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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the Army Money Podcast. Yea,

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Speaker 1: you know what this is, Jamie fucking Hey. First of all,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to thank you for letting me come here,

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Speaker 1: but I think the champagne is great, but I think

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Speaker 1: we need to go further. I think this is this

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Speaker 1: is you know how to hit the bottle against the chip.

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Speaker 1: You got the bottle right there, an start right there?

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Speaker 1: You wanta Okay, you want to go, van Alden, you

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Speaker 1: want to go. You're ready to go, because that's that's

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Speaker 1: where it all started going back when it gets that

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Speaker 1: don't know, but oh my god, I thought I heard

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Speaker 1: the custom like of that side. Just now we said

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Speaker 1: like changing Ben all of his lifting. You know what

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Speaker 1: it was about that house banana yellow. Yeah, and that's

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Speaker 1: that's what I remember about that album. As soon as

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Speaker 1: you pull up, you see this yellow Bentley outside, and

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Speaker 1: it was terrible for l A, the worst card because

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Speaker 1: everybody knew everybody. Yeah, well here's the thing. You know.

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Speaker 1: When I first got to l A, I drove down

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Speaker 1: Bevil Hills and I saw Bejan and I bro that

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Speaker 1: Bentley used to be parked outside of Bejon and not

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Speaker 1: I had no money. I just man, when I get on,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting that motherfucker. I'm yea, how do you say?

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna get that ship. And the next thing,

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Speaker 1: you know, I got on and it was came up

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Speaker 1: for sale. I said, I need that. So that's the

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Speaker 1: one I used to sit on. Ro everybody that and

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Speaker 1: then and then it moved. Then it was on Melrow.

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Speaker 1: He got something on Melrose that he's guys richest. Fuck No,

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Speaker 1: but but in I got the car when it had

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Speaker 1: definitely depreciated box it wasn't if it wasn't a bad time.

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Speaker 1: Um still yeah, yeah, and the money, thank you. Let's

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Speaker 1: go back to bad. I were walking into a club.

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Speaker 1: We're walking into a club. It might have been the gate. Wow,

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Speaker 1: walking into the gate, thank you going there right now.

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Speaker 1: And I'm walking in and walking in the gate. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And when I'm walking in, I think brother windows with

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Speaker 1: me walking in the walking in the gate, and I

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Speaker 1: hear somebody say hey Dank. I'm like, who the fuck

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Speaker 1: is you on my name? And I turned around and

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Speaker 1: it's Jamie fun Oh. I don't know each other. You

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Speaker 1: don't know each other, don't know And I'm like, hey,

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Speaker 1: what's amazing. I've been looking for you. Here's here's name.

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Speaker 1: Let let's go back the way I was introduced to you.

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Speaker 1: That somebody says somebody in your lane. I guess it

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Speaker 1: was because I was trying to sing and I said

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Speaker 1: this this dude name Tank. Y'all sounds suck with me.

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Speaker 1: Fun that, but I'm getting ready to go do Ali

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Speaker 1: and the girl I'm dating at the time. We find

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Speaker 1: to Africa. So we stopped at the record store. For

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Speaker 1: all y'all don't understand this is when you go buy records.

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Speaker 1: I'll go on the record store. I said, hey, let's

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Speaker 1: get some record so I can listen as be on

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Speaker 1: this long ass fight. And I said, they told me

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Speaker 1: about some mo fucking name Tank supposed to be in

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Speaker 1: my lane. Let me go see. So I'm going to

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Speaker 1: get my CDs and then I get to your fucking CD.

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Speaker 1: And first of all, you got your shirt off and

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Speaker 1: five albums, so your shirt is off. And I looked,

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Speaker 1: and immediately I looked at my girl to see if

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Speaker 1: she saw because I'm off me high this, I said.

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Speaker 1: Then I pulled the ship out said we're not gonn

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Speaker 1: see that. So I got all my CDs and I

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Speaker 1: put him on the table to buy, but I put

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Speaker 1: you at the bottom, no disrespect. So we don't need

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Speaker 1: to see all that. And this is a warm man days, right.

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Speaker 1: So I didn't have no batteries, I said, town, I

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Speaker 1: gotta get batteries for my walkman. So I go to

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Speaker 1: get my walkman, and by the time I got back,

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Speaker 1: my girl has slept with you. She basically mentally fucked you.

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Speaker 1: Because when I get back, not only is your CD out,

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Speaker 1: but it's on top and open all the way cigarette

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Speaker 1: I said, I said this just like I just wanted

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Speaker 1: to just look I Scott, damn it. So so it

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Speaker 1: goes from that to being on the plane flying for

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Speaker 1: eighteen hours to get to Africa and listening to your

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Speaker 1: music and I said wow. I said, wow, absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 1: I never heard a voice the song You're freaking, I know,

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Speaker 1: show freaking. They told me, yea, when I heard that,

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Speaker 1: we dropped the ball. That should have been a single.

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Speaker 1: Listen when I heard that record, right, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: just I's the one who didn't go in brother church.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, guys, but here's the thing. I heard your

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Speaker 1: music and said, man, why this dude, this this was

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Speaker 1: extremely talented and I let me and my girl. We

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Speaker 1: had to We had the twin. I had the money,

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Speaker 1: so we had the twin walk man, so we could both.

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Speaker 1: So we're holding hand like, go ahead, let's just motherfucker's

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Speaker 1: just get us in the move. You know, we ain't

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Speaker 1: gonna take you what we do on the plane any

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Speaker 1: so we can land. But when we landed, I felt

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Speaker 1: compelled because I see all my African brothers and I

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Speaker 1: didn't have a way to play your music out. I

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Speaker 1: literally I would say, you have to hear this kid

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Speaker 1: named Tank and I will put it. I said, Tink,

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Speaker 1: who is this thinking? Because we was in mosa Tink,

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Speaker 1: who is Tink? I said, you had to hear, and

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Speaker 1: I put it on the ears and you will see

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Speaker 1: there as oh it is good, it's just And they

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Speaker 1: passed it around the whole damn near the whole village.

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Speaker 1: And that's how much you impacted me and everybody know

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Speaker 1: me man. I think that we all as artists grow

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Speaker 1: when we see other artists there are that are exceptional.

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Speaker 1: Because when you're coming up, your dream is singular to you.

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Speaker 1: You are the most talented in the region of where

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Speaker 1: you are. But when you get here, you see that. Wow,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys and girls that God has

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Speaker 1: touched and have exceptional ability. So when I saw you,

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Speaker 1: I freaked out because I was like, wow, that's the dude.

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Speaker 1: That pretty much was the soundtrack of me doing Ali,

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Speaker 1: Me and my girl. We were just like I couldn't

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Speaker 1: believe it. And then to go further, I was having

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Speaker 1: a house party advant all that, and somebody said gonna

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Speaker 1: take I said, tak where and then I'm over. I said,

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Speaker 1: it's not fair, that sounds like that, but but but

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Speaker 1: I but you know, I don't ever hate. It was

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Speaker 1: just like I could not believe that your voice sounded

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Speaker 1: like that, and that that you wrote like that, and

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Speaker 1: then we went on to write you know, you know, fantastic.

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Speaker 1: The the crazy parallel to that is as as you

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Speaker 1: were yelling at me, screaming like, man, I've been looking

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Speaker 1: for you. At that point, I was looking for a

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Speaker 1: way out. Yeah, and I didn't you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: for us to come together at that time, it was

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Speaker 1: necessary because like I'm in your kitchen, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying at at at at a few points after

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Speaker 1: because j you know, like this like our business. I'm

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Speaker 1: Music business was treacherous. But when you said you was

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Speaker 1: gonna leave the music as, I said, what the fund

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Speaker 1: are you saying? There's no way we can survive without

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Speaker 1: having your voice in the music. But so you said,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't you know, I didn't. I don't know

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Speaker 1: I didn't know this nigg was a gang. I didn't

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Speaker 1: know he's the light skining gangster. At first, I look

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Speaker 1: at the skin. This motherfucker has has sixteen year old skin.

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Speaker 1: Every time I see J Vallenime, I just wanna go

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Speaker 1: come here to make me feel this. He has the

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Speaker 1: greatest skin. But I didn't realize that music was at gangster.

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Speaker 1: And you were like, basically without saying anything, it's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, it was like other elements that was keeping

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Speaker 1: you away from your dream. And I said, bro, no

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Speaker 1: fucking way. I said, you stay in my house. I

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Speaker 1: had a studio on the back of the crib. I said,

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Speaker 1: you stay in my house and you do what you

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Speaker 1: need to do, uh, to make sure that that light

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Speaker 1: would we be as drink to that? Will we be without?

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Speaker 1: Take God? My girl, keep keep the CD over here?

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Speaker 1: You lost her? She keep the CD over here. I said.

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Speaker 1: The craziest thing about that, though, Fox, is that how

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Speaker 1: many artists actually have that story, right, that at some

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Speaker 1: point all roads lead to Jamie Fox, Which is very interesting. Man,

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Speaker 1: This is from a from female to male artists that

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Speaker 1: you have been just I don't even I don't even

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Speaker 1: send for so many young and older artists right there

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Speaker 1: just at some point that couch, that studio, that party,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And you're just having a

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Speaker 1: good time, right, But those parties, so many people have

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Speaker 1: But I would have the I would have the I

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Speaker 1: those on those days. I remember John b was playing

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Speaker 1: John D played his songs lug I'm the in Sincs

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Speaker 1: and and singing Backstreet Boys songs. I remember Brian McKnight

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Speaker 1: Brian is very you know, very to himself, very Okay.

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Speaker 1: I never wanted I said this motherfucker one time, Brian.

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Speaker 1: I was like, man, everybody here is saying I don't

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Speaker 1: do that. That I told everybody. I said. We was

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Speaker 1: Brian gonna be there, Brian gonna sing, and the motherfucker

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Speaker 1: shined on me. He was like one day, Brian calls

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Speaker 1: me to the studio to do it, to do a

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Speaker 1: McKnight called me to be on his ship night. I've

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Speaker 1: been singing all of the songs on my life. I

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Speaker 1: go there and do my verse and I'm like, he's

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Speaker 1: out the booth and we just talked and we just

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Speaker 1: started kind of walking and I'm like, man, I got this.

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Speaker 1: I got at a bunch of tracks. Man, I wanted

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Speaker 1: you here a couple of song ideas, like it would

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Speaker 1: be really dope. You know what I'm saying. He's like this, Man,

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Speaker 1: I'd love to do that. Man. He opened this door

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Speaker 1: and I'm thinking maybe we're about to go into a

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Speaker 1: love to good man, Hey, your car's parting. Good luck

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Speaker 1: with that. Nick hits you with your ubers waiting, man,

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Speaker 1: because you know what you found out about Brian is

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Speaker 1: that he's a competitive guy. Brian, you shoot the like

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Speaker 1: I was singing my league. And one of the one

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00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 1: of the ladies from my church, she said, take your time, Drell.

423
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,640
Speaker 1: Oh my god. It was to take your time, take

424
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: your time to explain it, to explain it me in church,

425
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 1: black church. When someone says that, secular people to me,

426
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 1: when they when they when they say take your time,

427
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:39,639
Speaker 1: that means you're sucking up. Take your time shot let

428
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 1: the lord lord, because right now the Lord apparently is

429
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: not using it, and you need to get into his

430
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 1: youth exact So they say take your time. And so

431
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: by the time the song was at the vamp, I

432
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 1: noticed I had been boxed out from the microphone. Are

433
00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: the two older guys and they were ad living and

434
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 1: I was added up into their shoulders. I just kept singing, Okay,

435
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: we're walking down going to the cars. Mounty Betty, who's

436
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 1: the choired director for our junior choir. She's she's big

437
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: in the city too. I said, Betty, how do I do?

438
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 1: She said he was off, Baby, he was real off.

439
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: She said he was off. And I was like, And

440
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 1: it didn't hit me like I was a failure. It

441
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 1: hit me like I got work to do because if

442
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 1: Auntie Betty was back, I got more work to do, right,

443
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: And so I started fine tuning, sharpening. It made me

444
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,239
Speaker 1: want to be the best. Sitting in the John p Key,

445
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: you don't want to, you don't want to see. I discovered.

446
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 1: I discovered John p Key. I discovered Darryl Coley. I

447
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 1: discovered Commission. I discovered the one. Give me some other,

448
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: give me some much. Haven't need someone. I knew you

449
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 1: was gonna go there shot the cry on that's my guy,

450
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: keeping easy egg and me and fight quidity, oh man

451
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 1: sweet and speak soft word love than me so much.

452
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 1: The Mitchell Johnes keep woting marry just want to dude.

453
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: I need someone, my Lord, I need someone. They's someone

454
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: you that's someone. No first thing about set yes, John

455
00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 1: Stockman and me and Mitchell Jones said little that's where

456
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: we come from. Absolutely drove me to be. I wanted

457
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: to since I messed up my runs. Then it drove

458
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: me to best be the best runner, told me to

459
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: be an Olympic star of all times. And and so

460
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cut forward because at this point, I'm in

461
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: a group. I'm a runner. I'm there in the group.

462
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: I'm in a group called songs to a gospel group.

463
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: I'm the runner. If there was a run to as

464
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 1: nasty as you could do, You're in a group. Because

465
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: I was a church kid, I hadn't graduated to the

466
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: nastery that you know us at this point. Nastery came later. No, no, no, no, no,

467
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: you're blessed it. So I'm the runner. I'm the killer runner.

468
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:52,959
Speaker 1: So I got this guy, got this girl, and I'm

469
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: trying to press and I sing a song to over

470
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: the phone that I wrote, and she's like, you know,

471
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: he sounds really good, but I just can't understand what

472
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: you're saying. What the run ends? Really like? These runs

473
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,479
Speaker 1: are magnificent. What do you mean that's what you told her?

474
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 1: I was like, this is this is I'm killing this.

475
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta chill right. And for a year

476
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: I didn't do no runs. I studied Fred Hammond, and

477
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: I sank straight and I studied Keith stating, I s,

478
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: so women made you great? And so started when I'm

479
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: Betty started, and then it was and then it and

480
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: then it was whoever this girl is? And we eventually

481
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: got tickets foe to a concert. It was founded with

482
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 1: women with girls. It was founded with screaming the ninth grade. Wow,

483
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: that's where it was. Let let's ask this question, guys

484
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: for us, is it's just guys like, is that is

485
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: that the factor that yeah that when we're we are,

486
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: when we are peacocking, it's it's it's how it's the

487
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: admiration of a woman. Not that we want to sleep

488
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: at all the women. It's just it had to see

489
00:30:53,880 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: the smile unless they from Minnesota. So sixth one, two shot?

490
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: What does that shot? What was that a thing for you? Though?

491
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: Because when I hear your music and when I hear

492
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 1: Jay's music, it's so specifically two women. Is that Is

493
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: that a deciding factor for us? Is that a Is

494
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: that a motivating factor? It took me a minute to

495
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: dial into that being the only motivating factor because initially

496
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: I just wanted to be able to walk into a

497
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: room full of singers and musicians and they all look

498
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: at me and say you're the bad one him. And

499
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: so that's why, that's why a lot of my music

500
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 1: suffered in the beginning, because I was trying to outdo

501
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: singers and musicians who don't buy me, who don't buy

502
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: they don't He was trying to go up to the

503
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: label and figure out how to get the free c

504
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: D what I'm saying, and so I it took me

505
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: a minute to learn, and me and him trying to

506
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: learn a balance between being really creative but also being

507
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: able to take the consumer along for the ride. And

508
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: I think would end up working for us as a team.

509
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: What R and B money was. I come from the

510
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: Bay Area, of course, right, and the Bay Area was

511
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: based on independent rap and simplify music, right. It was

512
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: everything for us in the Bay is strictly a feeling.

513
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: It's nothing else. Like people be like something is off,

514
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 1: you know, I mean this is tweaked wrong, it ain't mixed,

515
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: it ain't mastered, like we live on this island. Right.

516
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: So me and this guy actually were the perfect storm

517
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: because he was everything right and set to set the

518
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: dynamic up. Though you are for him and you are together,

519
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: what is because you guys are doing incredible because your

520
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: artists as well. So it's like, it's an interesting thing

521
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: to see you guys work together because I listened to

522
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: your music as well. So, y'all you know him, so said,

523
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean people. I don't know if people

524
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: all everybody knows that. You know, a lot of people don't.

525
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't because I've done business for

526
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: so much. Too great looking motherfucker's like, who there is?

527
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: Too good looking motherfuckers? What they do? It's unfair and

528
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: I'll say it. So I'm gonna tell you what's an

529
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: interesting story, the fact you guys have hair. Go ahead, baby,

530
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: I'm trying. I'm trying to keep this my hair going,

531
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: keep his hair going back. I can't get in. I

532
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: was at a I was at an event, and I

533
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: was on the like I was always on the cusp of, like,

534
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: am I willing to do everything I need to do

535
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: to be a very successful artist? Um? And but I was,

536
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: you know, and we and we've talked about this before

537
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: where I was always on the fence of how much

538
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 1: business do I want to do and how much artistry

539
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: do I want to do? And that's a very fine

540
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: line because just like you said, when you start doing

541
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: the business side of music, it gets it gets grimy.

542
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: It's the trenches, right, So it's very hard to to

543
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: to be in the trenches on the business side and

544
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: still have the freedom of mind to do the creative

545
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: side and to really love it and to do it

546
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: for the women and to do it for you know

547
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: what I mean, because you ain't really doing it for

548
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: the money. You're really doing it for the women and

549
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 1: for the fame and for all the other you know,

550
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: ancillary things that come along with that side. Right. So

551
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:34,919
Speaker 1: for me, it was more so of like like I said,

552
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: I was I was at I was at I was

553
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: at an event with with one of my best friends

554
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: with Ethiopia who's the head of Motown and my guy

555
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: who used to manage um Steve Harvey. Wow, what's his name,

556
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: Sean trum So I never met him. I didn't know

557
00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 1: who he was. I'm sitting there and I'm sitting the

558
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 1: crowd and I'm watching him talk and he's like, yeah,

559
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 1: you know, Steve couldn't be here because you know, this

560
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 1: ain't for Steve. And he talked, big ship, this ain't

561
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: for Steve. And you know, I've seen what y'all got

562
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: for me over here. But I don't even know if

563
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: I could fit this on my plane your plane, right? No, no, no,

564
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: he talked, He talked cash ship right right, and I

565
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: don't know his ship. But he starts to tell a

566
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 1: story where he was very humble. He starts off very

567
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: like pompous and and arrogant in the plane and I

568
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: can't fit this on this and and and and he says,

569
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: what I realized when I've seen Steve is that he

570
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,320
Speaker 1: needed me. He was like, because I was a comedian,

571
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: He was like, I was a comedian, but I realized

572
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: I wanted to do business. And when I saw Steve Harvey,

573
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: I looked at it as I can do everything I

574
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: want to do from a business side and get all

575
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: the all the success that I ever wanted from the

576
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 1: comedian side, helping him become the biggest comedian that I

577
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: possibly could. And the first thing that popped in my

578
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 1: head was my best friend. Wow. It was a very

579
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,399
Speaker 1: selfless thing for me, where I was just like, that's

580
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: me in tank because I had been going. It was

581
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: like it was like a sign. And I don't even

582
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 1: know if I ever really taught you this story, but

583
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and the first time. First time. Yeah,

584
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: do you guys want to hug you a little saucy? Man?

585
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: Do you keep this from me? Stop this ship? Ships

586
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: a little, this some other fun. Don't kill everybody. Just

587
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: got emotional tonight. You got gonna do. Drive back, you guys,

588
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 1: just drive I just come back. He' nobody look at me.

589
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: Do not run up on this light skined good? Look

590
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: at he will lay you out. I would say this

591
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: song me looking at you guys. It's so beautiful man,

592
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: because you are keeping R and B alive and in

593
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: the sense of where we actually need it, because you know,

594
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: artists gonna go everywhere it goes. It goes everywhere it goes.

595
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 1: But when I hear your music, and there's just one

596
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: song Tank that I listened to and it brings tears

597
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 1: to my eyes every time I hear it, and I

598
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: can't get beyond that song. And what I mean is

599
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: every music I should understand this. You'll listen to a

600
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: song and you say I can't get the I can't

601
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: get enough of the feeling that I'm feeling when you

602
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: sing that song. I know we're going all over the place,

603
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 1: but just talk about this song, which I funked up.

604
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 1: I want to be on the song, but I'm kind

605
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: of scared too. But that's the whole thing, is like

606
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: I won't be able to match. Yeah, well you you

607
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: you you you, you'd be able to match. But but

608
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: but you know, and I know I'm reach it. But

609
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 1: you guys are so important for us as as content

610
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 1: in the sixties when we were going through a struggle,

611
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: like black people were going through a struggle in the sixties,

612
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: and the beautiful music that came out of that seventies,

613
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: the party in this it's a studio four eighties. It's

614
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: a whole different thing. But now at this moment, when

615
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: I listened to what you bring to the table artistically,

616
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 1: I go like, wow, Man, imagine if van Alden wouldn't happen.

617
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: Imagine if those days wouldn't happened. When I said, yo,

618
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 1: stay in my crib, and now you have this song

619
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: that I play, she looks, she knows, Look, she knows.

620
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: How long? How much do I play that song? I

621
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: played all the fucking time. Bro, Well, nigga, I'm out

622
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: the little what motherfucker's all take me away? Because I'm

623
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: drunk at this point. Who I need to go to publish.

624
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: You know it's it's the song take Me Away. It

625
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: takes me away, and I appreciate you. And on a

626
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 1: bigger level, it's bigger than these cameras. It's bigger than

627
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: what we talk about. It's something that in Hollywood we

628
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,399
Speaker 1: live a different life. We live a life with where

629
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: things that it's just I don't know how to explain it.

630
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 1: It's different from where our homies are. But when you

631
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: did that song, man, Tank, I'll be riding on my boat.

632
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: You know what niggas to the boat tows the boat.

633
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: I'll be riding on that boat and we'll be playing

634
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: all the fucking many and that I mean it got

635
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: a lot many. I don't know all the words boat,

636
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: which I love that song, and I got some friends

637
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: who know all of the fucking choreography. But when I

638
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: play this song, man, my little one analyst, everybody we

639
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: stopped talk about how that song. I know, this is

640
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 1: crazy to talk about that song came. I really was

641
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 1: just in a zone and I wasn't even gonna do

642
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: um um a mixtape nothing. So Jay calls me. Jail

643
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: always called me in the morning with the idea I

644
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: call it. We've dubbed it idea overloading thinker when I

645
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: say thinker as a thinker, and he'll call me in

646
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: the morning with twenty seven ideas. Listen, let's He's like, Nigga,

647
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 1: you're doing a mixtape. And then I was like, I'm

648
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: not doing a mixtape. I'm not doing I'm back Jay,

649
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: I'll call you back. And when we get off that call,

650
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 1: I go and I started playing the piano and I

651
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 1: come up with like four different vine incredible and I'm like, shoot,

652
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: I think I might have a mixtape. I called him back.

653
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, You're right, We're doing a

654
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: mix tape. And I do this and what about I'm

655
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 1: doing a mixtape and I put the first one out,

656
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: launch it beautiful. Fans asked for four more. I said, okay,

657
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: I can't do this one without my girl. I said,

658
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:46,959
Speaker 1: I need something that feels like commission. I need something

659
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 1: that gives me the feeling, the same feeling that I

660
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: got when I heard or ever heard they have young

661
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: ladies on the record who commission about no features. Let

662
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: me ask you a question. You got me, what's the worst?

663
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Man? No, nobody trying to

664
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: doing nice layout before the Lion all of the crying.

665
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: I love to night. Please, thank you. Way you see

666
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:38,919
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like it's free. We had a moment

667
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: when we went to and I don't know, we're just

668
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: jumping around, but we had a moment when we went

669
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: to the front lines of the Black Lives Matter. Yeah,

670
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 1: and there's a moment. I have this footage when I'm

671
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: filming you and we're on a plane. By the way, Irish,

672
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: thank you for giving a step plane so we could

673
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: get to it. Irish, thank you so much. But I

674
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: remember playing that song man, and I remember saying, like,

675
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 1: this is our moment. And I watched you. I know

676
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 1: you watched me, watch you, I said, I said, use awesome, incredible,

677
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 1: You're on an incredible trajectory. I know. I was scared

678
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: to sing on that song. I told Lonny too. I said,

679
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: my god, the song so great. I don't want to

680
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: mess it up. But how does it feel having this

681
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: career and that now doing the music that you do,

682
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: being on stage with you? Yeah, I want to know,

683
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 1: like when you sit down just for our for our musicians,

684
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: what is going through your mind every time you do

685
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: a record when you say you gotta do the mixtape

686
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:54,320
Speaker 1: what does it mean the world to you? Cause I

687
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 1: think to me, you know, I call us, everything means

688
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: the world to It doesn't mean the world to Yeah,

689
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: and and and it's just a feeling, like I mean,

690
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: some from my from my church world would call it

691
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 1: the annointing. Some would call it, you know, some would

692
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: call it just some you know, good energy or you

693
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, some organic cosmic thing that you

694
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: know that you just feel, you know what I'm saying.

695
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: And and it's like some days, some days I feel

696
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,280
Speaker 1: it and some days I don't. I watch your Instagram.

697
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: And when I watched you fun every nigga up. They

698
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: every thought that they could make it. Thought, so what happened?

699
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: And I said that to a girl in the DM.

700
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: I wat and you do some shing? I said, if

701
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: every I think it was was trying to make it,

702
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 1: he just turned ship, get all this equipment off. Because

703
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 1: I'm different. I'm just I'm different. So you know, So

704
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: so I'm different. I know what I am. Yeah, I

705
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: am inspiration. Mhmm. Yeah. So you're like a niggabying the

706
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: new Rose Royce and putting it on the ground. I'm

707
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:26,919
Speaker 1: you know, I think of everything and everything and get down,

708
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:30,399
Speaker 1: put the mother back on the ground and white people

709
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 1: right now, it was It's like, what does he mean,

710
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: I'm inspirational purpose? And I learned that. I learned that.

711
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 1: I learned that from being with you and from being

712
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 1: with Chris Brown and shout Chris Brown. I worked, I

713
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: worked with you. You know what. Shout for Chris Chris Brown.

714
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:57,799
Speaker 1: Of all times, I think you can get many Mandy, Yes,

715
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: Chris Bright. So I was with you. You got me back.

716
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 1: You know how down I was? You were, you were

717
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:11,360
Speaker 1: you were talking about Let's talk because that's the important

718
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: part of the R and B Money podcast, right because

719
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: everybody thinks this ship is just Rose Royces and Mansions

720
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: talking about was giving me money? Talk about that Will

721
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: Box's giving me money from his walkthrough it's just like

722
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: you need some and he would just break me off cash.

723
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,720
Speaker 1: And what people don't understand is that we're talking about

724
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: an artist who had already platinum album absolutely but was

725
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: in a space where he didn't have the freedom to

726
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: continue to to feed himself and his family down like

727
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: where he was handcuffed. And this is the side of

728
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: the music business that we talked about, right, So I

729
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: get I'm I'm I'm building back up and Jamie calls

730
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 1: me out of the blue. It's like, I need you

731
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 1: to come to Miami. We're finishing this album. I said, what,

732
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: I'm on the way. We're talking about the unpredictable, predict

733
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: Miami Bad movie. But I still watch the movie to

734
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 1: this that I don't feel like. I don't do that

735
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 1: to you. I don't want you to anyone. I'm just

736
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: telling you. I watch it every time to come on.

737
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 1: I watched you, but don't do that and you give

738
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: you from anywhere. Um calls me, call me to Miami

739
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: and says we're finishing the album. And I go to

740
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: Miami and we do. I help him finish an unpredictable

741
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: album and we do. Damn this seven hundred thousand records

742
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: the first week. And I'm back and I'm like and

743
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm here, and they're like, that sounds like

744
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 1: you on that album. I said, Tank, it was you,

745
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 1: and Tank, here's the thing you wrote. I didn't write

746
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: a lot of rope. People. Oh, but that's the next

747
00:47:55,480 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: album bad. That wasn't We'll cut it and maybe you

748
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:07,880
Speaker 1: make sense. Keep well, cut listen, you do something. And

749
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:11,320
Speaker 1: I'm sitting and I'm like, damn, how do you do that?

750
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: And then I meet a kid named Chris Brown and

751
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: we're working and hooping together and I'm like, well you

752
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: can be cold call that man. I study everything you

753
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: do from credible and he goes millions and millions. And

754
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 1: then I meet a kid named Trey Songs weeping on

755
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: the road with chat and terror waiting for you know,

756
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: he's been waiting for this moment. He was like, bro,

757
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 1: I said, a whole summer, listen to the second nothing

758
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: pain every day. That's why I'm do you know who?

759
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 1: And I was like and I said, I got it,

760
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 1: and I stopped chasing. I stopped chasing the monetary validation,

761
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: and I started accepting my inspirational gift. I said, I'm here.

762
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:53,359
Speaker 1: I'm here to Justine Timberlake bucks with you. I'm here

763
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 1: two kids exactly. But just did you hear what I

764
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: just said. I'm talking about a very popular white star.

765
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 1: The only one who take to me the toast is

766
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: to take wow and white stars that love you. The

767
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: white man loves you. So tell me this, though, Box,

768
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 1: Because I paid attention to your music career, right, I

769
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 1: fused with all the early ship you know what I'm saying, Like,

770
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 1: no bullshit, Like I really fused with the early ship.

771
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: So tell me how do you go from your first album? Um,

772
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:43,479
Speaker 1: you break as a comedian right and then you say

773
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: I'm going to try it again. I'm gonna tell you

774
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: what happened this little black motherfucker that y'all know, the

775
00:49:51,200 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: little dark from the base right here, love bad motherfucker

776
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: that I've actually had a fight with. After Usher Concertscott,

777
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 1: Brian Prescott shout out. Me as an artist is different

778
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: because I always wanted to do music, but I started

779
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: out with stand up, ended up doing these sort of

780
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: like serious movies. But the thing that was just out

781
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: of reach was music. I would listen to you and Marvel.

782
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,400
Speaker 1: So I run into Brian Prescott and we met playing basketball.

783
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 1: We had a forum for championship that we would do

784
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: with my house, um every every every holiday and him

785
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: and Jason the five nine. I keep it funky that nigga,

786
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: That nigga tough. He a tough guard and he's also

787
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 1: a tough he's also a tough music music partner. He's crazy.

788
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 1: Brian came to me and says, you should the music,

789
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 1: but stop being stop being funny. I said, what stop

790
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: being funny? He said, just sing the record. He said,

791
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: you're joking too much. So what happens is when you

792
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: joke too much, people to start to say like, oh,

793
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:13,800
Speaker 1: he's not really serious about the music. So what he

794
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 1: did was he was able to find the songs. He says,

795
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 1: I want your song to be a hit before they

796
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,800
Speaker 1: see who you are. He says, because I know that

797
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 1: there's something there. And he gave me his resume and

798
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, that's that's that was fantastic, you know. Uh,

799
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 1: he worked with Maxwell and and and and and Stone

800
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 1: the people. He says, I want you to just just

801
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 1: sing the record, and so I did. And so by

802
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: doing that with um under Brion sort of Tutela is here.

803
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 1: We are at the band Alden house and people don't

804
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: understand that I did the parties for a reason. I

805
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: did the party so people could come to the house.

806
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: And Uh. At one party, it was a party for Puff.

807
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 1: Puff is there and there was a young guy by

808
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: the name of It was a young lady by the

809
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: name and m c l a. She had a room.

810
00:51:57,840 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 1: Puff had a room, and it was a guy standing

811
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: on the on the all nobody knew his name was

812
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,760
Speaker 1: jay Z. I said, what's up. It's crazy. It's parties,

813
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 1: it's parties crazy, it's like a short of time. It's crazy.

814
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 1: I see it. It's crazy. Then it was a young

815
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 1: guy standing out in the garage. Smaller guy said, yo,

816
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: Yo bees parties like this all the time. I say,

817
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 1: who uses with the neptunes? My name is for I said.

818
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 1: During that time, Brion brought over this kid, Kanye West.

819
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:29,879
Speaker 1: He said, this is a new guy. And Kanye comes

820
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: over and I challenge him. I said, well, when people

821
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 1: come over, you got you know, you got talent. Let's

822
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:36,760
Speaker 1: hear what you do. He freestyle something that was amazing.

823
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: Brian says, funk all that. So what he said, does

824
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 1: that song? Tell him about the song? So we went

825
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: in the back where my studio was and we did

826
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 1: the song. Kanye said. The song goes like she says

827
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 1: she wants some mom and gang some new vanjos. So

828
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 1: I said, I got it. I got it. So I

829
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 1: started singing. She says she won't son. Yeah, He's like yo,

830
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: and call you was like, Yo, what you doing? He said,

831
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be. Brian says, yo, Yo sing the

832
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:11,439
Speaker 1: song like he said, this is whack. It's never gonna work.

833
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 1: So I do sing it the way he said, I

834
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:16,759
Speaker 1: go off and do a bad movie. I'll come back

835
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:22,800
Speaker 1: and Brihannes like, how many? But I got friends, But

836
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: I got friends that would be like fine, friends, Fine,

837
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 1: I see what you're doing. You don't say yo, yeah,

838
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: but t Z will say when the movie is sucked up, Tank,

839
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:39,439
Speaker 1: Tank will say, fines. I see what he was trying

840
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:42,239
Speaker 1: to go with that. I see where you were trying

841
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 1: to go all the doing another fucking shot right now,

842
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 1: Do another fucking shot. If you're really about it, if

843
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:52,840
Speaker 1: you really a man, if you really are if you

844
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 1: really out for do that fucking shot right now. It's

845
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 1: gonna be happy. Won't have enough looking for everybody? What

846
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 1: do you have whatever? Do that ship right the funk now.

847
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: And Jay Valentine, I'm gonna see you fighting. Bail money

848
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 1: in my pocket, Oh bro, I got bail money because

849
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 1: I know Dave Valentine gonna turn out this Lightian motherfuck

850
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: getting so dark year. No, listen, listen, let me tell

851
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 1: this story. We had we at all hold to light skin,

852
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 1: were Aday drop. We're in the bay a star super

853
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: We're listening. We're in the bay dooring super Bowl. Yeah,

854
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 1: every club he takes me to. Oh yeah, my cousin

855
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 1: he running every club. We're getting there. It's like fifteen

856
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 1: clubs is really deep in the deep in the streets.

857
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 1: So we get to one club, right, We settled in

858
00:54:55,760 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 1: and gainst us Chris browns Uliver, everybody rock Obama, Steph

859
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 1: Curry right there, Steph Curt, Steph Curry, all the life

860
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: and great guys. He by this time he got the

861
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 1: oil in them. He said, Tank, tell Steph come over

862
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 1: and take a picture with us if you want to

863
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 1: keep being safe in these streets. I said, what the fun?

864
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:18,359
Speaker 1: I said, why are you gotta tell him too much?

865
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 1: I said, I gotta tell him the whole thing. Can

866
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: tell step bring on light, I gotta tell me. I said, hey,

867
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:28,360
Speaker 1: step we'd like we'd love that's how you that's how

868
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:33,439
Speaker 1: we love all get a photo with you? After he said,

869
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 1: After he said that, and did I say, see me,

870
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,840
Speaker 1: don't through the motherfucker gang size need We got step

871
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: in the picture gang and there's a picture with all

872
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:47,719
Speaker 1: of us and stuff like that. Why stuff looking like that?

873
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: Because they called me the next morning, like, man, why

874
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:55,760
Speaker 1: did you he was out of control? Did he turned

875
00:55:55,760 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 1: me into the hite? But tell take this or if

876
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:02,880
Speaker 1: you want to be safe out here, I said, I

877
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,480
Speaker 1: can't tell him that. I don't want to save him

878
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 1: that anyway. So it's not a proud moment. That's not

879
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: you have Fox You have been at You have been

880
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: a depinnacle of everything as we close this out, you've

881
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:18,840
Speaker 1: been a de pinnacle from Grammys to Oscars to imass too, everything.

882
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 1: What's next, t Z, I'm gonna be honest with you,

883
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 1: living living my life the way I live it. It's

884
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: like you and Jay, there's a certain there's a certain

885
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 1: thing whatever whatever whatever is next is do they like it?

886
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 1: M I constantly go like, and I've had a couple

887
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 1: Can I be honest with you, I've had a couple

888
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: of bumps when when I do some ship and y'all

889
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 1: go like, I remember, like not knowing this is gonna

890
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 1: sound so random to you, but you remember when we

891
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 1: was talking about these nuts. Yeah, and I didn't do

892
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: the joke right, Yeah? Remember that you said Foxes that

893
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:10,360
Speaker 1: that has haunted me. Y'all was doing the joke so

894
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 1: great and I tried to do it and he was like,

895
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: are you fucking everything I love. Everything I love, or

896
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: everything I love, let's be honest, everything I love. I

897
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: didn't joke wrong and I didn't know that it was wrong.

898
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 1: And he said, that's not I said. I went like, no,

899
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:33,600
Speaker 1: that's not. But you was so gracious with me, like

900
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 1: this old nigga, this older nigga just didn't know what

901
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 1: the fun was. I feel like I embarrassed myself a

902
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: lot in front of you. I'm a safe place work.

903
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: You want to safe place. I remember even at your wedding.

904
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:56,000
Speaker 1: I think maybe I divorced two months. That's your wedding.

905
00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 1: I told you about your wife like I wanted her

906
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:02,760
Speaker 1: and the young ladies I was at the time. I

907
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 1: was like, come clean me what I say. I literally said,

908
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 1: I've never told you this. I sud up. He was

909
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 1: like he had a little sauce. I did. And I

910
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 1: was hoping that you didn't cause it because I was

911
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 1: so see and it's always your your your supporter. I

912
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 1: was like, I don't think I'm saying. You know, when

913
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 1: the nigger boys go up like that, you know, he lies.

914
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: I embarrassed myself. I didn't know, but I didn't say

915
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 1: it the right way. I wasn't saying that I want

916
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 1: to get tango game. He got the jump. That's what

917
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 1: I said. I'm like, okay, okay, pretty much, that's that's fine.

918
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:51,160
Speaker 1: I was embarrassed. But listen, here's the thing. Before you've

919
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 1: been before, you've been right. I went far too. No,

920
00:58:56,200 --> 00:59:07,959
Speaker 1: you did because this girl, uh you know, I ain't

921
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: and me and Zeke we kind of get along. Bro, Bro, bro,

922
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 1: you know how much do you need pat? You know?

923
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 1: You know how much? Like like that, I said, some muscles.

924
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 1: That's just talking is mom and Grandmama was there. You

925
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I'm not the only one sucking

926
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 1: up right now because the Balantie saved me. I did

927
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 1: for whatever means, and I think about this whole town.

928
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:43,920
Speaker 1: For some reason, I do slip a little bit when

929
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 1: I'm around you. You have to stand with us. So

930
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: I didn't make that mistake. But I wasn't saying I

931
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: wanted your wife. But you understand what I'm saying. It

932
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 1: was like try, but I didn't say it the right way.

933
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:03,840
Speaker 1: And listen me knowing you, I disagree because I know

934
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:07,040
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying is outside looking When I

935
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:12,200
Speaker 1: got back to my day. Yeah, it was like turn

936
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: on playmate and like fine, I left, look like here's

937
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:18,520
Speaker 1: the thing. But you were like, well, I got back

938
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:24,000
Speaker 1: on the y. I said, but why would you know?

939
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 1: It wasn't that I wasn't trying to listen. And who

940
01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:28,960
Speaker 1: I remember was dancing on the dance floord and girls

941
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:31,959
Speaker 1: being like, why won't she come out the corner? Oh

942
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 1: my god, they're doing this. Oh. It was so funck up.

943
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: But at the same time I was with family and

944
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 1: a taste of so we had a good time. So

945
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:48,959
Speaker 1: what's next? I spilled some of this ship. You're gonna

946
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:51,960
Speaker 1: you're gonna figure out're gonna always have something next. So

947
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 1: the part of the show is called I Ain't saying

948
01:00:55,560 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 1: no Names. Okay, let's go you you no no listen

949
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 1: to say everybody don't warn baby Denzel Washington he was there,

950
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 1: No no, Kanye, listen, I'm gonna say everybody's name. It

951
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 1: was brought Roger Bottom and if there's any in the case, um,

952
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 1: it's don't say no names. Bucks on the segments called.

953
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 1: The segment is called I'm Gonna say it all No,

954
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: No No. The segment is called Maga no Stallion Name

955
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:44,360
Speaker 1: tell the story Names. So the segment is called Ain't

956
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:53,200
Speaker 1: saying no name name Fox. Okay, well listen you mother Fox.

957
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 1: You can do what you want to do back not

958
01:01:55,800 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: giving two focks, but the name of the segment and

959
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:04,800
Speaker 1: the story can be funny, fucked up. Okay, here we go.

960
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: Industry story, got it? You want me to start it?

961
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:12,080
Speaker 1: Your story? It's your story. I Ain't saying no names

962
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:17,560
Speaker 1: in the hotel room, hotel with a very prominent actress,

963
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:21,280
Speaker 1: and she was doing cocaine. I was it. I watch it.

964
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:28,120
Speaker 1: I was. I was not doing that because I don't

965
01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 1: believe in it, because of my believe I don't do

966
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 1: that because of my religious believe But she does the cocaine.

967
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:38,919
Speaker 1: She says, I'm a bad mother. She says a bad mother.

968
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 1: And then she goes, wow, I didn't think I would

969
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 1: be in this room doing cocaine with Rick Fox. She

970
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:48,240
Speaker 1: thought it was Rick though the whole fucking night, Bro,

971
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 1: she thought I was Rick Fox. I was like, I'm

972
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 1: not light skinned with good hair, Like, hey, whatever the coat,

973
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:01,160
Speaker 1: I don't want what this this young lady? All night

974
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:04,480
Speaker 1: bro from seven thirty think about what I'm telling you

975
01:03:04,520 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: seven thirties where you get dressed tank, that's what I'm saying,

976
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:11,080
Speaker 1: when you get dressed to hang out with somebody seven thirties,

977
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 1: seven thirty tank, take tank, seven thirties, a date in Hollywood,

978
01:03:19,080 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 1: seven thirties, very early. We'll meet at seventh thirties. She's

979
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 1: already high as we hang out. When she came high.

980
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:33,120
Speaker 1: It's Hollywood. That's what we're supposed to do. That's what

981
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:35,040
Speaker 1: we're supposed to. I don't know. I don't do it.

982
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:40,959
Speaker 1: We're hanging out. She's fucking going nuts. She's going fucking nuts.

983
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 1: We're in a hotel room at this very prominent hotel.

984
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:48,040
Speaker 1: She goes, you can shout out the hotel here. She's

985
01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:52,920
Speaker 1: just I'm a bad hotel. No bro, it was alrumatized,

986
01:03:54,040 --> 01:04:04,120
Speaker 1: amatize Peninsula, big time money, big star, put your name

987
01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:06,320
Speaker 1: on it. What happened is this. I'm pulling up in

988
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 1: my my limo. She jumps on my limo thinking of

989
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 1: somebody else's I'm like, fucking god, what am I doing?

990
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:20,400
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know. I can't believe you fucking serious.

991
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:22,919
Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's just hangs. So we just rolled

992
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 1: up and down sunset. She gets it, and then when

993
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 1: we get back to your place, I cannot fucking believe

994
01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:37,600
Speaker 1: I'm with Rick Fox. I was like, yeah, that's all

995
01:04:37,640 --> 01:04:40,880
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. She thought it was Rick Fox. Shout

996
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:45,800
Speaker 1: out to Rick Fox, my life getting friends, you be

997
01:04:46,240 --> 01:04:49,480
Speaker 1: it on. This has been money. Don't you run from it.

998
01:04:49,720 --> 01:05:01,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying, is j right? Okay? Nick right? Bookcases don't

999
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:04,120
Speaker 1: know I'm put kids on all you put kids are

1000
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:09,920
Speaker 1: all you nigga program. She literally said, I'm hanging with

1001
01:05:10,040 --> 01:05:13,840
Speaker 1: Rick Fox. I said, why, It's amazing, it's amazing. The

1002
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 1: aftermaths of Jamie Fox, everybody was that leg entertainer of

1003
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:26,840
Speaker 1: all funs, hands out, not even thought they go, not

1004
01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:29,840
Speaker 1: even thought, Jamie, my fucking Fox, we don't be money