he drinks blonde ale. 2:25:08.480 --> 2:25:13.120 That's the thing about guys. Yes, yes, yes, it is. 2:25:13.879 --> 2:25:16.320 But I like that you invited the ladies into the zone. 2:25:16.480 --> 2:25:19.520 I like that I'm able to represent ladies in his zone. 2:25:19.560 --> 2:25:21.680 I love that we can talk about different space. You see, 2:25:21.680 --> 2:25:24.520 it's like a protect this safe space. You're treating me 2:25:25.040 --> 2:25:27.440 super queenly, kingly and you know, let me just tell 2:25:27.480 --> 2:25:32.960 you something. I was going to have two females throw 2:25:33.320 --> 2:25:38.520 roses at your feet. You walked out, and I was 2:25:38.600 --> 2:25:41.840 trying to do to come into America right right right, 2:25:42.680 --> 2:25:45.039 And at the last end, they was like, but that's 2:25:45.200 --> 2:25:53.320 might be too much showing favoritism to the Yes, okay, okay, 2:25:53.360 --> 2:25:55.640 I was wooded. I was going. I was going with it. 2:25:55.959 --> 2:25:58.280 But then it was like, all right, they wage tones down. 2:25:58.360 --> 2:26:00.840 But how I see it, it's never too that's never 2:26:00.959 --> 2:26:05.760 too one. Live boldly, bravely and share shower people shower 2:26:06.080 --> 2:26:13.160 bold bravely, b B. I appreciate the thought no, I 2:26:13.280 --> 2:26:16.680 swear to God, you can not to do it. No. 2:26:22.440 --> 2:26:24.720 By the way Kanye gave his glasses to hed been 2:26:24.800 --> 2:26:38.040 the same sense it shower, don't want to know. Go ahead, 2:26:38.080 --> 2:26:41.040 it's okay, it's okay. No one told me not to 2:26:41.120 --> 2:26:44.000 do it yourself doubting. No. I just was like, yo, 2:26:44.120 --> 2:26:45.760 you're sure. And then people was like, you know what, 2:26:46.640 --> 2:26:51.080 maybe don't make it too much because yeah, and that's 2:26:51.120 --> 2:26:54.480 the reason why I sold. But it's okay, you know why, 2:26:54.720 --> 2:26:57.800 because we really and you really said the president. I 2:26:57.879 --> 2:27:01.120 know I said that word a little wrong that you 2:27:01.160 --> 2:27:12.680 said that President. Yes, but you said want we want 2:27:12.800 --> 2:27:16.119 more female orientation. We understand that we have a lot 2:27:16.160 --> 2:27:19.160 of men. It's because you know, I'm gonna layal man 2:27:19.240 --> 2:27:22.520 and I don't have female numbers. It's just that that's 2:27:22.560 --> 2:27:25.720 a nationally thing. But it doesn't mean we don't want 2:27:25.879 --> 2:27:28.600 females to participate. You understand what I'm saying, that we 2:27:28.680 --> 2:27:31.800 want females to participate. And you you set, you set 2:27:31.879 --> 2:27:37.480 the motherfucking want. Let me be the example. Yes, you 2:27:39.440 --> 2:27:43.960 was so open. I'm still open. I'm still excited. Um. 2:27:44.360 --> 2:27:46.920 Like I said, we have people that's our family that 2:27:47.160 --> 2:27:49.720 never come out and they came out. That's for you 2:27:49.879 --> 2:27:52.520 in here today. I feel like the rest you are 2:27:52.720 --> 2:27:56.080 really feel do you take it on the shot you 2:27:56.160 --> 2:28:01.240 got Wanda left over? Alright, It's just this is this 2:28:01.400 --> 2:28:06.400 our cheers to this is the classic show because you 2:28:06.520 --> 2:28:09.760 gave us everything we needed. We definitely take pictures and 2:28:09.879 --> 2:28:13.840 promo because I don't have people do when they drunk. 2:28:14.360 --> 2:28:20.560 That's the show. By the way, you're I'm not yeah, 2:28:21.160 --> 2:28:22.760 I'm actually okay. I'm gonna go out and get some 2:28:22.800 --> 2:28:31.000 dinner or some ship. But Alicia, I'm so thankful. I'm 2:28:31.080 --> 2:28:35.840 so grateful. Um you know, I'm thinking of this jay 2:28:35.920 --> 2:28:38.600 Z Biggie Small skit where he said you could have 2:28:38.680 --> 2:28:43.520 been anywhere in the world chose to be here tonight. 2:28:54.160 --> 2:28:57.160 We'll never forget this moment. Like I said, my wife 2:28:57.400 --> 2:29:04.920 is so you know, she's so not industry, so the opposite, 2:29:05.480 --> 2:29:07.920 so much about you. She's so not industry and like 2:29:08.400 --> 2:29:10.800 you're literally the only person said I would gotta meet 2:29:10.879 --> 2:29:14.959 to me, and it's like, I remember what I messed 2:29:15.040 --> 2:29:18.360 up with my mother. My mother asked to meet Big Pump, 2:29:18.720 --> 2:29:20.960 and I would never make that mistake again. I love it, 2:29:21.120 --> 2:29:22.960 you know what I'm saying just because I'm close to 2:29:23.080 --> 2:29:26.280 someone doesn't mean I shouldn't, you know, answer to the 2:29:26.400 --> 2:29:31.240 duties of the duties being done. And tonight I would 2:29:31.280 --> 2:29:33.560 like to introduce you to my wife. Let's go, I would, 2:29:36.400 --> 2:29:39.240 but before that, I would like to thank you face 2:29:39.360 --> 2:29:42.600 to face. I know how important you are, I know 2:29:42.720 --> 2:29:46.040 how big you are in this industry. I know how 2:29:47.040 --> 2:29:51.280 you can change a person's life. And you sitting down 2:29:51.400 --> 2:29:57.720 with us, and we had to be worthy to a 2:29:57.840 --> 2:30:02.000 certain extent. But the fact that you chose us and 2:30:02.200 --> 2:30:05.200 we really respect that, We really love that. I want 2:30:05.240 --> 2:30:08.000 to tell you to your face and you're making us 2:30:08.040 --> 2:30:10.920 worthy because, like I said, at any time you ever 2:30:11.040 --> 2:30:13.400 want to promote anything, if you want to promote your 2:30:13.520 --> 2:30:17.840 your little toe pink you want to promote that, paint 2:30:17.840 --> 2:30:19.640 it for you. Don't worry about it. We're paying it 2:30:19.760 --> 2:30:22.440 for you. And we're promoting the ship out of this motherfucker. 2:30:22.760 --> 2:30:27.360 We're gonna sell a little pink toe nails, n n 2:30:28.600 --> 2:30:34.240 that motherfucker. We really thank you, We really because you're 2:30:34.320 --> 2:30:36.880 empowering us and that's what the culture needs to do. 2:30:37.200 --> 2:30:39.160 Is you know, we're part of the culture. This is 2:30:39.200 --> 2:30:42.800 a DJ, this is not um. You know a lot 2:30:42.840 --> 2:30:44.920 of people who don't understand that his name is DJ 2:30:45.160 --> 2:30:50.040 e Fn, and people misunderstand the DJ park. This is 2:30:50.120 --> 2:30:53.800 a real DJ. This motherfucker will take He doesn't DJ 2:30:53.920 --> 2:30:57.800 because he loves Vinyl. He's really like he's stuck in 2:30:57.840 --> 2:31:03.640 the ways, and that's a beautiful way because that's real 2:31:03.840 --> 2:31:07.240 hip hop. Like I know for a fact that if 2:31:07.320 --> 2:31:10.080 I asked him the DJ my birthday party, he's coming 2:31:10.160 --> 2:31:15.520 with Vinyl, you know. And I love that. I love 2:31:15.640 --> 2:31:19.080 his integrity and it's we're really the new Arab B 2:31:19.240 --> 2:31:24.040 and rock him and we're trying. Yeah, yes, yes you 2:31:24.080 --> 2:31:38.320 want to Yeah. So so I really want to thank you. 2:31:38.440 --> 2:31:40.120 I really want you to know how much you mean 2:31:40.240 --> 2:31:43.200 to us. And like like we said, we're learning on 2:31:43.320 --> 2:31:46.480 the job where we're not journalists. It's a DJ. We 2:31:46.600 --> 2:31:48.440 have no idea what we're doing. We have no idea, 2:31:48.480 --> 2:31:50.760 but but we know what we're doing. We have no idea, 2:31:50.840 --> 2:31:53.240 but we know what we're doing. And when we have 2:31:53.400 --> 2:31:57.599 opportunities like this, we ain't never gonna go this unguarded, unloved, 2:31:57.720 --> 2:31:59.480 and you know what I mean. We wanted you to 2:31:59.600 --> 2:32:03.240 know that we really appreciate appreciate it, right and We're 2:32:03.240 --> 2:32:06.480 gonna go hard. Come on, Wenna. That's why I hate 2:32:06.520 --> 2:32:08.920 the chairman, you know, I hate puff Daddy. And I said, 2:32:09.480 --> 2:32:12.440 and I said, Yo, listen, this is the biggest female 2:32:12.520 --> 2:32:14.840 artist we ever had. This is the one of the 2:32:14.879 --> 2:32:18.200 biggest artists. We have artists, not just female. This is 2:32:18.240 --> 2:32:21.000 one of the biggest artists I've had. He said that. 2:32:21.120 --> 2:32:23.200 He faced time me immediately he said, do you know 2:32:23.400 --> 2:32:28.920 that's my system? You know, like he turned it about, 2:32:29.640 --> 2:32:32.400 he turned into it. He was like, your motherfucker, I 2:32:32.600 --> 2:32:34.160 write the way you just told to me. And I 2:32:34.280 --> 2:32:44.800 was like, don't think, said Jesus Louisa. But that's how 2:32:44.840 --> 2:32:48.440 important you are to the country, to the culture, I said, 2:32:48.480 --> 2:32:52.720 to the country, but the country in the world, because 2:32:52.760 --> 2:32:55.680 you did get political one time. You would like hillaries 2:32:56.280 --> 2:33:01.800 man a little bit in the Cuban goodbye. That was 2:33:01.840 --> 2:33:03.440 a tabit of a stretch. But you know what, I'm 2:33:03.480 --> 2:33:10.240 the people sit manou. That was real. That was real. 2:33:10.400 --> 2:33:14.760 So that's all. I really thank you, thank you, We 2:33:14.920 --> 2:33:18.640 really appreciate it. You made my whole. You my whole. 2:33:22.160 --> 2:33:24.480 We've been doing this for whole six years. I've never 2:33:24.560 --> 2:33:31.000 seen this this cool smile. It's only positive smiling, everyone's 2:33:31.000 --> 2:33:33.080 smelling good. I got the good perfume more on today. 2:33:33.800 --> 2:33:41.640 You know what I'm saying. Anybody got the air done? Yes, yes, yes, yes, 2:33:41.840 --> 2:33:46.200 anybody so we gotta. I'm gonna take a one more show. 2:33:46.280 --> 2:33:50.600 I'm sorry you don't work. We're gonna take it for you. 2:33:51.520 --> 2:33:53.400 We're gonna take it for you. Over your cub goodbye, 2:33:53.400 --> 2:33:56.000 but let's do it. That was a very very beautiful 2:33:56.040 --> 2:34:03.080 about Congratulate right here, f Congratulations, I love you too, 2:34:03.200 --> 2:34:17.240 dog delivering the biggest d you got a government on. Hello. 2:34:28.440 --> 2:34:30.840 Thanks for joining us for another episode of Drink Champs, 2:34:30.920 --> 2:34:33.280 hosted by Yours truly, d J e f N and 2:34:33.480 --> 2:34:35.520 n O r E. Please make sure to follow us 2:34:35.560 --> 2:34:38.160 on all our socials. 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